I can’t believe how well that first lip trick looked. Generally I hate the look of overlined lips (it always looks fake) but that genuinely looked like you had gotten filler.
So lemon juice does react with sunlight- if you go out in the sun after putting it on your skin you can develop chemical burns! Dunno if it lightens your hair though
This was my first thought, too. One of my nephews got a burn this way when he was a baby - he was a little weirdo who liked to eat lemon slices (love him anyway), he made a mess all over his hands and arms with his snack as babies do, then he went out in the sun and got a burn. Fortunately he was fine within a few days, but it certainly can be painful short term.
OMG! You unlocked a memory of my mom and I rubbing lemons on our elbows after juicing them for lemon bars when I was in high school! I swore by that trick!
Oh my God when I was in college, I did a standup bit about the rubbing lemons on elbow thing. I can’t remember how it went, but it was basically just about how impractical it was just like you demonstrated here.
I remember some of the tips is the magazines being the absolute best. I still do some of them. Smiling in the shower and letting the water hit your teeth supposedly helps whiten them. I also read in cosmo about using aspirin crushed up for your face. I think it was supposed to help with acne. I’m doing the lip one!
Smiling in the shower is like a really gentle waterpick. If you can smile wide enough for the water to hit your gums. Aspirin is in fact salicylic acid so yep, it’ll work on acne. Some of the tips were science based so they do work!
Lemon juice will make your skin more sensitive to sun, so if anyone chooses to try that: be extra careful and practice good sun safety (sunscreen etc)!
I think any kind of acid in your hair is probably bad. I know somebody who used apple cider vinegar in their hair often and they damaged it really bad. But once in a while is most likely okay. 🤷♀️
I remember girls at school squeezing lemons into their hair and then going out in the sun to see if it lightened it. I think it works a bit like a natural Sun-In but less dramatic. Reckon it makes your hair feel like straw though 😆
I remember spraying lemon juice in my hair and riding on my bike all afternoon the summer after 8th grade in 1990. It totally worked... if you only want the top layer of your hair blonde. 🤦♀️
Yeah it definitely works because I used to do it every summer as a kid but as the person above me said, it’s just the top layer that it works on. I never felt like it made my hair dry though. I always put it in a spray bottle and misted it on.
Juice from limes and lemons can cause phytophotodermatitis. Basically the juice reacts with sunlight and causes an inflammatory reaction which can lead to damage and long lasting hyperpigmentation. So please do NOT spread lemon juice on your elbows or anywhere else. Stay safe!!
Of course there's an easier way to lighten hyperpigmentation, you probably have it in the skincare counter behind you, you would need AHA's like lactic or mandelic acid. Lemon juice contains citric acid, an AHA.
My mom had a fantastic book from the late 60s that had the lemon hack! I’m remembering that the lemon juice was squeezed for some other beauty treatment (I feel like it was some sort of astringent for your face and the lightening of freckles) and then the rind halves you sat in a chair with your elbows bent, and you let your elbows “soak” in the lemon peel half while you let the mask “remove” your freckles.
Juice from limes and lemons can cause phytophotodermatitis. Basically the juice reacts with sunlight and causes an inflammatory reaction which can lead to damage and long lasting hyperpigmentation. So please do NOT spread lemon juice on your elbows or anywhere else. Stay safe!!
I can’t believe how well that first lip trick looked. Generally I hate the look of overlined lips (it always looks fake) but that genuinely looked like you had gotten filler.
My very 80s 90s mom made me do the lemons on my elbows as a kid. It basically bleached them 😅
So lemon juice does react with sunlight- if you go out in the sun after putting it on your skin you can develop chemical burns! Dunno if it lightens your hair though
It works on naturally dark/dirty blonde hair (lightens/brightens it), but you have to dilute before spraying on your hair!
This was my first thought, too. One of my nephews got a burn this way when he was a baby - he was a little weirdo who liked to eat lemon slices (love him anyway), he made a mess all over his hands and arms with his snack as babies do, then he went out in the sun and got a burn. Fortunately he was fine within a few days, but it certainly can be painful short term.
OMG! You unlocked a memory of my mom and I rubbing lemons on our elbows after juicing them for lemon bars when I was in high school! I swore by that trick!
Oh my God when I was in college, I did a standup bit about the rubbing lemons on elbow thing. I can’t remember how it went, but it was basically just about how impractical it was just like you demonstrated here.
I remember some of the tips is the magazines being the absolute best. I still do some of them. Smiling in the shower and letting the water hit your teeth supposedly helps whiten them. I also read in cosmo about using aspirin crushed up for your face. I think it was supposed to help with acne. I’m doing the lip one!
Smiling in the shower is like a really gentle waterpick. If you can smile wide enough for the water to hit your gums. Aspirin is in fact salicylic acid so yep, it’ll work on acne. Some of the tips were science based so they do work!
I remember people putting baby powder in our hair as dry shampoo. Haha
Wow that lip lining actually worked !
I'm trying that lip one! 😂
Lemon juice and sugar. Best scrub for elbows and knees
You squeeze the lemons, you can make a drink, and use the skins left. Why to use a whoke lemon a throw away... not good 😅
Lemon juice will make your skin more sensitive to sun, so if anyone chooses to try that: be extra careful and practice good sun safety (sunscreen etc)!
Love it.
I think any kind of acid in your hair is probably bad. I know somebody who used apple cider vinegar in their hair often and they damaged it really bad. But once in a while is most likely okay. 🤷♀️
Lemon juice and sun exposure may cause blemishes I would not recommend…
Maybe get a real hair wig or just real hair extension pieces and try the lemon on that and leave them in the sun?
I remember girls at school squeezing lemons into their hair and then going out in the sun to see if it lightened it. I think it works a bit like a natural Sun-In but less dramatic. Reckon it makes your hair feel like straw though 😆
I remember spraying lemon juice in my hair and riding on my bike all afternoon the summer after 8th grade in 1990. It totally worked... if you only want the top layer of your hair blonde. 🤦♀️
Yeah it definitely works because I used to do it every summer as a kid but as the person above me said, it’s just the top layer that it works on. I never felt like it made my hair dry though. I always put it in a spray bottle and misted it on.
Doesn’t the sun lighten your hair anyway?
@@Love_Crafts_HP Yes, it does a little but the lemon juice would make it do it a lot more.
Sun in was literally just peroxide lol
Just squeeze out the lemon first, make a lemonade and drink it 😋 and then rub the leftover lemon juice on the elbows, from the squeezed out zests 😅
Juice from limes and lemons can cause phytophotodermatitis. Basically the juice reacts with sunlight and causes an inflammatory reaction which can lead to damage and long lasting hyperpigmentation. So please do NOT spread lemon juice on your elbows or anywhere else. Stay safe!!
I read "Tasting beauty advice..." and got really worried for Jenna. 😅
I mean with the lemons I guess it could be that 😂
Of course there's an easier way to lighten hyperpigmentation, you probably have it in the skincare counter behind you, you would need AHA's like lactic or mandelic acid. Lemon juice contains citric acid, an AHA.
So, over-lining with concealer is the OG lip highlight?
My mom had a fantastic book from the late 60s that had the lemon hack! I’m remembering that the lemon juice was squeezed for some other beauty treatment (I feel like it was some sort of astringent for your face and the lightening of freckles) and then the rind halves you sat in a chair with your elbows bent, and you let your elbows “soak” in the lemon peel half while you let the mask “remove” your freckles.
I used to do the lemons on my dry elbows. It never helped. Turned out drinking enough water helped me hydrate my elbows. 😂
That and actually moisturizing them like a normal person helped mine 😂
Juice from limes and lemons can cause phytophotodermatitis. Basically the juice reacts with sunlight and causes an inflammatory reaction which can lead to damage and long lasting hyperpigmentation. So please do NOT spread lemon juice on your elbows or anywhere else. Stay safe!!
Came here to say this! Citrus on skin + UV = really not fun! Please, kids - don't do it
The lemon thing goes way back to the 50’s and 60’s, leave on for a half hour and wash off
This is why I’m an esthetician
Xd
I remember in the 90’s using lemon to lighten freckles and hair.
Oh my goodness, I had these magazines. I remember reading these articles 😂
why do you still have all these things?