Hi y'all, you can ignore this if already done...but what's your worst beauty or hair disaster? I'm talking drawn-on eyebrows, hot-pink racing-stripe blush, the spiral perm...

I think mine is nude lipstick with a much darker lip pencil outline, a'la Pamela Anderson. So natural. And in terms of hair, it's a toss-up between the massive teased 'wave' fringe and hundreds of little braids.

What about you??

I think my biggest beauty disaster is probably the big fringe as a teenager. I thought I was so cool! Also the bright red lipstick I insisted on wearing when I was 18. My cousin wore it and it really suited her so I thought it would naturally suit me to.

When I look at photo's of me with that dreadful lipstick I cringe. All I can say is that I resemble one of those clowns you see at shows that you put the pig pong balls in the mouths of! Not a good look at all!:redcheeks:

Honey I think we all had that crazy fringe in the 80s. And almost dying from the haze of hairspray required each morning. Hey isn't it funny how the wrong shade of red can make you look like Bozo (or worse, a lady you pay by the hour)??

I just remembered another one - stick-on stars along the cheekbones. Like, totally disco.

Oh Ho! The stick on stars! You need to add that to the 80s thread. My mum actually got me this excellent little kit that had gold dust with tiny star/heart/tear etc shaped stamps. I wish I still had it.

I think being too heavy handed with make up when I was younger. My mum doesn't wear it so I had no teacher. The pancake, the purple eye shadow, the pink blush, the red lips, the eyeliner on the inside of my eyelids - all at the same time.

My hair has remained the same over the years but not before I had a spiral perm and prior to that insisted on copying Suzi Quattro's version of the mullet!

And why did I ever think Magenta coloured lips were my thing? The mind boggles :rollthoseeyes:

I had a perm once :rollthoseeyes: total disaster! The top layers of my hair went straight again after about 3 weeks, and the underneath stayed curly. I hate to even think about it.

I also had this idea back in the 90s that matte brown lipstick suited me :vomit:

I would have to say the frizzy perm! As my hair is very thick, as it grew longer, it also grew outwards! So had this huge head of hair which swamped me! And of course I had to put in a small ponytail sticking out sideways off my head. Very cool. What else? I guess the 80's again with the stripey cheek bones and heavy eye makeup. Can't remember what I did in the 70"s.

I think this is where youth comes in handy - now 22, I certainly wasn't wearning make up or getting my hair permed in the 80s or 90s! However I did have big glasses and bad clothes etc.

But, I'm sure one day I'll look back on myself now and wonder what I was thinking!! Maybe one day 'natural' make up will be hideously unfashionable!!

Oh the spiral perm...I vividly remember my friends scrunching with water and mousse like mad at every lunch break. It never did any good!

I think my first disaster was through no fault of my own - as a wee anklebiter my mum used to cut my long hair at the sides as well as around the fringe, so it looked like I had really thick sideburns. Or worse, a mullett. The shame, the shame! :redcheeks:

LOL.. i cut my fringe once (above, not below the fingers) and it was a complete disaster! :D My mu took me to the hairdresser and they permed it!!! Are you kidding me?! Who does that?! I will hold my mother responsible forever..... :whipcrack:

I'm only 21 but when i was younger and just discovered make-up i would buy really cheaps make-up and pack it on. i looked horribly. I also fell victim or should say my mum made me fall victim to the chunky fringe and short bob combo, including the under cut to make sure the bob sits nicely. Ewwww!

I'm only 21 but when i was younger and just discovered make-up i would buy really cheaps make-up and pack it on. i looked horribly. I also fell victim or should say my mum made me fall victim to the chunky fringe and short bob combo, including the under cut to make sure the bob sits nicely. Ewwww!

LOL... i never had the bob and thick fringe. What's the deal with the undercut?! That's scary..... :chuckle:

Well Sarah i have really thick hair and when you cut your hair really short it sticks out, so they gave me an undercut to take away the bulk. You couldn't see it becasue it was too short to put up. NOICE!!! lol

Oh the spiral perm...I vividly remember my friends scrunching with water and mousse like mad at every lunch break. It never did any good!

I think my first disaster was through no fault of my own - as a wee anklebiter my mum used to cut my long hair at the sides as well as around the fringe, so it looked like I had really thick sideburns. Or worse, a mullett. The shame, the shame! :redcheeks:

OMG my mum did that to me as well, there is this pic of me at about 3 or 4 id say, with what resembles a mullet, naked, having a bath in a bucket outside on a hot summers day...why mum why!!!!!
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to add to the embarrasment...
the worst disaster would be my simpsons hoodie, while sporting a mullet with a teased/gelled up fringe and there is a school photo to prove it.

Ha ha ha, I raise your simpsons hoodie with an Alf sweatshirt and short shorts and braids. Hot! Incidentally my little brother had a matching Alf sweatshirt and we were 'encouraged' to wear them together. How total embarrassment.

Ooooh, just thought of another blunder. About a gazillion tiny ponytails all over my head, with different coloured elastics.

Good lord, was I ever cool???? Methinks not. And still not!

Come on raspberryberet, at the time you would have been the height of cool!

I remember begging mum for stirrup pants - remember those? (mid '90s). And the 'cool people' wore them with scrunchy socks and brown ankle boots. And an oversized jumper on top. I wanted this combo soooooo badly and I hated Mum for not buying it for me - but I thank her now! She always hated stirrups...

I do remember that! I had a couple of pairs in fact. Only later did I accept that they were really just for riding horsies, and not much else :no:

The Princess Di flick. The perm. The packed on m/u (got it for the first time at 16). The stirrup pants. Leotards. Legwarmers.

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ski pants / stirrup pants , long jumpers , big shirts , cockroach killer boots & white ones with buckles down the side , black eyeliner on the inside rim , poddle perm , ankle socks with white lace ups :shockedhair:
bloody hell LOVED the 80's NOT. My sister has informed me that i had totally put her off anything 80's just by watching me

I can top all of you!!!

Picture, if you will: a purple jumpsuit with the 90210 logo on the breast pocket! I wore it with a side ponytail, heaps of rubber bracelets, high-top Reeboks (SO cool) and two different coloured socks, a la Claudia from the Babysitters Club - she was my childhood style icon!

I can top all of you!!!

Picture, if you will: a purple jumpsuit with the 90210 logo on the breast pocket! I wore it with a side ponytail, heaps of rubber bracelets, high-top Reeboks (SO cool) and two different coloured socks, a la Claudia from the Babysitters Club - she was my childhood style icon!

:chuckle:Lol! We could have been best friends; Stacey was my favourite! :chuckle:

I liked Mary Anne... I was a dork :ashamed:

LOL I always thought Stacey was far too chic (although I remember once when she bought a Benneton sweater and for the next three years I thought Benneton was as swanky as it got...). I loved Claudia and Dawn!! I found Maryanne annoying although I liked it when Maryanne's dad married Dawn's mum!

Man. I was OBSESSED with Babysitter's Club! :chuckle:

I liked Kristy coz she was sporty and Mary Anne because she was quiet and shy and I could relate to that :ashamed:

ok feeling a bit old with this babysitters club talk:ashamed:

I had all the Babysitters Club books! I liked Stacy and was traumatised when she got Diabetes! Oh the drama!

LOL I always thought Stacey was far too chic (although I remember once when she bought a Benneton sweater and for the next three years I thought Benneton was as swanky as it got...). I loved Claudia and Dawn!! I found Maryanne annoying although I liked it when Maryanne's dad married Dawn's mum!

Man. I was OBSESSED with Babysitter's Club! :chuckle:

Lol! I think i was a bit dorky growing up, and I so wanted to be cool and sophisticated like Stacey, hence why she was my favourite. She was one of my first idols. LOL:chuckle:. Man, this is really taking me back!

I had all the Babysitters Club books! I liked Stacy and was traumatised when she got Diabetes! Oh the drama!

Oh I know! It was a traumatic experience for all of us I'm sure! :chuckle:

ok feeling a bit old with this babysitters club talk:ashamed:

Oh, me too! Babysitter's Club? My daughter wont get into them. Prefers Japanese Tuxedo Gin novels!

Oh for me it was all about Babysitters Club in year five, and in year six I graduated to Sweet Valley! I absolutely loved both those series and if I have a daughter I'd love to get them for her (she'd probably think I was the world's biggest loser)!

Oh for me it was all about Babysitters Club in year five, and in year six I graduated to Sweet Valley! I absolutely loved both those series and if I have a daughter I'd love to get them for her (she'd probably think I was the world's biggest loser)!

Yup, that sounds like my progression too. My idol changed from BSC's Stacey to SVH's Jessica, I thought the whole purple thing was so cool back then, now I'm like, that's not very cool at all!

Didnt know where to put this interesting bit of media but this has certainly been a bit of beauty disaster for Clarins from day one!

http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=79084

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I think the models in mascara ads wear false eyelashes. I always found it infuriating that they are allowed to get away with such false advertising. I mean really :shakehead:

I think the models in mascara ads wear false eyelashes. I always found it infuriating that they are allowed to get away with such false advertising. I mean really :shakehead:

i know :shakehead: whats the point of advertising it!! its the false eyelashes we're seeing, not the mascara.