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How have you dealt with the facial features that you don't like? Do you cover them up or work with them?
The two things I've always been the most self conscious about, as far as my face is concerned, are the scar that splits my eyebrow and the shape of my nose. I struggled for years with that ridiculous scar; it literally cuts right through where the hairs would normally grow, so that there's one row of hairs higher, and one lower. If I take either row off, it's not only lopsided but too thin and instead of just seeing a strip of empty hair you can see the indent in my skin. A few months ago I was viciously complaining to my boyfriend about my eyebrow frustrations and he gave me a suggestion. He said that instead of trying to make the scar disappear and "fix" my eyebrow, which clearly can't be fixed, I ought to emphasize it. It seemed like a preposterous idea at first and I sort of just blew the suggestion off. The next week during my routine brow repair, which really was overplucking and making myself look ridiculous, I decided it couldn't hurt to try it. I grew my eyebrows out, tedious, very tedious. Then when I shaped them catered to the scar and now every day I line my eyebrows, and both deviations around the scar, with a gray/black liner.
So I went from having to pluck my eyebrows paper thin to get them even and having to do a ( shape instead of an angled shape, to having a punky scarred eyebrow that frames my face and doesn't make me look silly. Sorry about the lack of good pictures of what I'm talking about, the brows haven't been fixed long enough to have accumulated good photos and before I just took photos of my other eye.
Then there's my nose shape. My dad was Native American and Belgian and I got a lot of his rather unladylike genes. Including a nose that's a bit trollish and doesn't fit quite right on my face. The bridge is too wide and the end is all round like a clown nose. How can you work with that? =/ So I cover that up. I put a lighter concealer under my eyes and down the sides of my nose and a darker one down the center. It isn't noticeable unless you look at a before after makeup pic (not quite brave enough to post a before makeup pic...), but it makes it significantly less noticeable.
I know I can't be the only one with a difficult face, moles, birthmarks, scars, noses, lips? What are your face struggles and how do you fix them?
The two things I've always been the most self conscious about, as far as my face is concerned, are the scar that splits my eyebrow and the shape of my nose. I struggled for years with that ridiculous scar; it literally cuts right through where the hairs would normally grow, so that there's one row of hairs higher, and one lower. If I take either row off, it's not only lopsided but too thin and instead of just seeing a strip of empty hair you can see the indent in my skin. A few months ago I was viciously complaining to my boyfriend about my eyebrow frustrations and he gave me a suggestion. He said that instead of trying to make the scar disappear and "fix" my eyebrow, which clearly can't be fixed, I ought to emphasize it. It seemed like a preposterous idea at first and I sort of just blew the suggestion off. The next week during my routine brow repair, which really was overplucking and making myself look ridiculous, I decided it couldn't hurt to try it. I grew my eyebrows out, tedious, very tedious. Then when I shaped them catered to the scar and now every day I line my eyebrows, and both deviations around the scar, with a gray/black liner.
So I went from having to pluck my eyebrows paper thin to get them even and having to do a ( shape instead of an angled shape, to having a punky scarred eyebrow that frames my face and doesn't make me look silly. Sorry about the lack of good pictures of what I'm talking about, the brows haven't been fixed long enough to have accumulated good photos and before I just took photos of my other eye.
Then there's my nose shape. My dad was Native American and Belgian and I got a lot of his rather unladylike genes. Including a nose that's a bit trollish and doesn't fit quite right on my face. The bridge is too wide and the end is all round like a clown nose. How can you work with that? =/ So I cover that up. I put a lighter concealer under my eyes and down the sides of my nose and a darker one down the center. It isn't noticeable unless you look at a before after makeup pic (not quite brave enough to post a before makeup pic...), but it makes it significantly less noticeable.
I know I can't be the only one with a difficult face, moles, birthmarks, scars, noses, lips? What are your face struggles and how do you fix them?