What was the first thing you learned about makeup? Share!
I learned about the awesomeness of eyeshadow bases!
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To not put the eyeliner too close to your water line. learned that very quickly 🙂
how to line my upper lashline!
sort of
the guy at sephora used a brush and cream liner, i didnt really absorb any of the info haha
Use concealer for special occasion makeup. That’s the first thing I recall from my mothers knee, so to speak, because she used green corrector. I saw her use lip liner with dark lipsticks, and do your lips last. Suck in your cheeks to do blush. Apply perfume sparingly. Use black mascara. And bleach your moustache when no one is around 😛
uh… lip gloss, I guess. Like the ‘lip sparklers’ from smackers 🙂 haha
I learned that make up has some mysterious magical power that grant your wishes of beauty 😀
My first make up was eyebrow pencil and it changed my look a lot becoz I have very light eyebrow. It became something I can’t live without since then.
It was that, the lipstick does not go well with the carpet.
I seriously laughted out loud at that
me too!!
Make sure your foundation actually matches your skin tone.
Me was the pressed powder & lipgloss (n_n)
I wore makeup during high school, but then I stopped.
I actually starting wearing makeup again my junior year of college, and I didn’t really know how to properly put on eye makeup. BUUUUT I learned that using a good eye shadow primer was an EXTREMELY important part of a makeup routine 🙂
You can do your eyebrows. This ‘polished’ look can be achieved. I’m still slightly in awe of people with well-drawn brows, it’s just such a massive improvement on the face.
That less is more.
That concealer can change your life.
Totally this!
I learned that too much electric blue eye liner was NOT a good thing! I think I was about 14 or 15. Ah, to be young! 🙂
I learned about how the eyeliner can make my eyes more beautiful 🙂
that foundation gives you a flawless skin!
One of the earliest things I learned was that you can use black eyeshadow as eyeliner!
the first real thing i learned about makeup is that u don’t just place the eyeshadow on… u actually had to blend it:D
The same as you, Christine. I learned about the importance of eye shadow primers.
it covers bad skin, thank god.
less is more was the first thing i learned and it still one of my no.1 rules
How to use a sponge wedge to put foundation on.
The first thing I learnt was not to put too much makeup on. I am in my thirties now and when I look back at some the hordes of stuff I used to cake on my face it makes me cringe. I notice women who find that perfect make-up balance and learn the art of emphasising one particular feature or look get it spot on. They tend to look better at say 29 than what they did at 21.
True, Rachel.
My sister and I would watch my mom put on makeup for work when we were little. Every single time she would say “Always remember to BLEND, girls!” She didn’t really wear eyeshadow much, but since it was the 80s, there was an abundance of blush. So, the first thing I learned was how to blend out foundation to avoid that awful mask look. I was probably about three.
The first lesson that made the greatest impact on my looks..was learning to use brushes instead of fingers..i always thot brushes were for eyeshadows only and used only by MUA’S.:)..the difference in finish is amazing..I love my MAC 182 and 109.Thnx Christine for all ur tutoring.
When I saw the change a blush made to my face, there wasn’t going back. This was when I started using make up as a 12-year-old. Nowdays, cheeks are still my speciality ;))
Probably how to put on lip gloss 😛
The more “advanced” thing would be blending or waterlining.
Well…that a bit of crayon makes my eyes sultry (when I was like 12 and I was on a ‘date’ with a boy I had a crush on)…
I learned the power of eyeliner 🙂 i love how just an eyeliner can totally change a look.
When I was four years old I learned two things:
1) If you put too much foundation on, you’ll look like a clown.
2) Mascara was, and still is, the bane of my existence. I will never be happy with how my lashes look.
That for the most part you get what you pay for.
Blend your foundation properly. Foundation application is key to the base of your entire look.
The importance of proper skin care & a good moisturizer!
I learned that in this day & age, when you wish to purchase something…searching about a product, of its reviews will always take you in the right direction.
with this said, all my life I wore nothing but mascara, eye liner & lipsticks because obviously I was buying products that didn’t work.
Now that I’ve tried products that had made it to a ‘best of’ list…I own the greatest make up, and thanks to the internet..many women look up to me now..
I find it’s the greatest compliment.
Eyeshadow base my eyeshadow doesn’t crease
Primer my foundation sticks better and thus stays longer
Concealer helps to get an almost flawless look
Eyeliner defines my eye and make they look bigger
Finally Mac msf gives me a nice glow
My mom always told me that the trick is to make it look like you’re not wearing makeup, you can always put on more, it’s harder to take it off!
that less is more haha 🙂
I started really wearing makeup when I was 12. My mom took me to the clinique counter. The thing that I remember most is that the role of makeup is to enhance your natural beauty, not make you look like a different person.
Clinique was the first makeup I used, too. 🙂
How to do My Brows. Around 12 or 13 I shaved my eyebrows off. After I asked my mother for permission (she said NO) But while she was asleep I broke out the razor. After she found out she took me to the drugstore I started off using pencil. Of course I had the sperm brows but, when I began freshman yr @ 14 she bought me MAC espresso shadow and a 266, And the rest was history.
1. Makeup is the path between what god gave you and what you give yourself.
2. Don’t “spoil” yourself by overdoing it! (Makeup usually looks most flattering when people can’t see it.)
^
Oi, that’s so true.
esp. 2nd! I just realized that and tried not to overdo everything lately. To pile up makeup can’t fix anything. Less is More!
That eyeshadows need blending! 🙂
Fifty-two years ago, I learned to use a very fine paint brush to apply mascara along my upper lash line. Eye liner as we know it was not widely known or used at that time.
That strawberry/cherry chapstick makes a really nice lipcolor on it’s own! Oh and to try to use the same color chapstick as the lipcolor shade you’re use (red, pink, purple)
How not to get lipstick on my teeth 😉
MASCARA IS IMPORTANT
Concealer should be JUST one shade lighter than your foundation.
One of my friends taught me to look at myself from the side when I curl my lashes. I’m a curling pro now, but I pinched the crap out of my eyelids back in junior high!
That lining my waterline with black (or a dark color) made my eyes look bigger. This sound contradictory, but the contrast of the black liner with the whites of my eyes make them so muh more noticeable. White and flesh toned eyeliners do nothing for me.
To always include your neck in your face routine.
And to use upward strokes when applying anything to your neck.
a little goes a long way and fill in your eyebrows no matter what!
Primer primer primer
At a young age, I learned that colour is fun and you shouldn’t be afraid of it (I had to teach this one to my mom)
When I got a bit older, I learned how to pick the right colours for my features.
Wearing more than one eyeshadow gives dimension & light! I can’t believe I used to only use 1 eyeshadow at a time (all the time). Actually, I can’t believe I used to only own 1 eyeshadow. *shudders*
The first look I learned to do was a silver/black smokey eye! I was so proud that I ran upstairs to show my sister who was like…so? LOL!
Probably to blend your foundation really well and make sure there’s no obvious line at your jaw.
ummmm … to never experiment with my mother’s makeup??? of course, this was the 70s and her makeup consisted of a foundation in Covergirl’s ‘traffic cone orange’ hue and the eyeshadows were a maybelline chalky green and chalky blue. those were all hideous!
on my own, a few years later, i did learn to expertly apply a liquid liner in a superb cat eye and have loved it.
You can never have enough make-up.
how to correctly apply mascara 😀
I’m right there with Becca on the whole Lipsmackers discovery. But after that, I learned that the reason my Mommy’s smile was so amazing is partly because she used wine lipgloss. Although I own over 40 glosses now, I still hold onto my MAC Desire lipglass.
How to apply eyeliner. In eight grade, when I first started getting in to make up, I was completely and utterly clueless because NO ONE in my family EVER wore makeup, or used any kind of skincare. I have never seen my mother with a bit of makeup on in her life. It was sort of frowned upon. But all of the ‘cool girls’ wore thick black raccoon eyeliner on their eyes, and I wanted desperately to be one of them. So I bought a 99 cent eye pencil and tried desperately to replicate the look. It sounds like such a silly thing, but I had no one to ask for tips, and it took me a full week to understand what a waterline was and that you smudge it in to that and the lower lashes. I was so proud when I figured it out, thought I was the first person to ever discover it. 😀
To invest in a good eyeshadow primer and a MAC 217!!!
How you apply blush for a stage performance is not how you apply blush to go out of the house.
Hahaha!
Blend… Blend… Blend… Blend your eyeshadow, foundation, blush, everything
That all makeup is not universal- my mother’s makeup didn’t really work on me (because we don’t have the same skin tone) and some colours just don’t suit some people.
I learned that red lipstick is awesome. Always makes your day a little better, and gives you confidence.
for every different color, you should use the different brush. this makes your eye look beautiful and clean
TFSI and UDPP weren’t around when I started wearing makeup, so I learned how to use MAC Paints as primers to keep my eye shadow from creasing. If no one had ever shown me, I think I would have given up makeup all together!
Yeah I love the bases for shadows such as MAC Paints or Paint Pots, and of course the lovely Nars Pro Prime Smudgeproof Eyeshadow Base, which I’ve finally found a way to apply, with some time and patience, so that I don’t ‘blink’ any of it into my eyes thereby making my eyes run and cloud up my contacts! LOL
First thing I learned was the importance of removing it all before going to bed. “Best/most lifechanging” (in terms of makeup, that is) – is probably like you, Christine…how an eye shadow base makes wearing eye shadow so awesome!
I always watch my mom putting on make-up when I was little and I can’t wait to play around on that kit!:D But I first learned to use lip and cheek stain for natural glow:)
Yeah I used to rummage through really roughly in my Mom’s makeup case when I was 10 or 11, and what’s worse is that I even rummaged through our next door neighbor’s makeup case too and she found out once! LOL I swear I didn’t take anything though.
The first thing I learned was that from the age of four, I’m quite sure, that I was utterly obsessed with makeup, how it looked, and how it was applied, and I still very much am! LOL My mother never really showed me how to apply makeup sadly as she was always too busy at work anyway, but when I was much younger I did watch her apply it on herself. Sometimes come to think of it, Mom could have used a little tip here or there, or maybe have plucked her eyebrows a little bit less! LOL
When I went into a MAC for the first time quite a while ago LOL, that’s when I really gained more knowledge and know how about how to apply makeup in general. I was obsessed about black eye shadow and smokey eyes from the age of 10 or 11 when I bought a cheap shimmery black L’Oreal shadow, applied it like around a raccoon’s eyes, and went to Red Lobster with my Mom in the stupid melting Florida heat! Ha ha haaaaa.
Now that I’m living in London, and many years have passed, I’ve finally learnt to apply my makeup better, and blend it better even after my love for stronger-looking make up has never waned. All I mostly need is time (ha ha), patience, and definitely a powder brush, possibly a blush brush, and at least 2 – 3 eyeshadow and eye liner brushes and then I should be good before I leave the house!
That less makeup = better skin.