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

[Anordinarymum]

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 :(

@Chicchicchicchiclana

I do think bleaching your bumhole with domestos is beyond the realms of imagination, even in Mumsnet folklore.

I recall a similar thread a couple of years back

With explanations of why someone would do this

I had absolutely no idea !

Over plucked eyebrows so so so many times!
Waxing nose hairs. Once I pulled too early and got a tiny wound out of it. I can still see it!

Pierced my own ear when I was 15, just couldn't face doing the other one 😱

Oh good lord this thread is bringing back memories. I desperately wanted to be a beautician when I was a teenager, always trying products - samples begged off counter ladies - at my home facials. I had a bump on my nose that I tried to beat down repeatedly with a paddle hairbrush. I had a bruise for weeks and still have the bump now. I also slathered on lotion on my feet, covered it with cling film, went to sleep dreaming of my soft feet. Woke up with the most insane rash, completely forgot I'm allergic to latex. I was never cool.

Facial hair removal cream. Left it on literally 15 seconds too long and sported a moustache of scabs for 2 weeks

Sun-in spray. I used a whole bottle because I knew best. Splodgy gingery bits through my lovely dark hair. Thought I was the nuts.

I ran out of hair gel on a bad hair day. (The eighties). The morning after a really big night out, I thought I’d scrape it back like the Addicted To Love girls. In an inspired moment I used a whole pot of Body Shop Kiwi lip balm. By lunchtime it looked like a greasy, festering mess. And it took me two days to get out of my hair.

When I was at nursing halls, one of the girls tried a hair dye colour called raven. It was supposed to be an iridescent black shade. When she came out of the bathroom she had fetching navy hair. I almost ended myself.

Oooh and a final nod to Insette hairspray. I used to use a whole tin on my corkscrew permed hair when I was going out. Felt like Lego. Rock solid. God forbid a boy should want to run his hands through it.

I loved the Eighties.

I'm a hairy bloke, back in the 90s when being smooth all over seemed to be the fashion I bit the bullet and decided to get my back waxed. Fuck. In. Hell. Never did that again and decided to embrace my inner chewbacca "Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaawww"

I tried bleaching my teeth with food grade peroxide. My gums went white and the chemical reaction actually made a noise.

I was an aspiring beauty therapist and had loads of accidents including try to steam my face over a sink of boiling water. Accidentally dipped my chin in it scalding myself. The sink was slow to empty to enable me to splash some cold water over it. So I got an ice tray out of the freezer and put that on instead. It suck to my face and I ended up with frostbite!