What’s the worst beauty tip you’ve ever received?

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Inspired by the “what is the best beauty tip you’ve received” thread, I wonder about the opposite….

What is the most useless, unhelpful beauty tip you have ever received?

I’m torn between being advised to sit in the sun with tomato ketchup in my hair years ago to bring out the highlights (it didn’t and was v sticky), and the first time I fake tanned but didn’t know to wear mitts when applying and ended up with conker coloured palms for 2 weeks.

Similar to Vaseline - baby oil on my dry 1980's bubble perm. 2 bottles of shampoo later, some of it had washed out...

Come to think of it, it may have been a 1980's perm that had had sun in treatment as well. I'm probably lucky to still have hair tbh.

I mean back in the 90s the bad beauty tips in magazines were just off the scale. Constantly telling you to buy Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream “to use for just about anything!” when it’s literally the grossest and most useless foul-smelling tube of grease you could ever pay £30 for.

Not to wash your hair at all if it's falling out too much.

I tried this for a couple of weeks, my hair not only looked awful but was falling out more than ever.

An ex boyfriend told me that semen would make my facial skin soft! 🙄

Egg wash in the hair anyone ? Picking scrambled egg from the hair catcher afterwards wasn't fun

I love my Babyliss big hair. I've tried using my DD's Dyson Airwrap but have gone back to my Big Hair

Another one, olive oil in your hair to moisturise it. It took several washes to get it out and likely stripped out more natural oils that if I'd never done it.

A school friend's mother used to put margarine out of a tub onto her face every night instead of night cream/moisturiser. She told us both that we should do it too, as it was cheap and would keep us looking young!

But it’s good for a frost bitten penis I hear! 😉

Also lol at the semen is good for skin line @Darkclothes - I think they put that line in a manual of tips for adolescent boys in the 90s!

Be thin, be as thin as you can be. Skip meals. No breakfast, apple for lunch, small dinner. You’ll be thin nutrients don’t count

My auntie has some lovely chin fuzz, which would fine except she complains sadly about it. Her mum, my nan, used to insist you should never pull chin hairs because the follicle would double the number of hairs when it grew back, so you'd get hairier and hairier, and aunt has stuck to this logic through thick and thin chin hairs. Other aunt raised by the same mother in a pretty hairy family has always been unmoved by old wives tales, and in other news, is not plagued with a beard....

Yes @VaddaABeetch, that was the darker side of the nonsense we were told. Heroin chic was grim.

I absolutely LOVE my Babybliss big hair brush, best hair gadget ever and I’m useless with most hair gadgets!
Each to their own 😀

I think the semen thing is true though?

Agree with the fringe - what an absolute waste of 6 years of my 40s going to hairdressers and it looking too short, then OK for about a week, then growing into my eyes (spent a fortune on optrex), having to blow dry, giving up and then just pulling it out of my eyes and then having to spend 6 months growing it back out using kirby grips and THEN lockdown happened so I could have just waited til then had I known. FUCK fringes.

That your eyes look bigger if your eyebrows are further apart. Both Ariana Grande and I have both been duped with this one. Sadly that's the only aspect of similarity between us.

This was from the 1970s. I have 2 sisters 11 & 12,years older than me, as older teenagers at 5’5 they aspired to be under 7 stone so they could be a size 10.

they both now has osteopenia

It’s very sad @VaddaABeetch and still all too prevalent today.

Two from a magazine article on how to get ready to out at night after work in 30 minutes.

Actually three, as you couldn't possibly do it all in 30 minutes anyway.

One was to wash your hair, do your nail varnish then dry your hair. Wet nail varnish is not going to survive hair drying.

The other one was to do your makeup before you have your bath so that the steam would make your makeup glow. Yes. And give me pepperoni pizza with extra sweetcorn face as the makeup sank into the steam-opened pores.

I did this in desperation on holiday one year. We were island hopping in Greece, travelling with rucksacks so everything had to be as light as possible. Sun, swimming in the sea several times a day and trying to eke out a travel size bottle of conditioner for over two weeks was playing havoc with my hair so I finally decided to buy a full size bottle. Problem was that the island we were on at the time was so small, it only had one shop and they didn't sell conditioner so I ended up using olive oil. It actually worked quite well but as soon as we got.to the next island, I made a beeline for the supermarket and bought the most expensive bottle of elseve I have ever seen in my life

I think it’s aspirin rather than paracetamol, something to do with the salicylic (sp?) acid

But I love that someone has been trying it with paracetamol rather than aspirin. Just the sort of thing I’d do!

Is the semen thing true though @FKAT? Sorry to lower the tone, and I am not a semen troll, but I heard this quite a lot back in the day. Could be a classic line, but maybe there is something in it - proteins n stuff? Mind you it could be the anti aging tip of the century and I’m still not getting it on my face!

There’s a truck to it. Before you rinse it out, put some conditioner in your hair to emulsify the oil. It’ll come out very easily!

Duck tape and melted crayons to remove unwanted hair.

Completely disagree. Don’t use on eyebrows but use Vaseline on my face daily and have done for 2 years now (alongside tret). Cheapest regimen with best skin I’ve had in many many years. Also apply to dry skin anywhere else as I always have a tub on me and it’s just fantastic.

Ironically, it doesn’t work well enough on my lips, need Blistex for that!