What’s your least favorite step in your makeup routine? Curling lashes? Setting your makeup? Mascara?
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I think my least favorite is curling lashes… I always forget!
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Waiting for my foundation to dry!
I second that!
I agree. Waiting for primer, foundation, and concealer to set.
Foundation definitely!
ugh second!
huge second =(
eyebrows is by far the hardest for me.
Yeah, I agree – eyebrows, because I’m never quite satisfied with them.
I also agree, just today I had a big fit with my eyebrows not being at least 95% okay.
Same here! I can never find a pleasing shape/look.. and sometime even my brow gel can’t tame the hairs the way i want them!
Yes, brows for sure!
This may sound silly but, covering up blemishes when I have them, poses the greatest challenge for me. There’s hope for dark circles, but sometimes it feels like I’m tackling Mt. St. Helen’s when I’m trying to cover up those pesky “mounds”!
I definately second that!
Applying mascara. I have very short lashes and it’s so hard to apply mascara on it. I dislike curling my lashes too, so I pretty much leave it as it is and compensate w/ an eyeliner.
I have the same problem, my eyelashes are so short, it’s tough not to get mascara on my lids.
Cleaning my face & taking all that stuff off.
xD
Agreeed! That’s the worst for me, I’m so lazy! It’s fun to put on but, after a long day ugh, I just wanna sleep!
Absolutely nothing! Guess that’s why I am a makeup artist lol.
Mascara! I almost always make a mess.
Mascara without my contacts in! I just recently went back to wearing glasses more regularly, and my vision has gotten terrible. Without my contacts, I have jabbed myself in the eye & face too many times now with the mascara wand, and it’s getting a bit frustrating! Actually, I have to get so close to the mirror now, everything is hard to do because I can’t fit a brush in between my face & the mirror!
lol…sorry to laugh but I have the very same problem with having to get so close to the mirror the handles of my brushes hit the mirror and get in the way!!
Don’t apologize! The whole thing cracks me up too…I bet it looks even funnier to my husband if he dares to watch! So glad to know I’m not the only one!!!
Removing false lashes and makeup in general. It’s a pain in the neck.
doing my brows. takes foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrr >:-\
i don’t wear foundation but i cud see where that’d be annoying. so i’ll say taking it all off. i’m good though, i never skip it now that i know how bad that is!
Only foundation *yawn*, I love everything else. And sometimes when I come home late, I am so tired & just wish the makeup would be removed automatically.
Remembering and applying sunscreen. Its a necessary hassle to my routine lol
eyebrows. I can do them very well actually, but for some reason I just hate that step
Foundation, which is why I don’t usually use it.
Mascara, I sometimes skip it.
Makeup removal is my favourite and least favourite part. Favourite because I love the feeling afterwards, but least favourite because it’s so tedious.
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Why do I like makeup again?
eyeliner, firstly it doesn’t suit me and secondly I am pretty clumsy with it … so most of the time, I just abandon it all in all and concentrate on my eyelashes 😛
Putting on mascara! Takes me about 10 minutes to perfect it 😐
Waiting for my moisturizer to sink in and then again for my sun protection to sink in.
puting my eyebrows on.. I can never make them perfect.
eyebrows, definitely..
cleaning my face!
filling in my brows 🙁
Ditto to that Christine! My eyelashes are straight as a board, so I constantly have to curl them. It has become the bane of my beauty routine!
Some days, it’s everything! But for the most part, undereye concealer. I guess I still don’t have the right combination of products for that flawless undereye look, so it’s not my favorite.
I agree with that too. Any product I put under my eyes always sinks into my lines and looks horrible.
The times I have to dab concealer on a spot or something. I hate blemishes in my face. I use concealer as a rule in the outer corners of my eyes and a wee bit under my eyes, but I love applying make-up. Even when I am in a hurry.
Eyebrow plucking and filling. So booooring, It’s like the least interesting out of the whole routine.
I am ok with putting on, it’s the taking off, I hate. No matter how much I try, I never get all the eyeliner off. Even with a make-up remover first and then washing. grrr
and L’oreal HIP is the worst for that IMO. It is everlasting.
Foundation! UGH! I hate wearing it but I cant live without it. I have too much red in my skin. SIGH!
trying to conceal under eye circles…i don;t wear foundations often, but concealing my undereyes, takes tym…Its all weird…just need some magic, light potion for undereyes..
which reminds me, can u please throw light on Bobbi brown correctors and eve pearl concelers…sometym in future???
Applying my mascara. I’m so clumsy, it always gets all over my lid!
Removal of eye makeup is the worst overall part. The worst part to getting it on is the mascara…b/c I dread having to take it off.
Waiting for my moisturizer to sink in so I can put on my primer!!! Takes forever :/
My least favorite is contouring.
Foundation and concealer, most definitely. I always can’t wait to finish it so that I can play with my pretty eyeshadow and blush colors!
Getting all my make-up off at the end of the day. Thank heavens for Shu Uemura cleansing oil–although it looks like I’ll have to order mine on-line from now on 🙁
Brows its so boring and I feel like I look strange that’s why I usually just skip it.
Lining my waterline, ugh! It’s uncomfortable, makes me flinch, and I always smudge it under my eye. ): *sigh*
Definitely foundation. I use Clinique’s Even Better and set it with an MSF natural, two products supposed to look natural, but that somewhere in the application leave my face looking cakey u.u
Taking my makeup off, cleaning up fall out under the eye and plucking my eyebrows, OUCH
Eyebrows easily..
Apply mascara… so boooring.
I’d say I neglect my eyelashes. I admire the falsies look, I am just way too impatient to apply them. Same with eyelash curling. I usually just compensate with mascara.
Probably my eyebrows, they never look great. 🙁
foundation. I never feel like it looks right.
mascara..mostly because it is a pain in the butt to remove.
Curling lashes and drawing eyebrows on! It would cut the time of my makeup routine in half if I could eliminate these two. lol
My least favorite step is concelar.
applying mascara, just because I am REALLY picky about how my eyelashes look.
Curling my lashes and mascara for sure.. They make such a big difference, but I just have no patience for it! lol
under eye concealer…because i’ve tried tons n tons of products and nothing covers them up
Touching up- it’s frustrating and annoying when you look in the mirror and think “….Ewww.” :/
Filling in my blonde brows to go with my auburn hair! So tedious and sometimes takes forever if I’m having a bad brow day lol!
The least favorite part of my makeup routine is taking it all off!
I know it only has to be done once a week, but I really dislike cleaning my brushes because it takes so long for them to dry. UGGHHH
Foundation is the worst step. I always leave it for last.
Putting eyeshadow because sometimes it doesnt come out as well as i mean it to
foundation…ugh
and taking it off…i hate taking my makeup off.
I hate putting on foundation primer because I always forget 🙁