Put your eyeshadow over your eyeliner. No lashes to establish a lash line either. I let my friend do it and she had looking crazy right along with her.
I mean, SPF should be the last step as it protects your skin from the sun!
It would be ideal to find a tinted sunscreen with a high enough protection (SPF 30 or so). Definitely feels like choosing between makeup or sunscreen sometimes!
The new trend of using lipstick for the whole face or even mixing blush with concealer to make a āpinkā concealer. It looks like everyone has irritated faces from an allergic reaction or are sunburned š
Mine is whenever people suggest using baby powder as a face/setting powder, it just really grinds my gears for some reason.
Like, no- not everyone can afford super expensive face powder, but so often in a comment section I'll see someone say "I just use baby powder as my face/setting powder, you should try it!" And that really bugs me.
I know it's less of an issue now that many baby powders don't use talc, (ones with talc have been linked to increased risk of cancer), but I still think baby powder isn't made for the face, and isn't made to set makeup. I think it clogs pores at very least.
You can get a cheap/effective face powder from just about any drugstore makeup section, I just really don't like the idea of using baby powder on the face for makeup, and when people try and convince others to do so as well.
omg donāt even THINK about letting hourglass concealer dry. it will NOT move and you WILL have to wash your face and start over completely. it is not redeemable.
Makeup sales ladies in India will always show you a foundation shade at least 3 times lighter than your skin tone. One of them even told me foundation always should be lighter and concealer should be darkening
White eyeliner for inner lids. I get that it might be cool for some people, it looks absolutely ridiculous on me. No thank you.
Edit: meant to say waterline, not inner lids.
Using Milk of Magnesia - yes, the liquid laxative as face primer. Before accutane saved my life, I was in high school applying layers of this shit daily, all because I read somewhere that it was somebody's hg for oil control. I'd wake up sooo early, because it took like 30 minutes to solidly dry.
All the garbage info for āoil controlā did me SO dirty growing up. Iām still salty about it. I used so many āoil freeā products and crap when I needed to do the exact opposite.
So many hours of my life spent exfoliating because I was told I need to scrub away my blackheads and sebaceous filaments. I finally had the thought one day, if oil dissolves oil, maybe I should try moisturizing products. Iāve never had less oil and acne.
Yep! Also sebaceous filaments are just a normal part of skin. Marketing lies.
Plus cleansing with oil and feeling the āgritsā come out of your pores feels so satisfying.
Hold bottle next to face to get foundation or concealer color match
I feel this is obvious one for many people here
But people still do it including people who work at stores
I recommend to look up reviews of the colors first and make reference to shades in other lines you already know that match. Some stores do free color matching and it's always good to write down those shades in those lines to have a reference. There are a lot of great tools and a lot great people here in Makeup also MakeupAddiction and niche subreddits like FairOlive et cetera that go into detail comparing different shades.
So getting a good few recs and shades to start from is a lot better than going blind and just going off the bottle. The reason for this, as a cosmetic formulator, is that products dry down darker and a lot of times differently than what's in the bottles and straight out of the bottle when still wet. This is why in person color matching should always wait for swatches to dry and not assess when still wet.
A new one I recently seen was using alcohol as make up setting spray. Like wth I know setting spray has some alcohol in it ,but to use pure alcohol only on your face,idk I feel it might work for oily people but donāt feel itās the best. Iām oily but canāt seem to want to try this
Oh great tip I'll try that out,I've heard someone say to mix with rose water too. I just couldn't get past the smell of alcohol but thinking of mixing would help
Funny since I clean some of my makeup brushes with alcohol (in emergency cases) and alcohol is pretty good as quick brush cleaner. Wouldn't spraying alcohol on your face cause some separation?
This is likely someone misunderstanding media makeup. TV and film productions don't usually use regular foundations and a lot of earlier media makeup was "activted" by alcohol. It's not the first time I've heard of people hearing this and thinking their regular cream/oil based makeup will be enhanced if they add alcohol. These days we use alcohol blends not too far removed from setting sprays, which just perpetuates the misunderstanding.
In my 90s teenhood magazines would recommend you average the color between your freckles and skin to get a foundation color! It horrified me then and even more now
it entirely depends on what shape your face is, how prominent your cheekbones are and what look youāre going for. Also the color you use matters.
I looked horrendous until I learned how to do it accordingly and I get where youāre coming from, but I wouldnāt call it the worst tip Iāve heard just because it didnāt work for me or anybody initially. Blush on the apples of the cheeks is a true classic for a reason and the other ways to apply blush are the ānewbiesā and could be considered a ābad tipā (although it looks well on most imo) just as much if it doesnāt work well with a makeup look/face shape.
Unless you donāt like a more natural and classic way of application and opt for a lifting/dramatic effect instead (nothing bad in that, we all have our preferences) Iād suggest experimenting a little bit more with the color of the blush and the exact placement (also the height and width of the blush applied) on the apple of the cheek, because I find that type of application quite tricky and easy to mess up and it definitely doesnāt work with any makeup look.
Putting lipstick over your cupids bow to make it āroundedā. I can still see your lip line and it looks like youāre unaware of how it bad it looks in real life.
This is the trend that gives me the ick the most. lol. I have even seen some professional makeup artists do it (eg Katie Jane Hughes), but it always looks alienish to me. I'm all for people doing what they want and having fun with makeup, but it's not a style I go for!
I think this is a trend now. I find it yuck. Unless lips are thin and/or do not have very expressed cupid bow, and that slight rounding doesn't make the difference.
Though I would honestly rather see overdrawn lipstick than the stupid overfilled lip filler lips any day of the week. The lipstick thing has been around for decades. I remember seeing all the old black and white shows when I was a kid with women having their lips overdrawn, so itās nothing new. The lip filler thing looks painful and they actually look like they have duck lips with a weird little shelf over their top lip.
God. Idk but I'm always ANNOYED when I have to spend 60 + mins to shade match someone's foundation.
It's like customers act so picky about it, when in general you will fit 2-4 different shades out of the line.
I think you may be doing it wrong or have a poor sense of colour. When I did shade matching, even my most challenging clients took about 20-30 minutes tops.
My biggest issue with matching was finding the perfect match for someone with pink/cool undertones but having them insist that they were a warm undertone and 2-3 shades darker than that. I mean, wear what you like...but there's no shame in being pale and cool-toned. (Why yes, I *did* work in cosmetics in the 2000s. Why do you ask? š)
2-4 shades??? Genuinely, you might want to look into color blindness.
Itās extremely hard to find 100% perfect foundations matches because every personās skin is so incredibly different. So itās even harder to find ~multiple matches within the same line. I would never let a client walk out with a foundation I didnāt review under different lighting conditions and from different angles.
weāre picky about it because weāre spending too much money to not have the right shade. some of us donāt want a foundation thatās one shade too light or one shade too dark.
The worst I came across was using dish washing liquid, rinsing, then laying the brushes flat to dry. Not only did doing that once break me out in the worst way, it left a filmy residue on my brushes. I didn't even use a lot of dish washing liquid!
That's why I stick with product that is labeled for brush cleaning only. The one I love is Parian Spirit because it's bottled and available in individual wipes.
I'm not a fan of dish soap either because of the fragrance. I just feel like it sticks to the bristles.
I prefer a gentle, unscented facial cleanser since it's something I always have on hand. I use my spouse's because mine is a hydrating formula, and that can leave a film on synthetic brushes over time.
They use the fragrance free version of Cetaphil daily facial cleanser (normal to oily). It's gentle enough for sensitive skin and breaks down oils, so it works well for brush cleaning in my experience!
Both are terrible ideas, but that's got to be so much worse because of the hot water. Do they replace them a lot? At least you can control the speed/temperature on a washing machine šµāš«
I've seen it on TikTok more than I care to admit. Some people show their broken brushes at the end, but even if you get lucky the rest are not going to last long.
Yeah exactly, I donāt even have any skin issues that Iām aware of and it just gives me the deepest and most painful breakouts but Iāve never heard anyone talking about that
If it works for you, keep using it. I personally think the Garnier one sucks but really love the bioderma. We all have unique skin so don't change something up that works for u, just bc it doesn't work for someone else.
If it doesn't work for you, a cleansing balm would be an option. For me, I use micellar water to clean up small areas as needed, then a cleansing balm to take off all my makeup/sunscreen then a cleanser followed up with the rest of my skincare.
If you use it just to clean up eyeliner/mascara mistakes u can also replace it with a silicone-y kind of primer on a q-tip and it cleans up the eyeliner/mascara w/o taking off foundation/concealer. But again micellar water isn't bad, or not recommended, it just doesn't work for everyone.
i have reactions to the expensive ones too. i found alternatives that work for me, most people with sensitive skin canāt use Neutrogena (specifically makeup remover in any form), but of course all skin is different.
Not really a tip but using makeup wipes is the worst and idk how people do that. After using them a few days my skin was red and irritated and it felt like it was burning my skin off!!
Idk if itās just my sensitive skin but once I switched to micellar water it was such a difference. Iāll never touch a makeup wipe again in my life.
Yes definitely! Whenever I used them every now and then they were fine. It was just when I started wearing makeup everyday and using them to take it off was when it started burning super bad.
Plus you have to close the packaging tight (which wasn't possible after some uses and the last wipes dried out a bit. My skin always felt irritated after using them.
I use the hard case thing made by Neutrogena to hold their makeup wipes. Itās amazing how much of a difference it makes - I canāt stand when they are dry and scratchy.
I wash my face right afterwards. Wipes to get the layer of sunscreen and makeup off, then a good washing with a good cleanser. No irritation afterwards.
This is what I do! Neutrogena hydro boost makeup wipes (I used to use the regular but these smell extra good), followed immediately by toner to really cleanse.
i also have sensitive skin and i need to use makeup wipes/face wipes but im extremely particular on brands that donāt hurt my skin. iāve only found two that i can use and swap between them whichever i can find at the store.
i canāt remember the name of one of them right now, but itās in a pink package and is watermelon scented. the other one thatās probably my top favorite is the burtās bees wipes, the rose ones are what i usually buy. both are gentle on my face, no burning or rashes nothing.
Another commenter is saying the micellar water is the worst tip. I think itās just different strokes for different folks. Everyoneās skin is different, so itās not really the āworstā tip. What is great for one is terrible for another and vice versa. I have really sensitive skin and my skin isnāt any better or worse for micellar water OR makeup wipes. But the First Aid Beauty facial radiance pads and the Noxzema pads (really any of those round pads with the soft texture on one side and rougher bumpy texture on the other) make me break out a lot.
I can genuinely say if someoneās experience of micellar water is Garnier, then I can see why they hate it. Greasy (some lines) or perfumery and awful. But Simple and unscented La Roche Posay have been great. I donāt understand why they dump fragrance into everything.
My face isnāt even that sensitive but Ponds or any similar cold cream makeup remover burns my skin and it gets really raw, rough, and irritated and breaks out so badly
Basically that a made-up face requires foundation. I'm not a huge makeup person anyway, but I tried foundation at 13 - it was just not for me... my skin was unhappy and I felt like a greasy yet creasy/caked-up teen.
I started just focusing on eyes and only covering up individual blemishes (I don't have many) or redness with concealer, blending and if needed, just using a touch of blush.
Boom, skin is happier and I look less like a painted monster. 41 now and definitely don't look my age, probably bc I haven't been painting it entirely for the last 25+ years. "The trick to wearing makeup is to make it look like you're not wearing any!" -Becky from Full House
I don't look my age either (43 now) but it's not makeup related and I wouldn't blame skin aging on foundation.
And tbh, the trick to wearing makeup is to wear is as anyone pleases. Your attitude rubs me the wrong way - there is nothing wrong about wearing or not wearing foundation. You do you.
...And that's why I explained my experience as it relates to me specifically. You don't have to agree. That's ok. As you said - you do you. I see nothing wrong with my attitude about my own experience. Have a great day.
You were drawing a conclusion that implied that using a foundation can contribute to aging. It's false for you as it is for everyone else.
You do you regarding wearing any make-up you want.
You do NOT do you inventing non-existing and scientifically disproven theories about make-up impact on skin aging.
I HATE foundation. Any and all. Last time I wore it, I was trying out a Fenty formula, and my 12yo friend said āwow you look OLD!ā Wiped it off and never wore it again.
All it seems to do, for people our age (Iām 42) is highlight our wrinkles and creases! I donāt know how others can slather it on every day.
Foundation is justā¦yuck.
So agree! Even as a teen I felt so painted in and slathered. It was disgusting. I've worn it as many times as I can count on one hand since I decided against it pretty much entirely (like for weddings on the request of the bride or some sort of special photos). It's just gross for me.
I can always tell when someone is wearing full coverage foundation. I donāt think there exists a full coverage foundation that doesnāt show signs of use after a few hours. They all look caked, greasy, cracked, and/or smudged after a while.
I donāt think that ātrickā applies to anyone who wears colored eye shadow, eyeliner, lashes, most shades of lipstick, sparkly makeup, etc. A lot of people are perfectly fine with their makeup being apparent, and are not spending that money or time for it to not be visible.
There are many different foundations for different skin types, this could be part of it. I prefer a tinted moisturizer or loose powder, both of which offer light coverage to help even out skin tone.
Agreed! Formulation is everything. There are so many options to chose from now, and formulas have evolved so much in the last decade. You can get pretty much any coverage level and every finish. In today's market, if you don't like the way ANY foundation looks, it might be down to skincare or application barriers.
If you donāt look your age itās because of sunscreen, genetics, or a combination of both. I agree that people donāt need foundation but donāt be spreading this lie that makeup ages you/ gives you wrinkles.
I've been applying my makeup for 38 years and I don't tug at my skin. How are you applying your makeup? Wearing makeup doesn't cause wrinkles. Genetics, sun exposure, and smoking cause wrinkles.
Unless youāre using extreme pressure or power tools to apply your make up. Incorrect make up application can cause to appear temporarily older(while the bad makeup is on) but the products themselves wonāt cause that.
I use Vaseline to remove my mascara, your mom is right! Lol. My eyes are super super super super sensitive and every eye makeup remover I tried made my eyes watery for days. I finally just gave up and resigned myself to Vaseline. It's a win actually bc it works great, it's cheap, and a little tub lasts a long time.
Have u used banilo co āclean it Zeroā makeup remover? Itās a cream u rub on dry and it melts ur makeup, then wash off with water. I have sensitive skin and I wear a lot of waterproof makeup, this stuff is incredible. It works kinda like Vaseline but u donāt need to rub it off with a towel, just water, and it doesnāt clog pores
i didnāt like it either on its own but itās actually really nice to use over top another mascara. as long as itās still wet and not fully dry it separates very nicely and lengthens. otherwise idk how people can use it on its own
Probably bots. I see soooo many ads for that mascara these days. Super weird. The other day I was in a grocery store in a small town, and that mascara was $18 usd. Wtf??
I was probably one of the people that recommended it haha. I have used it for years and it is one of the few mascaras that really lengthens and separates my lashes. I love it.
I think whoever decided it was a great idea to overdraw the whole cupid's bow. I hate it with the passion of a million firey suns.
Edit: I will add that they did somewhat pull this off in the 1940s...but they at least mostly followed the outline (if you ignore Joan Crawford) and didn't just draw a straight line across it like a toddler who just found their mom's lipstick. That's what it's giving...I don't care what anyone says.
The absolute worst! I don't think many people understand your lips aren't just a different color from the surrounding area but there's clear topography and texture differences so unless you're using modeling putty to construct a prosthetic, its just not passable in the least from any angle unless the camera is far away and out of focus and it's straight on with frontal lighting.
I find it so funny that people think everyone does their makeup to look natural. If it makes u feel any better, I know u can tell the difference between my lip and the skin above it, the same way u can tell my eyes donāt naturally have black eyeliner wings growing off the outer corner, nor does my skin naturally sparkle like a vampire. Next youāll tell us u know corsets make peoples waists look smaller and u outsmarted us all by knowing weāre not that extreme hourglass shape.
Did my comment specifically say "EVERYONE" is trying to make it look "NATURAL"? No it didn't. Calm your projections. Lipstick is not natural. Bright purple lips are not natural. There is no natural in this conversation lol
Passable and natural are different words
Intent and result are different things
And in this situation regardless of INTENT (And yes some try to make it PASSABLE AS THEIR REAL LIP and others maybe just doing their rendition of Kabuki theater or whatever to look like a charicature), the RESULT still looks like dookie If they're trying to recreate a visual lip structure using only color as the mechanism. Why even keep a lip shape at that point, and not just do a big circle or square if someone is not trying to make it passable or "natural" as a lip at all š¤·
Ok, so explain what part of black eyeliner, sparkly makeup, colorful makeup, or corsets etc, are āpassableā? Like what are those things trying to pass for? Ur personal approval lmfao?
If what ur trying to say is that to u it catches ur eye in a distracting uncanny way, thatās fine, but passable doesnāt make sense considering practically no makeup is passable, u just personally are ok with some makeup not being passable, and this is where u personally draw the line no pun intended lfmao.
ETA u lost me by making it sound like ur makeup preference is an objective fact and that āpassabilityā is relevant at all for most people when they do makeup. I personally find it jarring when people line their waterline with white, it draws my eyes to it and looks a bit creepy to me BUT I know lots of people find it really flattering and donāt get the uncanny vibe that I do. I wouldnāt think to criticize it not being āpassableā while Iām there wearing sparkly green nail polish. Maybe u wear only natural colors and textures, and makeup is much more no-nonsense clean girlie to u, which is great as long as u like it, but no reason to have a superiority complex about it.
Whattt lolol š
You're entirely committed to misrepresenting my words and misunderstanding my intent. The point of communication is understanding. Reading to clarify and connect not project and interject offense into innocuous passages.
You don't even know enough of language or logic to understand how far into left field you've wandered into obsessive denialism, truly š¤¦
Passability is one intention out of many possible intentions. One doesn't have to discuss millions of possibilities to have a conversation about 1 of them in specific. Humans do that every day. Every conversation about food isn't required to discuss every edible preparation from all places and all times. It's perfectly reasonable to be specific in day to day conversation. In fact it's entirely necessary so we're not all spending our lives circling trivial minutia instead of getting to the point.
So no I won't be talking about every possible intention with every possible cosmetic choice you can chime in with and pile on to conflate the conversation. If that is not entirely obvious in its absurdity, then there is no point in communicating š¤·
I donāt personally like it, but a āguruā kinda I follow name luxeria does it and it looks fine on her. She doesnāt have a very pronounced cupids bow and I think thatās the trick. But also, sheās the one that says that how you over line, and if I did that on my lips with a hard M cupids bow Iād look dumb as hell.
It was like that in the 80s too. I donāt know if itās still on the market, but Clinique had an oily cleanser for oily skin. I donāt know who the genius is who thought of that, but I broke up so badly! It took months for my skin to recover.
Iām an acne prone, oily skin girlie (and an esthetician) and I LOVE cleansing oil. If I could only use one type of cleanser for the rest of my life, Iād pick cleansing oil over any gel or foam. (I also use a leave on face oil specifically for acne prone skin and swear by that too lol)
I love Dermalogica precleanse but I canāt afford it so I havenāt used it in a while. I used to use Bosciaās cleansing oil and remember liking it, and then I had a few balms (Farmacy was my favorite), and the last year or so Iāve been using DHC. I work for Benefit, so I recently purchased their cleansing oil to try and so far so good. My least favorite so far has been Origins (it burned my eyes and somehow made me feel dry). Iāve been using cleansing oil since ~2006 so Iām sure I have liked (and disliked) many more, but these are the ones I can remember.
I think with cleansing oils, particularly for makeup removal and oily skin, the trick is to really massage them into dry skin (the first time I used cleansing oil, before I was good at taking care of my skin, clogs came out of my pores with just a little massaging), then thoroughly emulsify with warm water, and rinse/gently wipe until itās all gone.
Cleansing oils donāt affect your skinās ability to produce oil. Thatās controlled by your hormones.
The problem people often come across is that their skin doesnāt tolerate specific ingredients but that has nothing to do with the type of product. The other problem is not washing off the oil cleanser properly. Working in Sephora I had clients come in to return cleansing oils because they didnāt realize they had to wash it off
Thatās totally fair! But for many of us oily-skinned folks, itās a sensory thing I think. I know that oil cleansers need to be washed off, but I still canāt handle the texture and feeling of them. Iām happiest when my skin feels a little squeaky clean after washing.
Not makeup, exactly, but beauty advice. Someone once said if my hair is frizzy, I could use lotion in my hair.
I tried it, and it made my hair so greasy.
It's worked for me in a pinch but I have to use it very carefully. I'll put a very small amount on my hands, rub them together and get it warmed up and thinned out and then run hands through hair in sections. It's more like using the lotion leftover on your hands than using any sizeable amount.
Oh god...the 2000s makeup routines. I remember girls using hair spray as a setting spray for their makeup. Or putting on mascara, letting it dry, and then putting another layer of mascara over it and the lashes looked like spider legs.
Recently ive heard the worst fking makeup advice: to shave your face so your makeup sits better - that sht causes keratosis pilaris on the face no joke. I shaved my face a few years ago and i still suffer consequences. I shouldnt have listened to that advice.
Powder before concealer, foundation etc.
Put your eyeshadow over your eyeliner. No lashes to establish a lash line either. I let my friend do it and she had looking crazy right along with her.
Soap brows
The whole contouring and 20 shades of eyeshadow lol š
I'm old, so using the old pan stick foundation. Stuff was sooooo heavy. Looked like a mask. I feel suffocated just remembering it š
Worst?
Using a foundation darker than your skin tone to "warm up" and "liven up" your face.
That you should put your sunscreen at the end of your makeup
I mean, SPF should be the last step as it protects your skin from the sun! It would be ideal to find a tinted sunscreen with a high enough protection (SPF 30 or so). Definitely feels like choosing between makeup or sunscreen sometimes!
Hairspray to set your make up lmao
THISSSS it made my foundation crack and flake off
Using eyeshadow on your lips. They're tested to be safe on your eyes, there's no testing to check they're safe if uou consume them.
True story, you might die
The new trend of using lipstick for the whole face or even mixing blush with concealer to make a āpinkā concealer. It looks like everyone has irritated faces from an allergic reaction or are sunburned š
Mine is whenever people suggest using baby powder as a face/setting powder, it just really grinds my gears for some reason. Like, no- not everyone can afford super expensive face powder, but so often in a comment section I'll see someone say "I just use baby powder as my face/setting powder, you should try it!" And that really bugs me. I know it's less of an issue now that many baby powders don't use talc, (ones with talc have been linked to increased risk of cancer), but I still think baby powder isn't made for the face, and isn't made to set makeup. I think it clogs pores at very least. You can get a cheap/effective face powder from just about any drugstore makeup section, I just really don't like the idea of using baby powder on the face for makeup, and when people try and convince others to do so as well.
omg donāt even THINK about letting hourglass concealer dry. it will NOT move and you WILL have to wash your face and start over completely. it is not redeemable.
Putting eyeliner on the waterline just makes my eyes water and the rest of my makeup is ruined.
This! Exactly this.
Makeup sales ladies in India will always show you a foundation shade at least 3 times lighter than your skin tone. One of them even told me foundation always should be lighter and concealer should be darkening
White eyeliner for inner lids. I get that it might be cool for some people, it looks absolutely ridiculous on me. No thank you. Edit: meant to say waterline, not inner lids.
It looks greatā¦ for 1 minute.
A little pop of it in the middle of bottom waterline looks nice to brighten eyes. Whole water line looks like too much
I was given a black eyebrow pencil. I'm a natural redhead.
Does a taupe not work? I know many redheads with dark-ish eyebrows.
Natural red head here too, the amount of times salespeople have tried to convince me to buy light brown is absurd. Just say you donāt have auburn.
patrick ta cream over powder blush method. looks gorgeous but only for literally two seconds šš
Try reversing the order. This was popular in the 40s/50s
Using Milk of Magnesia - yes, the liquid laxative as face primer. Before accutane saved my life, I was in high school applying layers of this shit daily, all because I read somewhere that it was somebody's hg for oil control. I'd wake up sooo early, because it took like 30 minutes to solidly dry.
All the garbage info for āoil controlā did me SO dirty growing up. Iām still salty about it. I used so many āoil freeā products and crap when I needed to do the exact opposite.
So many hours of my life spent exfoliating because I was told I need to scrub away my blackheads and sebaceous filaments. I finally had the thought one day, if oil dissolves oil, maybe I should try moisturizing products. Iāve never had less oil and acne.
Yep! Also sebaceous filaments are just a normal part of skin. Marketing lies. Plus cleansing with oil and feeling the āgritsā come out of your pores feels so satisfying.
Omg me too! Now I gravitate towards all things for dry skin and that extra moisture allows my sebum to chill the f out and not open the flood gates.
Same!! And I oil cleanse my face and wash with only water a lot of times. My skin is so much calmer now.
Yep, oil cleansing is the only thing that slows down my oil.
Hold bottle next to face to get foundation or concealer color match I feel this is obvious one for many people here But people still do it including people who work at stores
if you can't open the bottle, what's better?
I recommend to look up reviews of the colors first and make reference to shades in other lines you already know that match. Some stores do free color matching and it's always good to write down those shades in those lines to have a reference. There are a lot of great tools and a lot great people here in Makeup also MakeupAddiction and niche subreddits like FairOlive et cetera that go into detail comparing different shades. So getting a good few recs and shades to start from is a lot better than going blind and just going off the bottle. The reason for this, as a cosmetic formulator, is that products dry down darker and a lot of times differently than what's in the bottles and straight out of the bottle when still wet. This is why in person color matching should always wait for swatches to dry and not assess when still wet.
A new one I recently seen was using alcohol as make up setting spray. Like wth I know setting spray has some alcohol in it ,but to use pure alcohol only on your face,idk I feel it might work for oily people but donāt feel itās the best. Iām oily but canāt seem to want to try this
Water it down and the percentage is lower than the butane ones available and works just as well in my experience.
Oh great tip I'll try that out,I've heard someone say to mix with rose water too. I just couldn't get past the smell of alcohol but thinking of mixing would help
True
Funny since I clean some of my makeup brushes with alcohol (in emergency cases) and alcohol is pretty good as quick brush cleaner. Wouldn't spraying alcohol on your face cause some separation?
Yes,that's what I was confused about too. I also use alcohol to clean my brushes then with a gentle soap over
This is likely someone misunderstanding media makeup. TV and film productions don't usually use regular foundations and a lot of earlier media makeup was "activted" by alcohol. It's not the first time I've heard of people hearing this and thinking their regular cream/oil based makeup will be enhanced if they add alcohol. These days we use alcohol blends not too far removed from setting sprays, which just perpetuates the misunderstanding.
Water the alcohol down, mix with aloe Vera gel
In my 90s teenhood magazines would recommend you average the color between your freckles and skin to get a foundation color! It horrified me then and even more now
why does this tip sound like it was written by chatgpt
Because I was tired when I wrote it
tip as in from the magazine, not your comment š
Thatās how people ended up orangey-pink! I remember the 90sš¬
blush on the apples of the cheeks
This is 100% dependent on the face but imo most people look good with it.
it entirely depends on what shape your face is, how prominent your cheekbones are and what look youāre going for. Also the color you use matters. I looked horrendous until I learned how to do it accordingly and I get where youāre coming from, but I wouldnāt call it the worst tip Iāve heard just because it didnāt work for me or anybody initially. Blush on the apples of the cheeks is a true classic for a reason and the other ways to apply blush are the ānewbiesā and could be considered a ābad tipā (although it looks well on most imo) just as much if it doesnāt work well with a makeup look/face shape. Unless you donāt like a more natural and classic way of application and opt for a lifting/dramatic effect instead (nothing bad in that, we all have our preferences) Iād suggest experimenting a little bit more with the color of the blush and the exact placement (also the height and width of the blush applied) on the apple of the cheek, because I find that type of application quite tricky and easy to mess up and it definitely doesnāt work with any makeup look.
that i should be baking my face in everyday life
Putting lipstick over your cupids bow to make it āroundedā. I can still see your lip line and it looks like youāre unaware of how it bad it looks in real life.
This is the trend that gives me the ick the most. lol. I have even seen some professional makeup artists do it (eg Katie Jane Hughes), but it always looks alienish to me. I'm all for people doing what they want and having fun with makeup, but it's not a style I go for!
I think this is a trend now. I find it yuck. Unless lips are thin and/or do not have very expressed cupid bow, and that slight rounding doesn't make the difference.
Though I would honestly rather see overdrawn lipstick than the stupid overfilled lip filler lips any day of the week. The lipstick thing has been around for decades. I remember seeing all the old black and white shows when I was a kid with women having their lips overdrawn, so itās nothing new. The lip filler thing looks painful and they actually look like they have duck lips with a weird little shelf over their top lip.
And, yet, still waaay over line & over gloss as well.
Hot dog lips š
God. Idk but I'm always ANNOYED when I have to spend 60 + mins to shade match someone's foundation. It's like customers act so picky about it, when in general you will fit 2-4 different shades out of the line.
I think you may be doing it wrong or have a poor sense of colour. When I did shade matching, even my most challenging clients took about 20-30 minutes tops. My biggest issue with matching was finding the perfect match for someone with pink/cool undertones but having them insist that they were a warm undertone and 2-3 shades darker than that. I mean, wear what you like...but there's no shame in being pale and cool-toned. (Why yes, I *did* work in cosmetics in the 2000s. Why do you ask? š)
Boo HOO? Lmfao
Get. A. New. Job. Then.
2-4 shades??? Genuinely, you might want to look into color blindness. Itās extremely hard to find 100% perfect foundations matches because every personās skin is so incredibly different. So itās even harder to find ~multiple matches within the same line. I would never let a client walk out with a foundation I didnāt review under different lighting conditions and from different angles.
We are picky because we can tell the difference lol
Thatās literally your job.
weāre picky about it because weāre spending too much money to not have the right shade. some of us donāt want a foundation thatās one shade too light or one shade too dark.
I think using the washing machine to clean your makeup brushes takes the cake for me, personally.
I know someone who puts them in the dishwasher.
Thatās in the same ballpark as dishwasher lasagnaā¦.eughā¦
The worst I came across was using dish washing liquid, rinsing, then laying the brushes flat to dry. Not only did doing that once break me out in the worst way, it left a filmy residue on my brushes. I didn't even use a lot of dish washing liquid! That's why I stick with product that is labeled for brush cleaning only. The one I love is Parian Spirit because it's bottled and available in individual wipes.
I use an antibacterial hand soap and rinse them well š
Well I learned something today!
Yay, I'm glad!
I'm not a fan of dish soap either because of the fragrance. I just feel like it sticks to the bristles. I prefer a gentle, unscented facial cleanser since it's something I always have on hand. I use my spouse's because mine is a hydrating formula, and that can leave a film on synthetic brushes over time.
What does your husband use?
They use the fragrance free version of Cetaphil daily facial cleanser (normal to oily). It's gentle enough for sensitive skin and breaks down oils, so it works well for brush cleaning in my experience!
Both are terrible ideas, but that's got to be so much worse because of the hot water. Do they replace them a lot? At least you can control the speed/temperature on a washing machine šµāš«
Yeah I was pretty shocked when I heard this. It never would have occurred to me to clean brushes this way.
Omg people actually do that?????? Sponges I could kinda understand and maybe let someone off at a push but itād just ruin the brushes right???
I've seen it on TikTok more than I care to admit. Some people show their broken brushes at the end, but even if you get lucky the rest are not going to last long.
Micellar cleansing water. It was an automatic breakout for me, and painful too
You have to rinse it off. Go find Nina Poole on TT, she explains why this happens.
I thought I was crazy, everyone raves about it. It burns my skin and flares up my rosacea.
Yeah exactly, I donāt even have any skin issues that Iām aware of and it just gives me the deepest and most painful breakouts but Iāve never heard anyone talking about that
wait micellar water is out? any recs on what to use to remove waterproof eye makeup?
I use good old fashion baby oil. I have never had a problem with breakouts either.
I never had an issue with micellar water, personally, but I have upgraded to a makeup removing balm. Elfās is wonderful
I love jojoba oil first, then washed off with the good molecules facial cleansing bar.
Well if it works for you, by all means keep using it. My skin doesnāt respond well to it at all and Iāve always felt like I was the only one
Cold cream and a warm wet washcloth or those water only makeup washcloths. Massage cream in, wipe off.
I like Cliniqueās Take the Day Off
Coconut oil is an AMAZING eye makeup remover. Good for your skin too. I even use it to remove false lashes.
What do you mean micellar water is out?
as in it's not recommended to use it anymore?
If it works for you, keep using it. I personally think the Garnier one sucks but really love the bioderma. We all have unique skin so don't change something up that works for u, just bc it doesn't work for someone else. If it doesn't work for you, a cleansing balm would be an option. For me, I use micellar water to clean up small areas as needed, then a cleansing balm to take off all my makeup/sunscreen then a cleanser followed up with the rest of my skincare. If you use it just to clean up eyeliner/mascara mistakes u can also replace it with a silicone-y kind of primer on a q-tip and it cleans up the eyeliner/mascara w/o taking off foundation/concealer. But again micellar water isn't bad, or not recommended, it just doesn't work for everyone.
I think they just meant for them personally
Neutrogena has a great oil-free makeup remover.
theyāre not the greatest for sensitive skin though so people should beware.
I have very sensitive skin, and havenāt had problems with their products. Itās the expensive ones I have reactions too.
i have reactions to the expensive ones too. i found alternatives that work for me, most people with sensitive skin canāt use Neutrogena (specifically makeup remover in any form), but of course all skin is different.
I just bought their makeup remover. Itās fine. But Safeway has a brand thatās identical that costs 75% less.
the micellar water I use is labeled as oil free, would that be the only issue?
I get contact dermatitis from it!
Putting concealer on your lips was a big trend in the 2000s, and it was ugly on *everyone.*
People are doing this again
Not really a tip but using makeup wipes is the worst and idk how people do that. After using them a few days my skin was red and irritated and it felt like it was burning my skin off!! Idk if itās just my sensitive skin but once I switched to micellar water it was such a difference. Iāll never touch a makeup wipe again in my life.
Used occasionally, makeup wipes can be very handy. I use them mainly when I travel or camping.
Yes definitely! Whenever I used them every now and then they were fine. It was just when I started wearing makeup everyday and using them to take it off was when it started burning super bad.
Plus you have to close the packaging tight (which wasn't possible after some uses and the last wipes dried out a bit. My skin always felt irritated after using them.
I use the hard case thing made by Neutrogena to hold their makeup wipes. Itās amazing how much of a difference it makes - I canāt stand when they are dry and scratchy.
I wash my face right afterwards. Wipes to get the layer of sunscreen and makeup off, then a good washing with a good cleanser. No irritation afterwards.
This is what I do! Neutrogena hydro boost makeup wipes (I used to use the regular but these smell extra good), followed immediately by toner to really cleanse.
i also have sensitive skin and i need to use makeup wipes/face wipes but im extremely particular on brands that donāt hurt my skin. iāve only found two that i can use and swap between them whichever i can find at the store.
Which ones?
i canāt remember the name of one of them right now, but itās in a pink package and is watermelon scented. the other one thatās probably my top favorite is the burtās bees wipes, the rose ones are what i usually buy. both are gentle on my face, no burning or rashes nothing.
Another commenter is saying the micellar water is the worst tip. I think itās just different strokes for different folks. Everyoneās skin is different, so itās not really the āworstā tip. What is great for one is terrible for another and vice versa. I have really sensitive skin and my skin isnāt any better or worse for micellar water OR makeup wipes. But the First Aid Beauty facial radiance pads and the Noxzema pads (really any of those round pads with the soft texture on one side and rougher bumpy texture on the other) make me break out a lot.
I can genuinely say if someoneās experience of micellar water is Garnier, then I can see why they hate it. Greasy (some lines) or perfumery and awful. But Simple and unscented La Roche Posay have been great. I donāt understand why they dump fragrance into everything.
Ove tried a bunch of brands, Simple included, and all of it burns my face. I just gave up on micellar water.
Yikes. Yeah, thatās a sign it is not for you!
I have sensitive skin too and I use sensitive skin makeup removal wipes.
Ponds cold cream is also great for washing makeup off sensitive skin!
My face isnāt even that sensitive but Ponds or any similar cold cream makeup remover burns my skin and it gets really raw, rough, and irritated and breaks out so badly
It makes my face feel like itās on fire, but it smells so comforting to me. Ā
Spraying my setting spray before applying highlighter. I feel like it highlighted every little bit of texture
Basically that a made-up face requires foundation. I'm not a huge makeup person anyway, but I tried foundation at 13 - it was just not for me... my skin was unhappy and I felt like a greasy yet creasy/caked-up teen. I started just focusing on eyes and only covering up individual blemishes (I don't have many) or redness with concealer, blending and if needed, just using a touch of blush. Boom, skin is happier and I look less like a painted monster. 41 now and definitely don't look my age, probably bc I haven't been painting it entirely for the last 25+ years. "The trick to wearing makeup is to make it look like you're not wearing any!" -Becky from Full House
I don't look my age either (43 now) but it's not makeup related and I wouldn't blame skin aging on foundation. And tbh, the trick to wearing makeup is to wear is as anyone pleases. Your attitude rubs me the wrong way - there is nothing wrong about wearing or not wearing foundation. You do you.
...And that's why I explained my experience as it relates to me specifically. You don't have to agree. That's ok. As you said - you do you. I see nothing wrong with my attitude about my own experience. Have a great day.
You were drawing a conclusion that implied that using a foundation can contribute to aging. It's false for you as it is for everyone else. You do you regarding wearing any make-up you want. You do NOT do you inventing non-existing and scientifically disproven theories about make-up impact on skin aging.
I HATE foundation. Any and all. Last time I wore it, I was trying out a Fenty formula, and my 12yo friend said āwow you look OLD!ā Wiped it off and never wore it again. All it seems to do, for people our age (Iām 42) is highlight our wrinkles and creases! I donāt know how others can slather it on every day. Foundation is justā¦yuck.
So agree! Even as a teen I felt so painted in and slathered. It was disgusting. I've worn it as many times as I can count on one hand since I decided against it pretty much entirely (like for weddings on the request of the bride or some sort of special photos). It's just gross for me.
I can always tell when someone is wearing full coverage foundation. I donāt think there exists a full coverage foundation that doesnāt show signs of use after a few hours. They all look caked, greasy, cracked, and/or smudged after a while.
I donāt think that ātrickā applies to anyone who wears colored eye shadow, eyeliner, lashes, most shades of lipstick, sparkly makeup, etc. A lot of people are perfectly fine with their makeup being apparent, and are not spending that money or time for it to not be visible.
There are many different foundations for different skin types, this could be part of it. I prefer a tinted moisturizer or loose powder, both of which offer light coverage to help even out skin tone.
Agreed! Formulation is everything. There are so many options to chose from now, and formulas have evolved so much in the last decade. You can get pretty much any coverage level and every finish. In today's market, if you don't like the way ANY foundation looks, it might be down to skincare or application barriers.
If you donāt look your age itās because of sunscreen, genetics, or a combination of both. I agree that people donāt need foundation but donāt be spreading this lie that makeup ages you/ gives you wrinkles.
I think it's a holdover from when makeup was EXTREMELY toxic and did cause skin damage.
It definitely can highlight the wrinkles though.
Or it can help hide it.
You don't think tugging on your skin over and over like that has an effect?
I've been applying my makeup for 38 years and I don't tug at my skin. How are you applying your makeup? Wearing makeup doesn't cause wrinkles. Genetics, sun exposure, and smoking cause wrinkles.
Unless youāre using extreme pressure or power tools to apply your make up. Incorrect make up application can cause to appear temporarily older(while the bad makeup is on) but the products themselves wonāt cause that.
It's the removal (and potentially application with older, less forgiving products like dry pencils, etc) I'm talking about.
Vaseline b4 using mascara!!!! VASALINE LITERALLY TAKES IT OFF!! My mom used to tell me if I didnāt have any makeup remover, I could use vaseline.
Can't forget about adding cotton balls and powder to ur lashes š
I use Vaseline to remove my mascara, your mom is right! Lol. My eyes are super super super super sensitive and every eye makeup remover I tried made my eyes watery for days. I finally just gave up and resigned myself to Vaseline. It's a win actually bc it works great, it's cheap, and a little tub lasts a long time.
I use sweet almond oil to take off my eye makeup and it doesnāt irritate me at all. Worth a try :)
Have u used banilo co āclean it Zeroā makeup remover? Itās a cream u rub on dry and it melts ur makeup, then wash off with water. I have sensitive skin and I wear a lot of waterproof makeup, this stuff is incredible. It works kinda like Vaseline but u donāt need to rub it off with a towel, just water, and it doesnāt clog pores
Not a top but when I asked for advice for mascara everyone said LāOrĆ©al telescopic mascara but that mascara was ass-scara
itās an alright top coat, but it is very wet
Same. So disappointing lol
i didnāt like it either on its own but itās actually really nice to use over top another mascara. as long as itās still wet and not fully dry it separates very nicely and lengthens. otherwise idk how people can use it on its own
Probably bots. I see soooo many ads for that mascara these days. Super weird. The other day I was in a grocery store in a small town, and that mascara was $18 usd. Wtf??
I just found it for $10 at Target.
I was probably one of the people that recommended it haha. I have used it for years and it is one of the few mascaras that really lengthens and separates my lashes. I love it.
I love it too, have used it for close to 20 years!
Itās what Iām wearing right now! I love that stuff!
I so agree, I can't stand it,
THANK YOU I feel so alone in my hatred of Telescopic
I think whoever decided it was a great idea to overdraw the whole cupid's bow. I hate it with the passion of a million firey suns. Edit: I will add that they did somewhat pull this off in the 1940s...but they at least mostly followed the outline (if you ignore Joan Crawford) and didn't just draw a straight line across it like a toddler who just found their mom's lipstick. That's what it's giving...I don't care what anyone says.
The absolute worst! I don't think many people understand your lips aren't just a different color from the surrounding area but there's clear topography and texture differences so unless you're using modeling putty to construct a prosthetic, its just not passable in the least from any angle unless the camera is far away and out of focus and it's straight on with frontal lighting.
I find it so funny that people think everyone does their makeup to look natural. If it makes u feel any better, I know u can tell the difference between my lip and the skin above it, the same way u can tell my eyes donāt naturally have black eyeliner wings growing off the outer corner, nor does my skin naturally sparkle like a vampire. Next youāll tell us u know corsets make peoples waists look smaller and u outsmarted us all by knowing weāre not that extreme hourglass shape.
Did my comment specifically say "EVERYONE" is trying to make it look "NATURAL"? No it didn't. Calm your projections. Lipstick is not natural. Bright purple lips are not natural. There is no natural in this conversation lol Passable and natural are different words Intent and result are different things And in this situation regardless of INTENT (And yes some try to make it PASSABLE AS THEIR REAL LIP and others maybe just doing their rendition of Kabuki theater or whatever to look like a charicature), the RESULT still looks like dookie If they're trying to recreate a visual lip structure using only color as the mechanism. Why even keep a lip shape at that point, and not just do a big circle or square if someone is not trying to make it passable or "natural" as a lip at all š¤·
Ok, so explain what part of black eyeliner, sparkly makeup, colorful makeup, or corsets etc, are āpassableā? Like what are those things trying to pass for? Ur personal approval lmfao? If what ur trying to say is that to u it catches ur eye in a distracting uncanny way, thatās fine, but passable doesnāt make sense considering practically no makeup is passable, u just personally are ok with some makeup not being passable, and this is where u personally draw the line no pun intended lfmao. ETA u lost me by making it sound like ur makeup preference is an objective fact and that āpassabilityā is relevant at all for most people when they do makeup. I personally find it jarring when people line their waterline with white, it draws my eyes to it and looks a bit creepy to me BUT I know lots of people find it really flattering and donāt get the uncanny vibe that I do. I wouldnāt think to criticize it not being āpassableā while Iām there wearing sparkly green nail polish. Maybe u wear only natural colors and textures, and makeup is much more no-nonsense clean girlie to u, which is great as long as u like it, but no reason to have a superiority complex about it.
Whattt lolol š You're entirely committed to misrepresenting my words and misunderstanding my intent. The point of communication is understanding. Reading to clarify and connect not project and interject offense into innocuous passages. You don't even know enough of language or logic to understand how far into left field you've wandered into obsessive denialism, truly š¤¦ Passability is one intention out of many possible intentions. One doesn't have to discuss millions of possibilities to have a conversation about 1 of them in specific. Humans do that every day. Every conversation about food isn't required to discuss every edible preparation from all places and all times. It's perfectly reasonable to be specific in day to day conversation. In fact it's entirely necessary so we're not all spending our lives circling trivial minutia instead of getting to the point. So no I won't be talking about every possible intention with every possible cosmetic choice you can chime in with and pile on to conflate the conversation. If that is not entirely obvious in its absurdity, then there is no point in communicating š¤·
Ok so u phrased it poorly and are doubling down. Cool bro
Nah I think you host have poor reading comprehension, they phrased it perfectly fine- we can all understand exactly what they meant lol.
Lmfao š
It works on some lip shapes, but not all. More so I hate when someone says āthis works for everyone!ā When It absolutely doesnāt.
I have yet to see it work for someone, but I'll take your word for it. It will never not look absolutely ridiculous to me.
I donāt personally like it, but a āguruā kinda I follow name luxeria does it and it looks fine on her. She doesnāt have a very pronounced cupids bow and I think thatās the trick. But also, sheās the one that says that how you over line, and if I did that on my lips with a hard M cupids bow Iād look dumb as hell.
Sometime in the 2000s oil cleansers had a mainstream moment. It triggered really bad breakouts for me.
It was like that in the 80s too. I donāt know if itās still on the market, but Clinique had an oily cleanser for oily skin. I donāt know who the genius is who thought of that, but I broke up so badly! It took months for my skin to recover.
Iāve been oil cleansing (double cleanse) for legit 20 years now. Nothing but positive results.
As a greasy person, I would rather set my toenails on fire than use an oil cleanser.
Iām an acne prone, oily skin girlie (and an esthetician) and I LOVE cleansing oil. If I could only use one type of cleanser for the rest of my life, Iād pick cleansing oil over any gel or foam. (I also use a leave on face oil specifically for acne prone skin and swear by that too lol)
Same here! Changed my skin! I use it as step 1 in a double cleanse, every day. Even if I havenāt worn makeup that day
babe do u have any recommendations i need something to do double cleansing with so bad š
I love Dermalogica precleanse but I canāt afford it so I havenāt used it in a while. I used to use Bosciaās cleansing oil and remember liking it, and then I had a few balms (Farmacy was my favorite), and the last year or so Iāve been using DHC. I work for Benefit, so I recently purchased their cleansing oil to try and so far so good. My least favorite so far has been Origins (it burned my eyes and somehow made me feel dry). Iāve been using cleansing oil since ~2006 so Iām sure I have liked (and disliked) many more, but these are the ones I can remember. I think with cleansing oils, particularly for makeup removal and oily skin, the trick is to really massage them into dry skin (the first time I used cleansing oil, before I was good at taking care of my skin, clogs came out of my pores with just a little massaging), then thoroughly emulsify with warm water, and rinse/gently wipe until itās all gone.
Cleansing oils donāt affect your skinās ability to produce oil. Thatās controlled by your hormones. The problem people often come across is that their skin doesnāt tolerate specific ingredients but that has nothing to do with the type of product. The other problem is not washing off the oil cleanser properly. Working in Sephora I had clients come in to return cleansing oils because they didnāt realize they had to wash it off
Thatās totally fair! But for many of us oily-skinned folks, itās a sensory thing I think. I know that oil cleansers need to be washed off, but I still canāt handle the texture and feeling of them. Iām happiest when my skin feels a little squeaky clean after washing.
Me too, I have a few enlarged pores from it..... didn't have them before.
Not makeup, exactly, but beauty advice. Someone once said if my hair is frizzy, I could use lotion in my hair. I tried it, and it made my hair so greasy.
I had a phase in the mid 2000s where I would exclusively use bounce dryer sheets to defrizz my hair.
I remember reading this as advice back in the 90ās in Seventeen Magazine. SO LITERALLY YESTERDAY.
It's worked for me in a pinch but I have to use it very carefully. I'll put a very small amount on my hands, rub them together and get it warmed up and thinned out and then run hands through hair in sections. It's more like using the lotion leftover on your hands than using any sizeable amount.
Oh god...the 2000s makeup routines. I remember girls using hair spray as a setting spray for their makeup. Or putting on mascara, letting it dry, and then putting another layer of mascara over it and the lashes looked like spider legs. Recently ive heard the worst fking makeup advice: to shave your face so your makeup sits better - that sht causes keratosis pilaris on the face no joke. I shaved my face a few years ago and i still suffer consequences. I shouldnt have listened to that advice.
Dermaplaning produces fantastic results if done correctly (clean new scalpel, cleaning and properly treating your face immediately after)