Your worst beauty mistakes?

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Chatting to my mum this afternoon and we started laughing about the first time I used eyelash curlers.
This was the days before false eyelashes.
I applied my make up and then applied my mascara as usual. I had no idea how to use them, so I clamped the curlers on tight on my still wet mascara for a few seconds, I mean, you apply hair curlers to damp hair right?
Tried to release them and found to my horror that they were well and truly welded to my eyelashes!
MUUUUUM.....
Mum ran upstairs thinking I was being murdered to find me walking into walls holding the curlers.
She grabbed a flannel, wet it, rubbed soap on it, then started running it over my eye.
Eventually freed them, along with half of my eyelashes and my eye looking like I'd got the world's worst case of conjunctivitis.
To be fair, once I'd stopped crying, my other eye was a perfect match.
So, care to share your worst beauty disasters?
The curlers went in the bin.

I did a Footner chemical peel before going on holiday. It didn't seem to work....until we arrived at our self-catering holiday accommodation, which was very smart, with beautiful carpets, wooden floors and lovely bed linen, whereupon my feet started disintegrating everywhere. There was mountains of dry skin. Every time I pulled my socks off, there was a massive blizzard of the stuff. I left a trail of it everywhere I went.

There was no hoover.

Horrendous.

I think I'd have died of embarrassment 😂

Sun-In spray, when I was 16.

I expected sun-kissed highlights, but ended up with ghastly orange streaks.

I had a really badly done lash lift. I've got quite long eyelashes and the woman obviously used the wrong size whatever they use to 'wrap' the lashes while they set, so mine were curled right back and touching my eyelids. It was so uncomfortable. And the lashes were all fucked up basically and bent in weird angles.
I bought a heated eyelash curler in order to try and straighten them! I basically had the most crazy awful eyelashes until enough time had passed and another salon would 'relax' them for me.
Never again!

Plucking my gorgeous, luscious natural eyebrows into oblivion in the late 90s / early 00s… and now I can’t grow them back again 😭😭😭

Makes my curler disaster look tame. Sorry for giggling here.

Plucking my eyebrows into almost nothing circa 2000... Luckily they grew back, mostly.

I remember that stuff, was it the one that came in gold and silver too, one squirt coated your shoulders, the wall behind you and the carpet?
Or at least it did when I used it. My mum went bonkers 😂

Avon arabian glow bronzer

My sister and I put it on before bed on our teens

Bed sheets ruined and we both looked like omar sharif 😫

Laugh away 😂Eyelashes all normal and never to be messed with again now.

I'm very pale skinned. I had a saint tropez spay tan for best friends wedding in 2008. I was literally orange! Looked absolutely ridiculous!

Decided to have bleach blonde highlights in my dark hair. My hair looked grey from a distance and the hair all snapped.

Also, using way too much foundation and powder when I was a teenager.

Another fake tan one. I got it into my head that spray tanning my legs on a breezy cruise ship cabin balcony would be a good idea. Result: the patchiest fake tan ever on my very pale skin I spent the rest of the cruise hiding my legs under trousers and long skirts.

Another eyebrow plucker here. I plucked them to virtually nothing, then drew them back on with a black eyebrow pencil. Why? I mean, just why? I looked permanently surprised😯

I'm sorry but I'm in fits laughing here. What with Omar Sharif, lost eyebrows and hair 😂

Letting dh home dye my hair during lockdown. Had to take up wearing a hat indoors and for conference calls, or pretending camera not working.

Fake tan that went orange. I looked like a wotsit

Bleaching and straightening my dark brown 4A hair as a teenager. It’s back to it’s frizzy curly brown (slightly grey at the roots) hair now but I will regret that look forever!

A wotsit 😂😂

Years ago when I was still living at my parents house I decided to put oils in the bath. Later on my dad went for a shower which was over the bath. He stepped in the bath, slipped on the oil residue and broke his ankle ffs.
Omg I was in deep shit but he laughs about it now of course (sort of 😬)

When I was about 14 I had quite bad skin and had tried a few home remedies to help clear it, one was putting my face over a bowl of hot water with a towel over my head to try to steam it clear - didn't work but no harm done. I then saw on a film or tv show a woman putting toothpaste on her spots and it clearing them up so of course that night I put a blob of toothpaste on my biggest spots and go to bed - didn't realise you are only supposed to leave it on for a few minutes then take it off 🤦🏻‍♀️ when I woke up it had pretty much burned off the skin and I had horrible red raw patches on my face where the spots were, thankfully it healed and no lasting effects and my skin naturally cleared up soon after anyway. Oh and I also plucked my eyebrows into oblivion (they also thankfully grew back) oh the early 00s 🙈

Spending all my summers in the 80s going to Spain using oil as sun protection!!
Am now 60 and look 80!!

For my 21st birthday night out I thought I'd home wax my legs. Heated the wax up too hot and tore my skin off my leg

I put facial Veet on my downy facial hair. It completely burnt my lower face.

I'm a natural blonde, but my eyebrows have always been fairly dark, even when I was very little. I was 19 and had a brilliant idea to lighten them so they perfectly matched my hair. Of course, I ended up with near glowing orange eyebrows. I had to buy dye to darken them, and then they were black.