This is my trusty UDPP (XL) that I've been using since March 2010.
As always, the wand stops picking up product after some time and most people resort to hacking the tube open and depotting whatever is left inside. However, I'm apprehensive on on doing that as I'm scared it may dry out my UDPP very fast.
So here's a quick solution to getting more product out of your tube WITHOUT depotting it!
Remove that rubber stopper from the mouth of the UDPP (may take some time and elbow grease, the stopper is quite stubborn to getting pulled out), and you'll get this:
See how much product is on the wand? And that is after I had dipped the wand back into the tube just once! Granted you don't get a clean wand for application and you may find the product gathering at the mouth, but it's so much easier to access to what's left inside.
You may leave it at that, but I took it one step further and immersed my UDPP into a glass of hot water:
The reason to doing this is to allow the heat from the water to semi-melt what's left in the tube and let it all pool to the bottom. This way, it won't be so messy along the stem of the wand and more product will be at the doe-foot applicator.
Like so:
I was positively spazzing from how much product there was at the tip!
So hopefully this trick helps you to get more out of your UDPP without dissecting it, and hopefully it will preserve the consistency of whatever product is left too. Though it is a bit messier to apply the UDPP to my lids now, at least I won't have it drying up on me and I bet this can tide me through another 6 months to a year! Thanks for reading.
