1 Real Girl Confesses Her Biggest Beauty Blunders Ever!

As a typical Asian-American with old-school Asian parents, I wasn't allowed to wear very much makeup in high school. (The hair dye episode nearly got me deported.) So I had to find sneaky ways of obtaining products without my parents forcing me to return them. One year, I asked my best friend to get me the most elaborate makeup set ever for Christmas. Expectation: this. What I got: this. OK, so I had a couple purple shades to work with; I was determined to look beautiful with this little set.

What that translated into was me wearing purple eye shadow every day my whole freshman year of high school. And because I already had quite the arsenal of lipsticks, I would pair my purple eye shadow with the most offensively clashing shades, like bright red, deep brown, and pastel pink (the latter combination made me look like an 8-year-old spokesperson for bubble gum).