Hiya and greetings on this quarantine Caturday. What’s going on?! ?
I just had a major MacGyver moment involving these semi-empty body lotion bottles…
Soooooo, usually I’m not super proud that I hold on to beauty products longer than I should. It’s because I think I might need them someday, but really, most of what I keep just ends up gathering dust. I do weird things like hold on to one too many nearly empty bottles of body lotion. Plus, there’s the fact that all of these things take up physical space and add mental clutter to my mind…but that’s a Konmari conversation for another day.
ANYWAYS! It’s very rare when beauty hoarding actually works in my favor, but it did this morning.
I’d just stepped out of the shower and was getting ready to put on lotion when I realized that I couldn’t get to the very last drops of lotion at the bottom of an Aveeno bottle. I had already stored it upside down, so I got most of it out that way (like 95%), so I guess I could’ve left it at that and set the bottle free, but I could tell there was still enough lotion there at the bottom for at least one leg and an arm.
It plagued me.
First, I thought about using a disposable chopstick as a primitive tool, but then I realized — AHA! — there was something better nearby. I have an almost empty Neutrogena lotion bottle, which is taller than the Aveeno bottle and therefore has a longer tube attached to the pump.
I opened it up and used the longer tube to scrape out every last bit of magic from the bottom of the Aveeno bottle, AND DANG IF IT WASN’T THE MOST SATISFYING THING EVER.
- Mark my words — someday in the not-too-distant future a team of brilliant minds will figure out how to project augmented face filters (like the kind that are popular on Instagram) on to our faces, bodies and, heck, maybe even on to our cats as we’re all walking around doing everyday things. It could be like Jem and the Holograms, but, ya know, in real life.
- Kevyn Aucoin’s iconic beauty bible, Making Faces, has been getting a lot of love from makeup artists on social media lately.
- For $18, you can own a pen dedicated solely to drawing faux freckles on yo’ face.
- I just assumed everyone knew this (back in my high school, it was the step you took after experimenting with Sun-In), but apparently there are people out there who had no idea that you could dye your hair with Kool-Aid. Here’s how to do it step-by-step, in case you’re curious.
- Speaking of step-by-steps…here’s how to shave your lady bits.
- Buzz cuts are the new shelter-in-place hairstyle.
Somebody, do this with me.
Recently added to the Isolation Playlist
This one, too!
Just because…
What Yosemite looks like without people
What’s on your agenda today?
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
You need to get a beauty spatula! Then you don’t have to hoard almost empty lotion bottles. Also if you have a tube cut it in half. You would be amazed how much stuff is left in there. Plus you can just use the top of the tube to “cap” over the bottom (if that makes sense).
https://www.amazon.com/Every-Drop-Beauty-Spatula/dp/B0069VYSFM
The solution to getting all of the lotion every time:
https://www.containerstore.com/s/lotion-saver-bottle-couplers/d?productId=10034712&q=lotion%20saver
Life changing!!
Whaaaaaa? I can’t believe they make these because I’ve needed them. Thanks.
I’ve thought about the freckle pen – I have plenty of my own freckles but they fade in the winter.
Hope you’re having a good Saturday! I took a nap with Jiji, did a drive-up order at Target.
I was so obsessed with that Janet Jackson song when I was younger, I thought she was/is so pretty! Yosemite is stunning! I visited there a couple times when I lived in California!
When I see those giant plastic bottles, I can’t help but feel pain, when I think about them ending in a landfill somewhere. Here in Denmark, the primary drugstore collects plastic they’ve sold and recycles it into traffic cones. All other plastic is collected and recycled in a plastic plant, run by the state.
We have recycling in the United States as well! And states like California, which is very progressive, are extremely proactive about recycling!
I love that MacGyver moment! I hate when I can’t reach the last bit of lotion in a bottle. Sometimes, I’ll cut them open but that doesn’t work with every type of bottle.
Thanks for sharing that video of Swan Lake. It’s so pretty!
Hope you had a great day! The weather was nice so we did some yard work outside.
Karen- You pick the absolute best video clips. Thank you for continuing todo what you do! I know it isn’t easy right now. 🙂
I’m at the end of a bottle of lotion, too, and don’t those last bits of lotion stay in there FOREVER?! I pry open our bottles of sunscreen and stick my pinky in the lid and around the inner rim of the opening. Gotta get every last possible drop!
The pics of the women shaving their heads is inspiring…not for me to actually do it but it is just inspiring to see how liberated they feel by getting rid of their hair. It also helps to have a nicely shaped head to begin with.
They reopened the beach parks in Honolulu so we took a walk at Ala Moana Beach Park, with masks, taking wide berths from folks as usual. It was nice to get solid sunshine but now I have a weird face mask tan. A good problem. 😉
Yeah that “Making Faces” is a classic. Kevin Aucoyn was so freaking gifted and versatile. I wonder what he would have thought about all this Instagram makeup.
When I have a product that is too thick to come out when I turn the bottle upside down, and if it is plastic, I cut it in half with a serrated knife! Amazing how much product is left in there.