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Originally Posted by Sw4y dyed my hair black (im blonde naturally) when going through and emo phase, plenty of black eye makeup and cheap ugly plastic wrist junk to go with it. I shudder when i see photos of myself.
i did this too. bout 1998ish decided...yep im a goth. so this naturally blonde teenybopper dyed her hair cherry black and wore black makeup and ripped stockings. the works.

i have never seen my natural colour since and my blonde was gorgeous!

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Hair mascara I had blue and thought it was the coolest thing ever!
Dark Purple lipstick... I also thought this was thee coolest thing ever. I think I wore it out in public once
Black eyelines wayyyy to much of it... I see my little sister do it now and I'm like I can't believe I used to wear it like that. My little sister is worse those she doesn't wash hers off she just keeps reaplying over the top
Badly matched foundation and concealer.

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Originally Posted by not my real name Aww that's so cute! I actually used to put makeup on my dad! My older sister would go out with her friends and I'd be sad at home because I was too young to hang out with them, so Dad would be my friend and he'd let me give him makeovers! Mum wouldn't have a bar of it though... lucky Dad was there then! it was really sweet of him
that is just so cute, what a sweete your dad was/is
or maybe he enjoyed wearing makeup, having a closet 'thing' for makeup and womens things..
/don't mind me, these things just come to me i'm a sicko lol

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For me it was the usual...tidemarks and too much foundation. I used to apply a practically-white pressed powder over the top of my foundation too.
I can't believe I didn't realise at the time that it was sooo wrong. How do we all make these crappy makeup choices and not have the sense to realise how **** we look? It baffles me.

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Wearing colours that didn't suit me. For some reason when I was younger I thought I suited cool toned colours, especially pinks/purples. One day a lady came up to me at work and said, "Darling, your lip gloss is just too pink for you!" I was sooo embarrassed but now I am so grateful!

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Wrong foundation colours - either too orange, or too white, and that ghastly glitter stuff for your eyes, and hair, and everywhere else you could manage to put it!

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Am so glad that glitter is going out of fashion now so that I can start wearing it again.
Pity black nailpolish is in though. Have had to go back to bright pastels until it becomes "ugh, dark nails are so goth" again.

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I still think that my best makeup disasters are still to come.
From a hazy memory, the best so far are:
1. The 80s.
2. Bad, bad, bad foundation matches. (Actually still an on-going issue )

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When I was about 9 I bought my first eyeshadows - electric blue and this awful pastel green. Oh god, my face is burning up right now with what I'm about to write...
So that night I was going to a barn dance ( ) with all of my extended family and on the way there in the car I decided that the 5 or so layers of pastel green eyeshadow I had put on at home wasn't quite enough. I didn't have a mirror so I just winged it - piled layer upon layer on as best I could. It was night time and I was crushed in between my brother and sister so I had no hope of getting right.
We arrived at the dance and when we walked into the light of the hall my family all gasped and just stared at me in horror. Then started laughing. In the car I had mistaken the pastel green for the electric blue and it was EVERYWHERE. Messily applied, up to my brows, thick, disgusting and on top of the pastel green I already had on. So, so wrong.
I ran into the toilets to wash it off but just with water not all of it came off but did make it run and smudge everywhere so I spent the night sulking in the corner with a blue tinged face.
Aaah, memories.

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Originally Posted by Sellahdor When I was about 9 I bought my first eyeshadows - electric blue and this awful pastel green. Oh god, my face is burning up right now with what I'm about to write...
.....so I just winged it......

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??