21 Very Real Makeup Problems Every Female Can Relate To

19. When More Than One Of Your Basic Necessities Run Out At The Same Time

The stuff of nightmares: miscalculating the amount of foundation left in the tube at the same time your mascara turns to a fruitless claggy stick... and you're attending a party in T minus 2 hours.

18. When You Over-pluck Your Brows And End Up Looking Like Marilyn Manson

There's something strangely therapeutic about tweezing follicles from their roots, and sometimes you can take it a hair too far. While catwalk models and the likes of Yolandi Visser pull off the bleached and brow-less look fabulously, us overzealous pluckers just end up feeling like a slightly glam Uncle Fester.

17. Trying To Find A Foundation That Matches Your Skin Tone On A Budget

So you have an olive complexion. That should be easy to cater for, right? Wrong. There's then the difficulty of selecting the correct undertone and deciding whether to cater for oily or dry skin... or maybe you fit into the "combination" skin category. What even is that anyway?