How To: Depot Urban Decay Primer Potion

At 11 quid a pop, I'd like to think I get the most out of this product. Urban Decay disagrees. If you have the old version of UDPP, you may have heard about how much product is wasted due to the poor design of the packaging. I'll be honest, I'm not 100% convinced the new wand makes much of a difference so will be depotting all Urban Decay Primer Potions in future. I know about the new pro tube but really, I'm not sure I'd use it all. I may give Too Faced Shadow Insurance a go when I've used this up.

So, to get started - disinfect everything. You'll need a disinfected serrated knife, a disinfected container (I'm re-using my Lush lip balm pot) and disinfected hands. Did I mention you need to disinfect EVERYTHING?! A spritz of alcohol over everything will suffice.



1. Firmly take hold of the base of the tube and place it on its side.
2. Remove the wand and cut through the widest part of the tube until you can separate the two sections. It's actually very easy to cut through.



Check out how much is still in there! And I thought this was empty! There was literally nothing coming off the wand when I used this.

3. Use the wand to scoop out the product and transfer it to your chosen container. The more air tight the better.





4. That's it! Stick a label on it if you wish.

Autumn Cleaning & P5P update!

You do a little bit of Autumn cleaning....and you find a forgotten Stila lipstick in a handbag, a Rimmel nail polish under the bed and a load of earrings you'd thought you'd lost so had already thrown away the other half of the pair. Actually, the kitten found most of the earrings...she thought they were new toys. Toys they were not.







Stila Shine Lip Color in Anna

A Project 5 Pan update - I finished my Armani powder foundation a while ago and have just knocked out my Lush lip balm - a sure sign of how parched my lips are at the moment. I'm finding myself applying lip balm every 5 minutes. I have UDPP, the Biotherm eyeshadow duo and my Revlon Colorstay left to go! I've been using the Colorstay everyday since P5P started and because my skin seems to be behaving itself at the moment, I'm using less of it which is slightly annoying. I'm aware of how stupid that sounds.

I'd also like to add that I used up 3 mascaras this week! I decided not to include mascaras in P5P as they're so easy to use up. I finished off my Diorshow, Rimmel The Max Volume Flash and a mini Benefit Bad Gal Lash. Very proud.

Many will know that the amount of UDPP wasted is just...unasseptable (watched Supernanny today) so I'll be posting about how you can get the rest of the product out.

Update on Mimi: She's settling in very well and is super affectionate. Having some trouble with Reggie accepting the fact that he's not the baby anymore but this happened today:



And I consider that a bloody triumph! This is what it must feel like to see your child walk for the first time.



Miss Mariah

Hope you've all had a fabulous weekend! Get up to much? Do share.

xx

Small (mostly) Urban Decay Haul

I FINALLY managed to get the Naked palette! I know, I know...I'm late...but for whatever reason, my House Of Fraser didn't have an Urban Decay stand and if they did, the sales assistants gave me their usual snotty "naaaaa dunnaaaa" attitude (I live in Croydon...anyone who's been here/watched the news will understand) so I walked out and never went back. A week later, I saw a stand in Boots - almost hidden - and picked up the last one which one cheeky mare had stashed at the back of the stand behind the Big Fatty mascaras and eyeshadows! Since they were having a 3 for 2 offer...of COURSE I gave in and picked up All Nighter and UDPP in Sin. I believe the offer is still going so head down to Boots to take advantage!



Also picked up another MeMeMe Blush Box this time in Rouge. I also have Coral and Pink. Coral is by far my favourite with Rouge coming in a close second.

Hair dye...self explanatory...will try and get John to take photos of the results. I'm dyeing (cringe) to get the red out of my hair. Anyone who has any tips - pleeease share!





I won't post swatches as I'm sure that if you haven't picked up the palette yourself, you've seen 3009 blog posts and YouTube vids about it...but...it's so pretty...

So that's it! Have you bought the Naked palette? Do you love it? Of course you do...