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How good are you at identifying what makeup someone else is wearing?
How good are you at identifying what makeup someone else is wearing? Share!
Not great! There are just SO many products and brands, and if you start layering, the possibilities are endless! I can definitely take guesses and even make suggestions of products that look similar, but it’s hard to be right unless there’s a way to narrow it down (e.g. you know the person almost always wear a specific brand).
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I definitely can’t and it seems impossible to me because, like you said, there’s SO many different products out there. Unless it’s something super unique, there’s no way I’d be able to just guess it.
It’s easier to identified a perfume (like those awful Thierry Mugler ones) than make up for sure!
Excuse me, but Thierry Mugler’s perfumes are NOT awful. 99% of the time, the perfumes tend to wear the wearer instead of vice versa. They are perfumes with a personality, a strong personalities, so it does take someone special to wear them with aplomb. If you look at their notes, you can see some genius and minute detailing given to ensure each unique note compliment each other. They are definitely not awful, maybe they are not your cup of tea but the Mugler perfumes need to be used with finesse and not many of the wearers actually know how to do it imo. 🙂
Thanks Deepa, I’m a big fan of Thierry Mugler’s perfume. I have Angel, Alien, Innocent and my favourite, Womanity. I suppose perfumes as in makeup, they all smell or look different on each person.
I actually like Alien, but I can always tell when someone has over-sprizted Angel b.c it smells like death
I can usually spot Sugarpill eye shadows. That’s it tho. Too many dupes on the market.
Some Sugarpill shades and most Lit Glitters but that about it. 😉
Pretty good as long as you keep it to one brands (for counter sales associates, etc). But when multiple brands are involved then I start to get confused.
I’ve never tried to do it. If someone’s wearing something that catch my eye, I simply ask for it.
I don’t even try. Unless it is a very pigmented product applied fairly heavily, I find a lot of the time the skin peeking through can subtly change the nuances of the colour and in a lot of cases even campaigns for a specific product can have me scratching my head because the look doesn’t even resemble the products.
I liked to detect lipstick if i know it is just a single one but with all the blending and layer its next to impossible! 🙂
I surely can’t. With so many dupes out there, it’s next to impossible.
I have only guessed right a couple of times and its only because they made comment on my makeup and i told them what it was and they buy it and try it out and looks great on them.
I’m not very good, but if I knew someone was wearing a MAC lipstick..I might be able to get it.
I´m good to recognize lipsticks..mostly if they are from MAC!
I’m decent when it comes to lippies lol. I feel like I can spot Heroine anywhere. Everything else I’ll just ask
I can’t discern brands because of the sheer magnitude and also the fact that the same product can look quite different on people due to application technique, facial features, and coloring. What I can usually easily recognize , though, is the general quality of products which narrows the field a bit when determining which brand is being worn. The only time I find it super easy to recognize a brand is when a particularly innovative/imaginative product has just been released and everyone is buzzing about it. Because my attention is focused on it, it is very easy to recognize it on another person.
Instead of identifying specific products, if I see something I like on someone I can quickly think of something in my collection that is about the same shade.
I feel I can spot when someone’s wearing a MAC lipstick, especially MAC’s Ruby Woo.
That’s exactly where the question came from; after looking a swatch after swatch of certain lipsticks eg MAC’s Ruby Woo or Riri Woo or Rebel I started to feel like I could spot it on someone on a blog (but not in person) lol
Not at all, if there’s something I like, I simply ask. My friend had on gorgeous pinky beige lipgloss and I asked her where she got it. It was a $3 beauty supply store brand, but gorgeous.
Are you kidding me? I would probably have trouble identifying what I am wearing if I can’t look at those little itty bitty labels with the microscopic printing on them (why do companies DO that?!)
I think the best I could do is guess the color’s proximity and if there’s contouring going on.. Identifying things down to a brand would be impossible for me! What a super power.. 😀
I’m pretty good at recognizing and or matching similar colors.
I never have ANY clue! lol
Only perfumes, generally. I can try with makeup (we have more limited brands here), but generally I’ll just ask if I like something!
I was only able to do it once. My friend got her make up done at Sephora for her graduation and I guessed her blush and eyeshadow brands correctly. They were popular shades though, Benefit coralista & smashbox eye trio shadows)! Most of the time, though, not really.
I thought I was alone in this but I’m glad to have company in not being able to identify most of what people wear on their faces. About the closest I get is identifying when someone is wearing a lip color that I own. With so many great dupes I don’t see how you can tell what’s what.
Not only am I no good at identifying what makeup someone is wearing , I actually don’t care enough to even bother trying! Too many brands and products make this an impossible task! Obviously if someone is wearing something absolutely knock out gorgeous then I’ll have no qualms in asking them what they are wearing. Cant remember the last time I did that tho’…
Not a chance of Identifying products and rarely colors. Usually a lucky guess. I can tell those who seldom wear makeup and have no clue as to color or application.unfortunately.
I definitely can’t, but whenever I wear MAC Ruby Woo lipstick a lot of people (who don’t know me!) know right away what lipstick it is and will compliment on it. Then again, Ruby Woo is very special -extremely matte, and a very vibrant red that looks almost neon under certain lights.
If it’s a seasonal stand out shade, I can spot it alright.
Im really really good! It scares people sometimes, lol