Winners of the Worst Christmas Gift Ever Contest

It's the thought that counts, right? Wrong!

We asked you to share with us your most embarrassing, ugliest, impractical, or just plain awful Christmas gift for the chance to win a FREE Triple Peel Microdermabrasion (value $150) and GloMinerals Lip Color.

Read the winning entries below and remember to sign up for the Skinspirations Newsletter to recieve updates on new contests and specials.


Winning Entry #1
My most embarrassing Christmas gift occurred in 2004 when I was 26. I usually spend the holidays with my family but I decided to go to my boyfriend’s parents house as it was our first Christmas together and his whole family was going to be there. Everyone was having a great time until his parents agreed to the opening of presents. There were two girls around my age and when I saw what they received –clothes, gift cards and bottle of wine- my hopes were high.

But, I was completely mortified and began to sweat once I opened my package. There IT was… a pink package of generic panty liners. Although it wasn’t the only gift with my name on it, I didn’t show it to ANYONE. As quickly as possible, I crumpled the wrapping paper around it. After the gift opening was over, I graciously replied, “Thank you for everything. It was a nice gesture but you shouldn’t have.” In the three years my boyfriend and I were together, I never ever told him about the worst, most mortifying gift I had received from his mother.


Winning Entry #2
A few years ago my husband presented me with the absolutely worst Christmas gift (or birthday, Mother’s Day, Ground Hog Day…) I’ve ever received - an antique porcelain bedpan. The day I received it (and since then whenever it comes to mind….) I’ve gone back and forth between being angry - and finding it amusing that the man I married would consider something that some long ago stranger had possibly pooped in was a suitable gift for me!
 
To this day he – really - doesn’t comprehend why I didn’t think it was the absolutely coolest gift ever – like he does. (I never said it wasn’t sort of cool in a vintage/funky sort of way - I just didn’t think it was a good Christmas gift for one’s wife)  According to him, he talked to several of our women friends about it and they told him they thought it was great. (honestly, I thought I was being gracious for not bludgeoning him to death with it - but they thought it was great?!!)
 
Now, I don’t know what they all got for Christmas that year but I do know that at least one of them got diamond stud earrings.  I’ve often wondered, since she seemed to admire my gift so much, would she want to swap?  I don’t think so…!