Our Biggest Beauty Blunders!

by BR Amelia

We all have those things in the beauty realm that we know we can improve upon, like moisturising more regularly or putting on sunscreen every day - including during winter, but there are beauty boo-boo's and then there are beauty blunders. And the Beauty Crew? We've made a few...

So, please, enjoy our mistakes, learn from them, and do your best to avoid them...

"It's FINE," I told myself as I stumbled upon my daughter with half a Lancôme lipstick smeared all over her face.

"No worries. It'll come out." I lied to myself as I found my favourite Maybelline lippie smeared into the carpet.

"Who needs a precise tip anyway?" I cried as I pulled out yet another lipstick to find it had been wound up then smashed back into the cap.

Toddlers and lipstick do not mix. Keep apart at all costs.

Ever wondered what might as well be two burning hot golf balls sitting underneath your armpits for half a day feels like? Not great. In fact, so bad that you walk around with cold flannels tucked under the area, even going to sleep with them nestled up in there. Lesson learned: the 'patch test first' advice on the tube of depilatory cream isn't there just for funsies. Whether it's your pits, your hoo-haa or your legs, you should do it, or you'll pay the price.

There's a reason I get my eyebrows professionally done, I'm so blind that whenever I try to tweeze a stray hair I pluck at the skin, sometimes so badly I nick myself and end up with a miniature scab. Not cute. 

I'm officially at the point that I know what the electrical burning smell is without having to wander the house searching for it. I simply need to go to my office, look on the faux-wood desk, and the culprit is lying there. All 190 degree heat of it. I've said it before, I'll say it again, I need to become more responsible, and manufacturer's need an automatic off switch just in case responsibility continues to evade me.

I have no one to blame but myself. Mascara wands are well made and not implements of stabbiness. Also, my eyelashes are actually quite long, so I'm not having to get super close to get any product on them. The fact is I'm just uncoordinated. Once every week or two I stab myself in the eye with my mascara wand and then have to either start my eye look from scratch, or, on the good days, have to wait for the mascara to dry so I can twizzle it off with a cotton tip. Either way, for a few minutes I'm not seeing red. I'm seeing black. Okay, I'm seeing red AND black. 

Pure laziness is what causes me to colour my hair without applying vaseline around my hairline and to the tops of my ears. What follows are days of self-recrimination as I exfoliate the area to no avail, knowing that only time will be the one true fix for this beauty fail.

Ever wondered how to irritate an already irritated area? Apply nail polish remover to your pimples. I mean, what could go wrong? The science might say it will dry it out, but the science will also say that the now super-dry area will then go into oil producing overdrive only making the problem worse. And as for the areas that aren't oily? They'll become drier. Don't do it. Especially not repetitively as I once did in my teen years.

So my lovelies.. Are any of your beauty blunders the same as ours? Or have you others you'd like to share (which will make us feel a lot better about our own beauty boo-boos). Get chatting below!