What's the Worst Makeup Advice Anyone's Ever Given You?

While it's not a makeup tip, per se, my best girlfriend at the age of 13 told me "You should always wait until you get goosebumps in the shower to shave your legs... it makes the hairs stand out more, so you'll have a closer shave!":.... wow. THAT turned out pretty badly. And the stupid part was for the next few years, I continued to try toi do that, thinking maybe I was dfoing something wrong! EPIC FAIL!

that sounds painful Spiderlove :/
This piece of advice wasn't given to me....but I've seen people doing it and it kills me: curling your eyelashes after applying mascara.

Horrifying advice given to me: When I was in my early 20's I was ready to try foundation---so my friend told me she would help me pick some out----she picked out a porcelain shade that I wore for years because no one told me that as a medium with golden undertones I looked like I had a kabuki mask.

I had someone at a makeup counter tell me that the best shade of blush for my skintone is golden, peach color and she applied it. I was new to makeup so I didn't stop her, but when I saw the result I felt embarrassed. It clashed so much.

By the way, I have pale skin with pink undertone.

I let a 'friend' do my makeup once and she put blue eyeshadow from my lashes to my brows! She said, "This is how Mimi (from the Drew Carey Show) does it!" Then she got offended when I washed it off.

It would have to be the "perfect" red lipstick that the person at the makeup counter picked out for me...I wore it all day... it made me look green.

Nude lips.. maybe I took it too literally when I was 13, but I put foundation on my lips ! It looked like I had no lips !

The worst makeup advice I ever got was back when I first started wearing makeup, and I read that you should put concealer on BEFORE your other makeup. Well, that would be great, except it all just gets rubbed off once you put foundation/powder on! Also, back then it was "cool" to wear dark lipliner around the outline of your mouth, with nothing else to fill it in. EW!!!

I remember reading somewhere that a tiny bit of blue eyeshadow on your lips makes your teeth look whiter. Umm, no, they actually made mine look green. I'll reserve that for Halloween parties or something. I think that one only works for people with pink undertones...

Any advice from the MAC counter! bahaha. One assistant literally PAINTED my face in yellowy foundation, it looked like a mud mask and she swore it was my shade and that I should buy it before it sells out. Gave them a second chance with lipstick and got the same crap.

"Pull on your eye to make eyeliner application easier." Um, when I started wearing makeup at the age of thirteen those were the 'wise' words a youtube guru told me. I would be very pleased to see her wrinkles in about five years.

"It looks like she's going to need some makeup." That was said about me to my mother by my uncles wife. I was an infant.

I have really dark under-eye circles but also have rosacea which makes my cheeks very red. A few makeup counter workers have tried to correct my under-eye issues with really light concealer which made me look like a clown - large white circles around my eyes, bright red cheeks! ... and then always wonder why I'm not dying to buy the product they just showed me

LOL Epic Fail- gotta love that term!

A few months ago, a woman at a Bobbi Brown counter tried to give me the hard sell on a very, very pink-based concealer. My skin has a LOT of yellow in it.

Mmm, my friend who's my age (I'm 13) decided she was going to show me how to put on makeup. First, she took blue eyeshadow and mixed some water into it because "that's how they did it in the 80's" and it supposedly made it stronger. Ohhh, it made it stronger alright. AND clumpy. (she put this allllll over my eyes, going up past my lids) And next, she drowned me in dark blue eyeliner. I have very pale skin, and after looking in the mirror I burst out laughing. I looked like a total freak, but she insisted my boyfriend would like it. I wiped it off.

someone once told me to use a lighter shade of foundation to look fairer! BS

Mines not really makeup but one time my friend tried to lighten my hair and it turned my dark dark brown hair white and the ends turned orange. My scalp burned for days too. Nw i have to keep dyin my hair every few weeks to keep the orange out!

Lining my waterline. It makes my eyes look tiny.

I am very fair with pink undertones. Worst make-up advice: Deep copper-colored blush. This was from a MaryKay lady. Yikes! She also paired this with cranberry eyeshadow. Erg. I had red eyes with orange racing stripes on each cheek.

Once I went to the Benefit counter at the mall and got done over. I am naturally blonde and very fair. She colored in my eyebrows a dark brown and covered my face in shimmery bronzer followed by a pale pink frosty gloss. My mom didn't even recognize me! It was horrible, I went home and scrubbed it all off, absolutely didn't look like myself at all!

To heat your eyelash curler with your blow-dryer before you curl your lashes. I'm so clumsy I ended up burning my skin.

Someone told me I should stencil in my eyebrows. I did one time before I went out and I looked like Groucho Marx. Thank God for face wash.

i pretty much had to teach myself how to apply makeup (my mom only knew how to apply stage makeup - SO not appropriate for a 17-yr old)...but that's also a good thing, because i only used "trusted" internet sources, haha.
i DID have a friend in middle school who had to visit a doctor who reprimanded her for wearing eyeliner on her waterline every day...it gave her an infection and the whites of her eyes were pink for weeks!

Hemlyn- same here! I just tried that blue-on-the-lips thing and my teeth looked gray. I washed it off immediately haha

Also, the pulling on the lid to apply liquid eyeliner. Maybe it works for some, but it just ends badly for me. I apply just fine with my lid in normal shape, I don't need to stretch it out to get a straight line. I don't know why I tried to fix what wasn't broken when I attempted that one.

These are great!!

Gawd so many to list. I ashamed to think about it.

When I was in middle and high school, I was told by a Clinique Lady that the only way to get beautiful skin was to wash it with a soap containing salicylic acid, use an alcohol based toner, and then use a little moisturizer. I was supposed to do it twice a day to get rid of redness and outbreaks.

Then I realized that due to my sensitive skin, the more I did this, the worst it got!! Now I just wash it once a day in the morning, and SLATHER on the lotion!! At night, I just take off my makeup with a baby wipe-type cloth from Clean & Clear and again... use LOTS of lotion!

The less I touch my skin, the happier it is.

I had my makeup done at a Biotherm store (don't even know if the brand is still in business) and I told her I was "going out" that night. She must've immediately thought that meant I was going to a rave in Los Angeles or something, because she made me look like an acrobat from Cirque du Soleil.

Anyways, for mascara, she turned the wand vertically and clumped together my lashes into about four or five little bunches on each eye. I looked like I literally had spiders crawling out my eyelids.

I heard that putting foundation on your lips before putting on lipstick would make the color better or something. Negative. It blended with the lipstick giving it this weird milky look. And it ruined my lipstick!

The worst makeup advice I ever received was the standard formula for how to apply eyeshadow (darker color in the crease, lighter color on the lids etc). I've read this advice everywhere from magazines to internet blogs, and tried it so many times over the years, always thinking that I must be doing something wrong when it wouldn't work. Finally I stumbled across this page and felt vindicated!
http://www.clinique.com/cms/expert_tips_trends/library/articles_eye_styl...

I have a lot...some are the same as already listed but the idea of putting mascara on my lower lashes doesn't work for me because my lower lashes are naturally curly and regardless of mascara primer they will touch my undereye area and make raccoon eyes.

http://kireinano.blogspot.com/p/g-i-v-e-w-y.html

A "make-up artist" visitor at Dior tried so many different colors on each different of 5-colors eyeshadow sets on my eyes. I was very disappointed-- I wanted for a simple 5-color eyeshadow set. She expected me to buy at least 5 of 5-color eyeshadow sets. She was crazy. I guess she wanted to look good that she can sale works.

All kinds of stuff... from fully lining my eyes in eye liner, to putting blush exactly on the apples of my cheeks, both of which are wrong for my face and eye shape.

The worst thing was probably the advice to wear a pink frost lipstick because it went well with my olive complexion; I'm not olive complected either, I'm blue/red tone.

I should probably star a new post but I have to add to this thread that most annoying thing about other people giving makeup advice is that they give advice that would suit them, not the person whom the advice is for. These people are the ones I just write off, if I get the sense they are trying to make me look like them, for get 'em... they don't know what they're talking about.

Lol! I must have gone to the same "Beauty Advisor" at Make Up counter that FAYLINN went to! I have blonde hair, blue eyes, fair & pink undertone skin and they insisted on putting a Salmon Yellow Orange toned Eyeshadow on me even when I resisted! I have a picture wearing this and all you can see are two yellow orange crescents in the middle of my face! ugh! The worst was I felt pressured to buy it, but remember the delight of tossing it from my bag into a can on a street corner in Greenwich Village! (and I could have had a lovely lunch instead for what that Shu Uemura single color cost me!)

How do you all know what your colouring is? Is there a chart somewhere? I jut say I'm a little bit pasty!!

Also, worst make-up advice would be by my friend when I was around 19 and using a lash brush after applying my mascara, "What are you doing that for? You'll get rid of all the clumps!"
What's that all about?! I don't want the clumps!! She tells me I don't wear enough mascara...

"Water marbling" my nails. Basically I was told to dump a bunch of nail polish into water and it would create all these cool multicolored designs. All it created was a glob of thickened polish and a horrible stink!

Some one advise me to apply hair colour. I had suffer with tremendous hair fall due to coloring hair. My doctor advise me to take propecia tablet. It really made a magic and it not only stop hair fall but made my hair soft and silky.

To apply my mascara holding the wand vertical...that's freaking stupid.

Plus, my lashes look way better than any of theirs the way I do it anyway.

Putting eyeshadow not just on the lid, but all around the eye, including underneath...a friend said it would look cool!