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Worst beauty fails? Just for fun

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3YearsIn · 16/07/2023 17:34

Sitting here waiting for the timer to run out so I can wash out the hair dye. Put an auburn (5WR) in and nearly had a stroke when my hairline turned purple (it’s settled into auburn now). Had me wondering what the worst beauty fails others have had?

My absolute worst was tweezing my brows for the first time at 15 y/o. One was higher and shorter than the other, and no amount of filling in could hide something was amiss. Went to my very first job the next day looking rightly confused 🤨

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EddieHowesShithousingMags · 16/07/2023 23:31

Fairly outing for anyone who knows me. Back in the v early 2000’s I was 39+ weeks pregnant and had a wedding to go to at 40ish weeks. Now obviously I had no idea whether I’d still be pregnant or not but I thought in case I could make it I’d give myself a nice fake tan. Fake tan wasn’t quite what it is these days and I’d never used it before so what i was thinking is anyone’s guess.

Anyway I went into Labour 2 days later and I distinctly recall wailing about my baby thinking their mother had orange hands and a skin disease on her arms and legs. What the Midwives must have thought is beyond me.

By the time the wedding rolled round a few days later I was almost back to normal colour so it was a pointless bloody exercise anyway.

PissedOffNeighbour22 · 16/07/2023 23:44

When I was about 15 I tried a home waxing kit on my underarms. It was really sticky and I had to keep my arm in the air for ages according to the instructions.

I then took a call and about half an hour later when I put the phone down realised I'd put my arm down at the start of the call and forgotten all about the wax.

My arm was completely stuck and it took me forever to separate the skin. Ridiculously painful.

I've never been near wax since 😄.

dubyalass · 17/07/2023 00:02

In the mid-90s a friend had a brand new epilator and said she did her armpits with it. I was going to Glasto and didn't want the faff of shaving so borrowed her epilator. Fuck me it was painful but I persisted. Then had to carry a heavy rucksack all the way to and through the festival which was equally painful with the straps rubbing on my poor pits. What an idiot.

SmoothSeasDoNotMakeGoodSailors · 17/07/2023 00:29

Back in the late 80s I asked my friend to do a home perm on me. She showed up with another friend and they did half each. One friend put the curlers in really tight, the other not so. It looked ridiculous. My aunt offered to trim my hair to even it out and I ended up with the king of mullets.

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 17/07/2023 03:11

Oh boy have I got a few. Settle in.

I booked a local beauty school appointment for my first bikini wax and in a mad notion I decided to go for a Hollywood. In for a penny in for a pound. This was my first ever wax of any kind.

Anyhow I turn up to the appointment and the newly qualified beautician did what I thought was meant to happen ignoring a burning in my nether regions.

Later that evening I went out for a walk and about half a mile from home disaster struck, a little piece of Wax that was causing the burning dislodged from where it was in my vag, taking a lump of skin with it. Causing severe bleeding so much so that before I got back to the house my jeans were destroyed forever. I sat on the bottom step and hadn't realized what happened yet, the blood came pouring out and my hallway looked like a crime scene. I rang the out of hours doctor who told me if was probably my period unexpectedly except I had soaked 2 bath towels in less than 20 minutes. They suggested that I come to the center and pick up some northisorone and I didn't need to be seen. (Coz period obviously ).

Friend went to the centre and picked up the medication and when he walked in, I was about to pass out in the hallway with blood everywhere. He did the sensible thing and called an ambulance and paramedics took me after hospital where I left a trail of blood from the ambulance to the ward. I kept being asked was I miscarrying no as no chance I could be pregnant. Poor friend was mortified as they kept asking him how far along I was, assuming that he would be a father. His husband would have other thoughts on that.

On the gynae ward it was discovered that the bleeding was from a wound in my vag and it was stitched up in theatre once the bleeding was stopped and I needed blood transfusions due to losing over 3.5 pints of blood in less than 3 hours. I was hospitalized for 5 days in total as it was as good as time as any to find out that northestirone gives me anaphylaxis due to a compounding agent. Fun times.

On a similar vein about two years later I met a new man and decided that while I wanted to wax that wasn't a good option for me due to previous experience, so I reached for the Veet and gave myself chemical Burns over my flaps an managed to get some Veet into my urethra. Yes it was painful I didn't realise about the chemical Burns until was getting down to action with new man that night.

In some good news due to neuropathy I no longer have feeling in my saddle region and don't care about hair down there anymore.

Nugg · 17/07/2023 04:33

Loads of hair related ones as a result I'll never home dye my hair ever again 🤣

Firstly I had been growing my hair to have extensions (previously pixie length!). Decided the day before my colour matching appointment that I wanted long blonde hair, not it's mousey coloured natural state. As I had dozens of times before, I got a box dye.

No. I didn't. I had picked up a peroxide home highlighting kit and lathered my hair in it.

DH returned from taking the kids out to me sobbing in the bathroom as every hair on my head was literally bleached white. I looked albino. I opened the door to show him eventually and our toddler DS actually laughed!!

Took hundreds of pounds and 3 weeks to put right at the salon. Ugh. Extensions looked shit too 😆

Second time, before I listened to myself, I'd gone deep mahogany and had a lush shiny chin length bob. It had some regrowth so yet a-bloody-gain I fancied being lighter. I researched rubbishly and discovered I should strip the colour first then redye/tone in my chosen shade.

As a result I spent my long awaited shopping day in London looking like coco the clown with a hay stack of orange hair with bleached white 2" roots. I remember walking through Selfridges beauty hall and parting the staff and customers like Moses as they all nudged and stared. Well, maybe one or two did but it felt like dozens!

Both incidents 20th years ago but never since have a dyed my own hair!

Nugg · 17/07/2023 04:37

@NotanotherboxofFrogs oh my good god that sounds horrific...both things!!

noglow · 17/07/2023 06:02

Sun in

pictoosh · 17/07/2023 07:02

@NotanotherboxofFrogs oh my very god indeed! Aaaargghh!

I have never interfered with my bush beyond a slight nail scissor trim to neaten up. I never will either.

KPops22 · 17/07/2023 08:11

I have a barely noticeable widow's peak which seemed to the 14 year old me like something a vampire would have so I shaved it off! This was followed by months/years of regrowth with hair sticking up through my middle parted long straight hair.

Sweetleftfood · 17/07/2023 08:25

My best friend was a trainee hairdresser at 18 and I was her guinea pig, she was attempting a perm on me and totally burned of half of my fringe, it grew out like a spiky 80s hairstyle and looked ridiculous for ages.

Another one was shaving my legs the day before going on holiday and took off half the shin, of course it got infected on holiday and I still have the scar to show off

3YearsIn · 17/07/2023 12:49

BobbinThreadbare123 · 16/07/2023 20:16

Let's face it, the eyebrows in the late 90s. Bit skinny.

Sperm brows!!!

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