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MinnieJackson · 08/08/2020 10:03

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

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user00010304 · 09/08/2020 14:44

When I was around 13 I picked up a bunch of hair at the top of my head, and chopped it off.

Then proceeded to spike the short bits up and walk around in public 😒

EuphegeniaDoubtfire · 09/08/2020 15:06

Wash in - wash out red hair dye on my naturally blonde hair when I was 14.

It did not wash out and turned my hair a horrible orange.

Also, I used to iron my hair. It ended up frazzled.

ShebaShimmyShake · 09/08/2020 16:45

I'm amazed at how many women have lost skin from a face wax, even when done professionally. I didn't know it was so common.

AliTheMinx · 09/08/2020 16:50

Oh. So many....

When I first shaved my legs aged about 13/14, I did it dry and cut them to shreds.

My naturally blonde hair turned green on holiday due to chlorine levels in the pool.

I had my teeth whitened a few days before my wedding and then on the day of the wedding the skin around my mouth started peeling off...

I used lipliner instead of eyebrow pencil for about a week before a kind friend told me I had red eyebrows!

Sooooooo many streaky fake tan/orange fingernail disasters!

blurpityblurp · 09/08/2020 17:41

Shaving doesn’t make you grow hairs. Puberty makes you grow hairs. Those hairs would have grown anyway.

Centaurpede · 09/08/2020 17:44

Trying to curl my hair using one of those heated cylinder stylish brush things. It kept getting stuck, but I untangled and preserved anyway. Then it got stuck right at the top of my forehead 😳 I had to cut my hair off and had to wait months for this inch thick piece at the front to grow back long enough to do anything with 😭

Centaurpede · 09/08/2020 17:45

Persevered not preserved!

SecretDancer · 09/08/2020 17:57

I went with (now DH) to his work Xmas do, fancy hotel affair with posh frocks etc
I spent ages trying to glue false lashes in place, we were already late for arrival so in my panic I gave up and decided to just curl them and use mascara but didn't remove the glue.. pulled all my top lashes out on one eye. I remember crying in the mirrored lift looking at my carefully made up lower eye lashes

TheSunIsStillShining · 09/08/2020 18:17

My mum's a beautician, so I practically half grew up in a salon.
This resulted in me hating everything about what goes on in there .... but that's a different story. But I can, at least, wax my own leg perfectly :)

At 14 i had very long , very dark brown hair, ended somewhere under my ass. I used to sit on it and it would pull, so one day from school to home i dropped into a hairdressing salon and got it chopped to about 3 centimeters long. And if I was there already had it colored (permanent) to bright red.

Got home, knocked, mum opened the door said fuck it and closed the door in my face :) It took 3 more tries to get in.

I have dyed my hair for the past 30 years at home, but almost always with professional colors (from my mum). One time I wanted a quick touch up before going on holiday, so went into shop, bought a nice bright red color - it said permanent.

  1. It turned my hair pink. God knows why.... But it was about 2 cm long, so I didn't really care, it'll grow out fast enough.
  2. Next day went into the swimming pool on holiday (remember: permanent...) and ended up with nice bright red streaks in the water. The manager accused me of going in whilst having the period without a tampon. I had to prove multiple times that the red came from my pink extra short hair.
Never figured out what happened.

Hate sunbeds, used them a few times as a teen. Few years ago had to work all summer,no hols and thought I'd treat myself to a tan. Unbeknownst to me I had developed some weird thing that if i don't put sun blocking cream above my upper lip it'll get much darker fast. So ended up with a nice mustache for 2 years.

CornedBeef451 · 10/08/2020 18:03

@TheSunIsStillShining I get a Hitler freckle moustache if I get too much sun!

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