Hey guys. Welcome to pursebuzz. Today is a question so I was asked how old was I when I first started wearing makeup, so, man, it was just kinda like a big old discussion and things like that and there was an article online about parents actually, you know, not quite encouraging but more like supporting kids in wearing makeup and so a question came to me and I wanted to ask you guys how old were you when you first started wearing makeup or nail polish or any of that beauty stuff and
just kinda what are your memories of it. So, for me, I started probably as soon as I was able to like crawl over to my mom's makeup. I was like all over that stuff. When she would put on her makeup, I would pick out like a hot pink red or a hot pink-- hot pink red. Hot pink or like a red and I'd ask her to put it on me and then she'd put it on me, you know, like little tiny little red lips and I would sit there in the mirror and just kind of pucker up and I'd talked to you about this story before but, you know, I would just sit there and then, oh, look at that little red lipstick, you know,
and then when we'd go, I would have to wipe it off and then I'd be upset but, you know, I carry it in my little purse and my little lipsticks and lip glosses like those little kid stuff. I think that was one like natural something or was it clear but it smelled like fruit. Oh, I loved that stuff and then, occasionally, my mom would get like free stuff from like Clinique and then she would give it to me and I would play and it's funny 'cause even then, as a child, I would always put makeup like all over my hand, and so I painted my nails like at the age of three, too,
and I did it myself and my dad said, "No, no, you can't do that," and so I would wear it on my toes but I would wear it on my toes and I would wear glitter and then like eventually I would wear it on my nails and then kind of just graduate to like frosty pinks and glitters and, you know, as a child, I still had to wear very light, natural little kid colors and lots of glitter, you know. My mom hated that glitter 'cause it was so hard to remove 'cause I would rather remove it like all the time for like the next color, like little stickers and the kind that you dip in water and then you stick it on,
I did all that stuff and then in elementary school, I didn't wear anything but I remember this is that when I was in fifth grade, a lot of the sixth-grade girls 'cause I had a combination class, they wanted to wear makeup so my teacher was like, "Oh, you guys are getting to that age," and she wanted to make sure that we didn't wear our makeup in inappropriate manners. She wanted to make sure that it was appropriate for our age.
So, at our school, there wasn't really any rules about makeup and, of course, you know, they'll wear makeup, but what my teacher did was if you had your parents' permission that you could wear makeup then she would let you wear makeup so that way, you know, it wasn't like you were sneaking to school wearing makeup and so, you know, there's a handful of the popular girls that wore their lipsticks and makeup and my mom, my mom said no. When I was like, okay, fine, whatever, you know. I wasn't really into it until we had this class
and my teacher invited like a friend, a makeup artist, over to the class, you know, fifth and sixth grade, all the girls sat there. I don't know where the boys were but-- maybe they were in there, too. I have no idea. Anyway, so she talked about makeup application and she talked about products and she talked about what to use and I think it was really great 'cause the one thing that really stuck in my mind was she said never to use Vaseline or petroleum jelly to remove your eye makeup so growing up, I knew not to 'cause I tried it, you know, living the hard way and I couldn't see and I just like globed it on and for like, I don't know,
I couldn't remember, it was like a day or two, I couldn't-- my vision was blurry so when she told us that, you know, not to wear petroleum jelly to remove it, I was like, oh yeah, I knew that so she said that it can cause blindness or blurrying, you know, over time, so she told me, you know, or she told us at a young age not to use that product and I remember talking about like foundations and she said that we shouldn't use it a young age. It will so I thought it was a really great experience to sit there and listen to a makeup artist talk about makeup
and how to properly use it and then in seventh grade, I didn't wear any makeup. I wore sunblock. My mom gave me Clinique City Block and I think that's the one that's like tinted in the green tube and so I wore that everyday so I guess that's considered makeup and then I would sometimes wear like nude lip liners and Georgiana, I think that was the brand. So sometimes I wear like a little bit of maroon.
I grew up in a school there was a lot of girls that had painted-on eyebrows and painted-on lips and so, you know, we were familiar with Wet and Wild and a lot of girls wore the black. The black lip liner with the maroon inside and so I wore that in like seventh or eighth grade, you know, did the lip liner and sunblock but I didn't wear anything else. My mom wouldn't let me wear mascara. She did the mascara made my eyelashes fall out and I didn't really have any to begin with, so, not that big of a deal,
and then in eighth grade, I started breaking out so that's when I started with the concealer like on my chin and I remember for picture day, you know, it was like full face of foundation but that was it, like I couldn't wear it any other day, just the sunblock. Mom said sunblock, sunblock, and then in eighth grade was when I started to color my hair. I use we use lemon. Once my hair was blonde, we used Kool-Aid to color it. It didn't really work out so well
'cause my hair was so dark and then in ninth grade, I started highlighting and dyeing and ever since then, I've dyed my hair like I haven't really gone through, I don't know, like a two-year period where I haven't-- or two-month period where I haven't dyed my hair so started that really early, getting addicted. I used to highlight my own hair, highlight friends' hair and all that stuff, you know, took like professional products and developers and just kinda have lots of fun with it and then in freshman, and then all through high school,
I just wore sunblock and I wore lipstick and then, after the hair dyeing and the sunblock, I started to wear foundation because my skin was getting bad and my mom said you can put a little concealer on and the little bit of concealer turned into like, oh, a little here, a little here, a little here, and very soon it was just like all over the place and I remember reading an article about Gwen Stefani because what I would do is when I ran out is I would stick at the back of like an eyeliner or whatever,
into the bottle, mix it up and then get it on my face. I didn't know any better, right? And I would always apply it with my fingers and I remember reading an article, a Hawaiian magazine about Gwen Stefani having really bad skin and how she didn't really take care of her makeup products and how she did what I did and I was like, oh, my God, that's so gross and, oh, maybe that's why I'm breaking out and so I changed up my routine. I bought a powder brush from , it was like eight dollars. It was really rough, too, but I didn't know any better,
and so I started using that to apply my foundation and it was just okay, you know, I used Lancome Mackie Control or something like that. I don't remember and so I used that because my mom had this big thing about drugstore skin products and she said that my skin wasn't really, really bad and, you know, you don't wanna use any cheap products on it and so she gave me a bottle and I had to use it like sparingly.
And it wasn't bad. Like my skin wasn't really bad. My family did have really bad skin. It was more like when my dad was in his late teens was when he got really bad skin and so that's what happened to me was when I was 19, my skin started getting really bad. I also worked at Dairy Queen, you know, put on some weight there but like I just kind of had really bad skin like all the sugar, all the stress, college, all that stuff so that's when I got on Acne Teen and I talked to my doctor about it
and she said to try something that's oil free, fragrance free. She particularly mentioned Almay and Clinique so I wore Almay for a long time and it was really hard, you know, to match your color. I found a color, I think Sand, that one worked for me and then, you know, I made some money and things like that and I was able-- I made some money and I was able to buy products from Lancome and Clinique and, you know, kind of upgraded from there because your skin's very important
and you should buy good products for your skin and especially products that work with your skin, I guess, since it is skin, you should cater to your sensitive skin and then, so, throughout that whole time, I watched my mom put on her blush, her mascara, curlers, lash curler, like I knew how to do all of that stuff. I just wasn't really officially like allowed to put on all that stuff so then when I started working at Robinsons-May,
I had a lot of girls at the counter that were friends so I watched them. I learned from them and the rest is history so on a daily basis now, I wear moisturizer and a little bit of concealer where I need to and that's it and then if it's a special occasion, I'll put on my foundation and eyeshadow and like tutorials and things like that but on a regular basis, I like to let my skin breathe and I just like to like let it relax. You know, I wear the around my eyes.
I wore the clearance Sunblocker on my eyes and then I go with my moisturizer and then I wash with my face so I'll go into detail with all that stuff, too, but that's just my little history of my makeup experience and then in high school, what I forgot to mention was that color stuff, so, I always bought Revlon, you know, all the drugstore 'cause I didn't know any better. I always thought I would get one free and I never knew the pigmentation that came hand in hand
with like a higher end product would have more pigmentation so I would use it less versus like Revlon . You know, getting down to the pen, you barely have any black to make like a smoky eye but of course things have changed now where there are all like highly pigmented drugstore products so that's a really good thing and I guess that's it so I wanna know what is your makeup history, when did you start, what was your experience, what did you learn and all that stuff. Please send a response down below and then I'll accept it and . Bye.
