Teenage years are all about experimenting with beauty and fashion to figure out what works and what doesn’t – unfortunately, what ‘doesn’t work’ is what results in those funny teenage makeup disasters! From too much eyeshadow to strange colour combinations, these stars have candidly revealed where it all went wrong for them in their teenage years, and how they ended up with an embarrassing makeup memory that they now see looked awful on them. Of course, it’s all a part of growing up and the fun of finding what does look good!
Alexa liked trying out unusual colours: “I started wearing silver eyeshadow – it was the ‘in’ thing. I just wanted to look like I was from space. Rimmel was my brand of choice and I wore it with the Coffee Shimmer lipstick. In hindsight, they looked awful together but it was the ’90s, so it worked.”
- Jordana Brewster
Jordana wore icy eyeshadow: “I went through a phase in the nineties where all I wore was blue eye shadow and super icy colors and I thought it looked really good to wear really light colors on your eyes. Then I realized, “Wow, that looks really cheesy.” Or I’d wear lots of mascara to the point where my sister would call me Tammy Faye.”
- Lauren Conrad
Lauren had several big makeup disasters: “In seventh grade, I was allowed to wear makeup, and to say it was a trial-and-error process would be an understatement. I matched my eye shadow to my outfits each day but took little care in matching my foundation to my actual skin tone. My eyebrows were overplucked, and my hair was overstraightened. I was a complete disaster.”
- Leona Lewis
Leona piled on shimmery eyeshadow as a teen: “A while ago my cousin was emailing pictures of me when I was 15. And for some weird reason I would wear white, white, white eyeshadow on my eyes, then really shimmery white underneath my eyebrows and a really super glossy lip. It looked like I had no eyes, I looked really strange.”
Reese wore shiny lip gloss: “I wore the shiniest, pinkest lip gloss. In the 90s, I was really into that brown lip liner. I look back on it and I’m like, ‘Oh my God.'”
