Aussie makeup artist shares shocking throwback photo

An Australian Instagram star has left fans shocked after sharing an old photo in which she looks completely unrecognisable.

An Australian Instagram star has shocked fans after revealing her incredible transformation from MySpace “scene queen” to glamorous blonde make-up artist.

Brookelle McKenzie, from Queensland, was once known as “Brookelle Bones” and rocked gothic black hair, heavy eyeliner and pale skin.

The 28-year-old now looks unrecognisable, with tanned skin, glossy Barbie-like blonde locks and a plump pout.

Brookelle told her 900,000 Instagram followers that 14 years separated the two photos.

Inspired to share the pics after the viral ‘10-Year Challenge’, she wrote: “I know I’m so late on the train but you dolls asked for it, so here it is.”

“This is actually a 14 year challenge. I was 14 years old on the left and I’m now 28.”

Brookelle continued, saying she used to use the now obsolete MySpace platform, where she would indulge in emo and “scene” culture.

“I feel like I’m revealing my true identity. Who remembers the MySpace Brookelle?” she asked.

“Back when everyone had Tom in their top eight and you could put cute falling hearts on your profile page. I used to cut my own hair with a razor. What a time to have been alive.”

Her followers were stunned by the makeover, writing: “Wow doesn’t even look like the same person.”

“Oh my god yesss!!! SO many of us had our hair cut like that lol,” wrote another.

A third added: “When you looked up ‘scene hair’ in 2008 this would show up haha.”

Another said: “You were everything I wanted to be when I was in high school! The reason I was a wannabe ‘scene queen’.”

Brookelle modelled for a toy company called Skelanimals, and was a poster child for emo and scene-minded teenagers in the early 2000s.

Urban Dictionary classifies a “scene queen” as a girl who wears “eyeliner that covers 73 per cent of her upper face, multi-coloured hair extensions, a long and draping fringe, mismatched punk rock clothing and a penchant for lead singers in a band.”

Brookelle underwent her dramatic makeover after MySpace was superseded by Facebook in 2008.

She has since dyed her hair bright blonde and has trained to become a makeup artist, represented by Roxy Jacenko’s talent agency The Ministry of Talent.

This story originally appeared in The Sun and has been republished here with permission.