Makeup Crimes

[L281173]

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Originally Posted by 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**

My biggest offense was orange lipstick with black lipliner.

 

[moonrevel]

Oh, dearie me, where to begin with the makeup crimes of my youth? In my uber goth days (I still wear mostly black, but this was when I went for the "spooky" look), no matter what eyeshadow I was wearing, I lined my waterline with bright red liquid eyeliner.

The worst, though, was my monochromatic phase. I would wear either frosty yellow, lavender, or pink eyeshadow (yes, lashline to brow), dust the same eyeshadow on my cheeks as blush, and then wear a lipgloss that was exactly the same shade as the shadow. In pictures, it made me look so washed out that you couldn't even see any of my facial features, just a big frosted lilac mask.

 

[sharyn]

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Originally Posted by moonrevel I lined my waterline with bright red liquid eyeliner.

and I thought I was the only one...

 

[Caderas]

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Originally Posted by sharyn and I thought I was the only one...

me too. except i did black liquid liner and my whole eye turned liquidy black and burned badly. you thought i would've learned the first time, but then came two years later...

 

[MAC_Whore]

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned......

1. Age 12 or so - Sneaking in a makeup application in the school bathroom when I wasn't allowed to wear it yet. Cheap purple Almay shadow, heavy navy eyeliner in the waterline and no mascara. I was probably the only 12 year old to look like a hooker in my entire elementary school.

2. Around 13 or so (when I was too broke to buy my own makeup and wouldn't have known what to buy if I did have the cash) I commited the crime of wearing whatever I could pilfer from my mom's bathroom counter. Can we talk about a total lack of a colour scheme? Think wrong colour of foundation, icy frosty peach lipstick, navy eyeliner, magenta and gold eyeshadow. NOT GOOD.

3. I was 16-17 when the tanning bed craze was in full swing and self-tanners first appeared. Remember the horrid, stinky self-tanning creams they first came out with? Remember how it made you look like an oompa loompa? Well my hobby was to hit the tanning bed (back when you had to stay in the bed for like 30 minutes) and rap up the session by slathering on the Biotherm Self-Tanner. Good God! I smelled like Kentucky Fried Skin and looked like an Orange Julius!

4. This one is sadly MAC related. I just fell in love with MAC's Del Rio lipstick. Forgot the Golden Rule - Just because it looks pretty in the tube doesn't mean it looks pretty on you. Well, Del Rio on this brown-haired, brown-eyed NW25 made me look absolutely oxygen-deprived. Think the asphyxiated look.

5. I actually wore Poison for a while. Ewww. Just threw up in my mouth a little when I thought of that.

 

[lizsybarite]

Ohboy. Try these on for size... and then laugh REALLY HARD when you realize that most of these sins were committed within the last FIVE YEARS! (I'm nearly 30 and didn't start wearing makeup with any frequency until about 3 years ago. Before that, it was just occasional, so I had NO IDEA what I was doing.)

1. I used a glittery gel product to style my (badly, badly overplucked) brows.

2. I routinely used fuchsia pink lipstick on my eyelids.

3. Did I mention the overplucked brows? I should post pix. It was SAD - they were all straight-ish and uneven. But before that, I had huge caterpillars, so I overcompensated the moment I started plucking!

4. I constantly used this one godawful Cover Girl eyeshadow palette that contained pale, matte, chalky turquoise and purple shadows. Think the worst possible application of the Sweetie Cake palette you've EVER seen, but ten times worse!

5. I never wore blush, even if I wore (badly-matched, natch) full coverage foundation.

6. Glitter, glitter everywhere: on my eeys! On my lips! On my cheeks! On my chest, arms, and in my hair!!!!

I'm sure I could think of more.

 

[flowerhead]

I once smeared red lipstick around and on my mouth with my finger, applied a really harsh line of liquid liner around my eyes with a thick coat of dark green eyeshadow...and about three layers of shitty white powder on my face, I went into school and someone beat me up! Now I dont blame them!

 

[d_flawless]

thick white eyeliner on the top lid like gigi, lol
uneven (and i mean seriously uneven) eyebrows
way too much e/s, and no blending, using cover girl e/s applied WET (can u say gross?)

 

[Damfino]

When I started wearing makeup at 12 (had no idea what I was doing and my mom never wore any) I just wanted to conceal my zits, so I got a stick concealer and just smeared it on the zit. Voila! No blending. I have pictures of me with white streaks all over my face... ugh.

Because I'm pale and always the lightest shade in foundation and such, I thought I needed to wear the palest shade in EVERYTHING. So I only wore light baby pink frosty blush, lip stuff and eyeshadow.

I have senstive eyes, and was so fearful of mascara I applied it quickly to only the VERY TIPS of my lashes. Yes, very effective!

 

[jenii]

Two words: Black lipstick.

I don't think I'll ever truly forgive myself.

I also used to line all around my eyes, before I learned that it actually makes them look smaller. My eyes are small enough as it is!

 

[NikkiHorror]

Oh gosh I wish I had pictures from these phases, lol!

My grandma used to be an AVON lady, so she had quite a stash of makeup and perfumes at her house. She was the one that got me into the beauty industry, I'm sure! I used to study her little catalogs and pick out all this stuff that I wanted for Christmas. She also used to give me these mini lipsticks to take home as long as I didn't wear 'em around my mom, lol. I remember I would have a field day whenever I'd visit grandma's house. I'd raid her drawers and slap on magenta lipstick with navy blue and purple eyeshadows, and douse myself in whatever AVON fragrance I could find.

Oh, the days! And they always said I looked so pretty when I came downstairs! LOL No matter what I do my grandparents are never embarassed of me

That's true love right there!!

 

[kimmy]

ugh. i lined (or, tried to line) my waterline with liquid liner. i also lined my waterline once with a fuschia/red lipliner (i looked sickly when i did that, obviously) bleh.

 

[MAC_Whore]

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Originally Posted by NikkiHorror ....Oh, the days! And they always said I looked so pretty when I came downstairs! LOL No matter what I do my grandparents are never embarassed of me That's true love right there!!

That is sweet.

 

[xBenefitGirlyx]

Wearing the wrong shade of foundation, it was 4 shades lighter than my neck. My face really stuck out, now I think back and it scares me

. That was when I first started to wear makeup when I was 15.

 

[MAC_Pixie04]

lol I used to NOT wash my face as an adolescent. If I did wash it, it was ONLY when i was broken out.
I had the same maybelline great lash mascara for like....all of middle school and up to tenth grade. That's about 4 years, so think of all the bacteria I accumulated and continued to wear.
I used to cut my own hair in class with safety scissors...mmm split ends
I once cut my eyelashes down to nothing with grooming scissors.
I used to use a really hard art pencil as eyeliner, because my mother wouldn't buy me any. Since it was hard, I had to tugtugtugtug pullpullpull across my lashline to get the color to show up.

 

[lsperry]

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Originally Posted by MAC_Pixie04 lol I used to NOT wash my face as an adolescent. If I did wash it, it was ONLY when i was broken out. I had the same maybelline great lash mascara for like....all of middle school and up to tenth grade. That's about 4 years, so think of all the bacteria I accumulated and continued to wear. I used to cut my own hair in class with safety scissors...mmm split ends I once cut my eyelashes down to nothing with grooming scissors. I used to use a really hard art pencil as eyeliner, because my mother wouldn't buy me any. Since it was hard, I had to tugtugtugtug pullpullpull across my lashline to get the color to show up.

I think you win the “Beauty is Pain” prize. I winced just reading this……Ouch!!!

 

[Bernadette]

Mascara and black liquid liner with nothing else on my eyes in the 9th grade. What was I thinking??? At least I was pretty good at applying the liner :shrug:

 

[SChotgurrl]

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Originally Posted by MisStarrlight Mine? I used to melt my eyeliners with a lighter to make them softer....

*Giggles* I STILL do that! I find it makes the liner look more intense--maybe it doesn't, but for the past 6 years I've convinced myself it does!

 

[MisStarrlight]

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Originally Posted by MAC_Pixie04 I used to use a really hard art pencil as eyeliner, because my mother wouldn't buy me any. Since it was hard, I had to tugtugtugtug pullpullpull across my lashline to get the color to show up.

I use art pencils for eyebrows on a lot of my brunettes (a MUD tip)....but then again, since it's not on their eyes, probably a little more forgivable.

 

[NikkiHorror]

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Originally Posted by SChotgurrl *Giggles* I STILL do that! I find it makes the liner look more intense--maybe it doesn't, but for the past 6 years I've convinced myself it does!

LOL Just go get a soft kohl pencil!