Teenage girls misusing highlighter/high beam powder

[JackandDiane]

and all looking like wonky glittery adam Ants

Anyone noticed this?

[BettyDraper1]

Haven't noticed this but probably will now you've mentioned it. My Dsd went through a phase of wearing orange foundation and concealer instead of lipstick. She wouldn't be told but is now mortified by that whole period. When i was a teen I wore red eyeshadow for a bit #myxamatosis

All part of the fun of growing up

[JackandDiane]

it is quite sweet - some have just PLONKED it on their cheek bones in a blob

[prettywhiteguitar]

Aww they're just experimenting !! I was a powdery creature for a few years

[WeDoNotTalktoPennilynLott]

I've seen a few with a brown stripe down each cheek where they'd tried to contour but haven't actually blended it in/done it properly

[icclemunchy]

I used to wear blue mascara and glittery lipgloss so not sure I get to comment

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I used to wear red MASCARA

[blueskyinmarch]

Electric blue mascara and eyeliner teamed with iridescent pink eyeshadow. God I loved being young in the 80's.

[VodkaValiumLattePlease]

I set my foundation with hourglass ambient powder 😂😂 I love being a disco ball

[BennyTheBall]

I have a 40+ year old colleague who wears High Beam in a big blob on her cheek bones.

She is too old for there to be hope.

[PolaroidsFromTheBeyond]

If you can't make poor makeup choices when you're a teenager, when can you?

I certainly had my fair share of make up disasters. The fuchsia lipstick and purple eyeshadow combo springs to mind!

[shins]

Aw bless. I used to wear so much Siouxsie Sioux style eye make up in the late 80s that a friend helpfully commented I looked like I was wearing glasses.

I spent most of the 90s in BROWN lipstick, what was that about?

[WeekendAway]

I don't know what this high beam stuff is, but I was served in a pub the other day by a young woman who had made a total hash of contouring with some sort of peachy gold coloured shimmery stuff.

She looked like she'd been sprayed gold through a vertical blind. It was most peculiar. I found it really hard to look her in the eye instead of staring at the stripes down the sides of her nose and across her forehead.

[JackandDiane]

can be sparkly but is a highlighter
some kids have it too gold

[CaoNiMao]

Nothing could look worse than my teenage lipstick - black EYELINER used as a lipliner, with a vile bronze lipstick over the top.

shudder

[OliveBranchCollins]

I can beat that black eyeliner used as lipstick. I went through a heavy metal phase and made Marilyn Manson look understated
I was trying to blot out the memory of my Brosette phase

[FrustratedFrugal]

I grew up in the 1980s when blusher stripes were normative. It's back, only we now call it contouring,

Oh and red eye shadow is also experiencing a comeback!

Still, red mascara wins the

[DonkeyOaty]

God YES blusher stripes. Wtf were we thinking!

Brown lip liner then nudey lipstick. Like that one from Neighbours.

[TheSpottedZebra]

I did the brown eye liner on lips, then blended, blended, blended the line into the rimmel hide the blemish that I'd slathered on my lips. And, for some reason we used to like to do this without a mirror. And line our eyes too. Just topping up the brown lines throughout the day.

[rightknockered]

I used to slap on foundation. It wasn't on, unless I could see it Black eyeliner thickly smudged on my eyelids out towards my temples, oh yes. So much mascara my eyelashes almost stuck together.
Finished off with black lipstick
This was 80's
Hair back combed
I was very in awe of Siouxsie Sioux

[crayfish]

Aw I quite like seeing it, it reminds me of some of my own mistakes over the year. There was lots of 90s brown lipstick here too and for a while, when I was a 'bit gothy' as my dad said, I used actual talcum powder to set my foundation.

You do see some shocking 'contouring' though, on women of all ages. I think it's a really emperors new clothes thing to be honest, a brown stripe on your face isn't going to make a doughy face look chiselled all of a sudden. Most of the time it just looks a mess.

[specialsubject]

Exactly. Contouring is no more effective than the idea that a flowery scarf means that too many biscuits won't be.noticed.

But at least a flowery scarf doesn't make you look like a badger going to an eighties disco.

[WeekendAway]

I think contouring only works for stage and photographic work. You aren't supposed to be able to actually see it, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on the girl on the till in Asda.

[ThomasRichard]

I remember begging my mum to buy me blue eyeshadow from the Avon catalogue (she did) and wearing it with white eyeliner on my lower eyelid and glittery cream lipstick.

[Dafadddu]

I remember wearing brown eye shadow...looked like death and i was very thin too which made it worse.

Plus heather shimmer lippy and a blancmange pink lippy from Avon. Yellow capsule and looked like a bullet!