People Share Disgusting Makeup Stories

From Redditor /u/housesnark:

My old roommate left all her brushes on the carpet, right next to her cat's litter box. She wore full coverage foundation and multiple eyeshadows daily.

From Redditor /u/cuddlebunz:

A girl I know licks her eyeshadow brush after cleaning product off it instead of using a couple of brushes or washing it.

From Redditor /u/galindafiedify:

I made a lipstick tester. Opening the cap revealed a thick, black bug leg sticking out the bullet. I chose that box because I wanted a tester; otherwise, a customer would take it home.

From Redditor /u/lalisa4:

My friend did not get why I avoided putting testers on my face. I watched her do a full face of makeup and heard her tell me I was weird for putting stuff on my arm. The next morning, she woke up with pinkeye. I did not.

From Redditor /u/feraltarte:

I bought a Shea Moisture conditioner. It looked like my usual kind, but it was pistachio green. I thought it was new and tried it. Opening it to use it caused it to explode into a putrid mess on my face. Something in it must have fermented because it tasted sour and carbonated.

This happened at work. The next day, I pulled all the green products from the shelf. A couple of them exploded on my way to damage them. That is the worst I have ever seen a product go bad.

From a former Redditor:

Every day on the bus, this girl asked for the blueberry lip gloss I had because she wanted to eat it. I finally gave it to her since she was persistent, and I never wanted to touch it again.

From Redditor /u/Twinkle_Starchild:

My mom still keeps makeup from high school and college. She still uses it.

I told her I researched makeup. Eyeshadow expires about two years after opening. Mascara expires in three to six months. She said, 'Wow, I have had my makeup for decades! No wonder my eyes are itchy!'

From Redditor /u/MuffinGypsy:

I bought a friend a beauty blender for Easter. A year later, I found out she did not know she had to wash it. She uses it almost every day.

From Redditor /u/hooploopdoop:

I found a Rimmel lipstick bullet in my collection. It was just over a year old, but the top turned completely black. It was originally a warm-toned red lipstick.

From Redditor /u/smariee:

Last week at the hair salon, the girl working there did her makeup. She dropped her NARS blush, and the powder went all over the floor. The person washing hair then picked up the powder and blush chunks from the dirty floor with her bare hands and put them back in the pan for her. The girl then dips She took her brush and put it on her face without a care. Gross! They surely did not mop that floor when they arrived; people walk all over it. Think of the bacteria and dirt from people walking outside. She just rubbed that all over her face. Ugh!

From Redditor /u/abbeyrogue:

"I got a deluxe size of Stay Don't Stray from Benefit, and it worked well. Then one day, I pumped it out; it became a half chunky-colored mess, half orange oil. I put it on my face without looking and ruined everything. It smelled bad and was gross.

This happened around the time I started believing expiration dates on makeup.

From Redditor /u/dizzyxizzy:

"An old friend used an ink pen for eyeliner. She used that to take notes in class. I screamed at her and practically threw the pen out the window.

From Redditor /u/megumisparx:

"When I worked at Claire's, customers would run our brushes all over their faces, saying, 'Oooh, so soft!' It made me gag. I sprayed those people with sanitizer as much as I could, but still... it was so gross.

From Redditor /u/SoftMetalFoxes:

"I bought a sealed Hard Candy eyeshadow single recently and saw something poking out. I looked closer: it was a hair. I pulled it out with tweezers; it was really long and stuck. Gross. I bought it on eBay, not new, and it was sealed, so that is not the seller's fault. I just ate the loss."

From a former Redditor:

"My cat loves to lick pressed powder anything. He will open the Naked palette, lick every shadow, and then lick himself. He blends better than me on his white fur.

I threw that one out and bought a makeup container that needs thumbs.

From Redditor /u/Kitty-Tickles:

"I visited my parents' house today and saw my mother's makeup. Her brushes looked super dirty! I asked how long since she last washed them, and I got a blank stare and, 'You have to wash them?' I was shocked! I showed her photos of what can happen and deep-cleaned the brushes she used for yearswith no cleaning. Coming from an obsessive brush-cleaner, it was horrifying!

From Redditor /u/familygoretrait:

"A few years ago, I used liquid eyeliner, the applicator dripping product. I started applying when a huge firework went off outside suddenly. I jumped and jabbed the applicator into my eye, full of stinging black liquid. I screamed, falling down with my eye stinging like hell and watering everywhere. After rolling on the floor in pain for a minute or two, I looked in the mirror. My eye glowed red for two days, and somehow I got eyeliner out of my nose... yummy."

From Redditor /u/juliuslv:

I used MAC's Brun eyeshadow, a gray/brown, as a contour. After a couple of weeks, I could not pick up any powder on my brush. I thought it was broken. I took it to the MAC store and asked what to do. The sales associate told me an oil coat had formed over the eyeshadow pot. Blech.

Redditor /u/scrantonstrangler92:

I will never forget the moment in year eight, which is seventh grade, when I saw a new student put lip gloss on her.eyebrows. For real. What the actual f*ck.

Redditor /u/MissBubbleButt:

My friend keeps a bottle of foundation in her car. She sometimes slathers it on her face with her hands. She does not use delicate dabs or precision. The color is wrong. Thankfully, she usually does not bother.