Remembering the time I tried to tone down the red in my face and ended up with a green face-share your fashion and beauty errors

[DarrellRivers]

Title says it all, was a student, prone to blushing and getting flushed in bars and parties etc
So I purchased a green cream from The Body Shop which you meant to wear under your foundation to down down rosy complexions
I thought I was looking pale and interesting until some-one (a cute boy) asked me why my face was green
I'm trying to think of some other interesting style statements that I have made over the years, there must be plenty
Share with me your less than finest hours

Well in my constant desire to cover my greys I have dyed the wall, toilet seat, shower curtain, numerous towels, and last time I walked through a blob of dye and padded all around my bedroom carpet oblivious.

I used to be a goth.

A hard-core goth.

Need I say more?

I flirted with grunge
Was a sloane at school, round neck jumpers, long cardigans and stripy shirts and then made a vvvvv good friend who was very cool, leggy, titian haired grunge affeciendo
I tried it, i bought jumpers from Camden market which people had died in and got my nose pierced

cyb, have also got a dyed bathroom

Arizona - It's all in the perception and the perspective.

I now tell people I was a "post-punk modernist". To the uninitiated it may well have appeared a little goth-like. But from the enlightened perspective - a completely different reality.

So many, so many to choose from ...

The night I went dancing in Barry M glitter make-up, only to discover it ran. So spending several hours, contorted under a tap, promising God I would be good and spend my life working for the dispossessed, if only I could have my eyesight back.

Following that all-white clothing trend in the nineties. Eeek! I have a horrible feeling I may have looked like a prophylactic.

Recently ... trying out the hair-rollers thing (bl*y mn!), before a party, only to discover I couldn't get them out of my hair. I thought I was going to have to call out firemen to cut me free. I cried. In between swearing.

Dyed my hair red and it ran in the rain. I looked like a walking massacre.
Dyed my hair bright orange, I was going for blonde.
Dyed my dark brown hair black and looked like a corpse.
Dyed (sensing a theme here) my entire house.
Tried using Henna and turned the kitchen red.
Shaved the back of my head completely bald, by accident, last year.
Tried fake tan in school, a loooong time ago and had fluorescent orange legs for days.
Tried to trim my eyebrows and managed to cut my stupidly long eyelashes.

Wore a short lycra dress to The Gallery @Turnmills
It was so hot and sweaty, the dress shrank to bottom level as it got damp
Was wearing big pants, thank goodness, and most people too off their noodles to notice
Had to pull the dress down lots to get into the taxi home

There are too many pictures for me to deny, or re-write history, hbfac. Believe me, I have tried.

How on god's green earth do you accidently shave the back of you head, cocolepew?

I was envious of my friends high hairline and thought I'd look so much better if I had more forehead on show (I was stupid and vain young at the time).

I immac'd my sideburny bits and downy bits around my forehead off.

I had an allergic reaction to hair removal cream and my face was as red as a monkey's arse for a few days.

I continued to look stupid as downy bits regrew as stubble.

hahahaha sparky, classy

Arizona, I cut my own hair and forgot to put a blade on the clippers [gulp]

Aged 16 I drank half a botle of benylin (twas a fad started by me) applied 6 wash temporary red dye to my blonde hair...well, half of it. Then fell asleep in the bath and woke up with irreversible orange.

At the same age I used my lady shave to remove ALL the hair from my male friend's head, from the top of his ears down. He looked like a monk until it grew out, poor thing It was a Sunday night and the next day at school was not an easy one, bless him.

I have a looooooong history of disfiguring myself and others.

Cocolepew, easily done.

Did it accidentally to my DP recently - he had a landing strip running upwards from his neck.

I couldn't apologise enough to him and he was such a star about it. (but that's why I love him)

Tried to dye my hair blonde too soon after a perm (it was the 80's...although I still don't know why I had my hair permed cos its already curly!)put in on in bathroom, walked past mirror and it had gone white! (except at roots) Spent next few months dying it brown with dye for grey hair (it got lighter with every wash)

Also once bleached eyebrows and they went orange

Have also accidently shaved DPs hair to the scalp when using clippers with no guard on, more than once

Oh yes. The Perm [sobs]

I won a Madonna lookalike (and dance-a-like) contest.

At the time of Desperately Seeking Susan

i dyed my hair very red - i actually didn't know what it was the next morning, as i go tv drunk directly afterwards. It lasted 6 months.

i did the cowgirl look in high school, and due to yoyo weight gain/loss my denim skirt hung so loose my knickers showed (not that common a thing then)

as a student i wore a gym skirt & vest combo even in winter, without tights. I ran everywhere to stay warm.

LOL eDGAR.bET YOU WRRE SLIM TOHGUH.

aaah yes the perm
i managed to persuade my mum to let me get one aged 15/16 and spent months washing and drying it as straight as possible and avoiding the rain

Bodies [fondly reminisces]

I'm very dark haired but desperate to look more like my blonde best friend (who I was very jealous of) I used sun in - which turned me an unflattering shade of ginger with dark brows. So I used jolen to dye my brows and they too went ginger. But a different shade.

It looked totally with my olive skin (to be clear I think ginger hair is lovely - just not on me )

Crimping! Saw them advertised recently but haven't seen anyone with hair actually crimped, teenagers seem more stylish now with less "home tratments". I can tell my DD is going to cost me a fortune in hairdressing/beauty salon when she's older...no home perms for her!

Shiney PMSL at your red stubble

I did the Domestos thing aged 14 too, only thank goodness I only did a few streaks at the front. They did go the desired blonde but after a couple of days those bits looked like an old paint brush. And I was paranoid for weeks that you could still smell the bleach and that I smelled like a toilet.

And I crimped. Not just the top layer but every darned hair on my head. Which is a lot. I looked like I had been electrocuted.

And I did rag rolling. The end result was not quite the permed look I was hoping for. It was more 'mad professor' as I had rolled them the wrong way and in varying thicknesses over my head.

Also did the green face look. Ditto orange sun-in hair and various henna disasters. Oh and 1980s bleach highlights that looked uncannily like early grey streaks. But nothing as bad as the tinted clearasil I put on before a party at uni and had an allergic reaction to.....

fastened my bbodysuit up outside my jeans after the loo. Walked back into Student union bar. tried to laugh it off "Oh yeah, I meanrt to do it, haha".
Died inside. It was purple.