What Has Been Your Worst Makeup Disaster?

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Apr 24, 2012

Taylor F.

I'm really interseted! We all have that moment where we flick through photos and think "WWWHHHYYY?!" whether it it be the wrong shade of foundation or the 'lovely' shade of orange on your face compared to the paleness of your neck etc.

Apr 24, 2012

Alyssa R.

Probably my entire high school career. Lol. I used foundation that looked okay in normal lighting, but we used to take TONS of pictures and I always came out lighter than normal because of the SPF. Lol. My last year of high school was okay 'cause i kept it pretty simple and neutral. I think I went a little too smokey on my smokey eye for prom too but hey, all in good fun and memories I'll never forget! :)

Apr 24, 2012

Aferdita N.

BAH! I always used way too much eyeliner and mascara, as I was a wannabegoth from the age of 12 - 14, definitely doesn't look good with loads of eyeliner under your eyes when you're a very pale girl.

Apr 25, 2012

Shelley W.

I accidently grabbed my tin of Tiger Balm thinking it was my Rosebud Salve to use on my lips prior to using a super matte lipstick. I had a head cold so I had lost all sense of smell (Tiger Balm smells gross and is used to relieve sore muscles) and I didn't realize my error till my lips swelled up twice their size and they burned like fire. Once the swelling went down my lips were one big blister. I can laugh about it now....

Apr 25, 2012

Taylor F.

@Alyssa - At least we can look back and learn from it! Love your profile picture by the way!

@Andii - POOR THING! I've heard of people setting their faces with hairspray though, never setting their eyes, JUST KIDDING! :)

@Aferdita - I was aswell, at least we thought we looked pretty badass. In my MCR days I used red lip liner as eyeliner, not my best look I admit!

@Shelley - Oh my, that's awful! I can't even fathom the pain!

Apr 25, 2012

Nina S.

Oh yes, probably 9-10th grade. I used to use the Wet N' Wild bronzer over the old-school CoverGirl foundation that was about 5 shades off and looked like cake. The bronzer would be blotchy and orange by like, 2nd period. Sometimes I'm surprised that I even had friends, until I remember that all my friends looked like that, too. Yuck!

Apr 26, 2012

Caroline G.

My worst makeup disaster was actually stabbing myself with the felt tip of my first liquid eyeliner when I was in 11th grade. 

Apr 26, 2012

Cloey B.

MY EYELASH COMING OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY ...&& NO GLUE TO RE-ATTACH IT :(

Apr 26, 2012

Rach G.

I HAD A SWEET 16 AND I DID MY OWN MAKEUP... FOUNDATION WAS NOT MY COLOR. TO THIS DAY (13 YEARS LATER), IM EMBARASSED TO SHOW THOSE PICS!!! :? SO NOW IM VERY IFFY ABOUT BUYING FOUNDATION.  

Apr 26, 2012

Amarilis R.

Andii J. You have made me laugh so hard!! First I picture you spraying your self and then screaming with eyes closed! Then I picture you screaming as your lashes blow off hahaha
Hmm My worst makeup disaster would have to be when I thought I did the sexiest smoky eye and when I looked at pictures the next day it was so uugglllyy lol

Apr 27, 2012

Katie B.

Oh my days there has been one disaster and one only WORST EVER :(..........My wedding day :( devo.....I had a salon do everything for me.....and the Make-up artist asked the colour scheme of my BIG day...It was Lilac and white....the dumb women << could call her alot worse done my make-up Lilac WTF now most people know that blue eyed then dirty blond women do not i repeat DO NOT suit lilac eye shadow and there wasn't enough time for me to wipe it off and start again it was an absoult mess i looked like a clown :( :(  

Oh god. So, When I was in like, 5th grade, I was totally a goth kid (still am xD) I didn't have any eyeliner, but I had some black lipstick from halloween time, and I wore it as eyeliner. And went to school like that. God whyyy

Apr 27, 2012

Amarilis R.

I had the liquid liner in my eye too!! haha I kept wiping and wiping and the burn was horrible

Apr 28, 2012

Nadia N.

Middle/high school

Apr 28, 2012

Atiyah Y.

I'd have to say my worst disaster was using false lashes with glue not knowing I was allergic to the latex in it. Lashes wouldn't be on for more than 5 minutes before my whole eye became red, puffy & damn near swollen shut. 

I thought I was being cute by doing a blue smokey eye look one day for work and I guess I went a little too far up with the blue so when I went into work my boss told me that the blue didnt suit me at all, I looked in the mirror and I felt like Mimi from The Drew Carey Show :( I've probably had other bad makeup disasters but this one sticks out for me. 

I love reading all of your responses! So hilarious!!!!

Eyebrows! Oh man where to even begin? In middle school I had them pencil thin! I can't believe I thought that looked cute. I then began to start filling in the ends and had this triangle action going on that looked like this ^. I cringe every time I am flipping through old photos with those rough eyebrows.

Concealer that was most likely the wrong shade and no setting powder.

Chances are all those powder compacts were too dark for me.

Those ELF cream shadows and no primer.

Of course, this was all before I seriously got into makeup in 2009 so. This would be more like from sophomore year and up to before graduation.

May 1, 2012

Angela C.

We only recently moved to the midwest, and coming from a desert climate I was ill-prepared for the effects of that first summer. There are a few specific incidents that spring to mind as a total "face fail" but really it was a summer of fail. I had no idea how to keep makeup on my face in the heat and humidity, so I'd get my look set and then walk out the door, only to notice or have my husband point out maybe 10 minutes later that it looked like my face was melting. He even took pictures once, while I shouted at him to hand me a tissue or I would shove his phone somewhere painful. Good times, lol. Hopefully I'll weather this summer a little more gracefully!

May 1, 2012

Davia R.

my worst makeup disaster would probably would have been when i used this cover girl make up pallet. Now i don't even look at there make up....

May 1, 2012

Davia R.

my worst make up disaster was probably when i first started getting into the whole makeup thing. I got this cover girl eye shadow pallet and when i went to go wash it off i would not some off so for the rest of the day i had the ugliest purple eye lid ever

May 4, 2012

Bec S.

Mine is more of a hair disaster. My husband and i were going to do a performance and i asked him to tough up my shaved haircut. There was a missed spot, so i asked him to go back into it. Neither of us realized that the extender on the clippers was missing though, and a bald patch was made! It was impossible to work around, so I told him to just shave it all off. I was bleaching my eyebrows at the time, so I looked super hairless! To make it better, he gave me airbrush painting all over my head. I looked like a human canonball! Ha ha ha! 

I feel like i've had many make up flops over the past years. The first that comes to mind was one of the first times i used liquid liner. My hand twitched when i was putting it on and i stabbed myself in the eye. I freaked out. I cant remember the pain only that i thought i was going to go blind cause half of my eye was covered in black eye liner. 

ha where to start? In the 7th grade I had very little makeup of my own so I would always use my mom's makeup that was always 7 shades darker than me ( she has an olive complexion whereas I am fair skinned with freckles) and just looked plain horrible! I remember lining my lips with a darker plum lip liner then filling it in with barbie pink then walking to school thinking I was the hottest thing ever! And when I finally got to school, my friends telling me the awful truth lol 

May 6, 2012

Sarah C.

i am surprised i let it go on for so long but last winter I used my summer foundation for a while.... the lines were unbearable once i noticed