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    mine are plucking my eyebrows to almost nothing back when i was like 20 years old and had just gone through a bad breakup..its taken years to get them nice and lush again.

    not being careful about daily use of sunscreen back when i was a teenager. i've never actuality tried to tan, but I'm regretting all those summer burns i got. now i put spf 30 on every single day and re-apply every 2 or 3 hours.

    bleaching my hair ( in a really damaging way with lots of heat), straight-ironing daily, blow drying with no heat protectant, and backcombing. now its finally healthy but damn I'm cringing thinking about all the damage i've done to it.

    smoking for like 5 years when i was a teen to my early 20s. that one is probably my biggest regret. its been 2 and a half years since i quit and my lungs and skin are finally recovering and looking nice again.

    god, so many beauty sins lol

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    Smoking, for sure.

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    sun damage - my upper arms are hyper-pigmented and my fore-arms have brown discoloration

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    Picking at blemishes and ingrowns on my body, which have left scars on my thighs, belly and bum.

    I use bio oil now and it's gotten a lot better, especially in dark clubs. But it's something I'm pretty self conscious about.

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    Smoking.

    Eating nothing but crap.

    Drug use.

    Dying my hair 184959 different colors (and it eventually falling out).

    Orange-y fake tans.

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    I like how smoking is a beauty regret and not a health regret Bhahaha
    But I quit smoking too because I didn't want wrinkles
    Also fake tan, sunbed tanning, not religiously using SPF 30+, bad sleep patterns, using shampoo with sulfates, picking at ingrowns, then the rest head over into health regrets I guess (not eating organic 90% of time etc)

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    Mistake
    N1 dyeing my hair, bleaching and even cutting them.
    N2 nit drinking enough water
    N3 not eating healthy
    N4 drinking so badly that it damaged my liver. My liver was never enough strong so couple of beers per week for a year did that job!
    I think beauty coming from inside, so healthy food n1 youth saver.

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    well health regrets OR beauty regrets since health = beauty and i do have to admit that i quit smoking out of vanity sake. whatever works i guess!

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    Thinking I had an ugly bellybutton so in an effort to make it cuter I got a navel piercing twice only to have it reject itself from my body both times leaving a scar and making it uglier....FML

    Straightening my hair pretty much all the time (though the last few years I cut back and go natural sometimes) and I used to bleach and dye it so I think I lost a lot of hair cause it doesn't seem as thick as it used to.
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    Plucking my brows too thin, for sure.

    Picking at blemishes. Aaand using shitty makeup to cover said blemishes, which results in more blemishes.

    Not using sunscreen religiously sooner, though I don't have visible sun damage... yet.

    Using products with microbeads, which fuck up the water supply.

    The money I wasted on fake nails, which only fucked my natural nails.

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    So many!
    -Dying my whole head bright magenta pink when I was 19. I looked like such a freak! I had to dye it super dark to get the pink out of it, and dark hair looks shitty on me
    -Not dying my hair blonde sooner...I was meant to be a blonde!
    -I got the worst haircut of my life when I was 20. I showed the girl a picture of an angled hairstyle and told her I wanted angles and just a tiny trim on the ends. The bitch gave me super short uneven side bangs and hacked off 3 inches of my hair! Growing it out was a nightmare
    -Wearing liquid foundation on my face everyday, which looked cakey and made my pores larger and my skin break out.
    -Using the wrong skin care and hair care products
    -In one year I gained 10 lbs from eating fast food everyday. I lost the weight thankfully, but that never should have happened

    And thats not even my entire list! LMAO! Oh well, you live and you learn. Luckily, this was all before I started dancing.

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    I used to treat my skin like SHIT. When it would break out (back when I used to eat less healthily and had no idea how to take care of my skin), I'd attack it with everything in an attempt to 'cure' it. Fucking fail. I mean I used to put glycolic acid 40% directly onto recently-picked blemishes. I used to pick my skin with tweezers and do all kinds of crazy things to it. I would pick at it on a pathological level. I was addicted to it as a form of anxiety relief (externalizing internal stress) and as a means of control (at least if my skin looks shitty, it's because I made it look shitty!). Not cool. Took me years to break that habit.

    Now I treat it like an upset baby. There, there...mommy's here.

    I can't really regret anything else because it takes time to learn how to take care of yourself as an individual. Your family raises you with a certain amount of know-how, and then you build upon that depending on your interests. I grew up in a fairly healthy (compared to the standard American diet) household. But I had to learn how different foods showed up on my skin. I grew up with the mentality that I could consume things like soda as long as I wasn't overweight: it took me years of research to figure out that what I was consuming was affecting my skin. I also had to learn how to exercise regularly (cardio, weights, and flexibility) since sports were always my form of exercise growing up. I never had to schedule exercise because it was always a part of my schedule (until it wasn't).

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    aaahhh i just quit smoking 5 days ago and have been eating way too much. this is horrible. i think i'd rather be a skinny smoker than fat. sad.

    definitely also drugs, tanning, the eyebrows.

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    Plucking eyebrows too thin.

    When I got serious about pole fitness/dancing, I started to use weights less and less. As a result, I lost weight quickly, my legs got skinny and I lost my booty. That all started about 4 years ago. I've changed my workout to a healthier balance & my lower body is finally looking a bit better, but it's taking a lot of effort.

    Not paying enough attention to developing back flexibility. It sounds like a 'health' thing which it is, but it's also a beauty thing when it comes to dancing. This goes along with not paying enough attention to my posture until a couple of years ago.

    Cutting my hair short too many times. (My fine, curly hair takes forever to grow).

    A question: What is so wrong with fake tanning? All you have to do is wash it off. I've been doing it for years and my skin is still really soft and healthy.

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    Hm, my biggest one would HAVE to be going blonde (my hair was naturally jet black, curly and long...now it's fried and I had to cut it to my shoulders). It could have been a lot worse and it's fun, but it just wasn't worth the damage IMO .

    I also unwillingly went "ginger" when I lived in China-my Mandarin was very basic and I wanted to get some red highlights for summer...but they dyed my whole head orange! It actually looked ok-but it was a mistake and lasted about a week before I went back to being a brunette.

    Also, getting Red Light Therapy just after getting my lips done-the heat made my lips bumpy *face palm* (not that visibly, but it felt weird and I had to have injections to dissolves the lumps lol. They were free thankfully).

    Hm, putting on 6 kgs in one year wasn't my proudest beauty moment either (I know it was due to illness, breaking my foot, getting my boobs done etc but I seriously wish I'd just starved myself to prevent it-not that I'm advocating that!). I really miss being petite and my confidence is completely shot .
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    Oh- one more. Getting restylane in my nasal labial folds by a bad injector/derm a few years ago. First of all juvaderm and resty don't sit well with me. My area got slightly lumpy and it scared. Luckily, my derm was kind enough to give me free laser treatments to 'fix' the area. I had about 6. It made it better, but without make up the scarring (although pretty faded) is still there. It doesn't show if I use a BB cream or get a spray tan on my face.

    My current der, keeps wanting me to try Sculptura on my cheeks. It's a juviderm base and lasts two years. 2 years of possible scarring and lumpiness!!? Um..., no please. I use Perlane that only lasts 6 months, but I've never had a problem.

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    i also left out being severely underweight thanks to smoking, drugs, alcohol, and horrible eating habits for years. left my face looking very gaunt, hollow-cheeked and severe. i dont look good really skinny.

    and my bad eating habits also contributed to those deep-under-the-skin huge cysts around my cheeks and chin. i was just SO uneducated about all the chemicals and additives in my food but when i quit eating that crap it cleared up.

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    Ruining my hair. I didn't realize that my hair would stop growing in thick and strong (due to aging and some hormone issues.) Yes ladies this is why there are sooooo many different hair products on the market. Beautiful hair is part of good looks that you won't realize matters A LOT until it's gone.

    In other words- use falls, partial or even full wigs for work. Clip in color streaks, don't fry your hair off and then zap it with Kool-Aid colors. & Learn about your hair- I didn't realize things like a set of good hairbrushes and better care habits would have left me with longer, better hair today. It does take extra work and hassle to do these things, but the payoff is worth it.

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    Growing out an undercut without ever trimming it. I have a little section of seriously nasty split ends underneath the rest of my healthy hair.

    Not using my retainer after having braces as a teenager. I have one tooth that's not straight and I hate it.

    Being constantly obsessed with insignificant little details like flyaways, a single blemish, 5 extra pounds, or whatever, and thus only very rarely appreciating my body and everything it does for me.

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    Not using my retainer after having braces as a teenager. I have one tooth that's not straight and I hate it.

    Being constantly obsessed with insignificant little details like flyaways, a single blemish, 5 extra pounds, or whatever, and thus only very rarely appreciating my body and everything it does for me.
    I so feel these two. My teeth start shifting after a couple months of irregular retainer use. ugh.

    & I have some casual photos from 2005 where I look so beautiful- however my life was so hard at the time I never stopped to consider how great I looked. I let those bad times steal away my pride in myself. I actually felt miserable for a few days after seeing those pics again. TLDR; Carpe Diem!!!!

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    Ooh I got a good one that I literally didn't realize until yesterday!!!

    Getting lipo on my frikkin hips!!! That was 2008 when I lived in Europe and never dreamed about how popular big booties are in miami. I wonder how my backside would look if I had never had it done uggggh

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    I am SO bad about washing my face. I usually forget if I haven't been to work, since I don't have a face full of makeup on to remind me.
    Forgetting to change pillowcases. I don't think to do it until I start feeling the grease on my face when I wake up.

    Annnnnd picking at the resulting pimples on my chin :/ I have a couple of scarred ones now from it.
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    Smoking, drinking.

    I also just had my hair hacked off about a month ago. Its really fucking sad. I'll post photos of what this person did to my hair.

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    Ruining my hair after being blonde my whole life, I decided to go at the other extreme so I went black just for one month. Getting blonde again after few weeks was such a big mistake, my hair grows so slow now ((


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    Recently wishing i had waited on my boobs jobs- kinda wishing i have my wittle boobs still- My tits are big and sometimes i wish i were natural now that i got a booty-
    Tanning in my teen years- although i dont have any noticeable damage
    and kinda regretting recently darkening my hair- good thing is its a semi-permanent and i think my blonde is going to show thru soon!
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