Devastating Beauty: Why Sometimes It's Better to Leave Your Makeup to the Professionals (15 photos)

With so many beauty bloggers offering self-care guides these days, it's understandable why women are ditching salons and trying to replicate the necessary procedures at home. However, when such a woman has more enthusiasm than experience, the results can be disappointing.





Women on Instagram are sharing their worst beauty mistakes: one experimenter got a charcoal mask stuck to her face, another tried to remove lipstick with coconut oil and smeared it all over her face, and a third got a bad tan in a cutout swimsuit. In short, sometimes it's better to trust a salon professional.



A face this orange—it's too much even for the Oompa-Loompas from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.





A bit overdone with the eyebrows.



It's a nail. Yes, there's an eye on it.



This is what happens when you sunbathe in scalloped swimsuits, not just take photos.



There's nothing wrong with false nails, but the same doesn't apply to toes.



Powdered my nose.



Charcoal mask: expectations vs. reality.



Purple eyebrows drawn in a crisscross pattern – apparently the woman really needed to stand out from the crowd.



A long-standing problem for self-tanners: orange arms.



She was trying to remove her matte lipstick with coconut oil.



Kim Kardashian will have a lot of questions about this makeup: contouring doesn't work without blending.



And this woman decided to mix her own mask, but added too much peppermint essential oil and got burned.



This woman is thinking innovatively: she drew lines under her eyebrows to make her eyelashes look longer.



My nails look like they were in a glitter factory explosion.