What do you wish you could have told your makeup loving self five years ago? What beauty mistakes would you rectify? What HG quests would never have to start?
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I’d tell myself to wear some freakin’ sunscreen every day of the week! I’d also tell myself that makeup is far too addicting…
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“Babe, don’t smudge your eyeliner on purpose. That’s not called smoky eyes. It’s called panda eyes.”
hahahaha! ive done that too, because the magazines said it was the “easy smokey look”…..but i never understood how it was supposed to look good. lol =P
“Groom those eyebrows!”
“Blend blend blend!”
& “Don’t sleep with your contacts in, don’t go to bed with your makeup on, and stop going to the tanning bed!”
i know a lot of people disagree and even being an aesthetician i will always tan. using a VERY good bed for a small amount of time per day clears up my skin, makes me feel healthier and everything. there’s good and bad amounts of uv exposure. so it’s not ALWAYS bad.
Definitely sunscreen, I agree with you. I’d also tell myself to not buy drugstore makeup and just save it for higher end brands that’ll treat me well and not oxidize on my skin.
pluck those brows and use a mascara
Me? Make-up? OK…
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Dude, you’re gonna be so broke.
Buy more nail polish so you don’t have terrible lemmings later that you could have avoided.
Put foil in your damn fluidlines!
Hoard Pleasureflush and sell at ridiculous mark-up later.
LOL! Love the Pleasureflush comment… could make a few $1000s that way!
Oh yeah, and I would tell myself to go and check out Mac, since I only got into the brand about a year and a half ago. I could have bought Pleasureflush and Stereo Rose for just £19 instead of £70+. :S
put foil in your fluidlines?….wait…….huh?!
Stupid question, but why put foil in your fluidlines?
Save some of that money for clothes…
I know you love NARS and all but do not buy that cleansing oil – it’ll wreck your skin and it’ll give you blemish scars!
I should said “Blend those eyeshadows babe”
Your foundation color is all wrong!!
Your eye make-up look awful, your sponge-applicators do NOT blend at all!
Less is more!
Moisturize!
“Buy some make up remover and remove your make up every night.” I used to use waterproof mascara and never remove it, so it just kept clumping when I applied a new layer – yikes!
Quality not quantity! Don’t pluck your eyebrowns so thin!
I wish I had learned to tight line years and years and years ago!
I’d say start saving up cuz makeup is gonna make you broke in 2010!
“Get more facials!”
“Laser Hair Removal is a GREAT thing….DO IT NOW!”
“Go to MAC and buy OFTEN!”
Don’t wear just one shade of eye shadow everyday!
i would tell myself to not buy so many of the same shade of orange lipgloss!
I’m with you on the sunblock, Christine. I also would have told myself to not even socially smoke those clove cigarettes I loved so much, and are now banned in the U.S. Which if you ask me is a stupid ban. I get it, so kids don’t smoke with the added sugary flavors but cigarettes are harmful to begin, why ban one part? Plus, bans don’t lead to good things. Alcohol ban, mafia starting. Now a good thing. Off topic, but yeah I would have told myself to not smoke the few cigarettes I had while drinking in college.
Why were cloves banned?
All flavored cigarettes were banned….no good reason….no one really knows!
1)Just because it costs more does not mean that it is better.
2)Just because it looks good in the package or on someone else does not mean it will look good or the same on you.
No pink and blue eyeshadow is not a good highlight. i dont care what drag queen had it on.
Definitely to experiment with colors I’m not used to (BRIGHTS) using drugstore items….This way I won’t have lime greens and blues in my mac palette haha
“Moisturize day and night!” Especially after using Proactiv (and quit using, so drying)
Try lipsticks in the MAC store before you buy it to see if it looks good on you or not (I’m looking at you, Snob!)
“Don’t feel bad because you can’t buy everything you see. It’s the stuff you’d actually get some use out of that matters.”
I would’ve told myself to go buy MAC products…I have just recently started buying & using them like crazy. I love MAC! Also, I would’ve told myself not to wear just one single eyeshadow color on my lids ONLY….blend & mix various colors! =)
“invest in good brushes, stop using sponged applicators”
“experiment more with color, instead of charcoal grey everyday” (even though it didnt look that bad) =)
“wear blush! you look sickly without it you pale-assed bitch!”
I wish someone would have constantly reminded me the importance of sunscreen, not just for the face but for the body as well. And then that someone would just hand me a sunscreen before I protest!
Oh, to not have your co-workers pluck your eyebrows for you the first time. And go easy on the red lipstick:)
I didn’t wear make up 5 years ago, so I would of told myself to give it a damn try because it really ISN’T that bad lol. If I started five years who knows what I’d be doing with myself career wise. 🙂
I would have told myself to budget funds each month for that lovely high end moisturizer I think I deserve.
Thou shalt not tug when putting on eye liner.
There is no sense of urgency when purchasing new launches, be selective.
1) Yes, red lipstick is great, and those eleven shades are indeed all slightly different – but you will never use them all before they go off, and you’ll have to throw them away and it will make you mad.
2) Get your eyebrows done by a professional threader and don’t touch them yourself.
3) Get some good transparent storage so you can clearly see what you have.
4) They are going to discontinue Shu’s ME Silver 945 and the replacement will be really similar but just slightly less good, so maybe try not to wear it every single freaking day.
5) If you don’t like lipgloss, just accept it. Don’t keep buying them in the hope that you’ll feel differently this time.
I would say don’t wear eyeliner to thick I use to pile it on thick back in the day.
“My dear: You have to pluck those eyebrows”
“Do not over apply blush!You look like Snowhite”
“Do some research on color teory, babe…those colors don’t really go well together.”
“Dany…drugstore brands are ok…but there’s much more out there”
LOL and many more!!!!
– Washing your face twice(or once) a day with plain water is not a skin care routine.
– What’s that horrible jungle above your eyes? *holds up a tweezer*