Makeup Crimes

[ginger9]

Toast of New York....Blackberry....I used to wear Coffee Bean, in fact I think I still have it!! It is brown with frost in it! Brown was really big in my highschool days

We used to also wear cheap blue e/l, but only under the bottom lashes - and did a bad job of it too.

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Originally Posted by lilyeffigy When I was fourteen I wore concealer on my lips with clear lipgloss. Ew.

Yeah, concealer lips just not a good look...

 

[Hilly]

Brown lipsticks and blue eyeliner (wet and wild of course) were definitely da bomb in the mid nineties!

 

[snugglebunny]

1) 8th grade: wore a free-bee clinique black-lily lipstick ..or whatever it was called (just bruised purple-red) on my full lips. Nothing else on my face. I was dorky looking with my glasses....and again..just this weird huge bruising blob at the bottom of my face

2) 8th grade again: My friend wanted to do makeup on me, and I let her. BIG MISTAKE! First of all, she used all her stuff on me, so think of all that bacteria breeding on me. I skipped my entire lunch (so i'm starving here) to allow her to apply tons and TONS of dark sparkly blue eyeshadow all over my eyelids (and i'm asian so i don't have much eyelid space...so guess where all the rest of that eyeshadow went! XD). THICK black eyeliner all around my eyes, mascara, pink lipstick, AND then she sprayed my hair with TONS of glitter. All during lunch, for the ENTIRE "prep" table making fun of me the entire time, and all the teachers saw me. In fact, my friend dragged me (and I was surpisingly excited to do so) to show my english teacher what my friend did for me. She obviously gasped and freaked out. Dear god, why did I let the entire student body see me in the process in looking like a drag queen??!?! x.x. may i remind you, this occured during lunch for everybody to see it happen

3) 9th grade: it was one of those "fun-dress-up-theme days" ..and it was "clash colors" day, so I was safe wearing it for that day only. I wore Maybelline's discontinued eyeshadow stick that had TONS of huge glitters in them. It was a super icy purple with tons of those glitters all over my eyelids. masara, thick eyeliner on top lid, and BRIGHT BRIGHT BRIGHT flamingo las vegas lipgloss. And I wore my gray tennis shirt and wind-breaker pants with this makeup on. awful!

4) Not really a makeup-mistake, but for my first homecoming, I wore no makeup, except mascara, which then smudged into panda-bears because I ended up crying because of drama that happened during the dance

5)my first MAC (didn't buy, just put on testers): When I was 8 or so, I went to the MAC store with my mom and sister, and put on the palest shimmer pink ever. I applied it thick...and walked around The Galleria shopping mall with it. I thought I looked so good that every time I went to the Galleria I stopped by MAC just to put on that super pale shimmer pink lipstick

6) Wore makeup during my tennis team class period, which was like 1pm, so there's tons of sun outside, which gooped up all my makeup during play-time. I looked awful (until I cleaned the mess up when we got inside). Geez, no wonder none of the guys liked me XD I looked horrible!

 

[snugglebunny]

Re: Any of your friends have "makeup donts"?

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Originally Posted by jillianjiggs do any of your friends do their makeup in a way that is a huge DONT in your mind?

1) Not my friend, but was our former class president (she's a VERY sweet girl, but my god her makeup O.O!!): she looks like she's 50, and she's only 18. She put on so much makeup that you can barely recognize what she should look like without it. I was in the bathroom during tennis and she was without makeup, and I thought that was the coach, no, it wasn't, it was that girl. Orange foundation, CRISPYYYY fried hair, THICK eyeliner with white shimmery eyeshadow, matte pale pink lipstick (the ones that even grandmas don't even dare go near). Everybody in school knows this looks awful on her, but no one will tell her (not even me). It's such a shame. She's such a really nice person, and very intelligent, but her makeup....her makeup.....

2) There's this other girl who's friends with that former-class-president, and my government teacher asked where are her eyes and if she really did that makeup. x.x...and this is a non-gay man teacher who noticed something's wrong with her appearance. She wears so much bronzer that if she stood in front of a tree, I don't think you can tell where she is (and she's a white caucasian to give you an idea how much bronzer she wears x.x). she lines her eyes so much that you can't see her really pretty big eyes anymore. and her eyebrows looks like they are glue-on-fake-brows ...they are so unnaturally dark. then she tops her lips with super pale pink lipstick

3) not makeup mistake, but there's this one girl, who ALWAYS wears her hair in Streetfighter Chun-Li buns, WITH that white fabric that covers it too, every single day. Then sometimes she'll substitute the white-bun-covers with black fishnet hair-bun-covers.

4) another hair annoyance. A few years ago, there was this one girl with curly hair, who ALWAYS wore her hair into 3 super tight ponytails every single day. It was so annoying!!!! They were so tight that they pulled her face up so much and she looked surprised/shocked all the time. And those 3 super tight ponytails were positioned so that you can draw an invisable equilateral triangle around them. 3 ponytails on one head.....@_@ I don't understand.

5) My friend's friend wears thick black eyeliner-circle all round her eyes, nothing else, and splits her hair in half where one side is up in a pigtail/ponytail and the other half is down in a braid. Either that or she has one side braided and one side completely loose hair flowing.....I don't get why she does that

 

[purrtykitty]

I've done a few crimes myself:

~ Shaved my eyebrows in junior high...not off, but to shape them because tweezing hurt too much!
~ Then I did the whole anemic-brow thing in high school. I quit shaving and tweezed them to oblivion!
~ I've worn the wrong foundation color, of course!
~ Caked on concealor to diminish the look of zits...yeeeahhh, that looked real nice and helped heal nice and quick!
~ Junior high crime again - I wore high-frosted turquoise or sea-green eyeliner with pale frosty shadow and clumpy mascara, bright rose streaked blush, and frostyyyy bright pink lipstick...all very cheap products might I add. I must've looked like a baby hooker!
~ Mood lipstick that I bought at Skateland during those skating parties everyone had. I had one in every color tube...and they all turned a hideous bright pink on me!!
~ High school crime - I didn't wash my face annnnnnd I wore makeup to bed!!! I'm surprised I didn't get more breakouts than I did.
~ Spent my summers (in high school) laying out and getting a tan, which may not seem so bad, but I used tanning oil (of course) and skin cancer runs in my family - yeah, real smart because skin cancer is SEXXXY!

 

[Honey B. Fly]

the only thing that really bothers me is overly filled in brows, some girls look sooo much better when they lighten up with the brow fillers

 

[PRiNCiPESSAx4]

Oh boy! Let's see..when I was young, maybe 8th grade or so, I used to wear the Art Stuff lipsticks from Bath&Body Works in white [coconut flavored], greenish-yellow, and purple..what a mess! And of course, my mom's dark brown, almost black lipstick! I thought it made me look older and more mature - at 13. At least I never got it on my teeth. Finally, chipped, chocolate-brown sparkle nail polish from Limited Too. It smelled like chocolate too!

 

[PRiNCiPESSAx4]

Re: Any of your friends have "makeup donts"?

do any of your friends do their makeup in a way that is a huge DONT in your mind?

1. The white lip with brown/maroon thick liner in a huge ring around their mouths.
1a. Lining wayyyyyyy outside their lipline to make their lips look fuller.
2. Wrong colored foundation!
3. Wayy too much bronzer!
4. Overplucked/tadpole eyebrows
5. Fried, ridiculously damaged hair, which they refuse to do anything about!

It's gotten so bad that their ex boyfriends and such actually comment about these faux pas. I just laugh along, as most are my family members..but I'd love to raid their makeup kits and give them an overhaul!

 

[iSHi]

In middle school, I used to put wet black or brown eyeshadow on half my lid. Unfortunately nobody ever said anything about it, however I did stop that after about a month. Heh.

 

[Briar]

Oh my! Back in high school I used to wear Max Factor's Pancake makeup in the palest shade I could find. I thought it looked cool and gothy until I found a picture recently (20 years later) and realized I just looked like I'd spackled my face. I'd never bothered to blend it below my chin.

Beyond that I'd been very lucky.. my Mom, when she saw I'd started taking an interest in makeup but was doing an awful job of it, took me to have a professional makeover. She bought me the products that the MA had used and they were all very neutral and natural. Since I was about 13 at the time this was perfect!

 

[glamqueen1]

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Originally Posted by Briar Beyond that I'd been very lucky.. my Mom, when she saw I'd started taking an interest in makeup but was doing an awful job of it, took me to have a professional makeover. She bought me the products that the MA had used and they were all very neutral and natural. Since I was about 13 at the time this was perfect!

that's the best thing a mother can do! you have to thank her for her insight and diplomacy!

 

[Kuuipo]

The wrong look. I went with the jewel colored eyes and the MAC purples and Chanel Vamp,Cyber, Underworld,etc. I looked like the undead, you know? It might be good for a photoshoot, but I don't live life in a photoshoot. The person who picked the look was a MUA friend....I did buy a fortune's worth of stuff from her from time to time. Only I don't let her pick my colors these days.
Red hair. It was in at the time, but it did not work for me.

Black liner-aging. Red red lips.....no no no. I spend alot of time talking to people on how to take care of their bodies after surgery,cancer or giving birth., I can't look like I am going out to a formal or chance lipstick on my teeth. I need to look trustwrthy and approachable. A giant makeup crime for me would be to look overdone and harsh and artficial. I wear the gamut of makeup-but in lots of neutral colors or sometimes peaches,pinks and bronzes on the eyes, and pink browns, rose-beiges or nude-rose lips. I avoid sparkles, I go for bronze eyeliner.

Too much perfume. I gotta wear some. I go for something soft and inoffensive-not flowery or sexy. Calgon is pretty good for work, or a light spray of Prada. A few years ago I got written up for wearing Euphoria. No one writes you up for smelling like Marshmallows or cotton Candy or coconut, or baby powder.

Fake tan. I used tan in a can once and looked like Napolean Perdis' sister. There is no fooling people. Orange is just WRONG. No one turns orange on vacation. (Incidently people from Hawaii's top vacation destination is Las Vegas, according to the polls)

Wrong color foundation. It may look good in the store, but if your head doesn't belong on your neck.....I've had to toss a new bottle of Laura Mercier foundation recently, couldn't mix it.....looked neutral in the light of the store-and I did not bring a mirror and stand outside and check it out. (it was vanilla beige).

Mineral makeup.....big mistake for me. Sparkle plenty. You shouldn't have to dull your makeup down with( cornstarch) Mineral Veil to look natural. ...and I tried warmth (see Napolean Perdis.....) Warmth is terra cotta orange....face back to the sink.........

Moisturizer on skin that doesn't need it.....(you can get acne at any age)

The O glow........supposed to turn a natural flush on everyone...an "individual color".....it goes from clear to fuschia in 30 seconds. No one turns fuschia, ....but everyone who tries this product-no matter the color of their skin.....

Although I have never done it, big skun stripe hair streaks should be a "makeup crime" they don't look good on anyone

Cool aid hair color on people over the age of 25, even if they are in a rock band.

 

[Ericita]

Hahaha I'm new to make up so probably I'm doing huge make up crimes RIGHT NOW.

I've enjoyed (and learnt) so much from this topic!

 

[Sillarian]

Haha I love all these stories. When I was about 12 I got a (cheapo) makeup kit as a gift... omg. It has these nasty pastel eyeshadows, and horrid fuschia liners, the whole package. And I was obsessed for the first 3 weeks I had it, wearing everything in there, thinking I was the hot stuff. lmao...

 

[SugarDaisy]

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Originally Posted by Ericita Hahaha I'm new to make up so probably I'm doing huge make up crimes RIGHT NOW. I've enjoyed (and learnt) so much from this topic!

Me too! I hope I'm doing okay though, I've been taking notes

 

[SugarDaisy]

I don't wear mascara. Everyone always thinks I wear it anyways because of how thick my eyelashes so maybe I can get by without commiting a crime

 

[_ohmygosh]

When I was 14, I used to wear Maybelline's mousse? foundation a lot........ didn't even realised it made me soo orangey. EW

 

[nai]

1. overplucked my eyebrow. it was only a sparse thin line.
2. to top it off. i colored it by drawing a single thin line using a dark black pencil. it was horrid. it went way past the end of my eyes too! lol!

 

[x.DOLLYMiX.x]

I also used to do the concealer on the lips and the clear lipgloss

my sis does this but she is only 13. I also have experimented with the too dark foundation and thought I looked great. Oh and also I used to wear blue eyeshadow blue eyeliner a blue mascara wow I looked scary.

 

[Kaz]

I didn't wear much makeup in the teens.. is that a crime itself? lol. When I did i'd just wear foundation, sometimes cream eyeshadows, eyeliner pencil above the lashes and on waterline, and dark brown lipstick lined with even darker lip pencil if it was handy. Thats it.. and everything was dark brown. Boring eh? Oh, I did wear mascara once in a light bronze metallic color. I'm asian with black hair. LOL.

Oh and thanks to the earlier post about "Toast of New York" and stuff. I had toast of new york but my friends had rum raisin which was the coolest back then. So, being poor and all, i'd borrow a friends lipstick. Yeeeah.. didn't wipe it before and after either. I can't remember if I did it with eye pencils too.

*embarrassed*.. guess the biggest crime i've done is with being hygenic about everything. Learned about not sharing mascara at first, then lipsticks and soon everything I use shouldn't be shared! Oops!