Makeup Crimes

[goodbyexxkitty]

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Originally Posted by iamlelilien Are you talking about the Dream Mousse eyeshadow? I know something cool to do with that. You put on a regular base, then put the Dream Mousse eyeshadow over the entire area where you're going to have eyeshadow, then do the rest of your eyeshadow over it... the reason it's cool is because it sparkles through everything on top of it. It sucks by itself, though.

Nope. These were called Color Delights and the round pot was split into 4 colors.

 

[Smilla]

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Originally Posted by cherryice My other friend grew her bangs into something resembling a satellite dish and grew them so high and sprayed them so much that a hornet got stuck in them and died. (True story!)

Hahaaaa! I love this, I keep imagining it and giggling.

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My crimes:

- When I was eleven I begged my mother to buy me this sickly grey-rose lipstick in a heart shaped case at Eaton's. I wore that damn lipstick all through junior high. I cleverly complimented the lipstick by heavily lining the bottoms of my eyes with a brown eye pencil. The makeup + my sallow olive complexion was truly horrendous. I looked jaundiced.

- In the early 90s it wasn't cool to have huge bangs anymore, but volume was still trendy. My friends and I used to pull the front part of the hair back into a clip and then tug the hair out so it made this huge bubble, like a beehive but on the front of the head. It kinda looked like we all had alien growths under our scalps. The clips, of course, were tres chic. If I wasn't wearing a clip shaped like a cat, I was wearing a clip with a tiny black velvet bowler hat. (Shut up!)

I'm another one who shaved her eyebrows. I convinced myself it looked normal. I shaved off the first 1/3 of each eyebrow, which made my small eyes seem really far apart and extra beady.

Imagine all of this with Au Coton jockey pants, a sweatshirt, slouch socks, and pointy black flats.

- Remember Revlon's "Toast of New York" and "Blackberry" lipstick? I wore one of those every.single.day when I was in high school. It was the height of the grunge era. I also wore white chalky nail polish or Chanel's "Vamp." I still remember the way Revlon lipstick felt, so gritty and dry and with this weird old lady scent.

- I didn't escape makeup crimes after high school. In college I wore iridescent white e/s and pale mauve lipstick with a blue sheen. Ugh. Those were both MAC products.

 

[Moppit]

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Originally Posted by carlyann23 I couldn't resist posting this one. In 7th and 8th grade, it was *so cool* to paint your nails with white-out. Plus it could be done in class, how convenient.

That is a blast from the past. I can remember seeing the beautiful white-out manicures on everyone.

 

[astronaut]

Here's a bad makeup crime. This was like a year and a half to two years ago. I just started getting into makeup and just bought my first MAC shadow. Beauty Marked! I was playing with it, and back then, I washed my brushes, but I never thought of wiping the same brush with a tissue in between colours! I didn't have a lot of colours back then, just a few shadows. I had two brushes.

See that dark muddish green colour? That's supposed to be beauty marked! Except it's been mixed with residue shadows from the brush!

 

[user79]

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Originally Posted by Smilla - Remember Revlon's "Toast of New York" and "Blackberry" lipstick? I wore one of those every.single.day when I was in high school. It was the height of the grunge era. I also wore white chalky nail polish or Chanel's "Vamp." I still remember the way Revlon lipstick felt, so gritty and dry and with this weird old lady scent. [/size]

Oh god, I used to have that Blackberry lipstick!!! Hahahah, horrendous, and the funky smell and taste! Yuck.

 

[Dani]

In first grade I used to draw 'decals' on my nails with #2 pencils
Chalky white lipstick in 7th grade
Wayyy too light finishing powder used wet as a foundation and light badly creased chunky baby blue eyeshadow from lashline to browbones (nothing else!) in 8th
Purple eyeliner and purple lipgloss with a completely naked face in 9th..
Red Lipliner as an eyeliner in 10th (but at least by then I had some concept of how to apply the REST of my makeup by then

)

 

[banjobama]

All my crimes have to do with my eyebrows.

In junior high I shaved off the outside half of each one and drew it back in how I wanted. I thought I was being clever since shaving is so fast. The thing is when I drew my eyebrows in, I did it with my mom's eyebrow pencil which was the wrong color. People at school noticed I had STUBBLE and asked if I shaved and I always denied it.

One summer before a camping trip, I decided to use Nair on my eyebrows, I figured that way I wouldn't have to shave them every day. I burned my unibrow area so bad! It was scabby for days. Luckily it was sunny and I wore sunglasses a lot and people didn't notice.

I also never washed my face. I can't imagine what my mother thought of me.

 

[banjobama]

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Originally Posted by goodbyexxkitty Nope. These were called Color Delights and the round pot was split into 4 colors.

I wore the blue one to my PROM!! lol

 

[crazeddiva]

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Originally Posted by kelizabethk Haha I used to do this too. Actually, sometimes I still do..

Count me guilty of this too.

i'm so ashamed...

 

[KAIA]

I used to wear this MakeUp combination: Baby blue with silver sparkle eye shadow cream, paired with SILVER lipstick and of course Silver nail polish.. I thought I looked pretty...ewww
Anyway, there's this girl that works at the mall I also work, that she ALWAYS has mascara over her lids!!! I can't stand it!! I don't know if she doesn't have a mirror, or she has a shaky hand or what???

 

[mello]

Oh god. I commited so many makeup crimes it's unreal.
Back when I was about thirteen and just started wearing makeup, I would pile on this BRIGHT baby blue eyeshadow all the way up to my eyebrows :| and I never wore mascara with it, either. I also abused the usage of sparkly, glittery things. Then in grade eight (the goth years...), I would use black LIPSTICK as eyeliner and put it all over my lids, topped off with gray NYC shadow on top to set it LOL
Then in grade nine when I was about fourteen/fifteen, I actually owned eyeliner and I put it all over the place. I wore so much it was ridiculous. My foundation was off (too orange), I wore this HIDEOUS pink lipstick (layered on like crazy), dark dark navy blue eyeshadow with TONS of sparkles. (I always had super dark eyes). Badly applied false lashes. And I tried to cover up my birth marks on my face and did a HORRIBLE job of it. My concealer was orange. So there would be a massive orange spot on my face and people would be like ummm there's something on your face. I also drew 'wings' extending from the outer corners of my eyes...they were so badly done.
Wow it was really sad lol
It makes me embarrassed to think about how this was only a year or two ago, too...

 

[SmileyfacedPen]

Oh god, I only have one thing to say.

In seventh grade, I was madly in love with Alice Cooper. You can imagine how well THAT turned out!

I'm quite sure it could look decent on someone who isn't a twelve year old girl, however... All I can say is thank goodness there aren't many pictures of that left around.

 

[Hilly]

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Originally Posted by hoemygosh 1.) back in like the 7th grade my friends & i were glitter whores. lol. it was glitter everywhere, lipgloss, eyeshadow, cheeks. 2.) not about MU, but i also used to do my hair like pebbles hahah. xox. apryl.

I did my hair that way too!!!! With a big scrunchie!!

 

[Hilly]

Hahaaaa! I love this, I keep imagining it and giggling.


- Remember Revlon's "Toast of New York" and "Blackberry" lipstick? I wore one of those every.single.day when I was in high school. It was the height of the grunge era. I also wore white chalky nail polish or Chanel's "Vamp." I still remember the way Revlon lipstick felt, so gritty and dry and with this weird old lady scent.

Can't forget Rum Raisin!

 

[lobsteriffic]

During Grade 11 I went super goth and used to draw all sorts of weird squigglies and designs with my eyeliner....and wore black lipstick. Shameful...

 

[Carmelita]

Of course the ever popular foundation in twelve thousand shades too dark

, I have very yellow naturally tanned skin, I used to buy the cheap beige coloured foundations from ds, the ones that the darker they get, the darker pink the shade gets. It's never a normal brown or yellow, no, it's always this horrible dark dusty pink. Lol.

I used to do the JUST dark lip liner look too.

White eyeshadow with white eyeliner, thankfully I always used mascara with that tho.


Filling in my eyebrows after one too many times of over-plucking with straight BLACK eyeliner, and THEN adding dark brown brow-powder over top to make it look "more natural". Ha.


Not washing off my mascara fully at night, just rinising my face and whatever came off, came off, the rest I'd just leave. I'd have like three days worth of crusty mascara on at once.


Applying makeup in dim light and not realising that the second I stepped outta the house, it was going to look completely different, and usually in a bad way.

 

[lobsteriffic]

I have yellow undertones and when I used to buy cheap ds makeup I'd always end up with pinky beige colours...looked horrible.

 

[goodbyexxkitty]

Speaking of doing hair like Pebbles, I used to have a bone shaped barrette and I would do my hair exactly like that!

 

[frocher]

I wore cheap mascara on my lower lashes, after a few hours it smudged all over the place, I looked like Courtney Love. Oh and foundation way too dark for my skin, I had floaty face.

 

[SparklingWaves]

I didn't know that pictures in magazines were airbrushed as a teen, so I wanted my skin to look like the ad. I wore as many layers of foundation as humanly possible. At the same time, I thought wearing blue eyeliner, blue eye shadow and mascara would make my green eyes look blue. You could see my eye shadow from 2 miles. Hairspray was used until my hair literally didn't move. It crutched if you touched it.

I really hated myself back them. I had perfect skin and thought I was the ugliest thing on the face of the Earth. I hated the sight of my eyes. Oh, those great teen years of mine. I had beautiful hair, but I dyed it to look almost like Barbie. Men wouldn't leave me alone in stores. I was stalked and pulled into cars, but I always escaped. I guess they thought I was a hooker. I was just a very lonely girl who hated the site of herself. I did anything to make myself look unrecognizable.