What was your last (or most) embarrassing makeup mishap?
I forgot to wear mascara in an entire series of photos (for the blog)! There were so many, LOL!
— Christine
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Lipstick on my teeth! It happens whenever I forget to blot my lipstick before moving on with my day, lol. But seriously, SO embarrassing!
Applying my makeup in the early hours of the morning under questionable lighting in winter and showing up at my hair salon looking like a clown. My hairdresser is one of my best friends and he and I had a good belly laugh about it.
Worst makeup mishap by a complete stranger: About 20 years ago, a group of friends went on a jet boat ride in the whirlpools of Niagara Falls. One woman showed up with full battle makeup on; her BF goading her into spontaneously taking the trip at the last minute. I think everyone on the boat was anticipating it was going to be disastrous. And.It.was.truly.epic. I felt horrible for her because people were not kind with their audible comments, both men and women. That was yet another peek into the prevalent practice of makeup shaming and I never quite forgave myself for not standing up and giving the other passengers hell for their abusive behaviour.
There have been multiple times when I’ve forgotten mascara or had lipstick on my teeth, but the worst one happened a couple of decades ago. A co-worker told me I needed to blend my foundation down from my jawline. When I looked in the mirror, there was a definite line between face and neck, like I was wearing a mask!
I have at least one a month. Had to take a friend to the hospital. Yes, i stopped to greet a Border Terrier puppy (OMG, cutest thing ever! Had to.). Do we want to go into a hospital now? Hell, no. So I sat in the parking lot under a tree for 3 hrs. 90+ temp and 90+ humidity. Only TM and concealer on, but my face got so major sweaty, that i gave in and wiped down my face, leaving a white vee neck tee with a foundationy smear pointing right at my cleavage. Nice look.
Heavy powder foundation in the summer. On a day when it was 98 degrees. And I had lunch plans to be outside in the sun. To see a field of sunflowers, where I would want to take selfies with the sunflowers.
Appropriately, I looked like a Van Gogh painting in those selfies….
Wore some random mascara last year running around to do errands and it was a warm day, when I got home I looked like a raccoon! Not a good look on anyone!
Forgot to line lips and put on lipstick during my full makeup look. Without it my lips are dead looking!
I constantly drink water during the day and (pre and post covid) I make this mistake on purpose sometimes. But it looked worse when I used to go to events; I would wear a full glam make up, but didn’t apply lipstick so I can sip water in my car; off course I would forget to apply lipstick once I got to the event.
Back when I wore makeup, I used a mascara that I assumed was waterproof for some reason. Had a cry at some point and went about the rest of my day looking like Alice Cooper.
Luckily everyone was really nice about it and didn’t mention it at all, just gave me sympathetic looks.
Any time I wear a bright lipstick and it smudges out of my lip line… and NO ONE TELLS ME! ugh.
When you barely see people, it’s hard to make embarrassing mistakes. 😆
I did had my share of days I forgot mascara and realized only when I got to work… but I haven’t been at the office since March.
Looking back at my college pictures, I made a lot of poor shade selections, from too dark or too pink (especially the days when I could only find 6-7 shades of foundation in stores and I didn’t know what undertones are).
But the more recent I remember is forgetting to remove fallout from eyeshadows.
Foundation mustache and goatee of sorts – the lighting wasn’t the best and I guess I just completely skipped over that area and there were lines and blotches that I could not make out in the lighting. I’m still using that super sponge and getting used to it and I also have to accept the fact that my vision is just not what it used to be and I need a close up mirror now. I have had little mishaps happen more and more and it’s because I don’t have the precision vision that I used to.
Remember way back in April when we were all first beginning to wear masks? Well, shortly after moving here mid March, I had to go in to the Banner UMC Infusion Center for my Remicade, at the entrance to the hospital I’m handed an N95 to wear. Unfortunately for me, I was wearing a regular formula reddish pink lipstick. Later that day when I took it off, I straight up looked like Heath Ledger’s Joker! Sooo embarrassing!
Nancy T,
I had a similar experience with lipstick and my mask. Since then, I’ve not worn lipstick and i miss it so much! Anyways, I can sympathize because I was in the same boat…and nobody told me!!! I think I may have screamed when I saw myself in the mirror, hehe.
I applied a white mascara primer and forgot to go back and apply mascara over it. Went through the day with white eyelashes.
My last one was pretty much the same, only my photos were for a group makeup challenge. I didn’t feel like retaking my pictures, so I lived with it. lol Fortunately, my lashes are long and dark, so things didn’t look too awful. I forget mascara when I’m distracted far more than I’d like to admit.
Generally my makeup mishaps are about my lipstick wandering or smudging around my lips.