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Beauty blunder? We’ve made them all...

Here’s a revelation: being older really doesn’t equate to being wiser. I know this because I am 27 and I thought the Himalayas were in Switzerland. Okay, so geography is not my strong point, but beauty is. Yet despite this, I manage to still have some epic beauty blunders. I was sharing one such, um, adventure with the team last week and it sparked the sort of convo you just need to share with the world.

So, read these and take heart that no beauty blunder is so great that the GF office would laugh you out of the room – coz we’ve all been there.

“I accidentally mistook a lip pencil for an eyebrow pencil... and proceeded to go out to dinner with lovely mauve eyebrows.” - Stacey, senior designer.

“I tried to curl my hair when I was like 10. Having no idea how to use a curling wand, I picked up the spiky brush attachment on it and wrapped it in my hair - and yep, it stuck. It took my mum several hours, several ‘cutting it out’ threats and a subsequent minor panic attack from me to remove it.” - Jenna, features writer.

“In the ’80s my sister wanted long eyelashes and bushy brows like Brooke Shields, so she cut her eyelashes off - hoping they would grow longer – and stuck them on her brows!” - Lisa, fashion editor.

“I was about to see my long distance BF, and decided to wax my legs. On one side I was a little overzealous with my ‘ripping’ motion causing a leg-wide spotty black bruise, and on the other side I chickened out and couldn’t do it. I attempted to wash it off, but failed and ended up wearing pants, which stuck to my waxed-up leg all night.” - Me.

There was more than one person in the office with DIY-dye disasters; tales of trimming their own fringes (I can hear hairdressers everywhere crying); and burning multiple body parts on heat styling tools... but no blunder was as great as this one from TV Hits deputy editor, Demeter:

“When I was about 16, I’d read about some DIY hair treatment in a magazine, so I thought I’d give it a go... The ingredients included stuff like honey, raw egg and olive oil. I mixed it all together, jumped into my (very hot) shower and proceeded to pour it all over my head. It smelt awful, and the shower was so hot that I actually cooked the egg into my hair! I was supposed to be going out but I had to call my friend and cancel because my hair smelt so bad! It took me days to wash it out completely, and I had to keep it tied back so I wouldn’t gag every time it came near my face.”

Happy experimenting!



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