Page 2 | 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]

caterpillareyebrows · 09/08/2020 02:18

Changed my name for this as I’ve entertained a number of people with these stories.

I have had many beauty fails. Two spring to mind.

Decided to dye my hair ahead of a date with my boyfriend. Nothing new there. Except I decided to use a bit on my eyebrows. Lost track of time and left it on for way too long. Hair was fine. Eyebrows were not. The dye had coloured all the fine hairs around my brows black and I looked like Groucho Marx and then some. It would NOT come off. It was night time so I thought I could get away with it and I would deal with it the next day. However, he proposed over dinner. So I stayed over for a night of sexy time. He must have got a shock the next morning when he saw my comical face in the stark light of day. Still wanted to marry me.

Was living in an impoverished country. Was due to see said boyfriend after some time apart due to respective family emergencies. Friend convinced me she knew a great bikini waxer. I decided to go, perhaps to make up for scaring him with my crazy eyebrows. Asked for a bikini wax but before I knew it I was getting my first accidental Brazilian. Don’t think this woman was too experienced as the wax was too hot and was burning my nether regions. I cried out that it was too hot. So she apologised, and quickly leaned down to BLOW ON IT to cool it down. I left there bald, blistered and embarrassed. Boyfriend still wanted to marry me.

AllNaturalIngredients · 09/08/2020 03:35

I farted during a bikini wax... obviously as she pulled the strip I must have lost control & farted. D

AllNaturalIngredients · 09/08/2020 03:40

There was a moment of horror while it dawned on me what just happened, and awkward silence from therapist. ...to be fair be when she composed herself she said “oh don’t worry it happens to everyone”. The shocked look on her face told me that wasn’t true.

I have severe IBS, my bowel has disgraced me too many times

TheGoldenChild · 09/08/2020 04:16

@ChickenFriedFudge actually cannot stop laughing at the car door excuse

sergeilavrov · 09/08/2020 04:48

Broke my jaw, to reset it they shaved off the baby hair little sideburns. I felt so stupid when it grew back, I shaved again. I’ve been in this cycle for five years, and people ask if I shave. I don’t know what to say to them.

Couldn’t see any pores, never had any blackheads, so two days before my then boyfriend flew in managed to convince myself that my face must be one giant pore that needed sorting out. I bought one of those really sticky black nose strips and put it on. Followed all instructions, gleefully awaiting the grossness of what would come off my face. Pulled it off, and it ripped my skin off. Turns out I don’t have bad pores.

I also have baby like feet, despite years of stress pacing, and at the same time as the nose strip had decided to do a foot mask for the first time. My feet were so soft afterwards I managed to get blisters from walking. Nightmare.

JammyHands · 09/08/2020 05:01

Decided to leave my hair dye on for 60 minutes instead of 45. All well and good. Then two days later all my scalp peeled off. You’ve never seen dandruff like it.

spottygymbag · 09/08/2020 05:08

I stayed with a friend for a weekend over summer school holidays when I was 12. I decided it would be the best time to try out the super strength Sun-in that I imagined would give me beautiful blonde highlights to surprise my DM with when she picked me up.
I sprayed it liberally and put a cap on to go outside. We were in the sun all day and the heat from the cap really activated the Sun-in leaving me with bright ginger hair on my head and much darker lengths. Like a reverse balayage.
DM was definitely surprised and we spent the next 2ish years box dying to tone down the contrast until it grew out enough for a decent cut. Bless her for not laughing or yelling at me and spending hours helping me right the situation.

reginafalange2020 · 09/08/2020 07:44

Decided to get my first ever Brazilian wax. Soon after I came out in huge pussy boils all over my vagina 🤮 was so flippin painful I couldn't even go to work because I couldn't wear underwear.

It soon cleared up though and I didn't have the same reaction again. I bailed after the 3rd or 4th wax though, was so bloody painful I decided I'd rather shave and spend the money on my nails instead!

barbedwired · 09/08/2020 07:53

Wax stripped my DDs upper lip. The resulting tearing off upper layer of skin gave her a Hitler style 'moustache'.

Cue much wailing and she wouldn't go out until it healed. I told her I never said I was a beautician

Witchcraftandhokum · 09/08/2020 07:59

It always amazes me how grown women think Shaving causes hair to grow.

ShebaShimmyShake · 09/08/2020 08:19

I also have baby like feet, despite years of stress pacing, and at the same time as the nose strip had decided to do a foot mask for the first time. My feet were so soft afterwards I managed to get blisters from walking.

I know I'm missing the point, but what mask did you use? I really doubt there's anything that could cure my absolute hooves. Even Footner doesn't touch the rock hard, desert dry, inch thick skin on my heels. I'm pretty sure I could use a cheese grater and remain unhurt. Please tell me what you used!

WellIWasInTheNeighbourhoo · 09/08/2020 08:20

I exfoliated my 17 yr old face using one of those scrubs with the micro beads, managed to get it in my eye and had to go to the doctor to have the beads removed from my eyeball and wear a patch for two weeks.

ShebaShimmyShake · 09/08/2020 08:30

@Witchcraftandhokum

It always amazes me how grown women think Shaving causes hair to grow.

A beautician once told me that it doesn't make hair grow, but it blunts the ends of the hairs so they can look more obvious as they come through.

Does anyone epilate any more or is that out of fashion now? I once tried those godawful sandpaper strip things on my legs (why were they ever in existence???) and rubbed my legs absolutely raw.

Ginfordinner · 09/08/2020 08:31

My lockdown hair. It is died pink, roots are showing and it needs a cut. It is really tragic looking at the moment.

sergeilavrov · 09/08/2020 12:47

@ShebaShimmyShake It was the Sephora Almond Foot Mask, their own brand. I hope your feet are made of tougher stuff than mine!

ShebaShimmyShake · 09/08/2020 13:05

[quote sergeilavrov]@ShebaShimmyShake It was the Sephora Almond Foot Mask, their own brand. I hope your feet are made of tougher stuff than mine![/quote]
Thank you!

farandfew · 09/08/2020 13:15

I used to use really thick, cakey matte foundation and concealer - but not rub it in well enough. So in photos with flash I had beige stripes on my head, nose, under my eyes etc! Also used it on my lips for a short while a la Paris Hilton. The 90s were rough!

YouStupidBoy · 09/08/2020 13:16

@ChickenFriedFudge in a similar vein, at school I removed most of the skin on my upper lip attempting to wax...it was obvious what I had done due to the perfect moustache shape. 13 year or so old me told everyone that I had been splashed with hot oil when I was cooking something causing the marks.....foolproof.

ShebaShimmyShake · 09/08/2020 13:30

@farandfew

I used to use really thick, cakey matte foundation and concealer - but not rub it in well enough. So in photos with flash I had beige stripes on my head, nose, under my eyes etc! Also used it on my lips for a short while a la Paris Hilton. The 90s were rough!

I had this flesh coloured lipstick thing designed to cover up black circles under your eyes. It just turned them blue. Made them even more noticeable because black circles at least look natural.

I never did that "draw lip liner just OUTSIDE of your lips and fill it in with lipstick" thing though. Even I could see how shite that looked.

MsEllany · 09/08/2020 14:14

I used to wax my upper lip without incident. Once though I managed to rip a patch of skin off which healed into a most unsightly scab that looked like a massive cold sore. I just pluck the few hairs now!

When I was 18 I went on a girls holiday to Spain. I took some fake tan as I’m pale and don’t tan naturally, and applied it the first evening. Except I applied it when I was still a bit damp from my shower, and ended up with literal stripes down my legs where I’d dripped It was hilariously awful! It also lasted for aaaagggeeeees .

When I was 15 or so I asked for this really cool haircut at the hairdresser - came out and it was square. I have curly hair and the bloke that cut it clearly had no idea what to do - luckily my mum had taken me and she made him tidy it up to a more natural shape!

MsEllany · 09/08/2020 14:14

Oh I have also waxed my fanny shut, given myself a chemical burn with Nair and taken the top layer of skin off with those weird sandpaper hair removers!

chargeorge · 09/08/2020 14:25

had a spray tan when I was 19 and asked for special attention to boobs because I wanted to go topless on holiday the next week except my boobs ended up darker than the rest of me - interesting look on the beach 😂

SecretWitch · 09/08/2020 14:28

The time I used Sun In to get blonde highlights

The time I decided to have my upper lip threaded instead of waxed.

The time I wore sandals to hike as I didn’t want my new boyfriend to see my beat up old hiking boots.

CorianderLord · 09/08/2020 14:34

I waxed my nethers at home when I was 15. The hair came out... along with all my skin. My best pal came over to see me with my entire mons pubis dripping blood. We ended up bandaging me up in a giant nappy and putting ice on my crotch

Toomuchtooyoung01 · 09/08/2020 14:41

Got my lip and chin waxed and the beauty therapist managed to take some skin off.I was too embarrassed to admit to the bloke I'd just started seeing that I was getting my hairy face waxed so I said I had fallen down the stairs and had a carpet burn