ATTENTION LADIES!!! We have yet another fabulous contest for you this evening! In celebration of their new beauty book, Sephora is generously donating a copy along with a goody bag to one of our lovely readers. I have been lucky enough to receive one of these books, and after doing a fair share of perusing I can tell you it is worth every penny of its $27.95 price tag.
In order to win your free copy and goody bag (courtesy of Sephora) you need to tell me the strangest beauty advice you have ever received. I had a teacher who told our class that peeing on a washcloth and then rubbing it on your face, would pH balance your skin and restore nutrients… And, No, I haven’t tired it.
…this contest will run for 24 hours, closing at 8pm west coast time on Thursday, April 24th. Good Luck!
*****…Congratulations to the winner, Kelly H. Her unusual beauty advice was that you should try and match your lipstick color to your nipple color. Supposedly that is the most flattering pink for your skin tone. Not only had none of us heard it before, but a few of us decided that it kind of made sense, lol. ….Our close second was putting a mans member on a zit to clear it up, posted by Mare. (definitely not trying that one!) …Ahhh the wacky things we will do for beauty!! *****
I’ve been told that to get rid of acne, put spots of toothpaste on your pimples before you go to bed.
Love these quick contests!
My most unusual advice… hmmm… That you should try and match your lipstick color to your nipple color. Supposedly that is the most flattering pink for your skin tone.
This is not so stunning as the pee on the face advice, but…
When I was a little girl, my grandmother told me that I should take a spoonful of cod liver oil every day. She told me that it would make my skin beautiful, particularly as I got older.
She also told me to chew on the fibery parts of vegetables that people normally throw out. That was supposed to make my eyes sparkle.
Cod liver oil and fiber. When I was 10, I thought it was the craziest thing I’d ever heard. Years later, it turned out that she was right.
I was told by my mother in law to use butt rash cream for everything! Deoderant, face Cream, lip moisterizer, hair conditioner…I mean everything!
To pull off deep red lips:
Cover your lips with concealer. Then apply liner and lipstick as normal. When you line them the line will look less blurred!
Strange advice I heard somewhere: to help avoid wrinkles as you age, never dry your face with a towel (meaning you should let your face air-dry after cleansing, etc.) It would be very hard to prove whether this one works or not… in a way it does make sense, since you are not pulling or rubbing your sensitive eye skin with a towel. Most of the time I am in too much of a hurry though!
One of my best friend’s grandmother always has the best remedies. In high school, she told us that if you put a penis on a pimple – the pimple will disappear. If you think that’s bad, she also said it works for styes!
At the time we all had younger brothers so she said to use their little friends! To this day, whenever any of us have pimple friends we’ll crack those penis jokes :X
When I was in High School I had hormone breakouts on my chin ALL THE TIME. I worked at a grocery store, and one Sunday as I was checking out this little old lady, she loudly told me in front of the long line of customers that I could clear up my skin by applying plain yogurt to my chin. It wasn’t as strange as it was humiliating!!
A customer at my old work place once told me to do a ‘rare’ mask, by ‘rare’ she means use any type of rare meat (i.e: fish, pork, beef, etc) put in on your face for 20 mins, supposedly to help renew & freshin’ up your skin. Umm I don’t think I will ever try that, is kinda gross.
OMG! The worst advice I’ve heard (and obviously did NOT try!) was to wash your soiled pad or tampon (yes, the bloody one) in a bucket of water and soap. You then had to wash your face with that and it would become smooth. Is that crazy or what?!
To smack your skin to lose weight and make it less flabby
Well, I can’t enter the contest as I live in the UK but I think that you should give a special prize to the person who does try your teacher’s tip and then reports back!
My great-aunt told me, when I was very young, to save the bacon grease that is left in the pan after cooking bacon on the stove. I assumed she meant to cook other things with, but she proceeded to tell me that bacon grease does wonders for conditioning hair and skin if left on for 30-60 minutes. I’ve never tried it, but I assume I’ll be very popular with the neighborhood dogs if I ever do.
strangest advice i have gotten is to boil the rubber sole of an old show down and put cinammon in it and it makes your hair grow…and yes i have tried it. lol
The strangest beauty advice I’m ever gotten was to make a toner using equal parts hydrogen peroxide and water–and it works!
My Nana was fundamentally opposed to washing the face. She never did it. She’d use a wet facecloth to “wake up” in the morning but soap never touched her skin. She’d use Pond’s Cold Cream instead, slathering on a heap and then wiping it off every few days. And she slept in makeup, certain that it protected the skin.
Seeing as she had the best skin of anyone I ever knew, she might have been on to something!
My nana was fundamentally opposed to washing the face. She never did it. She’d use a wet facecloth to “wake up” in the morning but soap never touched her skin. She’d use Pond’s Cold Cream instead, slathering on a heap and then wiping it off every few days. And she slept in makeup, certain that it protected the skin.
Seeing as she had the best skin of anyone I ever knew, she might have been on to something!
my mom used to grow a strangre form of cultured yogurt, she said that if i ate it every day, it would make me grow taller. turns out, i’m still short.
My mother and my grandmother told me to slice half of the garlic and rub it in onto your cheeks to create a dimple ^_____^
I have dimples but I want to make them more deeper – of course I tried lol
Ok, a friend of mine told me to use Vagisil on my face to help with my acne. She says she uses it for acne and to help prevent wrinkles.
Granted, I never see acne on her face, nor do I see wrinkles, but I just can’t bring myself to put Vagisil on my face!!!
PS….I love the above posts! We women will do anything to be beautiful!
I can’t remember where I heard this, but I’ve been told that if you use Preparation H as an undereye cream, it will reduce puffiness. I’ve never had the guts to actually try this!
I was told that when applying lotion you should use an upward pulling motion (you’ll defy gravity!)
My mother said that back in the day, people used Afro-Sheen as a tanning “expediter”. Probably not a good idea. But I imagine it worked.
A lady I work with told me about using Vitamin E caplets for stretch marks. You’re supposed to pop them and get the liquid out and rub it on your “problem areas”. Yes, I did try it. The problem is, I was so sticky afterwards that I couldn’t do anything, so ended up washing it all off in order to get dressed!!!!!
I also heard that putting strawberries on your teeth for 15-20 minutes is supposed to help whiten them. The natural acid inside them is what actually does the work. Haven’t tried that one yet.
In high school my friends and I all had dark brown hair. We read in a magazine that if you used lemon juice in your hair and then laid outside in direct sunlight that it would lighten your hair (we wanted to be blonde). I went into the fridge and got my moms lemon juice container and doused my entire head! I guess you could say it worked, kind of….. I ended up with orange hair and it had to be fixed!!!!
i once heard that to tighten your undereyes and get rid of wrinkles you could put sardines on them for 15 minutes. sounds really gross and i would not want those pickled juices anywhere near my eyes!
Worst advice by FAR: To avoid sweating on your face (during workouts, stressful situations, etc.), put a layer of “streak free” and “clear” deoderant all over your face. An extra bonus: the oils will be absorbed by your skin which will also cause less wrinkles. Sounds pretty good, right? Well, since I’m blonde, I tried it. However, halfway through my day I started noticing people giving me weird looks, and they were staring! I ran to the bathroom and to my horror, my face was completely white and covered with deoderant flakes. I look like I had leprocy! So much for using that “clear” deodorant. The oils also made me break out and I had the worst looking skin for at least a month! Take it from me: Deodorant on the face does NOT work!!! People still call me “casper”
My friend (whose name I won’t divulge) grew up in a secluded tribe in India, and she told me the most disgusting advice to keep smelling ‘fresh.’ She said that whenever someone in her tribe smelled a little funky, they would bathe themselves in elephant poop. They believed that the two odors (bodily odors and the poop) would cancel each other out, leaving you smelling ‘fresh.’ When I asked her whether or not she’s tried this before, she declined to answer. I’ve never tried this method and never plan to. I will stick to my Philosophy shower and bath gels!
I’ve been told to wash my hair with beer to make it smoother/shinier. Still haven’t tried it yet!
The strangest advice I have ever received is to put on my face a wet (and by that i mean “used” “dirty” hehe) diaper. It`s supposed that this removed dark spots from my face. I have not tried this yet, but who knows maybe it works!
rub Vaseline on your eye lashes at night to make them grow.
While I was pregnant my midwife told me that if you peel a clove of garlic, tie a string around it and put in your you-know-what it would get rid of yeast infections…while it probably works I can’t even imagine doing it.
Then in junior high some friend told me that if you put mayo in your hair it would make it smoother and shinier…I think the smell alone would make me sick to my stomach!
I was told that rinsing my hair with diluted vinegar after I washed it would make it soft, shiny, and tangle-free. It worked brilliantly, but my hair smelled like vinegar until the next time I washed it 🙁
In kindergarden I wanted freckles, my friends and I made up a potion consisting of lemons, carrot juice and some “magical” dirt. I had to drink it and then do a dance…
my friend’s EX boyfriend recommended putting semen on your face. as in having a guy come on your face. it’s preventative of wrinkles and pimples because you are using unborn babies to rejuvenate your face!!
Thanks girls! The contest is closed and the winner (as voted by the beauty snobs) Kelly H. for her nipple matching lipstick advice =)
…Sammi, I wouldn’t do that if I were you… You can end up with some serious clogged pores! (..So I’ve heard..)