What makeup tips did your mother teach you? (Or sister, aunt, grandma, and so on!)
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She always told me less was more. But then again, my mom never wears makeup!
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Focus on ONE thing only. Bold lips, or bold eyes or bold cheeks. But never. Ever. EVER. all together.
unless you’re a drag queen 🙂 lol
Hahhahaha, made me LOL
my mom never really wore makeup, so I have learned alot from other friends or women working on the makeup counters
my mom taught me to not use too much eyeliner. “you’ll look like a prostitute”. honestly though, too much eyeliner can make your eyes appear smaller and hide your eyes.
Haha that’s what one of my friend’s mom used to say to us in high school when we didn’t wear makeup!
None.
haha! um… no comment.
None… lol. But she doesn’t really wear makeup. I’ve taught her a lot though!
always mix your moisterizer with your foundation…
she never add the stipulation of your foundation is too dark… thank you you tube…
I would say she tried to help with cleansing throughly and also tried to help with eyeliner a bit, but she gave up pretty quickly. lol. She always recommended blemish cream and mascara.
Nothing. But she did used to me to wear makeup cause I used to not wear any. Now she’s more like, “Woah, tone down the crazy makeup” :).
My mom always said something along the lines of “less is more” too. She said I was naturally beautiful because I was young.
BUT, From observing her eye makeup, I was never scared of Colour because that’s what she only wore! And she’s in her early 40’s but has pretty good skin. Her favourite eyeshadow colours are (in order from most to least) Pink, Purple & Green then blue. I figured this out by rummaging through her make-up stash and when she dug into my MAC Da Bling eyeshadow during vacation! She has neutrals but wears colour most of the time.
My Aunt taught me a little more than my mom (minimal eyeshadow application and the importance of brushes and 3month toss out of mascaras) but most of my knowledge comes from youtube!
Bit off topic, but does anyone rummage or look through their mom’s makeup stash? I always do it from time to time – out of curiosity (and to borrow stuff, hehe….)?
When I first started experimenting with makeup, I used whatever I could find in my mom’s makeup bag. Now I know better — the majority of her makeup was purchased in the late 80s! Whenever I look through it, I end up throwing things out 😛
I’d say my stash is way bigger than hers ever was… now she borrows things from me 🙂
I used to look there my mom’s makeup because it always interested me, but now that i have the makeup that i prefer to wear i dont really bother anymore. Hahah now she rummages through mine.
I have never seen my mom a day in her life without make-up. Not even when she was in hospital or sick in bed at home. And she never slaps it on, she just wears enough to look groomed. She has taught me that a little goes a long way, and that you should always wear some lipstick, have neat brows and smell nice, because you never know who you might run into! 🙂 A true lady.
Believe it or not, I’m the one who’s teaching my mother 🙂 I’m a self-taught girl, hehe, and now my mom asks me for product/application tips!
I’m in the same predicament Kristine! How funny. I do my mom’s makeup for big events. She doesn’t ask how to just asks me to do it or let her borrow my makeup/tools.
Me too! My mom never does her own makeup anymore.
None =( My mom has never taught me anything about makeup. I had to teach myself everything. It seems like now I am teaching her everything…lol. I tried to get her to use an eyelash curler a few weeks ago and she freaked out. She said it looked like something that would pull your eyelashes out so she refused to let me use it on her. No wonder I love makeup so much these days, I was deprived when I was younger…haha.
We never talked about makeup and i rarely saw her wearing any. Two christmas ago she gave me a set of Dior makeup as present, well, i was really surprised because back then i wasn’t into makeup at all, but still loved what she gave me and decided i would try them out. Since then I have been collecting makeup crazily and now i see her putting makeup on a regular basis as well… so i guess she inspired me and herself? 🙂
Always remove any make up and use sunscreen. Not much in the application direction because her routine is more of a tinted moisturiser, sheer wash of eyeshadow, listpick and go.
Same as yours and even my mom doesn’t wear makeup.
Not really makeup tips. Sth like “tone down your eye makeup honey, not that much dark colors, not that much black e/l”. But I hardly listen, once in a while I go neutral, or cute natural and she loves it.
My mom taught me how to do my eyebrows. That was it, cuz she never wears makeup either!
My mom’s motto was always : “don’t use foundation too much, because it will ruin your skin! ” Well, I guess that, back in years, this might have been true as the products were not as high-tech as they are now… anyhoooo, I did follow her small piece of advice and moisturized, and used loose powder instead ^^ And somehow, I always prevent from piling on products, be it cheek color, or lip color .. just my 2 cents here!
“Just give it up alltogether, like what I did…” – Regarding my pin straight lashes that refuse to hold a curl.lol.
“It better to spend the 30 dollars on one piece that you use regularly as opposed to buying 10 pieces of cheap things that you never use.” -Regarding my cluttered room. Anyway, my mom only uses pressed powder and lipstick so she never though my any skill, as I personally don’t like the feel of foundation/pressed power and I apply lipstick straight from the tube, just like her…
Oh, last but not least. “Don’t squeeze the whiteheads…”
My mom’s makeup and beauty style is very 70’s Farrah Fawcett – fluffy sunkissed blonde hair, blue eyes, tan skin, soft eyeliner and MLBB lipstick. I admire her style, but mine is less flower child and more rocker – I have pale skin and love a bold red lip or dark smoky eye! She taught me a lot though, and these seem like big-time “DUH”s but she had to beat them into me as a teen: NEVER skip blush and NEVER wear eyeshadow without mascara!
Moisturize, moisturize
Your esthetician is your face’s best friend. Everything looks better on smooth, beautiful skin, and your esthetician can make that magic happen. Also – use sunscreen religiously, moisturize often, and always remove your makeup before bed.
My mom likes to make fun of my love for bright colors. She insists I look like a hooker when I have on a bold lip or a bright eye lol. She is very low maintenance when it comes to make-up but she always taught me to never go to sleep with your make-up on.
None, she was never into make-up. The first make-up tips I got was from my brother’s first wife (girlfriend at that time) and she told me to always make sure that your foundation is well blended into the jaw line and neck. Sadly, she told me so on the day of my Jugendweihe, and it was too late to completely re-do it.
Haha, nothing! My Mum never wore make up when I was younger. I think now she wears some tinted moisturizer and lipstick occasionally, but that’s all. In fact noone in my family wore make up, I come from a small village where most people grow vegetables and crops and have animals, so they don’t care about make up and looking nice. 🙁 My sister and I started wearing make up when we were in our teens, but we were never close, so she never taught me anything despite being 7 years older. My Mum often complained if my lipstick was too dark or too bright, but that’s all.
My mom always told me not to wear too much eye makeup. LOL I love doing different eye looks!!
My mom always taught me to moisturize. She has the most amazing skin but omg she HATES makeup. If I had on anything other than neutral eyeshadow and gloss she would complain about me having on too much makeup and looking like a drag queen. Maybe it’s humid eyeshadow that offends her so much…
She taught me the best tip in the world: How to moisturize the face. My mom used to be a Mark Kay consultant way back in the day and still used a lot of the techniques she learned while she was one. She taught me all about how to apply the moisturizer and which directions to rub it in to prevent wrinkles, etc..
My mom taught me to know when you’re wearing too much and you look ridiculous. When I was 13 (yes 13) my mom gave a fuchsia lipstick that she didn’t want, as something to play dress up with. I decided to wear it everywhere! My mother’s aunt asked why she would let me do such a thing (little children shouldn’t wear makeup). My mom lovingly said “She will eventually realize that people are looking at her for the wrong reason. They’ll wonder why she’s trying to mess up such a pretty face”. I stopped wearing it immediately and people started smiling when they looked at me as opposed to jumping back. Best makeup lesson ever: Don’t overdo it!
ALWAYS WEAR BLUSH! She also taught me to never use eyeliner completely around your eyes because it makes them look smaller.
But overall, my mother taught me that less is more, just like yours Christine. Like the old Coco Chanel phrase, “Always take off the last thing you put on”, my mother applies that to makeup.
None! She never wears makeup and no matter how much I have on she thinks I’m wearing too much. ah moms!
she taught me the invisible eye liner 😀 ..
also how to highlight the brow bone and the inner corner of the eye
My mom taught me how to paint my nails ‘professionally’: squish the brush down 3/4 or the way back, push it back the rest of the way, take one swipe down the middle and one on either side.
nothing, lol, i learned everything myself. (AND you, AND youtube.)
To make sure that my foundation was blended well so that I didn’t have the dreaded line at my jawline where my face was one color and my neck another. 😉
nothing…she never wore any.
Oh, my mom was amazing! When I turned 14 she took me to the drugstore and we talked about everything! How to pick a foundation, how to apply the eyeliner and blush, what a subtle lip color would be. She taught me everything so I never went through that awkward “I’m clearly doing my own makeup” phase. She’s so cool! 🙂
I hope to be like that when my daughter becomes a teenager.
Use good quality brands. I blame her for my obsession with high priced brands like Dior and Chanel! She bought me my first Dior lipstick at age 16. I learned how to mix the high price with the medium price (MAC) and even drugstore (hello L’Oreal mascara when i’m in a pinch).
My mom is a natural beauty she taught me and and sisters to take good care of our skin . Make up is only only and accessory after all to enhance your features not mask them 🙂
To be honest, I’m the one who’s giving my mother make-up tips, not the other way around. I recently gave her the tip to use an e/s primer under her e/s, so it will last longer, and now she does.
Use sunscreen even when it is cloudy and moisturizing is huge. (She has no wrinkles and she is late 50s) oh and never where blue eye shadow with my green eyes because it makes me look like a hooker. She doesn’t wear make up.
My mother always said “Pain is the price of beauty” and I have to admit I’ve quoted it more than once. She wasn’t very into makeup, but this was more in reference to hair…woman is obsessed with hair curlers and was always rolling my hair in curlers. She was also very supportive of hair dye, and perms way back when 🙂
My mom didn’t wear makeup, but had tons of old stuff from when she did (oh, 10-15 years prior to me using it…). So I have learned what that smell is…and to avoid it now!
But she also taught me not to rub lipstick all over my face! 🙂 The pics still haunt me.
My mother taught me to feel beautiful even without any makeup on.
None. My mom is very natural, naturally beautifull so she doesn’t really wear makeup or need it and so she couldn’t advise me on much. I had to learn everything on my own because I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup in my teens either. My older sister doesn’t wear makeup either so I don’t know where my obsession with makeup came from!
None.
I got all my makeup tips from the internet and trial and error lol.
My mom never actually taught me anything about makeup,
rather the other way around. i got into makeup by myself & ended up teaching her.
She was always very honest with me. She was blunt about not liking certain colors or styles on me. She definitely taught me less is more during the day, and more is less during the night! Hahaha! To this day I don’t how she manages to flawlessy put on foundation on anyone better then any makeup artist I have ever seen.
i confess i never read all of the comments in a post, but i have been reading all of these and it’s interesting to see how many similar stories there are! many people who’s mums go makeup-less. mine is the same. i don’t think i’ve EVER seen my mom wear eye makeup at all!
the only thing she ever wore to “dress up” was “ginger glaze” lipstick by revlon, which they discontinued back in 2002! this christmas i decided to go on a hunt! i called revlon and they got me in touch with several warehouses – it may not be the most FRESH lipstick (lol) but i bought her over a dozen tubes of that lipstick! haha 🙂
Even though my mom rarely wear makeup, she has taught me a few key things:
1. Moisturizer is essential
2. ALWAYS wear blush
3. Eyebrows frame the face (so keep them neat)
My mother taught me absolutely nothing. She doesn’t wear makeup and has beautiful skin (at age 53) because of it. I learned by trial and error, and lots of reading.
My mom taught me:
ALWAYS moisturize. Your skin might be young now, but you need to protect it for when you actually REALLY need makeup.
It’s going on/into your face. Fork over the money to buy better products for you. Then you don’t have that many regrets and you get the quality you pay for.
Don’t follow other people. That makeup might look wonderful on them but awful on you. Figure out what your best featurs are and highlight those.
Finally, the whole less is more thing. She always said that my skin is best as it is cause I’m young. Too much makeup now ruins the natural ‘youthfulness’ or something like that.
My mom taught me the art of subtle makeup application. She never wears or wore makeup, while I played in my grandmother’s red lipstick as early as she’d let me. When I got to high school and broached the topic of wearing makeup in public, my mom had one rule: I could wear it, as long as she couldn’t tell I was wearing it. As a result, I became an expert at finding nude colors that worked for me.
she taught me “dont be too dark with the eyeliner” and my cousin taught me “the best makeup is the makeup where you look like u have no makeup on” which i usually go by (except i just love eyeliner way too much…. tehe).
i actually learned how to put on makeup from the internet and all my friends have learned a little bit from me, so thank you interwebs hahah.
waterproof mascara holds the curl best and use the curler before mascara!
I like my moms taste in makeup,its classic she doesnt wear what everyones wearing, (ei. 45+yrolds wearing nude/pinky lipsticks or lipgosses).She has naturrally thick and long eyelashes, they’d almost look like tiffanyD’s if she put on a tinsy bit more mascara, she does like 2 coats tops and they still look long! sadly i didnt enherit her eyelashes :(, she uses blush rarely foundation, and she uses burgundy lipcolors they look really good on her, its like this lipcolor-was made-for-you type of thing, and beacuse of her im starting to get into burgandy’s but i found it really doesnt work on me because i have an olivey skin tone and she has a fair skintone.
I dont know what i would do if my mom was obssesd with makeup o__o lol im the only one in my family that is, she often gets mad at me for buying “expensive” makeup, but i just tell its the qality im getting and blah blah blah, lmoa
currently our obsesesion as mother/daughter is nail polish, its really cool to see her be cool about one of my obsessions lol 🙂
My grandmother taught me that your face stops at your nipples. lol What she meant was that you should treat the skin on your neck & decollete as well as you treat the skin on your face, including making sure your sunscreen doesn’t stop at your jawline. That way you don’t end up with the face & neck being 2 different colors, those areas also tend to show age faster than the skin on the face. I follow her instructions religiously which is why at 35 I regularly am assumed to be in my mid 20’s.
moisturize, use alcohol free toner, use eye cream, and take off make-up before going to sleep!
None! lol she never wears any.. doesn’t like it
None………. maybe that’s why I am so into makeup. I will definitely teach my little girl(s) someday.
My mother taught me to brush my blush lightly below brow bone and across the bridge of my nose to give me a sunkissed look.