Get up close and personal with exclusive, inspiring interviews and taste profiles delivered with a cheeky twist to your inbox daily.

Success! You’re all signed up. 🎉
Please enter a valid email address.

By subscribing to our email newsletter, you agree to and acknowledge that you have read our Privacy Policy and Terms.

Beauty Habits 15 People Learned When They Were Young

They’ve been sticking by these for years.

Skin
Beauty Habits 15 People Learned When They Were Young

Bustle and Coveteur are working together to bring you the best mix of the season’s fashion and beauty releases, shopping tips, and service stories in ways that are both inspirational and attainable. Check The Fall Style Edit channel weekly to see what we’re up to.

 

How many of us have a beauty habit we learned when we were kids that we still use as adults? Hey, if it works, it works, right? Maybe you read a hack for the perfect eyeliner in a copy of Seventeen that you swiped from your older sister’s room or watched her do lip liner so many times that no matter beauty tutorials you watch, you still swipe her technique.

For me, it was eyeshadow. I didn’t get into makeup until much later, but from age three onward I took dance classes and every year my mom did my makeup for the dress rehearsals and recitals. She always arranged the colors the exact same way—dark shadow in the crease, light sparkly shade on the lid, even lighter sparkly shade on the brow bone. I still follow these principles today, because, well, they make sense. Like face contouring, the concept is based on where the shadows and sun would naturally fall on your face. Sometimes, old habits die hard for a reason! (But I do occasionally wish I knew how to do an elaborate cut-crease.)

Whether we cling to our beauty conventions because we actually love them or because they’ve become so routine that doing things any other way would seem almost wrong, it can be hard to shake the routines we learn when we’re at our most impressionable. Here, 15 people share the tips, tricks, and habits they developed at a young age and still use today.


1/15
Sara Panton, Founder, Vitruvi
“I grew up in a rural farming community and my mom always kept our products simple and natural. From the age of 13, I’ve washed my face with only organic coconut oil. It takes makeup off easily, and leaves the skin perfectly hydrated after removing it with a warm cloth. I’ve tried many expensive cleansers since working in the beauty industry, but I haven’t found anything that works as well as just plain coconut oil.”

See, not all beauty habits need to be broken!

 

Want more stories like this? Head to Bustle.com.

More From the series Skin
You May Also Like