If I had one, it was probably gold/green/teal eyeshadow with coral lips and coral cheeks. Then at some point, a dirty gold, smoky eye with red lips (Chanel Dragon often featured). Now, I don’t think I have one — the closest might just be that I tend to go a little all-in on the lower lash line with pops of color.
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Concealer and gloppy lip gloss … adding some sparkly sky blue (pencil) eyeliner for special occasions; all around the eyes, no eyeshadow! It wasn’t as horrible as it sounds, but I’m way better at eye makeup now. I can actually do a proper eyeshadow look.
90s teen here ! It was brown and matte everything (mostly)
It was a brown brown eyeshadow on the lid and beige bone color on browbone
Brown Eyeliner
Black Mascara
Cover Girl Sable blush
Revlon coffee bean lipstick or Revlon Colorstay matte lip color in coffee (liquid listick before liquid lipstick!)
I’m not sure what foundation. Probably Cover Girl Clean Makeup. The one for oily skin
Matte translucent powder. Lots of it.
I used to only wear shimmers. I would use a rose gold sort of a pink shimmer on my lid with a light pink on my brow and inner corner. If I was adventurous when first learning I would add a light purple shimmer as a liner. And it was always the sephora singles. But I found colourpop and taught myself how to blend mattes correctly and learned how to use real color. In just a year alone my makeup has come along thousands of miles.
Quire minimal and neutral (conservative family then conservative work settings, ha times have changed) — medium brown eyeshadow (only one, who knew you could use several for good effects?), medium rosy pink lipstick and same for blush, with brown eyeliner (though I used a dark blue if I was in a bold mood).
Most will howl at this but a few here might remember and perhaps even did the same…. I remember having Max Factor cake eyeliner (the type you had to apply with a wet brush) and using it to create a very “cut” crease (the water would sheer it out but it was still very dark) and then using it to paint “Twiggies” (little eyelashes) under my eyes. If you look at the model Twiggy in photos from her “hey day”, THAT is the look that I claimed as “mine”. Colourless gloss on the lips and while my hair was longer than hers, I would put it in a small pony tail but with a side part and the hair behind my ears so that from the front, it looked just like her hairstyle.
Yes, Max Factor cake eye liner!! I did the same thing. I would put it all through my crease to get that really deep sculpted look!! Completely forgot about the liner through the crease trick!!
Brown mascara, burgundy lipstick. Nothing else. Just brown mascara, burgundy lipstick.
All day, every day.
15 year old Sarah was a regular beauty guru I tell you what.
Now my signature is typically a smokey neutral eye, black lashes, filled brows, nude blush, and a sparkling highlight. Lip color may change, but those features stay the same.
Back in the late 60s, when I was a pre-teen, it was pale pink powder blush, frosty pale pink lipstick, and a touch of pale blue eyeshadow. That was one of the on-trend looks back then. It probably would not work for me today.
I love this question! I didn’t really get into makeup until after college in my more ‘professional’ (XD) life, which has only been the last few years. When I first started wearing makeup daily, I used only sheer concealer as my base, with an opally iridescent green eye and coral blush/pink highlight.
Nowadays I use a more full coverage concealer with powder, and generally don’t wear eyeshadow or highlight – just blush. o^-^o
As a ‘70’s teen, my go to look was long blond hair parted down the middle, black brown mascara and (shudder) Vaseline on my lips. For special occasions, Bonne Bell lip gloss in light frosted pink. Very special occasions called for a swipe of frosted blue Aziza eyeshadow just on the lid. Very California natural.
Oh, yes! How can I forget the Tinted Clearasil…..a must have.
Um, a mess? I’m dead serious. I didn’t know what in the heck I was doing. Didn’t know how to work with my racially induced hooded eyes at all. Sooo…my first few years of wearing makeup were an embarrassment. Eyeshadow on just the mobile lid because I knew nothing about extending it up past there until my cousin Debbie in Cali taught me how to apply my eyeshadow correctly when I was 15, thick black winged eyeliner on upper and lower lashlines, heavy black mascara, powder foundation I swiped from my mom, a pinky-peach blush and either a nasty, sticky lipgloss or an Uber deep plum lipstick called Argentine Extra Dark by Taboo by Dana. I looked very cholo goth. I still do half the time, but at least now I’m doing it correctly and with finesse!
Before I really started wearing makeup in my early 20’s, I owned exactly one pencil – Baked from Urban Decay. I used to just smudge it on my upper lash line, no mascara or anything …. I used to pair it with my mom’s Tenderheart lipstick from Clinique …
I started wearing a full face when I started high school (age 14). Matte face, brown eyeshadow (shimmery chocolate brown on lid, warm medium shade in crease, shimmery nude on the brow bone), brown eyeliner smudged on the bottom lashline only (I don’t know why, but that’s how HS girls all did it in 1984). Black mascara. Light pink or peach blush. Frosty pink or peach lips, or bubblegum pink gloss. I got more colorful and less frosty as I went through high school, and switched to black liquid liner on both lids, so my top liner wouldn’t transfer.
ROFL. Mid 60s, HS: Never other than ‘formal’ dances (who else had to do that biz, with gardenias, and all the girls fainting or migraining, and all the guys pretending the smell made them sick, so they could ‘get some air.’ Their odor was worse: whatever booze they had managed to decant from their parents’ stash into their hip flasks. Height of cool. NOT.) Some EA pinky foundation, EA Candlelight l/s (frosty pink) and Revlon Blush On, pink. Eyes: either light brown or light blue shadow, no liner, brown mascara, prob Revlon. I did not even attempt to do the Ronnie Spector cat eye. Many, like Linda Cantello, may lay claim to the cat eye, but the 60s girl groups that preceded the Beatles had it nailed in the ancient days! Also lips in Revlon Naked Pink, Bare Beige, and Cape Coral. Transitioned in college into all around liner, forest green, prob Aziza and Aziza Clinging vine mascara. L/S was pale, shimmery beige, Dior Future Beige, still the pink blush or a beige, if you could find it, or make it via e/s, and no shadow. Occ did shadow, Mary Quant type colors, (stark white ring any bells?) def with the painted on Twiggy lashes Mariella mentions, taupe w/taupe mascara. Most of the eyes were one and done. Crease? What crease? The next big thing was in lip: Biba Blue Roses. Same time as paper dresses with matching hats. Summer of Love. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair… Once I felt old enough to wear red lipstick, never looked back! But the trade off was, I had to do adulting.
When I first started wearing makeup it was in the late 60’s and early 70’s and that was a pretty in your face kind of makeup look. Twiggy with her big eyes, huge lashes, long, thick painted on lashes against a white shadow background. A really pronounced wing with dark black liner. I could never pull off the painted on lashes but that didn’t stop me from trying. I really don’t remember wearing blush. I remember the baby blue eye shadow featuring prominently in my eye makeup for several years.
Mascara and medium pink lip gloss or lipstick. During my university years I added brown/black eyeliner. This is all I needed. I didn’t need any powder, foundation or blush (I had natural rosy cheeks) and I couldn’t be bothered to do my eyes.
Way back in the day, my go to look was either a couple of shades of grey on the eyes, or a silvery shade with navy somewhere on the lids, with either a bronzey or red lipstick.
A metric ton of black eyeliner in my waterline.
I actually still like eyeliner on my waterline, but it’s just hard to wash out at night, and I don’t like going to sleep with raccoon eyes.
I don’t think I have one since I love to change everyday like a chameleon and wear it very natural. I mean on most days I wear casual clothes I also been a runner for years. I like to get fancy fire special occasions and mainly for New Years party which is fun! But on a regular day I’m very simple casual and comfortable.
Early 70’s. Purple eye shadow on my crease, lime green on my lid and pink on my brow bone with a lot of black mascara. Pink blush and Revlon’s Wine with Everything lipstick. My mother said I looked like a tramp…that’s when I knew I got it right.
Incomparable amusing!
A single Chanel eyeshadow in taupe-brown, black eyeliner and mascara. Concealer (YSL touche eclat) and Chanel powser, do not remember that I used any blush back then or foundation, if I did, it was probably Chanel blush in some neutral shade. Lips and brows were serioulsy neglected (TBH, my eyebrows were naturally nicely shaped, dark and full, cause of Ukranian in me, so they did not need any attention apart from brushing up, Now the shape is still good, but they got a bit sparse, so I fill them in). For the lips I only had some glosses, remember vividly being obsessed with Stila glosses in the packaging similar to YSL Touche Eclat, but clear.
I didn’t wear any makeup until I was 21. It was the same look for years with a slight variation in a lippie. Black eyeliner, blush in MAC Harmony, Gingerly, Prism or Dainty. Lips generally was MAC Twig lipstick, Sweetie and liner in Chicory or half red.
When I hit 30, things began to change…
Winged eyeliner with CHANEL La Ligne De Chanel – Noire et Marine- (a water activated cake eyeliner, still superb!) and red or deep berry lipstick.
I went to highschool from 2010-2014. The theme I seem to get here is that NO ONES highschool looks we’re so great, but that’s when my make up obsession began. I wore concealer that was too dark for me, mascara caked on, and turquoise or purple eyeliner on my bottom lash line only. I used a meybelline powder and that’s about it. 🙁 I actually met my boyfriend while wearing this look and 7 years later were still dating so it must have not been as bad as I thought. :p
’80’s teen here! Hello, Duran Duran. I grew up in a teeny tiny Albertan town (think 400 people) and the pharmacy only carried Cover Girl. So, Clean foundation completely the wrong colour – line on jawline!. Sandstorm (I think it was called) eyeshadow trio, mascara and that was it. I don’t remember wearing blush or lipstick/balm. I’m still blush-shy. But a lipstick hoarder!
When I first started, I would match my bright makeup to my clothes, which is about as hideous as it sounds. For example, I had a red, white, and blue shirt, so I’d wear red eyeshadow all over my lids and blue on the lower lashline. I had a Vans t-shirt with different colored sneakers all over it, so I would wear teal and orange on my eyes (one color on the top lid, one on the lower lashline). I was 12 or 13. RIP.
After that phase passed I wore the same thing every day, brown shimmery shadow all over the lid, black shadow as eyeliner, and lip balm or gloss. It wasn’t until I was 15 that I started truly getting into makeup and started following new releases, wearing different looks everyday, etc.
I’ve never had a signature makeup look. In the beginning I disliked makeup too much to do any one thing regularly, and now that I like it, it’s completely subject to my mood when I’m applying it, and my inspirations are all over the map. Maybe my “signature” is that I never look the same way twice?