What do all of those lipsticks have in common? The fact that somehow I have managed to mangle them all!

I don’t know what the hell is wrong with me! Does anyone else have this issue? Over the years I’ve noticed that a lot of my lipsticks have indentations on the back sides where I’m obviously pressing too hard on the bullet when I apply the lipstick to my lips. However, more recently, I’m having lipsticks full on break on me!

I actually returned this lipstick from Bite Beauty because I thought I’d received an incredibly soft one since it broke the very first time I used it. However, the exact same thing happened to my replacement.

Since I like the lipstick so much I’ve tried to make do by flattening down the bullet so it applies more like a chapstick. It hasn’t actually broken off from the base, although I figure it’s not long off doing so.  I would de-pot it… but a lipstick in a pot is so much less convenient. Good god this thing looks like hell when I pull it out to apply it.

This one I actually did de-pot. MAC‘s Hibiscus is from a limited edition collection years ago and it snapped pretty quickly after I bought it. I tried using all the tricks to re-assemble it – melting, re-attaching, freezing, but none of it works for me! After realizing how little I use this because it’s in a pot, I stopped de-potting any of my other broken bullets.

This is usually how it starts – just a few indentations on the back side, and then eventually I end up using the lipstick too often (and clearly too roughly!) and eventually they snap off the bottom completely!

Some seriously rough looking Vivids. I think Neon Red is pretty close to snapping.

Mystical isn’t too bad, but Cyndi has already partially cracked off the base. I don’t even understand why either – this is my second tube of this lipstick and I didn’t have any problems at all with the first tube!

I even managed to snap this baby-sized bareMinerals lipstick. This is one of my attempts to melt and re-connect the two ends. You can see it didn’t turn out that well…

This one I actually know why it happened: I’d had a little bit too much to drink at the bar one night and wound the bullet all the way up to the top before I tried to apply it directly to my lips. Then… *snap*. ARGH!

So does anyone else have this problem? I can’t believe I’m the only one being rough with my lipsticks! I often feel like I don’t get enough pigmentation onto my lips unless I press hard enough on the bullet, but obviously that’s causing me problem! Unfortunately, I have no real solution for fixing these lipsticks since none of the DIYs on the net have worked for me. De-potting seems to be the way to go, but ugh… the hassle of a lip brush is just not worth it to me!