Design flaw

Over the past couple of weeks, I noticed that my absolute favorite makeup product was running out. But at $23.00 a pop, I was not happy about having to go buy more. I literally do not go a day without Urban Decay Primer Potion. After a few months on the original, I found Sin XL on sale at Ulta. I fell in love. So I've been saving up coupons and scouting the web for cheaper replacements, as these days find me significantly less able to buy name brand products.

Upon looking for this miracle-product on sale, I saw a review mention "de-bottling" and "re-potting". Why would someone want to re-pot this? The package is so cute!

Curious, I cut open my bottle after a ten minute battle with a knife. OH MY GOSH. Now I am going to switch to engineer mode.

The product comes in a 0.55 ounce curved bottle with a small, straight brush. Upon cutting open the bottle, I was able to extract TWO full 0.10 ounce pots of product from the bottle. That means that 0.20 ounces of a 0.55 ounce product, OR 36.4 FREAKING PERCENT, is unusable without dismantling the packaging. WHAT KIND OF COMPANY WOULD EVER INCLUDE SUCH A MAJOR DESIGN FLAW?! I'm seriously flabbergasted.

I wonder how many poor Urban Decay users throw away their bottle after it is "empty". What a waste of money. That's over $8 of product thrown away with each bottle. And if a bottle lasts one month, that comes to almost $100 per year, per user, of discarded product. Yikes.

So if you are one of the millions of people that use Urban Decay Primer Potion, please de-bottle your product or donate your bottles to someone who will. The numbers are a bit ridiculous.