Today I came across some old Facebook photos of myself from college, and OH MY GOD, grinding my teeth. I was apparently a fan of Claire’s glitter and didn’t match my foundation with my skin. What’s the biggest makeup regret you have from college or high school? (Or in college, if you started doing makeup and didn’t know what to do).
I tried to look how tragic beautiful people are described in books? I don’t even remember what book it was but one really cool girl was “pale as frost with faint lavender shadows beneath her eyes” and that resonated with me for some reason. so I caked on this blue-tinted powder that was supposed to counteract redness, and dabbed my mom’s pastel purple Revlon eyeshadow under my eyes.
This is what happens when you let your kids read too much. Have them at least balance it out with Youtube makeup tutorials.
Does using St Ives apricot scrub to wash my face every day count? I cringe at the memory.
Orange foundation and white eyeshadow 😱
SO MUCH liquid eyeliner. Always black, thick, and ALL around my eye. No cat eye, just on the outside lids, inside lids (top and bottom), lining the whole eye, all around.
1. Cool tone bluish pink lipstick with metallic shimmers. Made my teeth look super yellow. (Early 2000-2010’s trend i think)
2. Shaved my eyebrows super thin and super short. Yes. I shaved the tails of my eyebrows. Then i made them super straight. (Kpop & kdramas) 🤦🏻♀️
3. Another kpop influence, shimmers under my eyes.. to create eyebags.. aegyosal.. my no bs friend thought that i cried the night before 😂
I was extremely overzealous in middle school (mid-90s) about wearing a FULL FACE of makeup. Like, years before I hit puberty (late bloomer) I decided it was necessary to wear full coverage foundation, powder, eyeliner, mascara, lipstick. EVERY DAY. And I am talking cheap, drug store stuff that probably didn’t match my face AT ALL. Covergirl’s cream-to-powder foundation caked on with a sponge, then caked again with powder. I have no pictures, but the wakeup call was when I was visiting my aunt and she looked at my bag and was like ‘you wear all that every day? WHY?’ It struck a chord and I was like ‘why, indeed?’ and gave it up.
I realized my true love was excessive eye looks and very minimal face makeup shortly after that. No Regrets.
Never using blush. I would just pile on this high coverage foundation until there was no trace of my rosacea visible then stroll out the door happy as a clam because my face wasn’t red anymore. I could never understand why I looked so washed out in photos.
I wore eyeliner but didn’t fill in my eyebrows…. my face looked really unproportionate and it just focused on my wonky eyes
Ah yes, I remember the body glitter. It was like this clear gel stuff with chunky flakes. I used it as eye shadow and I wore lip gloss. That was middle school.
My first day of high school my mom let me wear her mascara. However, I had a bad habit of rubbing my eyes. So when I came home my mom was like, “What happened to your eyes?” I didn’t know what she was talking about. I had rubbed it so bad I looked like a raccoon. I have no idea how long I was walking around school like that lol.
I have absolutely zero regrets. My makeup was what was in style for that time. Trends change and I see it as a part of my life history that I got to live through. I bet at some point trends roll back and become popular again.10 years from now people are going to say “hey, look at these thin brows. We should try this out.” Most people from today in 15 years from now are going to say “ what the hell were we thinking that plastering our brows to stick up and purposely adding shiny shit highlighter to our face.” I enjoy every part of my journey in makeup and life.
Dark red lipliner, light pink lipstick…I can’t even look at my yearbook without flinching.
Light purple eyeshadow with THICCCC white eyeliner. The Brightest pink blush I could find ALLLL over my cheeks and that thick, gross CoverGirl creamy foundation…unblended.
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I was hot.
Maybelline Dream matte mousse foundation in a shade too light LOL. Also super thin arched eyebrows that I did myself.
in the late 2000s i remember all of us girls wearing so much black eyeliner in our waterline and lower lash line. we looked like raccoons 😂
I think the fact I just smeared the dream matte mousse foundation, that was probably two shades too dark, on my fair skin is bad enough. But then I didn’t know what an eyebrow pencil or eyeshadow primer was so I came home looking like a raccoon with no eyebrows at the end of the day. Wow, what a era.
I had the squarest brows circa 2014-2015 and I never once thought to blend them out at all…looking at pics from back then makes me want to commit a crime.
Using foundation like it’s a moisturizer all over my face, and not knowing the proper way to cleanse my face 💀
– at the time, drugstore foundation was all still pretty shit before the beauty guru renaissance, and I wasn’t going to spend $40 on foundation to match my very pale skin, so I just wore concealer all over my face
– luckily I never overplucked my eyebrows but I also just straight up ignored them, never filled them in or anything (my senior pictures were taken about a month before I started finally using an eyebrow pencil and I still think about that sometimes)
– I have evidence of some very droopy winged liner situations
– the weirdest one is probably that I would put eyeshadow over my eyeliner sometimes to do a bright ass shimmery ass purple smokey situation
Ugh i used to wear a ring of pencil liner (both lash lines of course) without mascara. I got into makeup so gradually that i didn’t know how to use mascara yet. Such a bad look lmao
I used to wear a full face of foundation, concealer, and powder, but nothing else. I didn’t wear mascara because I thought it was too hard to remove. I am also very pale, so I just looked sick all of the time with my poorly covered dark circles and zero dimension. I finally started wearing mascara and eyebrows when my mom pointed out how tired I looked. Lol it was quite the realization
Second the glitter.
Had cotton candy scented pale blue glitter I layered over a berry wet and wild lipstick. And at a later time black pleather jeans w a see thru pink top. 😥
My favourite was caking the wrong shade of Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse all over my face…INCLUDING MY LIPS! Then leaving the house like I was hot shit…
This pale mod lip look was really in style at my school, so we would take a brown lip liner then fill our lips in with concealer and blend it all together….eek
In middle school I wore THICK, black pencil eyeliner on my upper and lower waterline. It was just a circle and I didn’t wear any other makeup. I was trying to be Gerard Way. Looking back I know it looked awful, but I thought I looked badass at the time so only slight regrets haha.
Silver lipstick from Wet N Wild , god help me
I used to wear hot pink eyeshadow. No blending I would just use the applicator it came with and go about my day!
I didn’t learn how to use liquid eyeliner until college, so I only ever put black eyeliner in my waterline (although tbh I was an Emo kid, so that was The Look^TM at the time). I also had a friend teach me you could wear more than one eye shadow color at a time, but not about blending or transition shades, so I’d wear a bright shimmery white on the inside half of my lid and then some bright sparkly color on the outside half. Then I got into college and learned how to blend. 😂
Maybelline mousse foundation and SHAVING my eyebrows instead of plucking 😭
I love this question. I used to simply just rub foundation all over my face and then just apply powder. My god what was wrong with me in 2010… also using shades that I thought would make me look tan…. but I just looked like a clown
Using my moms foundation. It made me look so goth.
I didn’t know how to prevent my eyeliner from running but I wore it on my water line, and did a big cat eyeliner wing, even did the inner corner eyeliner. I was always having to clean it up and touch it up. Now I still wear a similar style sometimes but I know how to keep it in place and don’t embarrass myself.
On my graduation/prom, I was wearing orange foundation. I had acne and that shade was the only one I had. I never looked at the pictures since.