Make the most out of your products!

Time to save yourself some money and actually use up all of your products! You may not be aware of how much product is actually wasted due to the shape of the bottle, pumps, applicators etc.

The easiest way to use up as much product as possible is to cut it open - if it can be cut that is. Products that I find to be the worst are foundations, primers and mascaras just because of their shape. So here are some techniques I use to get as much product as possible!

Mascaras: When trying to get as much use out of mascaras there tends to be not much you can do as the product may have dried up as you are using it but I have a technique just for those days that you feel you have completely run out and don't have time to get another one! This usually only works for 1-2 days: firstly you will get a mug and fill it half way with boiling water then place your mascara tube into the water and leave for a minute or two. I find it is better to take the wand out as I have had the brush slightly melt and disfigure a little in the past!

Foundations: Usually foundations come in glass bottles therefore making it rather tricky to get it out so what I have found works best can take quite a while so I recommend once you feel the product is running out to do this the night before you'd like to use it again. This method does require a separate container - so you will remove the lid/pump off your foundation, tip the foundation over and into your other container and just leave it there over night. It does take a while but I have found that there is actually quite a lot of product left over, enough for maybe another week in my case.

Primers: I have only been using Urban Decays Primer Potion so I am unaware of other primers but I have found that this bottle seems to waste the most amount of product! If you were to throw out the bottle without cutting it open you'd be wasting probably more than half - which is quite ridiculous considering the price of it. So I would just take a chopping board and a sharp knife (if you are younger you should get an adult to help you) and slice it open to scoop the remaining product out and into a separate container.

I've just used the container for my "Kick Ass Concealer" by Soap and Glory to store the remaining product. As you can see there is SO much product that could have been wasted!

 Thanks for reading!

Teila x