Sarah Jessica Parker fears she always fails to live up to her stylish "Sex and the City" alter-ego - because she`s never mastered the art of applying make-up in "real life". The actress plays glamorous writer Carrie Bradshaw in the fashionable franchise, and has become a style icon in her own right through her work on the TV show and subsequent movies.

But the 44-year-old is convinced she will always look dowdy outside of her work, because she still hasn`t learned to apply her own cosmetics. She tells People.com, "I am, I confess, very bad at make-up."

The Meryl Morgan of "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" adds, "I don`t wear any in my real life, my personal life. There`s no time for it and I`m not good at it. I don`t want to have to do it to myself - I wouldn`t know where to begin."
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