20 beauty fails we all made as teenagers – Cosmopolitan UK

9. Body glitter EVERYWHERE

Apart from straight up body glitter (which our mums invariably hated because it ruined the towels), we just seemed to always choose the shimmery-ist bronzers and blushers we could find.

10. ALL THE COLOURS

Around your birthday or Christmas, a Cool Aunt would certainly probably buy you a makeup palette along with about 25 different shades in. But unlike our beloved Urban Decay Naked palettes, the shades would certainly not correspond along with one another, and would certainly likely be very, very bright colours. We would certainly take this as a challenge and wear all of them.

11. The worst eyebrows

We committed so lots of eyebrow sins in adolescence. Shaving lines in them, over-plucking them, waxing them to oblivion… we were basically hell-bent on destroying our God-given eyebrows, Kill Bill style.

12. Crazy layers

Was it the popularity of ‘The Rachel’, or was it the advent of Girls Aloud? Either way, having your hair cut into the SHORTEST layers imaginable (bonus points for a micro fringe) was all the rage.

13. Flicky hair

Once you had your tiny layers cut it, you couldn’t let those bad boys lie flat. Oh no, you had to go in along with your straighteners and flick those bad boys out to almost 90 degree perpendicular perfection. Oh yeah.

14. Crimped hair

Of course, if you were going on a hot date to Pizza Hut, you had to pull out all the stops. The only for the occasion was mad crazy crimping – accessorised along with a handful of jazzy kirby clips, natch.

15. The multi-coloured manicure

We sure were indecisive as teens. Picking just one shade for our nails was hard – so we would certainly wear just wear a different colour on every finger instead, duh.

16. Bright braces

Getting your train tracks fitted was a teenage rite of passage. Sure, you could have actually subtle clear links, but why, when you could have actually bright blue or red? So much cooler.

17. Hair mascara

You weren’t allowed to dye your hair (mums just don’t get it), so you had to go for the next finest thing – badger-like neon stripes glommed through your hair along with gloopy mascara that glued your strands together. Fashion.

18. Having a three-step skincare regime

Face wipe, face wipe, face wipe. Who needed fancy cleanser when you had these thin, slightly sting-inducing bits of fabric? A red raw face before bed was de rigeur.

19. Wrecking your hair along with a combination of Sun-In and lemon juice

Any ‘highlighter’ you could find, you were using – so your mum wouldn’t pay for you to have actually a full head of foils, but who needed that when you had your DIY remedies?

20. Peeling off your nail polish

Okay, some of us still do this, but there was an inner masochist in our teenage selves that just wanted to watch the world burn, and so we would certainly peel off the nail varnish we so painstakingly applied.  ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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