Are you a messy make-upper?

26 June, 2016 - 07:36pm by - First Lady | 26 Comments

Poll posted by BR Natalie

I'm a bit of a clean freak. I love me some Dettol. I'm also a 'place for everything and everything in it's place' type of girl. I love me some storage solution shopping. I tidy and clean as I go. I approach products carefully, lest they spill or splutter everywhere.

So I have to admit I'm always a bit aghast when I see my sister, or indeed a beauty blogger creating wonderful looks but treating their products so roughly - and leaving an awful mess behind.

Rubbing their brush into the powder like they're desperate to hit pan. All that fall out leading to grubby palettes and smeary mirrors. It makes me want to go full Monica, turn up at their house and offer to wipe down their makeup area.

Is it just me?! To be fair, it could just be me. I own the gorgeous Mood Booster powder from Physician's Formula. I proudly show my little sister and she swatches it with her fingers, rubbing all of the beautiful pattern around. I died a little inside. Why so rough? Why so careless?

So tell me, are you a messy make-upper? Do you create beauty amidst chaos? Are your palettes covered in excess product, or do you judisciously wipe them down after each use? Do you attack with your brush, or are you gentle?

Or...is it just me?!

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Amyxxoo

27th June, 2016

I play neatly. My palettes are handled gently, my brushes the same. Eyeliner gets used and put back in it place. I like everything to have it's place so it doesn't allow me to be messy lol. My makeup is pretty clean

Pifithrin

27th June, 2016

I don't wipe down my makeup after every use (ain't nobody got time for dat) but I do it every so often.

Stunning_simplicity

27th June, 2016

I'm a little bit messy normally in a rush and the kids got into my make up not long ago so they don't look the most loved right now

2lilmnkys

27th June, 2016

Once upon a time when I had only one eyeshadow pallette, it got used every day and got messy alot. But nowadays I am more meticulous and keep everything nice and clean especially the powdery stuff

itsclearascrystal

26th June, 2016

I don't usually make much of a mess and any fall out gets cleaned up pretty quick. And if it's a pretty palette I almost don't want to use it in case I destroy the prettiness of it.

Koni

26th June, 2016

I love me a great deal of dettol too Nat!!! I wipe my makeup down, I don't like mess.

tannygirl

26th June, 2016

I'm not aggressive when I do my makeup. But then I am not super gentle either. I have done my makeup in a hurry at times and so definitely didn't wipe fingerprints off the shiny cases. In fact I don't think I buff my cases. But if I did get lipstick on the outside of the case I would wipe it off instead of putting it away with lipstick still on it. Loose powder gets on stuff. I used to get smudges of foundation on things when I was still using my fingers but now I use a brush. One contradiction to me not tidying up my makeup is that I store some stuff in the box it came in forever. So I'll use my palette or loose powder and then put it away in the box before it goes back in my drawer. I think I just do this with my palettes and powders oh and my expensive serum foundation but to be fair that's a glass bottle so a box protects it.

Macs

26th June, 2016

Im really messy with my make up. I still have my foundation sitting out of place. But I treat my Too Faced products gently only because its going to be extremely hard for me to replace them. I haven't cleaned my products in a very long time.