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.

Ooh, diy waxing with crayons and duct tape, sounds excruciating!

Years ago. Brighten your teeth with a hydrogen peroxide solution. Two weeks later, skin was still peeling off of my gums.

Sticking micropore on frown lines to smooth them out. I managed to actually create a really deep line that took a couple of days to go and I'm not sure it has completely gone 😏

Hydrogen peroxide and baking powder on teeth to whiten (I was a teen at the time). They didn't get any whiter, but my gums did recede.

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" Kate Moss. I disagree. A huge slab of vanilla cheesecake is better than anything & who wants to be skinny anyway?

Aargh, hydrogen peroxide has a lot to answer for, it never even occurred to me I could try it on my teeth. Just as well as I would’ve given it a good go!

Re toothpaste - the white stuff works, the one with the gel in it (blue bits) doesn’t.

I second that Vaseline advice is hideous!

Big hair and 8 hour cream would be my best tips 😂

Worst- sunbathing in baby oil, making tinted lip balm by melting lipstick and Vaseline in a pot floating in boiling water, using an egg as “deep conditioner”, ditto olive oil.

Worst styles tips- if you ladder your tights put nail polish on the hole and wear them under jeans. Who wears tights under jeans? Me in the 90s.

Use the iron to straighten your hair

I put neat tcp on a spot every 2 hours to try to nuke it away. Ended up with a 50p sized tcp burn on my face.

Tip from fellow impoverished student way back when:

To save money, use washing-up liquid instead of shampoo.🙄

Back in the 80s, I decided to put highlights in my hair. It looked dreadful, so I tried to dye it brown to cover the mess. However, the dyed parts went a really bright orange! I had to go to work next day (in a school) and was worried about what the pupils might say (or the staff for that matter).

And…

No-one said anything at all! I wonder to this day whether they were all being kind to my face and gossiping behind my back!

One of the teenage magazines recommend using mashed banana to condition your hair. Don't do this. Took forever to get it out, including shampooing about 5 times and combing out the bits.

90s style overplucked eyebrows, they've never recovered 🙁 At least sun-in, frosted lipsticks, pancake foundation and tipp-ex 'French' manicures all wore off or grew out 😆

I did better than a schoolfriend of mine during that 90s craze for having a fringe and pulling the rest of your hair back/up really tight though - the combination of stretched open scalp pores and enough hairspray to spackle a badger to a tiled wall left her with a really nasty infected scalp 🤢

Tbf it actually cleans the skin with astringent action. But you need to spread it and leave it to dry.

Just no

This was the first one I thought of too. I see your burning face and raise you the blisters it gave me 😭

If semen was that good and made womens skin amazing surely L'Oréal and friends would have factories full of men being wanked off furiously into pretty little jars?
The fact that no-one has monetised semen leads me to believe some bloke made it up so he could jizz on his partners face.

Oh I'd forgotten about crimpers 🤣

Re- crimping hair that was already solid with hairspray 🤣🤣

The fumes coming off it!! How did I have any hair left?

Tomato sauce in hair is actually a thing, but not to bring out highlights unfortunately. We used to do this when we were kids, but I also did it for my dd. We live in a hot country and have a chlorine pool. In the summer, we and all the other blonde haired kids would end up with green hair due to swimming so much. Tomato sauce took out the green tinge. Or I well believed it to be a thing even though it's been many years since I attempted it again.

Baby oil for tanning, my friends used brake fluid. They were always brown as berries. I am paler than pale so would get this piss taken out of me when I would turn up with my factor 10 sunscreen.

These days I use nothing under spf 50.

Sunbathing with baby oil on.

Dear god what were we thinking in the 70s?

Or they'd use animal jizz in products , like they do pig wee ( urea in eurecin shampoo is made from pig wee)

More so if you'de put some mousse in your hair first. It sounded a bit like we were eating Rice Krispies with all the snap, crackle and pop.

Tea tree oil to treat and prevent spots. My skin erupted in spots everywhere when I tried this. I think my skin isn’t a fan at all

Or men would be keeping it to rub all over their own faces 😉

Does anyone remember Clearasil? Walking round with big splodges of it on your chin emphasising your spots? And the 'Clearasil Cleansing Milk' that could probably have doubled as a toilet cleaner, it was so 'astringent'? Thanks, Jackie magazine, for those recommendations.😆