What’s one makeup technique/style you can’t get the hang of? Tell us!
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False lashes. I get them sometimes, but if I don’t nail it on the first try, I’ll fuss with them for an hour and give up! I try all the tricks to no avail!
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I have the rest time doing a smokey eye and lining my waterline. It never looks right!
I still need to learn to use the 266 properly when using gel eyeliner !
Pencil liners. I absolutely HATE them just use them as colored bases for my eyes or lining my waterline. No can do.
The winged eyeliner.. like the really big wing tho.. my eyes always look different!
OMG! I thought Im the only one who struggles with false lashes! I have the same exact problem Christine!
Most of the times I struggle with them for so long and use all of the techniques out there with no luck!! 🙁
Same here!!! Just yesterday, I put on the new #46 MAC lashes for work and the first one was kinda crooked in the inner corner and they both looked different and it drove me nuts so I just removed them eventually. Sometimes, I do them right the first time around, and other times, I just can’t seem to nail it!… 🙁
False lashes are my Achilles heel as well. I also have trouble doing winged eyeliner.
False lashes, smokey eye in any color style (like, what color shades go where, etc.), making a wing with eyeliner (I can do it, but it always comes out different on each eye), and rainbow eye shadow, so many tutorials on it, but I cant get the hang of it.
Im not very good at doing a smokey eye, blending and doing a perfect straight thin line of eyeliner.
for me its gonna be contouring the nose applying falsies! =)
Same sentiment with the falsies!! :-s
It takes me forever to get winged liquid liner just right. Also, contouring that looks BLENDED…maybe I just havent found the right brush.
Same here- false lashes can frustrate me so much.
winged liner on my shape of eyes
i hate that it looks stupid on me no matter what i do
and false lashes also are a bother for me sometimes
blush lol i know how to apply it but every time i put it on i always feel like one cheek is darker than the other. i guess i need to keep on practicing and more natural lighting.
Winged liner. I can never get my wings even. They are always 2 different angles.
I have the exact same problem as you! And I also have a problem with lip liner. For some reason when i do it. The liner on my lips looks crooked.
contouring and blush
I have the hardest time with blush and contouring. For some reason it never looks as if it is contouring/blushing properly- I just look chubby 🙁
False lashes!
liquid eyeliner and falsies. for the life of me, i cannot do it right. i end up using black eyeshadow as my liner and load on the mascara.
never tried false lashes, but am sure I would suck at it!!! winged eyeliner is the look I really want and can’t get to grips with. no idea if it is me, wrong product, or what!
liquid eyeliner, i have really long lashes and they always get in the way, especially when i try to make a wing in the outer third
ugh false lashes and winged eyeliner…just cant!
Winging liquid liner! Liquid eyeliner is hard enough, and getting the wing even on both sides is near impossible!
LIQUID LINER!
It’s always so hard to get it perfect and precise. I’ll stick with my gel liner, thank you very much.
As most other ppl, I have trouble with falsies and the cat eye!!! Its rare I get either one right. I think its the shape of my eye!!
Tight lining because I keep on needing to go over the spots a missed and using fluidline on my bottom lash line. I can use fluidline on my top lash line but it is much harder on the bottom lash line, so I end up using a pencil liner instead.
contouring cuz i dont do it much
im pretty alright at falsies =]
Winged eyeliner and false eyelashes! I always end up shaking a bit when I do false eyelashes and get glue in lots of places. When I try winging out my eyeliner, the ends don’t go in the same direction. Oh well, practice, practice, practice.
False eyelashes! The just end up looking … false!
Currently having blush issues.. Everytime I do it, it looks off… no matter what brushes I use.
Eyepencil on top lid. Uusally just use liquid eyeliner instead (and that’s not easy either). Also blush, I always overdo it. 🙁
Winged eyeliner. I used to wear it every day to school and it became a no-brainer but then I quit for a while and it seems I just lost my ability (a tip: always keep q-tips at hand and practice it once a day, you can wash it off afterwards and put on your actual makeup for the day but trust me, you WILL get better at it! I wore it every day for almost 2 yrs!).
Blush is an issue too… I always get too much in one place and too little in another.
Finally, getting color in the crease is difficult for me too. My 219 brush just isn’t as “sharp” as it should be. I cannot get that defined line!
But remember girls, we are our own worst critics! 🙂 You’re probably fabulous at something someone else is horrible at, right?
I cannot do my brows to save my life!
Yeah false lashes are my nemesis and it’ll take me a couple of attempts to get my winged eyeliner just right. Yeah i agree with Roxanne’s post above me – I wore this look out everyday in high school almost 20yrs ago and why is it now such a challenge for me? Yes, blush and contouring no matter how many times a makeup artist will show me i always feel like a raggedy ann doll after I do my blush =(
I cannot do winged eyeliner. =(
The cat eye. I can do it on my left eye but never my right :[
I cannot, no matter how hard I try or how many times I practice, do winged eyeliner! Uggh!
I cant apply my own blush to save my life. I look whore-rable in any shade and with skin as pale as mine my mistakes *always* show up. I cant seem to get a natural application that looks blended and pigmented on the apples at the same time. I either end up applying two very obvious stripes of pink on my face or nothing at all. -le sigh- But I believe Ill get it eventually… maybe I need to take my own brush and blush to get a makeup lesson at MAC or Sephora one of these days. :/
Liquid Eyeliner False eyelashes. =(
I cant get the hang of winged eyeliner! It looks so good on other people but I look like a clown, even if I make a small wing. The angle/size/shape never turns out the same on both eyes.
contouring!. bleck and my blush is really hit and miss
A nice defined crease .. oh, and contouring! I would love to have nice, contoured cheekbones =(
I cannot use liquid eyeliner . as for falsies, I ahve never actually tried yet, but I do feel I would have a hard time setting them right.. I am just too clumsy ^^
False eyelashes! Its a shame because when I am able to put them on properly, like once in a blue moon, I love the look!!
Winged liner, I have the hardest time doing it, and it never looks good with my shape of eyes. Im not really good at doing my brows too, but I like them natural anyway.
EYELINER….i just can’t get them look same on both eyes..:(
Winger liner and false eye lashes..
Blush and getting the crease of both my eyes to look the same!!!
Lipstick. lol I can never get it to stay on for more than half an hour or so, even with primer.