When asked about her biggest makeup mistake, she delivered a crazy story: she got a chemical burn from dyeing her eyebrows!
"One time I did a shoot for MTV, and there was this close-up picture of me with bindis all around my eyes," she said. "It was on billboards. And they go, 'Oh, let's bleach your eyebrows so we can do really skinny eyebrows.'" Gwen said she left the shoot loving the look of bleached brows, but if you've ever bleached your eyebrows before, you know they come back in looking patchy and yellow.
She went on: "So Thanksgiving weekend, I went to my parents' house in Anaheim, and I was, like, 'I'm done, I've got to take care of this. I need to dye them back,'" Gwen said. Because every beauty supply store was closed, she went to a salon — which you think would be the safer bet, but it wasn't. "[The salon employee] said she could do it, and she put the product on my brows. It was burning and burning. And it’s literally stained like a tattoo onto my face . . . "
After leaving without paying, she asked her mom for help. "She took me to the emergency room, and they said, 'Wow, this is gonna be permanent.' I had chemical burns. But I survived! I do have a scar, though. It's white."
