August 12, 2021

What’s That One Makeup Item That Makes You Look As Bad as Rob Zombie Belting Out Living Dead Girl In Concert?

I seen Rob Zombie perform Living Dead Girl in concert several years ago and it was as bad as me wearing pastel eyeshadow. Cringe. Sorry Rob! You’re a God but that day you were anything but for me. He was so off key and it felt like he was just gurgling the lyrics. Wince. Several days ago someone used Living Dead Girl in their Instastories and I was instantly transported back to that concert. Inspiration strikes in the most interesting of places doesn’t it?

That story also reminds me of when I used to line my eyes top and bottom and walked around high school looking like Emily the Strange. You see, when you look like a Margaret Keane painting and you try to pull off sexy goth it just never goes well. Bambi and goth do not actually go together. Needless to say I now avoid wearing black liner on my waterline if I have liner above my eyes and vice versa. I leave that to the experts.

With the new Urban Decay Naked Cyber Eyeshadow Palette running around the Internet this week it got me thinking of what makeup makes me look like a living dead girl and yeah, you guessed it, that award goes to pastels. I just looked washed out and like rigor mortis set in when I wear pastel pinks or purples. I want to love them but they just never work out for me. On the upside, I was under the impression I looked incredible in them a few years ago! I finally realized denial is a river in Egypt a few years ago and purged my entire stash of pastel eyeshadows just so I wasn’t tempted and relapsed into reapplying those bad boys.

What about you?

What’s that one makeup item that makes you look like a living dead girl?

Maybe black eyeshadow?

Or perhaps when you don’t apply concealer under your eyes and your dark circles peep out?

Do share!

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  • kjh

    All you fave browns, esp with winter skin and dark brown or burgundy lips. My eyes are too deep set and everything goes all Charles River mud or exam cram all-nighter. All of those dark or black based multi chromes (gorgeous!) would look like sparkle tar. I know this bec all the Nars �Night� shades look uniformly crappy black. I get no color pop, pun intended. Don�t ask me why grays don�t. I don�t understand. I can wear pastels and do, but not as intensely as they�re being featured now. Hourglass mood light primer apparently gives me the corpse bride look, or so I�ve been told. I just remember that Dead Look is a look, too. And has been since the 70s. Embrace it all. Or wash it off!

    • Isabella Muse

      I think Hourglass Mood Light makes everyone look like a corpse bride lol!!!!!!!!!!!! oh no dark brown doesn’t work for you? Sorry girl! It’s so my shade!

      • kjh

        The only brown palette that ever worked for me was KVD Monarch. Naked 1 was an epic fail. The more I blended, the more punched out I looked. Pretty sure it�s how the brown recedes. Seldom do black either. I need s.t. that brings the eyes forward, and the dark browns just sink them more. On your phenomenal eyes, even shades you dislike would be seen by others as gorgeous on you.

        • Isabella Muse

          Monarch was a great palette! I miss those KVD days! Aw thanks girl!

  • OliveUnicorn

    I don�t have an aversion to pastels but I was sadly disappointed with the UD Cyber palette , I was hoping for Cyberpunk , or science fiction aesthetic , with gunmetal silvers , neons and smokey colors . Sadly they the went a different direction.

  • Lisa

    Black hair, brown eyes, autumn skin, pastels are not a friend of my coloring either.

  • TropicalChrome

    Warm brownish eye shadow, especially with reddish undertones. You know, pretty much every palette released last year?

    Second on the list is a smokey eye, especially with all that undereye liner/shadow stuff. It doesn’t matter how much concealer or highlighter I’m using, I’m still going to look like I’m on day four of a three day bender.

    • Isabella Muse

      awww! I know! Last year and the year before and the year before that haha! SAME girl same! LOL! I could pack on a pound of concealer and I still look like a try hard goth when I pack on black eyeshadow or liner!

  • Agona

    Pastels look garish on me too. Once I realized my complex was a Deep Winter (using the 16 color seasons method), picking out colors became easier for me.

  • MDW

    My eyes are too close set for any eye makeup near my nose. Add to that my horrendous dark circles. So basically concealer to the rescue.

    Also those face tune type filters make me look strange.

  • Deb

    Any eyeshadow with red and/or pink undertones. So basically almost every palette on the market today. Orange blush, OMG. Peach blush makes me look like I have dirt on my face. With my red hair and cool undertones I just can�t wear anything warm toned in makeup. The pickings are slim out there in the makeup world for those of us that fall into this category.

    • Isabella Muse

      Oh no! All the shades I like Deb! I feel like the 80s was such a great time to explore warm tones for red heads. Every see those old ads featuring women with red hair, fair skin, and gorgeous warm, autumn tones on their face?!?!?!

      • Deb

        I have seen those ads. And they were beautiful. Led me down the path of buying those same colors and then trying to figure out why I looked so awful in them. All of the redheads in those ads had warm or neutral undertones. I have cool undertones with a little red and pink. Does not work.

    • Lisa

      Don’t worry Deb, cool tones will be back. The nice thing about companies like NYX, Colourpop, WnW is that they have such a wide variety of colors to play with, there’s bound to be something cool toned you could wear.

  • JoElla

    Hey girl hey

    Nude lips� very pretty on some, me no. I look like I don�t have a mouth. Not a cute look.

    Gotta share this with you, Cranky Pants said �Mom, you have to see this�! Look up Carl Papa on y tube. It�s old, but OMG!! I haven�t laughed that hard in a long, long time.

    Have a wonderful weekend!

    • Isabella Muse

      You’re not alone! I look scary in nudes! It’s all about finding the right one for you! LOL Carl Papa to this day is still solid gold! haha you too dear!

  • Fey

    Taupe matte eye shadow or any icy metallic. I’m a very neutral light with faint warm tones and almost-black ashy hair. (Seasonal color theory – right between dark autumn and winter) . I just can’t pull off those ashy browns or pretty silvers! Naked Cyber would kick my butt, too.

  • Chris

    I had bought the UD eyeliner pencil in Woodstock color. Absolutely not a color for anywhere near my eyes! It would�ve been a great shade for Halloween. I ended up using it as a lip liner.