I'm Sure I'll Be Paying For This One When She's 16

My worst beauty blunder (ala curling iron and aquanet) relived most graciously by Quinlan. What's yours?

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[b*babbler]

A bad bad bad hair dye job and cut courtesy of the local salon.

I'd like to go lighter = let's bleach your hair into a dayglo orange/yellow straw concoction.

I'd like to have a cute little bob to my ears = shear and hack my hair away to an inch (literally) of its life.

All of this 3 days before attending a wedding. There are no photos left of those dark days...

[PunditMom]

NICE bangs! How about a little Dippety-Do? ;)

[Sarah Lee]

My first disco - organised by 'The Scouts' (UK) in the '80's. I crimped my hair, sprayed if with silver glitter, wore tiny blue shoes with heels (oh, so grown up!), a puffy skirt, bright pink lipstick and blue mascara. A boy told me I looked like a Christmas tree! I hid in the toilets for a little while, before getting my confidence back, grabbing a lemonade and dancing my heart out!

[karen]

Perm, perm and more perms. Never again.
Thank goodness girlie has a bit of wave in hers. She hopefully will never go there.
Your baby looks just like you! So cute!

[the new girl]

I have so many, you wouldn't believe me--however I will say that they've all come back into style since then. Which is the really scary thing.

I have a special place in my heart for the 80's eye shadow(s) [four colors on each lid] and the 90's [whole top eyelid covered in thick liner with practically white 'cover up' underneath the eye. lmao.

[Andy]

The 80's.

Oh, did you want something more specific?

[dana]

Awww. She still looks cute. I think it's because you didn't put any dark mascara on her eyelashes or dressed her in a hypercolor t-shirt. :)

[brighton]

Hands down mine would have to be the spiral perm- when I was 26!!

[Stacey]

There is a photo of me in my high school yearbook from freshman year, 1981. I have a short, tight, frizzy poodle perm and I have compounded that horror by first parting it straight down the middle and then teasing & spraying the sides over each ear back & out, so they stick out about 3 inches on either side of my head. So you get this flat, curly fuzz, frizz sticking way out, look framing my face. With bangs. Mercifully I had been prevented from teasing & spraying them straight up as well, though I have photos of me sporting that look as well, after the perm had gone less to curl and more to frizz

[Jill]

An entire decade of perms on my very fine, very straight hair. The 80's were not good to people with hair like mine.