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Style disaster- Light-hearted thread. ?

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Marydoll Thu 12-Apr-18 09:43:00

Horatia, the point of dying them is because they are totally invisible. They merge into my face, so I usually use a brow pencil, but my hands are so painful, I sometimes can't be bothered.
I actually (try to) dye them a very, very, light brown.
I was just poking fun at myself. smile My attempt at giving people a laugh. It isn't a major disaster.

Horatia Thu 12-Apr-18 09:30:38

What's wrong with fair to ginger eyebrows? Far nicer than great huge stern ones in my humble opinion.

Coolgran65 Thu 12-Apr-18 09:13:13

I'm a ginger. Even eyebrow tinting at a salon doesn't look well.
I've found a Glimmerstick for eyebrows with Avon. Get it in colour blonde. It is excellent and looks natural. Bought off eBay or Amazon it is half the price compared to direct from Avon.

But that doesn't help you at the moment.
I've found that a salon eyebrow ting only lasts a few days,, so that might be a blessing. I'd ask a salon advice. My hairdresser told me once that Head and Shoulders shampoo will fade out hair colour ??

Thank you for brightening my morning ??

MillieBear Thu 12-Apr-18 09:01:07

I once thought a chic bob would flatter me and be easy to care for. I looked like Grayson Perry! grin

Alima Thu 12-Apr-18 08:57:22

Isn’t being off kilter all the rage now? You could keep the Ok brow as is and get the other one pierced, as many as it takes. Just have to explain to security when the alarms go off.

Panache Thu 12-Apr-18 08:56:44

Thanks for the morning laugh Marydoll,at least you seem to have a smiling audience.... due to your unfortunate errors whilst tinting your eyebrows!
I can give you no advice sadly, as I own a rather proud set of dark eyebrows,quite well endowed I must say, although my hair is baby white!!
I have only ever indulged in plucking, and over the years I can assure you there was quite a lot of that,but now I have quite a reasonably shaped brow that I am more than happy with.
Whilst you are on your hols, you will be far too busy enjoying yourself to even remember this fiasco.
Quite frankly I think you need Lemongrove and her deft hands in your home!!
Wishing you all the best.............and a fab holiday with plenty of (sunshine) and (wine) of course.

lemongrove Thu 12-Apr-18 08:42:55

If you want to take off the dye Marydoll put a littke nail polish remover on cotton wool and wipe it over the dark brow several times.You may have to do it several times.
Be careful of your eyes though, and use water on cotton wool afterwards to clean the area.
While the dye is wearing off the one eyebrow, use a darker pencil on the other eyebrow (L’Oreal do a tiny compact with eyebrow powder and a shaped brush which is really good.)
Good luck!?

Marydoll Thu 12-Apr-18 08:37:12

Oh, don't worry about me.
I have found a large, brown paper bag and have made some slits for my eyes.
The only thing worrying me, is it doesn't my my outfit today and I do love to match.grin

annsixty Thu 12-Apr-18 08:32:30

So sorry Marydoll I splattered into my tea.
Why do other people's disasters make us laugh and our own make us cry?
You will enliven the talk at the hotel breakfast table that's for sure.
May I suggest an attractive eyepatch on the worst offender, you will then get some sympathy instead of grins ?

morethan2 Thu 12-Apr-18 08:19:49

Marydoll post a picture.....please I so need cheering up. In the 80’s we were going to a very posh mess do. Perms were the height of fashion so off I went to a very expensive hairdressers. I don’t know what went wrong but when I arrived home my husband was horrified and said I looked like I’d been a pillion passenger on a motor bike on a very windy day. My sister thought I looked as if I’d been “pulled through a hedge backwards”

Eglantine21 Thu 12-Apr-18 07:29:44

Pluck, pluck, pluck! Until there is nothing left.

I've always liked experimenting with my hair so have had quite a few disasters that way from the half inch razor cut of the sixties through the Afro of the eighties, the corn row that took hours, and just recently the idea that a chic black cap of hair might take years off me.

The good thing about hair is that it grows back!

ninathenana Thu 12-Apr-18 00:30:02

Nothing Marydoll
My mum loved red hair, I quiet like it too.

Marydoll Thu 12-Apr-18 00:03:01

What is wrong with ginger??????

Chewbacca Wed 11-Apr-18 23:45:54

Erm... Don't think I can offer any advice really MD! Could you post a photo so we could see the problem and advise? Please?

Many, many moons ago, I dyed my hair myself. It was supposed to be "tawny blonde". I can still remember the horror when I removed the towel and my hair was a bright light ginger. My ex H laughed like a drain, which only made me wail louder. It took weeks to grow out and whenever dyed my hair myself since. I'd post a photo but.....

Marydoll Wed 11-Apr-18 23:35:25

As a redhead, my eyebrows have always been practically invisible, so tonight I decided to tint them, as I'm off on holiday on Monday.

Basically, I couldn't be bothered to go and get them done professionally and anyway, I'm too busy posting on GN games thread.?.?


I didn't factor into the process that:
*I wear splints on my hands
*Consequently I have limited dexterity
*My new bathroom is white ( Oh the mess) ?
*I couldn't be bothered measuring the peroxide accurately..
*I'm practically blind without my specs
* DH is impatiently waiting for me to watch something on iPlayer and telling me to "Hurry up!"

And so I began the process. I decided to use a stencil, bad move.? I couldn't hold the stencil and tint at the same time.

By the time I finished, I looked like Groucho Marks, except not altogether like him. The "eyebrows" were off centre. I hastily wiped off the dye.
Can anyone help? I now have one light and one very dark eyebrow. The dye only took on one eyebrow.? and I can't get it to work on the other brow.
What has your worst styling disaster been?