I’m talking “down to the last drops, squeezing the life out of the tube, banging the bottle against the side of the sink” finished. Mine was this now unfortunate tube of Pacifica Malibu Lemon Blossom Body Butter. Yes, I cut it in half 
to extract every last drop (my precious!).
How about you? What was the last face or body beauty product you finished?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
NARS orgasm illiminator. sigh.
woops not skincare
Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel. :]
I always finish Dramatically Different Moisturizer but I never tried the gel? Is there a difference?
They are both about equally moisturizing but if you have oily skin I recommend the gel. I seem to breakout less with it.
I used the moisturizer forever, too. I’ve been using CeraVe for about a month now and like it even more (and no breakouts). If you’re ever looking for a new moisturizer, you might like this one. 🙂
Taffy-I have worked @ Clinique in the past & I always would suggest the gel bc it doesnt have the mineral oil in it. Minerl oil is horriable for your skin!!! So from now on I would highly suggest you switch to the gel-your skin will love you for it 🙂
That’s very interesting that you say that Amy! I’ve always used DDML but I guess I’m lucky because I’ve got great skin, especially for someone my age. 43 years old, no wrinkles and I don’t have breakouts. I might give the gel a try to see the difference but I seem to be doing ok so far. 🙂
Clinique’s All About Eyes Rich and Clinique’s Moisture Surge Extended Relief
Bare Minerals Prime Time face primer…i cut the bottle too! Lol.
A Bath and Body Works Tutti Dolce(remember that line??) Amaretto shower gel…. oh, and loreal studio effects primer souffle …
ciao!
haha I remember Tutti Dulci. It was my obsession when I used to work there.
St. Ives Restoring 24 Hour lotion. Love that stuff and yes it lasts and the smell is delish. Yay no more itchy dry thighs! The beauty is that I always get a new one when I’m low so when the old one is out the new one is in.
Lumene’s Vitamin C Radiance Day Cream. Fabulous stuff!
I’m v. close to finishing my VS Grapefruit Lime & Mint lotion. I love finishing lotions! They take so long though
Clarins Hydra Quench Cooling Creme Gel and Biotherm Lait Corporel. I love finishing up products as I feel that I really got my money’s worth. Definitely no buyer’s remorse there.
MAC Cleanse Off Oil. One of the few cleansing oils that doesn’t break me out and it gets everything off.
Clean&Clear pore perfecting spf 15 moisturizer…doesn’t make me oily or break out. When I replaced it, I noticed they had a new product, a mattifying spf 15 moisturizer in the same line…and I like it even better! Didn’t think that was possible.
CeraVe pm moisturizing lotion and Bath and Body Works Rainkissed Leaves Shower Cream. Wish they hadn’t discontinued this great, grassy, fresh scent.
several actually!
st ives vit e lotion – the huge pump bottle
a japanese brand shampoo
a japanese brand conditioner
a small tube of bath and body works foot cream
and … i think i have a week to go in my current bottle of studio fix fluid! 🙂
MAC Strobe Cream – It lasts forever and when it (finally) got what I thought was the end, I had to pound the container on the table to get the last drops. Turns out there was still about a month’s worth left!
LUSH shower gel in snow fairy. This smells so good. It only comes out during the holidays so I bought two knowing I would go through it. That’s how good it is.
Kiehls Ultra Facial Cream http://www.kiehls.com/Ultra-Facial-Cream/622,default,pd.html
korres 24-hour wild rose moisturizer. i don’t normally finish skincare products as i find i get bored when there’s less than 1/3 left, but i really LOVE this moisturizer so i wiped it clean 🙂
L’Occitane verbena shea butter cream. Live that stuff!
Oh my gosh, I hardly ever finish anything. If I buy something I really like I end trying to hoard it and use it as little as possible because I’m afraid it will run out… even if it is readily available at stores to purchase again. I think I have a little OCD, haha.
Glad to know I’m not the only hoarder. Mine is half from buying something and then being scared to try it. And half from hoarding the ones I try and like. And then there are the ones I tried but didn’t like but keep anyway just in case. I just went through my face stuff and it was amazing how many containers I had laying around. 😉
I’ve finished quite a few recently. Origins Brigher by Nature Moisturizer, Neutrogena something something stress acne body wash (so disappointed this is discontinued), and Philosophy Purity.
I scraped the last of my Clinique anti blemish moisturiser into a sample pot after decimating it with my scissors. Astonishing how much product was left around the neck area! Actually did a post about it too ^^ Great cream for when I overindulge with the sweets and am on active breakout-prevention.
Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Lotion. I don’t stop when the pump stops pumping…oh no. There’s ton of lotion left. I bang, scrape and smash every last morsel of both versions of that lotion.
korres thyme honey moisturizer
Dirty Works Hot Salt Body Scrub – Doesn’t have loads of salt but has a lovely body mud consistency and that feels really good on a cold day. There was some at the bottom of the tub that I couldn’t get out because it hardened a bit like cement and I had to get one of my scrub spatulas to dig it out.
BBW cashmere hand lotion 🙁 I also cut the tubes in half 😛
Philosophy 3-In-1 “Cherry Christmas” body wash (one of the holiday offerings)…it smelled just divine; a sour cherry fragrance, not a cherry candy odor.
Philosophy Amazing Grace shower gel and firming emulsion lotion. Yummmmm!!!!
Clinique Clarifying Lotion 3! I just finished every little drop out of that bottle last weekend XD
uhhhhh…..I just ran out of Clinique Dramatically Different Lotion……..Ive been out for a couple days now….my face is all red…I’m stuck using an Origins moisturizer….. 🙁
Bobbi Brown Rich Cream Cleanser. I always did this – you should see how mutilated my tube was! But it was even more important this time as they discontinued it, sob.
L’Oreal Studio Secrets Magic Perfecting Base. I love this stuff!
Neutrogena Body Butter…smells like vanilla cupcakes and smooths skin like nobody’s business!
Clinique’s Super Rescue Antioxidant Moisturizer in dry-combination. I absolutely love this basic moisturizer that works so well.
Mine was LUSH’s Angels On Bare Skin facial cleanser, its so amazing it replaced my need for Proactiv! <3
Dernalogica Active Moist. Luckily I had a back up 🙂
Go through Crabtree & Evelyn hand treatment like no other. Always have a backup
Am about to squeeze out the last drops of Garnier overnight regenerating cream 🙁
Smashbox PhotoFinish primer…I love that stuff!
Ole Henriksen’s Sheer Transformation moisturizer and Nars Skin Softening Milk Cleanser.
For me: Jane Iredale “Dream Tint SPF 15” tinted moisturizer. Love it…uses titanium dioxide for sun protection. On my second tube.
And Burt’s Bees “Milk & Honey Body Lotion”. Lushly moisturizing w/out greasiness, and the smell…de.vine! Sadly it was “reformulated”, which translates to messed w/ perfection. Not at all the same product. 🙁
Revlon Colorstay Foundation- I just killed my 3rd bottle of this. I wear it on days when I know I will be taking pictures.
I love PACIFICA products! But anyway, I’ve finished and squeezed every single last drop of my Yes to Carrots intense repair hand cream. I have really dry hands and they feel so soft and moisturized afterwards! 😀
Embryolisse-Lait crème, this is my go-to hydrating cream for the day, perfect for foundation il gives a little glow to offer a good surface to stick too
Love this cream, makes my skin gorgeous, I went yesterday to Sephora to get a new foundation and the skin specialist tought I was 25, based on my skin, I’m over 30 !!! Yeah !!
La Roche Posay Effaklar gel cleanser. I’ve finished three of them. They keep my breakouts at bay without triggering flaking and redness. Love.
Aveeno Body Wash in Moisturizing and Calming (two separate products).
I’m constantly going through tube of Avene Trixera Selectiose Emollient Cream for my Eczema!
I cut a deluxe sample tube of Natura Bisse Diamond Extreme Eye cream just like that, to get every last bit! Now I’m starting a tube of Replenix Eye Repair – so far so good!
Very last one soap and glory body sugar polish and Mac lightful cleansing cream
Ooooh I’m down to the last dregs of my Soap&Glory Sugar Crush too…. But the good news is that they’re supposed to be bringing their products back to the U.S. in September! I don’t know if I can wait 5 more months though.
Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream! LOVE IT!
I thought i would never finish any product bec i always see new ones i want to try. bad habit i know. but i recently finished a bottle of shu uemura cleansing oil and a big bottle of cetaphil face wash.
I tend to finish everything but I think the last product was probably St. Ives Collagen and Elastin body wash. We go through lots of that. On a side note, do you know what I’ll definitely be finishing? The Givenchy Candide Garden quad that I love, love, love!!!! 🙂
The latest skincare item I finished was Greenscape Organic Homemade Multigrain Skincare-the Lemon, Barley, & Tomato foaming facial wash. This product is made in England but you can purchase online. Highly recommend!
creme de la mer !!
John Frieda Brilliante Brunette Shampoo. Brilliant shampoo, I have a different one now and I don’t like it 🙁
I rarely finish beauty products save body lotions. The last product I remember finishing was my RareMinerals eye cream. I’m on my second tube but I’m thinking of trying something else when I’m done.
i’ve finished palmolive thermal spa firming gel;a cheap way to get firmer:)
Hmm for body it was Trader Joe’s lavender body scrub, love that stuff! For the face, it was Boots’ microdermabrasion scrub. I guess I just love to scrub! 🙂
I just finished the Z Mei Replenishing Daily Moisturizer. It was good timing, since that stuff is a little too thick for summer months anyway.
Now, only if it could actually get warm…
Oh my goodness I cut all my tubes of lotion too, I have been doing that forever! Haha. I got the idea from my grandma. and the last lotion I finished was one from bath and body works, can’t remember which scent.
Bobbi Brown eye cream
Lancome Collaser Eye Serum. I open the pump and scrape the inside out. I wish it came in a tube so I could cut it open! Good idea!!!
There was a Johnson’s Hydrating Moisture lotion I finished. I was so proud of myself. I get antsy when I know products are finishing and can’t wait to try new ones. And now I’m finishing off a Garnier facial moisturizer. But that one I cheated a bit, I tried a new product before finishing. But I’m determined not to just throw it out.
The Body Shop Body Butter in Mango. I should have gotten the big one because it’s a limited edition. OBSESSED!
The last thing I finished was a Neutrogena face wash. That Pacific body butter looks divine. Love lemons, and the packaging too!
The H2O Hand & Nail Cream in my purse gets squeezed and prodded daily. I’ll only give up if I can no longer see product in there! I also just gave up on a B&BW Summer Vanillas Berry Vanilla body lotion.
Victoria’s Secret Body Butter in Love Spell. Love the fomula, hate the scent. I’m getting Pure Seduction next. Yum!
Illamasqua liquid foundation! I’m in love with this line and the quality of their foundation! Perfect for someone who wants a fuller coverage and beautiful finish 🙂 love it!
The Body Shop Moringa Milk Body Lotion, and I debated for a while whether I should cut the bottle open or not… (eventually I decided not to, because I want to wash it and reuse it for homemade cosmetic experiments, and anyway the lotion is liquid and there is hardly any left inside). Goodbye Moringa Milk! You smelled so good! :'( I won’t repurchase though: as soon as I finished it I darted off to get myself the L’Erbolario Méharées Body Cream ^_^ Yes, I am a product w***e…
Origins’ Brighter by Nature Serum. It comes in a little bottle with pump and soon as I couldn’t pump anything out, I’d open the pump part and just use my finger to scoop out the lotion. As much as I love this product, I couldn’t wait to try other Origins products.. so soon as I ran out of it I grabbed the Modern Fusion Serum and it’s going great so far!
Diorshow Extase Mascara, I tried other mascaras after but none were as good so I had to reinvest in a new one 🙂
clean start face wash.
The Body Shop chamomile eye makeup remover. As for makeup, I’m on my third compact of Neutrogena Mineral Sheers powder foundation SPF 20. It’s the only foundation I’ve ever finished.
I am about to grab the scissors and cut into the tube of my Dermalogica’s Skin Smoothing Cream to get the last bit of moisturizer out of it.
Loved this! I used up a homemade soap recently and a bodycology Cucumber melon body wash
Sephora vanilla cupcake body scrub 🙂