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As you all can see from my last article, sometimes beauty disasters happen!

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I don't think this is as bad as the time someone told me applying garlic directly to a blemish would help and instead i ended up burning my skin! So yes the blemish was gone but instead it left a huge red mark where the skin burned!

Whats your beauty disaster and how did you fix it?

This is happened with one of my friend, somewhere she has read that applying lemon on scalp helps control dandruff, after few times of applying, dandruff got reduced but some of her hairs turned white.
Her confidence got totally broken, we consulted doctor he said that lemon should not be applied directly and should be mixed with coconut oil before application.

Oh no, yup lemon will do that, it's a natural lightner! Acids such as lemon should be mixed with a carrier oil, Apple Cider vinegar is great for dandruff!

Thanks for sharing!

OMG.....2weeks before graduating from HS I decided I was going to be a blond. I went into the cellar and proceeded to pour peroxide over my head. Looking in the mirror seeing it wasn't blond enough I then went and poured another bottle. Then washed my hair and tried to comb my hair. It was deader than a door nail. All straw...come wouldn't go through and looked awful. So what do I do....go get black hair dye and go from one extreme to another. Mind you I never had black hair nor do I have the coloring for it. Go figure. Then I had weeks of hair therapy but the worse was walking around for graduation with that broom on my head wanting all the time to but a bag over it instead. Maybe that's why I don't run to get my hair colored.

OH my goodness, thats horrible!!! Why is it we get the craziest ideas to try something new before a big event?

Thank goodness hair grows back!!

Yes it was at the time. I can laugh about it today but then I was only 17 and back then we didn't have all this information about anyhting like we do today. I think it would never happen to me today if I was 17. Girls today are more knowledgable and hip about most beauty stuffs and doing it at a much earlier age. From hair coloring, nails, pedicures...even fixing noses. Some is good and some I think should come with age (not competing with mom or older woman before their time) I think natural beauty on a yound person is much more attractive. Case in point Miley Cyrus...16y/o going on a hundred. When she is on the red carpet does she dress her age...no and it does not look attractive (even though she seems to think so)

I have two more horror stories....one I let my BFF give me a perm while she was still in beauty school. Hair overprocessed and had to wear it up in a pony tail for the longest time. Another time I asked a young hairdresser (I had a coupon for a highlight) to highlight my hair. Told her exactly what I wanted and asked her if she understood. She kept nodding her head and saying yes. Well......I did not get the highlights I asked for instead became a blond for the second time in my life. I had to get hair treated again for 2 weeks because I was leaving for a trip to AZ where where my hair would probably fry from the heat. When I was in Calif. asked the hairdresser there if they could do somthing with my hair...he examined it and said the only thing I should or could do is cut it off as it was again too damaged to do anything except start over again. (I did come home though with a terrific hair cut)

I had short, thin and barely any eyelashes so I tried false lashes. I loved them! But I didn't know how to remove them correctly and I ended up yanking out all of my natural lashes. Now I need false lashes or I look like an alien. Or a lizard.

*sigh*

Oh no....I think that is worse than my stories. Do lashes grow back eventually...I sure hope so for your sake. I'd hate to be constantly having to glue on lashes.

I actually posted this last year when it happened, so I'll just copy it over here. This didn't happen to me, but to my daughter;

OK - this morning was one of those days that made me question my sanity in becoming a mother.

My daughter and my oldest son have unfortunately inherited from me a "unibrow". I get my brows waxed, and my son does from time to time as well - and sometimes he just has me trim them to keep them neat looking.

My daughter is only 10, so I don't want her waxing yet, her skin is just too delicate. So I have one of those little trimmers that I use on her, because this year she has started becoming very concious about it.

Well...this morning she woke up and said she felt like she was going to throw up. I really didn't question that, because my husband, my 5 yr old, and me all have strep throat right now - and I figured she was probably coming down with it, too. So I kept her home from school and let her sleep in this morning. She was kind of hunched over, so I really didn't look closely at her.

So as soon as the pediatrician's office opens I make an appt to have her checked out. I wake her up and tell her to get dressed. She goes and puts a hoodie on, pulls her hair all around her face, pulls the hood down over her face and is hunching her shoulders.

Now, I figure she is wearing makeup, because she put some on at school yesterday, and I told her I didn't want her wearing makeup for more than special occasions until she was 13. So I tell her to take her hood down.

It's not makeup - she has no eyebrows! She decided to trim her own eyebrows last night, and shaved them completely off. Aaaauuuuggghh!

I tried to get onto her, but then I just busted out laughing. I couldn't help it. I am like about to bust a gut. It was so funny - she is completely bald on the face.

Some of you may remember, but this is the same child that cut her waist length hair all off when she was 3.

I think I'm retiring from motherhood...

OMIGOSH!!!! LOL!!! That is too funny!!! Except your little girl probably didn't think so. Did she go to school like that? Did you put on some eyebrow pencil or something?!?!

This eyebrow thing reminds me of a story my friend told me about a teacher. Her little students laughed and snickered behind her back all morning and wouldn't tell her why. She got so mad that she began to hand out detentions. When she went to the restroom, she discovered the reason: That morning, the hairless woman only remembered to draw on one eyebrow. Heck, I'd have giggled, too!

Oh, the FDA just approved some drug that is proven to regrow eyelashes! I'm looking into it!