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"There are just certain things in the makeup department that, no matter how many times I write about how they&amp;#x27;re just not a good idea, I still see women going for. Totally normal, non-clueless women. We have to do something about this. Here are the five mistakes I&amp;#x27;d like us all to eradicate once and for all. Mistake 1) Wearing the wrong foundation color. Sweet lord, does this look bad. Too dark makes you look like Pig Pen and too light makes you look all washed out. My best advice: Take a picture with flash when you&amp;#x27;re wearing a new foundation&amp;amp;#8212;it&amp;#x27;s the best way for me to tell if I look like an actual human being in my foundation or not. Mistake 2) Using a concealer that&amp;#x27;s lighter than your foundation to hide pimples. This works, for say, brightening dark circles. But it actually highlights zits, and call me crazy, but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure sure that&amp;#x27;s not the goal there. Your concealer should match your skin tone folks. Or, at the very least, you should be putting the lighter shade under your foundation so it blends. Mistake 3) Not checking your lipstick shade in the actual lighting you&amp;#x27;ll be wearing it in. I see this with bright lipstick all the time&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;#x27;m sure the girl looked great in her bathroom or in the soft lighting of her bedroom or wherever she put it on, but in the daylight or under the harsh overhead lighting at work, that color turned on her. So you&amp;#x27;ve just got to check it under those conditions before you commit to the shade. Mistake 4) Wearing one eyeshadow shade all the way up to your eyebrows (as seen here on a famous person). Can we all agree to stop this madness, please? It&amp;#x27;s just jarring. Either stop at (or slightly above) the crease or switch off to something darker there for shading, then go for a lighter color as you go up toward your arches. Mistake 5) Wearing just way too much eye makeup, period. I&amp;#x27;m looking at you, cast of Teen Mom. I&amp;#x27;m all for lots of lashes and fun colors, but you shouldn&amp;#x27;t have so much makeup on that it looks like it&amp;#x27;d take work to keep your eyelids open. Now I&amp;#x27;d like you all to promise you will be skipping all of these things. Deal? Photos: ThinkStock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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