When we were teenagers we made a wealth of questionable decisions in the name of beauty.
We overplucked our eyebrows, doused ourselves in body spray, and always wore a foundation three shades too dark.
But as it turns out, celebrities aren’t immune from relatable beauty blunders either.
After celebrity makeup artist, Carolina Gonzalez, faked a fuller pout on Blake Lively for the CFDA Awards last week using a liquid eye shadow, the actress shared a painful high school-era beauty hack with her Instagram followers.
Carolina used one of the neutral, matte shades of Giorgio Armani’s Eye Tint ($60 from David Jones) to create a subtle contour just outside the perimeter of Blake’s natural lip line to create a plump-looking pout. But according to Blake, she and her high school friends used far more creative methods to make their lips look plumper.
“When Carolina Gonzalez does the Gen Z eyeshadow lip trick to make your lips look huge, but then you wash off your makeup and accept that you’re a millennial girl who, in high school, used to wear lip gloss with alarming amounts of chilli peppers inside for a plump because we were that committed to bad ideas,” Blake shared via Instagram.
“Turns out eyeshadow is way less painful than Carolina reapers,” she joked. “Thank you Carolina Gonzalez for not turning my mouth into an episode of Hot Ones.”
Main image credit: @cgonzalezbeauty
What was the most questionable beauty habit you had in high school?
