The Beauty Bloopers: ‘I noticed hair was falling out from my brows!’

Sometimes, all a person needs to get a ‘wow factor’ is a dab of gloss on the lips. But while the common practice is to smear it across the whole lips, a Hollywood make up artist once showed on television that applying it in the centre of the lips, gives maximum impact and shine, while giving a perfect pout and shape too. But it doesn’t have the same effect on other people. - Melanie F.

I know there are many others who, like me, use the back of their hands to colour-match a new foundation or lipstick. I soon learnt from an expert at a salon that our hands can be more sensitive than our face and thus, foundation should be applied on the jawline. And for lip colours, ask for the counter sample to be disinfected with alcohol and then apply it with a brush. -Ola Abdulaziz

Plucking the eyebrows to give them a neat and stylish look, is something that every girl has tried at home. I was one of the crazy ones to have actually used wax cream to shape my eyebrows. While applying the cream, I didn’t realise it would cover my entire eyebrow and while removing it, I was horrified when I noticed that hair was starting to fall from my eyebrows. I had to use a pencil filler for a month to hide the mistake I made. - D.A.