Tell me your beauty disasters

MinnieJackson · 2020-08-08T09:03:34+00:00

I'm feeling --Hungover-- poorly and need a laugh. Mine was bleaching my top lip when I had a smokers moustache. Literally bleaching. Neat bleach on a cotton bud rubbed on my top lip resulting in blisters [blush] I also sometimes exfoliate with a sock if my face cloths are in the wash...[blush]

Thingsdogetbetter · 08/08/2020 10:49

20 years ago went on a sunbed for first (and last) time. Used the accelerant because I'm an idiot and come out like a glowing, painfully burnt lobster. Was on my way to friend's birthday party so couldn't go home and hide. Had to run to chemist and buy aftersun. Then had to sit in the park and slander myself in it like a completely red loon. I was the joke hit of the party!

EatsShootsAndRuns · 08/08/2020 10:56

When I was 12 used to put nail varnish remover on zits. thank the Lord I discovered Clearasil before I had done too much damage to my teenage skin!

IHaveBrilloHair · 08/08/2020 10:58

Once almost waxed myself shut trying to do a bikini wax

NoemiaElara · 08/08/2020 11:09

An 11 year old me used nair on my barely there blonde 'mustache'. Didn't leave it on long enough and ended up with a singed blond mustache instead. Also around the same time I shaved round my belly button which has resulted in just 3 very dark hairs growing there ever since.

Too many hair box dye disasters to mention. Surprised I've actually got any hair left. I've had to let my greys run rampant over lockdown because I didn't want a repeat of these hair disasters!

puzzledpiece · 08/08/2020 11:18

I had some tiny lines on my upper lip. None elsewhere and I asked a beauty therapist if there was anything she could do. She suggested fillers. I said I hate the trout pout and don't want anything remotely fishlike on my face. She said it wouldn't do that, just fill out the lines. She promised me!

I ended up with a trout pout and couldn't look anyone in the eye for 6 months.

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MinnieJackson · 08/08/2020 12:51

@puzzledpiece omg! Did it hurt?

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Rumbletumbleinmytummy · 08/08/2020 14:15

I once decided to wax myself downstairs. I had both the wax I used for my eyebrows and this wax that was in a block. I read the instructions and thought, I've got this!
I know what to do!
I didnt bother to trim my pubes or anything, just smoothed wax from leg to leg.by the time I'd finished it was set, and it hurt SO much. I gave up through fear I was really going to hurt myself. So I sat on the toilet, thinking i could just sit there and pull off the wax gently over time, but nope, some of the still wet wax was on the toilet seat. I had to call my boyfriend at the time to help me cut it off.

In hindsight, I really shouldn't have used the whole block of wax on that small area, and I should've trimmed and not sat on the toilet with it still stuck there.

Many tanning disasters, many hair dye disasters.

iklboo · 08/08/2020 14:26

When I was 18 it was the fashion to have a light perm for body (1980s). Mum's friend at work said her sister was a hairdresser and would do it cheaper, so of course I said yes.

Turns out she was a trainee hairdresser whose only experience of perms was the 'old lady / Phylis Pearce' type she did at the local old folks' home. I looked ridiculous. Plus it was frizzy and dry because she'd ballsed up the chemicals. As soon as she left I went up and washed it about five times but it didn't budge much. It was weeks before I could do something to put it right.

ShebaShimmyShake · 08/08/2020 14:41

Washed my hair in egg to make it shine. I wish they'd told me to use cold water.

ChickenFriedFudge · 08/08/2020 14:45

Ah yes, Nair, the stuff teenage nightmares are made of

I was 13 and decided to tidy up my eyebrows with it. Slathered the whole sodding sachet over my whole eyebrows. Left for HALF A BLOODY HOUR. Rinsed off, of course all my eyebrows were almost totally gone, with just some ridiculous tufts left.
Don't worry though, I had a fool proof cover up - Told everyone I had opened the car door and in doing so scraped my eyebrows off.

MummBraTheEverLeaking · 08/08/2020 15:00

Awful perm in my teens. I wanted curls, got frizz. The day after at school the boys behind me went Mummbra! And then pretended to stick their fingers in a plug socket. Nice. Then before it grew out I bleached it, my poor hair ! It's ok know though, went red at 19 and never looked back!

LynnThese4reSEXPEOPLE · 08/08/2020 20:00

Last year I used a blackhead strip and it tore loads of skin off my nose!

amusedbush · 08/08/2020 20:18

Told everyone I had opened the car door and in doing so scraped my eyebrows off

Actually cackling here, that’s hilarious

When I was 18 I tried to bleach my hair. I’d seen hairdressers using foils so I used normal tinfoil and I don’t know if it conducted too much heat or what, but I melted my hair. It had the texture of overcooked pasta when I rinsed it off, and it was so burnt and mushy I could literally pull clumps of hair out at the root. When it was dry, I could see a shower of broken hair falling to the floor as I brushed it

It took years to grow out.

crumpets20 · 08/08/2020 23:36

When I was at college many years ago, I went OTT with some bronzer on just my face. I don't know what it did but it ended up going bright orange, I mean serious Oompa Lumpa face. I had no way of getting it off so I just had to ride it out.
We were just starting in college so we had a bit of ice breaking around a class and one girl said she couldn't understand why people had orange faces with foundation. Hmm, not embarrassed at all...

Nottherealslimshady · 08/08/2020 23:41

@NoemiaElara I also have three hairs near my belly button from shaving.

Shaved my arms, now they're hairy as hell.
Put nair on my armpits and forgot about it.
Tried to wax my pubes, never felt pain like that!

FrenchBoule · 08/08/2020 23:43

Dyed my hair pink in attempt to give my mousy blond a pretty shade(colouring shampoo was apparently washable (lie) and subtle(another lie).

Used Veet instead of Nair on my bikini area- triggered massive reaction with blisters (applied just before my best friend’s wedding).

Dyed my hair ginger with henna. I love ginger colour hair but I look shit with it.

First attempt at using facial wax strips to curb my bushy eyebrows- do both at the same time otherwise you’ll end up looking like Picasso model.

Applied false tan without wearing gloves...

LockdownLemon · 08/08/2020 23:43

My whole life has been a beauty disaster.

FrenchBoule · 08/08/2020 23:48

@LockdownLemon really? I’m not a beauty (by my standards) and sadly believed my ex telling me he was the only one to appreciate my looks.
Sadly I can see from a very few pics that I was beautiful, he just managed to convince me otherwise.

I’m more conscious of my looks and imperfections now but it’s not looks that matters.
Anything I could help you with? Asking genuinely 🙂

Sugartitties · 09/08/2020 00:06

During lockdown i decided to wax my tash, managed to take a couple of layers of skin off, you know when the skin underneath looks wet. Took the corners of my mouth off too...... then I got a call we were back in work on Monday two days laters. Holy fuck what was I gonna say. I work with only men too. Told them I bought a dodgy lipstick from Ebay that caused a rash!

1Morewineplease · 09/08/2020 00:12

@iklboo

When I was 18 it was the fashion to have a light perm for body (1980s). Mum's friend at work said her sister was a hairdresser and would do it cheaper, so of course I said yes.

Turns out she was a trainee hairdresser whose only experience of perms was the 'old lady / Phylis Pearce' type she did at the local old folks' home. I looked ridiculous. Plus it was frizzy and dry because she'd ballsed up the chemicals. As soon as she left I went up and washed it about five times but it didn't budge much. It was weeks before I could do something to put it right.

Hahahahaha!!!!! Oh yes... me too!

sideorderofchips · 09/08/2020 01:32

Went and got my eyebrows waxed.

Was allergic to the wax

Shaved my pubes

Itched for weeks

Bleached purple hair

Went mint green.....

Dita73 · 09/08/2020 01:54

Used to put toothpaste on my spots,had bad skin as a teenager. I used a green spearmint one which was fine until the day I went to the shop and forgot my face was covered with minty green patches. Mortified!
I also had pink and purple dreadlocks put in my hair. I don’t think I need to say anymore about that

hadtojoin · 09/08/2020 02:04

Had highlights twice at the hairdressers and decided I wanted to go completely blonde.
So of course I did a home hair bleach, took off the towel when I finished and there was this strange woman with peach hair looking back at me. Couldn't face going to a hairdressers and admitting my stupidity, so bought 5 different blonde colours from boots - wearing a wooly hat in the summer - Yes it was that bad !! and finally toned it down.
Then decided blonde really didn't suit me and went back to mousey a week later.

hadtojoin · 09/08/2020 02:14

Oh, and a workmate (bank clerk) put a box dye on her blonde hair to give it a tint of copper, she had a phone call from a friend and ended up leaving it 4 times longer than it said and it had turned tangerine orange. Spent the next day in the hairdressers trying everything to tone it down. She came into work the day after, only to have a customers little boy loudly ask ' Why has that lady got orange hair?'

Hairthrowaway · 09/08/2020 02:16

When I was in year 11 (so not even year 7 or an age where it was acceptable) I had my long hair cut into a bob and also bleached my dark hair for the first time. When into school on Monday with awful short ginger hair and was literally the talk of the school even teachers commented on how weird it was and all my mates said it looked better before. It was such a dramatic change and I wished it only cut or coloured it instead of both!