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Not exactly a hack, but a gypsy superstition is that if you wash your hair in May it "washes one of the family away" (they fuckin die lol). I think a few of my oldest relatives believed that.
Shitty Beauty Hacks & Bad Advice You've Seen Online or Heard IRL - How do I make my hair grow faster? How do I get rid of stretch marks? How do I whiten my teeth naturally? Etc.
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Azafran90
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I swear to god everytime I read about gypsies it's either something criminal or insane.
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We're colourful characters lol. To loosely go back to beauty, the gypsies who lived on the meadows here had to use a pump for water up until about the eighties or nineties; one time the pump stopped working so the non-gypsies would bring water from their houses to them so that they could wash.
Most gypsies are settled now, and adapt the chav's way of make-up: fake tans, fuck tons of highlighter, and oceans and oceans of cheap Ted Baker spray. They literally fucking paint themselves with foundation, and then they turn to dumb hacks for their acne.
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For years my older relatives have pushed various home remedies as cures for things. Like one wherein you rub Vick's VapoRub on your feet and put socks on before you go to bed. For some reason that "cured" your night time cough. That's just the stupidest one I can remember off the top of my head.
Cuntflaps
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Obviously that wasn't going to work. You have to put someone else's semen on your face for acne. Duh.
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My mom would always recommend this for both cough and sore throat.
I also remember my grandma recommending garlic on your feet for the same things.
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That's because a long time ago, people believed that your feet getting cold is what made you sick every winter. I think I remember reading something like that in Laura Ingalls' books (so a loooong time ago).
Of course, it's not correct. You come into contact with a virus through your face region, most likely, and it gives you a cold. Sometimes it's bacteria. Treating your feet is an inefficient way to get to your insides.
If you want something weird that actually works, I find that pure oregano oil is the ultimate cold-killer. Seriously, I haven't gotten sick in years since I started taking it.
Granted, it's probably not ideal for young children because it's really potent stuff, and if you're pregnant, it can make you miscarry your baby.
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When I was little my friends grandpa said that niggers put mayonnaise in their hair. Neither of us ate mayonnaise for a year or so after hearing that.
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Any advice from an MLM beauty company counts. That Velocity skincare line from Mary Kay made my skin break out even more as a teen. Not to mention it is overpriced as fuck and the ethics of the companies are questionable at best.
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My oldest brother had awful acne as a teenager. I think he kinda despised my sister and I because we had lovely, blemish-less skin throughout our teenage years. We got pimples every so often like everybody else but he had that kinda skin where it never seemed to go away.
Anyway, my mother told him to use that Noxema face wash for his acne and he said it just made it worse. He'll still zing my mother with that one once in awhile.
Petronella
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I had a friend who sold Younique briefly and they straight up told her to Photoshop pictures if she had to to make the products actually look good. Another friend used to sell LipSense and got whatever the MLM equivalent of written up is for telling a customer that her lips may be bothered by the alcohol in the products.
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Back when I was a tween, a lot of girls in class swore by rubbing plain butter on their skin before they went outside to tan. I suppose turning yourself into a rotisserie chicken technically would work.
These are probably the same girls who would brag about going to the tanning bed twice a week in high school, but wonder why they look like a mummified corpse at age 30.
These are probably the same girls who would brag about going to the tanning bed twice a week in high school, but wonder why they look like a mummified corpse at age 30.
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Pure Romance is pretty bad since they actually sell vaginal tightening cream which if you don't know, basically works by causing an allergic reaction that causes your vagina to swell and seem "tighter" and also anal numbing cream which can lead to serious injury due to not knowing when one should slow down or stop because you can't feel pain in your butt.
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The entire Curly Girl Method. It's sold as a hair care method that focuses on health of the hair, but it's really a mechanism to sell expensive products. Use this $30 gel, use this $40 "co-wash", use this $40 leave in conditioner. Lots of influencers get popular off it, too. It's a scam from start to finish.
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I remember hearing about this diet once called the Purple Diet where you are supposed to lose weight by only eating purple foods....sounds like some diet of a picky autist
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There was a "beauty hack" going around in Soviet times, that if you cut off your eyelashes, they will grow back longer and thicker. My mom's friend actually went and did it. They did grow back thick, but they alto stayed very short and looked ridiculous.
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Another thing I heard is to use a vibrator for sinus congestion, like, an actual sex toy. I remember seeing a Pure Romance hun someone take her rabbit vibrator and used it on her baby. I don't want something that you put in your vagina (or ass) on my face or whatever. Maybe get something vibrating that is intended for your face.
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Minus the gel step this just looks like my normal routine. Am I am influencer now? How do I get my sponsorship bucks?
Just use saline spray like a normal person. Goddamn.
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I think the worst one I’ve been told in person was someone who used isopropyl rubbing alcohol on her face as a toner twice a day because she had “really bad acne”.
And yes, her skin was horribly broken out and dehydrated but oily and looked awful, her poor skin was so confused.
She was convinced it was working though so I didn’t have time to argue with her.
And for extractions of blackheads properly (as I know how to)- hot compress or after a shower, NO SCRATCHING AT IT, putting two index fingers around it, spreading the fingertips slightly out, and then almost scoop it upwards deeply as your squeeze it. And make sure to check different directions to make sure it’s cleared so there’s no remnants inside the pore to create another flare up or worse a cyst.
And then following it up with a salicylic spot treatment to sanitize.
The pore strips and clay masks don’t work on established blackheads, and people can get aggressive with extractors.
I’ve seen loop shaped bruising on people from too much pressure before and even light skin tearing from people who use retinol or other skin thinning products.
Not a bad tool but a huge margin for error there.
And yes, her skin was horribly broken out and dehydrated but oily and looked awful, her poor skin was so confused.
She was convinced it was working though so I didn’t have time to argue with her.
And for extractions of blackheads properly (as I know how to)- hot compress or after a shower, NO SCRATCHING AT IT, putting two index fingers around it, spreading the fingertips slightly out, and then almost scoop it upwards deeply as your squeeze it. And make sure to check different directions to make sure it’s cleared so there’s no remnants inside the pore to create another flare up or worse a cyst.
And then following it up with a salicylic spot treatment to sanitize.
The pore strips and clay masks don’t work on established blackheads, and people can get aggressive with extractors.
I’ve seen loop shaped bruising on people from too much pressure before and even light skin tearing from people who use retinol or other skin thinning products.
Not a bad tool but a huge margin for error there.