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Curse my poxy tiled bathroom floor. The fact that it’s tiled with Disgusting Tiles Not of my Choosing is one thing (due to a fight with the builders, apathy, six years of avoiding looking at them), but the fact that it somehow is a floor made from the worlds hardest material is another. I cannot count the products I have shattered on it – the list stretches into infinity (verily, into an infinity of PI) – but recently, I have surrendered the following to its super-shattery ways:
- a 40ml bottle of Trilogy rosehip oil
- a Smashbox blusher
- a bottle of Origins Ginger Essence perfume
- a Nars eyeshadow
- a pot of loose setting powder
- a chunk out of the bottom of a bottle of foundation (I live in fear of severing a vein each time I use it now)
Sigh.
I’m not even particularly accident-prone. What about you? What products have skittered across your flooring and come to a sticky end?
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I wrecked my lovely YSL eyeliner bottle after letting it fall on my floor tiles. After 8 years, I still get angry about it…
im blessed with carpet in my room, however my sister has been very unfortunate cracking several foundation bottles, a few perfumes and even her iphone! and even yesterday she cracked the top of a mac msf, which i had lent her!!!
I smashed a bottle of Penhaligon’s perfume on my floor a few months ago and was heartbroken. I’d got it in London, it was really expensive and I’d only used about three sprays of it. My bathroom did smell gorgeous for about a week though!
I think that’s the only thing my floor has claimed…
I have yet to get to the end of a pan of Guerlain bronzer without breaking it it! Also once dropped a bottle of MAC Studio Fix Fluid in the bathroom in work, there was foundation EVERYWHERE. I managed to clean most of it up before anyone else came in to the loos but I cringed for a long time afterwards at the previously white, now NW15 grout.
When we were in the States I dropped a load of bronzing balls on the carpet in our bedroom, managed to walk some of them into the carpet while trying to scoop them up, and it left an unremovable stain. Lived in fear of not getting our deposit back for the rest of the summer!
Lynnie, bronzing balls on carpet are the worst, you can never find all them and some do get mashed into the carpet. I don’t think I have broken anything expensive, I have dropped a few eyeshadows that broke, but I wasn’t too bothered. I might as well have dropped my Dior Nude seeing as it separated anyhow and is completely useless sitting on my shelf.
I’m sure I lost a few BB pots of eyeshadow along the way……..
OMG how did I forget this one! Just before Christmas I managed to knock a bottle of OPI charged-up cherry polish off my bedside table onto the floor. It was DISASTER…very bright colour, nail polish does NOT come out of bedclothes or easily off walls and floors! We rent the place so not looking forward to the landlord’s thoughts when it comes to us moving out.
I’ve dropped a few eyshadows and a powder or two. I was extremely upset when I dropped a Givenchy eyeshadow palette a year or two ago – there were four shadows and my two favourite ones were smashed to smithereens and the lid never worked properly after that.
I did attempt to fix the eyeshadow after looking at some tutorials on youtube but it just wasn’t the same!
i samshed 2 studio fix powder foundations on my wooden floor, i broke my nars laguna bronzer a few weeks ago(argh) and a mac eyeshadow. clumsy..
I ALWAYS break my studio fix when its about half gone…but not on my floor, the evil handbag pixies do it (or something like that…it mysteriously breaks in my bag anyway)
Ive fixed a few eyeshadows by pressing down with the back of a spoon before. Also, if you are ever abroad picking up a bottle of rubbing alcohol is a saviour when it comes to fixing powdery messes (cant get it in Ireland) – mix the broken bits with the alcohol and leave for 24 hrs, the liquid evaporates and leaves you with a perfectly eyeshadow once more!!
A BB brick bronzer
Benefit Hello Flawless! powder foundation
Numerous worthy eyeshadow powders
Coco Mademoiselle perfume
Am I the worst offender?
*quick scan through comments*
Yup, I’m the worst.
i thought that photos above was sneaked of me! I can’t get to the end of a mac compact without breaking it.
Also while in the states recently I got a pen perfume, perfect for my handbag, with a rollerball on the end of it. It rolled off the table as I was struggling with jetlag and I sat on the floor and cried.
(Does anyone know if you can get these roller thingies here, so handy, got it in Sephora in the states, also nearly broke my credit card!)
Twinkle – dropping & breaking a bottle of nail varnish is one of my biggest beauty/home fears!
studio fix powder – after just buying it in the airport
handbag fairies have claimed numerous mac eyeshadows
bobby brown bronzer on the floor
studio fix fluid in the bathroom in work
or broke the clicky bit on my pencil sharpener. which meant eye pencil parings smashed in to the material in my bag
gosh Kirstie you could be a poet you know?
my friend dropped a jar of creme de la mer in the bathroom – it survived intact but cracked the sink!
That reminds me Aphrodite – my friend once knocked a bottle of hand wash off the sink & into the toilet – the hand wash was fine but it blew a hole out through the side of the toilet bowl
I smashed numerous Givenchy bronzer prisms .. so sad so don’t buy them anymore
Haha Emz!
I smashed my Mac Perfect topping – I did nearly cry after that one!
A brand new bottle of Armani luminous silk foundation and matching powder compact (I actually did cry);
A MAC bronzer and
the piece de resistance… a bottle of hot pink nailpolish that managed to slip out of my hand to roll around and around (and around) my white bath… cue frantic cleaning with copious amounts of nail polish remover whilst even more frantically hoping that said nail polish remover wouldn’t also remove the surface of the bath (it didn’t).
Actually, my bathroom is so small, my biggest problem is knocking things into the toilet….
Maybe not MY bathroom floor, but lots of my make up has bitten the dust on nightclub bathroom floors around Ireland. Rimmel bronzers times 5, a brand new bottle of Revlon Colourstay, an Isa Dora eyeshadow, Rimmel blusher santa rose times two, the list goes on….
Coco Chanel Perfume when I was a broke broke student ( am still bitter), Lancome Bronzer (three times! have given up buying it), eyeshadows galore and a pal knocked two of my lovely eyeshadown brushes into toilet before a night out and before I had finished my eye make up….
Two Benefit eyeshadows, two Mac eyeshadows, a Body Shop bronzer (one of the ones that look kinda like BB shimmerbricks) and a Mac pigment pot which didn’t break but was spilled – ALL OVER the bedroom carpet.
Confession: I tried to fix one of the Mac eyeshadows like smiles mentioned above, except I didn’t have rubbing alcohol, I just used water, and it was taking FAR too long to dry for my liking, so I did what any rational-thinking girl would do – I put it under the grill and walked away. Needless to say, this didn’t turn out well. At all.
*shakes head at her own stupidity*
Im not too bad on the breakages on the bathroom tiles, but the bath is another matter. Have broken several bottles of shampoo and bath oils as the shelf at the end of the bath that himself put up is not level so added to my slippy hands its not a good combination.
I also have little people in the house who just can’t resist taking some of my makeup and i end up finding them totally ruined a few days or so later, or even in the washing machine from being hidden away in trouser pockets. Its heartbreaking when it happens.
The only make up mishap was a new bottle of Studio Fix foundation. So messy to clean.
BUT… I destroyed a beautiful amber ring that my now husband bought me – I took it off to wash my hands and knocked it off the edge of the sink and the giant piece of amber became several smaller shards of amber. I was heart-broken.
Just broke a brand new Mac Blot Powder compact-so annoyed but not ready to throw it out yet. Can anyone recommend a cheap alternative-I refuse to buy another as I’ve no doubt I’ll do it again!
It’s comforting to know I’m not alone in suffering from bathroom tile disasters.
I’ve lost:
3/4 full bottle of Bobby Brown Foundation
Pout Baked Spice – sniff, can’t replace it
Bottle of Opi pink varnish. Such a mess!
I’ve broken a few eyeshadows in my time. Worst of all was dropping my precious Mac Peachkeen blusher and watching it shatter into a million pieces (mind you I carefully picked them all up and used it till all the pieces were gone!ha)
Smiles you can get rubbing alcohol in Ireland, it’s called Isopropyl Alcohol. Just ask in your local chemist! It’s sold as a disinfectant or something. Remember the higher the alcohol content the quicker it will dry! I’ve saved many eyeshadows like this; Take crushed eyeshadow, add some isopropyl alcohol and mix it all up so there is no lumps and then take a coin cover in tissue and press down hard and leave to dry. Voila no more ruined powdery stuff!
I dropped a 5 colour eyeshadow Inglot palatte on my bathroom floor only a couple of days ago, and now have a beautiful array of purples and silvers in the grouting. The bigger problem is that the palatte belongs to my sister, so I obviously want to replace it. So now I have to go to Inglot with the palatte containing pinches of smashed colour that I picked up from my bathroom floor (along with some dust) to ask for help matching the colours for the replacement. I suspect I’ll end up buying a present for myself too to compensate for the embarassment!
Just three days ago my almost brand new Nars Laguna bronzer shattered completely, but I gathered it up into a box so it’s still usable, just not portable ! It was soooo annoying tho.
I was in town 2 weeks ago and i was running across the road when my make up bag fell on the road and a taxi driver slowly drove over it – killing my smashbox halo powder, my limited edition most fave smashbox blush, a clarins eyeline the only thing to survive was my cheap as chips essence lipstick!!!!Evil taxi driver
ArrG I know how you feel my carbon MAC eyeshadow & 2 other Mac eyeshadows smashed on me also my MAC lipstick melted slighty in my handbag!!
Kirstie,
Is it possible that your ugly floor is sucking your beauty products onto it in a bid to make itself pretty?
The only thing I ever seem to drop is my MAC pressed powders, dont know what it is with these but when I am about half way through they seem to just find away to smash to pieces. Would rubbing alchohol work on these or is it just for eyeshadows. Would be handy to have a quick solution next time it happens instead of trying to use tiny pieces that just fall out of the compact until I can get a replacement.
Ladies,
I have the solution for you all your bathroom woes!
Step 1. Pop to penney’s
Step 2. Make your way through the cattle mart that is Penney’s to the home wares department
Step 3. For the price of a starbucks skinny mocha-cappacino-latte yoke, you can invest in a floor mat …….Voila!
daisieboo was going to mention rubbing alcohol too, think surgical spirits is the same thing! I shattered a bottle of my sister’s lancome foundation- glass bottle are a pain!!! Had to buy her a new one
Well she didnt ask me to but I had to!
Last week, my NYC peach glow bronzer, gone.
It was on its ninth life though at this stage, it was bound to smash eventually, i dropped it so often.
And i cant get it here, anywhere in Dublin/Galway sell NYC stuff? I got it in Belfast.
Numerous eyeshadows (mostly cheapy 17 ones, so I can live with that) but most recently a brand new bottle of Armani Idole – used once before it met its smashy death. WHY UNIVERSE >.<
dbigt – OUCH, talk about insult to injury
Cherry – if you happen to be in Ballinrobe there is a chemist shop there which sells NYC!
I haven’t broken anything on the floor but the wall suffers. I have a lovely white wall in my bathroom but the part of the wall under the mirror is covered in make up. Mascara, foundation, lipsticks, eyeshadows, blush, it all makes a quite a pretty pattern actually!
I was in a roasting hot hotel room in Italy, with radiators I couldn’t turn off, and I was absolutely exhausted. I dropped a bottle of nail varnish on the bathroom tiles and ended up on my hands and knees at 12.30am having to clean it with all the nail varnish remover and all the cotton pads I’d brought with me!!!! It was a disaster!
Grr makeup wise I’ve seen a pot of mineral eyeshadow go flying. Thankfully it was on the wooden floor of the inlaws’ spare bedroom… I have a cream carpet in my room so it would have been Goodnight Vienna otherwise! I also broke an Avon lipstick in half the FIRST TIME I went to use it. I was able to salvage it but it just wasn’t right afterwards, and they seemed to stopped selling that particular shade then.
Overall, I’m more of a klutz when it comes to glasses/plates/jars/bottles and other kitcheny things.
Hey, I know this is a long time after to still be posting but….You can use tesco vitamin e toner instead of the rubbing alcohol substitute, its less than 2 euro and works perfectly
(and i don’t like the thought of putting something called surgical spirits near my face). I even have pictures and step by steps if your super interested….http://princesswatshername.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-fix-broken-powder-irl-and-uk.html
isopropyl alcohol (its called ipa in computer shops or iso in chemists) is by far the best for fixing broken eye-shadows, powder cakes etc while the alcohol evaporates it also disinfects your broken comrades cause if my bathroom floor is anything to go by i wouldnt put those products anywhere near my face! isopropyl alcohol also doubles up as the best make-up brush cleaner, washing your brushes doesn’t kill the bacteria that harbours in them bristles! It can dry out your brushes so make sure to condition them every now and then.Surgical spirits will also disinfect but i find it leaves a greasy film on the product after, not good for powder based buddies!
Bought a new stdio fix compact there about 5 days ago because the previous one fell and smashed all over the bathroom… Guess what.. New one smashed on same bathroom floor just there now… Im heartbroken!