Like you all know I love makeup. I mean why else would I spend all of my spare time on writing a blog about it? Anyway, I love makeup. I love a lot about it. But there are just a few things I just struggle with when in comes to makeup. Because people in my life think I’m good at makeup they assume I’m good at all parts of it, but trust me, I am not. Today I’m going to write about makeup things I struggle with. If you’re interested in finding out what it is I struggle with, make sure you continue reading!
Eyeliner
I have always had a love-hate relationship with eyeliner. Back when I just started doing makeup I was really into pencil liner and lining my waterline and tightline to make it as black as possible. When I realised that looked absolutely hideous I stopped wearing it and only a couple years later I started experimenting with eyeliner again.
I think I have worn liquid eyeliner about two times in my life until my friend told me it looked horrible and it just wasn’t for me. I know I should do whatever I want, but I knew she was right and I still do. I actually think eyeliner just doesn’t look good with my eye shape. It makes my eyes look extremely large in a creepy way.
Anyway, years later it bothered me that some of my friends who just weren’t into makeup at all were capable of putting on eyeliner and I wasn’t, so I kept trying and trying. Sadly I never managed to make the skill mine and today I’m still not capable of putting on eyeliner properly.
Big, bold lips
I love bold lip colours, I really do. However, you wouldn’t expect that if you look at what lip colours I wear on a daily basis. I can tell you it’s almost always nude. There’s only one day a year I do wear a bold lip colour and that’s on Christmas. The reason why I don’t do it is because I have very shaky hands and that does make it incredibly difficult to apply bold lipstick.
I also just hate the feeling of it. Not of the lipstick perse, but the feeling that I should be really careful with my lips because I don’t want my entire face or my teeth to be bright red too.
Cleaning my brushes
This one is not something I’m incapable of, but just something I struggle with. I have been washing my brushes weekly for years now and I hardly ever skip a wash. But getting to the point of actually washing them is a big, big struggle. I have come up with so many things to make it less of a burden, but I just hate doing it. It’s so incredibly boring and I hate that my hands smell like soap afterwards.
Foundation
Even though I have a huge passion for foundation, I do struggle with it a lot. I can’t tell you how often I walk down the streets with an unblended patch of orange looking fluid on my skin. It’s embarrassing, but it’s true. Sometimes I just forget to properly blend it everywhere or sometimes I even think it’s fully blended when it’s not.
I also struggle a lot with finding foundation that matches my skin which doesn’t help with the patch problem either. Lately I have been starting to get better and better at it, but it’s still not where I want it to be.
Touch-ups
Sometimes when you have a really long day you’re just in need of a touch up. You are. Your makeup won’t look perfect all day and if it does I want to know your secret. Anyway, touch-ups. I don’t do them. The most I will do is blot my nose and put some powder on it that’s still on the brush.
I only apply lipstick once a day and that’s before I leave the house. If I don’t do it then, I won’t do it at all. I’m just not a touch-up person so if a product requires me to touch-up throughout the day, it’s just not for me. Even though it’s not that big of a problem, it does sometimes lead to me feeling a little ugly because my makeup looks shitty. Sometimes I just wish I was a little more into that so I would look on point all day, but sadly I’m not. If I look horrible at some point of the day, it will only get worse.
And that sums up today’s post. I hope you enjoyed reading about my struggles and I hope it made you realise that even people who love makeup a lot have things they’re just not good at or struggle with. Thank you so much for reading and be sure to let me know what your makeup struggles are!
XOXO, Nicole.
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