Have You Ever Mistaken a Beauty Product For Something Else?

February 6, 2010

My friend will still never let me live down the time I reached for my lip liner for an impromptu makeup touchup in an elevator. The problem? This particular elevator did not happen to have a mirror, and I'd inadvertently grabbed my black eyeliner instead. In my defense, at least the black lipstick look eventually came into fashion. Right?

Have you ever reached for a beauty product, only to be met with something else instead?

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3 years 9 weeks

Malvidi- I've washed my hair with body wash before. I was camping and no one remembered to bring shampoo or conditioner. I wasn't the only one who tried it... my friend who just rinsed her hair with water and didn't try to wash it ended up with the best hair.

3 years 9 weeks

I ended up throwing out a nail polish remover I had because the bottle looked too much like my eye makeup remover. Very painful. And a pretty gross one... we ran out of toilet paper at my student flat so I grabbed what I thought was a baby wipe. Turned out to be a makeup remover wipe and the stinging was one of the most painful things I have ever done.

3 years 13 weeks

dark green liner instead of black one. but that's virtually unnoticeable. the funny one is shampooing with body wash -- i was very short-sighted and couldnìt distinguish the bottles without glasses. disastrous. my hair never looked worse. it happened more than once...

Nadia24gv 3 years 15 weeks

No, but I tried to light a cigarette with a pack of Juicy Fruit. That's the same kind of ridiculous.

JamieUK 3 years 15 weeks

Oh no! That's a funny story though.

POPSUGAR Beauty 3 years 15 weeks

Oh my. . . I am loving your stories!!

Zivanod 3 years 15 weeks

Personally I haven't but a friend of mine in middle school didn't realize those "cream coloured lipsticks" were actually concealer and she came to school with flesh coloured lips. We got a good laugh out of that one!

sealver 3 years 15 weeks

Two winters ago, I went to visit my grandparents in Korea for New Year's. We had a big celebration, and at night, as I was removing my makeup, I reached for what I thought was eye-makeup remover from my grandma's vanity. As I poured the liquid on the cotton ball and brought it close to my eyes to remove my mascara... my grandma stopped me. Silly me, it was nail polish remover! Imagine what would've happened!!!!!

TrulyLoved 3 years 15 weeks

i've bought and used brow liner thinking it was eyeliner... took me days to realize it.

fuzzles 3 years 15 weeks

Can of hair spray and a can of Pledge. Ooooh. Lemony! :true:

fuzzles 3 years 15 weeks

Can of hair spray and a can of Pledge. Ooooh. Lemony! :true:

eshellmoyer 3 years 15 weeks

I had a tea tree oil roll on blemish treatment that looked exactly like one of my lipglosses. It tasted really, really bad. :(Also, I wish the lush solid perfumes looked a little different than the lip balms. Go Green does not taste very good either.

eshellmoyer 3 years 15 weeks

I had a tea tree oil roll on blemish treatment that looked exactly like one of my lipglosses. It tasted really, really bad. :( Also, I wish the lush solid perfumes looked a little different than the lip balms. Go Green does not taste very good either.

danizzle 3 years 15 weeks

for years i have used palmers cocoa butter stick as lipgloss. its really chunky, and looks like those tubes of stick glue that you use when you are a kid. two different times, in my senior year of college, my teacher stopped the class (one was a small 15 person class, one was a huge 300+ class) to ask me if i was putting glue on my lips. hysterical!!

Miss Bree 3 years 15 weeks

My favorite is when I reach for my lipgloss and grab a tampon instead...has happened many many times.

Happsmjc 3 years 15 weeks

Haha--hilarious! I often mix up my mac eyeshadows and concealer because they are in the same shaped containers! But once in Sephora I mistook the beads at the bottom of the glass display bowls (i.e. for brushes) for a product, I asked my friend what they were used for. It took me a moment to figure out it was an empty bowl which had once been filled with brushes--I seriously thought Sephora was selling the beads.....umm no.

Happsmjc 3 years 15 weeks

3 years 15 weeks

I used nail polish remover on my face because I was absolutely sure it was my astringent. Ridiculous! Was I drunk...possibly.

FrankiLee 3 years 15 weeks

I grabbed the wrong pencil thinking it was my eyebrow pencil, and began to fill my brows in with black eyeliner. I was in a bathroom with a few of my girlfriends. I noticed right away but they had a little laugh while I tried to remove my partially black eyebrow!

3 years 15 weeks

I was really tired one night and accidentally grabbed toner instead of my eye makeup remover since the bottles were similar shapes. Ouch!

bryseana 3 years 15 weeks

One early morning before school I was spraying my hair with what I thought was hairspray. My hair kept falling flat. I kept spraying and spraying. Then suddenly a white film started to form around my hairline. I looked at the can and it was deodorant. My only excuse is I was super sleepy.

hyzenthlay20 3 years 15 weeks

This past Christmas, I meant to grab my black Smashbox eyeliner for my tightline and figured out a week and a half later that I had grabbed the forest green one instead. It ultimately didn't make much of a difference, but I thought it was pretty funny when I figured it out!

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