Beauty blunders.....

Wendi_S

Your biggest beauty blunder....

I've had many 'beauty blunders' from 1/4” bangs to molten hot lava wax along my bikini line ( 4yrs later I am still trying to block that one from my memory!). I figured I'd share my latest one with everyone and maybe we can all share a laugh.

I bought one of those little battery run razors- the one that looks like a pencil and comes with different attachments (no wise *kitten* comments from the peanut gallery please- I am talking about hair removal here!!). The infomercial shows different women painlessly removing hair from unwanted places- peach fuzz from their faces- the ever so lovely womache removal - stray long hairs here and there (oh puhleeze, we all have them)- and trimming their eye brows. They also comment about using it to 'clean up' the bikini area. With so many multiple uses I thought it would be a great little tool.

Three days ago (yes it's taken me three days to come to terms with this) I took it out of the package and thought I'd try it out. I've always wanted to remove the peach fuzz from the sides of my face- it looked so easy- just turn it on and bzzzz it was gone. Actually it was easy. After about 2 minutes my face was sans peach fuzz and soft as a baby's bottom.

Wow- I wonder where else I can use this? I remembered the eye brow attachment. It is meant to trim them- shorten any out of control hairs- not shape them. Hell why not, it can't hurt. I wax my eyebrows on a regular basis but sometimes I notice one or two longer wild hairs. Alrighty then- the eye brows were next. Bzzz one eye brow done. OMG it looked awesome! Where had this tool been all my life? Right about then the phone rang- I took a break from my primping and preening to answer it. While I was chatting on the phone I was playing with the razor- taking the attachment off and putting it back on- over and over. When I finally hung up, I returned to the mirror. I would finish this eye brow then run to the grocery store. I turned the razor on and ran it over my left eye brow. Immediately I knew something was different. It felt much closer to my skin and actually pulled a little. OMFG! I hadn't realized there were two different sides of the attachment- for a close trim and a longer trim. I had literally shaved OFF my left eye brow. Now this sounds bad enough right? What I failed to mention was I had just colored my hair and done my eye brows too. Anyone who has done this before knows for a couple days there is color residue left on your skin. It looked like I had a pained on eye brow!

To make an extremely long story a little shorter- I now have a new hairstyle with long bangs!! I haven't had straight across bangs since I was in elementary school LOL

Care to share your worse beauty blunder to make me feel a little better?

SamiSamiBoBlammy

OMG! LMFAO...

on a side note - I totally just got busted on the internet because you made me laugh so hard!

sexygenius

only if you post pictures of yours!!!

Wendi_S

only if you post pictures of yours!!!

Oh there shall be no pictures!!! My two little girls are still laughing about it- my 7yr old went to school and told her teacher!!!!!!

Kminor67

I used to get my hair and eyebrows colored at the salon, and my hairdresser was a friend, so she used to call me Groucho every time she did it...lol. Well, one time I was getting it done, and I had left my 14 year old in charge of my 8 year old (this was 10 years ago, and I've never talked about it until now), and apparently my boyfriend at the time had showed up to the house. The kids told him where I was, and he came in to find me, while I had the GROUCHO BROWS!!!!! I thought I was going to DIE!

kate205gti

haha ooh dear! thankyou for sharing though! I was once curling my eyelashes with an eyelash curler (aka torture device) with my elbow resting on the bathroom shelf - you can see where this is going cant you.. elbow slipped yanked half the eyelashes out of my right eye!! had to wear one false one for a while and they've still not all grown back as thick as the other side :blushing:

ajbeans

HAHAHA... that's awesome! Reminds me of something I've done before. I got a haircut, and when I got home I noticed that the lady had missed a strand of bangs on the right side, so it was a good inch longer than the rest of my bangs. No big deal, I'll just trim it. Well, I already knew from previous bad experiences that if you pick up the hair and cut it, it will never be the right length, so I decided to just slide the scissors under the strand and snip. Easy peasy! Looked so great. Until I fluffed my bangs to look for more long strands, and noticed that I had also snipped off half my eyebrow. How did I even do that without noticing?

miatyler

I have waxed off half of either eyebrow more times than I can count. You would think I would learn to go have it done professionally. :laugh:

Trovan

LOL!!!

I'm sure glad I'm a guy. The worst I have to endure is my wife tweezing my uni-brow. One day she may make me wax my back though....*shudders*

VidaMia

I was curling my eyelashes once and my elbow slipped off the counter. Lost all my eyelashes on that eye and was quite painful! I never curled them again....

kimballtracy

i once put hair removal cream on my whole face......well my face was very red for a little bit...:blushing: sometimes i can do the stupidest things lol

ajbeans

Here's kind of an un-funny one. My skin is pale and my leg hair is dark and coarse, so even when I shave you can see the hairs under the skin and I look like I have stubble. I got irritated by that, and decided to do a home wax. I followed the instructions carefully, but either I did something wrong or my skin is just too sensitive for waxing, because when I ripped the strip off, it BRUISED my skin along the whole rectangle. The bruise didn't heal for weeks.

ChRiStA_1983

Your biggest beauty blunder....

I've had many 'beauty blunders' from 1/4” bangs to molten hot lava wax along my bikini line ( 4yrs later I am still trying to block that one from my memory!). I figured I'd share my latest one with everyone and maybe we can all share a laugh.

I bought one of those little battery run razors- the one that looks like a pencil and comes with different attachments (no wise *kitten* comments from the peanut gallery please- I am talking about hair removal here!!). The infomercial shows different women painlessly removing hair from unwanted places- peach fuzz from their faces- the ever so lovely womache removal - stray long hairs here and there (oh puhleeze, we all have them)- and trimming their eye brows. They also comment about using it to 'clean up' the bikini area. With so many multiple uses I thought it would be a great little tool.

Three days ago (yes it's taken me three days to come to terms with this) I took it out of the package and thought I'd try it out. I've always wanted to remove the peach fuzz from the sides of my face- it looked so easy- just turn it on and bzzzz it was gone. Actually it was easy. After about 2 minutes my face was sans peach fuzz and soft as a baby's bottom.

Wow- I wonder where else I can use this? I remembered the eye brow attachment. It is meant to trim them- shorten any out of control hairs- not shape them. Hell why not, it can't hurt. I wax my eyebrows on a regular basis but sometimes I notice one or two longer wild hairs. Alrighty then- the eye brows were next. Bzzz one eye brow done. OMG it looked awesome! Where had this tool been all my life? Right about then the phone rang- I took a break from my primping and preening to answer it. While I was chatting on the phone I was playing with the razor- taking the attachment off and putting it back on- over and over. When I finally hung up, I returned to the mirror. I would finish this eye brow then run to the grocery store. I turned the razor on and ran it over my left eye brow. Immediately I knew something was different. It felt much closer to my skin and actually pulled a little. OMFG! I hadn't realized there were two different sides of the attachment- for a close trim and a longer trim. I had literally shaved OFF my left eye brow. Now this sounds bad enough right? What I failed to mention was I had just colored my hair and done my eye brows too. Anyone who has done this before knows for a couple days there is color residue left on your skin. It looked like I had a pained on eye brow!

To make an extremely long story a little shorter- I now have a new hairstyle with long bangs!! I haven't had straight across bangs since I was in elementary school LOL

Care to share your worse beauty blunder to make me feel a little better?

This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have heard/read all day!!! Thanks for the laugh (sorry that it had to be at your expense!!!)

Wendi_S

Here's kind of an un-funny one. My skin is pale and my leg hair is dark and coarse, so even when I shave you can see the hairs under the skin and I look like I have stubble. I got irritated by that, and decided to do a home wax. I followed the instructions carefully, but either I did something wrong or my skin is just too sensitive for waxing, because when I ripped the strip off, it BRUISED my skin along the whole rectangle. The bruise didn't heal for weeks.

OMG... One time I tried waxing my legs- applied the wax- tried ripping it off and it hurt so bad I had to stop. I was then too chicken to finish. I couldn't get the wax off so I just left it figuring it would wear off.... I went about 4 days with it sticking to my pants until my mother told me they sold wax removal cream!!!

kappyblu

Love this thread!

When I was about 18 or 19, my boyfriend and I used to go swimming all the time in the pool at our college. We swam for hours almost every day. It was a lot of fun, BUT this was at a time when I used to lighten my hair A LOT. I am a natural blonde, a natural DARK blonde, that is. I always lightened my hair so light it was like platinum almost. lol Well, all that chlorine started taking its toll on my hair. It was subtle at first, but my hair was turning green. Yep, my hair eventually made me look like the green M&M. One morning, I woke up in horror at how green it was. I refused to leave the house. Just mortified once I realized how green it was. My dad found help at a beauty salon. They gave him a bottle of some "magic potion" haha and in a few minutes, the green was all gone from my hair. I will never forget that. :embarassed:

I also did the too small bangs when I was a teenager and thought I would trim them myself. They were uber short. *shudder*
Also numerous curling iron burns on my forehead--and then there was the time my mom gave me a perm (12 years old) outdoors and it was windy. It was a great big poodle hair mess. :laugh:

MzBug

I haven't had any huge blunders...yet. I do remember once back in the early 70's my mom tried to go blonde. Her natural hair was very dark ash brown. I remember coming home from school and seeing mom sitting at the table crying and talking to her best friend on the phone. Her hair was carrot orange. She had tried her friends at home concoction for platinum blonde hair. Her best friend was a natural light blonde anyway, but she touched up with a peroxide/bleach rinse. I know I laughed (sorry bout that mom!) and asked what happened. She took off to the bedroom and locked herself in. She didn't come out. Dad slept on the couch. We didn't see her until the next afternoon when we got home from school. By then her friend had come over with a store bought box of hair dye and they managed to get her hair a dark brown/auburn color. Boy was it frizzzzzzy though. Looking back I am very suprised that it didn't all fall out!

shanolap

Ohhh you poor thing! I too have gone a little short on the eyebrows, but not to your extreme. My most recent beauty blunder was a few summers ago. I bought those warm up in your hands wax strips from the local CVS store. I figured since I'm not very hairy, my legs would be the perfect area to try these babies out. Not very hairy, yet blond and in the sun they stand out. I tell you they worked like a dream. No shaving for a month! Well if they worked liked a charm on my legs, they WILL work on my armpits too. I see no error in this logic!

On a very warm day (ok hot, like 102 degrees) I commence the underarm hair removal with my new little friends. It's awkward to maneuver in your armpit with the concave, so I really got after it making sure I was going to have the smoothest pits in my town. I admit, it stung! But not as bad as the next day when I had an allergic reaction to the whole event! My underarm swelled up to convex and turned bright red! For the following week I could not wear deoderant, not have the skin touch fabric... let alone itself. In the middle of summer this was not my ideal of smooth underarms!

And there was that bi-level haircut in highschool.......

noltes2

So this isn't about me, but it is caused by me! Every two months or so I give my finance a little trim. It always looks so nice. Well we had just bought a new hair cutting kit and it felt kind of cheap right out of the box! But oh well, I just went about the usual trim, and this just happened to be ON Thanksgiving - before he was going to meet my extended family for the first time (this was two or three years ago).

I noticed the attachment felt a little wobbly, so I held it on with my other hand just to make sure it stayed at the proper length. I was almost complete, when in the blink of an eye I heard something hit the ground.... His eye's were wide and he remained motionless. I casually reached down to pick up the attachment to the razor and was just like "oh darn".... not realizing what just happened. When I looked at his head there was a 1x1 inch BALD spot!!!!! --- insert freakout here ----

So I had to shave him completely bald to even it out. I was so embarrassed, he never ended up meeting my extended family that day!!!! Oh I'm so mean.

amuhlou

I got pretty carried away with the eyebrow tweezing in high school and took a little (or...a lot?) too much off the insides... my brows were very far apart and it looked so strange. I have very dark, prominent brows, so it really showed.

I can't even stand to look at my school pictures from one year because I look like an alien.

Two separate times I damaged my face by trying to remove hair on it. #1 I used those pre-waxed strips and they took off more than just hair...they must have taken off a layer of skin! #2 I must have left creme hair remover for face on too long. Both times I ended up with a really embarrassing, red, blotchy face that couldn't be covered up with makeup! the time with the creme hair remover actually dried my skin out too so there were flaky patches.

jacquejl

:laugh: Hilarious!! Keep 'em comin, he he

Laceylala

OMG you poor thing. Ironically I got the exact same thing as a GIFT from a customer in South Africa over Christmas. Its pink. What makes a man you've never met before buy this as a gift for a supplier? We still laugh about it at work and now I know not to use it!


How about for those who pluck your eyebrows? When you thing you're just tweezing one hair and yank out two or three and BAM! There's a hole? Or how one stupid little hair plucked wrongly can make your brows look two inches shorter?

And this might be tmi..but I was doing some lower body grooming about three weeks ago with some scissors...and cut off two thin strips of skin because I was going Edward Scissorhands fast...NOT the best thing to do. OUCH. Just fyi. I think its scaring too. lol.

Laceylala

I was curling my eyelashes once and my elbow slipped off the counter. Lost all my eyelashes on that eye and was quite painful! I never curled them again....

OMFG. This is why I am deathly afraid of those things!!

mommared53

Once when I was dying my hair I didn't leave the dye formula on long enough and my hair turned out PINK instead of red. :noway: I was HORRIFIED!!! My son loved it and so did one of my (young) co-workers but I couldn't wait until I could color my hair again.

VictorianJade

I remember the ONE time I've gone for waxing... I am Dutch by heritage. My body has white-blonde body hair. It's very FINE, white-blonde body hair.

I also am allergic to everything.
I also have SUPER-sensitive, thin skin. I bruise like a peach.

Why I thought waxing was a good idea, I will never know.

So, I go to a reputable salon, and the woman puts the wax on. As she rips off the strip, she gasps. SHE gasps. This is NOT good. I look down at my bikini line, and see it bleeding. And stubbly. The hair broke in half, because it was so fine. And she ripped off layers of skin. She suggests it might just be because I had a virgin bikini line at that point. Okay, sure. She tries my legs. Same thing. Ripped hair, lost layers of skin, blood. Armpits, same deal.

Two days later, my bikini line, legs, and armpits were like mottled peaches. Black and blue, tender, and scabbing over.

This is why I do not wax.

Wendi_S

And this might be tmi..but I was doing some lower body grooming about three weeks ago with some scissors...and cut off two thin strips of skin because I was going Edward Scissorhands fast...NOT the best thing to do. OUCH. Just fyi. I think its scaring too. lol.

OMG OUCH!!!!

Wendi_S

I am in tears laughing so hard!!!! I don't feel so bad with my one painted brow.....