What was your biggest MAC accident?

[tremorviolet]

Back when I was learning to depot, I'd read about a technique where you drill a small hole in the back of the plastic so you can more easily push out the eyeshadow pan. So I thought I'd try it on an e/s from a CCO (Typographic, I think). I misjudged how strong the drill was and drilled completely through the shadow! It's still usable (and isn't a color I use much anyway) but it looks so weird in the palette with this hole drilled through it.

[romi79_2008]

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Originally Posted by tremorviolet

Back when I was learning to depot, I'd read about a technique where you drill a small hole in the back of the plastic so you can more easily push out the eyeshadow pan. So I thought I'd try it on an e/s from a CCO (Typographic, I think). I misjudged how strong the drill was and drilled completely through the shadow! It's still usable (and isn't a color I use much anyway) but it looks so weird in the palette with this hole drilled through it.

I know it wasn`t a happy incident but it still made me laugh

[FiestyFemme]

Probably my worst accident was dropping my practically new Hug Me lipstick in the bathroom at my college. It was twisted up too, as I'd just been using it. I really don't know what happened.... one minute it was in my hand, the next, it was smushed into the counter and floor. Thankfully it wasn't my favorite, but still, it was practically new! At least I used it for B2M!

I've also managed to shatter a couple eyeshadows. Damn depotting and those hot pans! I definitely have dropped/thrown a couple across the bathroom because the pan was still too hot. OOPS! Nothing I've cared about too much, but it still sucks to lose them.

[tremorviolet]

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Originally Posted by romi79_2008

I know it wasn`t a happy incident but it still made me laugh

It was pretty funny, I'm lucky I didn't wind up drilling through my bathroom counter too!

http://i708.photobucket.com/albums/w...Picture003.jpg

I checked, it was Graphology. And in this pic you can see how I totally messed up Fig. 1 and Petalescent too. I've gotten waaaaay better at depotting now.

[Shadowy Lady]

OMG some of you guys have had really bad accidents, this thread is making me sad...I wanna go home and hug all my palettes and pigments!

I've only had a minor accident. I made a quad of Mothbrown, Blanc Type, Goldmine and Cranberry to take with me when I was away for a weekend. When I came back home, I noticed that my Mothbrown is half shattered
I love that eyeshadow....all the other ones were safe but Mothbrown was the only LE one It's still usable but not much is left

[darklocke]

OK, once we move into out new apartment I'm keeping everything safe and sound in their drawers, nowhere else. I don't want to experience a(n) MACcident!

[Leven]

My 242 brush got caught in the doors of my traincase when i shut it and i didnt realize it until i opened it up much much later

It looked all mangled up, but when i washed it with water and shampoo i re-shaped it and i dried it hanging upside down.

All betta now!

[Leven]

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Originally Posted by romi79_2008

I know it wasn`t a happy incident but it still made me laugh

Good..

Cuz now i dont feel so bad about laughing either lol

[SparklingWaves]

I tend to make a mess with my solar bits. Every time I go to use them, it makes a fall out mess that looks like ashes to my husband. My husband thinks that I have been smoking something weird in the bathroom and does a smell test. Oh, it's hilarious.

[Chula]

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Originally Posted by xxManBeaterxx

Im in total disbelief...

So long story short. Im 7 months pregnant I've been getting strong labor pains so the doctor put me on bed rest, it looks like im about to give birth soon so I decided to stay at my mom's place for the next few weeks since my husband works all day and I need a lot of help just doing daily mundane things right now.

So i packed up a few things to go to my moms' and i brought my makeup too So i had 4 of my 15 pan palettes and a few books in the passengers seat and when i got to my mom's house i opened the passengers seat.. without realizing the eyeshadows were practically leaning agaisnt the door. Yes, its exactly what you are thinking. The palettes fell on the street (p.s. i have a tall car and it was one hell of a fall), all of my palettes popped open and out went all my eyeshadows including the ones with the magnets behind them. They all cracked, and all the itty bits and pieces are being washed away in the rain as i speak.

This was pretty much my reaction
:cr y:

If i wasnt as big as a rhino right now maybe i could have caught them My mind was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! And my body said hahahaha!!!! you got owned.

Congratulations on your 7th month pregnancy !
But OMG, that must of been awful.

[Chula]

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Originally Posted by leenybeeny

Oh no... I have a huge frown on my face right now.. I think I would have bawled my eyes out!!!

The worst that happened to me was I had my neice sitting up on a table doing her makeup for her dance photo's. I turned away and she leaned forward and the whole table tipped over.. I managed to catch her, and the table, but not before my palette fell on the floor and her glass on milk on top of it!! ACK.

I know this is pretty random,
but YAY! ONTARIO CANADAAAA

[cloudsweare]

This happened last week.

I had just bought a mini shadestick in Silverbleu on ebay. I was using it for the first time and when I opened it the shadestick flew out of the package onto my dirty bathroom floor that has sawdust all over it. It got all nasty. But, luckly I was able to brush the dust off with a paper towel and it was good as new.

Just have to be careful now when I open it.

[pumpkincat210]

dropping a whole palette full of blushes on the floor and shattering them. that and investing in too many lipglasses, which have now gone bad.

[girloflowers]

i bought a new foundation, and it somehow mysteriously opened in my makeup bag and leaked all over everything. the bottle was EMPTY when i got it out of the alabastery coloured mess.
BAH.
now i put electrical tape around the lids of EVERYTHING in my case that is liquid when im travelling so they can't possible unscrew or leak.

[FiestyFemme]

I remembered another one...

I bought Pink Pearl pigment last year when it was out with the Heatherette collection. The first time I used it, I knocked over the jar and spilled half of it onto my bathroom counter! I freaked out, but was able to scoop most of it up and back into the jar. Probably not too sanitary, but I'm the only one who uses it anyway. One and only time that has ever happened to me!

[amyzon]

Ok I tried EnKore's technique of using wirecutters to depot the first time... On my brand new LE Barbie Loves MAC Playful Eyeshadow - BIG MISTAKE Stupid!!! I took a HUGE chunk out of it!!! And as if I hadn't learned my lesson, I then took another large chunk on my second go 'round out of my Emanuel Ungaro shadow! I am such a dope!

I have also dropped those retarded non-magnetic Coastal Scents palettes on the floor sooo many times and chipped away edges... They are the suck. MAC e/s palettes only for me from now on!

And my most recent and most MAGNIFICENT eff-up... I was using the bathroom at work and as I rose from the toilet seat, hitting the flush handle simultaneously... the Prrr lipglass in my pocket (my absolute fav by the way) fell squarely into the bowl and disappeared from my life forevras. I gasped in horror. What are the chances of this happening?!?!?!

[Blush]

I haven't suffered a major disaster yet, so I was so upset when I lost my Vex e/s. I dropped it on the floor.

[redwhiteblue]

nothing to crazy here, I did crack my sculpt and shape. I thought I was slick by depotting it and putting it into an empty compact and then when I opened it it wasnt pretty but I was able to repress it so I cant complain too much.

I am sorry for your loss good luck with the baby though. If theres anything thats worth that casualty its a baby.

[fallenang3l211]

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Originally Posted by pink_lily82

The only thief I deal with is my sister, which is okay since I know where she lives =) I did have an episode where I was holding my jar of cocomotion and without time to put it down I sneezed. Poof in the air it went. I had friends asking me all day why my hair sparkled.

that made me laugh! all those other posts made me sad. sneezing into a jar of pigment sounds like something i would do! my sister jack's all my makeup, too.

[vesperholly]

A few years ago, I opened a lipstick in the car while I was driving and just as I got the top almost off , I went over a bump and the top decapitated the lipstick. I forgot that I had rolled it up to put it on when I bought it, and not rolled it down all the way. I wish I could remember what color it was, but I think I've repressed the memory.

Also, MACcident? lol!!

[cazgh]

I wish me and my sister were close enough for her to steal my make up - these days we just don't swap stuff anymore and this thread has only just made me realise that I miss it...

I am new to MAC addiction and so far, so good (don't want to tempt fate too much). Back when I was much younger (like at least 10 years ago) I found the only make up that sat well on my face was Clinique Balanced make up which came in a glass jar.

I dropped it on the kitchen floor which was tile and it shattered, spilling everywhere and having glass pieces in it so nothing could be saved. I was heartbroken and also a student so not really able to replace it. My mum saw how upset I was and bought me a replacement as a gift - bless her!!

Literally a day later I did the same thing and lost the brand new bottle too. I did cry and needless to say mum didnt replace it for me.

Gutted - and it still pains me now to think about it

[Pinupsundae]

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Originally Posted by Ikara

Have you ever seen a brand new studio fix fluid falling to the floor in slow motion while saying NOOOOOOOO? well, I have... Had to clean and remove makeup from everywhere while trying to keep a curious cat away from the crime scene

To the first poster... so sorry for those palettes! my heart would have stopped...

Ditto, except my Studio Fix had just made it across the ocean in one piece (I live in Australia and Studio Fix here is riiiiiidiculously expensive) so I was rejoicing over it. Took it into my bathroom, turned too quickly and knocked it over and smashed it all over my tiles and bathmat. Then, I knelt down to start cleaning (that stuff STICKS) and cut open my knee and ruined my favourite pair of stockings on some glass. Ah I cried, it was so pathetic, but stuff like that just makes me upset and frustrated at myself! Plus my cat was excited too, I was picturing studio fix paw-prints all across the house (and the stuff stuck in her thick fur - ugh!) so I kicked her out real fast. They're too curious for their own good sometimes...

[LMD84]

not a mac item but i dropped a bright orange loose shadow all over my beige carpet (new carpet!) this morning! doh!!!!!

[MAC_Whore]

Not too bad, really.

I dropped an shattered a New Vegas MSF, but had a backup so I wasn't really too bummed.

I recently broke an MSF Natural, but those are perm, so meh...no biggie.

I dropped a carbon on the bathroom tile, but it didn't spread out too much.

My biggest almost-MAC-accident was when I was going through a security checkpoint at the airport. The guy wanted to search my carry-on traincase. He was about to open it sideways. There would have been shit everywhere. I warned him as quickly and urgently as possible without causing a stir in the security checkpoint. Not a place where you want to shout or cause panic, you know. lol

[fallenang3l211]

I wish my MAC accident was at home!! Ugh would have been less of a failure.

So I'm in the Pro store drooling over pigments, my eyes are literally falling out of my head. I pick up some random jars and look at the color through the jar - smart thing to do, right? I'm such a sucker for purples so my smart ass opens up any jar of purple pigment I can get my fingers on. Now, the Pro store in SF recently rearranged - the pigments used to be next to the register where there are lots and lots and lots of people. Now, the pigments are in the back of the store where its pretty quiet. I'm standing there swatching pigments with a big smile on my face knowing I'm going to walk out with at least 2 new purples. I guess I must have really been in the zone because one of the MA's startled me when she asked if I needed any help. I DROPPED the jar of pigment on the freakin floor. Big cloud of purple pigment just goes POOF. I was mortifiedddd! Luckily the jar wasn't very full so they didn't make me pay for it..ugh. Lucky me, the store was busy so about 10 other shoppers saw me drop the jar.

Fail or blessing in disguse? I suppose it would have been worse if I bought a jar and dropped it at home..