How did you do your make up when you were at school?

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When I was about 13-16 (about 20 years ago now) I used to buy Laura Paige powder from my local chemist (not seen that brand for years) and put loads all over my face. I hadn't discovered liquid foundation so just used the powder I probably used a shade too orange too

I then wore Rimmel lipstick in coffee shimmer or this really pale frosted pink lipstick.

I think I used mascara but that was it.

I scraped my hair back into a pony tail on top of my head, using half a bottle of hairspray and finished off with a scrunchie.

Yes MrsMoasty And the pain if you put it on cracked lips!! GAH!

Always applied in the school toilets

Heather shimmer here too

Electric blue or black mascara lathered on til my eyes stuck together

Max Factor Creme puff, complete with nice orange line at the edge of my chin

Purple eye shadow (think it was Rimmel) that came in a stick like a lipstick. Also lathered on. The lights in the loos were so shit it looked liked you had nowt on, so I just kept swiping til I could see it.. I didn't blend. I must have looked like a youthful Barbara Cartland.

Hair massive and also very crispy with the help of good old Insette. Could easily wade through a whole tin over a day or two

Doused in Le Jardin or Impulse Jeunesse

Everything removed before I went home.

I like to think I cheered up many a teacher with my artfully applied face. How they must have laughed and laughed in the staff room. I echo sleeplessinmybedroom, I am very grateful there was a lack of mobiles way back then.

I remember Lipcote MrsMoasty was it just me or did it sting like a bugger?

badcat glad it wasn't just me! Bloody hell, must be thirty odd years ago yet somewhere in my old brain Lipcote = Pain.

Impulse Vanilla Kisses. My Dad actually banned vanilla based perfumes from the house in about 1999. Also - Copper hair mascara. I remember developing v quickly rivulets of red rain covered redness around my bosom area at around 13 years old, on white schools shirts on the way home from school!!

So many memories. All of the 80s above, quite frankly. I had a friend who would make her own lipstick with vaseline and brown eye shadow. She was so coooooool.

Did anyone else go through a Guerlain stain phase? Fake tan for the face, in liquid form that you put on with cotton wool? It was really expensive and must have looked like we were covered in Ronseal.

Max factor pan stick here too! All over face, with Rimmel bronzer on top - I was tango'ed for my whole teens. Loved a can of impulse and could spend hours in the body shop on a saturday. My aunt gave me a half used tube of este Lauder red lipstick ... It never moved, my lips were permanently stained and it lasted for years. Me and my best friend were stopped daily at the front entrance at school, given blue paper towels and told to remove our make up and roll our skirts down rebel rebel

Complimented by a corkscrew perm, diffused each morning then scrunched hourly with super glue mousse

I didn't wear any to school. I'd have been told to go home and take it off if I had! I remember one girl wearing pink lipstick. I remember her because she was literally the only girl in the entire school who wore make up and everyone knew of her! I don't think I started wearing make up until I was about 22!

I remember wearing Dewberry though and White Musk from the Bodyshop.

No makeup at school. I remember the very first time I wore mascara, eyeliner and lipgloss. I was on holiday, I was stunned at the difference it made.

OMG Rockybird!!! Pacific prawn lipstick !!! That takes me back!!!
How on earth did you remember the name??
I loved mine! Was it Miners? Rimmel?

The essentials:

A curly mullet, poufed to the max with L'Oreal Studio Line products

Glittery pink or white lipstick

Electric blue eye liner and blue mascara (do you remember Arcancil block mascara)

Cakey foundation from a Panstick or a powder compact, slapped on extra thick over any breakouts (which were first covered with Clearasil)

A badger stripe of blusher
(no brushes needed, I used the applicator in the package)

Sorry I meant frosty pink lipstick

Eyeliner (all sorts of colours)
Concealer - Rimmel to start with, then Boots No 7 brought out a concealer shade 'extra fair' which saved my life
Twilight teaser lipstick (which looked awful, but I loved it) before I discovered Bonbon, a more subtle colour.

But they were the days when we wore make up for fun, not because I looked like I'd been exhumed without it. Sometimes I wish I'd never started, as it's now 'life support'!

Well, reminded by Rockybird.. I started with Pink Prawn which was insipid and corpse like and stayed on for about five seconds. (this was fine for school as bright colours weren't allowed and I was 13 or 14)
I was totally clueless. I started out with clear nail varnish, as that was all I was allowed, it looked very attractive on my bitten down stumps.
I was given my first eye palette.. all blues apart from one beige for highlighting although I didn't realise that at times. The beige was dismissed my me and my friends as boring and 'what weirdos would wear brown?'...
I combined this with electric blue or purple mascara (black or brown mascara was for weirdos)

I got very little pocket money so it had to be as cheap as possible. It was all Miners or Constance Carroll from the market.. maybe the odd Rimmel and Seventeen (I still wear some items from Seventeen..it's massively improved)...and Medicare's own brand (they would do their own mini eyepallettes for only 39p!!) and some cheap sold in Woolies brands. I do actually have my teen diaries and mini CC eyeliners were 39p! The market also sold eyeliners as long as a ruler. We only ever wore super smudgy blue and only on inner waterline… never did top lash line see any eyeliner.
I had rosecea and no idea how to cover it up so I just left it. My rosy cheeks really clashed with the colours fighting it out on my eyes. Most foundations looked orange to me so I decided not to bother for years.
I got a face powder from Woolies, loose orange in a huge tub. I didn't have a clue so I sprinkled some on a wet cotton wool pad and applied it that way. Good look! Oompah Loompah AND streaky!
I had a shiny nose so layered on Witchstick until my nose took on a green hue (and was still shiny) now I know why I didn't have a proper boyfriend until I was 19 I didn't have big sisters to show me and my mum never wore makeup! My friends were as clueless as I was.,,
Finally at age 17 I discovered a decent non orange foundation and how to apply it. It was BWC (Beauty Without Cruelty) from health food shops, Holland & Barratt used to stock it..came in a little glass jar... in the 80s they were also the only place to stock Barry M, which was considered a 'cult' brand.. I then discovered loose powder on top of the foundation, and thus my redness was concealed and finally boys started noticing me
At school we all progressed from Pink Prawn to Twilight Teaser and then onto a highly frosted iridescent lipgloss (the first I'd seen that wasn't roll on and had a doe's foot applicator I think) I forget the name of but every girl in my year had it. Mauve ish and the worst thing ever for showing off chapped lips. Our hair stuck to it too. We thought we were gorgeous. There was no idea of skin tone and what would suit whom..in my year it we all wore the fashionable colours of the time whether we looked shit or not
Constance Carroll did a pearlised blue nail varnish that was especially popular.. I still crave it sometimes!

Sometimes at Christmas we'd push the boat out and ask for an M&S eye pallette (they came in tins). It was always pink & purples. On year a girl in my class received the brown palette! Well we dismissed her as a freak. In time we realised it actually did look good on her and so did the odd experimenting (in private of course!) with the boring browns!
Which meant by the late 80s I had actually progressed to browns, oranges, bronzes which totally suited my colouring. It's only recent years I've tried mauves again..which do suit me too and I actually know how to apply them this time around.

wow that was long but it's been so fun reminiscing!

(I mean Pacific Prawn of course, not Pink Prawn)

Body Shop makeup also got a look in in late 80s but it was a pain in the bum to have to get on the bus to Watford to go there….our town was BS free.. we had to weigh it up..was the bus fare worth the price of the single eyeliner as that was all we could afford to replace ?!

Ah..I had flawless skin then :( No foundation. Just eyeliner, mascara and from time to time eyeshadow and a bit of blush. Tbh, i didn't wear that to school. I wore nothing. I wore it when i left school or was going to a disco or something or out with a friend. My mum wouldnt have allowed me to go to school with it on.

Oh good grief, Guerlain stain!! I think I still have some hidden away in the wardrobe. Might apply it to the new garden fence before the bad weather sets in.

French cleansing milk is still brilliant, I still use it when I can find it.
Make up from woollies, Rimmel pale biscuit foundation, no blusher, as pp said, I didn't use it until my 20s either, lots of black eyeliner & blue mascara , Heather Shimmer lipstick, Charlie perfume or Anais, Anais. Any time I smell that now it transports me back to that time.

ohhh Rimmel pale biscuit foundation... god how could I forget that!!!

Wore that for years after Miss Selfridge closed down in town when I was about 15!! Used to slaver it on in the thought that more was better LOL!

Max Factor foundation, the one with the sponge. It was so expensive on pocket money so one compact had to last at least 6 months.

Mum's mascara.

Horrible shimmery eyeshadows from 17 or Barry M or wherever was cheapest.

Horrible shimmery nail varnish (permanently chipped) from Barry M.

Heather shimmer lipstick from Rimmel.

Hadn't heard of blusher and couldn't get the hang of eyeliner. No concealer needed thanks to the Max Factor panstick (and I had perfect blemish free skin throughout the teenage years...now lots of wrinkles at 39 as no oil lurking in the epidermis to hold them off).

Impulse body sprays and then cKone.

Oh god - it was awful! Cheap stuff from the market (heather shimmer, Constance Carroll etc), foundation that was either orange or really white, Dodgy eyebrows (am thankful now that I found it too painful to properly pluck them into skinny brows a la Gwen stefani which were the height of fashion), hair mascara (would sometimes curl bits of my hair and then make the curls blue ), and once I started going out to pubs and clubs, glitter. Lots of glitter. in sprays, gels, lotions, powders... I also seem to remember having a silver mascara- because that was a good look! Kids these days look amazing! apart from the brows and contouring

1980s - powder foundation, cream blusher set with highlighter and shade (early contouring), blue mascara and pink shimmer lipstick (Rommel).

I also wore blue eyeliner and purple eyeshadow.

There was a trend for bright orange eyeshadow in the late 1980s. I remember my hideous eye makeup...

Rimmel