March 24, 2015

Beauty Mishaps

Beauty Mishaps

I had an early morning tea and cronut session with my best friend this morning. People, my life is so complicated right now, I needed that cronut today, don’t judge 🙂 I had no guilt as I inhaled it delicately nibbled on it.

I was rushing a little this morning and I kinda did one of those quick slap on the lipstick application things and headed quickly out the door. A 5 block walk later had me sliding into a booth and sitting down for that most delicious cronut and my friend grinning at me rather hugely. It was one of those smirky “I know a secret smiles”. So I did a little shifty eye look at him and was like, “What?! What happened?” And he sat there silently shaking his head. I had to look behind me because I thought for sure Ed McMahon was behind me with the Publisher’s Clearing House check.

So I pressed him with another, “WHAT!?” Until he revealed to me I had lipstick on my chin but it was ok because it looked cute. Yeah because lipstick on my chin is super glamorous!

Ah the life of a makeup junkie that sometimes has beauty mishaps that are terribly awkward and embarrassing! I remember as a teen reading YM Magazine and the “Say Anything” column was one of my favorite but many of the stories totally rung untrue! But as I got older I realized that some of this stuff could totally happen! I’d totally be the girl in some of those Say Anything scenarios!

I also remember some very, very interesting beauty mishaps like a reader who told me she curled her lashes, squeezed too tight, and ended up slicing some of them off! Dude!

If you’re a makeup and beauty lover you’re bound to have some mishap in your life be it funny or just down right scary.

What are some of your mishaps?

Do share them!

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  • Karen

    Just had one this morning. I was rushing to get out the door and was trying to multitask so I had my Anastasia clear brow gel and Benefit They’re Real mascara in one hand and accidentally swept the black mascara through one of my brows ( it could happen, they’re both in silverish tubes, right?) At least I’m a brunette but that one super black brow was quite a sight! I was torn between doing the other brow with the mascara and saying the heck with it or taking the time to fix my jet black brow. I opted for the fix because I didn’t need flaking brows later today!

  • Jessica V.

    I’ve totally had makeup mishaps! The other day I went to the grocery store with my husband, and as we were checking out he asked me if I meant for my lipstick to look like it did…turns out it had smeared outside of my lip line, making me look like the joker!

  • Robin

    I received samples of Laura Mercier’s eye base in wheat. When I applied it, it didn’t feel the same, but I was in a rush and just added liner and mascara and I off go to work. When I finally looked in the bathroom mirror at work, I realized I had mistakenly used my nude lipgloss (with sparkles) as the eye base not the Laura Mercier product! :0 It didn’t stand out too bad, but when I told one of the guys I work with, he almost choked on his drink! At least I gave him a good laugh! 🙂

  • JJ24

    Two days ago I put my mascara on before my liner and about a week ago my lipstick ended up on my teeth. My biggest mistake was when I was a teenager and I way over applied bronzer.

  • Karen

    I applied white eyelash primer and started doing something else while it was drying and ended up leaving the house without ever applying my mascara! Yup, I walked around all day with white eyelashes! Not my best look…

    • Heather F.

      (This is totally off topic Karen, but I just wanted to let you know that I as was scrolling down I was struck by how pretty your hair is!)

  • Danadoo

    The worst is is when i’m casually going about my day, only to find that my fierce tightlining has turned into black tear duct boogers when i get the chance to check myself in a mirror. Such a cute look!

    • Maggie

      ME too! After that lesson, I only tightline for photos now–or when I know I’m doing frequent touch-ups.

  • indayluvs

    My biggest beauty mishap lasted nearly an entire year! I had recently discovered MAC as well as doing a full face of makeup and then coincidentally moved to the Philippines. I wore that full face makeup, complete with super dark Cyber lipstick for, like, 9 months, in +100 degree heat and 100% humidity!! Oh the horror that I faced in the mirror at the end of the day LOL

  • Anna Fantasia

    So two weeks ago, I visited my first Burberry stand alone store in San Francisco. I’m loving on their eye shadows and wanted to swatch them in person. Of course I’m on cold meds, and of course, I’m trying to look totally chic- like yea, I totally buy $12,000 hand bags like all the time! and I guess I must have been doing alright as they asked if I wanted tea. Impressed, I said sure. They brought me a tray with the most beautiful porcelain tea cup, hot water and a choice of teas… and just set it on the case of their wallet display 😯 ! Well, I was so darned amazed by how the “High end” gals live, I walked over to their spring collection and proceeded to buff what I though was finishing power over my entire face. Later in the day (at a scenic spot on the Golden Gate) I was looking at a selfie I just took. I wondered, why do I look so ashy and dark? It was contouring powder. Absolutely no one said a word.

  • Dee

    I always put my mascara on in this order: upper right lash, lower right lash, left lower lash. Then I put the wand back in the tube and apply the upper left lash. No clue how or why I do it this way….I just do. Except one day I rushed and forgot to put mascara on my upper left lash and went all day that way. It wasn’t a super obvious mistake but one that I could tell people were thinking “something’s not right but I can’t figure out what it is.”

  • Katherine T.

    I have oily lids, so if I don’t prep very carefully in the morning while doing a smoky eye, I’ll end up with panda eyes by noon. And that rocker-girl eye look doesn’t quite jibe with an office work environment. I’ll spend the rest of the day swiping Q tips under my eyes!

  • Heather F.

    One time I was getting ready for a first date and the guy texted me to let me know he’d arrived at my apartment door. (Because knocking is so 2008, I guess? I don’t know.) I was still be-robéd and texted him to say so. Well, I’d been in the middle of doing some pretty fierce cat liner, but the texting and subsequent rush to put on actual clothes made me forget that I wasn’t finished… Suffice it to say that we had a multicourse dinner and lengthy face-to-face conversation with bold liner on only one eye. 🙂 He was a stylish guy (like, wore cufflinks every day–who does that?), so he’d definitely noticed but was just too nice to say anything. I didn’t realize until I saw my reflection in the car mirror on my way home. We both had a good laugh about it! (And a second date, despite the mishap.)

    • Isabella Muse

      haha heather TOO cute 🙂 I’m actually kinda sorta seeing one of those guys myself right now. All pristine shirts and slacks, that boy doesn’t have a wrinkle on him, apparently his shirts are all no iron but it looks to me like he just purchased a new shirt every single time I’ve seen him…I’d be just the type to meet him with eyeliner on one eye and none on the other *head desk* haha! because that’s SO a dorky thing I’d do.

  • Maggie

    That eyelash-slicing thing? TOTALLY HAPPENED TO ME! Ugh, it was that Urban Decay revolutionary monstrous-looking curler. I didn’t know curlers could do that until then.

      • joan

        I posted that on one of your posts or giveaways not too long ago haha I totally did that. Thank god it didnt break off all of them, thats why I’m always looking for a great mascara!!! 🙂

  • Serena

    OMG ! I took public transit to work and worked with people all day and wondered why they were giving me strange looks and girls laughed at me. When I got home and looked at myself I had GREEN eye liner on my brows. When I was getting ready in a hurry it looked like my brown liner but nope I was in a hurry too much to notice.
    I have too many to mention. I wonder how I get through life sometimes with my mishaps, honestly.
    You know what’s weird? I have been reading your blog for years and never commented just enjoyed the great blog you have and never introduced myself.
    I’m not new here and I love your blog and I’m an impossibly obsessed makeup and skincare junky ! Oh and I love yah girl !

    • Isabella Muse

      LOL serena oh no girl 🙂 AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW THANK YOU! xoxoxoxoxo! love ya back 🙂 thanks for sharing your story made me laugh this morning! I so needed a laugh 🙂

  • Cindy

    I am a goth girl.On weekends I wear my UD Perversion on my lips. On weekdays I switch to the Naked lippencil for work. On a certain morning I was so sleepy that I used Perversion on a weekday. That didn’t go well on the bus. The people I work with were always asking for my weekend look and at least they were happy to finally see it in person.

  • Bonnie S.

    A thousand years or so ago, when I was in high school, there was an early version of what we now know as hair chalk. Well, I streaked some vibrant orange into my hair because I was very into all kinds of makeup, hair care and more “out there” looks. So as I’m walking to school it starts to rain a bit – and I don’t have an umbrella but I’m not bothered much because it’s not too bad, and anyways, what nice looks I’m getting from passersby – everyone is digging my new cool orange-striped hair!

    I get to school, open my locker, check the mirror, and realize that hair chalk RUNS and my forehead, cheeks and neck are orange. Of course this is the time before makeup wipes so I think I spent a good long time in the bathroom scrubbing down with paper towels. I see hair chalk all the time now in the beauty stores, and I don’t give in!

  • Ryou

    Well, there was one time I decided I’d cut my own hair short… We don’t speak of that period anymore around here.

    • Isabella Muse

      hahaha! I’ve never technically cut my own hair but I’ve had a period or two where I’ve WANTED to just chop it off!

      • Ryou

        Nowadays I still cut my own hair, but I’m no longer scissor-happy. I just cut my bangs every month and trim split ends usually.

        It’s one thing to chop off all your hair, but I’ve had a hairdresser thin out my hair SO much, I ended up having to chop it all off anyway. 🙁

  • Iris

    I used to wear black lipstick when I was in high school and uni. My parents hated it, so I’d try to scrape the black lipstick off and replace it with red or another colour. Thing is I rarely was able to get all the black off before putting on the other colour. I looked like a hot mess. I eventually opted for red being the most extreme when I started my career.

  • Wendy Reinemann

    Rushed for work, I used my brown eye liner as a lip liner. Never looked until about 10am in the mirror. I was so annoyed not one person mentioned I might want to take a look at myself. We laughed a ton afterward. Good thing I can laugh at myself. It looked terrible, but certainly lasted a long time!

  • Leona

    I’ve definitely had some mishaps! There have been a few times putting mascara on in a rush that I ended up getting a considerable dot on my eye lid or where the wing from liner would be. My coworkers told me they had originally thought I was trying to be trendy and create a new makeup fad LOL Also, when I get ready I clip my bangs out of my face with some silly clips, and there have been multiple times that I’ve left the house without removing them 🙂 Oh goodness!