We’ve all tried some beauty hacks or tips thinking they’d make us prettier or give us glowing skin, and most times they backfired in ways we never expected. As women, it is sort of normalized that we will try to keep up with the latest beauty trends and if we fail, we’re usually our own toughest critics.
Whether it’s because of the media, the society, or boys, it’s way too easy for teenage girls to get sucked into a wormhole trying to fit beauty standards.
Recently, some women took to TikTok to share those moments when they realized, way too late, that all the things they were doing to their bodies to feel “prettier” — the stuff that felt normal at the time — were actually hurting them. Some of the hacks they tried are totally wild and we hope no one ever tries them again.
Woman’s teen beauty 'hack' sparks a wave of confessions
#21
I used to shove earrings through my ear when I wanted new piercings.
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#22
Me when I used to put rhinestones on my teeth with NAIL glue.
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#23
i used to spend about an hour per day dragging my face across carpet flooring cause I liked how red faces looked.
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#24
I used to shave my entireee face and one day my mom said “did you shave ur face??” In front of all my friends I was so embarrassed.
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#25
When I look at my wrist and see the heart shaped scar because a friend in high school said she could give me a pencil “tattoo.”
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#26
I used to wake up at 3am every morning because I read it was the highest your metabolism was so I could do 150sit ups.. which did nothing because I refused to eat, so I just sucked in my tummy all the time and now I have tummy pains and my body can't tell me when I'm hungry until I shake.
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#27
I use to wear a Bobby pin on my nose to make it smaller.
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#28
Had me up all night doing “Ab workouts” and drinking lemon water by 8am at 12.
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#29
I used to stare at the sun for like a couple seconds till my eyes hurt cause I was jealous of people wearing glasses as a kid.
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#30
I blame the YouTube videos that told me to put loom bands and earring backs on my teeth for fake braces.
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#31
I wanted braces so bad that I’d wrap rubber bands around my teeth that my friend, who actually had braces, gave me. Now my two front teeth tilt towards each other bc the bands pushed them together :/ tragic
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#32
when I was younger I used to violently squeeze and press my nose together with my fingers to make it smaller (im talking the bridge bone as well) and now I have a deviated septum on one side 😇
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#33
I “pierced” my own bellybutton when I was 15. I used an earring use for ear piercings.
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#35
I used to put salt in my eyes so that I can wear glasses and look cool😭now I have eyesight problems.
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#36
Me with my horrible posture and scoliosis because I thought having bad surfer girl posture looked cool as a kid.
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#37
Used a nail file on my nose because it’s too big, scratched my eyes to try get glasses and repeatedly banged my face on my bunkbed to make my teeth fall out because people younger than me were getting adult teeth before me.
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#38
I once cut my eyelashes with nail clippers bc everyone at gymnastics told me they were really long so I interpreted that as a bad thing lmao.
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#39
Would wear a side bang over one eye so I could get glasses. now i have a lazy eye and permanent side bang.
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#40
I literally would put straight raw honey in my eyes because the internet told me that could lighten them in color...anyway so I appreciate dark brown eyes now.
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