While the cat’s away in Santa Fe, the guest bloggers will play. First up: Nicolle Westlund, a witty freelance writer/editor, who spends her free time musing about relationships at her blog, Reactionary Century. This not Nicolle:
Face it: We’ve all made beauty faux pas. Mine were captured on camera at senior prom. No one’s perfect, but with few basic beauty ground rules—and a little common sense—we can all avoid future mishaps.
1. Don’t wear a fake hairpiece.
Unless you’re under the age of nine or can afford to pony up $1500 for extensions, fake hair will just make you look, well, fake.
2. Don’t abuse self-tanner.
With all the lotions and potions we have at our fingertips, it’s inevitable that someone is going to come out orange. I’m all for avoiding sun damage, but please don’t try to go from Twilight pale to bronzed babe in two days flat. You’ll look like a carrot, not a California girl.
3. Don’t wear pigtails.
I don’t care if they’re “in”—pigtails make you look like a six-year-old. Try a single side braid instead. It’s chic and it doesn’t require that you to carry around you blankie.
4. Don’t go bananas with black eyeliner.
The term “raccoon eyes” may apply to you if you’re rimming your eyes with heavy black liner. Not only are you washing out the rest of your lovely features, but giving people the impression that you moonlight as a shot girl.
5. Don’t wear glitter.
If you’re in a cabaret or Cirque de Soleil or it’s Halloween—fine. You can get away with facial applique. If not, you have no excuse to stick anything sparkly on your face. EVER.
What’s the biggest beauty blunder you ever made? Out with it!
Filed Under: beauty blunders, black eyeliner, fake hair, glitter, pigtails, racoon eyes, self-tanner
Aw, my beloved pig-tails are a don’t??? Sadness! Agree with the other four, though.
One of my biggest beauty faux-pas was an at-home hair dye disaster. I was 13 and had convinced my dad to take me on a Walgreen’s shopping spree (something my mom wouldn’t ever allow). I nonchalantly threw in some ash blonde dye into the basket telling my dad breezily “I need this. Mom said it’s fine.”
I woke up early the next morning and dyed it while my mom slept. When I woke her up to say goodbye before going to school, she asked what I had done to my hair and if it was that way for my presentation on Louisa May Alcott. BECAUSE IT WAS GREY! Anyway, my punishment for being such a sneaky little brat was to leave it in for a month, only to be fixed right before my middle school’s dance. Lessons learned: You’ll never be able to trick your mom. Ash blonde = no good.
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THANK YOU for these! Especially the eyeliner tip.
My generation (we teenagers of the 80′s) can’t seem to stop with our fascination with black eyeliner, all around the eyes. Stop.
The liner is drawing attention to the lines around your eyes.
No more liner OR mascara on bottom lashes. Dress up the top lashes all the day long. Liner, volumizing mascara, false eyelashes, whatever does it for you.
It’s gonna take years off. I promise.
Bex, your are so right – mascara and liner on lower lashes makes me look so tired. A few falsies in the upper corner are life changing! And I love how a fat line of gel liner lifts your entire face.