Beauty Things I Suck At

Hello, everyone! 

Okay, so you might be wondering why you would visit a self-proclaimed "beauty blog" only to find that the person behind the keyboard is actually not a perfect, all knowing makeup artist.  Well, believe it or not, but I'm not perfect.  I'm a regular, every day normal gal just like you ;)

There are many things beauty related that I am BOMB at, if I do say so myself.  For instance, my eyebrows have been known to bring me tears of joy on occasion, and my cat eyes are so sharp that they won’t let them through airport security.  Just kidding, but you get the idea.

So, let’s get to talking about five things I’m less than stellar at.  Enjoy!

1.     Let me come clean here.  I skip a LOT of steps when it comes to my face makeup.  While I am well aware that primers, concealers, and setting sprays are a thing, home girl just doesn’t have time for that! 

2.     I am an oily skinned girl, so it would make sense that baking my face is a part of my everyday life.  Well…nope.  I won’t lie and tell you that I haven’t tried to cake on some setting powder like a boss, because I most definitely have, but it just does not work for me!  I have tried using a damp beauty blender, I’ve tried using brushes, and even powder puffs… it just doesn’t work for me.  How truly sad. 

3.     If I had a magic genie, one of my wishes would be to have perfect eyelashes (okay, maybe not, but for the sake of this post let’s just pretend).  I am absolute rubbish at applying falsies.  I think I’ve successfully done it maybe three times in my life.  I understand that you need to wait until your glue is ALMOST dry, but not quite, but what I can’t master is the actual positioning of the eyelashes.  They’re either pointed in completely opposite directions, or the gap between the falsies and my actual eyelashes is absolutely huge! 

4.     I would love to be the kind of person who can contour my face so well that I look like a different person, or at the very least ten pounds slimmer.  Whenever I try to contour my face I just look a little dirty… or like a five-year-old who got into her mom’s bronzer.

5.     Finally, I also suck at taking off my makeup.  While some people are into wipes, and eye makeup remover, and a whole ten step process to take their faces off, guess what I’m into… ivory soap.  I’m actually laughing at myself while I type this, but that pretty much sums up my nighttime regime.  Good old’ ivory soap.  I am probably stripping my skin of all of its moisture, but it works for me.