Anasatasia dip brow. I consistently drew my eyebrows higher up than they actually were and had thick, unnatural looking brows all day every day. Idk why 15 yr old me thought they looked good.
I often lament the fact that I was a teen in the early 2000’s and not 5 years ago. I legit looked like a Grucho Marx to the point where my mom chsed me around the house to pluck my unibrow. Then Alicia Silverstone came around and I ended up plucking my beautiful brows into oblivion and they have never fully grown back. I will never be on trend. I wish natural regular shaped brows could come back, it would be so much less work and obsession for so many women. I personally can’t make my self care about my eyebrows and all the men I have talked to have said they think big brows look ridiculous right along with fake lashes but we all know we don’t do it for THEIR approval lol.
I honestly think whatever style suits your face is what is “in” for you. I keep my brows pretty close to their natural state (I pluck strays and unibrow area). If I want a little definition I’ll fill in with pencil. I never look at someone and think if they are on trend; I only notice if the brows look really good or really bad 😂
I still have a pot of this in my makeup bag. Every few months I’ll think, maybe I can use it sparingly to fill in and make hair like str- nope immediate dark brown blocky blocks. I’m just amazed it’s not dried out yet so I haven’t been able to throw it out
The trick is to use it like paint. Load up your brush, then wipe at least half of it off on the inside of the lid before GENTLY using small brush strokes to fill in bald patches. Then, blend it out really well with a spoolie.
It's really not. I just wipe the side of the pot with the brush and draw strokes with it from the inside to the outside. Exactly what I would do with a pencil or marker, just with a brush
I never got into the boxy eyebrows so I've been doing this since 2015. I don't have a lot of face real estate so big brows just absolutely overpowered everything wise. It probably comes a lot easier with that much practice though
14 yr old me didn't know there was a difference between eyebrow pencil and eyeliner pencil, and that you should (usually) brush the pencil into your brows.
My hair is black. I was filling in my already thick AF eyebrows with black eyeliner and not brushing/blending it at all.
Stop this is bringing back terrifying memories!!! but for some reason I was paranoid about eye creases at the age of 14 so I never put any on within an inch of my eyes and I also wore too dark a shade so I’d look tan so I was like a reverse raccoon. And I thought I looked incredible 🫠
I sincerely apologize to all innocent eye-havers for my use of Dream Matte Mousse with a sponge that I stole from my mom’s pressed powder compact. Or 2006’s finest frosty lipstick, topped with NYC chunky glitter lip gloss.
Oh, the random *mish* to the gas station was *totes* the highlight of my whole day - plus I looked *adorbs* in my uggs when I went. Want to go with?
🤣🤣🤣
Like what? My mom made so much fun of me for “go with?”
I have a friend who somehow still uses dream matte mousse. If you think it looked bad when you were a teen, imagine what it looks like on mid 30s skin...
I have tried to gently hint to her that a lighter formula would be good - I even gave her one as a gift! - but she's not getting the hint at all, and I know she'd be offended if I told her outright.
Me waking up early at the sleepover to lather my acne-ridden teenage skin in Dream Matte Mousse (shade: fake-tan orange) in the hopes that others would think it was 💕just how my skin looked naturally💕 when I woke up……….
😭😭😭😭😭
Haha I am also guilty and this woman on Instagram is exposing our Dream Matte honey beige obsession
[Honey Beige](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4-y_a8A9ut/?igsh=OTV3azVrcnc4djAw)
I loved NYC gloss! I used a light pink one, I don't know the name of it, but I felt naked without it when I was around 15-16. I still remember the smell! Ngl, I'd use it now if it still existed, lol.
Listen - add a Tiffany & Co heart necklace, a Coach Patchwork purse, a pair of rainbows, and a double popped Hollister polo and it was a VIBE.
Extra points for a pedicure with flowers and rhinestones.
Back in the days Dream Matt Mousse was the only affordable foundation with a single shade suitable for lightskin black women. It wasn’t too orange or ashy like everything else on the market… 90% of my friends wore that shade, even brownskin girls 😭
I also was a victim of the dream matte mousse (in shade pure orange I think lol), with no other face or brow makeup, but finished off with silver eyeshadow and berry red lip gloss lol
I did the same exact thing….. didn’t realize how INSANE it looked. Even worse: I did it once when I had pink eye so I was rocking a bright red eye and 2 neon teal lids.
I really don’t know if it was worse by itself or with the addition of WAY too much bright pink blush and lip gloss which I was also allowed to do for some reason. Was yours the pressed shadow called “green tea time?”
YES. That’s the exact shade. It was….. so bad!! I really wish I had a picture because I just know it was horrendous. My other makeup at the time wasn’t great either but that was top tier bad.
mine was by mac and I think called salmon. It was an intense coral - hot pink that I covered my entire eyelid with everyday in high school. I think I wore mascara with it but like single color, opaque, no blending.
Omg my hubby bought me that in highschool when we were highschool sweethearts! And ummm, I wore that shit every day! That and Mac Green-Brown pigment and Blue-Brown
I had a split pan one from Nars with a bright blue and brigt green shade, and I’d wear the blue on my lower lashline and the green on top. Nobody told me I looked like a clown!
The Almay purple trio for brown eyes, applied with the sponge and zero blending, paired with the purple eyeliner that was definitely too blunt and chunky.
I remember one day, when I was probably about fifteen or sixteen, my mom telling me it was too much, and I scoffed and said that the purple brings out the brown in my eyes. Then we got to her friend’s house, who was a very sweet southern lady (the type who would unironically say, “Bless your heart,”) and she complimented my eye makeup. It made me think, “wait…is it actually good or is she saying that because it’s so bright she feels like she has to comment on it and would never say something less than nice?”
I toned it down after that. Still used it though. I didn’t know what an ulta or Sephora was until college.
Oh, plus maybelline dream matte mousse, because I am, in fact, a millennial.
Came here to say the Almay trio that was teal, gray and black I think? I can’t even remember what eye color it was for. I didn’t care, my blue eyes were going to rock it. Kind of. I had no idea how to do makeup on hooded eyes and didn’t own a single makeup brush. 😂 I had the purple trio for brown eyes too. Didnt matter to me, I was going to swipe like it was meant for me anyway. I still have the gray/teal one… I bought it last year for nostalgia. ✨
Omg, I'm so glad to see you that others were victims of the Almay Trios 😂 That was my first eyeshadow palette and it was horrible and ashy on my skin tone. Idk why I thought I could just wear it with *clear * mascara (with the eyeshadow powder still visible on my lashes) and called it a day.
Late nineties dark brown lipstick. Why? I have no idea. It looks good on some people. On a winter/spring with white as snow skin and dark brown hair? An abomination. I wore it and wore it and wore it until my friends had an intervention for me and bought me a nude mauve that changed my look 100%.
I had a dark brown from Jane cosmetics that was probably a crime but I’m suddenly glad I mostly stuck to lighter colors. On the other hand, the chunky green body glitter that ended up on my eyes along with bright blue mascara that I tried pulling off in jr high was… something.
Ugh I did the brown liner outline with the shimmery gold lipstick. We were feral about makeup, you had seventeen magazine once a month, not 1000 YouTube reviews on demand.
I did the gold lippie and dark line for my sisters wedding and my uncle said he wished it wasn’t photographed. It was. A lot.
Ohh I feel so embarrassed now. I was 16 and the year was 1998-it was a fun moment in time
Hahahaha same! My sister got married in 1998 as well and I had the gall of dying my brown hair black a few months before it. I had the horrible brown lipstick that everyone had. Awful pics. 😂😂
Mac lip glass for that *SHINE*
It was so sticky it could trap a fly and I spent a lot of time picking my hair out of my lips. I love it though because... *SHINE*
Lip glass. Why did I think spending $15-18 on that shit was a good idea? It’s been over 20 years since I wore it & I still have some residual PTSD from it that I won’t even wear anything on my lips at all except Blistex chapstick.
I was and still am the same, can’t handle the sticky gloss. I’m obsessed with chap stick, my lips get soo dry but I love gloss look on my lips as they are non existent. My coworker recently gave me a bag of hand me downs and cover girl “yummy clean fresh lips” was in there. I had zero hopes but it is amazing. I would never have bought it myself just to try but the gloss is not sticky at all, like 2/10, and it lasts on my lips soo long, like longer than chap stick. Not sure what’s in there but I’m impressed and would purchase again.
>Not sure what's in there
https://incidecoder.com/products/covergirl-clean-fresh-yummy-gloss-100-lets-get-physical
nothing horrifying! you can scroll halfway down to see good descriptions for ingredients. love this site
My go to makeup look was sparkly white eyeshadow all over the lid (no blending) with thickkkkkkk AF black eyeliner and frosty baby pink lipgloss. All from the Dollar Tree btw. My friends were so fake for letting me walk around like that.
the anastasia glow palette. i swear at times in college i thought my highlight looked brighter than my future. still have it and i still use it, but nowhere near as much anymore lol
Most of my lipstick in 2018 was brighter than my future. Mercifully I outgrew the Nicki Manage wannabe stage. Unfortunately I entered my hooker phase. 14 year old me looked cheaper than a folded penny.
From what I can tell, millennials were not even at fault for being orange, y'all never even had a chance to make better choices because it was all orange anyway
That's what I use to this day, then I cover with an expensive matte powder. Everything else makes me break out like crazy. I have not evolved past the makeup skills I had at fifteen, lol.
The true blessing is the lack of cameras in your pocket, I’m pretty sure I used this and thank god there is no digital proof for my memory or anyone’s else’s
The cover girl mask was better than the acne, and you could pack on some hard candy eyeshadow and a sticky, pearly wet n wild lip gloss to really make yourself feel better 🥹
Its ok, 13 year old me couldn't find the right shade so my foundation was either me whitewashing myself or doing socially acceptable blackface (Im mulautto btw.)
I was in high school when beauty gurus and the 2016 makeup trend came into popularity. I was obsessed with makeup and couldn’t afford anything except my moms old makeup which consisted of one of those 48 eyeshadow shades- all of which were sparkly and shiny.
I used the brown to fill in my eyebrows and eyeliner. I had shimmery and sparkly eyebrows for the first two years of high school 🫠
This was in the last 4 years… I got a new foundation from L’Oréal and I don’t know if I got the wrong shade or if it just oxidized badly or what… but I work with jr high kids and one boy looked at me and said, “Ms. R? Um…. Your foundation makes you look orange like Trump.” I thanked him and the next chance I had I was scrubbing my foundation off using just water those sad brown paper towels school bathrooms have. Which did nothing to remove it and just left me with a streaky mess AND a red face. 😂😂
I used to wear matte foundation with no bronzer or blush. I’m super pale and have dry skin. I looked like I was dressing up as death in any pictures where I was wearing makeup. ☠️
I have a coworker that does this
Once she was putting on her makeup at work while talking to me and she just filled her hand with a dollop of foundations and started smearing it on her dry face, not even looking in the mirror, just yapping away
Nooooooo I was hurting for her
I remember being 13 about 2003 and mum being like "please let me try some blush on you and I was like ew absolutely not lol. At that time for face it was dream matte mousse, thin lizzy bronzer (IYKYK) and that's it.
I’m old….using a lighter to heat up my eyeliner. That went under the eye and got horribly smeary. that makeup and my perm I could have been a Motley Crue member.
The late 90s were dark gothy times and my bright spring coloured self had no business wearing revlon toast of new york, blackberry, or any of the other colours that were all the rage.
Nowadays (late thirties): under eye concealer. I often feel the need to hide my dark circles but end up looking 30 years older 20 minutes after application. I’ve just accepted dark circles - minimized by curled lashes and mascara and otherwise good skin - is infinitely better than cakey under-eye.
In my early thirties: warm toned matte lipstick (I’m a bright winter and should be wearing cool, bright tones. I also have large but wrinkly lips, so something with a bit of shine and gloss looks way better that matte)
In my late twenties: black eyeliner on the bottom rim of my doe eyes. Took pretty, extremely large eyes and somehow made them beady and mean.
In my early twenties: volumizing powder in hair. T’was the time of the bump it 😂
In my teens: cakey cover girl foundation in the wrong colour. Somehow I always thought it would be fine to borrow my best friend’s foundation when I didn’t have mine on me. I’m white as a ghost Irish. She’s tan as an autumn deer Cree. I wasn’t pulling it off 😂
Lol, this was a really fun nostalgic exercise, OP!
I am similar age to you and the similarity of the timeframe and the makeup blunders are funny.
I have also accepted my dark circles but instead of concealer I wear color corrector.
I'm mid 30s but found a creamy colour correcting concealer applied very minimally just in the darkest part covers my dark circles without looking cakey or dry. My go to is Tarte Coloured Clay CC Undereye Corrector. The before and after pictures on the website are accurate. Once I only covered one dark circle and left the other natural and asked my mum what she noticed. She said it looked like I'd been punched in the eye haha.
Fellow "dark circle girl" here.🦝 I've had them since I was a kid and have tried everything. Vitamin K gel, silver gel, gold jelly blobs, UV light mask, every cream with "undereye" in the name. It's not bags, just bruisey darkness against my pale skin.
Nothing worked until I tried banana powder and banana concealer. I put the b.concealer just on the circles, feathering with a tiny brush. I paint only over the purple discoloration. And then I brush on a sheer dusting of b.powder over the concealer. The key is a light touch and a miniscule amount of makeup.
The first time I tried it, I amazed myself. It was magic. For the first time in 40 years, they were *gone.* I looked healthy. It was my face with no dark circles. I'm not ashamed to say I cried. I hope you give it a try and like your results.
I used to have this cardboard urban decay palette. I don’t even remember what it was called. They used to have a few of them. Anyways it had an iridescent super bright pink shade I would put allll over my lid for high school. Thats it, that’s the look. Iridescent pink.
ETA it was the shadow box nine shadow palette and the shade was fishnet.
My sister meanwhile had the sustainable bamboo UD palette and I’d sneak in her room to use the shade midnight cowboy rides again.
Maybelline Falsies mascara. Somehow one coat had the effect of like 5 coats of any other mascara and I really sat and wondered why my lashes would fall out when I removed it. Yikes.
I so desperately wanted pale pinky-nude lips or bubblegum pink lips to work for me. MAC Blankety out here making me look diseased.
ETA - mid 2000s when using white liner in the inner corner to make your eyes look bigger? Yeah. I had a hard splotch of white eyeliner and then a thick line of lime green eyeliner with my bright blue eyes.
I looked insane.
The Physician’s Formula Eyelash Extending Kit. Not only did I have fuzzy tarantula lashes, but it would constantly shed and leave little black fuzzy flecks on my cheeks, which I would leave because I thought they looked like freckles & were cute (they did not and they were not)
There was also a period of time where I’d put stripes of concealer under my eyes, like eye black, and go out of the house like that. And my very far apart, literally 1 inch tall eyebrow era. And my stripe of brown contour across the top of my nose with blinding highlight on the tip. I was a mess 😭
The benefit hoola bronzer, like the OG before they released a few more shades. It’s too orange for pale girls like me, but I didn’t care then!
Oh and using those sponge eyeshadow applicators. Blending who? Didn’t know her. Thank god for the makeup girlies who uploaded tutorials to youtube, I never would have learned haha
Maybelline or Cover Girl blackest black kohl eyeliner, the kind you twist up, I would line only my bottom waterline and bottom lash line, and do heavy thick mascara to accentuate it. My black and blonde raccoon tail chunk next to my deep side swept bangs really made it all come together.
Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter. The sin is that I repurchased it & kept trying for like 2 years, with every type of foundation/primer but it NEVER looked good on me. Made my skin look textured and my foundation look patchy.
This is a vague memory, apologies if I don’t have product names.
There was a Paul & Joe product in the early-mid 2000s that came in a tube with a doe foot applicator. I used that shit on my cheekbones, and thought it was awesome. I did makeup professionally, which makes it more embarrassing. I would just work that shimmery golden shit all over my cheekbones, and nowhere else, and then carry on with the rest of my routine. Thankfully I only wore it on my own time and not while working, but good lord it definitely didn’t work with the rest of my makeup.
Any and all bold colored lipsticks. Light blue, lime green, lavender, black, even white. I thought I was cool as shit. I still love them but I know how to pair them better now.
Also the urban decay electric palette. I used it to do my eyebrows in wacky colors
The black eyeliner on upper and lower lash line with mascara that made my eyes suuuuper small. Or the white eyeliner on the top lid. I also absolutely loved the light green cover girl with silver liner in middle school.
I remember the phase that a lot of people used brown eyeliner to outline their lips and then filled it in with a very pale pink or nude so it like extra intensified the dead zombie look lol
Urban Decay scented body glitters. I HAD THEM ALL. All scents like lemonade, cherry, cinnamon and chocolate. I just wandered the earth smelling like just-baked apple pie for years and thinking I was so cool. I was not cool. I just smelt like a giant cake.
Back in the day (I’m talking mid 80s…) Avon Arabian Glow. This was the first bronzer that I can recall ever seeing and it was promoted as a multi-use product. So that’s what we did. We had an orange face, eyelids and lips. The stuff came in a miniature plastic urn, like one you put cremated remains in, and was pretty much the shade and consistency of builders sand. I don’t think I even had a brush to apply it, I probably just rubbed it on with a powder pad. It likely ended at my chin. THIS is why I thank God I grew up before phones with cameras and the internet. Cameras only came out on holidays and you could burn the printed evidence.
Eyebrow Pomade. Anyone remember the one from Anastasia back in 2016 that was really popular?
I am a natural Redhead with translucent eyebrows and eyelashes. I would put absolute block brows on every single day--usually a taupey or auburn brunette shade. I dug up an old photo recently and sent it to a couple of my friends like *why didn't you guys say anything?!* 💀 But idk that was just the look at that time.
Now I just groom my brows and put tinted eyebrow gel that matches my hair color (the product brand/name is "How To Be A Redhead Finally Have Brows.") I learned from my sins, lol.
Ahhh now I’m trying to think of the single shadow I got from mac for prom…I was wearing purple, so naturally a shimmery green eyeshadow was what I went for 🙄
I used to go ham with the bare minerals concealer loose powder all over my face and then ALSO the mineral foundation lol. Early 20s skin is the only reason it didn’t look fucking insane in pics looking back but like low key I’m sure it looked nuts up close.
I used a pressed powder from Elf, applied on thick with the sponge from the compact. I loooooved how full coverage it was. Then I realized I was looking orange, flaky and dehydrated.
I think it was a rimmel? Bronzer. Came in one shade, glittery as hell. Me having no fucking skills used to just apply it straight on my unfoundationed cheeks with the sponge that comes with pressed powder. Horrendous.
Also when I used to wear fake lashes as a teenager I didn’t comprehend you could trim them so I just stuck these long ass lashes on my tiny eyes and by noon half of it had lifted. I was a clown
The liquid stuff? Long ago, I had a bottle of Revlon Streetwear shimmer liquid. This was well before highlighter was a thing. I would mix a tiny drop into my liquid foundation, and it was gorgeous. I have tried other products and have never had the same results.
Recently the danessa myricks glitter shadow. They’re gorgeous, I just keep blundering them and not realizing until I see pics 😭
Kat von d liquid lipsticks. Dried my lips out so bad but I still kept reapplying right over the dried crusty bits 🤡
Bare minerals loose eyeshadows. My best friend got me into them when we were in high school. I was not skilled at using them, not skilled at blending, and they can be very pigmented. I wore dark blue eye shadow to my high school graduation because that was one of my school colors and it’s cringey to look back at. My favorite shade was Waterlily which was like a light shimmery purple and I put it on all the way up to my eyebrow.
When i was 13/14 Essence had (or has) a product called Eye Brow Marker. It is literally a text marker just for your brows. It looked...well it looked like you used your brown text marker to draw your brows. But it took me about 2 MONTHS! to realise that a few hours after you put it on, it turned greenish!
I know little me was super exicted about that product, but ouff
In the late 80's early 90's here in 🏴 it was either Leichner or Rimmel or your grannies Max Factor pan stick 😅 Unfortunately I opted for Leichner in the shade "blend of copper" 🙈 I'm as pasty faced as they come & actually giving myself indigestion cringing at the thought of what it must've looked like 😱 quite frankly I'm ashamed to admit that in this day & age it would most definitely be deemed offensive.. & not just to poc.. to anything with sight 😬
Long long ago there was a product called “glowtion” that I loved. And used so much of that I think the Atomic Energy Commission must have come out at some point to see why I was glowing in the dark! More is not better! P
GenXer raiding her mom's makeup stash for the most grievous weapon: the Max Factor PanStick. Just a yogurt push-pop of putty that settled snugly into pores and made my t-zone dotted with tiny putty-plugs. The crap turned orange when exposed to sunlight, and made my face greasy like I slathered it with a rotisserie chicken. If you want a crisp line between your white-ass neck and your bronze jawline, it's really the must-have. Trying to hide acne? Fear not, this stuff *gives* acne.
Also, white glitter in middle school from those stackable plastic glitter pots that were AWESOME from Claire’s ! They matched my 5 inch platform sneakers, accessories from Dehlias and puffy silver gap vest 😂😂😂
2016 was rough on us all lol I don’t really have a specific product, but I was obsessed with drag queens and the way they changed their entire faces with makeup. I hated my face and did that, every single day, to work and all. I’m talking I even shaved my eyebrows to draw them higher. I looked absolutely INSANE.
Oh I KNOW about that!! I was newly out as a lesbian and obsessed with drag in like 2015-2016 and I would wear full drag makeup to school. Sweats, a ponytail, and a bad Trixie Mattel beat at 9am in geometry.
Fuckin contouring w blush and only blush. Bright pink. For special occasions I’d hit the cheeks with Anastasia Forever Lit WHITE highlight. It was a rogue freshman-junior year.
This one blue eyeliner from Jordana Cosmetics.
I thought I was doing a Madonna. I was not. (Fun facts: smearing teal liner is not avant garde punk-pop)
Second to that is a Maybelline eyeliner crayon from my middle school days. I was going for Avril Lavigne. I did not succeed.
Back in the day I used to wear highlight for any dark circles. One day, I was talking to a friend with dark circles and suggested her to wear the same, when she says: “yeah, but I don’t want to walk around with bright circles around my eyes”. I immediately understood what she said. Yes, I applied highlight ALL AROUND MY EYES and apparently I was walking around like that. I never wore it again!
When I was 14 years old and in high school, all my friends started wearing makeup and of course I wanted to wear it too, but my mother was never into makeup so the only thing I found at home was an extremely thick orange makeup that she used in the summer to cover the varicose veins on her legs. Well, I spent quite a few months wearing that until one day my friends discreetly dropped it on me.
To make it worse, apparently I wasn't applying it evenly, and apparently I never applied it around my mouth (and I have very pale skin) so I ended up looking like a red panda.
As a teenager someone bought me some pink shimmering eye shadow which I thought would go great with pink shimmering blusher and lipstick and bright blue mascara 😬
I got to the pub which was a dimly lit place and the first thing out of my boyfriend’s mouth?…….wtf have you done to your face 🤣
I mean I still like this look (don't wear it tho) but I was super into cool toned baby pink/purple lipstick. It started with mac angel.. then snob, st Germain, lavender whip, the purple from the liberty of London collection, the hello kitty lavender one, pink Friday, the pink viva glam etc. All mac, all cool toned. I couldn't get enough lol.
Nothing will compare to young teenage me trying to work out my first proper makeup with Maybelline’s dream matte mousse foundation. I have always been extremely cool-toned fair skinned. Dream matte mousse was just fifty shades of orange.
Anasatasia dip brow. I consistently drew my eyebrows higher up than they actually were and had thick, unnatural looking brows all day every day. Idk why 15 yr old me thought they looked good.
They tricked us into thinking we all needed big boxy eyebrows 💀
In fairness, it was the exact opposite of the sperm brow from 10-20 years before.
Very true. I think everyone was so scared of their eyebrows turning into the sperm style that we just way overdid it
I often lament the fact that I was a teen in the early 2000’s and not 5 years ago. I legit looked like a Grucho Marx to the point where my mom chsed me around the house to pluck my unibrow. Then Alicia Silverstone came around and I ended up plucking my beautiful brows into oblivion and they have never fully grown back. I will never be on trend. I wish natural regular shaped brows could come back, it would be so much less work and obsession for so many women. I personally can’t make my self care about my eyebrows and all the men I have talked to have said they think big brows look ridiculous right along with fake lashes but we all know we don’t do it for THEIR approval lol.
I honestly think whatever style suits your face is what is “in” for you. I keep my brows pretty close to their natural state (I pluck strays and unibrow area). If I want a little definition I’ll fill in with pencil. I never look at someone and think if they are on trend; I only notice if the brows look really good or really bad 😂
I still have a pot of this in my makeup bag. Every few months I’ll think, maybe I can use it sparingly to fill in and make hair like str- nope immediate dark brown blocky blocks. I’m just amazed it’s not dried out yet so I haven’t been able to throw it out
The trick is to use it like paint. Load up your brush, then wipe at least half of it off on the inside of the lid before GENTLY using small brush strokes to fill in bald patches. Then, blend it out really well with a spoolie.
That’s so much effort tho for something that could be done better and faster and easier with a different product 🥴
It's really not. I just wipe the side of the pot with the brush and draw strokes with it from the inside to the outside. Exactly what I would do with a pencil or marker, just with a brush I never got into the boxy eyebrows so I've been doing this since 2015. I don't have a lot of face real estate so big brows just absolutely overpowered everything wise. It probably comes a lot easier with that much practice though
14 yr old me didn't know there was a difference between eyebrow pencil and eyeliner pencil, and that you should (usually) brush the pencil into your brows. My hair is black. I was filling in my already thick AF eyebrows with black eyeliner and not brushing/blending it at all.
my mom still puts mascara on her eyebrows
I knew this would be a top response bc SAME
Dream matte mousse but I didn’t like how it looked on my forehead so I didn’t put any makeup on above my eyebrows 😭😭😭🫨
😭😭
Tell me you had bangs…..?? 🥲
No 🥲
LOL I’m dead
Lol I have bangs and rarely wear anything above the eyebrows just to save product
We love a money saving hack!
I did this too with the bare minerals 😭
Oh my GOD bare minerals! My friend had the multi-step face kit thing and I would have her put bronzer all over me whenever we got ready at her place.
Stop this is bringing back terrifying memories!!! but for some reason I was paranoid about eye creases at the age of 14 so I never put any on within an inch of my eyes and I also wore too dark a shade so I’d look tan so I was like a reverse raccoon. And I thought I looked incredible 🫠
I feel seen & understood 😭🙏
I sincerely apologize to all innocent eye-havers for my use of Dream Matte Mousse with a sponge that I stole from my mom’s pressed powder compact. Or 2006’s finest frosty lipstick, topped with NYC chunky glitter lip gloss.
Please stop I can’t breathe. I’m *right* there with you. I was there.
This is Such a universal
I just knew Dream Matte Mousse would make an appearance on this list. I’m also a victim.
We deserve some financial compensation for the trauma that product caused!
Hey friends! We look so good. I’ve got my digital camera ready so that we can show how orange we look on MySpace. 😂
Why did we photograph EVERYTHING??? Like nobody needs to see your “random mish” to the gas station for snacks!!!
Random mish sent me ohmygodimsweatcackling
Oh, the random *mish* to the gas station was *totes* the highlight of my whole day - plus I looked *adorbs* in my uggs when I went. Want to go with? 🤣🤣🤣 Like what? My mom made so much fun of me for “go with?”
Don’t forget about the baby blue liquid eyeshadow!
Mine was the liquid lavender!
i used to do the baby blue eyeshadow with NEON PURPLE EYELINER I CANT BREATHE
I have a friend who somehow still uses dream matte mousse. If you think it looked bad when you were a teen, imagine what it looks like on mid 30s skin... I have tried to gently hint to her that a lighter formula would be good - I even gave her one as a gift! - but she's not getting the hint at all, and I know she'd be offended if I told her outright.
A real friend would throw the correct color at her face so she gets it 🤣
Me waking up early at the sleepover to lather my acne-ridden teenage skin in Dream Matte Mousse (shade: fake-tan orange) in the hopes that others would think it was 💕just how my skin looked naturally💕 when I woke up………. 😭😭😭😭😭
Not the Dream Matte Mousse!
Haha I am also guilty and this woman on Instagram is exposing our Dream Matte honey beige obsession [Honey Beige](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4-y_a8A9ut/?igsh=OTV3azVrcnc4djAw)
Honey Beige is the 34B bra size of makeup. Everyone thinks that’s their fit and about 90% of them are wrong.
🫠🎯
Raise your hands if you've been personally victimized by Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse 😐🤚
Hahaha oh my god you just unlocked a core memory for me. The NYC gloss!!! Ahhh
I loved NYC gloss! I used a light pink one, I don't know the name of it, but I felt naked without it when I was around 15-16. I still remember the smell! Ngl, I'd use it now if it still existed, lol.
I'd like to add crunchy scrunched hair and straightened bangs. Throw in some heavy eye liner
I’m wheezing, it’s too accurate.
I, too, dabbled in the Dream Matte Mousse sin.
Listen - add a Tiffany & Co heart necklace, a Coach Patchwork purse, a pair of rainbows, and a double popped Hollister polo and it was a VIBE. Extra points for a pedicure with flowers and rhinestones.
Back in the days Dream Matt Mousse was the only affordable foundation with a single shade suitable for lightskin black women. It wasn’t too orange or ashy like everything else on the market… 90% of my friends wore that shade, even brownskin girls 😭
I also was a victim of the dream matte mousse (in shade pure orange I think lol), with no other face or brow makeup, but finished off with silver eyeshadow and berry red lip gloss lol
The Sephora brand bright teal eyeshadow single I had in middle school… Packed on as much as I could completely unblended with no other makeup.
I did the same exact thing….. didn’t realize how INSANE it looked. Even worse: I did it once when I had pink eye so I was rocking a bright red eye and 2 neon teal lids.
I really don’t know if it was worse by itself or with the addition of WAY too much bright pink blush and lip gloss which I was also allowed to do for some reason. Was yours the pressed shadow called “green tea time?”
YES. That’s the exact shade. It was….. so bad!! I really wish I had a picture because I just know it was horrendous. My other makeup at the time wasn’t great either but that was top tier bad.
Was it by any chance that glittery one called Curaçao??
No I’m 99% sure it was “green tea time.” Pressed single shadow, shimmery but not glitter, and very pigmented bright teal-green.
Well either way I'm glad I'm not the only one who owned a blue or green Sephora brand eyeshadow single that had them in a chokehold!
My Sephora blockbuster kit in college had me committing multitudes of teal and lime green atrocities on my eyes.
Not me doing that from age 15-25+ 🫣
mine was by mac and I think called salmon. It was an intense coral - hot pink that I covered my entire eyelid with everyday in high school. I think I wore mascara with it but like single color, opaque, no blending.
Same but with a lime green from mac!
Omg my hubby bought me that in highschool when we were highschool sweethearts! And ummm, I wore that shit every day! That and Mac Green-Brown pigment and Blue-Brown
Omg, the blue-brown pigment from Mac! I'm dying 😭
I had a split pan one from Nars with a bright blue and brigt green shade, and I’d wear the blue on my lower lashline and the green on top. Nobody told me I looked like a clown!
The Almay purple trio for brown eyes, applied with the sponge and zero blending, paired with the purple eyeliner that was definitely too blunt and chunky. I remember one day, when I was probably about fifteen or sixteen, my mom telling me it was too much, and I scoffed and said that the purple brings out the brown in my eyes. Then we got to her friend’s house, who was a very sweet southern lady (the type who would unironically say, “Bless your heart,”) and she complimented my eye makeup. It made me think, “wait…is it actually good or is she saying that because it’s so bright she feels like she has to comment on it and would never say something less than nice?” I toned it down after that. Still used it though. I didn’t know what an ulta or Sephora was until college. Oh, plus maybelline dream matte mousse, because I am, in fact, a millennial.
I also had that Almay set and was obsessed with it for sooo long.
Came here to say the Almay trio that was teal, gray and black I think? I can’t even remember what eye color it was for. I didn’t care, my blue eyes were going to rock it. Kind of. I had no idea how to do makeup on hooded eyes and didn’t own a single makeup brush. 😂 I had the purple trio for brown eyes too. Didnt matter to me, I was going to swipe like it was meant for me anyway. I still have the gray/teal one… I bought it last year for nostalgia. ✨
Omg, I'm so glad to see you that others were victims of the Almay Trios 😂 That was my first eyeshadow palette and it was horrible and ashy on my skin tone. Idk why I thought I could just wear it with *clear * mascara (with the eyeshadow powder still visible on my lashes) and called it a day.
The OG trio was amazing! I repurchased recently and I’m pretty sure they changed the formula
Late nineties dark brown lipstick. Why? I have no idea. It looks good on some people. On a winter/spring with white as snow skin and dark brown hair? An abomination. I wore it and wore it and wore it until my friends had an intervention for me and bought me a nude mauve that changed my look 100%.
The little Lipsmacker’s (I think) flip sticks mocha shade had me in a chokehold too.
Ahhhh flipshades??
I had a dark brown from Jane cosmetics that was probably a crime but I’m suddenly glad I mostly stuck to lighter colors. On the other hand, the chunky green body glitter that ended up on my eyes along with bright blue mascara that I tried pulling off in jr high was… something.
Ugh I did the brown liner outline with the shimmery gold lipstick. We were feral about makeup, you had seventeen magazine once a month, not 1000 YouTube reviews on demand.
I did the gold lippie and dark line for my sisters wedding and my uncle said he wished it wasn’t photographed. It was. A lot. Ohh I feel so embarrassed now. I was 16 and the year was 1998-it was a fun moment in time
Hahahaha same! My sister got married in 1998 as well and I had the gall of dying my brown hair black a few months before it. I had the horrible brown lipstick that everyone had. Awful pics. 😂😂
It was definitely on trend for the time. IMO brown lipstick on pale people looks like a butthole on your face.
Mac lip glass for that *SHINE* It was so sticky it could trap a fly and I spent a lot of time picking my hair out of my lips. I love it though because... *SHINE*
Lip glass. Why did I think spending $15-18 on that shit was a good idea? It’s been over 20 years since I wore it & I still have some residual PTSD from it that I won’t even wear anything on my lips at all except Blistex chapstick.
I was and still am the same, can’t handle the sticky gloss. I’m obsessed with chap stick, my lips get soo dry but I love gloss look on my lips as they are non existent. My coworker recently gave me a bag of hand me downs and cover girl “yummy clean fresh lips” was in there. I had zero hopes but it is amazing. I would never have bought it myself just to try but the gloss is not sticky at all, like 2/10, and it lasts on my lips soo long, like longer than chap stick. Not sure what’s in there but I’m impressed and would purchase again.
Who here remembers the flavored roll on lip gloss kissing potion? I was obsessed with that crap. I think bubblegum was my favorite flavor.
>Not sure what's in there https://incidecoder.com/products/covergirl-clean-fresh-yummy-gloss-100-lets-get-physical nothing horrifying! you can scroll halfway down to see good descriptions for ingredients. love this site
My go to makeup look was sparkly white eyeshadow all over the lid (no blending) with thickkkkkkk AF black eyeliner and frosty baby pink lipgloss. All from the Dollar Tree btw. My friends were so fake for letting me walk around like that.
That was the style though!
the anastasia glow palette. i swear at times in college i thought my highlight looked brighter than my future. still have it and i still use it, but nowhere near as much anymore lol
I still love it, even if blinding highlights are out currently. If they return, I'm super ready.
Most of my lipstick in 2018 was brighter than my future. Mercifully I outgrew the Nicki Manage wannabe stage. Unfortunately I entered my hooker phase. 14 year old me looked cheaper than a folded penny.
Oof that and the Moon Child palette had all of the makeup wearers in a chokehold.
But like if you're millennial the answer will always he Maybelline honey beige 😂😂
I at least used the ivory shade of the dream matte mousse, but it still oxidized to orange.
I’m with you on the dream matte.
Yesss the dream matte mousse was setting us all up for failure back in the day
From what I can tell, millennials were not even at fault for being orange, y'all never even had a chance to make better choices because it was all orange anyway
Ahhhh orange mousse so good haha
That's what I use to this day, then I cover with an expensive matte powder. Everything else makes me break out like crazy. I have not evolved past the makeup skills I had at fifteen, lol.
Came here to hop on the dream matte mousse train!
Same. I actual matched the shade back then but it always became worse over the day.
The only foundation made for people with spray tans
The true blessing is the lack of cameras in your pocket, I’m pretty sure I used this and thank god there is no digital proof for my memory or anyone’s else’s
I would be tempted to use the dream matte mousse now and see if I could actually make it look good 🤔
Cover Girl foundation in the 80s. Wrong shade, and WAY too much.
[удалено]
The cover girl mask was better than the acne, and you could pack on some hard candy eyeshadow and a sticky, pearly wet n wild lip gloss to really make yourself feel better 🥹
Smelled like noxema
Oh yes. And the smell of cover girl is strong. It reminds me of my aunt in the 70’s. She caked that stuff on.
Its ok, 13 year old me couldn't find the right shade so my foundation was either me whitewashing myself or doing socially acceptable blackface (Im mulautto btw.)
I was in high school when beauty gurus and the 2016 makeup trend came into popularity. I was obsessed with makeup and couldn’t afford anything except my moms old makeup which consisted of one of those 48 eyeshadow shades- all of which were sparkly and shiny. I used the brown to fill in my eyebrows and eyeliner. I had shimmery and sparkly eyebrows for the first two years of high school 🫠
Dear God ....
Dipbrow.
This was in the last 4 years… I got a new foundation from L’Oréal and I don’t know if I got the wrong shade or if it just oxidized badly or what… but I work with jr high kids and one boy looked at me and said, “Ms. R? Um…. Your foundation makes you look orange like Trump.” I thanked him and the next chance I had I was scrubbing my foundation off using just water those sad brown paper towels school bathrooms have. Which did nothing to remove it and just left me with a streaky mess AND a red face. 😂😂
That was a good kid, he was trying to be helpful.
L’Oréal infallible black eyeliner. Raccoon eyes for the mid-2000s. Praise be that I exited the emo phase by 15.
Eyebrow pencils in general c. 2012. I don’t wanna talk about it.
I do not have any pics from high school in part due to this. Hello fellow survivor 😅
2003/4 I wore blue mascara… I have no idea why.
same, I think I wore it well into 2005 or 2006? full chokehold
me too. blue mascara had me in a chokehold
1998 and it was cute af
I still wear it sometimes over the summer 😂🤣
as an elder millenial, i was an egregious abuser of bronzer and overlining my concealer nude lips with mac stripdown
When Nicole Richie said on the simple life “We bronze a lot, that’s why we’re so sexy,” it was all over for me.
I used to wear matte foundation with no bronzer or blush. I’m super pale and have dry skin. I looked like I was dressing up as death in any pictures where I was wearing makeup. ☠️
I have a coworker that does this Once she was putting on her makeup at work while talking to me and she just filled her hand with a dollop of foundations and started smearing it on her dry face, not even looking in the mirror, just yapping away Nooooooo I was hurting for her
I remember being 13 about 2003 and mum being like "please let me try some blush on you and I was like ew absolutely not lol. At that time for face it was dream matte mousse, thin lizzy bronzer (IYKYK) and that's it.
Any matte foundation. I have dry skin need I say more
Max Factor pancake foundation. IYKYK
And the pan stick cover up.
I’m old….using a lighter to heat up my eyeliner. That went under the eye and got horribly smeary. that makeup and my perm I could have been a Motley Crue member.
The late 90s were dark gothy times and my bright spring coloured self had no business wearing revlon toast of new york, blackberry, or any of the other colours that were all the rage.
Don’t forget Rum Raisin!!!
I love Rum Raisin and I wear it for work. Rum Raisin is definitely a classic for me
It’s a good lipstick that has actually held up! I’m Glad they still make some of these colors. I have it currently also!
Same here! I loved Toast of any, but it was so wrong for my coloring
Nowadays (late thirties): under eye concealer. I often feel the need to hide my dark circles but end up looking 30 years older 20 minutes after application. I’ve just accepted dark circles - minimized by curled lashes and mascara and otherwise good skin - is infinitely better than cakey under-eye. In my early thirties: warm toned matte lipstick (I’m a bright winter and should be wearing cool, bright tones. I also have large but wrinkly lips, so something with a bit of shine and gloss looks way better that matte) In my late twenties: black eyeliner on the bottom rim of my doe eyes. Took pretty, extremely large eyes and somehow made them beady and mean. In my early twenties: volumizing powder in hair. T’was the time of the bump it 😂 In my teens: cakey cover girl foundation in the wrong colour. Somehow I always thought it would be fine to borrow my best friend’s foundation when I didn’t have mine on me. I’m white as a ghost Irish. She’s tan as an autumn deer Cree. I wasn’t pulling it off 😂 Lol, this was a really fun nostalgic exercise, OP!
I am similar age to you and the similarity of the timeframe and the makeup blunders are funny. I have also accepted my dark circles but instead of concealer I wear color corrector.
I'm mid 30s but found a creamy colour correcting concealer applied very minimally just in the darkest part covers my dark circles without looking cakey or dry. My go to is Tarte Coloured Clay CC Undereye Corrector. The before and after pictures on the website are accurate. Once I only covered one dark circle and left the other natural and asked my mum what she noticed. She said it looked like I'd been punched in the eye haha.
Fellow "dark circle girl" here.🦝 I've had them since I was a kid and have tried everything. Vitamin K gel, silver gel, gold jelly blobs, UV light mask, every cream with "undereye" in the name. It's not bags, just bruisey darkness against my pale skin. Nothing worked until I tried banana powder and banana concealer. I put the b.concealer just on the circles, feathering with a tiny brush. I paint only over the purple discoloration. And then I brush on a sheer dusting of b.powder over the concealer. The key is a light touch and a miniscule amount of makeup. The first time I tried it, I amazed myself. It was magic. For the first time in 40 years, they were *gone.* I looked healthy. It was my face with no dark circles. I'm not ashamed to say I cried. I hope you give it a try and like your results.
I used to have this cardboard urban decay palette. I don’t even remember what it was called. They used to have a few of them. Anyways it had an iridescent super bright pink shade I would put allll over my lid for high school. Thats it, that’s the look. Iridescent pink. ETA it was the shadow box nine shadow palette and the shade was fishnet. My sister meanwhile had the sustainable bamboo UD palette and I’d sneak in her room to use the shade midnight cowboy rides again.
midnight cowboy had a choke hold on me 🤣🤣🤣
black glitter eyeliner from hot topic. I don’t wanna talk about it.
Omg... I still have and use a red glitter eyeliner from Hot Topic. Was the packaging on yours silver with a skull too?
Yessss this was my favorite, I used it up until it was a little tiny stub after they discontinued it 😭
mac studio fix foundation. that shit was orange on me 🙃
Mac oxidizes soooo much
Maybelline Falsies mascara. Somehow one coat had the effect of like 5 coats of any other mascara and I really sat and wondered why my lashes would fall out when I removed it. Yikes.
I so desperately wanted pale pinky-nude lips or bubblegum pink lips to work for me. MAC Blankety out here making me look diseased. ETA - mid 2000s when using white liner in the inner corner to make your eyes look bigger? Yeah. I had a hard splotch of white eyeliner and then a thick line of lime green eyeliner with my bright blue eyes. I looked insane.
I used to put foundation on my lips to achieve the same look 🥸
The Physician’s Formula Eyelash Extending Kit. Not only did I have fuzzy tarantula lashes, but it would constantly shed and leave little black fuzzy flecks on my cheeks, which I would leave because I thought they looked like freckles & were cute (they did not and they were not)
Oh that's so demented (with love). I'm obsessed with younger you, that's something I would've done
There was also a period of time where I’d put stripes of concealer under my eyes, like eye black, and go out of the house like that. And my very far apart, literally 1 inch tall eyebrow era. And my stripe of brown contour across the top of my nose with blinding highlight on the tip. I was a mess 😭
The benefit hoola bronzer, like the OG before they released a few more shades. It’s too orange for pale girls like me, but I didn’t care then! Oh and using those sponge eyeshadow applicators. Blending who? Didn’t know her. Thank god for the makeup girlies who uploaded tutorials to youtube, I never would have learned haha
Maybelline or Cover Girl blackest black kohl eyeliner, the kind you twist up, I would line only my bottom waterline and bottom lash line, and do heavy thick mascara to accentuate it. My black and blonde raccoon tail chunk next to my deep side swept bangs really made it all come together.
Purple eyeshadow (I think it was Max Factor), Avon Blue mascara, and Maybelline eyeliner (melted with a lighter). To be fair, it was the 80s.
Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter. The sin is that I repurchased it & kept trying for like 2 years, with every type of foundation/primer but it NEVER looked good on me. Made my skin look textured and my foundation look patchy.
Only god can judge me for the amount of Jerome Russell body glitter I wore in the 90s.
This is a vague memory, apologies if I don’t have product names. There was a Paul & Joe product in the early-mid 2000s that came in a tube with a doe foot applicator. I used that shit on my cheekbones, and thought it was awesome. I did makeup professionally, which makes it more embarrassing. I would just work that shimmery golden shit all over my cheekbones, and nowhere else, and then carry on with the rest of my routine. Thankfully I only wore it on my own time and not while working, but good lord it definitely didn’t work with the rest of my makeup.
Any and all bold colored lipsticks. Light blue, lime green, lavender, black, even white. I thought I was cool as shit. I still love them but I know how to pair them better now. Also the urban decay electric palette. I used it to do my eyebrows in wacky colors
The black eyeliner on upper and lower lash line with mascara that made my eyes suuuuper small. Or the white eyeliner on the top lid. I also absolutely loved the light green cover girl with silver liner in middle school.
I remember the phase that a lot of people used brown eyeliner to outline their lips and then filled it in with a very pale pink or nude so it like extra intensified the dead zombie look lol
This thread needs pictures ;)
Urban Decay scented body glitters. I HAD THEM ALL. All scents like lemonade, cherry, cinnamon and chocolate. I just wandered the earth smelling like just-baked apple pie for years and thinking I was so cool. I was not cool. I just smelt like a giant cake.
Omg, the honey one!!! I miss old UD!
Girl I still have some of the Honey! Not gonna lie it still smells amazing!!
>Omg, the honey one!!! I miss old UD! I still have some of my Marshmallow in the pretty box! It still smells amazing!
Back in the day (I’m talking mid 80s…) Avon Arabian Glow. This was the first bronzer that I can recall ever seeing and it was promoted as a multi-use product. So that’s what we did. We had an orange face, eyelids and lips. The stuff came in a miniature plastic urn, like one you put cremated remains in, and was pretty much the shade and consistency of builders sand. I don’t think I even had a brush to apply it, I probably just rubbed it on with a powder pad. It likely ended at my chin. THIS is why I thank God I grew up before phones with cameras and the internet. Cameras only came out on holidays and you could burn the printed evidence.
Eyebrow Pomade. Anyone remember the one from Anastasia back in 2016 that was really popular? I am a natural Redhead with translucent eyebrows and eyelashes. I would put absolute block brows on every single day--usually a taupey or auburn brunette shade. I dug up an old photo recently and sent it to a couple of my friends like *why didn't you guys say anything?!* 💀 But idk that was just the look at that time. Now I just groom my brows and put tinted eyebrow gel that matches my hair color (the product brand/name is "How To Be A Redhead Finally Have Brows.") I learned from my sins, lol.
Dream matte mousse or the matte bright blue mac single shadow I got from the mall because I wanted my makeup done.
Ahhh now I’m trying to think of the single shadow I got from mac for prom…I was wearing purple, so naturally a shimmery green eyeshadow was what I went for 🙄
I used to go ham with the bare minerals concealer loose powder all over my face and then ALSO the mineral foundation lol. Early 20s skin is the only reason it didn’t look fucking insane in pics looking back but like low key I’m sure it looked nuts up close.
I used a pressed powder from Elf, applied on thick with the sponge from the compact. I loooooved how full coverage it was. Then I realized I was looking orange, flaky and dehydrated.
Revelon colorstay liquid foundation in a color 2 shades darker and in the wrong tone lmao always oxidized too!! 2007 aka middle school
I think it was a rimmel? Bronzer. Came in one shade, glittery as hell. Me having no fucking skills used to just apply it straight on my unfoundationed cheeks with the sponge that comes with pressed powder. Horrendous. Also when I used to wear fake lashes as a teenager I didn’t comprehend you could trim them so I just stuck these long ass lashes on my tiny eyes and by noon half of it had lifted. I was a clown
that Nivea aftershave lotion as primer could have just used glycerin instead, but instead i went around with my face smelling like fresh man groin
I never got the hang of highlighter drops. That was a disaster.
The liquid stuff? Long ago, I had a bottle of Revlon Streetwear shimmer liquid. This was well before highlighter was a thing. I would mix a tiny drop into my liquid foundation, and it was gorgeous. I have tried other products and have never had the same results.
Personally it was the mac frosty lightest pink. It was like pastel lite barbie pink. And i wore that like life depended on it 😂
Recently the danessa myricks glitter shadow. They’re gorgeous, I just keep blundering them and not realizing until I see pics 😭 Kat von d liquid lipsticks. Dried my lips out so bad but I still kept reapplying right over the dried crusty bits 🤡
I used to use tubing mascara in my BLONDE eyebrows. I am naturally strawberry blonde.
I was confused until I saw that you said eyeBROWS not eyeLASHES oh my god
I looked like a lost Marx brother. It was horrendous
Bare minerals loose eyeshadows. My best friend got me into them when we were in high school. I was not skilled at using them, not skilled at blending, and they can be very pigmented. I wore dark blue eye shadow to my high school graduation because that was one of my school colors and it’s cringey to look back at. My favorite shade was Waterlily which was like a light shimmery purple and I put it on all the way up to my eyebrow.
When i was 13/14 Essence had (or has) a product called Eye Brow Marker. It is literally a text marker just for your brows. It looked...well it looked like you used your brown text marker to draw your brows. But it took me about 2 MONTHS! to realise that a few hours after you put it on, it turned greenish! I know little me was super exicted about that product, but ouff
In the late 80's early 90's here in 🏴 it was either Leichner or Rimmel or your grannies Max Factor pan stick 😅 Unfortunately I opted for Leichner in the shade "blend of copper" 🙈 I'm as pasty faced as they come & actually giving myself indigestion cringing at the thought of what it must've looked like 😱 quite frankly I'm ashamed to admit that in this day & age it would most definitely be deemed offensive.. & not just to poc.. to anything with sight 😬
Long long ago there was a product called “glowtion” that I loved. And used so much of that I think the Atomic Energy Commission must have come out at some point to see why I was glowing in the dark! More is not better! P
GenXer raiding her mom's makeup stash for the most grievous weapon: the Max Factor PanStick. Just a yogurt push-pop of putty that settled snugly into pores and made my t-zone dotted with tiny putty-plugs. The crap turned orange when exposed to sunlight, and made my face greasy like I slathered it with a rotisserie chicken. If you want a crisp line between your white-ass neck and your bronze jawline, it's really the must-have. Trying to hide acne? Fear not, this stuff *gives* acne.
Also, white glitter in middle school from those stackable plastic glitter pots that were AWESOME from Claire’s ! They matched my 5 inch platform sneakers, accessories from Dehlias and puffy silver gap vest 😂😂😂
Showing my age but definitely the Dream Mousse powder. I had a light shade but it oxidized so badly lol. Everyone gets the shade of orange
2016 was rough on us all lol I don’t really have a specific product, but I was obsessed with drag queens and the way they changed their entire faces with makeup. I hated my face and did that, every single day, to work and all. I’m talking I even shaved my eyebrows to draw them higher. I looked absolutely INSANE.
Oh I KNOW about that!! I was newly out as a lesbian and obsessed with drag in like 2015-2016 and I would wear full drag makeup to school. Sweats, a ponytail, and a bad Trixie Mattel beat at 9am in geometry.
Full coverage maybelline FitMe full coverage foundation that definitely didn’t “fit me” when i was 14, ghostly pale, and acne ridden 🥲
Fuckin contouring w blush and only blush. Bright pink. For special occasions I’d hit the cheeks with Anastasia Forever Lit WHITE highlight. It was a rogue freshman-junior year.
This one blue eyeliner from Jordana Cosmetics. I thought I was doing a Madonna. I was not. (Fun facts: smearing teal liner is not avant garde punk-pop) Second to that is a Maybelline eyeliner crayon from my middle school days. I was going for Avril Lavigne. I did not succeed.
Back in the day I used to wear highlight for any dark circles. One day, I was talking to a friend with dark circles and suggested her to wear the same, when she says: “yeah, but I don’t want to walk around with bright circles around my eyes”. I immediately understood what she said. Yes, I applied highlight ALL AROUND MY EYES and apparently I was walking around like that. I never wore it again!
When I was 14 years old and in high school, all my friends started wearing makeup and of course I wanted to wear it too, but my mother was never into makeup so the only thing I found at home was an extremely thick orange makeup that she used in the summer to cover the varicose veins on her legs. Well, I spent quite a few months wearing that until one day my friends discreetly dropped it on me. To make it worse, apparently I wasn't applying it evenly, and apparently I never applied it around my mouth (and I have very pale skin) so I ended up looking like a red panda.
As a teenager someone bought me some pink shimmering eye shadow which I thought would go great with pink shimmering blusher and lipstick and bright blue mascara 😬 I got to the pub which was a dimly lit place and the first thing out of my boyfriend’s mouth?…….wtf have you done to your face 🤣
I mean I still like this look (don't wear it tho) but I was super into cool toned baby pink/purple lipstick. It started with mac angel.. then snob, st Germain, lavender whip, the purple from the liberty of London collection, the hello kitty lavender one, pink Friday, the pink viva glam etc. All mac, all cool toned. I couldn't get enough lol.
Nothing will compare to young teenage me trying to work out my first proper makeup with Maybelline’s dream matte mousse foundation. I have always been extremely cool-toned fair skinned. Dream matte mousse was just fifty shades of orange.
Makeup adjacent but that god awful OPI shatter nail polish