Have you EVER felt like this?

I have been a grown woman for quite sometime now.  And I have been wearing makeup for even longer.  I started wearing makeup around the age of 13/14ish.  I wasn't really that interested in it.  I thought that makeup was supposed to be a tool to enhance your beauty, not to stifle it.  I was in beauty pageants for years and I was used to getting all dolled up.  However, doing my makeup EVERYDAY seemed a little overkill.  Some of the older girls that I went to school with wore a "mask" of makeup with a clear orange ring around there face which showed that...#1 There foundation/powder was TOO DARK and #2 They didn't have a clue about make-up's biggest rule, BLENDING! 

As I got older I realized that I wanted to wear makeup, but every time I wanted to put it on, I felt like a little girl playing in her mommy's makeup.  I have a picture of a little girl playing in makeup, but she is far too cute.  I usually ended up looking like this. (The unfortunate lady in the picture below.)  I would try to experiment with new colors or techniques that I would see in a magazine or on TV.  But Nothing seemed to give me the confidence that I so desired when it came to being a woman wearing makeup. 

Have you ever felt this way?  Shouldn't there have been a class in school about this stuff?  I believe that this is Basic Woman 101, am I right?  I had a drawer filled with makeup that I had acquired over the years...Old lipsticks that were totally wrong for my skin tone/hair color/age that I couldn't return...3 or 4 old mascara tubes...And countless eye shadows that were worn only once to try a new color technique. 

We don't have to put with this.  We are WOMEN for Pete's sake!  We should KNOW how to put on makeup.  We should feel comfortable wearing a new color without being so paranoid that everybody is looking at us because we think our eyes may look "droopy" or that you look like a 40-year-old posing as a wanna be teenager.  Things are about to change, ladies...For the best!  ;)