So it turns out that after going through my lip stuff
collection, I realized that I had quite a few lip glosses/balms that I loved
for a while and then somehow couldn’t bring myself to use for one reason or
another.
One of these was a red lip tint from my local health food store
that is a perfect dupe of Clinique’s Black Honey lip tint but at only a
fraction of the price.
I loved the product but hated the tube – it’s super thin and
there was something wrong with the twist up function which meant that whenever I
accidentally twisted up too much, I had to push it back down into the tube…
Another was a almost clear orange Anna Sui lip gloss that I’d
gotten as a Xmas gift. It was ok to use, but a little on the sticky end, so I tended
not to use it too much as I prefer a little colour on my lips…
So given that it turned out I’d used up quite a bit of each,
I had the brainwave of combining the two….
Big mistake…
I’d scraped the lip tint into a container and then simply unscrewed
the cap on the lip gloss and proceeded to put both in the microwave on high for
2 min so that they would both be of a nicely runny consistency so that I could
mix them together easily.
The mistake was that I’d factored all this in with the idea
that it should have worked…all except the fact that the ‘foot’ of the lip gloss
cap was actually a very thin plastic ‘spatula’…it melted clean off in the heat
and there was a pungent smell of burnt plastic coming from the microwave…the
applicator was now not much more than a short stick….
So…lesson learnt, and from now on I will make sure to check
the containers before trying anything like this again…
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