Makeup Crimes

[MisStarrlight]

We've all been there, made some terrible mistakes-or just did really stupid (unsafe) things with our faces.

What is everyone's worst offenses?

Mine?
I used to melt my eyeliners with a lighter to make them softer....and eyelash combs have never worked for me, so I used to take a safety pin to separate my lashes.
Also, I have really light lashes so I would always get a gap between my liner & mascara so I used to line my upper waterline (with the melted pencil of course) and then hold my eye open really wide & smear mascara on my lashes, pushing them up against my lid...I made such a mess on my face, but got rid of the damn gap.
I don't know how I didn't burn or poke my eyeballs out...let alone am still able to see

**Forgive me if there is another thread like this...I did a search, but I couldn't find it**

 

[Bianca]

See makeup police topic

 

[MisStarrlight]

Meh...they're not quite the same.

 

[sharyn]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MisStarrlight Meh...they're not quite the same.

Right! So here we go...

1. I mistook cleanser for bodylotion (I was 7 yrs old back then)
2. I once groomed my eyebrows with black mascara
3. I used baby powder to set my make up and make my skin look paler during my goth-days...ooooh and of course black eye kohl as lipstick.

I guess thats it... thank god!

 

[maxcat]

It's like a confessional for MA's!!!
Ohhhhh where do I begin. The fact that I now do this for money is pretty entertaining.
I went through the All Gold phase... gold eyeliner, shadow... MASCARA... and lipstick... and gold is not a good color on me. Looked like a corpse when I was 14...
I did the black mascara in the brows thing which was pretty comical in photos. So from Undead to Groucho...
The worst was my fascination with anything with a turquoise undertone though. I still have that... my MAC-mates had to hide the Crystal Rose lippie and Stars and Rockets eyeshadow from me as I was about to O/D.

 

[lara]

Black mascara? Piffling! I broke out the black kajahl eyeliner to fill my brows. I was Groucho and Frieda Kahlo all rolled into one.

This thread should be called "Crimes Against Make-Up As Performed By 14 Year-Olds."

 

[prinzessin784]

I went from never touching the tweezers to over plucking my eyebrows so fast my friends hardly recognized me haha. All because I got self-conscious when some stupid girl in my gym class said "whoa - eyebrows!" to me. Bitch...haha

 

[spam_musubi_]

i've done everything the original poster said and more....let's see.....i used to super glue jewels really close to my eyes, like on the inner corners. i used to use water color pencils as eyeshadows. haha. weird.

 

[iamlelilien]

When I was 12 and I first started wearing makeup, I would wear white eyeshadow and no other makeup. And I would put it, like, all the way up to my crease, too. It was nasty. Especially because too much light eyeshadow on me kind of makes me look like I've been crying.

 

[Annie]

Well let's see, first there was the period when I wore iridescent green eyeshadow all over my lid. I made that even worse by forgetting it was their by the middle of the day and rubbing my eyes. Ew.

Then I went through my "goth" phase where I first tried liquid liner from Hot Topic with limited success. My mom got sick of looking at it so she bought me this Clinique pencil which I rubbed all around my eyeballs. I would never take it off either, so I just kept layering it on because I thought it enhanced the look. Did I mention that I never, ever wore mascara?

 

[kelizabethk]

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Originally Posted by MisStarrlight and eyelash combs have never worked for me, so I used to take a safety pin to separate my lashes.

Haha I used to do this too. Actually, sometimes I still do..

 

[Shimmer]

My mom was one of Beauticontrol's "Image Consultants" when Iwas learning to apply makeup.
I wore all of their products the way they advised, and then some.
Makeup Primer? mhmm.
Color corrector? Yup.
Concealor? Over the color corrector, full face, just in case.
Foundation on top of that, powder, setting powder, eye shadow primer, four different colors of eye shadows, eyeliner, mascara (3 coats painstakingly applied...), blush, lip liner, lipstick, blotting powder on my lips to "set" my lipstick, and finally over it all, a wetdry powder to "smooth" it.

Looking back, I didn't look terrible but it was a LOT of makeup for an eighth grader to wear.

From a distance, not so bad, but up close you could definitely see the layers.

I pretty much wore it that way until my senior year.

 

[noteventherain]

Oh lord. . . where to begin. One of my worst offenses (that I admit sometimes I do today when I run out of foundation) was wearing the WRONG foundation colour (lol note to the general pale population: JUST BECAUSE it's as light as a foundation comes does NOT mean you're automatically darker to fit the colour). I looked like an orange mess. . . lol I have pictures of me where my face/1/2 my neck is visibly a tad orange and my neck is blinding white. My face is naturally a bit darker than my neck, but DAMN- I wasn't helping the situation. and I wore so so much of it caked on (to hide staph scars from my sophomore yr.) It was a medium coverage foundation with layers and layers and LAYERS.

Then there's the obvious pairing completely wrong lip/eye combos where the colours clashed like nothing else. but I ROCKED it like I was something haha.

 

[MisStarrlight]

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Originally Posted by spam_musubi_ i've done everything the original poster said and more....let's see.....i used to super glue jewels really close to my eyes, like on the inner corners. i used to use water color pencils as eyeshadows. haha. weird.

See...completely different. I love you guys!

You totally reminded me....I used to wear those press on earrings around my eyes/in the middle of my forehead. I SWORE I was Gwen Stefani (No Doubt/Tragic Kingdom days).

 

[Beauty Mark]

Overplucked eyelashes
Lotion for hair conditioner
Vaseline for hair conditioner (I was young, sigh)
Purple lipstick

 

[gigiproductions]

white eyeliner on top with black liner
brown lip pencil with lovedust l/s
glitter everywhere..someone smack me lol

 

[spam_musubi_]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MisStarrlight You totally reminded me....I used to wear those press on earrings around my eyes/in the middle of my forehead. I SWORE I was Gwen Stefani (No Doubt/Tragic Kingdom days).

oh, yes you better believe i rocked fake bindis. stick on earrings were good for that, but super glue and jewels were my good friends back then . and of course gwen was my inpiration. i still love her. not so much her music though..........

 

[zombie_candy]

1) the wrong-color foundation, either too orange or too pale
2) white eyeshadow with no eyeliner or mascara, made my eyes look like nothing
3) dark, dark lipstick without any other makeup on my face
4) and yes, during the goth days when i was a wee lass, i used and eyeliner pencil for black lipstick

 

[redambition]

oh dear...

1. foundation and powder that was waaaay to pale for me. hello ghost face!
2. trying to wear liquid eyeliner... not good.
3. fuschia lipstick stolen from my mum, the shade was totally wrong for me.
4. black eyeliner to fill in brows (later, i used brown eyeliner)
5. blue eyeliner just on the outer corner of my eye... with no other eye makeup apart from mascara.
6. glitter, glitter, glitter. and not in a good way.

 

[Caderas]

1. wore the eyeshadow with no mascara [refused until 7th grade]
2. wore lots of foundation that was .00000001 percent off which is way worse than having obviously 1000% off color since it looked like i tried too hard.
3. loose glitter everywhere
4. wore too pale translucent powder that sunk into small scabs and looked like spots [gross!] my boyfriend said i was a cocaine addict.
5. last but not least;; although it worked decent as a base...i used some cheap chapstick on the lids and it burned for 3 minutes every morning!