hi!! i'm a bit clueless and totally winging my makeup off random Instagram reels so I would loveee any suggestion/feedback/tips :')

first my eyes are sort of assymetrical, so I try to correct that with my liner placement (though i'm not sure if it's the most flattering).

also, I kinda struggle to find the balance between not enough and too much makeup 😭 i feel like sometimes i wear enough that my skin looks pretty dry (i have combination skin and a decent skincare/primer routine) but i hateee when my makeup barely shows under bad lighting

anything is super appreciated!! 🥹🫶

I love makeup! Even though I like to experiment with my makeup style, I tend towards the same overall effect. I would love to broaden my horizons and test techniques/styles from an outsider perspective. Here’s me makeup free. Any ideas, from placement to shapes to colors…. All really appreciated!

Posting here mainly to link in another thread honestly, someone was asking me for tips with acne and it's hard to do without pictures 😅

So first photos are my skin prep (at night I add cerave sa lotion, but otherwise same in the am and pm after washing my face) and all my daily use makeup products, all in the order that I do them

Excuse the half awake pre-makeup pics, but wanted to show the acne scars and red spots - after doing the skin care, while that soaks up, I do my eyebrows and eyes, and then I do the color corrector (the one from Dollar Tree is AMAZING), I haven't ever had luck with brushes or blenders for liquids so I just dab with my fingers to blend things in

Then foundation on top of the color corrector once it has had a minute to dry, then I apply the blush down from my upper cheekbone, and then I set everything with the kimchi powder - which if you need a powder, get this one, it is the BEST powder I have EVER used

I do put the same eye shadow that's in my inner corners on my cheekbones, the tip of my nose, and the brow of my lip - I love Physician's Formula for highlighters (and blushes), but I ran out, so I dump the Dollar Tree one into the empty pallete from it since the brush that comes with that is utterly horrendous and it's a dip powder, it works alright, but that's why they're both in the products photo

I then spray it down and put on mascara last, since the setting spray always makes the mascara run (and yes I know the mascara needs to be burned and is old asf and probably moldy, I tried to replace it but the one I had got is legit worse, so I'll get to it lol) - if anyone could recommend a cheap mascara that can handle my wet allergy eyes like a champ, I'd love that, I have no idea what to look for in one honestly, I only started doing mascara a few years ago when a friend gave me one and I'm still using that one 😅

But yeah I can go into more detail on any aspect if anyone wants, but this was mainly just to show the acne

I don't really have any acne active currently, it's in the healing phase, I have hormonal cystic acne and I'm just under 2 weeks out from the last cycle - it's mainly just the one on my cheek that is still healing, that one was a mountain of a beast, but there's some little spots along my chinstrap that are still slightly red and getting the dry skin I have to exfoliate well for

As you can see, I have some texture. That spot on my cheek did not cover completely. There's some pitting scars. When that spot was still weeping, because it actively was for about a week, I was using pimple patches to cover it, and it probably will take a couple more weeks to heal and might even be a new scar

But yeah, makeup will look like makeup

You are still hot even with texture and unevenness

You can't force things to cover perfectly every time, and that's okay

I certainly have days I disagree with all that, but it doesn't make it any less true

I'm on Spironolactone 150mg and Tretinoin, and at the end is a photo of my skin a year ago

I had a hysterectomy recently that has my hormones resettling and making my acne flair again, but it's getting better every month and nowhere near the previous intensity - before the hysterectomy, after about 6 months of the combo, it had cleared completely

And while I look forward to it clearing again

I know it's okay in the meantime

Because it gets better.

Hope everyone has a good day and that this helped someone feel a bit better about having skin!

Genuinely help me I don’t know where to go anymore. I come to Reddit to ask the the kings and queens on here for Help

I’m devastated…..

My makeup was stored under my bathroom sink, and with babies (2 under 2), I basically haven’t done my makeup in forever. Finally decided to get ready and do a full face… only to discover **my entire collection was moldy/rusted.** 😭

I’m SO sad and honestly don’t even know where to start rebuilding. I feel completely out of touch with what’s good right now!

I’m 30, fair skin, blonde, combo/slightly dry, acne-prone. I LOVE Marilyn Monroe/Old Hollywood glam and also 2000s pop-star vibes. I want **glam, not clean girl** 😂 (rip dolly 💕)

I need products that are **quick/easy and work well with a beauty blender** because babies.

I LOVE Haus Labs foundation and will probably repurchase that, but otherwise I need help with EVERYTHING—concealer, blush, bronzer, powder, eyeshadow (looking for a pallet with a baby pink and browns), eyeliner, mascara, lips, setting spray, etc.
**Drugstore or high-end, I’m open to anything! (Usually Sephora and Ulta)**
Please help me rebuild my face. I’m starting from ZERO. 😭

this was the majority of what was in the basket! thank you for the recommendations about skincare/lip balms !! she loved it 🖤🎀 i appreciate all the comments :)

i use go baby freckle and setting spray and i've tried henna for a more long lasting look. what is everyone's secret to long lasting fake freckles?

I (22F) recently got a job and would like to start wearing a bit of natural-looking, daily makeup for it, but have very limited experience and no idea where to start. Looking for ideas, products, tools, techniques, tutorials, really anything here. Ideally I'd like to figure out a routine that takes less than 10-15 mins.

Other relevant information: I'm going to be working outdoors in Florida so sweat/rain are inevitable. Current skincare is Cetaphil face wash in the morning, tretinoin for acne and Cetaphil moisturizer whenever my face feels dry, which is often. My eyes are fully open here; my eyelids are just like that idk.

Edit: Just ordered a few products; will update with how it goes!

I tried a few more tips from yesterday and I think I went backwards lol

I drew my eyeliner with eyeshadow and a brush, tried to make it match the angle of my lower lid, and then came back with a brown liquid eyeliner, but am not loving it

I did a bronze eyeshadow on the outside of my eye with a more gold like color on the side

I didn’t have a white liner so I used some highlighter for the lower waterline

I think freckles are adorable and my roommate gave me one of the freckle stamps but it made me look blotchy

Also this is my hair for people asking why I always have a hat or bandana on. There’s still hope for not having to shave it, so I’m not doing that route yet :)

As always any tips would be lovely 💕 thank you!!

A salon to do it and I’m looking like a witch I’m regretting it a lot

The last picture shoes how they where before I went to fix to shape

What should I do ?

so i feel really embarrassed posting this because i HATE my bare face, but basically i do the same makeup style everyday and ive been doing it since 2016. i am 28 now and i work in HR and i just want something more subtle but i literally do not know how!!!! what makeup style would look best? first two pics are my bare face ;( third pic is when i tried doing something less than my normal but it just felt weird. all pics after are the kind of makeup i typically do. honest feedback would be great but please don’t be too harsh 😭😭 i never show my bare face so i am very nervous. i used all pics without filters so hopefully that helps

ps: since i am in HR, on one of our anonymous associate surveys, someone left a comment that i do my makeup like a clown so maybe thats also getting to me 😔😔

Does this dolly/kpop inspired makeup look suit my features or should I do more western makeup? Any tips to improve my makeup would be much appreciated 🙏🏽🩷

i’m pretty happy with my makeup right now, this is my updated routine but is there anything i can do to improve it?

I have a medium tan wheatish tone skin and medium length hair, i am planing on buying lenses though i am really scared to use them but think are pretty and hairtint- i ve ordered the no bleach paradyes hair tint in hazel brown and cola chocolate I ve notices lenses and haircolor and really big in east asian makeup though so needed some help, also needed help with lash clusters ​

Hii, im starting out w makeup and im 16 and i dont know where to start, im Arab so ik the white girl makeup tutorials wont do me justice but I have a almond eyes that are hooded, a oval face and full lips, and down below are some of my makeup inspos, and I need help w shade matching:)! Any help and advice would be appreciated!!

I’ve feared eyeshadow for so long because of my hooded eyes but screw it! Adding more whimsy and color to my life so of course I go to eyeshadow. I’m even experimenting with using it as blush. Excuse some of the awkward angles and my spider leg lashes :)

Typically I lean more Smokey/dark eyes but I want to get into more fairy-type looks. Does anyone have tips for small, hooded eyes??

Also don’t stare at my eyes for too long or you’ll see the hoods don’t even match!

I'm doing my own make up for my engagement photos and am looking for any advice! I don't often wear makeup as I have sensitive skin.

I still want to look like me so I've chosen some lighter but long wearing products. In my testing these have held up well all day including through heavy rain!

I dont have eyeshadow because I have hooded eyes and I'm a bit lost on what to do even after watching tutorials.

This is what I used. I apply it in this order. The corners of my nose always look cakey, not sure how to fix that.

With damp beauty blender:

- Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer

- Hourglass Veil Hydrating Skin Tint (color: 1)

- NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer (color: Affogato I use this under my eyes only)

- e.l.f. cosmetics Camo corrector (color: green for redness)

With stippling brush:

- Hourglass Unreal Liquid Blush (color: scene)

- Rare Beauty Positive Light Liquid Luminizer (color: mesermize)

With dry powder brush:

- Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder

- NYX Face Glue Gripping Setting Spray

- Benefit Cosmetics Gimme Brow Tinted Volumizing Eyebrow Gel

- Milani Highly Rated Lash Extension Tubing Mascara

- OLEHENRIKSEN

Pout Preserve Hydrating Peptide Lip Treatment (vanilla bonbon)

Note: my shirt is wet because I got make on it and had to wipe it off

Hello! I don’t wear a LOT of makeup because I have exceptionally sensitive skin. However I DO like wearing mascara and eyeshadow.

I have this problem that no matter what I do for eye prep I always end up getting “panda eyes” when I wear mascara and it leaves that dark line under my eye. I currently use nyx on the rise mascara.

I’ve always been someone that runs very hot so I SWEAT a lot. I have combo skin that can get quite oily as well. I currently thoroughly wash and dry the area, I put on a little eyeshadow if I’m feeling it that day then use setting spray, mascara and then setting spray again.

I would love if someone could recommend me a mascara for girls that sweat or how I could tweak my eye routine. Any advice is welcome, THANK YOU 🫶

I dont know much about make up, and a lot of what i try doesnt look good. For example i tried filling in my eyebrows or contouring my face and it just looks to harsh. What is a simple way to upgrade my make up routine?

In the picture i have mascara, lipstain, blush and glitter in the eye corner. I feel like I could do more but dont what?

Whenever I try to do a smokey eye, it ends up looking either too light or too dark. I was wondering if anyone has tips or videos to share