UPDATE: Congrats to Kim- our chicken cutlet wearing Beauty Snob! We discussed amongst ourselves for days and none of our beauty editors can imagine dropping a silicone filled chicken cutlet on the dance floor. YIKES!
I am young enough to remember the '80s with fondness (how much did I love Madonna and Culture Club?) but old enough to know that somethings are best left to memory (bright blue eyeshadow with pale pink lipstick anyone?). I love the resurgence of bold color in eye make up this season but this time around, I will proceed with caution. Meaning I will blend, blend, blend.
There is nothing wrong with going for electrified color with YSL's eyeshadow quads inspired by the "Mondrian's Collection" as long as you use a light hand and invest in a good blending brush (I use the natural squirrel hair brush in 13G from Shu Uemura). And a clear coat of lip gloss will suffice because the neon clown look is not flattering in any era (trust me, I learned the hard way- if you saw photos of me at 14 years old you'd get a headache).
Just for fun, tell me your worst beauty faux pas in comments by 11:59pm tonight (please keep it as short as possible- 50 words or less). We will go through all of them and vote on the biggest loser, I mean winner tonight. We'll send the winner the ultra popular Premium cleansing oil from Shu Uemura because we all need a good cleanser for our moments of beauty madness.
This was horrible,when I was a kid(about 8) I tried to cut my own bangs,and they ended up spiky! So then I had to either wear a headband
or find some creative way of covering it up.
Fortunatly I don't think anyone saw my mistake.
I wanted to wear lipstick like Robert Smith of the Cure. But I'm fair skinned with pale eyes and I didn't realize I NEEDED EYELINER TO PULL IT OFF. (My mom wasn't a girly girl able to advise me better.) The effect? Bedsheet with lipstick (plus, it was orange toned--extra gross).
It was a high school dance, I had a little too much fun with the crimping iron (thanks Mom for convincing me that was a good idea), thought that it would be good to match my blue eyes with icy blue eyeshadow, and hadn't yet learned about tweezing my eyebrows. Not good.
I have oily/combo skin. Once I used an acne cleanser for two days and my eyes swelled up so bad I could not even see!
In high school I let my mom do home highlights on my brown hair. I ended up with cheetah spots. I convinced my mom to let me stay home from school the next day so I could get it fixed.
tweezing most of your eyebrows out and drawing it thicker than your natural eyebrow with pencil!
This was about 4 to 5 years ago. In high school back in Taiwan, paleness on girls was very in. The way I achieved that "pale, porcelain look" was by layering on foundation and powder that were at least two shades too light. I guess if I had adequate blending techniques, at worst I would have looked like I was trying to channel Harajuku Girls. That was not the case. Somehow, for reasons that I forgot, I consistently left the areas under my brows and underneath my eyes untouched. So in my photos, I looked like I was wearing a white facial mask with the eye holes dug out. The fact that I loved heavy black eyeliner was just icing on the cake. Until this day, I wondered what my classmates thought about my face behind my back.
Sun-In. The worst "natural highlights" ever! My hair was a nasty shade of orange by the end of summer. Big mistake
in jr high. a lot of the girls we're really into lining their lips with dark brown lip liner (eyeliner?) with light lipstick. the "chola" look. what we're we thinking? lol
When I was younger I wanted to tweeze my eyebrows but my mom wouldn't let me. So one night as I got into bed I took out a mirror and tweezed my eyebrows in the dark. In the morning my mom noticed what I had done because of the holes in my eyebrows. Then my hairs decided to take their time growing back! That was a bad school year. haha
when i was 11, my friend and i were making crafts with felt and markers. she decided, "hey, let me make you up so you look like Marilyn Monroe" I said ok. When she decided to apply the make-up, she grabbed one of the black markers from the table and then proceeded to ink a mole on my face. turns out the marker she used contained permanent ink!
My worst beauty faux paus would probably be wearing chicken cutlets and not making sure they were secure. One night on the dance floor one of my boob enhancers feel to the ground.
I was at a slumber party when I was 12. All the girls decided to have fun and put on makeup. My friend had an eyeshadow palette filled with bright neon colors. They looked so appealing, I picked a funky blue shade. I used one of those sponge applicators and attempted to mimic the high fashion eye looks from my magazines. I ended up shading ALL AROUND my whole eye(the whole upper lid AND below my eye!)..I looked like a diseased raccoon with HUGE blue eye circles. It did not help that the blue completely clashed with my tanned complexion. I looked like a hooker! My friends were hysterical about it the whole night. =(
I remember I once borrowed a waxing strip from my sister and I have used it to wax the hair above my lips, major bad idea! I got a serious case of rash which made me look like I have a really red & swollen beard, horrible!
I have to check in with my doctor and stay out of school for two weeks. Nightmare!!!
i think middle school is especially hard on those of us with curly/wavy hair... when i was about twelve, my mom i suppose took pity on me and bought me some pomade to tame my 'fro (i used to brush out my curls, eek!). she didn't tell me that you're only supposed to use the teeniest bit - i seriously drenched my head in it so that i looked like a wet rat. i went to school after applying it and waited for my hair to dry... it didn't. by the end of the day i had about a dozen people ask me why i had put my head under a sink in the school bathroom! i just remember the gross waxy feeling and how it stuck to my face! i could not wait to go home and shower!
Once upon a time, I was a teenager with no clue who had no clue as to how to wear makeup. Well, eyeliner, actually. I used to draw a line on the folds of my eyelids believing that it would make my eyes look bigger.
At 16 I had super thin super short baby bangs, heavy messy eyebrows, braces, and wore really dark severe matte red lipstick (even though I wasn't in the least goth-y). Noooot a good look for me, especially since I'm really pale and have dark eyebrows and lighter hair. The bangs were seriously the worst though.
Thank God I was scared of cameras back then. I only have a few pictures of myself to remember that. >.<
when I was around 7, I wanted my hair to look like my best friend. She pulled her hair back in a pony tail including the long front hair, she looks sleek-sophisticated at age 7! I had straight bangs across my forehead, so I grabed my scissors and started cutting out all of my bangs as close to the roots as possible, thinking I'd look sleek after riding the bangs!!! Wrong~ my head looked like a pineapple top for a whole year!!
Oh man. I was about 13 years old and I thought I was the coolest person. All around me girls had these VERY neat slicked back hair and I never found out how they did it. But, one day, I tried to imitate that look. I slathered on almost an entire jar of my mother's maximum hold hair gel and completely slicked back my choppy layered hair into a ponytail. An hour later, it was as hard as rock and started flaking white stuff all over the place. It was completely awful. People laughed and scoffed at me, but I just went on with my day like I thought I was cool. I only realized how ridiculous I looked when I looked in the mirror at night and screamed at the mess of stiff slicked back dandruff-ridden crud that was my hair.
Once upon a time, when I was in high school (about 8 years ago), I made the mistake of playing beauty salon at home. I was a swimmer, and as a result, my hair was always very weak and flat from the chlorine exposure.
Gwen Stefani had just come out with her Rock Steady album (I think that's what it was called) and I decided I LOVED her platinum hair, especially when it was curly.
Now unfortunately, I am totally cheap. So I thought to myself, "Oh jeez, I could totally do that at home!" You'd think, at age 16 from all the issues of Seventeen magazine I'd read, it would have occurred to me that an at home perm and bleach job would be disastrous.
But I blissfully forged ahead, first perming my hair with one of those Ogilve box perm sets. I had one of my best gal friends help me with the curling in the back and, as the noxious perm fumes were swirling around my head, I started mixing up the peroxide for the bleach job.
But I didn't get that far. Apparently, my hair was so damaged that the "normal" amount of time to leave the perm chemicals in my already chlorine-damaged hair was just too much. I knew I had a problem when I had to empty the drain three times with clumps of ratty straw hair.
It was...brutal. For about 6 months, my hair would break at any provocation - brushing it, putting it in a ponytail. It was bad and I was, seriously, practically bald. It took forever to grow back and ever since, I've been totally gunshy to do anything to my hair, even with a professional! Absolutely priceless.
Mine has got be my visit to a hairdressers in China. With my broken Chinese I tried to explain how I wanted layers all over my hair. Unfortunately for me they took me rather too literally and proceeded to cut in literally layer after layer all the way around my head in circles, by the end of it I looked something like Cleopatra and had to have all the lower ring layers cut off. I was left with an extremely short bob!
I was out of eye makeup remover so I used Blistex instead. I smeared it all over my eyes figuring it was just vaseline. My eyes began burning and stinging like crazy! I was screaming and trying to rub it off for thirty minutes. My eyes were red for days!
I was out of eye makeup remover so I used Blistex instead. I smeared it all over my eyes figuring it was just vaseline. My eyes began burning and stinging like crazy! I was screaming and trying to rub it off for thirty minutes. My eyes were red for days!
Hey im new on the forum, depressing I acquiren't introduced myself. I'll get to it, Basically I've got extremely packed whisker, but I don't like it extremely much. Its again been fro 2-3 inches hunger and if it gets any periodyer than that it goes frizzy and big. I was wondering if there is any way of lankyning the 's breadth a lot without shortening it too much. The barbar each time sheers it when I go but they say they can't do it any more and im nstill outc
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Should I go to a stylist and talk relative to this to try and of a mediocre this out to get this outcome? Or do you guys beget any ideas?( I'd measure steer clear of gells, creams and delicate gear)
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