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What stupid thing have you done to yourself in the name of beauty

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Anordinarymum · 30/09/2020 17:20

I will start the ball rolling

I tried bleaching my bum with Domestos. This was a very long time ago. I did it a few times until one day I got the most godawful stinging pain down there and had to stop.

Why you may ask ? I don't really know but it did seem like a good idea at the time :(

OP posts:
LoseLooseLucy · 30/09/2020 20:25

Used superglue to stick some false eyelashes down 😑

Susannahmoody · 30/09/2020 20:29

I almost stuck my fingers together with superglue last time I used it

That stuff is really sticky

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Anordinarymum · 30/09/2020 20:31

@Bikinib0tt0m

Got rid of a sticky out mole by tying dental floss around the base as tight as I could until it went black and died. Blush I've also done other stuff Confused
I bet you pierced your own ears didn't you
OP posts:
LoseLooseLucy · 30/09/2020 20:31

Really sticky, it keeps the lashes in place and rips out 50% of the natural ones when removed.

SoddingWeddings · 30/09/2020 20:45

Ended up with a chemical burn on my pubis after a piss poor attempt at waxing.

I still have spots missing in my eyebrows after plucking them down to a tiny line with a massive gap in the 90s.

Had a spray tan in the middle of summer, and ended up streaky all over when the sweat poured off me the second she stopped spraying me. Never again.

Greypurse · 30/09/2020 20:56

Washed my face daily for months with a ‘soap’ that wasn’t that great at actually removing make up but smelt good, and only when I asked an assistant in Boots to help me find another bottle she pointed out that it was ‘intimate wash’ and not obviously designed to remove make up!

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 30/09/2020 20:58

Over plucking my eyebrows in the 70s to a whisper thin line.
Using the first type of self tan (again 70s) and just slathering it on willy nilly.
Lying in the sun for hours Because we were talking to boys. Hospitalisation.
The funniest (now) was, surprise! Early 70s before mad coloured hair was a thing. There was this toner you put in water, just a few drops, that was popular with older ladies for Mrs Slocome Type blue rinse hair. I put half a bottle in. My blonde hair was purple. It didn’t go well at school.
But take heart, I remember my great aunt (who was a teen in the 1920s) telling me she shaved off her pubes with her dads cut throat razor. 😲 because that’s what flappers did. So being daft for fashion isn’t new.

Badabingbadabum · 30/09/2020 20:59

Chicchicchicchiclana

Yes, I feel that we have all leapt in with our stories and completely ignored the face OP used deomestos bleach on her bum hole!!

Laiste · 30/09/2020 21:03

Well i used Domestos to bleach my hair as a young teen Shock

Didn't cross my mind to use it on my arse! Grin

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 30/09/2020 21:07

Used yellow hair mascara as a teen.

Got a bikini wax at 9 months pregnant. Bad idea.

puppygalore · 30/09/2020 21:13

Read that you could dry up spots with toothpaste. So slapped some on the huge shining throbbing one right on the end of my nose, went to bed and expected to wake up with beautiful spot-free skin. Instead I'd used whitening toothpaste, so woke up to the skin peeling and bleeding off the end of my nose. It took weeks and weeks to properly heal and I had a bloody massive scab for ages as it just kept cracking and weeping. I was not an attractive teenager Grin

DeathByMascara · 03/10/2020 14:22

My dad used domestos on his arse. In fairness, it was a mistake and he was trying to use the Andrex toilet wipes but got the bleach cleaning ones instead.

Can't quite imagine why one would deliberately apply bleach to ones chocolate starfish...

Yorkshirelass04 · 03/10/2020 14:26

Nose and lip piercings. I have little holes that I clog up with foundation now :)

SpeedofaSloth · 03/10/2020 14:29

Mine have all been self-tanning related. Now I accept that I will always be pale.

Animum2 · 03/10/2020 21:07

The week before I got married I decided to get my eyebrows waxed for the 1st time. I went to a hair salon which didn't even have a sepstate area for the waxing just a stupid looking office chair which wasn't comfortable and not great for relaxing

It did not go well, was painful and I just wanted to get out of their, my head went into a rash a bit later and then when I looked properly the eyebrows were lopsided not even matching

I ended up going to another place that a work friend recommended which was opposite work where they had proper beds to lay on amd they used tea tree oil in the waxing and by then this was 3 days before the wedding but the job they did was great and I had no pain and they looked brilliant

Lesson learned and I've not had them done again!

Animum2 · 03/10/2020 21:08

Thst should of read "separate" area

youngdumbfunny · 03/10/2020 21:20
  • Shaved off my eyebrows and dyed my hair bright pink
  • The night before I lost my virginity I shaved my pubes, only to have it be rescheduled to a day later. On that day I tried to reshave my newly-stubbled pubes, to have the effect of giving me so many red bumps it looked like I had herpes.
  • Trying to wax my vag and armpits, only to get too scared to yoink it off and proceeded to madly scrub at myself to try and get the drying (and painful) wax off
-Piercing my own ears with a sewing needle at age 10ish because my parents wouldn't let me, only to get too worried about their response and let the holes heal up -Newly self tanning as a teenager and proceeded to go out and get so totally pissed I spilled an exorbitant amount of alcohol down myself (hence somewhat of a Dumbledore's beard shadow all down my neck and cleavage)
Badgerforbreakfast · 03/10/2020 21:25

OMG you lot are NUTS

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 03/10/2020 21:33

Yes, I feel that we have all leapt in with our stories and completely ignored the face OP used deomestos bleach on her bum hole!!

Yes, this was my thought! I started reading the thread and was like 'OK, so we're not gonna talk about the fact that the OP used Domestos on her arsehole then?!'

It reminds of that thread about bleaching your bum hole with toothpaste!

KnightsofColumbusThatHurt · 03/10/2020 21:46

Also, am chuckling at the virginity losing being 'rescheduled to a day later!'

A couple of years ago I decided I was going to go for a Brazilian wax - I really hyped myself up for it as I had never had any sort of bikini wax before, researched it, spent time making sure I had cultivated enough for them to wax off but had trimmed enough that they wouldn't have to get a lawnmower out, hyped myself up for getting into position so that they could wax however far back they needed to go. I was ready to finally become part of the Perfectly Groomed Minge club.

Then, the morning of the wax I was in the shower and must have got distracted as I just grabbed my Gillette venus and absent mindedly cack handedly shaved my pubes as I always did. Just as I finished I realised what I had done and was like 'oh fuck' and had to sheepishly ring them to cancel and because of their policy I still had to bloody pay 50%!

I am still not part of the PGM club.

youngdumbfunny · 03/10/2020 21:53

@KnightsofColumbusThatHurt

Also, am chuckling at the virginity losing being 'rescheduled to a day later!'

A couple of years ago I decided I was going to go for a Brazilian wax - I really hyped myself up for it as I had never had any sort of bikini wax before, researched it, spent time making sure I had cultivated enough for them to wax off but had trimmed enough that they wouldn't have to get a lawnmower out, hyped myself up for getting into position so that they could wax however far back they needed to go. I was ready to finally become part of the Perfectly Groomed Minge club.

Then, the morning of the wax I was in the shower and must have got distracted as I just grabbed my Gillette venus and absent mindedly cack handedly shaved my pubes as I always did. Just as I finished I realised what I had done and was like 'oh fuck' and had to sheepishly ring them to cancel and because of their policy I still had to bloody pay 50%!

I am still not part of the PGM club.

I mean obviously the best sex is compulsively planned to a T ... that's why it went so well, silly Grin

And anyway, the PGM club are not for the faint hearted or absent minded ;)

NoEffingWay · 03/10/2020 22:29

So many things, but memorably when I shaved my legs for the first time I held the cheap razor too hard against my leg and managed to shave a 10cm piece of skin of. It bloody hurt!
I used an epliator on my underarms even though it made me cry in pain, and then ended up with loads of ingrown hairs and infected pores.

bigpurplefuryknickers · 03/10/2020 22:31

Sun beds! I have pale freckley skin & was 'advised' that 9 minutes with brand new tubes would be absolutely fine...

Within hours I had huge water filled blisters all over- from my eye lids to my Mary. I remember getting off the toilet then waking up about an hour later on the bathroom floor, puking everywhere with severe heat stroke & blisters on blisters.
My poor Mary .

YesIDoLoveCrisps · 03/10/2020 22:35

I went for a bald look ‘downstairs’. I put a whole tube of hair remover on and my fanny swelled to twice the size and was really red.
I just leave it alone now and have a full bush no matter what the fashions are.

TotorosFurryBehind · 03/10/2020 22:40

Wasting time putting on make up for work in my 20s. I was beautiful without any make up but didn't know it at the time.

Just think of what I could have done with all that extra time.