Have you ever over-applied a product, and was it a disaster?

[Sugar Smack]

I think the only disaster I ever had with such a thing was when I tried highlighting my hair. This was just me being dumb; I felt way above doing a test-strand. Okay, really I was just impatient. I can use a paint brush easily on paper, not so much on my own hair. So when the time came to apply this ammonia-smelling goop on my hair I would lay it on thickly with a brush.

I waited only one minute after the recommended rinsing time, and when my hair was dry and white-streaked, you've never heard such howling. Until I was able to locate a box of henna, I had to wear a goofy-looking baseball cap to work.

Another time, I was about to go practice shooting a bow and arrow at lunch time with my bosses. I'd got a free sample of super-duper rich hand cream that I hadn't tried yet. I said, "What the hell" and slathered it on. Sat out the practice session and spent the next hour looking like I was practicing to be an evil overlord.

Another time, I over-applied a bottle of Grand Marnier, but that's another story. :P

[graywarrior]

1. Ha ha ha. I did the same thing trying to remove a brown color

from my hair and it ended up turning orange 2 days before Xmas. I ended up being a blonde for 10 years.

[Sugar Smack]

3. Ten years!!!!!

You must have done something right! Was this a mistake that left you happy? Sometimes we make those too. :rofl: :hi: :thumbsup:

[graywarrior]

9. Yeah, the mistake was a drag.

I was fine being blonde for awhile, then one day I saw a photo of myself and decided it was time to go back to being a brunette. Now I'm all natural...dark with lotsa gray.

[Sugar Smack]

10. The all-natural is perfect on you, m'dear.

You make a beautiful addition to the photo threads. :)

[graywarrior]

11. Thank you. But I haven't posted lately. Sucky haircut.

:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

45. Did you try the looong, dangly earrings and the "What are YOU

looking at?" expression? Add the Jackie-O glasses and I think you may be surprised! :pals: :hug: :yourock: :loveya:

[graywarrior]

63. I've been wearing mirror sunglasses.

I look like a bikey.

[Sugar Smack]

68. You see, that's the spirit.

:yourock: :yourock: :yourock:

[graywarrior]

69. I love sugar.

:loveya:

[Sugar Smack]

70. Sugar loves you too.

If you don't post some pics sometime in the near future, I don't know what I'll do! *keening like Scarlett O'Hara* You can't just wait! What good would that do? :loveya:

[graywarrior]

71. Do you have the vapors?

[billyskank]

2. Hi Sugie!

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

4. Hey, billy!

:pals: How's tricks, my good friend?

[billyskank]

5. Pretty good thanks

How are you? :hug:

[Sugar Smack]

6. Good. I just got back from swimming 60 laps

at the Y, and over-applying conditioner to my hair afterward. :D

[billyskank]

7. Awesome!

:yourock:

:loveya:

[LaraMN]

8. Oh yeah! Cheap self-tanner!

I looked a bit like:

[Sugar Smack]

13. OH, oh, I'd forgot about that one!

:rofl: I've done that too. I'd even been extra-careful about not getting it streaky, but the pic you just posted sums it up. Stage makeup. I could've crashed cast parties with no trouble.

[NewWaveChick1981]

20. Cheap self tanner SUCKS...

:rofl: Banana Boat did that to me last year, as did QT in the old days. Unfortunately, you get what you pay for. I've had MUCH better luck with Lancome Flash Bronzer.

Yeah, Oompa Loompa Syndrome.... :yoiks: :rofl:

[BlueStorm]

29. Applied that crap to myself too... I looked like a walking carrot. n/t

[Left Is Write]

12. As long as you didn't overapply the Grand Marnier....

just before applying the highlighter.

[Sugar Smack]

15. Too true, and the thing was, I hadn't.

I did this sober, and ANYONE who looked at me the next day probably thought that I'd been completely messed up. Me and my goofy baseball cap. And my streaky, skunky-looking hair. :pals:

[Left Is Write]

19. That's okay. I turned my hair green once.

I have never done at-home hair color since.

[Sugar Smack]

22. OY! It might have been the water, too!

x( I've heard a few stories about the chemicals in water affecting the outcome. Henna will do that too if you happen to use any metal during its application (so the box says; I'll take its word)

[Left Is Write]

28. In my case, it was a simple matter of not considering elementary art class

That is, yellow + blue = green.

Blonde hair dye contains yellow.
Brunette hair dye contains blue.

This was something I should have taken into consideration when deciding to find out what I'd look like as a brunette.

[Sugar Smack]

47. Do you know, I never would have thought of that.

I mix hennas sometimes, so it wouldn't occur to me that hair dye would be that different. Thank you for the tip. B-) :toast:

[johnnie]

14. No

I don't make mistakes. B-)

[Sugar Smack]

17. Confess: you simply don't confess to them.

*neener-neener*B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-) B-)

[johnnie]

18. Mistakes?

Yeah, I made a few. Then again...too few to mention.

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. This was back in the late 80s, but...

...I bought the wrong color haircolor and used not one but TWO boxes of it. :yoiks: (My hair's very thick, and as long as it was, it needed two for total coverage.) It was supposed to be light golden brown but I picked up dark ash brown accidentally and didn't check the boxes BEFORE I applied it. :cry: I looked like the Living Dead having a bad hair day. :cry: I put on a hat and hid my hair as best I could and bought a box of haircolor remover AND two boxes of the correct hair color. After I got through with it, my hair was pretty fried but the correct color. :P

Also, when I was in Hawaii, I overapplied QT self tanner and it was too streaky. That's before self tanners had bronzer put in them so you can see what you're doing. I had to scrub like hell to get the orange streaks off my legs. :yoiks:

[Sugar Smack]

21. OMG! That reminds me of the time I tried being Goth in college.

Dyed the hair black and all the makeup in the world couldn't cover my ruddy, freckled complexion. And it wouldn't wash out for 3 months.

I'm glad you actually had some success with the haircolor afterward. Sometimes you think "I'll just get used to this", and sometimes you know better. That QT had caused NIGHTMARES for me too! It's funny because you think "I'll successfully look like a succesfully tanned person whose tan will be taken seriously by the populace. I'll be the envy of EVERYONE". And then when the orange streaking starts showing and you can't get it off with a brillo pad- "NOOOOOOO!"

:scared:

[NewWaveChick1981]

31. I'd never have made it as a Goth.

I've got ruddiness too, and freckles. :P My natural skin tones are warm even though I'm fair skinned. I would have looked like the sickliest vampire on the block. :rofl: The haircolor remover was a godsend, even though it totally fried my hair. I think that's why the color took so well afterward.

Yep, QT nightmares... :rofl: Had lots of those. Loofahs (not the Bill O'Lielly kind :P) and Brillo pads are the order of the day when you use self tanner without bronzer in it.... Nobody can EVER get it right, especially me... :yoiks: Give me the bronzer kind and I'll do pretty well with it. I can't tan naturally (I just burn and peel), but if I REALLY want a tan, I know what to do now. :bounce:

[Sugar Smack]

35. Your skin is so perfect on your face.

And your haircolor looks absolutely right with it. Really, I thought "being goth" was so much in the attitude, that naturally I'd look the part if I simply dyed my hair black. And it WOULD have been OK, I suppose if 1) I hadn't looked utterly ridiculous and 2) I could stop crying for even ONE SECOND afterward.

[NewWaveChick1981]

39. Thank you, Sug...

:* Yeah, it's all about the attitude anyway. :hug: :hi:

[MountainLaurel]

23. Highlights as well for me

I was simultaneously doing my hair, writing a research paper for college, and watching the NCAA Final Four games. I let the color sit on my hair for about 10 minutes too long. I was quite platinum by the time it was over.

[Sugar Smack]

27. Did it look like a pineapple?

:rofl: Sorry, that's just what mine looked like when I was done with it, plus a little white. Oh, I totally sympathize with the assumption that "multi-tasking" can be inclusive of doing your hair.

:pals:

[MountainLaurel]

46. More white than yellow

But sort of striped since it was just highlighting.

Thankfully, I was used to home-hair trauma. I grew up in West Virginia in the era of the home permanent. I had my last one when I realized my grandmother, who put them in, was getting a bit senile and hadn't paid attention to when the chemicals went on. My hair got burnt pretty badly.

[Sugar Smack]

48. Home-permanent flashbacks!

We don't easily forget those, do we? Yikes! Those smooth waves you were expecting, the perfectly-tantalizing curl promised on the box? No dice, some of us got singed, and that includes me as well. I never even tried it again after that first time, and I wore a scarf over it.

[MountainLaurel]

53. I have a lot of flashbacks involving hair and my grandmother

Including her telling me, when I was in middle school and trying to go for the teased look, that she just didn't want people to make fun of me when they saw that I didn't comb my hair.

Yes, I see a therapist. Why do you ask? :eyes:

[Sugar Smack]

62. Loved your response.

:applause: Therapy!

I noticed that you can tell how much someone likes/hates you by how they tease your hair. Have you ever noticed that?

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. Wax Strips

Painful, smelly, and expensive.

[Sugar Smack]

30. Oh, painful.

I've never tried those! Some people swear by it, but I'm to clouded by my fear of pain to listen. :o

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

25. "What-ever could you mean?"

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. Wow! The Joker is running for office?

:rofl: :hi:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

34. I thought it was photoshopped for a second.

And then I realized it wasn't.

:rofl:

[NewWaveChick1981]

37. Same here...

:rofl: That's too real and scary...

[Sugar Smack]

41. DISASTER!!

Utter disaster. Poster girl for overapplication disasters. :scared:

[Mutley]

26. Just stuff like hair gel

Enough to make my hair gross. :D

[Sugar Smack]

36. I know, there's no going back with hair gel

until you wash your hair again. It's just so unforgiving, isn't it?

[Mutley]

38. Sigh. Yeah.

And people wonder why my hair ends up in a pony tail most of the time.

[RebelOne]

32. Many years ago I wanted to be a silver blonde.

Well, I left the toner on too long and I ended up with navy blue hair. I had to sit out in the sun every day for a week to bleach it out.

[Sugar Smack]

40. Oh, wow!

I'm glad you were able to lessen it. Leaving something in too long is something I've done too. :hug:

[1gobluedem]

42. Another hair coloring story -- remember Sun In?

In high school my sister had long, brown hair and wanted to streak it. She said "I'll put it on and you smooth it down." So, I did. Problem was, she put it all in one spot. So it looked as though she had a giant skunk stripe down the back of her hair.

The next day she went and got a very short cut.

[Sugar Smack]

44. Not only do I remember Sun-In, I've just experienced a smell-memory!

I used that when I was 13, unloaded a bottle of it onto my hair. Right before the 1st day of school, of course. Oh, your poor sister. And really there wasn't much you could do about it at that point either! :pals:

[1gobluedem]

55. Luckily it was the first day of summer vacation

AND she had just graduated. So the impact was minimal.

She hasn't forgiven me yet, though....:cry:

[Sugar Smack]

60. It will take time.

It will, I know. :grouphug: :grouphug:

[1gobluedem]

64. It was 31 years ago

Of course I haven't forgiven her for washing the non-washable hair of my doll because she wasn't sure her beauty parlor doll's hair really was washable. And that was 44 years ago. So I guess I have to wait awhile.

[Sugar Smack]

65. *LOL*!

You know, it's funny because I STILL remember when my brother painted my only pair of sandals with gold glitter nail polish 24 years ago before a dance. :rofl:

[crim son]

43. Yes. In HS , I developed a largish zit on my nose.

At the same time I'd become aware that a nice boy had developed an interest in me. I decided to attack the zit and make myself more attractive to the young man so one night I used a zit creme, tons of it. Slathered it all over my nose, around my nose and on my forehead, just to be sure! The next a.m. I woke to serious inflammation - redness and worse - swelling. No coverup could hide the damage so I had to go to school looking like I'd been punched in the nose and then had my faced submerged in boiling water for sixty seconds.

Good old Jeff declared his feelings for me that same afternoon anyway. He musta been blind!

[Sugar Smack]

49. OMG, I had a "Jeff" too.

Mine never returned the favor :cry:

But that zit stuff- it's amazing what we'll do when we feel even the tiniest bit desperate. It's the logic, "Well, if a spot of zit cream will help the zit, a whole BUNCH of it'll make it go away FASTER! HAHAHA!" And then we find out just what the true beauty of the chemical is. I'm glad Jeff noticed you and reciprocated your affections. :)

[crim son]

50. Oh yeah. We had a deep and meaningful relationship

for an entire month! LOL. I don't think I was ready :P

[Sugar Smack]

54. Heh! My Jeff noticed me when I over-applied Love's Baby Soft

I was 14 or 15, and for him I was given to ordering books and skin products that would magically make it dawn on him that he was in love with me. They were always the wrong books: "How to Attract a Mate in ONE WEEK"

And advice like this:

"Surprise your mate with a back rub". What in Hell would Jeff have done if I'd gone up and ham-fistedly rubbed his back while he was bent over his math? Be surprised, that's what!



:rofl:

[crim son]

57. He'd have done an Angela Merkel, I'm sure!

Love's Baby Soft. The pink stuff, right? I haven't thought of that in a long while.

[Sugar Smack]

61. Pink stuff...I think it was supposed to smell like a baby's butt

or wound up doing so, at any rate. *winces*

[Broken_Hero]

51. Yep, Icy Hot...

a dumb story, to show how dumb I was...I was a freshman in high school, and after a week into football practice a friend of mine would always put Icy Hot on his elbow...well, I asked him what it was for and he said it was for pain...so a few days go by, and my arm was all bruised/sore from practice and I ask my friend for some Icy Hot, and he tells me to knock myself out. Now, this bucket of Icy Hot is pretty big, its at least a gallon size container of it, so I dip my hand in there and take out a pretty big scoop of it and then start to spread it all over my arm. I shut the lid of Icy Hot and hten proceed to do some minor stretches...and then whammo.......


My arm is on FIRE.....it hurt badly, if I could saw my arm off, I would have...i soaked my arm in cold water for hours...it sucked...and since then, I am vary wary of any product like that...

[Sugar Smack]

56. Oh, OW,OW,OW!!! I hate that shit!

Mainly b/c I had a similar experience with it, having shrieked, "And this is supposed to take my pain AWAY?" No, you never forget your first "Icy Hot". Oh, man. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

[Broken_Hero]

58. I never forgot, and I avoid remedies like that

like its the plague. My wife, adn inlaws love that sort of thing, icy hot, bengay, biofreeze...I tried some bio freeze, against my wishes, but my wife insisted because of some of my back pain....it just started to burn, and burn after five minutes or so...I think I might have a predispotion to it, or the icy hot incident just made me "mental" about it...

[NewWaveChick1981]

66. OMG, I had gotten some DDF lip gloss that had

mint and menthol in it (I didn't pay any attention to it but should have). It was like putting Icy Hot on my lips! I can't stand tingly/burning stuff on my lips anyway, but Jesus God, that was horrible! :( :cry: And I hate BenGay, Icy Hot, or other similar products anywhere else too. :yoiks:

[Sugar Smack]

67. OH, GROSS! I know exactly what you're talking about!

And don't the assholes that make that stuff KNOW that it's really easy to swallow small but agonizing amounts of it?!? Iiiiiiiick!

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: I'm so sorry!

[Blue Diadem]

52. I once turned my face green..

When my kids were little, I always dressed up for Halloween along with them. I got this crazy idea to make my own green makeup for my face and read that you could mix shortening with food coloring and use that. (This was before all the costume/makeup shops) The shortening was supposed to make it come off easier..yeah right. I applied it really thick..looked pretty good..until I went to remove it.

I had a greenish tint for several days. :blush:

[Sugar Smack]

59. Halloween costume flashbacks!

That is so true! And I remember a great number of kids trailing miserably to school the next day looking just a tad freakish. :rofl: