1) Powder brows: And I'm not talking powder made for the brows - I'm talking full on, bushy; un-plucked, untouched brows. With nothing to accompany them but the insane amount of foundation powder, clinging onto every hair, they looked more like two ginger slugs sitting above my eyes. I know going au naturel is the biggest gift of childhood, but wearing just an innocent amount powder can really destroy a look!
2) Liner brows: No. 2 of the brow-destroying chronicles has to be the worst. After discovering that filling in your brows is the way forward, I decided to try this myself…. with thick black eyeliner. I don't even have to add anymore to this because I think you know how treacherous this is.
3) Almost-no-brows: No. 3 of the brow-destroying chronicles is also quite disastrous - just when you think I couldn't mess up my eyebrows any more. Pluck, Pluck, Pluck, Pluck, I'd pluck all day, just not in the right way. Instead of plucking beneath the brow to create the perfect arch, I'd pluck on top to create more of an emoji-style finish. More like straight lines. *cringing right now*.
4) Foundation flaws: My first ever foundation is a blast from the past. It was from the little Maybelline booth in my local chemist and I was so excited to try it that I just picked up the first one I saw - with no awareness of colour matching- and slapped it on. As well as putting something on my face that was 5 shades darker than my own, it also had glitter in the formula so the finish was horrific and couldn't of drawn enough attention to the orange line beneath my chin.
5) Recyclable makeup wipes: No. Makeup wipes should not be used more than once!!! But, yet again, along with the long list of beauty blunders that i'm guilty of, of course I done it. I had no awareness of skincare and up until then, no awareness of what caused breakouts. I probably had the worst skin ever from the age of thirteen to sixteen because of this beauty blunder, and yet I seeked to destroy it even more by re-using my cotton makeup pads too.
6) Gradual tan, looks the same as suncream, right?: Yet again, I don't have to go into much detail because you can imagine the sight. The orange. It didn't take a miracle to realise that 5 minutes of sunbathing wasn't causing my sudden tango glow… did anyone warn me? nope.
7) £5 extensions: The price tag should've been a warning not to go there. So was the stall outside Primark, selling a combination of hair extensions, Nokia phone cases, and dog baskets... but there you go. My extensions were a crime. Plastic, horse hair looking rat tails that sat on my waist whilst my natural hair, just under my chin, stuck out like a sore thumb. If I wasn't known in secondary school as 'the girl with dodgy hair extensions' then i'll eat my own arm.
8) Foundation lips: It was a trend that swept through the nation and the majority of girls in Essex were guilty. The trend consisted of smearing your lips with foundation and if that's not bad enough, slapping lipgloss on top to really make them stand out. I could say that was me compromising by creating a budget nude lippy, but there are standards… laws. Just NOOOOOOOOOO.
9) I daresay hairspray: I may have been a little hairspray crazy throughout the end of primary school/beginning of secondary school. I was a perfectionist and couldn't have a hair loose. I sprayed my hair so much that it was rock solid stuck to my head - a constant wind tunnel/ face lift look if you ask me. Who said that Kim Kardashian bought the slicked back top knot into fashion ayy?
10) Spots on forehead?… get a fringe: At the time, I thought it was a genius decision… until I cut my fringe myself. It was a hopeless/stupid attempt at camouflaging the corkers on my forehead. Not only did I cut my fringe with paper scissors causing split ends to grow on my already split ends, but I decided to only apply my makeup on the lower part of my face - after all, you can't see my forehead when I have a full fringe? Not until the wind blows and my disproportionate skin tone is on show to the whole playground. It could be seen as me saving my makeup, or it's a beauty blunder that cannot be ignored.
11) reapplying makeup on top of yesterdays makeup: C'mon girls we've all done it. It's soooo bad for our skin it should be illegal, but just once won't hurt, right? tehe.
So it's been fun, but i'm all beauty blundered out for the day and I feel ashamed that I thought any of these were acceptable… ironically i'm a beauty blogger now so something must have gone right!!!
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