I'm going to take this Bad Crafts entry in a different direction and just lump together everything that is on Pinterest.
Every. Single. Thing.
These Pinterest projects get passed around, but no one actually does them. A lot of the time, the original person didn't do them, either. Many of them are so heavily prepped and modified for the photographs that they may as well have been fake. Or else the instructions are just completely wrong.
Think you might like to try making these dyed lemons with food dye? Think again, because those lemons were Photoshopped. (The fact that the rind is colored too should have tipped us off… you could theoretically dye the flesh of the lemon with food coloring, but not the rind. You would probably need to inject the dye into the lemon with a syringe to get it that vibrant, too.)
Intrigued by that nail art picture? I hope you are a professional and you don't have a job so you can spend all day meticulously painting your nails under a big magnifying glass. Otherwise, forget it.
Interested in some clever cleaning hacks? Well none of these hacks will work, but someone at Buzzfeed took pity on us and put together a list of ways to un-break those broken hacks and get your stuff clean. Except now I don't know whether I can trust anything on the internet, so… thanks?
Pinterest projects are passed around as aspirational tools. But all they end up doing is making us aspire to not be the lazy pack of slobs that we already are. How can anyone attain the level of perfection seen in a Pinterest craft? You can't. Don't even bother trying. It's like holding yourself up to the standard of a model in a magazine. Those ads are so heavily Photoshopped that no one - not even the model - can possibly look that good, you'll just kill yourself trying.
Down with Pinterest crafts!
Image courtesy Flickr/JefferyTurner
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