What were your make up looks as a teenager?

[vintageroses]

I'm a late bloomer!

I didn't wear makeup as a teenager at all! Except for the ball & dance performances! I did dab on some lipgloss though, but that was rare!HAHA BUT i'm so in love with makeup now! I still don't use it daily but i am starting to really enjoy it

Blushes are my absolute favorite!

 

[greengoesmoo]

My biggest mistake was definately the black lipstick and "T.W." and "S.S." on the cheeks a friend and I sported, took pics of and posted online.

We thought we were so fucking metal. haha. (I you can figure the initials you'll be able to find the pics. )

Now I think about it, that entire week was nothing but a embarrasing stain on my life.. :s

Ahh clumpy, tangly, does not show up hair mascara! <3

 

[kittykit]

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Originally Posted by purrtykitty Revlon Streetwear, anyone?

Yes, I remember Streetwear. I wore their lipsticks! I don't think they're still available (?) but I found it here. I also loved the nail polish.

I used to buy lipsticks with colours that did not even match my skin tone and I never blended my eyeshadows. I even have those pictures now and am too ashamed to show them to anyone

It was that bad!

 

[Cydonian]

Oh dear god... it started with weird nail polish colors, then I bought anything and everything with glitter in it (I nearly fainted recently when I saw a tube of "all over body glitter" from bonne bell... you know the ones, scented and everything). I think around 16, someone taught me about eyeliner and mascara... thus began my descent (and I say descent for a reason) into heavy crayon like eyeliner and spider leg eyelashes if I remembered to apply it.

I also didn't use primer so I had raccoon eyes 99& of the time.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68...g?t=1270664449

Enjoy. NOT

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[blackeneddove]

Well, seeing as I still AM a teenager (19) I could say my makeup as a teen is what I wear now but that'd be a lie because I've greatly improved my makeup skills in the past year and a half.
Age 14-15 was foundation, super thick eyeliner and mascara, that's all.
Age 15-16 was either one or two non blended shadows, cat eyeliner, mascara, and foundation.
16 was when I got more into makeup and learned basic shadow blending.
17 I was beginning to get better and started wearing blush and lipstick as well.
18-19 I greatly improved my skills and feel pretty decent at makeup now

I guess I got an early start on makeup..

 

[bubbleheart]

It was pretty bad at times - blue eyeshadows in junior high, full foundation but no blush in grade 9/10, overly plucked brows, mismatched cakey foundation/concealer, unflattering brownish pink lipsticks (just wore the lancome/clinique gwps). I never really had a set 'look' everything revolved around covering acne and/or scars and trying to look pretty - its a long road but luckily I learned and got there - I think nearly everyone makes some pretty awful makeup mistakes along the way, and better to do them when you're young and the people around you dont know any better either!

 

[ambicion6]

I've been wearing makeup since I was like 12. (I'm 28 now) My mom was one of those that wouldnt let me out of the house on the weekend for Sunday Church or family parties without having a full face - blush, foundation, color on the lips, mascara at a minimum. So I've been practicing a long time lol.
something I've always done, and still do, and can be considered a makeup no-no by some is matching my eye makeup to what I'm wearing

I was a big wearer of Revlon Colorstay and for a long time (14-18) I used to go through white e/s like it was nobody's business because i would wear it all over my lower eyelid and then have the color in the crease. and then black winged eyeliner. never was one for black on the waterline (even now). I was more into bright lipstick as a teen, than I am now. I'm more into neutrals and lipgloss now. but the white e/s boy...lol i'm no longer afraid of color on my eyelid
one thing that did suffer were my eyebrows. painfully thin all through h.s. crazy thin actually. i would pluck so much i killed the root. they're tattooed now as a result.

 

[ashley8119]

Oh dear. Here goes:

I didn't wear makeup until 7th grade. My mom bought me this little palette from Claires and it came with a sheer shiny blue lipstick that I insisted on wearing. Every day to school. With nothing else, no foundation, no mascara, nothing. Just sheer blue lipstick. Yikes.

8th grade: No foundation, no mascara, tinted berry lip balm. I guess it could be worse?

9th grade: Frosty champagne Wet N' Wild eyeshadow, again no mascara (why didn't I wear mascara?!), frosty beige lipstick, no concealer or foundation or blush

10th grade: This is when I started really getting into wearing makeup, even though I still didn't really know what I was doing. I hated my fair skin so I would wear wayyy too dark foundation to look tan, tons of bronzer and blush, too much mascara (I went from no mascara to too much in about a year!), medium-dark lipliner, clear gloss

11th grade: See 10th grade.

12th grade: See 10th grade.

After high school (18+): Since 12th grade, I learned to embrace my fair skin and now I love it. I often go for the black winged liner, light blush and red lip look. I like it and it suits my (dyed) hair.

 

[BEA2LS]

i also had a thing for white eyeliner and white eyeshadow lol. i still like white eyeshadow though

idk i do not think my make up choices were embarrassing, i caught onto make-up pretty good for whatever reason.. nobody taught me how to apply or anything i just read every magazine, make-up book, etc.

 

[MxAxC-_ATTACK]

Im glad to see I am not the only one who wore white eyeshadow and liner...

or obsessed with Glitter...... or shimmery lipsticks....

 

[CynthiRaa]

You guys have such fun stories

I'm still in my teens and thanks to youtube- I am pretty good putting on makeup.
But I remember when I was like 10 or somthing I stole my mums face powder and *attempted* to wear it- for no reason other than i could ;D
My mum has like a skin tone like 3 times darker than mine...And I am fairly sure i had just taken the puffy thing in there and randomly blotched it on my face ;D - I must of looked rediculous!
Then when I was like 13 i tried wearing eyeliner..I think i must of applied it all under my eyes and then one of those shimmery roll-on eyeshaddow things all over my eyes and cheeks (It was like pink) ... - major fail xD
Good Times xD
x

 

[chocolategoddes]

Well, this is nothing exciting and I'm still a teenager but I've realized I don't wear as many shimmers and frosts. I've become much more of a mattes girl.

 

[MizzMelroseMood]

I can't believe how popular frosty white and babyblue shadow/liner/lipstick was with teenage girls, who the heck started that? lol

 

[Curly1908]

Oh, Lord. Black lipliner with silver lipstick. Retro pink lipstick. DARK DARK DARK brown lipstick. Wrong foundation shade. I could go on...

 

[purrtykitty]

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Originally Posted by MizzMelroseMood I can't believe how popular frosty white and babyblue shadow/liner/lipstick was with teenage girls, who the heck started that? lol

I'm going to blame Madonna.

 

[larababyx]

orange face and too much blush is not a good look ! - looked like a clown !!

 

[meika79]

I was so simple. I would just wear clear gloss and call it a day.

 

[greengoesmoo]

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Originally Posted by Curly1908 Oh, Lord. Black lipliner with silver lipstick. Retro pink lipstick. DARK DARK DARK brown lipstick. Wrong foundation shade. I could go on...

... And what's so wrong about black lipliner with silver lipstick...?
Sod you all!

 

[fallenang3l211]

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Originally Posted by Shanti I actually think my shadow application was better THEN than it is now. =P My makeup has become sooo boring since getting out of my teens.

I feel that way, too! sometimes i look at my smokey eye from when i was 18 and i feel like it looked sooo much better then! i can't remember how i did it :[


*giggles* i think this is my favorite thread! i had a couple of conversations about this with mac ma's recently!

i entered my teen years during the puka shell necklace and hawaiian shirt craze. oh my. i had over tweezed eyebrows from 13-17. ugly frosty blue or white eyeshadow! i was obsessed with those maybelline cream shadow pencils! i had super thick black eyeliner, too. my first mac eye shadow was tilt! i swiped my finger over the shadow then put it all over..heavier on my lid and dragged it up towards my eyebrow for some kind of ugly gradient. dark lipliner with a sheer bronzy or mocha colored lipstick..gag. oh dear god and foundation with no blush!

luckily i had my makeup done by a ma at mac for the first time shortly before turning 17...but then i had an obsession with bronzer. i used a TON of it. i'd say by 18 i had a good makeup routine! i experimented with a lot of mac's foundations but stuck to the same shadows.

and thin eyebrows were gone by the time i was 19. growing them back was not fun.

 

[BEA2LS]

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Originally Posted by fallenang3l211 I feel that way, too! sometimes i look at my smokey eye from when i was 18 and i feel like it looked sooo much better then! i can't remember how i did it :[

i agree 100%.. like my make up is so plain anymore, i go all out when i go out but i used to be dolled up everyday no matter what. what's crazy is now i have such better quality make up and tools and i swear that i still used to be better at smokey eyes back than!