How You Got Started with Makeup?

Jan 2, 2012

Sarah U.

Describe how you got interested in doing makeup-- lets hear peoples stories :)

Jan 2, 2012

Drea L.

I used to be really insecure when I was like 10-15 years old & my only goal was "COVER EVERYTHING UP" - I would purchase SO much makeup just to hide everything, I then later started becoming more comfortable w/ myself & started appreciating the art of makeup instead of seeing it as a clutch. I learned better ways to use apply makeup. Now I use it to enhance my own beauty & use it as a tool to make me feel great. :)

Plus, YouTube introduced me into makeup on a much larger scale. That started my actual addiction. haha

Jan 2, 2012

April B.

Makeup and I have been a couple for so long now. In the 5th grade, I got sent to the principal's office for wearing bright red lipstick. My teacher said I looked like a harlot. When the principal scolded me and said the lipstick looked horrible, I told him to "Shut up" (I was pissed he was insulting my lipstick!) and I got suspended for it.

That was my first ever experience with makeup. Before then, I used to play with my mother's Clinique retractable brushes without makeup on them. I remembered they smelled so good--I've never smelled anything like them before.

It was a done deal since then. Makeup is the only thing that has been a part of my everyday life consistently since I was a child and I love it.

Jan 2, 2012

Sierra Sky R.

my grandmother worked at an estee lauder factory and always brought home make up. boxes of it. if anything dropped she got to take it home. a lot of the times there was never anything wrong with the make up she brought home..
I was always fascinated, watching my mom and grandma put on make up.. the transformation from from colorless and tired looking to bright and awake.
about a year ago I started getting into bright eyeshadow looks, but now I'm starting to play with other areas of my face.. like blush and bronzer which always scared the hell out of me and still do.. but yeah.. I can't say I'm great at make up, but I'm learning!

Jan 2, 2012

Drea L.

My mom used to have Clinique retractable brushes too!! I would play with them without makeup as well. XD

Jan 2, 2012

April B.

@Andrea G. Memories, right?! Those things were awesome. I remember thinking it was the bestest thing ever created.

Do you remember the little eyeshadow mini palettes that came in the mirrored silver slide out container? I LOVED those so much--and they always came in the most ridiculous colors (hello, 80's!) like banana yellow/seagreen/navy blue! I might create a look with that color combo just to commemorate my childhood :-D

Jan 2, 2012

Keyry H.

Actually now that I think about, my husband is responsible for my obsession. I remember when we first moved in together, I was watching ANTM while he was reading a book and I said "I wish I could apply make up like models on the show, I would to able to wear purple and pink eyeshadow at the same." And he suggested that I Google it and thus, the dawn of a new era in my life begun. Which is funny, because he always ask me how I got started with all this and until now I haven't been able to figure it out xD

Jan 2, 2012

April B.

@Sojourner W. You know it! Maybelline was right, I was born with it!


...Ok--that was really corny. Sorry.

Jan 2, 2012

Sarah C.

my sister did my make up like marylin manson and I liked it so much that I started playing with make up, later that year I won the school halloween costume contest for my vampire look. I have toned down my look from my very dark beginning.

Jan 2, 2012

Keyry H.

Lol! @April That's my husband's go to phares when he is shopping make up with me and most of the time he says it at sephora, where there's no Maybelline in sight xD

Jan 2, 2012

April B.

@Keyry H. You gotta love the husbands, right? I still love the "what's the thing that you use on the hairs on your eyes?" and other similar comments like "the thing with the thing" (while pointing at random part of the face).

Jan 2, 2012

Noelle M.

I didn't really get started with makeup until highschool, I was going to a dance and i needed to get my make up done, and it opened the floodgates. So I made a friend and I'd ask her for make up ideas and I'd go buy the colors(she worked at MAC), and then I'd just play and see where it went.

Jan 2, 2012

Sierra Sky R.

@April- my boyfriend calls eyeliner and mascara both eyeliner.. haha! but at the same time.. he is REALLY good at picking colors that go well together, and doing liquid eyeliner- cat eyes to be specific, one of the harder things for me to do. He's like a master at it, and he's never practiced! he really supports my make up obsession and always gives me good criticism. the one thing he will never like make up wise, sadly, is bright colored lips I think I can get over it though.. because he loves bright colored eyeshadow looks.

Jan 2, 2012

Monique H.

I didnt start wearing make up till high school. My step sister did hers real good and then i went to a MAC counter and asked how to do a neautral everyday look. Then i started to watch YouTube videos. Ever since then Ive done rave make up, school .dances, a wedding and a quinceanera. I love making girls or women feel good about themselves!

Jan 2, 2012

Sarah U.

Wow all these stories are awesome-- well here is mine.

When I was little I used to be heavily into barbies and barbie clothes-- even to the extent of cutting their hair off, cause I thought I was an inner hair stylist. (What is the "acceptable" age to stop playing with barbies, I would if I had some, ha) I knew I was different than all the other girls, putting nail polish on their eyelids, and making clothes for them-- I began to regret being a girl.. (Sad to say)-- I then became a massive TOMBOY in middle school.

Time passes----Being in High school and looking like a boy, you got picked on a lot, and for me being so short and over weight, I kinda felt like I needed to go back to my roots--what really was me. (I learned that being yourself was the best way to live, regardless of what others thought, because that is what made you happy.)

So between my Sophomore and Junior year-- I lost almost 40 pounds and started wearing girly clothes and makeup-- and experimenting with hair again.

Fast forward now almost 6 years-- I felt like I was missing this whole world, like there was more to it-- so I started browsing you tube and came across some videos, hense now my blog and account here...only been really heavy into "makeup" for a few months now, but I hope to learn more as you can never know to much!

Moral of the story-- always be yourself, and you will come on top :)

Jan 2, 2012

Keyry H.

@April Oh yeah, that's him. "Honey, can you pass me my tweezers?" Hubby looks around my table hands me my eyelash curler. He's getting better at though, I sometimes catching him glancing at videos I watch on my phone :3

Jan 2, 2012

Lena l.

@ April B. Your story is hilarious!!!!! When i was in 2nd grade I had a teacher who told us to never wear glitter because it was made of metal and could get into our eyes!! She also made my friend take off her red lipstick lol. she was anti make up

But I got started mostly because of my sister. She is older than me and was into make up. I remember my grandma getting mad at my sis wearing silver and other out there color eyeshadow. Now, she compliments me no matter how bright or crazy i do mine :). So I would play around in her stuff every now and then. slowly I started wearing makeup in middle school. Then when i was in high school I found make up tutorial videos on youtube and got even more into it. and now that i have a little more money, its gotten pretty serious

Jan 2, 2012

Keyry H.

@Kaylena My mom would always get on my case about wearing too bold of colors, I remember once I wore this gorgeous berry red and my mother demanded I give color and destroyed it when got her hands on it. And of course took me in the bathroom washed my lips off and grounding me. I didn't try to push the boundaries until I was in middle school, I saved all my lunch money for a powder compact by Wet n Wild, I would put it on the bus to school and take it off before going home. Which only last about a week, I walked in the house with the powder still on, as soon as my mom looked at my face she grabbed me and asked me what I was wearing, I shrugged as any teen in trouble would do. She sat me on the couch, as she tore through my room and destroyed any that resembled a cosmetic, grounded me and said that from then there, I was to pack my lunches. 

Jan 2, 2012

Alondra T.

when i was in about 6th grade i was 13 yrs old started seeing all the other girls wearing eyeliner so i decided to give it a try, i started lightly lying my eyes and every once in a while using mascara,
the next year when i was 14 i then started using foundation too, id cover up my little imperfections, later on started using a little blush because everyone wuld say i had big round cheeks lol so i just put a little blush on :) i started using thicker eyeliner and some eyeshadow too, cause i just got interested so much in makeup, and id find my self thru time i kept using more and more makeup different kinds of makeup. but about a year after that phase and now being in high school i find now that that phase is going backwards, im starting to use less and less because ive realized makeup has changed my skin so much and i think respecting your flaws and being happy with your true beauty makes yourself much less insecure, and way more beautiful ! ;)

Jan 2, 2012

April B.

I am loving all of these stories <3<3<3

Jan 2, 2012

Sarah U.

@ April (loved your story, actually giggled and envisioned it)
@ Keyry (I don't have a husband, but my boyfriend pretty much HATES makeup and actually got mad for having to wait for me in the makeup aisle, ha)

Everyone's stories are so different. I wanted to create this to just showcase all the different and unique ways people got started in makeup. I truly think that the stories and memories are really captured in a lot of what people do and their looks.

Some like bold and mysterious colors and others like more natural/ nude colors.

Thanks all for the amazing stories-- hope to read more.

Jan 2, 2012

April B.

@Sarah U. I wish I was half as gutsy now as I was then (if my future children got suspended for telling the principal to shut up, I would be mortified). All for the love of makeup. I kept that tube of lipstick for like 7 years after that too. I just couldn't throw it away. It was a bright maroony red from Wet 'n' Wild that I stole from the drug store HAHA---holy crap, I was a delinquent! Nowadays, I am far too honest to steal.

This was a REALLY great post. I love reading how everyone got to where they are today (and with us here, on Beautylish!)

Jan 2, 2012

Sarah U.

This site really allows people to open up, be creative, imagine, and simply be themselves. It's like having thousands of friends who all share similar hobbies, all around the world. I am just glad I was not the only kid that had wierd stories to tell about my obsessions ha. Thanks everyone for sharing, once again!

Jan 2, 2012

Leslie H.

The only makeup I wore when I first started wearing makeup at all was mascara when I was 15. When I was ~17 I bought my first liquid foundation and I didn't even know what to get so I just got what my older sister recommended to me. Even after that, for a long time I didn't become addicted to the process and just did the very bare minimum of foundation and eyeshadow.

Now, I actually wear what I feel is a normal amount of makeup but to some of my friends it's too much (or they list their short routines and complain about how much makeup they wear... haha)

Jan 2, 2012

Maria Y.

My mom was so strict when i was growing up, i remember that in the beginning i was only allowed to wear a eye liner. And after that i was allowed to wear more simple make up like a lipgloss and a eyeshadow.
And looking back at it today, i am so happy my mom was strict. I have learned that the the inner beauty is the most important, and not how you look.
But since then i have slowly started to wear more and more make up, and have learned how to wear the different products the rigth way.
And all this have throughout the years given me a addiction for make up and beauty. What can i say, than i loooove beauty and make up.