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Originally Posted by mariagare Oh dear, blue-faced corner-sulking does not a happy childhood memory make.

When I first read your post, I thought - wow, a nine-year old knows how to wing out her eye makeup??
Heh. Nope, I knew nothing. In fact, I'm ashamed to admit that even after the acutely traumatic Barn Dance Debacle it was still a good 10 years before I stopped making an arse out of myself with makeup.

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Wearing the same foundation after coming back from a sunny sunny week in Qld.

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thank god i have a make-up obsessed older sister to guide me!
The blue eyeshadow story was hilarious though sellahdor.

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I remember seeing a pop star wear black nail polish with glitter.. i thought 'wow, looks like stars at night!'
I tried it and my family was wondering why i turned goth...
Also, i am not very good with make up... and i applies foundation and powder... OMG, i thought i looked good... but when i saw the photos... i looked like i had painted my face white... how horrid... and it was for me and my ex's 1st year anniversary... i hate looking back at those photos....
now that i think about it... i should photoshop them
but then again... its with my ex...

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Originally Posted by l2ainie I unknowingly threw my make up bag in with the laundry... and threw all the laundry into the dryer without knowing it was in there....
needless to say all the clothes and make up got ruined that made me so upset for about 2-3 weeks
I'd still be in a foetal position, wailing... Poor you!
I think I remember starting a thread like this a few months after joining the forum!
I've had some medium-size makeup tragedies, including:
mismatched foundation - sometimes colour, sometimes finish (e.g. people thought my face was covered in oil but it was a dewy finish foundation... )
too much makeup in the day in a uni faculty where it was unofficially frowned upon. I was trying to de-uglify myself and piled on the eyeliner etc.. I've cut back since then, and switched to browns instead of black, but still have to wear liner...
wearing navy pencil on the inner rim of my eyes to school (makeup wasn't allowed so this was my little stand against the rules), except that it irritated my eyes and doesn't suit me. I never line the waterline with dark colours now.

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- Not blending!! i.e. ending up with a massive line of makeup around the jaw (esp bad when the makeup was too dark for my pale skin)
- Intentionally using said dark makeup in an effort to look more tanned... wtf was I thinking! Just looked like I had painted my face brown
- Using foul pink lipgloss on my eyelids defs looked hawt
- Dark cheap nasty bronzing powder applied in a dim room which (in normal light) made my face look dirty
Basically any makeup incident when I was younger which resulted in people commenting on and fixing up smudges or blotches on my face

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When I was 16 I went to Thailand, spent a lot of time in the sun and ended up with a badly peeling forehead. I decided to fix it by covering my forehead (only) with my mum's foundation. I ended up with big patches of almost white foundation on my very dark skin, and red patches where the burns are - but thats just my forehead. The lower half of my face was a completely different colour.
What's really sad is that I actualy thought i looked good
ETA: the glitter phase - there was nothing good about that

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glittery eye shadows those were the days.

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I have heaps.
1. Dying my hair red which ended up looking punkish, my mom
freaks out.
2. Wrong Foundation Shade. I didn't know till a mate pointed it out
3. Bronzer - I ended looking really **** ie oil tank.
4. Overload the blusher. Those were the days when blusher was
first introduced to me. Instead of a healthy glow I ended up
looking like a cherry.

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Originally Posted by georgi glitter. EVERYWHERE on face
and in hair
and hair mascara things
Oohh and this is hair too, but one day in grade 8 i was going to the movies with friends and the boy i had a crush on
sooooo i thought itd be cool to go blonde for the day. (im a very proud brunette)
Sooooo i bought Sun In and put it in, and waited for me to suddenly be blonde. and yah i thought itd just be like a spray on colour, so i kept spraying more and more in waiting for it to go blonde, and used just about the whole bottle
then i went outside to play and for my hair to dry in the sun
Soooo i went all blonde and that was GREAT! and im mean.....really really blonde
then the next day when i went to wash it out, NONE came out. i thought maybe itd be like 4 washes, but it stil lwouldnt come out, so i rang the number on the bottle, to explain to me what 'bleach' and 'permanent' hair colour actually meant NOOOO
soooo i had unknowingly bleached my whole hair
Im also a swimmer, and liked long hair, so didnt cut it out, left it alllll long to grow out, and it got this green tinge from the chlorine.
So i had this like half brown, half yellow/orange/green hair for about a year
yuck
Ahhh Sun In - what memories.....Horrible stuff which smelt like bleach which I kept nicking from my mum....