Worst "Beauty" mistake you've made?

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Ohhhh Godddddddd . . . "apsie fashion" is an oxymoron! I've gone through many godawful fashion phases in my life - the hippie phase (dinem skirts with elastic waistbands, tye-dye shorts, threadbare peasant blouses), the wannabe prep phase (moth-eaten sweater vests, business suits, penny loafers, shirts buttoned up to the chin), the pseudo-fundamentalist modesty phase (headscarves, baggy sweatshirts, maxiskirts, and anything else that hid the body), and the Juno phase (dinem skirts over dinem pants, pink hair, patterned leggings and socks, berets, slogan T-shirts). Ironically, my fashion sense improved when I stopped caring so much about it and stopped trying to make statements all the time.

I bought some face mask stuff from a summer fare in 2007. Fast forward to next morning, I plastered a big layer of the stuff on my face and it stung like hell it felt like I poured corossive acid on my face. I never used it again.

I find it hilarious how many of us have cut our own hair.

I did that every time I had a really bad day. Needless to say I had pretty short hair for a long time. Only now is it past my shoulders because my sister drove it into my skull that when I cut my own hair, people thought I was crazy. (well, my family did)

They just don't understand me. lol

Henna tattos were all the rage when I was 17, and I did a few for myself. The mistake was when I thought I'd go hippy and do a vine pattern on my face . It came out all blurred and smeared and looked awful.

It was amusing though. I was working on the checkout of a variety store, and for the few days until it faded all the customers treated me with cautious over-kindness, thinking that I was hideously disfigured . Only the regulars looked closely enough to realise it was just a stain.

hair that was teased within an inch of its life into a big round ball i still think it looks nice but just makes me look kind of like a lolly pop, and the blue mascara with pink tips, and of course the time i wore safety glasses with tracksuit pants a ribbed top, joggers that were falling apart and gloves with the fingers cut out, to camp

but otherwise ive won our youth groups fashion award, probs cause of the tutus with frilly top knee hi striped sox high heel mary janes top hat and wristbands

I used fake tan and I got wonderful jaundice-like look
I wasn't orange, but intensive yellow-greenish.

Dying my bands bleach-blonde probably didn't look too hot.

Look at my face in my avatar, that was the result of my worst beauty mistake I've ever made.

I have poor fasion sense and no hair/makeup skills, so I tend to make myself look insane. I make a lot of hair mistakes:

- cut my own bangs (while drunk)
- bleached my dark hair to orange, then dyed it fire-truck red. This destroyed my hair. Four years later, I'm still growing out the damage.
- got a "fashion mullet" just before attending a wedding. I was informed that it made me look like I was recovering from frontal-lobe lobotomy.
- Various other hair atrocities. I'm planning on growing it down to my ass and pinning it up in buns for the rest of my life.

Also, in high school I was really into the works of the Bronte sisters, and tended to wear overly modest pseudo-early-victorian get-ups. Multiple skirts, lace-up boots, thigh high stockings. Dresses layered on top of each other.

I used to overdo eyeliner, people didn't like it, so I didn't wear it. I realized that natural beauty is more important and real.

Fashion mis-steps:

Letting my mom give me a perm when I was a teenager. It took more than a year for my hair to recover. Yeah she fried it really good. I cried when I saw the result.

I don't like foundation: not good at applying it....too heavy handed. Plus it always feels like my face is melting. Also foundation doesn't work with being a photographer as it gets on my LCD screen. Just nasty! I wear a little blush, & eye shadow. I don't like anything other than lip balm on my lips.

Last crazy thing I did was dye my hair black. I wanted a rich brown color & thought mixing in some black would do it. Not! That was 5 years ago. It's all gone now, but I am still trying to tweak my hair to get my color just right. It's getting closer. The good news is I've learned a lot about hair dye & color correction. I also cut my own hair. I really don't like going to a salon as the chemical smell is just too intense for me (even though I dye my own hair at home). I think it's the perm solution that really gets to me when it's combined with all the hair dye chemicals.

When I first started getting pimples, I would tear them off my face. One time I tore two really deep gashes in my nose and my mom had to put makeup on me before I went to school. Eventually I started to put makeup on my pimples instead of tearing them off, but the makeup would always come off and I had to keep reapplying it, so one time I got desperate and covered my pimples with flesh colored fingernail polish.

Hahaha! Too many to count! My adolescent years were HELL

1) When I used to get zits I couldn't stand the texture of them on my face so I tried to pick them off. Of course then you just wind up looking like you've got leprosy or something. It was really awful for me. Luckily I didn't get any scars,
2) I used to tease my bangs up to the ceiling in a wave shape then shellac them with hairspray.
3) I once wore pajama pants to school cuz I thought they were cool. I didn't know they were pajamas until everyone laughed at me.
4) I once used a watercolor pencil as lipstick by wetting it with my spit.
5) I used to pluck my eyebrows so that they started over the center of my eye. I had only half an eyebrow on each side. That looked absolutely ridiculous.
6) Up until age 17 or so I had bangs that started somewhere near the back of my head. Cut by me of course.