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.

My mum refused to let me wear Avril Lavigne eyeliner to school when I was around 12. I used to apply it in the bathroom when I arrived and wash it off at the end of the day with cold water and toilet roll. My face was permanently streaked with blotchy grey!

Recently went to a beauty salon to treat myself to an eyelash tint. Never done before. Had a patch test a couple of days before. All OK.

About a minute after she'd applied it, the burning feeling started! Was horrendous. Scrubbed it off in the salon but my eyes were sore until the next day.

The skin around my eyes must be more sensitive than the patch test on my wrist 🙄

The dad's in charge posts reminds me of when I was little and my dad had longish hair ( 70s )
I would go get my mum's hair curlers and he'd sit there patiently while I stuck them in his hair, like a dad version of girls world.
He looked a delight with a head full of pink rollers, ribbons and god knows what 😂
I didn't make the grade as a hairdresser as my sister's fringe proved.
Another mad beauty mistake of mine, when someone told me that to make your lips look fuller, draw a line beyond the edges of your lips with a lip liner, then fill in with lipstick.
I did this for months, despite looking like I'd been punched in the mouth.

Oh god, this has unlocked a core memory I try my hardest to surpress 😂

When I was 11 my dad looked at me one day and thought "your fringe is too long, I'm not paying a hairdresser, I'll do it myself!". Then he sat me on his motorbike in the garage, pulled my fringe down with to my eyebrows and cut just above the brows.

Obviously when he let go my fringe springs up more than half way up my forehead AND it was wonky 😭 I cried and cried...and cried!

I had school the next day and kept on pulling my fringe to make it longer (this does not work of course, and just hurts)

I was already an unfortunate looking child and got the mick taken out of me often so my wonky fringe did not help matters!

In my mid-teens I bought some henna powder from our local health food shop. You mixed it with hot water and applied it to dry hair for 'glowing natural auburn' locks

'Glowing natural auburn' my curvy pink arse. It was dayglo orange and stunk like a compost heap for days.

That reminds me of my sister who decided to bleach her brunette hair.
The end result was spectacular...she looked like a Duracell battery 🤣
Another disaster for my long suffering mum to sort out.

Sorry but 🤣

Have been chuckling reading these and thinking...I used hint of a tint for years with no problem (helped condition my hair)... Then had the memory of leaving it on too long and my hair looking purple in the sun for days c1984.
Sun in -also went ginger...hint of a tint to the rescue until the ginger line grew out.
Somewhere I read a drop of baby oil in the final rinse would give lovely shiny hair. Too much used for a family wedding gave a shiny oil slick followed by a hasty rewash and flat hair in photos (no time to style). Never did tell my mum why it was so oily that day.

Rimmel Hide the blemish concealer stick used all over as a foundation AND lipstick in the fairest shade. I had dark brown frizzy hair but really fair eyebrows. Looked like an alien!

Hint of a tint did nothing besides give me a red scalp parting.

On holiday at my BF's parents' beach house. An adult friend of parents was commenting about my fringe, that it was too long, in my eyes, etc. So after dinner, he got out a pair of scissors to remedy the situation. Unfortunately he had zero hair cutting skills and my fringe was almost up to my hairline afterwards. I was mortified. The adults thought it was hilarious.😑

I used one of those sucker things that are meant to pull the crap and blackheads out of your pores.

I ended up with long purple bruises all over my face

Luckily we were in lockdown

Wella colour mousse of the mid 90s. I remember a 'chilli red' and one that was almost purple. Everyone walking about with mahogany coloured scalps.

Tried to shape my eyebrows by shaving them and somehow they didn't properly grow back for years - cue a whole era of late teens/early twenties photos with half eyebrows 🥹

So many!

Plucked my eyebrows the shape of sperm.

Applied fake tan - only to the front of my legs!

Had an eyebrow wax but my skin got burnt right before my works do so I had an angry red patch on my forehead between my eyeballs.

Tried to bleach my own hair, it was a patchy yellow mess that had to be cut off.

Dyed my hair black which faded to forest green.

The terrible hair extensions.... more than once.......

And most recently - tried to dream plane my own face. Looked like I had been attacked my an angry cat falling onto my head.

I never learn! I won't dye my own hair anymore but still get whizzy with the scissors occasionally. I blame Brad mondo!

I remember it well.
I once used it on a very warm day. I was running round the garden with the kids and I went indoors to get a drink.
I almost had a heart attack when I passed the mirror and saw streaks of blood red sweat running down my neck like blood from a head wound 😂

The orange foundation I wore in early high school.

Why, why, why didn't my mum tell me what I looked like!! (Ok, maybe she did, but I knew best..)

Maybe she felt unkind referring to you as oompa loompa?
Sorry 😂

In my teens is used one of those green sticks to cover red spots but really I drew all over my face with it. Forgot to rub it in one day until I got to work and looked in the mirror, no wonder people were staring 😂