I was headed out for a nice dinner date with my husband and turned to Pinterest for an easy updo that would be a change of pace for me. I got ready, walked down to the car, walked into the restaurant, ate, got back in the car, and walked back up to the apartment. Somehow in that period of time, this is what happened. You’ll see extra pins up top because I excused myself during dinner to try to shove some bobby pins into my hair in an attempt to fix things.

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/95208979592206135/

My Result:

Next Time I Will: Only attempt this if my hair is twice as long as it is now, with less layers, so I can roll up the hair as I’m bringing it up to my scalp.

Name: Heidi

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/103582860149678836/

What I Did: I decided to try using Fondant and it turned into a Fon-DON’T!!  I think I’ll be leaving this cake to the pros.

My Result:

Next Time I Will: Leave it to the pros!  Fondant is hard to use!

Name: Denise

My Blog: http://acreativeeffort.blogspot.com/

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/194921490092201132/

What I Did: For Teacher Appreciation Week, my children’s school was doing a red carpet themed lunch for the teachers.  I thought for sure that I’d be the coolest parent there by making some Emmy-shaped cookies that I found on Pinterest.  They looked great going into the oven.  But by time I took them out, they turned into ghostly blobs.

My Result:

Next Time I Will: Next time I would follow the recipe exactly!  There is no saving these poor cookies, but my family still ate them and they didn’t taste as bad as they look.

Name: Ashley O’Neal

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/185632815860798459/

I’ve always wanted to make the pumpkin cream cheese bread on Pinterest. It looked so delicious, and it didn’t look too hard to make. But I guess I put too much batter in the bread tin…

My Result:

Next Time I Will: I don’t think there will be a next time…. but if I had to do it again, i’d only put like half as much batter in the tin

Name: Sandra Yarger

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/41728734017309904/

It looked like a simple and quick cute hairstyle. I figured that there would be no harm in trying it…..

My Result:

Next Time I Will: I twisted the sections of my hair too small and too tight. Also I didn’t realized that they were supposed to be twisted around an elastic head band so I just bobby pinned the twists. Definitely did NOT work, lol!

Name: Jenna

You can find my blog at: http://everythingiwantandnothingidont.blogspot.com

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/198721402277209727/

Blog Post About the Experience: http://everythingiwantandnothingidont.blogspot.com/2012/03/pinterest-fail-tank-dress-disaster.html

Objective: Alleged “”$6 20-minute tank dresses!”" from Pinterest. We chose this project because of the supposed ease and inexpense. HA!

Actuality: $20+ 4-hour-debacle disasters

My Result:

What Would You Do Differently? Maybe we should be skinnier, or perhaps be infants.  This dress would only be flattering on a waif or a small child.

Name: Summer

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/116038127868798029/

What I Did: I did not let the cake cool long enough before putting the filling on. It looked fine. I turned away for a minute and then looked back and the top piece of cake fell into four peices. I just put in the bowl and threw the icing on top.

My Result:

Next Time I Will: Wait a few more hours before putting the filling on.

I present to you the project that inspired PinterestFail for me! I knew I couldn’t be the only person investing time and money into things that look pretty or delicious on Pinterest, but somehow just don’t turn out right.

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/95208979591910971/

What I Did: I generally have the skills of a 9 year old girl when painting my nails, but this effect seemed easy enough to achieve. I painted my nails gray first, two coats, and once that had dried I went to work with the sparkles. My thumb turned out okay, with a tiny bit of fading going down, but when I did my pointer finger the sparkles stopped short and looked like a strange attempt at a sparkly french tip. I countered this by dragging sparkles all the way down to the bottom.  Same thing with my middle and pinky finger, although I gave the faded look another try on my ring finger as well. I looked down at the finished product and wished I had a pre-teen girl to blame for my mess!

My Result: 

What Went Wrong: The glitter didn’t fade like the inspirations picture. And I think the gray color I bought was too dark, so instead of getting something light and sparkly, I ended up with something dark and clunky. If you’re going to try this I recommend a nice light gray and a glitter polish with really tiny glitter chunks as I think the bigger sparkles in mine contributed to the sad result.

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/95208979592159425/

What I Did: Soaked, chopped, cooked, strained, cooled, blended, set aside, soaked, drained, pureed, chopped, cooked, simmered, and combined. All for a dinner that had to be eaten with generous helpings of feta and greek yogurt to be edible.

My Result: 

What Went Wrong: This took me several hours to make, dirtied multiple pots, pans, utensils, and appliances, and really didn’t taste like anything special. Frankly it was pretty flat other than the adobo kick. I know I followed the recipe exactly (other than cutting back dramatically on the amount of adobo sauce I added in because I can’t imagine how my mouth would be on fire if I added the recommended amount), so I’m not sure what happened.

Name: Indian American Mom

You can find me on Twitter at: @iammomsblog

You can find my blog at: www.iammoms.com

Original Inspiration: http://pinterest.com/pin/180495897535551615/

What I Did: I’m a busy work outside the home mom who loves to craft and can’t wait to share that with my toddler. I hit upon a great craft for busy moms with mess-free fingerpainting, provided by The Hippie Housewife. I think my toddler was just too young to “”get”" this craft, and ended up destroying it instead. We had a good laugh, so I’m glad we did it. You can see how uninterested my toddler was here.

My Result:

What Went Wrong: This would be a great project for an older child.  The next person to attempt this craft should use less paint than I did, but otherwise could replicate my steps and successfully execute the project.