Worst "Beauty" mistake you've made?

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Hair-removal cream on my legs. I had a mild allergic reaction and my legs were red and itchy for hours afterwards.

That's nothing compared to what my friend did, though, she actually shaved her eyebrows off.

pretty much everything I did to my hair between ages 12-21.

using concentrated vitamin C serum - seriously, not recommended unless you think you really need to (sun damage etc).

also, taking hair-strenghtening supplements. I have thinnish hair and always wanted to get it a bit fuller, so bought one of those herbal, no-perscription-needed pills that swore to make the hair stronger. all I can say is - it worked f*****g wonders, but on ALL the hair on my body good thing that effect was temporary.

Letting a friend talk me into trying her "Epilady" hair remover on my legs. The instructions said it worked best if you had several days worth of hair growth, so I quit shaving about a week before I tried it. I guess my friend was just an extra tough girl, because it didn't seem to bother her, but to me it felt like what I've always imagined a taser gun to feel like. I should've known by looking at it that it wasn't something I should've used (looked like some kind of torture device). The tiny patch of skin that that "thing" grabbed onto before I threw it across the room was sore for days!

I've heard people talk about "taking a bath in hair removal stuff" (forgot brand name). Sounded serious too. I hoped they were joking.

aw gawd...I got a "spot perm" because I was too lazy to use a curling iron to give my hair height every morning to avoid "flat-top". Well, I ended up looking like a French poodle. I had to use all these other solutions to get the perm out and in doing so lost quite a bit of hair. It grew back.
Then another time, I dyed my hair blue-black (Black Azure). I looked like I had navy blue hair....awful. It had to be chemically "stripped" which made it bright orange. Then I had to dye it back to dark brown. This was painful and left my scalp all scabby. It was a nightmare!
I actually endured pain and chemically burnt my scalp just on a stupid whim. Luckily I didn't have to spend a fortune because I lived right next to a discount beauty supplies store. The owner laughed her head off at my story but knew exactly how to help me without me spending a whole lot of money. I never permed or colored again. Now, I'm 3/4 grey and proud of it.

When my oldest son was 6mos old I was feeling fat and frumpy and nothing fix and my very long curly hair wasn't getting the time it needed to look like it belonged on a human head. So I desided to make it easier to care for and maybe make my face look a bit thinner. I picked out a cute stacked bob hair cut that looked like it work with my amount of curl. I even brought a picture with me of what I wanted.... The young lady doing my hair comented that she had done a "ton" of this cut this week that "everybody" wanted it this should have made me make sure she knew what I wanted. Because after the clippers came out and she shaved up the back of my head it was too late. I ended up with what in front was a very short pixi and it back was a bald head. I cried when I saw it and thats not normal for me to do. Crazy thing is they tried to give me free hair cut coupons after that like I'd need a hair cut for the next year. Oh and my husband offered to buy me a halloween wig.

Been there, done worse and just as bad!



Hair removal cream to remove hair "downstairs". It turned out I was allergic so it burned some skin off. Was... extremely painful. Note to self: Test on arm pits first next time.

I didnt like to pluck my eyebrows cause it was painful but they were messy. I was 16.. and I has a ladyshaver (the razor kind for legs) and.. well, its hard to do detail work with a razor like that. I had a unibrow for weeks. Over only one eye.

And I had a school ball when I was 15. I had a bit of "black head" over my nose and a zit on my cheek. So the evening before the ball I used my fingernails to remove every single black head and also I was assaulting the zit very vilently. I looked like I had been in a car crash that ball. Even with covering make up trying to hide the redness, flushness and faint bruising...


Worst I did as a child: I have a "hair twirl" right in the hair line on top of my forehead. It makes it impossible for me to have nice short hair covering my forehead as it lays itself to a side all the time. I hated it when I was 6-7 so I decided to cut it away. Surely it wouldnt grow back.. and surely having militaryshort hair over my forehead and long otherwise would NOT look silly for weeks...


(My friend has me beaten though.. She bleached her teeth a few years ago at a dentist and got sent home with a pamplet saying how to treat it. She didnt bother reading it. And she drank red wine that same evening. She had a pinkish shade on her smile for almost 6 months until the dentist saw it safe to bleach again...)

Bad hair days topic

I stopped getting shag cuts because they grew out funny, and then you almost had to get the same pricy cut.that was 34 years ago.

Two lousy perms that smelled like a cat litter box meant the end for brillo hair, about 23 years ago. I just wear it natually long and parted just off the left side. I do not dye my hair (I tried it once, five years ago) and I was too clumsy for curler stuff so that was it. I had it cut short once and I looked just awful, and it stuck out due to cowlicks.

Once last year I tried to put on foundation. My face was white and my neck was it's normal colour. I thought that it was supposed to look like that until I came downstairs and my mum said that I looked like a mime. I had the wrong colour, applied it too thick and in the wrong places. I'm never using that stuff again.

I hate the way foundation feels on my face. It's like my skin can't breathe.

There are apparently mineral foundations which don't feel "caked" on your face, although I've never tried them.

My mom used to cut my bangs herself, which meant I had uneven bangs for a lot of my childhood.
My hair is really thick, so it's very overwhelming with my round face when it's long.

I uses them and love it. I couldn't never get the other kind to work outside of stage make-up and you sure can were that gunk every day.

Overuse of retin A. I have really sensitive skin so if I use it everyday and then wear makeup, my skin just looks all flaky like I had a chemical peel or got punched in the face (I use it around my eyes for wrinkle prevention). I stopped using it so much. Now it's like once a week at the eyes or else the skin gets really red.

Also, all throughout childhood (and this wasn't me), I had really heavy bangs because my mom was convinced that I had a huge forehead and needed to cover it up. I didn't NOT have bangs until I was about 12. When I was 10, she got sick of my long and messy hair and made me get it cut short. I had the freaking Dorothy Hammill in 1995.

I think dyeing my hair intensely red was one of the worst that I can recall. I looked rather clown-like... it did not look one bit cool or edgy or whatever. But, it faded into a really great natural-looking red, so it wasn't a complete failure.

getting the wax too hot and burning myself when I was waxing my bikini line.