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Wearing makeup you don’t feel comfortable in!
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Inversely, not wearing something you want to because it is not “in” or it is considered a makeup “don’t”. Wear what you love! 🙂
Yeah, but what if wearing what you love tends to scare small children?
i would say either too much eyeliner (like over smudging) or eyeliner thats too winged out (like it ends at your brow bone)
I know a woman who wears thick, winged liquid liner every single day, without fail. She wears it to work, to Sunday brunch, and to her boyfriend’s early morning sporting events. She applies it really well, but I’m unfortunately not close enough to her to take her aside and say, “Girl, that look is only appropriate after dark.”
I’m genuinely curious, why only at nighttime?
It’s not 1950s; nowadays it’s appropriate to wear whatever makes you feel comfortable and confident
I’m with you. Make up is personal. One should be wearing whatever makes you feel good about yourself. There really are no “rules”; everyone is entitled to their perspective and opinion. I wear what pleases me and what seems appropriate to the circumstance (e.g. party, work, job interview, funeral)- and what I feel enhances my appearance. This was a great question, thank you for it! ;-))
foundation that doesn’t match! *cringe* 🙂
Oooh!! *family feud style* Good answer! Good answer!
Yeah, when someone is very pale and wears dark foundation, AND piles on the bronzer. For some reason this drives me nuts. I guess if the person is happy with it, that’s all that counts, but ::cringetwitchcringe::
agreed! biggest beauty dont!
2nd that one… and people who have medium skin but compulsorily wants to be fair skin, they look like geishas!!!!
This!
Oh that is such a good on Christina! I was trying to come up with something as I think like a few others have said, it’s personal and if you like it and it makes you feel good (and you don’t get you employer complaining), you should wear what/how you prefer. But I agree with the foundation has got to match. Thank goodness so many of the mineral ones (and a few others) are far more forgiving than foundations used to be even 15 or so years ago.
Hmmm I think it’s a tie between the wrong color foundation or not wearing an eyelid primer and having eyeshadow creasing aaaalll over the place. Drives me nuts!
this. so much.
1. Not blending your eyeshadow is my biggest makeup don’t! When you can see that clear line where the eyeshadow ends.
2. Wearing foundation that doesn’t match your skin tone.
3. Wearing too much blush/bronzer.
I agree on all of these. srsly
In my opinion the biggest makeup DON’T is sleeping in you’re makeup. Having it just sitting in your pores overnight collecting bacteria is a big no-no.
I think I had suppressed this one . . . because EWWWWW! But, you’re absolutely right!
THIS. Many moons ago, I had a booze buddy that only washed her makeup off every 3 to 4 days. She would wear it to sleep, wake up the next day, apply some more to cover up what had rubbed off, and keep going. One days where she actually took it off, she just used makeup remover and a tissue or cotton ball and that was it. It drove me absolutely nuts.
Oh, that is gross. I knew someone who refused to let her boyfriend see her without makeup. Every time he slept over at her place, she would just wear it to bed. He slept over several times a week, too! She finally broke up with him after dating him for several years. Not surprisingly, her skin is a lot better now.
I have a friend whose mother wears such a thick layer of makeup. She told me she goes to sleep with it, and then my friend told me the only time he’s ever seen his mother without makeup was right after she birthed his sister. My friend’s 29 years old.
It’s… mindboggling to me.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Yes, if you are one that tends to be too tired to take it all off at night, at least keep some makeup wipe removers by your bed and USE THEM!
The biggest? I would have to say re-drawing your eyebrows with a thin arch using an eyebrow pencil. You know, the ones that look like ^^.
Haha the ^^ made me lol 😀 I totally agree.! That, the wrong foundation color, too much blush [specially if it’s red or orange], sleeping in ur makeup, and not putting bronzer [and/or foundation and powder] on ur neck if ur face & neck are 2 dif. colors are my biggest no-no’s.. whoops, I guess I wrote too much.? 😛
It’s even worse when the brows are drawn on in that weird shade of orange-ish brown. Blech.
Seen once, still appalled
yes, like my mother in law. lol.
Oh my god that drives me crazy!!!!! It looks just…icky.
Overdoing it. I’ve seen women with dark eye makeup, heavy blush, bold lipstick and drawn-in eyebrows. It does not look good.
Not wearing the right foundation color.
SHARPIE EYEBROWS! 🙁
Love it! I have always called them ‘stamp on eyebrows.’
It bothers me whenever people worry too much about what is “acceptable” or appropriate. If you want to wear something, then go ahead, but wear it confidently. Makeup is for fun, don’t let it be anything other than that. If you don’t feel comfortable with your makeup, don’t wear it out because you’ll worry about it all day. I’m the type of person that will wear bright blue during the day and not think twice about it, because that’s what I love and I’m not shy or uncomfortable at all. Makeup to me is a form of self expression and as long as you’re happy with what you’re wearing, don’t worry about what other people think. 🙂
This. Makeup is pretty personal and I take the Kevyn Aucoin approach and say express and enjoy!
Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!
1. Wearing the wrong color foundation and concealer
2. Unblended makeup, especially undereye concealer (I’ve seen it happen!)
3. Color and/or glitter ALL OVER the face
4. Dark lipliner around the lips only and clear gloss (90s much?)
5. Orange skin and concealer lips combined
there’s so many! wrong colour foundation is usually the most obvious one though, and not blending it down your neck and getting that horrible tide mark.
To me, I don’t like the way it looks when people shave their eyebrows and draw them back in. I have never seen someone who did this and thought, “That actually looks okay”. You wouldn’t shave the hair on your head and try drawing it back on with a pencil would you? To me the eyebrow thing is the same concept.
haha!! that made me laugh! so true though!
True! What genius invented this ridiculous technique I wonder…
I think one should wear what ever they choose. After all it’s your face, do with it what you want!
-Glittery/too much shimmer in the crease! YUCK! 🙁 I used to be a victim until I realized how horrible it looked in pictures.
-Using a “lighter than your skintone” concealer underneath the eyes instead of an actual corrector. It looks chalky!
My concealer is actually darker than my skintone. it is PERFECT!
To Dark Foundation.
Greetingd from Germany 🙂
Obviously glued falsies hence making it look very unnatural.. odd-looking.
Too dark fountation.
There are many but the biggest for me is too much blush, definitely.
wearing everything that’s a trend right know despite the fact that it doesn’t look good on you.be yourself!
Definitely mis-matched foundation, and too much blush. Also blush that isn’t blended well….Unless people that do it really do want that 80s clean line of blush look. Ick.
having your brows too thin and not properly colored is my biggest make up “don’t”
Lipliner no lipstick.
eyebrows that look like they were drawn in with a SHARPIE marker or “charpie” eyebrows haha
Wearing a foundation shade that doesn’t match your skintone.
/beginning of rant/
I see that way too often where I live. You can go to any department stores, and beauty professionals would recommend getting a darker shade than your skintone to look healthier or something. (I can’t translate the expression used but it does associate a nice tan with good health, which is stupid). That is why brands just don’t sell the lighter shades anymore, supposedly because there’s no clientele for it. There is plenty, they’re just brainwashed into thinking wearing a foundation suited for your skintone is a no-no. Shame.
/end of rant/
Agreed. They don’t sell the lighter shades in US only, probably to be politically correct or something like this. They don’t want to admit the fact that some people here still have light (ASA white) skin and refuse to mask it under darker shades of foundation. I’ve known many who have to order lighter shades directly from European branches of Chanel, Dior, Guerlain, etc.
This is a tough one. For me, it’s a toss up between orange foundation (my MIL has a friend who wears this look) and really obvious, dark lipliner, especially once the actual lipstick has worn away!
too much makeup – too much of a good thing is unfortunately not a good idea.
Dark lipliner and light lipstick. Yuk!
I agree!!
Buying a bunch of products you won’t give attention to.
Don’t get me wrong, I like collecting some products for the sake of collecting, but if I have no attachment to a product, I won’t buy it anymore. I’m so embarrassed about how much I’ve spent on useless products I ended up looking at once, not caring about, and throwing away.
I now have seen the light that you must invest your hard-earned money in products you’ll LOVE and use!
I’m a big offender with this…I could probably open my own store and sell the products I’ve bought but never use! But I keep buying.
Wearing a dark lipliner with a much lighter lipstick.
I think sleeping in your makeup all night (not just a short nap) is a little scary, it might cause breakouts for sensitive skin. But my biggest “don’t” is overdoing it for inappropriate places. (ex dramatic black smoky eye, heavy contouring and intense red lips in church) Not that she shouldn’t ware it, but just not to church IMO
Intense eye makeup + bright lips= wrong!!!
orange foudation…..
Not smiling! With all that’s going on in the world, there is certainly a lot of reasons not to. That’s when we, individually, need to find the reasons to smile and do it often. It helps to lighten your mood which will instantly make you much more attractive and approachable, also, it makes people wonder what you’ve been up to! 😉
Agree! 🙂
I really hate when people arbitrarily decide certain things are dos or dont’s. If someone likes what they do with their makeup, it’s a makeup ‘do’.
amen sister!
I agree with this too especially since beauty is subjective, but what if it’s something as basic as not caking on your foundation? Or, like the others said, washing your face before slapping on a new laye of makeup (for a new day)? Or the idea of foundation having to match your skin? Would you consider non-followers of those as committing beauty/makeup do’s? I’m very curious, I hope you don’t think that I’m starting an argument. I love makeup on all people and admire those who can pull of looks that I have no courage to wear, but somehow I still believe there are some beauty don’ts that people commit. 🙂
Drawing your lips outside of your natural lip line.
Blue eyeshadow and red lips together.
Foundation that doesn’t match your skin! The second would be extremely fake looking penciled on eyebrows.
Too much mascara, to where your lashes look like 5 dry black sticks.
This is my personal number one makeup “don’t,” but I’m starting to think that my perception must be skewed because every time I see the latest and greatest mascara demonstrated, the eyelashes look like clumpy spikes to me.
a part sleeping in your makeup – that has been said below and I totally agree – the biggest don’t is lip liner way darker than your gloss or lipstick and outside the lip-line; it’s horrible when gloss melts away and you are left with this dark big rimmed lips that are just ridiculous, clown like. Sorry but I see it all the time…
Letting a pushy salesperson at a cosmetic counter talk you into a color or product you *know* is not for you!
Yes, bring a friend. :]
Black lipliner, either alone or filled in with a very light, ashy lipcolor. WHY WHY WHY are people still doing this? Why did anyone ever do it? I see it every day. I can forgive almost everything else but this.
cakey, orange foundation, and lipliner that is much darker than lipstick or gloss
wearing too much makeup
makeup should enhance the face not overshadow it
I hate when girls do their eyeshadow with bold crazy colors but have no other makeup on. Like no brow, concealer, or foundation? It just looks weird. Oh and i hate hate hate when girls do the real dark lip liner with nothing but gloss in the middle. It looks so strange.
Oh gee I hate that. It almost perfectly describes my schools class graduation photos.
It was always the ~weird~ girls at my high school who would do this! Something about being anti-social equates to pink and green lids with little else!
When people wear bronzer like its foundation.
Not blending enough. Lines of demarcation really ruin a look.
Caking on foundation so it’s extremely obvious how much makeup you are wearing. i really don’t understand the reasoning behind covering your entire face in full-coverage foundation. I agree with Lisa Eldridge in her opinion that people tend to forget about the good patches in between the bad areas.
for me its crazy color lipsticks. now i love crazy color lipsticks, but not as an everyday thing purple lips is not an office color and if i ever saw someone in public wearing some of the OCC Lip tar colors like the blue id probally laugh.
I absolutely agree with Michelle! Always wear what YOU feel comfortable in, be it clothes or make up 🙂 it’s a don’t to say somethings “too much” – if you like it, it’s just about right!
I think people should wear what they want. The biggest makeup turnoff is someone who is super opinionated about what others should wear, but of course I have opinions on what I don’t personally think looks good.
– Eyebrows have got to be the biggest culprit. Too thin eyebrows and drawn in eyebrows. Lately I’ve seen a few older ladies who have black drawn in eyebrows but very light hair (I wonder if they were tattooed on when younger and had black hair!). Also eyebrows which are drawn out too far toward the hairline… I think it looks funny.
– Spidery mascara.
– Too much white at the tearduct area (though I do like this look when it’s subtle) because I think it makes one’s eyes looks too far apart and unnatural.
definitely the sharpie eyebrows hahaha
when people where makeup they dont need. my makeup philosophy is definitely where to enhance your beauty, not more not less
Coming from an asian girl, when asian girls try and fake a crease. Ugh!
So what do you think we should do?
I think asian eyes look better without faking the crease, you can still apply eyeshadow, dark shadows closest to lid and blend up with a lighter shadow. All this of course, depends on your eyeshape.
But the fake crease just looks horrible. A fake crease isn’t fooling anybody.
I find it hard to agree or disagree, as I do have double eyelids (not monolids) but as such, it is quite small and I do find smokey eyes technique (with varying colors) works best to show my eye makeup.
But! I’ve had a friend done my make up once with a bold, wide dark crease and it was absolutely gorgeous. I looked quite different, but good different! Which reminds me I have yet to ask her to teach me how to do that.
Foundation mask lines make me absolutely cringe but when girls have unblended eyeshadow UGH and because no one has anything good to say, they say “oh yr makeup is gorgeous” and the offendor thinks it actually looks good.
There needs to be an unblended eyeshadow/foundation/blush/bronzer support group out there
Lip liner darker than lipstick.
Not blending foundation/concealer
Not researching before you wear/buy
Wearing makeup to hide yourself instead of to enhance your real beauty.
Visible Foundation Lines
Not blending eyeshadows and over applicatin of blush (read; clown cheeks).
A close second is too much mascara which equals spider lashes.
This! Clown cheeks!
Working out while wearing makeup. So gross!
Overplucked brows, not wearing any makeup at all, smudgy black eyeliner around the whole eye (unintentional smudgy) and foundation when you don’t need it.
What’s wrong with wearing not makeup at all?
I agree that makeup can enhance how you look but people generally shouldn’t be thought as “ugly” for not wearing any makeup!
This is truly the worst: Not wearing any makeup at all!
Put brigth baby pink lipstick having tanned skin o_O
Foundation too dark and/or foundation line on chin. Overly lip glossed lips. Another one I think is a big don’t is tacky blue eyeshadow all over the lid nothing else then bright red lips. It just looks like your 10 trying to put on makeup
Foundation that doesn’t match- that’s the one part of makeup that should look natural (unless some sort of theatrical effect is being done). Natural as being the correct shade for the skin it is on. Lipstick, eyeshadow, even blush can be in any range of colors, but foundation that doesn’t match looks terrible to me.
Also, improper application of makeup. There’s no excuse with all the information available online, in books and magazines, etc… No matter how good the product is or how flattering the shade is, it’ll look terrible if it’s put on wrong. Lipstick over dry, cracked lips… mascara glopped on until it is a clumpy mess- there’s no excuse!
-I’d rather look at acne & red spots than a caked-on face. It’s absolutely disgusting.
-Sharpie eyebrow, orange “tan” complexion, heavily lined lips.
I’m looking at my coworker’s acne and red spots over years and I’m appalled every time I see those non-covered “imperfections.” It’s disgusting to the point I’m afraid to catch it!
Hijole! I have more than a few, but they’re mostly eff-ups, not Bobbi Brown type tacky stuff.
1. Too much foundation, especially when it is the wrong shade, or not blended well. It just doesn’t look good on anyone to wear a mask, whether you have perfect skin, or acne-prone skin. I feel like it actually exacerbates what you’re trying to cover up when you apply foundation with a heavy hand–I can’t help but stare at the imperfections, since the texture of the skin is so much more pronounced with a heavy layer of makeup sitting on top of it. None of us have perfect skin, but I feel like bare, blemished skin is actually more pleasing than this alternative.
2. Brows! I always see a lot of women who obviously took the time to put on a fuller face of makeup, but didn’t do their brows. It really detracts from their face, because the foundation or powder tends to cover them up, and make them less defined, or even invisible.
I have a few other peeves, like spider lashes, or concealer lips, but I feel like they’re much less common.
Not blending well enough would be a big don’t, foundation or eyeshadows anything that shows up as color on your skin must be blended well
dark or lighter concealer on you, just the worst
Unblended eyeshadows
I’m guilty of overdo-ing blush. But I don’t care 😛
In general you can wear blue eyeshadow on your forehead for all I care. It’s not up to me. The only things that bug me are the foundation line and creasing eyeshadow.
Thanks for using my question, C. I know that makeup is a personal choice and women should wear what they want but if one is wearing cosmetics that make her look older or ill then she is defeating the purpose of wearing cosmetics. Honestly, a bare face is much more refreshing than sporting dark lip liner and light (or no) lipstick. Also, I do not like seeing women in colors that don’t complement their skin tone. For example, I am really yellow-y tan so I look like a zombie in blue/pink/purple tones. When I see rosy, pink complexions in earth tones I just cringe.
And to the chickie saying “Why do people wear full coverage foundation all over??” Well some of us are just lucky enough to be covered in acne…. yay. What I don’t understand however is when someone clearly has perfect skin underneath. Waste of money gorgeous girls! 😛
I think the biggest don’t is not washing your makeup off before you go to bed. That just destroys your skin.
Glossy nude lips lighter than your skintone. It just looks wrong. Also spidery eyelashes and too-dark foundation.
Buying into the hype!! You should use products that work for you and not believe it is working for you juts because it works for everyone else!
I could go on FOREVER.
1) Cakey foundation.
2) Incorrectly matched foundation
3) Unblended eyeshadow
4) Black raccoon eyeliner done intentionally (yes, I’ve seen this at school…)
5) Chola eyeborws…
1. Over load of mascara (spider leg lashes)
2. Too much eye liner on the lower water line
3. Thick upper lid liner
4. Unnatural looking eyebrows
5. Mask face
6. 80s eye makeup
From a black woman’s perspective, not wearing multiple foundation shades if you more than one shade yourself. My aunt wore one color and it made her look so unnatural. Please, if you are more than one color accommodate it.
Glitter all over the face.
Foundation that doesn’t match so you have a noticeable color difference line on your chin or neck.
unblended eyeshadow!!!
I agree with Christine, though I have to mention mega obvious and super dark lip liner with pale lips.
Euwsh.
1 Not blending out eyeshadow
2 Not matching foundation correctly
3 Horribly drawn on eyebrows
(that last ones a little personal because i draw on my eyebrows. hehee but some girls i see just take a standard black pencil and draw them on. and it looks horrible. I have to draw the line, cover it with powder and use brow gel. i wish people werent so lazy)
When people have a gap between their lash line and their eyeliner where you can see their eyelid…. Just weird.
I agree with the one about the gap between the lashline and the liner..YUCK!
RACCOON EYES! Seriously, I can’t think of anything less attractive than heavy rings of greasy black pencil around a girl’s eyes. There’s absolutely no place where that looks attractive. I also really hate drawn-on eyebrows. If you absolutely have to, at least make them look like EYEBROWS rather than crazy half-circles.
I think the all-time “don’t” is foundation that obviously doesn’t match your skin. Or, trying to change your skin tone with foundation – it doesn’t work.
People who wear lip liner but not actual lipstick. It looks REALLY stupid. Too much blush also looks pretty bad and the foundation not matching as well.
Eyebrows that are drawn too close together or extend out too far into your temple.
either shadow no mascara or shadow and mascara on the lid but nothing on the lower eye at all
1. wearing foundation that does NOT match your skin tone- if it doesn’t match, then just don’t wear it, right?
2. dark lip liner with no lipstick or just a gloss over top- EWW!!!
3. not blended out foundation, shadow and blush
4. when people go to sleep with their makeup. I had a friend (we don’t talk any more) two years ago that acted really grown up” we were like… 12 aha, don’t judge! but anyways, she always went to sleep with her makeup on (which was horrible by the way) and then she would break out and blame it on her skin and she would just use a bunch of skin care products that didn’t work like (like TOO many) and then she’d wear too much makeup to cover it up and the cycle just continued, *shivers*
5. when people wear makeup that is “in” but looks horribe on them!
I agree with pretty much everybody on here…but I can never look passed mascara overload, where you look like you have 5 incredibly thick eyelashes sticking out. Also I’ve been seeing a lot of reality shows lately where all the girls ever wear is the Kim Kardashian smokey eye with lips that match their skin. I love the look, but they need to get a new nude color that doesn’t make their lips disappear (and maybe mix it up a bit…)
Really heavy, caked on foundation
Oh, I also have to add this: I cringe whenever people have really obvious lip liner. If you’re not a drag queen, you just can’t pull off a lip liner that’s darker than your lipstick! Sorry.
I know that I’m in the minority for feeling this way, but a LOT of the people who attempt a nude lip look awful. Unless you have dark skin, you most likely look like a corpse.
I decided to wear this beautiful glittery eyeshadow when meeting a friend for dinner whom I hadn’t seen in 10 years. At the end of the night I went home and cought a glimpse of myself in the mirror. The glitter migrated to under my eyes, my cheeks an upper lip. I must have looked like a disco ball sitting under the low, overhead lam p. I immediately texted my friend to apologize for my disasterous mishap and have eliminated the eyeshadow from my makeup stash. So ladies, always do a trial run
Fuzz around the eyebrows. Not natural, long hairs, but short stray hairs. Ugh.
I have actually seen women wearing what appears to be black eyeliner as lipliner and filling in the lips with a shade of red or pink.OMG!! Oh, and when women try to “plump” the lips by lining WAAAY outside the natural lip-line and filing in with lipstick…DON’T….PLEASE!!!!
Wearing a dark shade of eyeshadow from lashline to brow with nothing else…if you’re not on a runway in Milan somewhere, DON’T!!!
when eyebrows dont match haircolor, and when people have eyeshadow with no concealer and eyeshadow, it just looks incomplete, thats just my opinion.
What if your eyebrows naturally don’t match your hair color? I’m a natural blonde with dark brown brows – what do I do?
There are lots of options, you can bleach/tint your eyebrows, or just use a lighter shadow/pencil and brow gel :). I have to dye my eyebrows every 6 weeks.
Rule of thumb, or whatever the saying is. If you have lighter hair your eyebrows should be at least two shades darker and if you have darker hair your eyebrows should be two shades lighter.
orange spray self tanner..really people stop rolling around in the doritos.
Not blending out
Thinking that everything is suitable for everyone, not considering age, skintone, clothes, etc. Just because it’s “trendy” doesn’t mean it is trendy ON YOU!
I have a few things I personally don’t like but to say it’s a “don’t”?
I think everybody should feel free to wear what they like, no matter if it’s on trend or considered ‘dated’.
<3 it. 😀
sharing mascara!
my friends do it, even though i tell them why they shouldn’t.
I honestly makes me want to vom.
1. Wrong foundation color (but I understand for women that aren’t knowledgeable about it, it can be very confusing to find your right shade)
2. Drawn eye brows eewww I never liked that even in the 90’s
3. e/s applied incorrectly
Raccoon eyes. It bothers me so much and looks so tacky
For some reason there’s this massive movement among schoolgirls (and, shamefully, girls up to their twenties!) in Dublin where I live of all wearing the same shade of foundation. Its this horrible orangey colour and half the time they don’t even blend it out at the jawline. I remember being ostracized for being pale and freckly, but where’s the appeal in needing to colour in your face every day? They also used to fake tan their faces, necks and hands so it would show worn with uniform. Its not so much self-expression as compulsive repression. CONFORMITY, sigh!:)
I am laughing at some of the comments! I understand the saying regarding “wear what makes you happy”–that is true, but only to a degree! Here is an example–
My MIL ALWAYS pile on full coverage foundation, then buff a thick layer of mineral powder foundation on top of that! She goes through one bottle of liquid foundation and one jar loose one per month! They are also way too dark for her. I offer to color match her, but she said she prefer to “stay in her comfort zone” and get what she always use. Her face is about three shades darker than her rest of the body! but like I said, if that makes her happy, it’s fine…HOWEVER, every time she hugs me, she always rub her foundation off on my clothing and my FACE (she likes to press her cheek to mine when hugging, but her makeup is just too thick!)!!!!! I make sure I don’t wear light color clothing when I visit! but I still leave her place with one side of my face darker than the other (she is a lot darker than me). She also uses her fingers to apply all that stuff, so if you look at her house, there are literally, I am NOT joking, five finger prints all over their white wall! When she comes to visit us, I always do some door handle cleaning because there are foundation all over them! I always see my FIL’s one side of the shirt has foundation on it, he said he doesn’t buy light clothing anymore…I also notice that when people hug her, their bodies are purposely away…
So, if you are making people around you afraid to hug you because they are afraid to stain their nice clothing–even that makes you so happy–is a BIG DON”T for me!
I feel really bad for your mother-in-law. I’ve kept a bottle of foundation for two years. LOL
Wearing the same look is bad. It’s boring and weird. skin is supposed to change.
Don’t shop without a friend because if you know about the sale then your friend should too!
Don’t wear a mask esp orange, don’t have crazy eyebrows that are the wrong color, don’t have crazy amount of upper lip hair, don’t sleep in it, don’t throw away the receipt
Wearing too much blush so you end up looking like a clown and apply too much mascara and the lids get stained by it… I hate that haha!
I agree with Christine’s answer! I just want to add that spider lashes are a big no no…… I see that all around !
Foundation that doesn’t match someone’s neck. I know people match to different places, but…that seems to make the most sense to me. Also, orangeness. D:
The biggest makeup don’t would probably have to be letting the opinions of others dictate how you do your makeup, what makeup you use or what makeup is acceptable/appropriate. Wear what you want when you want to wear it. It’s your face and if it makes you feel good or you’re happy with it, more power to you. I have my preferences but that’s just it, it’s MY preference. You want to cake it on because you think it looks good; do it. Want some drawn on eyebrows; work it. All that matters is that you’re happy with it. People don’t want to see it? They can look elsewhere 😛
Foundation that doesn’t match at all. I had a friend who was Indian and had a darker skin tone, but whose family made her very self-conscious about it. She had a a blemish-free face, but would put too light foundation from her hairline to her chin. In all of our pictures, she had a gray face. I tried to encourage her to find makeup to match, but she said she wanted to look lighter. To her, looking lighter was apparently better than looking good.
On the flip side, I used to work at a make-up counter and had an elderly customer who had a classic, ivory skin tone, but INSISTED on buying foundation that was literally named “caramel 30”. However, she wouldn’t put it all over her face and so it always looked like she had dirt smudges all over her skin. I always felt so bad selling it to her since it was $57 a jar and she would buy it in bulk; however, for years, everyone at the counter tried to switch her to a more appropriate color to no avail.
As long as she thought she looked good, I guess….
I remember me and my mom were buying groceries and the cashiers makeup was horrendous.
She was pale and was wearing a foundation that was about 6 shades too dark for her and she only had obviously applied it in the middle and blended outwards except she made a perfect circle around her monroe piecing. Oh it was horrible!
1. gap between eyeliner and lashline, assuming it’s not done intentionally because makeup is all about fun and experimenting.
2. wrong color foundation/not blended in, this could never be done as a fun look.
3. Being scared of blush. Too many people think blush looks bad on them, but I think they haven’t found the right brush or color.
4. Lip liner not matching lipstick. There are better ways to make your lips look fuller.
Makeup is all about having fun, being yourself, and feeling confident, not making other people think you’re “pretty”.