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So we’ve all (male or female) probably had some sort of beauty or cosmetic catastrophe at some point or another. Whether it’s crazy tan lines, lashes falling into your romantic dinner, bad reactions to products or a simple broken nail – these things can bring trauma and humiliation to us all.
Its always comforting to know you are not alone, and hear about the trials of fellow beauty seekers, from which we can perhaps learn and avoid similar experiences.
Nail polish melting off my nails whilst on holiday was one of my weirdest beauty disasters (stick to reputable brands in hot weather), along with hair getting sucked into the back end of a hairdryer and ending up in knots, (watch what you’re doing when drying your hair) lol.
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Closing date: 14 June 2015 Midnight. Winner will be drawn from UK entrants.
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every time I try to apply a self tanning lotion it ends up in a disaster
Hopefully trial and error will eventually pay off 😐
I once got carried away plucking my eyebrows and ended up with a very interesting look!
Classic disaster!
Never go for dark spray tan! Took 3 exfoliating showers to get back to the glow
Oh no, that can go terribly wrong!!😣
Having my hair crimped not a good look on me back in the ninties
Hmm, never been keen on crimping myself – I remember having a Babyliss crimper – my hair just looked very unnatural 😟
Putting blue streaks in my hair – after a few weeks it looked like a seagull had pooped on me!
Hair colour experiments are always doors leading straight to disaster lol😬
Bleaching my hair when I was a teenager — it was a mistake
Always a classic disaster waiting to happen, well done for getting through the worst of it 😊
Having to shave all my hair off due to a complete dying of hair disaster!. Oh I cried. Dxx
Wow that’s extreme!!
Oh yeah just a bit but it was the only way lol!. Dxx
over plucking!
I try and have each eyebrow exact and in the past would have to keep plucking more from each side until I had ridiculously thin eyebrows
That’s a disaster for sure!!
Waxed my own eyebrows at home. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how that one turned out 😛
Oh no!! 😬
I decided to let a lady at Chelsea Brows in a shopping centre demonstrate their eyebrow pencil and stencils, I’d been desperate to get someone to do them properly as i ended in failure everytime at home (I have platinum blonde eyebrows and one eyebrow slightly higher than the other) – well i looked ridiculous, it looked like i had two great big dirty wonky catapillars on my face – and me being as polite as i am am, just smiled and then made a swift exit home to get it off my face! – i could actually see people sniggering at me as i walked through the shopping centre to get home!
😬 Well done for making it home (without a hat to cover them) lol
A friend who was training to be a beauty therapist (now fully qualified and is doing really well) had been waxing my eyebrows for about a year, she was on holiday and they needed doing so I bought some of the shaped wax strips to do them myself. Well the shape was ok but I was left with red spots of dried blood where every hair had been pulled from. I had to restyle my hair to cover my brows for a few days. #mybeautydisaster
Ooooo sounds painful 😬
I attempted to dye my hair bright red and instead it went bright orange – not a good look!
Russian roulette vs hair dye = not much difference 😧
Had my eyebrows waxed which was great until i got home and saw how wonky they were, not happy
😥 Not good
I had put on mascara and forgot when I went out a fly flew into my eye so I started rubbing it, when I,d finished my eye looked as though it had a big bruise round it talk about looked like I got a punch in the eye , I walked home like it nowonder I was getting funny looks the embarrassment
That’s just typical!! 😕
Thinking I’d had so many years of practice that I could do my makeup without a mirror!
I honestly don’t know how that could ever be a good idea, especially when using implements around your eyes 🙈
Trying to put brown highlights into my blonde hair to try and look like Limahl back in the 80s!
Yikes 😯
I dyed my brown hair red, but my blond strips in my hair went pink.
🙈 🙊 Oh dear!!
My beauty disaster was doing my make up in the car (hubby driving) on way into work, and I forgot to put on my eyebrows and mascara so had a lovely foundation and lippy but no eyes all day- I never even realised!
That’s a definite disaster – they eyebrow in particular gives the face it’s definition 😩
80’s perm! that stayed with me far too long
Ha ha, they were cool once 😊
My beauty disaster was forgetting I hadn’t put any make up on at all 1 pale face all day
Ooooo how could you forgett!! Must have been one heck of a busy day that day lol 😮
Thinking black lipstick was a good idea trust me it’s not
Whoa, I’ve never tried that one – bit scary lol 🙀
Cutting all my hair off and dying the remainder black…. not a good look!
Drastic hair move for sure!! 😯
I have a beauty disaster daily!!!! I can never get my eye make up the same on each eye so always look very odd!!! The kids at the school I work at are always quick to point it out – IN EVERY LESSON!!! Gotta feel sorry for me!
You poor thing Eve, we can all relate, but having the kids rubbing salt in the wound really doesn’t help!! Trial and error is how we eventually get it right i guess 😌
trying to dye my hair back to bleach blonde after it was black… that did not go well
Extreme!! Best left to the professionals I think – your bravery is admirable lol 😨
Fake eyelashes! Felt like i had butterflys for eyelashes and when they came out they ripped half of my natural one out too! Never again x
Thanks for sharing – that’s awful, when done properly this shouldn’t happen, Eyelure glue is the most reputable, and you need only apply it sparingly. Hope you haven’t given up on false lashes – they’re great!!
trying out a new eyeliner for a show and not realising it was dripping down my cheeks until in between sets.
also i had my eyebrows threaded and they made them so uneven even my husband couldn’t pretend! the sweet man tried to help even as I cried on the couch…..
The eyeliner – that’s not funny. The eyebrows, really not funny – it’s like over plucking, sometimes they don’t grow back the same!! Thanks for sharing 😊
Oh dear lol. I’d have to say my biggest beauty uh-oh is when I was using one of those electronic brow shavers…
I was touching up my brows one night and the lighting sucked.
All of a sudden, I saw a bunch of little hairs fall in the sink! I turn off the shaver, and was confused bc my eye brows were still there!
So where did all those little hairs come from?!?
Well… My eyelashes.
Hahaha it was horrible. Luckily, I have normal eyelashes again. And now, I stick to the mini brow razors (that are not electronic!!) lol.
PS: I live in the US, so I’m not eligible for the contest. (I just wanted to let you know!)
I look forward to your future posts! (I just followed you through wordpress 😊)
<3 Heather Lynn
From Heathers Treasure
OMG, you couldn’t make this up 😨 😩 😪 😫 😬 lol, that’s up there with the most unlikely disasters ever, thank goodness they grew back – I’d have been wearing false ones in the meantime. I’ve only ever used tweezers (and will continue to do so after reading this), yikes!! Thanks for sharing
I once paid to have my makeup done professionally for a wedding I was a bridesmaid in. Let’s just say I ended up looking like a mix between a drag queen and a clown. With no time to fix it at the house I ended up taking wet wipes and makeup into the car on the way to the church. My face was bright red from all the scrubbing trying to get it off so I didn’t look my best in those wedding pictures.
Oh no!!! 😭 It’s always a gamble letting someone do your make-up – especially if they’ve never done it before on you. Hope you managed to enjoy they day😊
I once went to a college training salon to have my eyebrows waxed, Halfway through the waxing the student ran out of the room – then came back in with her lecturer who told me she had ripped my eyebrow off !
I had to have a long fringe for a while !
😦 Bravery Award goes to Lisa Jones for allowing a student to even come near her with wax lol.
My mum in the 80’s when perms were all the rage did a home perm on my hair, but she put the end solution on first and then the perming solution. My poor hair 🙁 all I can remember is my Dad rushing to the shops and he got something to remedy it, but I never had my hair permed again
OMG, that could have ended really badly, thankfully you still had a full head of hair, definitely a disaster!! 😬
I’m in the US so I don’t qualify for the contest but I can add a story anyway!
I once applied sunless tanner day & night for about a week so that I was SUPER tan. I thought I looked so great until one day I wore ankle socks & running shoes outside for anout 8 hours, took them off & realized that the combination of my sweat & socks removed all the tanner from my ankles & feet. Ooos! Haha
Oh no, yikes, and I guess we would never think a little sweat could do so much beauty damage lol, crikey, thanks for sharing 🙂
Mascara that smudged my face
Yes – giving us the ‘panda look’ lol
wrong color foundation
….especially when people don’t pay attention the the neck – neck and face end up being two different colours 🙂
picking foundation that was too orange lol
Nobody is naturally orange, yet make up companies are always using orange as their main tint – why? Annoying.
Put concealer on my spots… And got distracted, coming home later to find I had big beige dots on my face where I had forgotten to blend it in!
Ohh that’s a disaster for sure! Blend, blend, blend lol
Applying a gel facemask all over my face, it goes from a gel to a peel off mask. I smeared it all over my eyebrows not thinking and when i peeled it off it ripped off my entire eyebrows!! i was devastated.
OMG, really, I didn’t realise they were that sticky-strong.
Plucking my eyebrows too thin and taking just one more out – leaving a bald patch!
Easily done, definitely a disaster – thank goodness for brow pencils.
I always end up looking like a clown when I let my daughters do my make up, they think it helps to enhance my beauty
Awww, I guess it’s the thought that counts!
Mine are always hair related!! Complete frizz bomb!!
Nightmare, good conditioners /hair serum emergency lol
Most of my beauty disasters have involved fake tan. I’m naturally very pale so when I’ve used a dark brand it can gone streaky, orange and patchy. Urgh!
Crikey, sounds like a nightmare, maybe a spray tan might be better.
My beauty disaster was when I was younger I used to buy darker foundation to my skin tone and plastered it on thinking I was cool lol I had no idea
The things we do when we’re young lol
Always have disasters with eye liner! Just can’t seem to find one that works for me!
A liquid liner pen might help – they’re was to control and go on like a thin felt tip pen.
My beauty disaster – Rimmel “Heather Shimmer” lipstick in my teens with Blue mascara and purple HAIR mascara…. Glitter spray on top of all of this. Wow!
Oooo sparkly!!
ooo disasters well where do i start firstly one eye brow amazing the second is always shorter or i take a little too much off than i had realised.foundation mmm i find putting this on i forget and always get a orange streak on 1 side of my chin and side of face after losing concentration while sorting 2 children out
Aww, who said multi-tasking was easy!
Haha – where to start:) Usually I start off quite presentable, but when I get home look like a panda. The mystery is why I don’t realise this during night out – or does it just happen on the journey home?
Ha ha, been there – I think it might be the products – some products stay on nicely, others don’t!! False lashes might be a better option than lots of mascara, and liquid eyeliner seems less likely to smudge.
I was experimenting with my makeup & thought hmm i’l have black eyebrows & it DID NOT look good. I looked like a proper mega big drag queen :/
I had fake tan on my whole body but left out my face…
I have pale face so basically i did my makeup neat BUT mega bright pink blusher on my cheeks….
Lol!
Thanks to magazines & youtube i got my makeup sorted.
Thanks for this competition.
xx
Thanks for sharing, yes black eyebrows can look very harsh, especially on fair skin tones, and disasters with fake tan seem to be a tradition everyone using it has to experience at least once lol!!
Mine are always hair related. Like 2 weeks ago when we didn’t realize the hair dye was actually a lightener as well and my hair looked yellow! Had to get a couple of brown ones to put through it!
OMG, what a nightmare!!
I was abroad on company business and wanted to quickly put my make-up on between breakfast and checking out. As I was rushing to put my powder on I caught my cheekbones with a very heavy make-up brush and gave myself a massive black eye, quite tricky to explain to my colleagues.
Hmm I walked into a door, or I hit myself with a make-up brush!!! You couldn’t make it up lol
the time (and only time) I tried self-tan lotion – looked like I had been tangoed 🙁
Yikes!!
I once used dark red lip liner (it looked brown to me!) on my eyebrows by mistake. I was in a rush didn’t have my glasses on and picked up the pencil and did my brows quickly it was only when I met my friend and she fell about laughing. I was mortified but it did spur me on to sort out my make up draw and put all the lip stuff together and all the brow stuff together etc.
Love this!! Red eyebrows lol!! And yes, a great reason to get organised.
i dyed my hair and was pleased with the results then went to bed. when i awoke the next morning all my family were giving me shocked looks and gasps so i looked in the mirror and saw all my face was swollen my eyes my lips ect turns out i had an allergic reaction to the hair dye which i had been using for years
That’s terrible, I’m glad you’re ok, I’ve read some absolutely awful stories about bad reactions to hair dye, sometimes fatal. Hope this never happens again – I bet most people don’t bother doing the patch test unless their prone to skin reactions. Thanks for sharing this x
Applying a self tan on the eve of attending a wedding ,it was very patchy so showered many times using a bath brush and had sore skin all day,lesson learnt.
Oh no, the worst timing for this to happen – hope you still managed to enjoy the day, if possible, it might be safer to book in for a spray tan for special occasions in future, thanks for sharing x
I dyed my hair myself. Put my hair up to go to zumba the next night. Didn’t realise until I looked in the mirror when i got home that i hadn’t wiped the dye off my skin – the top of both of my ears were black and i had a blob of dye on the back of my neck too!!
That’s embarrassing – especially black – couldn’t be more obvious, yikes!!
I dyed my hair a red colour but it went orange I had to get my sister to pick my daughter up from school whilst I went up the street to buy another dye and redyed it as it was bright orange. Thankfully that dulled the colour
That’s a relief, thank goodness your sister was around, otherwise you’d have needed a hat lol
I was straightening my hair on the morning of a distant relative’s funeral, dropped the straigheners on my bare foot and burned myself… ended up hobbling around for the rest of the day!
Ooooo that sounds painful. I have this thing about always wearing sleeves and covering the legs when using straighteners in case the slip onto my shoulder arms/legs but never thought about my feet – socks from now on I think!! Thanks for sharing.
I was tonging hair ready to go out when phone rang and I put hot tongs to cheek to answer it lololo ouch x
OMG that’s awful, not even funny, the pain….you must have a scar!! That’s a very unfortunate beauty disaster, and hopefully your last.
My sister once told me I had bushy eyebrows so I shaved them all off! Disaster!
Always seems like a good idea at the time lol, a bit like over-plucking – hopefully they grew back, if not you can get some really good brow tattoos from the well established beauty salons, but it’s very pricey.
I can’t resist picking small black heads and spots and have to constantly walk around with red marks on my face. It’s got so extreme i sometimes tie my hands together and sit on them whilst watching tv. Just so i don’t subconsciously pick ! 😛
Crikey, I think we all have a genetic tendency to pick/squeeze/peel etc…apparently fresh lemon juice or white toothpaste drys them out and reduces the swelling – you’re less likely to touch if it’s covered in toothpaste – worth a try next time! 😊
I once went out without properly sorting my foundation and left a few blobs on my face xx
Yikes!! Plus getting ready in artificial light doesn’t help us – it all looks so different in daylight lol
lipstick on teeth, no one told me and I had been grinning like a cheshire cat all morning
Embarrassing!! …and people think we’re vain if we get the mirror out every 5 mins, but it’s because of things like this.
Have cycled to work, only realising hours later my mascara had gone panda. Need a mirror to check i think (ha)
The panda situation is a real nightmare – you leave the house looking fabulous and wonder what the heck happened by the time you get to work!!
I’ve shaved off one of my eyebrows before by mistake, luckily it grew back in time for school! haha.
plucking eyebrows just before heading out lol
…the last thing you need just before heading out!!
accidentally plucking out all my eyebrows them penciling on brown eye pencil
Yes, cringe! Hard to grow them back the same after that.
I am just rubbish at putting make up on.
Definitely a recipe for disaster lol, to be honest, most of us could probably benefit from learning how to apply make-up more effectively!
Went to a friends wedding and i wore a lovely red lipstick, trouble is i didn’t realise it was all on my teeth until i went to the toilet and checked…. After the photos took place!
Oooo, cringe!! Hopefully they photoshopped all the photographs and gave you dazzling whites lol.
Waterproof mascara not being so waterproof and I ended up looking like a panda at a friends wedding and missed being in the photos while I scrubbed it off in the toilets
That’s a really annoying one, why on earth do they say it’s waterproof when it isn’t?? I wonder if putting a coat of clear mascara over the top would stop this happening….
Started by looking like with Coco the clown just before an important interview (had time to wash it off – but ended up looking like I had had a bad spray tan instead. Very lucky I got the job. 😀
Nightmare, as if the pressure of an interview wasn’t enough to deal with!!! Well done on getting the job, thankfully they were not a vain, looks-obsessed superficial ‘your-make-up-must-be-perfect’ interview panel lol.
My disaster was when I dyed my hair, i went to the pub. Everyone commented on my new colour, until we were moving on to another bar, it was raining and the dye ran all down my face
Oh no!! That’s not even funny – dodgy dye brand maybe.
I’m a constant disaster!
Oh dear lol, I’m sure things can only improve!!