Biggest Makeup Crimes committed by Women of Color

[GlossyLips]

• Mismatched foundations (often too light or incorrect undertone)
• Using lip liner that is noticeably darker than lips or lipstick/color. Generally unblended lip liner.
• Eye makeup that is too frosty
• Improperly blended eye makeup
• Over use of foundation and often without the aid of blush so the face looks throughly opaque which results in an unnatural/deathly face. If using full cover makeup it's best to apply some warmth to the face.
• Too much color all at once/looking over done. Bright eyes, bright lips, bright cheeks=the eye doesn't know which feature to rest on
• Sperm brows/overly thinned brows
• Monochromatic face. Honey bleached brows, brown foundation, brown eyeshadow, brown-honey toned lips.

 

[M.A.C. head.]

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Originally Posted by DefineSinister One: The black lipliner as everybody mentioned... one time I was mac and these black chicks kept lining their lips and then throwing light lipglasses on top without any blending... personally I think it looks like a monkey's butthole

 

[Tamzin_Uk]

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Originally Posted by spectrolite My only other peeve is eyebrows drawn in with black eyeliner. Looks bad. Really bad. Like a mime!

I agree!! This looks so strange, the only person that can pull this off for some strange reason is MAC's QueenOfBlending !!YouTube - QueenofBlendingMUA's Channel

The other thing that really makes me cringe/giggle is when my grandmother who is caribbean wears BRIGHTTTTTTTTT red blusher slanted half the way up her face with matching lipstick and eyebrows that shes razored into some strange angular shape. My auntie also has a nack of puting a fake beauty spot under her eye or above her top lip?!

 

[GlamQueen21]

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Originally Posted by lipshock I don't know if this could necessarily be labeled as a "crime" but the fact that many women of colour never want to branch outside of the frosty bronzes, frosty golds, frosty brown colour range. I personally believe the beautiful bright eyeshadows were made for us because they pop against the darkness of our complexions. But that's just me. I understand that bright colours can be truly intimidating but experimentation is the key. We can work any colour truthfully!

^Agreed. I do the same. I buy bright color eyeshadows and I love them. When I buy bright color blushes, I use them as highlights.

 

[Tamzin_Uk]

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Originally Posted by DefineSinister One: The black lipliner as everybody mentioned... one time I was mac and these black chicks kept lining their lips and then throwing light lipglasses on top without any blending... personally I think it looks like a monkey's butthole

LMAO, best description of pet peeves!!
i totally agree!

 

[nubianremedy5]

Good Q! Top 3

3. Wearing Baby Powder As Foundation..
2. Wearing Black Kohl Pencil As Lip Liner
1. Not Blending Lip-pencils With Frosted Lipsticks..

Lol...

 

[nongoma]

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Originally Posted by nubianremedy5 Good Q! Top 3 3. Wearing Baby Powder As Foundation.. Lol...

women do that?!?! WHERE?!? GOODNESS ME....ive never seen that...it would be a sight to behold!

 

[MiCHiE]

I swear, last night there was a woman in WalMart with just a highlight on her eyes. The only problem is the shadow was LIME GREEN!! WTH is wrong with you if you think this looks good? And, she was dressed very nice, like she had just left the office. Now what the hell do people who work with her think?

 

[HeavenLeiBlu]

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Originally Posted by ♥MiCHiE♥ I swear, last night there was a woman in WalMart with just a highlight on her eyes. The only problem is the shadow was LIME GREEN!! WTH is wrong with you if you think this looks good? And, she was dressed very nice, like she had just left the office. Now what the hell do people who work with her think?

I have a co worker who does this.... she tends to stick to silver or gold... I dunno how to politely say something :-(

 

[carandru]

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Originally Posted by HeavenLeiBlu I have a co worker who does this.... she tends to stick to silver or gold... I dunno how to politely say something :-(

Lol.

Perhaps you could say, "You know you're eyes would look so pretty with a bit of ______ on your lid. It would really go well with the gold/silver highlight you've got on already."

But she could think you're implying that her eyes dont' already look pretty lol

 

[ambicion6]

oh man i just spent the last hour laughing!!!

well as a latina, I definitely committed the sin of overplucking my eyebrows and drawing them back in in a super thin arch (no sperm brows). (go google images "keep sharpies away from mexicans" for some good laughs)

years later i finally had them tattooed permanently but in a much thicker arch because my eyebrows do not grow much anymore. and I used to have brooke shield brows as a youngster. sigh.

I also used to do the black lipliner, except I used a brown kohl eyeliner, would line my lips with it and then just top of it with some lip gloss. no blending or anything of the sort!!! yikes! luckily, this was when I was 16 and quickly learned better!

 

[lipshock]

Please, someone tell I am not the only that hates this:

When WoC do not freakin' blend their lipliner into their lipgloss or lipstick. I'm sorry but when did the look of "ring around the mouth" become acceptable? Especially when they are using Nightmoth, Currant, Chesnut, and a much lighter lip colour! I'm all for people doing their own thing with makeup but I just cannot let this one slide. I think it looks absolutely ridiculous and ruins the entire look of the makeup.

 

[Simply Elegant]

I agree about blending lip liner. What's even worse is when the gloss fades after eating and then the girl is left with a thick black line around her lips. Not so pretty.

 

[budafly_kisz]

My coworker has a bad habit of SMEARING absurd eyeshadow on her eyes. No blending, no nothing-just smeared on her lid. Her latest offense was hot pink on Monday followed by a suuuuuuper frosty blue on Tuesday!!!

 

[carandru]

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Originally Posted by lipshock Please, someone tell I am not the only that hates this: When WoC do not freakin' blend their lipliner into their lipgloss or lipstick. I'm sorry but when did the look of "ring around the mouth" become acceptable? Especially when they are using Nightmoth, Currant, Chesnut, and a much lighter lip colour! I'm all for people doing their own thing with makeup but I just cannot let this one slide. I think it looks absolutely ridiculous and ruins the entire look of the makeup.

I literally paid for my entire bridal party to get their makeup done b/c I had ONE bridesmaid that did this. I didn't want to single her out so I made all of them get their makeup done, lol. I refused to have that going on in my wedding photos lol

 

[sexxered]

Swooping on 3 colors on and not blending together!!

This soo is offensive to me! Bright colors (Gold and orange) on really dark skin. OMG! I can see you! I went to school with a chick that wore the black liner and bright purple lipstick, and her lips were huge !!! Ooohwee I could go on for days!

 

[sexxered]

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Originally Posted by aziajs *Sigh* Ok. Thank you for adding this. This is a serious pet peeve of mine but I didn't want to mention it since I know we have several women of color on here who wear them. Lose the color contacts. Most people can't pull of color contacts because they look fake. Everytime I see it I just want women to embrace their natural eye color and leave the contacts alone. In most cases, the women look much better without them. Although it is possible for you to be as dark as my black keyboard and have sky blue eyes, it's not probable. So in conclusion, all of my asian, southeast asian, middle eastern, african, east indian, african american, latina, and pacific island women - my fabulous and magnificent women of color - just take them out of your eyes, put them in their cases and walk away.

why do all the cockeyed and bugeyed people wear these. They are not enhancing your eyes they are drawing unwanted attention to them. geesh!

 

[lipshock]

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Originally Posted by carandru I literally paid for my entire bridal party to get their makeup done b/c I had ONE bridesmaid that did this. I didn't want to single her out so I made all of them get their makeup done, lol. I refused to have that going on in my wedding photos lol

You are smart, chica!

Why do they do that?

 

[TISH1124]

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Originally Posted by aziajs *Sigh* Ok. Thank you for adding this. This is a serious pet peeve of mine but I didn't want to mention it since I know we have several women of color on here who wear them. Lose the color contacts. Most people can't pull of color contacts because they look fake. Everytime I see it I just want women to embrace their natural eye color and leave the contacts alone. In most cases, the women look much better without them. Although it is possible for you to be as dark as my black keyboard and have sky blue eyes, it's not probable. So in conclusion, all of my asian, southeast asian, middle eastern, african, east indian, african american, latina, and pacific island women - my fabulous and magnificent women of color - just take them out of your eyes, put them in their cases and walk away.

Aziajs...Did you feel that?
That is my shoe I just threw at you for this...

I am just reading this thread for the 1st time and you said...Put them in their cases and Just Walk away!! That was funny as hell!!

OMG!! .... the funny thing is I have alwas yearned for the dark dark almost black eyes like Janet Jackson has...so beautiful.

I see a lot of people who rock them well, If they like them I love them...Hell people ask me all the time if I wear contacts...I always say they are just brown...Yeah but mine are brown and yours look lighter...Ok maybe because I am 5 shades darker than you...I even had a lady ask me if my son and I both wore contacts...Ahhh yeah he's SIX!!! I didn't even respond my look said it all....and she truly just Walked away!
Thanks for the laugh the way you word stuff cracks me up!!

 

[OfficerJenny]

Theres a girl in my ASL class that lines her lips in the middle of class, it's a plummy pink , much darker then her natural lip.

Whenever i see her do it I just give her this death stare like "Put the pencil DOWN"