Have you ever broken a beauty product?
Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Have you ever broken a beauty product? Share your horror stories!
Yes, I definitely have. In fact, I just dropped MAC Blue Flame Mineralize Eyeshadow last week. The entire dome broke off, but luckily it was all in one piece.
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Waaaay more than I should, but i'm a natural klutz. Idk how but I've broken Carbon, Sassy Grass, and Desert Rose blush.
I did the exact same thing with my Blu Flame and it broke in the same way. I put it in a clear jar to keep using and it has worked out fine. I dropped a fluidline and the glass jar exploded. It totally sucked. There was nothing to do but throw it away. I was not going to risk glass particles that may have gotten stuck in the product.
I dropped a Cargo eyeshadow in the shade Nepal and a chunk of shadow about the size of a thumbtack fell out. I vacuumed and vacuumed, but there is still a big copper smudge in my carpet!!
my girl friend just dropped my quad and broke three eyeshadow's i was so angry and sad i just wanted to scream and cry
I have dropped my NARS bronzer once... To make it worse, It was a gift my bf bought me :( and I have used it a very few times.
These comments are heartbreaking for me to read haha. Ive never broken anything that I can think of and never want to! I guess you can just press most things back with alcohol though can't you? Or even just use shadows loose, or lipsticks with a brush?
Eyeshadows or pressed powder/bronzers have broken when travelling, but nothing that couldn't be salvaged. My mom dropped my MAC palette and 6 of the 12 shadows broke. 3 were totally ruined, but I was able to save the other 3.
My 'Lazy Day' lippie from the To the Beach collection was warm on arrival from UPS and when I tried it on it broke off in the tube. Not a complete loss, but still very upsetting.
This morning I discovered my NARS Casino was broken and my MAC Arena seems to be crumbling again. Those aren't my first broken products and I'm sure they aren't the last lol.
I've broken a NYX eyeshadow during a flight, and the broken shadow messed up my whole makeup bag! I never bought any NYX shadows then.
i dropped a smashbox soft lights luminizer thingy that cost $36 and it smashed. i was heartbroken. :<
My brand new Lorac Spotlight :( I don't even know how it fell, I just watched it slide across the floor, hit the wall, pop open, turn upside down and crumble to powder. It was like watching it in slow motion, I hadn't even used it, I did the whole alcohol thing but it looks weird now, I may give it to my cousin and buy a nice shiny new one :)
I dropped my powdered MAC foundation on the counter, it bounced off and fell to the floor. It then ricochets off the floor and lands FACE DOWN in the litterbox. Chipped and soiled. Uggg.
My Chanel Coco Rouge lipstick somehow ended up getting twisted up into the lid about 2 days after I got it. :(
I've had a particular brand of lipsticks have about 3 or 4 different shades fall out/snap off because they weren't properly seated/melted into the tube. I just gently poked them back in and flamed them myself. It seemed to work pretty well. And I dropped a Stila Kitten e/s once, but it was in the little plastic sleeve thing so it stayed nicely contained. I just gently pressed it back together under a couple of layers of tissue. I am careful with it, because it is still fractured but it is fine to use. Lucky I guess. If I dropped and shattered any of my Dior or Guerlain I'd be gutted :-(
ughhh, my lipsticks always break! my revlon soft nude broke & so did my mac creme d'nude but im thinking maybe it was because its a creamsheen? so i melted it down into an old tendertone jar. :/
I once dropped a new Smashbox eyeshadow on my bathroom floor and it totally cracked apart. Luckily, the cover was on it, but I still felt very annoyed.
I have broken several MAC lustre Eyeshadows - they seem to break easily if they are dropped to the ground.
I had just bought a NARS Pure Sheer lip treatment, and of course I twisted it up too high and it got stuck and I had to depot it into a bottled water cap. Then I forgot about it and it dried out.
I dropped my marine life highlight powder.. I now have it in a little container, and I use it as a loose blush because I liked it so much, but it was so pretty, and I had it for only like three weeks when I dropped it. :(
I dropped my refined golden bronzer from the Style Warriors collection. It sucked but didnt turn out being too bad because I didn't love the packaging, and refined golden came out in a cool new package in MAC to the beach.
Ouch! :S I've only broken a couple of low value things like a BeautyUK eyeshadow palette (£4 or so) and dropped my Rimmel pressed powder into the sink, so a bit of it broke, but that's it I think. I'm usually very careful with my expensive LE stuff.
I've only ever dropped a product once and that was my studio fix powder and it broke but I was already at pan and it was about to run out so I just used the broken product until I got a new one.
Rawr! I broke the limited edition MAC MSF Natural with the shimmer strip :( I tried the mash together with alcohol trick and it kinda worked... soooo not pretty to look at anymore though and it is much softer now so I have to have a way lighter hand when swirling my brush in it.
The Fedex man broke my Hard Candy baked blush when he decided it was a good idea to throw the package on my balcony. But since the stuff is so cheap, I didn't flip out too much. I just put the pieces in an empty mineral makeup jar.
i dropped theBalm mary lou-manizer! i was so sad because it was my favorite highlighter and then it was broken ): however breaking it showed me how much product there really was in that compact, i was so surprised. luckily, i was able to take it to a sephora and they just replaced it for me! gotta love sephora's policies (((:
On the tile floor, Smashbox glass bottle of primer (ended that phase of primer usage); lipsticks; BE Mineral Veil; BE black-brown eyeshadow. It took a third spill to move on to other makeup brands.
In recent memory, I dropped one of my palettes and broke my MAC Fiction eye shadow. Fiction bits everywhere! Back when Petticoat MSF first came out and everyone went nuts over it, I dropped mine and it shattered. I still have it, though - I just crushed it up and put it into a powder jar - and then I bought another whole one when it got re-released.
Oh my!!Last month, I broke my warm soul mineralize blush. Arrrrrrr I was so mad, but my wonderful boyfriend offered to buy me a new one, so I got a neat new.
I dropped my first MAC product ever - MSF Blonde. It was so sad because it was all over the floor with dust and stuff... I kept it for some time but ended up throwing it out, since it was dirty and all the beautiful degradé was lost.
I dropped my MAC MES in By Jupiter (I loved) and it shattered to dust...it's in a jar but it's not the same since it was a swirl of light and deep golden brown. I tried to find it again and even offered OA on MUA but alas, it was not to be.
Unfortunately, I have. This past friday I bought my first pigments ever Gold Stroke and Teal. I was so excited that as soon as I got in the car I opened them both at the same time. When i went to close them,some how i lost my grip and spilled them in my car.(all of it) Didn't even have a chance to use them. Makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
UGH my blush palette fell out of my locker at work and fleur power broke into a million little pieces - it was soooooo new too!!! also i cracked my mac apres ski while depotting it so its kinda sickly looking around the edges now. lastly i didn't know keeping a cremesheen lipstick in your pocket for about 15 minutes was a huge no-no so my creme d'nude broke off and i had to salvage it with a lipbrush. the makeup gods dont like me much!
Oh yeah. I purchased the Sephora 5-in-1 Colorplay collection. Surprisingly, it survived many a trip in my college textbook-stuffed backpack. However, it was bulky and I decided to pop out one of the palettes to carry around in the smaller travel case. Upon popping that one back out, one of the eyeshadows exploded...it happened to be the messiest black mass of powder that I've ever attempted to salvage.
The first product I broke was my Kiko blush in 103. It fell right on the floor and broke into a million pieces =( I tried to press it back in the case but it didn't work, so I'm currently using it as a powdery blush lol. The second product I broke is my Clarins Joli Rouge lipstick in number 5 Papaya. As I was twisting it back into its case, I got distracted by my cat and literally chop half of the lipstick off with my fingers o__O I put the part which came off into a small plastic case so that I can still use it with a lip brush.
I dropped my Coastal Scents 88 Shimmer Palette and completely demolished it. I also dropped my Ulta bag as I was walking from the store to my car and broke two Urban Decay shadows, but I luckily was able to fix them.
OMG, I can't count the number I have broken. The worst is when you drop a gooey cream product! Gross. A couple of weeks ago, My Perlier shower cream fell off the ledge in the shower and I guess enough of the cap chiped that it allowed a slow stream to drip down the side of the marble shower. What a mess!

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