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Familiar Face
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Super dark eyeshadow with super pale skin and gigantic (natural) hair. It was kind of a Helena Bonham Carter look, but she's the only one gorgeous enough to pull it off.
It was kind of a Helena Bonham Carter look, but she's the only one gorgeous enough to pull it off.
What about things you thought were great at the time or would work then turned out not to be such a good idea.
Will any one confess I do not know.
My regrets are less historical and more current: Fragrance samples! I'll try something that seems appealing, or sultry or sensuous in the bottle and within 15-minutes, I generally can't stand the smell of myself. And it seems that no amount of soap and water will dissipate the offending scent.
(Thank you facebook for reminding me of how bad I looked for the 8th grade semi-formal.)
Not my mistake, but I had horrible hair as a teenager. When I hit puberty it turned super-curly but only on top of my head. I had short hair at the time and for 3 years it didn't get longer, simply bigger. Huge microphone head with straight hair at the back. Finally it grew out and turned into beautiful lucious Rita Hayworth hair. For a year. Then I started taking birth control pills and my hair went back to being straight. When I stopped taking them, hello super-curls! The past 3 years I've taken hormones because of acne, and what do you know. Straight hair again. Now I just stopped taking them so I'm curious to see if the curls come back. Really weird.
Too much face powder in way too light of a shade. I probably looked like a mortician applied my makeup. I use just a fine dusting of powder now.
I remembered another one: wearing eyeliner all around my eyes. You see, I tried to look mysterious; what I managed is to make my eyes almost invisible. That's what happens with deep set eyes.. NOW I know that.. at the time I attempted "mystery gaze".. I didn't. :brick:
My most spectacular mistake started out with blonde, just above the shoulder hair. I looked really good that way, but then I decided to grow it long. I kept going to the salon to keep the blonde though, so as she continued to color the roots and the length crept longer and longer, my mother tells me I ended up looking like I had this glowing halo of lighter and lighter hair shading to brassy as it went down the length. So then I decided I really wanted all that already color damaged hair (now down to the middle of my back) to be auburn. I'm sure my hairdresser should have know better, but we had been friends since 7th grade, so I think she figured if that was what I wanted she'd just give it a try. It turned MAUVE! :eeek: It might have been a nice color for a sweater, but it wasn't a nice color for a receptionist! So she tried again. We worked on it until we gave up about 10:00pm that night and achieved Burgundy. :cry: I was up half the night trying various hats and scarves to cover it up. My husband came home from work (2nd shift) and saw what I was doing and told me it wouldn't work. It was obvious I was trying to cover up my hair! I had to go to work that way and met the office manager in the parking lot, pointed to my head and said "it's burgundy! can I please go get something done about this before anyone else sees me" She told me hers had turned navy once and let me go do what I needed to do. Back to the salon I went and this time we just put a very dark brown semi-permanent rinse on top of everything so it was almost black. I went back to work with something that was at least a color that exists in nature. It was so damaged that it took several days to dry when I washed it so I was back within a week for my first ever really short haircut! (Sorry this was so long!)
I think that quite possibly the only person on earth who can pull that look off is Duchess Catherine. :lol: