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Ten viral makeup habits that need to die in 2016, according to one beauty breakdown.

Instagram glam had a moment in 2016 — sharp cut creases, blocky contour lines, matte liquid lipstick stacked three shades outside the natural lip. The video “10 Makeup Tricks You Need To Stop Doing,” from TheThings Celebrity, runs through ten of the most common application mistakes that look fine under a ring light and terrible under everyday fluorescent lighting. It’s less a hit piece on trends and more a checklist for anyone who’s ever wondered why their makeup photographs well but reads as heavy in person.

The breakdown covers everything from eyebrow shaping to brush hygiene, walking through the specific techniques that separate a wearable, photo-ready look from one that only works on camera.

• The video flags over-plucked ’90s-thin brows and overly blocky, stencil-drawn brows as opposite mistakes that both need correcting toward softer, natural shaping.
• It warns against packing thick, stark-white concealer triangles under the eyes — a technique that causes creasing, caking, and camera flashback.
• It singles out harsh lower-waterline eyeliner and heavy ‘baking’ with translucent powder as habits that shrink the eyes and dry out the skin.

The Brow and Contour Corrections

Eyebrows get the first callout, and the video treats it as a two-sided problem. Anyone still maintaining the razor-thin, over-tweezed arch left over from the ’90s is told to let the brow grow back in and fill sparingly, while the opposite camp — the blocky, stencil-drawn, Instagram-brow crowd — gets told to soften the edges and work with the brow’s natural shape instead of drawing a new one on top of it.

Contouring gets a similar treatment. The video calls out harsh, unblended cream-and-powder stripes down the cheekbone — the kind that read as a defined shadow in a still photo but look like a visible smudge in motion or daylight — and recommends diffusing the product until the shading looks like it’s coming from the bone structure rather than sitting on top of it.

Lips, Concealer, and the Overcorrection Problem

Overlining lips beyond the natural lip line is flagged as one of the easiest mistakes to spot up close; the video notes that exaggerating past the vermilion border might look fuller in a filtered photo but reads as obviously fake in person. The fix isn’t abandoning the technique, just dialing back how far outside the natural line the product goes.

Concealer draws one of the sharper warnings in the video: packing on thick, stark-white triangles under the eyes to “brighten” causes creasing within hours, cakes into fine lines, and produces flashback under camera flash. The advice is to match shade correctly rather than compensate with volume.

Thick, stark-white concealer triangles under the eyes cause creasing, caking, and flashback — the fix is shade-matching, not more product.

Foundation, Eyeliner, and the Powder Trap

Cakey, full-coverage foundation applied over dry or un-prepped skin gets criticized for producing a mask-like finish that separates from the skin by midday. The video pairs that with a warning against heavily rimming the lower waterline in harsh black pencil, a technique that visually shrinks the eye rather than defining it.

Over-powdering — including the aggressive ‘baking’ method popularized on social platforms — is flagged for drying out the face and exaggerating fine lines instead of smoothing them. Clumpy, spider-lash mascara application makes the list for the same reason: it photographs as dramatic but reads as unkempt in normal lighting.

Highlighter and the Skincare Foundation Nobody Talks About

Excessive, unblended highlighter — the glaring metallic stripe down the nose and cheekbone that became a signature of 2016’s Instagram glam era — gets replaced in the video’s recommendations with soft, luminous placement that catches light naturally rather than announcing itself. The last point ties the whole list together: flawed application often traces back to dirty brushes and skipped hydration, not bad technique. Skincare prep and tool hygiene, the video argues, do more for a finished look than any single product swap.

Viewers looking for more of this kind of trend-versus-reality breakdown tend to gravitate toward similar celebrity beauty content, and the format itself sits comfortably alongside other trending lifestyle explainers built around correcting viral habits rather than just chasing them.

None of these ten corrections require throwing out a makeup bag — just retiring the camera-first version of each technique for the version that actually holds up walking out the door.