Thursday, 15 October 2009

Teenage Beauty Blunders

I was inspired by the wonderful world of Twitter yesterday to do a blog post on 'teenage beauty blunder'. God knows, I had more than my fair share of them! After seeing a couple of 'tweets' about them I thought I would do a post to 'confess' a few of mine.... just for laughs.

  • My first foray into coloured eye shadow using a raspberry-pink Rimmel shade resulted in being asked if I had been crying.
  • Once I wasn't allowed to go into the canteen for lunch at high school till I removed my lilac eye liner. I think the lunch lady had the right idea.
  • After reading in a magazine that you could curl your hair with dish cloths, I went out and bought a packet, preceded to rip them up into small strips and wrap my hair REALLY tightly in them. When removed I looked like I had been the victim of a strong electric shock.
  • Along the same lines, at about age 13 I had my hair crimped and then decided to brush out my fringe- leaving me with a afro/frizz puff on my forehead.

I wont even get started on how my first attempts at fake tanning went...or how I only discovered hair straighteners at 19...

SO, now that I have shared (some) of mine, it's your turn! What are your 'teenage beauty blunders'... comment below :)

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  1. I think my worst was using talcum powder for face powder, as I had run out of what I usually used, probably Yardley in those days. What on earth must I have looked like??!!

    AlicatAHL
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  2. Oh no! I guess it does sligtly depend on your skin tone as to exactly HOW bad that would have looked...
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  3. my worst beauty blunder was when i found coloured hair gel and put my hair in a pony tail, plaited front sections and left them out and to top it off i put blue and red gel in those plaits!! oh and i used baby pink lipstick (pinker than saint germain) and sparkly gloss...those are the days i am glad i've past.
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  4. Great post! Probably using far too much No7 green 'colour correcting' base to try and tone down my rosy cheeks! I do think teens today have it a lot easier - formulas are so much better and there's SO much choice...I just interviewed a make-up artist for my blog and she was saying how when she trained, everything was matt - or really frosted with nothing in between - so much harder to use.
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  5. I'm with you with the not discovering hair straightners for a long time! I had a similar experience with the school thing too I had to wipe my orange lipstick off or I couldn't leave...I'm embarrassed for myself ever wearing it!!

    Great post :)

    xxx
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  6. hair mascara. why?! x
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  7. @Samantha - I agree, who ever thought painting crusty, patchy colours through hair was a good idea was seriously delusional... huge mistake.

    Come to think of it, glitter spray for hair was pretty bad too. It went EVERYWHERE and stuck around long after washing clothes/hair/face/surrounding walls!
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  8. oh god the glitter spray...x
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  10. Light blue or lilac eyeshadow every day. Ahhhhhhh
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