"In high school, I had terrible acne. My mom suggested trying a method that had worked for her friend in high school: Not washing your face, just rinsing with water. Now that I know more about skin I can see why it worked for her friend (who was over-drying her face and needed to let it rebalance), but it only made my skin way worse. Finally, she wised up and took me to a dermatologist, thank goodness!" -- scarrillo via the Community
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Pinch your cheeks for a natural glow
"Pinch your cheeks if you don't have any blush. I listened to this in 4th grade and ended up breaking blood vessels." -- LASHCONTROL via Facebook
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Don't use shimmery shadows
"I'm not sure if my mother gave me this advice to discourage me from using makeup or if she genuinely believed it, but she used to tell me all the time that wearing shimmery/glittery eyeshadow was going to get into my eye and blind me. I think I believed her for a couple of years in middle school before I decided it was ridiculous. I'm not the type of person to wear glitter eyeshadows anyway. Plus, IF I decided to wear glitter now, there are primers out there specifically formulated for this fall-out problem." -- Sshum via the Community
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Get a perm
"As a kid, my mom forced me to get a perm on my super fine, straight hair [and I] ended up looking like a fuzz ball. Since then, I swore off even curling irons just because of how traumatic [that perm] was." -- Ashley Feyen via the Commnuity
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Pile on the hairspray
"I have fond memories of being a little girl watching my mom get ready for a night out. She'd have hot rollers in her hair while she'd put on her makeup, slip into a dress, ask my Dad to attach the clasps on her jewelry. I loved watching the transformation take place right in front of me ... until her curled hair came down and she started spraying hairspray like a madwoman. I can still taste the stingy stuff and feel the slight burn in my eyes. And although my mom tried to insist on my using hairspray any time I curled my hair, I'd refuse." -- MegRabbitt via the Community
Good old mom. Not only did she pack on the pounds and give up her fun, carefree life so we could cook for nine months in her womb, but she also loved us even through the "You don't understand mes" and "I HATE yous" of our tumultuous teen years. What a trooper.
She taught us so much as well -- invaluable things, which we're sure you still hold near and dear. But while mom was likely spot on when it came to things like not talking with your mouth full and brushing your hair, she probably spewed some not-so-awesome advice as well. And we're not talking unfortunate truths like "Money doesn't grow on trees" and "Don�t make that face or it'll freeze that way" -- we're talking about truly bad beauty tips.
Whoa, whoa, whoa -- bad beauty tips from dear, sweet mom? You bet. After asking thousands of readers on Facebook, Twitter, and our Community, we were shocked to hear just how bad some of the mother to daughter beauty advice was. So shocked, and admittedly amused, that we decided to compile the best of the worst beauty tips from our readers' moms. Turns out there are times when you should take the whole "mother knows best" bit with a grain of salt.
