From the beginning.... Images

[BarrelOfDonkeys]

Well I've mostly just been lurking since I joined and only started posting a few days ago, so I only have one FOTD.

Here's one from before I joined, when I was just a lowly lurker (spring 2005) Little too heavy on the liner if you ask me:

Last year, around this time:

And my first/most recent FOTD:

 

[hotpink1326]

This looks like so much fun! I dont have all of my looks on my computer anymore but i've found some including my 1st Fotd ever & OMG... thank goodness i've improved, lol! So... here we go...


January 2007

I think this is the 1st time i posted my face on the internet, lol!

Than i'm missing a bunch but i did find this one from March 2007. I remember *LOVING* this look!

This was the 1st time i didnt use liquid liner...

I really liked this one too... Still do today actually...

My 1st really neutral look...

My 1st time with color on my waterline...

1st time with red lips!

Halloween 2007 (1st look was mischeif night (i think) 2nd was my costume look)

My 1st time using my favorite pigment "clear sky blue"

Feb 2008

...and this is my latest FOTD June 2008

Wow... that was alot! Sorry for the picture over-load...

 

[susannef]

What a great thread! Its so much fun to see how people have improved!

That's me sometime during 2005. No blending, unflattering hairstyle, bad liner and a unibrow.

That's today. I wouldnt say that Im super good with makeup but I'd like to think I have improved.

 

[hannablefector]

Christmas of 1997

July of 2008

I don't see that much improvement though.

 

[civicbabe627]

Great idea!

Eeek - this is December 2005 - didn't know much about eyeshadow

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December 2006:

August 2007 - notice the non matching foundation on monotone lid

and September 2008

I think I am getting better! Haha

 

[uh_oh_disco]

Not my first on Specktra, but this was one of my first on the Internet...

Latest...

 

[aleksis210]

Look at me thinking I was sooo sexy lol (I think I was 15 or 16 in these pics 03'-04')

I was a one shade all over the lid kinda girl...lol...This is just beautiful Iris

I'm pretty sure this is Coppering and Aquadisac
*The lastest...(08')

 

[ReeNa8589]

Hello ladies...I am new, but I just wanted to say how pretty your eye make-up is and I hope I can learn from all of you to do that to myself.

 

[CellyCell]

I love the transformations. I was looking for old photos but my computer crashed several years ago that contained any proper ones but here goes...


I'mma guess this is around late 2006. NASTY eyebrows.

Early Jan 2007. Bad concealer shade!

Skin improving more! Not so much makeup/brows...
Feb 2007

July 2007. Huge improvement within months. When I became more active around makeup forums. (This was for a makeup challenge, lol)

June 2008. Looking older :/ Haha.

July 2008. Wearing lip color, finally...

October 2008

November 2008

Some days are better than others but oh man, did I use to look tragic.

 

[makeupwhore54]

Oh my. I hate to show my firsts off. It was awful.

First 2. lol. Notice I hardly had a brow.

And two of the newest. Complete with brows

 

[MissAlly]

Three or four years ago;

Wowowowowow.Hahaha.

 

[ImMACnificent]

I just joined Specktra, but these more just show how much I've grown and how much I've learned since college!
Let's see, no eyebrows, no lipstick, terrible blending, barely any liner...
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Cut my hair off, realized I could pull off red lips...
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Then I started truly understanding blending and the joy of falsies!
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[jalisha]

beginning of 08, very neutral

later

annd now
beginning of 09

 

[fintia]

I've been here for a little while only.. but here are some pics... I'm not great, but I have improved which is the important thing

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...ntia/darkk.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...a/ionfairy.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...apaspectra.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...e8bf61a87b.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...isteria012.jpg
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/d...a/specktra.jpg

 

[Ruby_Woo]

The long and winding road..

Hello! I wanted to create a timeline of my makeup as well, and I know I had said in another thread that I would, so here it is!

I started purchasing MAC back in 2006. Now I am a MAC makeup artist

So yeah let me know what you ladies think

2006
First EOTD I ever posted on specktra!

Gray mess

My first (and last) attempt at Cheeta print!

Green eyeshadow [ Yeah I didn't wear a highlight ever, or blended well]

Gray smokey

Green and Blue.. dissaster!

Pink white and black

Silvers

2007

Balloonacy

weird

I swore I looked good! lol

First time getting my brows shaped! [Fave ever!]

Fave haircut ever!

2008

Another go at Balloonacy

again silvers

Olives and browns

Lancome days!

better eyebrows.. blending not so much!

MAC interview look! and new cut that I abored.

after 6 months of working at MAC. (Dame Edna)

most recent one..

Yeah so I went from swipe on the lid and wearing NO foundation to wearing a full face all the time! hehe

Thanks for looking.
2009

 

[Tahti]

OH GOD. The shame of looking back over old photos xD What makes it worse is that I though I was hot shit at the time. LOL...

about 2004 - note the beautiful blue mascara

2005 - the *thankfully* short live 'cyber-goff' phase. I can't decide whether to hide my head in shame or laugh at this one xD Check out the totally awesome shaved eyebrows!

2008 - better... still applying makeup with a sponge applicator though, wth

And now - not much difference to '08, just discovered the world out makeup outside E/S and E/L xD and lost 30 pounds haha..

 

[L1LMAMAJ]

Love this forum. It really challenges me to work harder at my makeup skills. Here's my timeline of photos. Some are very embarassing...I warned ya!

August 2007

using only one eyeshadow, no dimension, gross blotchy unevenness in foundation and blush

November 2007

i don't like it

May 2008

blehh i think i got worse

December 2008

gettin' better

March 2009

after i practiced blending like crazy

Recent

improvement?

i think so!

 

[boudoirblonde]

ohhh gawd!
My first FOTD ever is SOO bad

March 2008

And more recently

LOVE seeing everyone's transformations!

 

[starfck]

here goes mine
i liked my brows on this one but thats it lol

ewww

uhmmmm don't ask ! lol

and now to the good stuff :

 

[Shanti]

I've only ever posted one FOTD on Specktra. I don't think I've improved much since I really started getting into makeup, to be honest... I've been inconsistent with practice and wearing it, due to work and sheer laziness lol.
Here goes...

Spring 2007. I only had a crappy webcam. My application wasn't that bad, but that's cuz I used to play with makeup for like 2 hours every school night lol.

June 2007? Before I learned the importance of UN-NASTY brows and UN-NASTY skin.

First FOTD on Specktra, about June 2007 too.

December 2007. I think I improved a bit, it's when I first ventured into black e/s haha.

April 2008. When I started to get more into skin stuff. My "skills" were pretty much the same throughout that year.

May/June 2009. I think my "skills" went downhill =((. I no longer use colour on a daily basis...

And just for fun..

BLAHHH!
You've all improved so much since the beginning, though!