When we were at that age when you’d start thinking about wearing make up – there weren’t that many brands about, you tube didn’t exist, so no one told us how to apply it correctly. Instagram wasn’t invented so we couldn’t get any inspiration for eyes and Rimmel’s kohl eye liner was literally all that was available – did we mention social media didn’t exist! Ha ha! So today we thought it would be fun to share some of our huge make up mistakes over the last decade or so.
1. Wearing the wrong colour foundation: This stands for too dark and too light colours, we’re not all that sure why we did it, what stopped us from choosing a colour that actually matched and why shop assistants agreed that it was a great shade for you. Only to apply it at home and realise you’re whiter than a vampire. When you look back and see past photos of yourself and cringe, you know it was bad! Not to mention when you went tooooooo dark and turned yourself the fabulous oompa loompa colour.
2. Going for the wrong red lippy: Did you know that there were a lot of shades of red? Did you know that you have to choose a red shade that matches you skin tone? Did you know that Mac’s Ruby Woo doesn’t suit everyone. If yo get the wrong one, it can make your teeth look yellow, it can make your skin look sallow – oh it can do all sorts. Just because it looks good on your friends doesn’t mean it’ll look good on you.
3. Not having a skincare routine: Face wipes do not count as a routine, you need to cleanse, tone and moisturise and not forgetting exfoliating! Seriously we use face wipes alone for years – what were we thinking? The anti ageing benefits of looking after your skin properly is insane, so if you haven’t started a skincare routine – start today! We have loads of products that we can tell you about – from spot creams to anti ageing creams – we have the answers.
4. Over plucking eyebrows: Boy do we regret this one. Luckily it hasn’t been too horrendous, but we were around in the over plucking time when a line was acceptable and now we’ve spent the best part of this year trying to fix that. We’ve been using a lash/ eyebrow growth serum and the results have been really quite amazing.
5. Wearing eye liner all over on inner eyes: This actually made our eyes so much smaller, but we apparently like that look! Now it’s all about making eyes bigger – so eye liner is for the lids and white eye liner is for the lower inner lid! We must have looked like idiots and lets go back to the Rimmel kohl eye liner – its smudge all the time – panda eyes anyone.
6. Never using a primer: Literally wondering why make up was never on our face by the end of that day. There was a full face of make up including eye shadow – yet it seemed to just dissolve and then the huge make up find that is setting spray! Why was there never any of that?
Do you have any beauty faux pas you’d like to add to this list?
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