From olive oil in your hair to toothpaste on pimples, we thought we'd heard all the bad beauty advice available.
But then fashion and beauty blogger Garance Dore asked for submissions -- and she got back some special responses.
"You should massage your breast with onions so they will grow bigger," wrote one. "Just slap yourself a few times in the morning" to get a rosy glow on your cheeks, said another. One woman was told to iron her hair -- with an actual iron. Someone else was advised to pair gold lipstick with brown lip liner. What? Why?
And then, there was that old Preparation H chestnut (hint: you use it to calm the skin on the other end).
We don't recommend any of these tips of course (though we are fans of that whole eating right to look younger thing), but bad pieces of beauty advice (so long as you don't actually take them!) are hilarious. On our team alone, we've heard that popping pimples is okay (no it's not!) if you just use Neosporin after. And my mom used to tell me (while she was yanking the tangles out of my hair) that it hurts to be beautiful. Should it, though?
What's the craziest bad beauty advice you've ever gotten? Let us know!
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