Christina Haack's Hair And Makeup In Her First HGTV Appearance Were So Different

When "Flip or Flop" premiered in 2013, Christina Haack was an inexperienced 30-year-old mom chasing reality-TV gold. There was no glam team, overflowing bank account, or style brand shelling out money for Instagram shoutouts. Instead, she had an ambitious husband and a budget-fashion aesthetic straight out of the late 2000s. Haack's first-ever HGTV appearance was in the "Spanish Style Salvage" episode, and everything about her, from her hair to her makeup, feels like an entirely different person.

Although 2012 and 2013 were the years of bold brows, matte statement lipsticks, and experimental eyeshadow, Haack's look was the opposite. She wore her brows pencil-thin, her lips nearly bare, and her eyelids untouched by anything resembling pigment. It's safe to say she wasn't exactly keeping up with beauty trends at the time. But ironically, her makeup might have been the best part of her whole look.

Her hair was platinum blond, stiff, and styled in a lob with a deep-side part that was textbook 2010s. It gave strong soccer-mom energy, and at certain angles, the bob almost looked like a wig. The platinum color didn't do her any favors, either. It washed her out, and not in an ageless, vampire kind of way. But hey, we're not judging. The 2010s were rough, and Glam's own worst hair moments roundup is proof. What we can't get over is that, all these years later, the "Flip or Flop" star still hasn't quite gotten her hair game together. These days, it's hair-extension fails that haunt Christina Haack, and the wig-like hair just won't quit.

Judging by her Instagram feed, 2014 was the year Christina Haack began experimenting to figure out what actually worked for her. By the second season of "Flip or Flop" in April, she had made some changes to her hair. The platinum hair was gone, and in its place was buttery blond, which is a warmer alternative that looked far more natural. That same year, she had a wavy phase, a straight-hair moment, some curls, and even a crimped episode. On the makeup front, she ditched the barely there look and dipped her toes into heavier glam with darker brows, bold eyeshadow, and lashes that were much more noticeable than her natural ones.

But it wasn't just her makeup and hair that shifted. According to Dr. Alexander Rivkin, a Los Angeles-based aesthetic specialist, Haack likely started getting lip fillers around this time. "Her lips look subtly more full in the second picture, especially her upper lip," he told Radar. "This is most likely due to injection of a conservative amount of a soft hyaluronic acid filler, like Vollure." Over the next decade, Haack would undergo several cosmetic procedures, including breast implants, Botox, and under-eye fillers, but not all of it went smoothly.

In fact, like many celebrities, she eventually had to reverse at least one of those changes. "In April I had a reaction to under-eye filler. Super swollen and it wouldn't go down with time," she shared in an Instagram Story in 2022 (via People). "After dissolving with hyaluronidase and ultrasound frequency treatments to remove all the filler. Never again."

Christina Haack's three weddings might be fodder for the tabloids, but for us fashion-loving folks, they're the perfect timeline of her style evolution. Brides typically go all out for their weddings, so it's often the clearest expression of their aesthetic, and in Haack's case, each ceremony tells a completely different fashion story. When she married Tarek El Moussa in 2009, she wore a strapless ball gown, which was a timeless and safe style. She chose minimal embellishments, soft pink lips, and a side-swept updo with a bump in her crown that was really popular in the 2000s. The look was classic, traditional, and not exactly glamorous.

By 2018, when she married TV personality Ant Anstead, Haack had graduated from her 2014 style makeover into her HGTV star era, and her outfit showed it. Her wedding dress was a lacy mermaid design with detachable illusion sleeves and a plunging neckline and back. It combined the romantic aura of her first wedding with the sultry vibe that she was beginning to lean into. She topped it off with bronzy and glowy makeup and enviable beachy waves in her hair.

For her final wedding in 2021, this time to Joshua Hall, the HGTV star ditched the romance and kept the sex appeal. As seen in an Instagram video posted by makeup guru Nikki Aguilar, Haack wore her hair in loose waves. She also wore a mermaid silhouette dress, but this time, it was sheer, floral, and daring. Her wavy hair was perfect for a destination wedding, and her makeup leaned into modern glam with glowing skin, blush-y cheeks, and wispy lashes. These days, Christina Haack makes the news for stepping out dressed for revenge since her third divorce, but considering her style evolution, we aren't exactly shocked.