Recently, BlogHer asked me if I’d be willing to do a review of a few new beauty products from Max Factor. I’ll be honest, I’ve never purchased any Max Factor products in the past, but not being one to turn down the opportunity to expand my makeup horizons (for free, to boot), I accepted.
Max Factor then sent over a cute bag full of goodies…
But my real focus for this review is on two products: Max Factor 2000 Calorie Extreme Lash Plumper mascara, and Vivid Impact Lipcolor.
I was excited about these two products in particular, because I am on a seemingly endless quest for a New Perfect Mascara, and I juuuust recently started using lipstick again after being a lip gloss girl exclusively for years. (I fully credit Mad Men for this.)
Let’s talk about the mascara first. I am a fan of anything with the phrase “2000 Calorie” in its title, mainly because it reminds me that I recently purchased an industrial-sized bucket of cheese puffs, which makes me go to my Happy Place.
Wait.
What were we talking about again?
Oh, yes! Anyway, the mascara. I liked the sleek yet chunky packaging; it looked good, and I felt like the wand was substantial enough that it wouldn’t inadvertently go flying out of my hand, hitting the wall, and falling directly on top my wedding album. Just, you know, as a totally random example of something that could ostensibly happen to someone with mascara, at some point.
The brush was interesting, too. The…bristles were rubbery, flexible, and longer towards the fatter end. As the brush tapers towards the top, the bristles become extremely short, which meant, for me, I didn’t get a ton of product deposited towards my inner lashes. Which would have looked…odd.
And speaking of the product itself, the consistency was fabulous; almost creamy, actually. Here’s how it looked on me (Note: I am wearing no other makeup except for concealer, and I did not curl my lashes. Also, the lines under my eyes make me want to weep, so I think it’s time I invest in some eye cream, MY GOD.):
In rendering my verdict, I feel that I must first and foremost consider the lash plumping effect touted in the mascara’s name. I think “plumping” can mean different things to different people, so if someone wants a Big! Dramatic! Katy Perry! lash look, this might not be the ideal product for them. But for me, and anyone who wants a good, everyday mascara that doesn’t clump up, but definitely adds some volume? I’d recommend it in a heartbeat. I mean, look again.
Clear definition without being spiky, added length, and no clumps whatsoever. Score!
As for the Vivid Impact lipstick, I loved it. Well, let me backtrack just a bit. The color (Pin-Up Pink) was NOT for me. I’m pretty pale, and it made me look like…Katy Perry, posing for something. (What IS it with me and Katy Perry today?) The funny thing is, the day I test drove it, I forgot I was wearing it, went to the post office, and Veronique, the postal employee who assisted me, complimented me on it, telling me it made me look “sassy.” Then we got into a tussle over whether I’d written the state abbreviation for Utah or Vermont on my package. But the point is, apparently, I should consider wearing it out. At least according to Veronique.
For now, though, since the color wasn’t really my thing, I’m going to focus on other aspects of the lipstick. I enjoyed the fact that the product had staying power, but wasn’t drying at all, as many lipsticks have a tendency to be. It also had no scent or taste to speak of, which is important to me. What I loved most of all, though, was that the color swatch on the bottom of the tube was PRECISELY the same shade as the product itself.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in drugstores and purchased cosmetics based on those swatches, only to come home and discover that “Careless Whisper Plum” or whatever is really “Boca Raton Coral.” I would definitely purchase this lipstick in another color, especially since I now know I can rely upon the accuracy of the shades.
Many thanks to Max Factor and BlogHer for this opportunity!
(Because it needs to be said: The feelings I expressed about the products here are true and accurate, and are in no way colored (heh!) by the fact that I received them without charge, and was compensated for my review. I am compensated regardless, so really, I have no incentive to embellish or misrepresent my feelings about this or any product I review.)
AND NOW for the fun part. (Not that hearing me wax poetic about new makeup wasn't fun for you, or anything.) Max Factor is generously sponsoring a giveaway!
You can win a bag of goodies (value: $50) by leaving me a comment about your biggest beauty mistake (simply because I love reading about those, as I've had my fair share), or perhaps your favorite Max Factor product, or you may leave a link to your post on your own blog in the comments below. The contest will begin at begins 9:00 p.m. (PT) 05/15/09 and will end ends 5:00 p.m. (PT) 06/16/09.. (Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct. ) I'll select a winner at random on June 16th!
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107 comments:
In high school, I owned no make up. So, I borrowed my mother's PEWTER eyeshadow from the late 70s.
Every single day.
With NO other make up, at all. No eyeliner, no mascara, no bright red lipstick, nothing.
Just. Pewter. Eyeshadow.
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I wore orange lipstick.
In high school, I learned makeup tips from my Mary Kay consultant (aka, my grandma's best friend). I had the moves and the plan. I knew how to do my makeup.
What they didn't teach was when applying an eye makeup shade to the full lid all the way up to the eyebrow, not to use a dark color.
Oh yeah, I looked like a raccoon. I was FABulous.
fake eyelashes + glue + me = disaster. I had those damn things (the single lash kind) glued to everything BUT my lash line. Never again
I have never tried Max Factor, either, and would love to try it.
I am a victim of the 80's bright blue eyeshadow. Every day. No matter what else I was wearing. In Middle School, mind you.
I once bought a coral lipstick and wore it all the time until I saw a picture of myself with it on (now why wouldn't a mirror tell me this?!?!) and coral is definately NOT my color!
I could probably keep going, but I figure two is enough for now :). Thanks for another great contest!
Green mascara. The end.
Leslie
Liquid eyeliner + high school me = disaster of the complete and utter variety.
It was the mid-80sand I would coordinate my eyeshadow, eyeliner with my trendy, oversized shirts (you know the ones worn with leggings, a wide belt and HUGE socks with keds...)
Well, my favorite shirt was pale yellow with white and pale blue tick-tack-toe boards on it...I have brown hair and very dark brown eyes...yellow and blue eyeshadow with the bright blue eyeliner on my inner eyelids...
Blue mascara and I thought it looked good. Ew.
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In a fit of "wanting to look Italian in a small town filled with Irish & Swedes" during my junior year of high school, I dyed my naturally dark strawberry blond hair... dark brown. Then I changed my mind, and used a frost & glow kit to try to go blond again. My hair turned salmon, white gray, and orange. Awesome.
White eyeshadow and colored mousse--yes they both were in the 80's!!!
Using ALL the colours in the "Beginner's Makeup Variety Pack."
Sigh.
This trauma still follows my daily makeup habits. It was high school. Getting ready for prom. I whip out the eyelash curler and begin curling and I hear little "snip snip" noises. I remove the eyelash curler from my eye and to my ABJECT HORROR see that my eyelashes have been jaggedly snipped! The rubber guard on the curler slipped when I squeezed and snipped my eyelashes!
So of course I FREAKED OUT (apologies for more all caps words) and called my best friend, because when you're in high school that's what you do in a situation like this. She listened to my woe and calmly asked, "Well, have you applied mascara yet?" (This is why twelve years later we're still best friends. She always asks good questions!) Once I applied mascara, you could hardly tell that I had some uneven business happening.
Well, I didn't leave the house without mascara for about six months, my eyelashes fixed themselves, to this day I only use plastic eyelash curlers, and no other beauty gaffe has ever made me nauseous like that.
Was just doing some spring cleaning and came across my CABOODLE (yes, I'm 25 and I still have my sparkly purple caboodle). Inside were multiple dried up pots of body glitter. In various shades- lime green, electric blue, clear (for when I was going for understated glamour).
And I remembered how I used to fish out the stars from the glitter pots to artfully place them at the corners of my eyes. Le dramatic!
Oh, and hair mascara. Yeah...
Blue eyeshadow.
Blue eyeliner.
Blue mascara.
ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
Hello, Eighth Grade.
During the height of the No Doubt craze in the mid 90s, I decided that pink hair was MY THING. A friend convinced me that the BEST way to do this was with Kool Aid. Eeesh...it was pink (and sticky) and last a few weeks. Needless to say, it was not my thing.
Blue eyeshadow.
(oh god oh god oh god)
Over plucking. Enough said.
bright pink shiny eyeshadow that i think may have been blush. plus i wore alot of green eyeliner-im still not sure if it was bad or good.
I had an eyeshadow kit with pink, orange, yellow, and red. And...I wore all of them. At the same time. My eyes were like a sunset, see?
(Is it necessary to say this was in the 80s?)
My mom let my aunt buy me makeup for my 12th birthday. She took me to a drugstore and I went crazy in the Wet 'n Wild section. I got some nice light blue eye shadow and frosted pink lipstick. Why yes, it was 1986, why do you ask?
In high school, I tried to hide my uneven skin tone and blemishes by using only a Cover Girl powder. The problem was, I have a semi-olive skin tone that gets VERY DARK in the summer, but I would apply layer upon layer of this wrong-shade powder which made my face a rather mismatched pale ivory. It was bad.
I've gone to town with mascara on only one eye--more than once!
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mascara and lip gloss. sometimes.
I used apply eyeliner in a fashion similar to that seen on Cleopatra on ancient Egyptian scrolls. Which means ALOT of eyeliner applied with a flourish at the end.
AND I used to think I looked HAWT!
I wish my mother would have told me "less is more" earlier on.
I think my biggest beauty mistake is that I don't wash my makeup off before I go to bed. And the next morning in the shower I don't use anything but water and a washcloth to wash my face. So yeah, that's probably going to bite me in the butt sooner or later huh?
Oh how I wish I could win this! I've had my fair share of beauty mistakes. By the time I was around, my mom was kinda done raising kids. So no one really taught me to be a girl. I thought you were supposed to shave your arms like every day. I WAY over plucked. Ugh, I could go on and on.
Fingers crossed ... I'd love this to win this!
I am hopelessly devoted to Max Factor's Volume Couture mascara. In fact, I will be buried with said mascara, and I had also better be buried WEARING it, because my lashes are truly pathetic without it.
Okay, do you remember those lip gloss and lip liner all-in-one sticks they had in the early '90's? The gloss was at one end and the liner at the other end? They came in a variety of shades, but for some reason I just KNEW that the plumb color was meant just for me. I wore this combination for way longer then I should have. The liner and the gloss were clearly two different colors to everyone but me apparently. To this day, my mom and brother still comment on that awful look while hysterically laughing...yet no one said anything to me at the time. That is family love....
One new years eve, I apparently had gotten some color and so my foundation and powder were too light, and I wore a tube top so you could clearly see that my makeup made me look like I had a white clown face. On top of that I had put on body glitter so it reflected the light in pictures and I look like a terrible ghost in every picture from that year.
So, since I have green eyes, I always thought that green eyeliner would be AWESOME. I finally went and bought some (I believe the color was appropriately named Dollar Bill?), and it was so 80s-tastic that I washed it right off. I cannot pull off colored eye makeup without looking like I should have shoulder pads on and a banana clip in my hair!
Biggest beauty mistake ... I've made a lot, but I think one of the biggest would have to be wearing smudgy eyeliner outside on a very hot day, and didn't so much look smokey as raccoon-like. Not good.
As a senior in high school I lined my eyes with the blackest black liquid liner I could buy. And then I wore no other makeup, just scary black rimmed eyes. In my defense, I was a goth chick.
My biggest beauty mistake was to cut my waist length hair to just above the shoulder. I hated it! I have settled now on a style about 3 inches below my shoulders and layered. That is working out ok! carolannemerten@msn.com
I forgot to put my eyeliner on the day I was in one of my best friend's weddings. I look like I have no eyes in all the pictures. Nice!
My teens were filled with Wet and Wild sparkles. Ugh.
I wore lip liner my freshman year of college, and I wore it just outside of my actual lip line. When my lipstick would wear off you could see the liner was outside of my lips. It was so ridiculous looking, and for some reason I thought that only I could see it!
In high school a friend and I bought our makeup at the dollar store. Two words for you: blue mascara.
Dude. Three words: iridescent green lipstick.
In high school I did the blue mascara thing for a bit. And then promptly moved on to DARK LIP LINER with a FROSTED LIP STICK OMG HELP ME AIEEE.
Ahem.
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I was going to ask if doing the curled pouf of bangs thing counts as a biggest beauty mistake (given that it was YEARS ago, and everyone around me was making that same mistake), but given that people are pulling out the blue eyeliner and mascara, I think it counts. I did the blue eyeliner along with the bangs, by the way, so that's two mistakes at once. Ouch. AND I was probably pegging my jeans at the same time. The late 80s were an ugly era.
I was a wee lass of 13 when The Spice Girls were at the peak of their popularity and that was also around the time the movie Clueless was popular.
I blame every bad make-up (and hair and fashion) choice of my preteen years on those two things.
I mean...purple glitter eye shadow with metallic eyeliner, heavy mascara, blush, red lipstick, BODY GLITTER, hair mascara combined with a mini skirt, sparkly top, Lisa Frank fake tattoos, PLATFORM sneakers, stuffed animal backpack...I shudder at the thought.
Thankfully I now get my style cues from What Not To Wear.
Biggest mistake EVAH: Maybelline Great Lash Mascara. In sixth grade. Because racoon eyes are a great look at that young tender age.
Max Factor Rave: PanStik. Nude Ivory. Best ever for me - use it as concealor, eyelid primer, covers blotchiness around my nose. Oh, how I LOVE it so.
I would have to say blue mascara and orange lipstick. apparently not original, but scary all the same.
Someone once told me that lining my eyes thickly all the way around with pink eyeshadow was their super secret tip for looking awesome. (To be fair, I don't think they were screwing me because they rocked the unfortunate look as well.) I was 15. I was easily swayed. I looked... mentally challenged. And I did it OFTEN.
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In Highschool I tried to highlight my hair. When I was through I looked like a skunk - I had dark brown hair with a bright orange streak on top.
http://twitter.com/misaacmom/status/1829088743 tweet
Remember colored mascara? No? Then you're too young...There was blue, green, purple...I thought it was so cute. As cute as the thick bead necklaces I used to wear in those days. Now I look at old pics, and all I can say is hunh.
I permed my hair. I'm not sure that counts as a beauty mistake, technically, but I'm going by the fact that it made me DECIDEDLY less beautiful. But here's the truly shameful part: it was not the eighties. It was not even the nineties. I permed my hair, at age thirteen, in 2002. I KNOW.
I am not too brave with makeup. I think my worst fashion mistake is leaving the foundation line between face and neck. I hate looking in the mirror half way through the work day and realizing that I have a line between my face and my neck. (maybe i need new foundation???) :)
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My biggest mistake was randomly buying liquid foundation in a CVS. It seemed like a good idea! Sure, I hadn't worn liquid foundation since I did musical theatre as a child, but oh I could certainly rock it at the age of 20.
Rock it I did, but my face was COMPLETELY YELLOW. And I had no comprehension of this, so I gleefully wore it to a fancy school dinner and to a meeting with my sexy professor. Look at me and my makeup, world! Look at my android skin!
Biggest beauty mistake was wearing dark brown eye shadow to school in 7th grade. It was the only time I can remember being made fun of by one of the popular kids and when I think of it, I can still get a little pang in my heart. Last time I wore that color!
Um, I have photographic evidence. I'd really like to thank my former housemate Kathina for posting this very flattering photograph of me to Facebook last week.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhirhi/3540711203/
I'm pretty sure I'm still making my biggest mistake, which is that I have no idea how to apply eye shadow, so I just brush some blush up there and hope for the best.
when I was a little girl i was fascinated with makeup, but my mom wouldn't let me wear it until I was 16. So, long before I turned 16, I would sneak red lipgloss to school and apply it to my cheeks as if it were blush! I looked like a circus clown I am sure, but I thought I was hot stuff!
When younger, I once made the mistake of using foundation as concealer and obviously not blending it in very well. A friend called me out on it. I'll blame it on being young & ignorant.
In 7th or 8th grade my aunt had a (I guess you would call it) coral (but really it was orange) blush that I loved to borrow. Yikes.
I didn't (and still don't) wear a lot of makeup, but deciding that senior picture time was the best chance to try it out, was not my brightest idea.
Two words: blue mascara. Circa 1987.
My mother is very fair and I have medium-toned skin. I used her foundation once and looked like I was wearing a white mask!
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I didn't really commit to wearing makeup until my senior year of college. But there was a year or so in high school where I dabbled. It involved a Lohanesque shade (my skin tone is more of the translucent family) of Cover Girl foundation (remember the light green, round compact with the fluffy applicator) and lots of blue mascara. Oh god, the blue mascara.
Also, tweeted: http://twitter.com/JustShireen/status/1838709564
Um, yeah, I did all the '80's bright eyeshadows, too. And I still have a tube of the Halle Berry Bond girl lipstick in my purse. Right now. My only defense is that I still get compliments almost every time I wear it.
Body glitter - and I wasn't in high school, I was in my thirties.
I love that new Max Factor mascara! It is great for everyday.
My biggest beauty mistake would be letting my mom help me with anything when I was growing up! First it was the terrible bangs trim in 5th grade (short and jagged, no good) then in was the eyebrows the day of my high school graduation. You think I would have learned! :)
Okay, so body glitter is a bad thing? I think my whole life must have been a makeup mistake. My husband has taught me more about makeup than anyone. We never covered body glitter, though. And I have some. But I don't wear it to work.
I wore reddish bronzey eye shadow throughout high school and no mascara. I have no idea why I thought that looked good. I'm quite pale, so I looked sort of like a cancer patient.
I really liked the max factor mascara
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Over - tweezing my eyebrows so it looked like they ended halfway over my eyeball.....
In high school, I used to use Nair on my eyebrows. I went from manbrows to WAY overplucked... and thought it looked good! I'm lucky I didn't blind myself.
Well, for one thing, I didn't wear a lot of make-up at the beginning of my high school career: lip gloss, mascara, and maybe a little eyeliner. Then, one day, my friend asked me why I never wore eyeshadow, and HOLY HELL, she had one of those sets with eyeshadow in every color imaginable. She took me to the school bathroom, and made me look like...well, like someone colored my eyelids with crayons.
Luckily, that didn't last long. Whew.
Oy.. so many to choose from.
This one is a two-fer.
When I was about 19 I decided to use sun-in on my darkish/medium brown hair. I thought I was blonde. No one told me I wasn't blonde.
At the same time I let my drug-addled, no-experience-with-any-scissors, heavy metal loving boyfriend cut my hair. He used the persuasive argument" "hey, How about you let me cut your hair" Being an idiot I said yes.
The result of the confluence of these two events was a COPS-worthy muted orange mullet
Sadly, I recently decided that the eight dollars I was spending on having my eyebrows waxed was a total waste and I should start doing it myself...end result? Half of one of my eyebrows was missing for a solid month. I am now an expert at filling in my eyebrows, but still, what was I thinking? Needless to say, I give up that eight dollars willingly every few weeks now. Best money I ever spent!
I'm cringing as I read these, because I'm so guilty of so much! Let's see:
1. HOT PINK lipstick. That I applied without a mirror. Multiple times daily. (middle school)
2.SILVER lipstick. In HS. I rocked that with my black mesh shirt with silver threading.
3.I used to mix eyeshadow with water and use it as an eyeliner. And I would color coordinate with my outfit. (HS)
4. Remember when "baby bangs" were cool (ala Winona Ryder?) I tried to cut my own. They were about 1/2" long when I was done......
5. Body glitter. and silver star stickers in the corners of my eyes.
Man, I was hot!
Biggest mistake? Oh certainly the redtoned lipstick w/ the MUCH darker lipliner (Occasionally eye liner was sacrificed). Really hot in 1995.
Le sigh.
I think a better question might be what beauty blunder haven't I made?!
Dark black pencil eyeliner on the rims of my eyes during high school, which ended up making my eyes tear and burn.
Foundation two shades too dark for my skin, completely unaware until I was at Disneyland and caught a glimpse of myself in the horribly lighted bathroom, at just the right angle! Let's just say that I spent the rest of the day with a freshly scrubbed face. I should mention that I was in my twenties!
Lining my lips with a medium brown eye brow pencil because it 'looked better' than lip liner. The chosen lipstick color was always considerably lighter than the lovely liner, and the liner was always drawn outside my normal lip lines. I would compare it to someone, but alas, no one would ever try to rock this look!
The list goes on and on, blunder after blunder, hence the reason I never became a makeup artist, even though I thought I excelled at application! I need a Makeup 101 class and these products would help me do just that!
During a sleepover in high school, I decided to let some friends dye my hair auburn (it was red as a child but had turned brown in adolescence). Apparently we either were so distracted by Tom Cruise's performance in Top Gun, had no concept of time or were complete dorkwads, but we left the stuff on a tad too long. My hair was purple, which was actually pretty badass. However, the administration at my strict catholic high school did not agree. The following week, a bunch of freshmen were sporting a similar shade, and an amendment to the school dress code regarding hair color was added posthaste. My legacy: no unnatural hair colors!
I think my biggest make-up faux pas was not using waterproof mascara until I was like a senior in high school, or something, even though I was always sweating playing basketball and/or in the pool.
Perpetual raccoon eyes, I totally rocked them.
Oh, and my mom's old lipstick. I should never EVER have worn it. (Pale pink and EWHHH.)
My biggest mistake is ongoing: I still own (and use! ugh!) makeup I stole from my mother's bag when I was thirteen. What can I say but that eyeliner pencils last forever because they're MAGIC!
I wore those awful lee press on nails to prom. I may have also saved the ones that fell off and put them in my scrapbook.....
I was never into make-up until I became a cheerleader in 8th grade. I would wear lipstick, eyeliner, and blush. Unfortunately, I did not know how to apply the blush so I ended up looking like a clown. I had a perfect circle of blush on each cheek!
My mom never wore make-up so I never had any idea how to apply it. The first sleep over where we decided to put on makeup I used liquid eyeliner to cover my entire eyelid. I remember it was Clinique and how horrified my friend's mom was when she saw how much of her liner I used on my lids.
Dark dark lipliner (almost black!ewww!) with dark lipstick. I still shudder at the thought.
Oh, so many mistakes. I am very pale and pink. One time I wore a copper eyeshadow and another summer (yes the whole summer) I wore a bright pink lipstick. They were both horrible.
I really don't know where to begin. Could it be the orange eyebrow pencil because they were out of blonde and I NEEDED IT RIGHT THAT MOMENT? Or perhaps the hand soap diluted with water in the middle school girls bathroom during lunch because our hair needed scrunched before heading to study hall? Or, or, or, would it be the time I went to the 8th grade dance smelling like Aquanet and Jovan White Musk while he smelled like Brut and B.O.?
In high school I decided I was going to tame the uni brow with those little battery powered razor trimmer things. Um, big FAIL! I ended up making one brow longer than the other and I kept trying to even them out, which ended up with me only having an eyebrow over half of each eye.
The 80's. Long Island. Aquanet. Three-inch acrylic nails. Hot pink polish. White lycra dress. Fake Cindy Crawford mole created with a brown eye pencil.
Makes you wish you never asked this question, doesn't it?!
Thanks for the fun contest :)
My biggest beauty mistake was dyeing my hair pink! Luckily it was only temporary :)
biggest beauty mistake? frosted sky blue eyeshadow. for YEARS.
My biggest beauty mistake??? Hmmm, there are many but this one takes the cake. At 17 years old,I was trying to save a few bucks and self wax my eyebrows. I took off most of my left eyebrow. I have a medium complexion with big, bushy, greek like eyebrows. It was very strange looking--having to pencil them in for months, OMG!
Seventh grade. Spiral perm, blue mascara and green eyeshadow.
That is all.
I rocked the liquid electric blue eyeliner in high school along with the foundation too light for my skin.
O.M.G. Iam rolling in laughter at everyone's comments
I've done it all, through the 80's, 90's and today from the winged and poofed hair to the multicolored mascara and eyeshadow.
The ONLY color my hair hasn't been is platnum (I'm a classic Irish complexion) because that would be tacky (erm..).
But worse, a mere 2 months ago, I let a friend and a hairstylist convince me that green eyeshadow and liner were the way to go with my new auburn highlights.
I looked like a freaking alien. I have a photo to prove it.
Let me win Metalia and you can post the evidence on your blog :)
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lots of black eyeliner-top and bottom plus I have used light blue eyeshadow. Once I got carried away with the tweezers and it took awhile for my eyebrows to grow back in-they were pretty sparse for awhile
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Oh man, you remember Sun-In? It was supposed to give your hair 'natural' highlights, but really turned it orange! That was a total disaster!
Beauty mistakes? *sigh*
My worst and saddest was the fact that I SHAVED the dark hair on my lip. I was SO embarrassed by the hair that I did not even tell my mom about it.
Needless to say, I will be teaching my girl AND boy (Dude. No uni-brows) that hair removal is essential. My husband is from India and I suspect the ole genes from the Pelt Belt are going to coursing heavily through both of my children. My poor babies, they will need to be well-versed in all aspects of hair removal.
i would like to say that this happened when i was young and didn't know any better...unfortunately, too recently, i tried liquid eyeliner. in black. before a family photo. scary, scary. never again.
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my bigest mistake during my teen years "blue lipstick"
no need to further comment on that.
Blue mascara. Curling my bangs so they looked like a big tube across my forehead. A long, awkward bangs-growing-out-phase. And an unfortunate incident with too much sparkle lotion.
I'm so, so happy that Facebook did not exist in the early 90s.
I'm torn...the two years in high school where my bangs (the full front third of my head) were regularly permed while the rest of my hair stayed its natural just-barely-wavy, or the two years in college when I had control of the drama club makeup kit and thought it was perfectly sensible to use stage makeup for formal events? Hmmmm....
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