Makeup Crimes

[flowerhead]

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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.

You cut your eyelashes off with grooming scissors? honey that's terrible! what made you do that?!

 

[ElectroCute]

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Originally Posted by flowerhead You cut your eyelashes off with grooming scissors? honey that's terrible! what made you do that?!

I've done that before too ... twice!

I've always really wanted long eyelashes and I believed all the people on the internet that said it would make them grow back longer. I now have uneven lashes.

 

[faifai]

Oh, so embarrassing!

I once tweezed out some of my eyelashes because I was trying to get one out that was growing the wrong way. That took a while to look even again.

I tried to dye my hair and didn't have latex gloves, so I decided to coat my hands in Vaseline and then do it. Surprise, the Vaseline coated my hair and I couldn't get it out, and all the dye went down the drain. It took me over 10 dishwashing liquid shampoos over the course of 3 days to get the Vaseline out.

I used to wear frosty sheer lipcolor that made me look like a corpse. An NC45 should not wear silvery white lipgloss, no sir.

I would tweeze my eyebrows straight across and super thin. The overplucked look is SO sexy, right?

I waited until I was 14 to tweeze away my unibrow/'stache. Oh man.

I'd wear glitter gel on my cheeks like blush.

I'd wear hot pink lipliner as eyeliner. Hahaha.

 

[iamlelilien]

Shaving between my eyebrows. Actually I never made any hideous mistakes, and the razor was the right size to fit between them, so technically it wasn't harmful... just really, really stupid.

 

[geeko]

To me it has to be smudgeable mascaras. I remembered when i was in high sch and studying with my friends outside of sch and wearing this particular maybelline mascara...and i didn't know it smudged on me until i went to the toilet to check.

Eeeks! I looked like a panda bear! And my friends didn't even tell me!

 

[Holly]

When I was really young (around 12) I cut my eyelashes off with nail clippers (Ewwwwww)

And through all of middle school, I only wore a thick black line of liquid liner on my waterline for makeup, that's it.

 

[jessiekins1]

oh jeez, where do i start?

• lipstick for eyeshadow and blush
• baby powder to set my foundation
• black lipstick
• poorly shaped brows
• light pink lipstick too light for me and made my moustache stand out
• red eyeliner
• shadow applied from lash line to brow

 

[f1rewater]

Mmm to many to mention. I probably still commit lots of crimes on a daily basis.

1. Thinking i could get away with wearing foundation and powder only on my forehead, nose, and chin. My T-zone was a completely different color from my cheeks.

2. No blush ever.

3. Wearing one color of eyeshadow from lashline to brow. Looked specially stunning when wearing my shimmery white eyeshadow.

4. Overplucked eyebrows.

5. Wearing a super pale frosty lavender lipstick (i'm an NC40).

6. And the frosty bronzey lipstick that was the same color as my skin.

7. Clumpy mascara and no eyeliner.

 

[MellissaG]

I think after my goth days, the most embarassing year or two of my make-up life would be when I started filling my eyebrows... im a natural blonde, but I began BLEACHING the crap out of it -- and when I started brow filling, id use my moms pencil. She has reddish brown hair.. so a reddish brown pencil it was. Very thick, greasy, uneven, no shape reddish brown lines on my forehead. For about 2 years. Soon they began taking a triangular shape,

over the years colors and shape has progressed..finally, into hopefully what I think is a finished product

SO I included a pic. There is the 14 year old me, with my crappy eyebrows.. then the new me, although you cant see my brows I assure you they are MUCH BETTER! (Also a no makeup pic so you can see I how crucial my brows are to me)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...transition.jpg

I also used to use a mascara that was waterproof, because it was easier to crimp -- but not before realizing it was also the cause of making my eyelashes fall out. Took a year for them to regrow properly.

Currently I am guilty of outlining my lips badly, going just on the edge of my lip, then smooching to push the gloss JUST OUTSIDE the lips edge.. to give a fuller look, although I know after an hour when the gloss is gone, and the liner is still there.. I look really silly. But I cant stop. I just carry a compact and reapply when I remember

I used to use vaseline as an eyeshadow base, before I even realized I had oily skin. Not that youd use vaseline, anyway, but the oily skin made it 1000% worse. I always looked wet.

 

[Beauty Mark]

Using dirty brushes in your makeup. I've seen it and it makes me shudder, particularly for anything near the eye-area.

 

[Chic 2k6]

i've committed so many makeup crimes, in fact i was right til i joined Specktra at 16 haha Specktra's my teacher on makeup.

let see what i wore, a huge overdose on blue e/s see pic *cringes* what the hell was i thinking? lol

umm i had fondness of this gold glittery rollerball lipgloss and my lips looked like a golden discoball, not good at all in fact i kept reapplying every 30 mins :|

im sure i have more lol

 

[macslut]

Chic, that picture made my eyes hurt.

Ok, so here a couple of mine. Now mind you, I was a teen in the 80s: Era of the tragic beauty decisions (I am 34 now and have discovered the clean fresh faced look is the way to go)

I used to take bright baby blue eyeliner and line the inside rim of my eyes. I have medium blue eyes that get darker as you go out. Tje combo made me look like smurfette. (I have since learned to wear blue eyeshadow). I have also been wearing contacts since I was 14. I don't even want to know what sort of infections I was at risk for.

Children of the 80s, do you remember the Pre Mall Rituals? My best friend and I would do each other's hair. You got the extra strength aquanet out and sprayed those bangs down. Set the curling iron on high and if it didn't sizzle upon inpact, the curl would flop down and you had to start all over. When the curl was perfect, the brush back had to be just right to get that perfect poof on the bangs. Then more aquanet. I really wonder how much genetic damage we all did using all those chemicals.

 

[macface]

dark eyeshadow with white eyeliner on the top.outline my lips with brown lipner.and thin eyebrows.

 

[Katura]

My turn...I'm having a ball today with these bad-makeup topics....

8th grade - I was a white eyeliner feind. Wet n wild pencil EVERYDAY. occasionally with mascara.

7th-8th grade - I did the 'spot-treatment' with my foundation. you know the one, where you only have one or seven spots that need a little help, so you only use it on those places? yeah. My skin looked a TAD uneven on some days.

8th-9th grade - I also had a few rounds with darker brown lipstick. wet-n-wild, and then clinique. Lipstick and nothing else. ewy. not to mention my really white teeth somehow managed to look yellow.

somewhere in there my mom took me to a clinique party. Bought me one of those pink things with eyeshadow blush and lipstick..Mocha freeze was the devil. and it started a bronzer addiction.

9th-10th and most of 11th grade - I finally discovered how to use foundation and all that properly. but! my eyewear never caught up. I grabbed a wet-n-wild black pencil went at it just about Everyday. At least I wore mascara and could draw nice lines...

Senior year...I discovered there was more to eyeshadow/liner than just black liner or brown/tan/taupe (gross) shadow. I picked up...you guessed it a cheap wet-n-wild 4 color thing. turquoise, pink, purple and blue. Can we say that turned out horid?

Thank goodness I fixed my habits up before prom...haha

 

[iamlelilien]

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Originally Posted by macslut Set the curling iron on high and if it didn't sizzle upon inpact, the curl would flop down and you had to start all over.

Eeeeeeek. That makes me cringe just thinking about it. If I'm straightening my hair and I hear a sizzle, I immediately FREAK OUT and check to see if it's okay, haha.

 

[squirlymoo]

I'm having so much fun reading all of these.

Hm, some of my crimes are:
1) Definitely the white eyeshadow, lashline to brow. That's a good look.
2) No mascara. For a reeeally long time.
3) Concealer as foundation. As in: all over my face. Thick.
4) Hahaha, bright blue lipgloss and glitter in my eyebrows. At the same time!
5) Filling in my eyebrows with black eyeliner when I was a blonde.

 

[iamlelilien]

I made the white eyeshadow mistake too. I loved white and blue eyeshadow when I first started wearing makeup. Some days I would wear white, some days I would wear baby blue. I look like I'm crying if I wear pale eyeshadow with no liner or mascara. Probably because it makes my waterlines look red in comparison, or something. I don't know.

 

[ms.marymac]

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Originally Posted by 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!

I got one for ya...how about shiny black lipgloss? Yep, I sure did. I think it came out during Halloween. I also think Elvira was the model for the collection it came in.

*shudder*

I also made a checkerboard on my lids with a Wet N' Wild palette in middle school-viva the 80's!

An overdose of white or shimmery pale silver in the lids.

Blue lipstick.

Macslut, I didn't have the garden weasle bangs but I did have the asymetrical triangle bob fro...

 

[PomPoko]

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Originally Posted by lizsybarite 2. I routinely used fuchsia pink lipstick on my eyelids.

One time, one of the MA's at my mac store told me to do this when I wanted a bright pink eyeshadow, and that fuchsia was not quite what I wanted

I politely declined and carried on *by myself*

I am guilty of the following (mostly whilst a young teen):

-glitter - especially silver, glittery lipstick (my friend also had a green one, which i think we did use)

- An entirely purple based look - when i was 12/13 ish i went with my mom to get a "makeover" at the body shop - the woman decided because purple was "in" I wanted entirely purple products on my face. Mid-Purple eyeshadow, all the way up, purple eyeliner, purple mascara and purple shimmery lipstick. We bought the whole range, I'm afraid to say! Now don't get me wrong, I love purple - but this was perhaps overkill? My mom suffered a similar fate with gold/bronze. Though I think she only bought the bronzing beads.

- Pale shimmery lipstick. I am so pale I look like I have NO lips if i wear pale shimmer. I had many shades, including white, pink, gold and (as mentioned before) purple. I think I wore the gold one out once and a boy I knew asked me what was wrong with my mouth...

and what self respecting teenage "goth" doesnt wear black lipstick

badly applied no less!

My friend liked the eyeliner as lipliner/orange lipstick combo. that was one i missed out on, however!

 

[macslut]

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Originally Posted by iamlelilien Eeeeeeek. That makes me cringe just thinking about it. If I'm straightening my hair and I hear a sizzle, I immediately FREAK OUT and check to see if it's okay, haha.

Yep, it was the 80s. I cringe thinking about it too now. The horrible damage done to my hair. Still worse was when I decided to go really blonde in the late 80s-early90s. You know heavy metal hair bands, big hair, etc. Ugh.

ms.marymac: Who came out with shiny black lipgloss???? Yeah I remember the triangle hair. My best friend had it. Another hair fryer circa 80s....perms!