The applicator on these tampons is the WORST. At least 5 out of every pack have to be thrown out, because of applicator issues. The actual tampons themselves are fine, but it's super aggravating and not worth it to buy a box and have to throw out so many.

No no no no. Why is the compact version so much worse than the regular pearl? The shape and effectiveness of the tampon is just not good enough. The wrapper always comes off in my purse- um not sanitary and the whole point of these is to be easy to carry around. Defiantly needs some tweaking.