When bad makeup happens to good people

[Smoresleepplease]

Would you want to be told if you’re makeup looked awful??
Saw one of the teaching assistants this morning on the school run, walking along with a friend/colleague. She’s quite young(26 perhaps) and her foundation looked shocking. Wrong colour and no blending whatsoever. Just a tide-mark of orange about 2cm from the edge of her face. If I was said friend/colleague, maybe I’d have kindly said something along the lines of ‘Oo, do this(and gestured on my own face a ‘blending’ motion)’.
Would that BU?
Would you want to be told?

I told my colleague she had drawn her eyebrows on too high. She looked surprised.

My xsil and her adult daughters. They have obviously copied their mum ( think Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally), but when my exh said I could take a few tips from her I nearly chocked on my tea!
The '70's are calling and want her back 

Even if I was rude enough to tell strangers their makeup looks like shit, I just don't have enough time in my day to do so. It's pretty much every other woman where we live that has poorly applied their makeup.

Also they can't blend away their orange sunless tanned skin.

Oh yes, 15 yr olds, or in my case 17 yr old, know everything about make, clothes, perfume, just about everything really 🤣

Also the other day I was seeing DD into school and started going "Oh no! What's that on your cheek! Is it a scratch! Is your cheek OK!!!???" as her class went in... then I realised it was my lippy from the hug I'd just given her . I'm a bit of a liability with make-up.

@mydogmymate

"My xsil and her adult daughters. They have obviously copied their mum ( think Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally), but when my exh said I could take a few tips from her"

In all fairness I can see where he's coming from.

@Isleepinahedgefund Wed 17-Oct-18 12:01:28
*I also hate the grey look the young girls seem to go for, but they think they look nice so hey ho. Same with those dreadful "Instagram" brows nooooooo so scary!!!@

What's the grey look?

I would like my friends to tell me... Fancy having a stranger noticing and starting a post on MNet about you lol

No seriously, if it were one of my best friends I would have to just say " oh think you missed a bit of blending around your jawline" and say it every time I saw her and she needed it blending in. But I am very honest with my mates and visa versa, your not really best mates I don't think if you can't be honest with each other. So I think it depends on how close you are.

I know this is a bit off-topic but I'm totally rubbish at make-up and hardly wear any. This thread has made me worry even more than when I do attempt it, I'm probably getting it wrong. Can anyone recommend any good make-up tutorials please?

I'm rubbish at makeup too and went into major panic mode when I remembered that I was going to have to do my makeup for my sister's wedding (I was MoH) - after combing YouTube for some simple makeup tutorials, I found The Makeup Chair to be good - plenty of videos and easy to follow!

My rule is don't tell anyone anything they can't change in 5 minutes. Toothpaste on their chin, tell them. Skirt tucked into knickers, tell them. Horrible black teeth? Don't bother pointing that out to them. So bad makeup, yep I think tell them as it's easily fixed.

@spanishwife

Thank you! In fact I'm sure Lisa Eldridge is the one I've seen recommended before, but I couldn't remember her name.

I looked her up and she is in fact 52!
She does indeed look amazing - and natural is definitely the sort of look I prefer. I'm off now to learn how she does it.

Angry birds eyebrows 😂

I'm not against thick darker eyebrows, but some have been taken too far!

I’m a no make-up woman.

When I see obvious make-up it makes me giggle. Weddings are the worst. I can’t help staring at slug eyebrows and those fake nail things. I wouldn’t even know how to comment on someone’s make up so I wouldn’t try.

I wouldn't want to be told as it would embarrass me.

Maybe the lady you are talking about likes her make up like that as no doubt one of her close friends has probably already pointed it out & she's continuing to do her make up like that.

I take pride in my make up & was infuriated when my MIL pointed out my mascara on my bottom lashes looked abit clumpy. I thought fucking hell have you nothing better to do than scrutinise my eye lashes. Like I'm not self conscious enough 😠

Would I ever approach a relative stranger and basically tell them what they're doing 'wrong' with their makeup? Hell no! It's none of my business. It would be extremely rude. It would likely ruin the poor person's day. It could potentially shatter their confidence. Please don't, OP.

I wouldn’t say anything. There’s an assistant in the pharmacy I go to who is bright Orange with huge black crayoned on eyebrows, contour lines like go-faster stripes at each side of her nose and black eyeliner that goes right round her eyes. She’s looks like she’s about to film a ‘how not to apply make-up) video. She must think it looks good though so we probably just have vastly different ideas re make up application.

I recently had my makeup done by the girls at the counter of a make up brand I love. for the most part it was fine, because I know the style of the brand and that's why I like them.

I have naturally heavy thick eyebrows and had to look up what the phrase 'on fleek' meant because people had started telling me that my 'eyebrows are on fleek'. I don't therefore do anything to my eyebrows other than general tweezing to get rid of outliers etc.

the girls doing my face used an eyeshadow to 'even out my brows' which actually looked natural and fine (not like the painted on brows you see) but THEN

THEN they asked "Do you usually set your brows?" and proceeded to use a mascara brush covered in 90s style wet look hair gel/glue to 'set' my eyebrows. resulting in a sort of plastic coasted borw effect with associated sensation of stiffness/cracklyness.

why? WHY in god's name do you need to 'set your brows' it's not like I go out in the wind and they're flapping all over my face getting all unruly??!

Its the same with the green tinted base layer that some women use. It is so easy to apply but I have a number of friends who post images of themselves on social media following a night out and their faces have a distinct green hue.

How do people not see it when viewing their own photos?

*plastic coated brow effect

also apologies for the humblebrag about my brows.

You're probably assuming that everyone wants to look 'classy' and 'natural'. That's not the case.

I don't think everyone wants to looks classy and natural but I can't imagine anyone would purposely go out with foundation not blended in or blobs of blusher on their cheeks.

Some very funny replies 😂 this girl literally just had foundation on. No brows, blusher, etc. So just this uneven, unblended ‘pat’ on her face. Poor girl. As I said, I really don’t know her well enough to say anything. But I’d hope that someone closer to her would/will during the day

These threads always turn into really nasty sneery comments that seem to take glee in how ‘ridiculous’ other women choose to look.

Anyone who has one of these ‘hilarious’ (snide) anecdotes want to post a photo of their makeup today?

Chances are she quite likes it (unless she left the house after avoiding mirrors!) so I don’t think I’d say anything as it might upset her. I might say something to a close friend but otherwise avoid it.

WHY in god's name do you need to 'set your brows' it's not like I go out in the wind and they're flapping all over my face getting all unruly??!

😂😂