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Truth: Even the most polished, put-together women make a beauty faux pas now and then. Here, 10 brave readers share their worst beauty nightmares:
"I was rushing one morning, trying to get both myself and my 2-year-old ready to go. After brushing my teeth and wrestling my daughter into her car seat, we were on our way. When I dropped her off at daycare, I stopped to chat with a few other parents. Only when I got back into my car and looked in my rear view mirror did I realize that I had chalky white toothpaste remnants all over my mouth!" -- Barb, 37
"I'm a bartender in New York City, so people see my hands constantly. That's why I spend a small fortune on tips for my nails. Part of my job is to help my customers light their cigarettes. So one night I flicked a lighter for a customer, and in an instant, one of my plastic tips caught on fire! The bar smelled like burnt plastic the whole night." -- Jamie, 41
"I was getting ready for a party and noticed a huge zit on my chin. It was so ready to pop, it was practically pulsating. I tried to squeeze it, but didn't get anywhere, so I piled on some concealer instead (not that it actually concealed anything, but at least the zit wasn't so obvious). Well, I went to the party, chatted, drank, laughed, and totally forgot about my zit. Toward the end of the night, I went into the bathroom and realized that the zit had started to ooze, leaving a big crusty mess on my face. If only I had done a mirror check once during the night!" -- Jeannie, 30
"I was in the process of growing my hair long when I went to my hairdresser for a trim. We decided it was time for layers. I watched as eight inches of hair fell to the floor and when he was done cutting, he turned me around to look in the mirror. I had a mullet. He said he 'left the length' in back. But everything else frizzed up and none of the layers blended at all. He said I wasn't using enough product. So I decided to literally cut my losses -- I went to another stylist and had my hair bobbed, then wore it in a tiny pony tail for two months because I was so traumatized." -- Roya, 35
"I always carry tweezers in my travel bag because I have very full eyebrows and need to pluck practically every day to keep them groomed. So when I went on vacation last summer, I toted them along -- but I didn't realize that you can't take tweezers on an airplane anymore. They were confiscated, and by the end of my two-week trip, my eyebrows looked like big, bushy spiders." -- Marisa, 40
"When I arrived in Atlanta for a business meeting, the airline told me they had lost one of my bags -- the bag containing my makeup. My meeting the next day was with very important clients, and it was 11 p.m., so I was in a panic; I couldn't show up at the meeting bare-faced! So I flagged down a taxi and told the driver I'd pay whatever it took for him to help me find a drugstore that was still open so I could buy mascara, lipstick, and eyebrow pencil. It took us two hours to find a place. I just thank goodness I could expense the cab ride!" -- Cheryl, 53
"At one time my hair was bleached blond. I decided I wanted to perm it, but didn't feel like spending money for a salon perm. So I tried it myself. I put the solution on my hair, let it process, and proceeded to try to take out the rollers. But when I put my hand on my hair, it felt like sticky cotton candy. I called a salon in a panic, but the stylist who answered said the damage was done -- my hair was fried. I made a next-day, early-morning appointment there to try to salvage my locks. All they could do was cut all my hair off! I wound with up a three-inch long, not-so-trendy haircut, and no curls to speak of." -- Daisy, 48
"I'm a teacher and only have about 20 minutes in the middle of the day to eat lunch. One day, I was in a rush, so I grabbed a slice of pizza from the cafeteria and gobbled it down. My afternoon class was just about to start, but I managed to swipe on a bit of lipstick before my students came into the room; I wanted to look presentable! I taught the whole lesson -- a lecture, where I was talking the entire time -- and when class was over, one of my students told me I should look in a mirror. I did, and saw that my lipstick was perfect -- but I had missed the hunk of cheese that was stuck onto my front tooth!" -- Andrea, 41
"One winter I stopped at the gas station to put air in my tires before going to a fancy dinner party. I realized my hands might get black from the soot on my tires, so I put on my gloves to protect them. It was a windy night and my long hair kept getting in my face when I was trying to connect the hose to the tire, so I had to keep brushing it out of my eyes. A mechanic came out to see if I needed help, and after finishing the job for me, he told me I should wipe my face. I looked in my side mirror and saw that I had black soot all over my cheeks -- it had gotten on my gloves and onto my face when I brushed my hair out of my eyes. Thank goodness he told me or I would have showed up at the party that way!" -- Adrienne, 32
"My hair is curly, and I usually wear it natural. But for a recent date, I decided to try straightening it. I bought a straightening iron, and went to work ironing out my long waves. When my date picked me up, he suggested we go ice skating at a nearby rink. I hadn't been ice skating since I was a teenager, so I agreed wholeheartedly. We got to the rink and skated for hours. But after a while, I noticed him giving me a funny look. I excused myself to go to the bathroom, and found that the moisture in the air from the ice had caused my once-straight hair to frizz up into a pyramid-shaped halo! I pulled on my hat, suggested we leave, and made a mental note to both use straightening balm the next time I decided to de-curl and to carry a hair elastic with me at all times in case of emergency." -- Lauren, 33
Source: http://www.lhj.com/lhj/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/lhj/story/data/MortifyingBeautyMoments_04182005.xml&catref=cat1530002
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