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 love make-up and I love seeing women done up. I don't care if yours looks fabulous or shite - I love looking anyway and I know you didn't deliberately make a boo-boo.

Take heart - we're not all finding you unworthy - some of us wish we had the time/will to put a bit on - even badly!

Flowthrougit. I'm rushing to copy it now 🤣🤣

@Eliza9917 presumably the trend for colouring your hair grey, try googling "grey hair trend". I have seen this in real life at the checkout and I think it's one of those things that looks better on celebrities. The girl I saw looked pretty, but just like her hair had already gone grey (until you got a closer look).

@Ravenmum Ahh ok, I was thinking of foundation. The hair can look good, but prob not for most mere mortals, like you say.

@crabbyoldbat She's hilarious! Thank you for posting the link

You're welcome

yes indeed thanks to @crabbyoldbat I've got very little done this afternoon

I think the grey started after the frozen film. Elsa has grey/silver hair.

What's this thing of putting a shiny circle on the end of your nose? It just looks weird.

@JaneJeffer social media is weird full stop . You made me laugh with that comment .

Nothing to do with Frozen, the grey hair - Kelly Osbourne had hers dyed grey at least a year prior to Frozen being released. Plus I'm pretty sure Elsa's hair is arctic blonde, not grey!

checks foundation
mine never really looks like i'm wearing any, anyone have a recommendation for one that gives the skin a smooth poreless look?

@ineedwine99 I would suggest using Benefit Porefessional primer before you apply your foundations. works wonders for me with my pothole sized pores.

I was always told it's "Girl Code" to let someone know if they have lippy on their teeth or it's smudged. A customer I told was extremely annoyed with me even though she immediately sorted it out. I said ti my colleague "Why didn't her friends tell her?" She said because of the reaction you just got. I think I would want to know if my foundation needed blending but would hope a friend would tell me.rather than random person on school run.

Thanks @soupforbrains will check out the Benefit counter

Crabbyoldbat - She is hilarious! 😂

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.

I learned that the hard way, but with a concealer. Always check night out make up using phone camera and flash before going out!

Turned out this concealer reflected the camera flash so in every photo I have weird bright spots on my face.

Ooo I used to work with someone like this. It was always absolutely immaculately applied, with an incredibly even orange line about a cm away from her cheek and jawline. It was kind of fascinating because to get it so evenly spaced she had to have been really concentrating. Just not on the colour apparently.

Some women, using modern make-up trends "laid on with a trowel" just end up looking like Hiawatha on a raiding party...…...

@OrganisingChaos

when I got to work my manager would say 'oh bloody hell come here!' And start blending my foundation for me!

What, with her hands? The same ones that had touched her keyboard and desk and God knows what else? (not envy)

ineedwine99 Estée Lauder double wear is the Tom hardy of foundations

Loved reading all these by the way!

All make up is bad make up...

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??!

Setting your brows makes me think about putting tiny curlers in them.

I also have full natural brows and do nothing to them other than the occasional threading to keep them tidy. I never got into plucking them really thin even when it was fashionable, I was so uncool.

This is why I always apply make up in daylight never artifical,I'm well known in my friendship group as the one who puts her make up on for a night out at 3.30pm in winter .