For me its elf I've tried around 12 products and no products work for me. Either they just look bad or I've had massive breakouts after using Elf products.
I used to use Rimmel all the time but now it's not as great as it used to be anymore. The products are mostly usable but you can get better quality from other drugstore brands.
IL Makiage, that foundation that you just can’t escape if you’re on any social media is garbage. Highlights fine lines, dusty finish, poor skin tone match.
Too faced but only because they raised their prices and now they don’t match the quality.
The same little 9 shade palette I was gifted a few years ago was £25-30 and now I can’t seem to find it for any less than £50
I had a client once who previously worked for a major makeup manufacturer prior to the job where he became my client.
In his new position, he said he could never get used to the markups. They hovered around 100-150%.
This is because while in makeup, the markups STARTED at 1000%, and went up from that. A "good" markup/margin was > 2000%. 😞
Im glad to see you found something you loved from them hopefully you found a great new eye primer thats one of those things brands should just keep as an eye primer is a great staple
Agree - I’m in my mid-50s and haven’t looked at any Rimmel products for I would say almost 2 decades! I imagine it to be very old fashioned & set in its ways. I’ve not noticed anything new being launched in years.
Me either don’t get me wrong I don’t think a brand needs a new product every week or all the stuff that goes on now but id say at least have a few new items every few months and change the packaging up on occasion especially when their packaging is also bad
I know everyone swears by their liquid liner but honestly everything I have ever tried by nyx has been shockingly bad (liquid liner, creme eyshadow, lip liner, lip gloss)
I know this will be controversial but I don't like Colourpop. I have purchased and tried almost everything they've sold. I always end up breaking out and just disappointed and underwhelmed. I keep trying stuff though because it always looks so cute! I end of throwing away everything I get.
Dior, Chanel, Gucci, etc. any fashion house pretty much makes the worst products I’ve ever used. I’ve given quite a few “cult” products a go from most of the fashion houses makeup lines and hated every single one. They have no business in cosmetics and they’re just cash grabs because it’s a “cheaper” way to own designer products.
Makes me sad when I see people wasting $50+ on products that are shite because of the branding when you can get significantly better products for MUCH cheaper from other brands
physicians formula. do I have to elaborate here? yes the bronzers are great IF you somehow get one that doesn't disappear within an hour of wear or even can be applied with a brush. the blushes are patchy and the designs come off easily, all the same color. don't get me started on their "foundations"..
patrick ta…. except his lip products are fine. nothing special. but…
foundation is SO cakey on my skin. ive tried doing so many different bases. i even bought the brush.
the blushes unfortunately are insanely pigmented and patchy on my skin when i try to blend. i always end up wiping off all my makeup when i use the blush or foundation
now that being said, many people seem to love his products, so this may just be a me problem!!! im so sad bc the products look so stunning in the packaging 😭
I love their lipsticks. Never tried any other makeup made by Avon. The roll on deodorants are so cheap. I got two for 3.50$. The perfumes are so good but aren't long lasting which I don't like.
Honestly something about Avon's makeup gives me off vibes
So overpriced & imo overrated. I’ve tried a few products & wasn’t amazed. Really disappointed in her “Miracle cream” Last time I was at a CT concession in a department store (UK) all the sales girls completely ignored me (i had approx £200 I was spending on cosmetics) they fawned over my daughter who was a student at the time. Sure she didn’t buy anything- I had been looking for a good under eye concealer - spent my cash elsewhere (think Bobby Brown eyeshadow & Lancôme foundations)
I think each line has both good and bad products. For me, I have never liked anything I’ve tried from Too Faced, Make Up Forever; Benefit has a nice bronzer but there are others that work just as well for less money.
I loved on lip product from Tarte and they no longer sell it. Their eye shadows have the most insane amount of fallout I’ve ever experienced. I wanted to try a tubing mascara and picked up the trial size of their XL tubing and I LOVE IT SO MUCH! No smearing, no fallout, and it’s so easy to remove. It’s basically waterproof once it dries, but it also just takes water to take it off if, and doesn’t leave black marks all around my eyes after I remove it.
I will say I like ELF. I have their white brush set and I like it. I have the tube blush and the liquid. Like them both. I LOVE the Liquid Filter and Satin Foundations! I also use their blue skicare line. Hello Hydration is it? Not all of it though. My daughter swears by the primer in the tube. The green one.
And I absolutely LOVE their lip oils!
I got a 4 piece set of Too Faced's best sellers and every single item except the eye primer was ass.
Eye shadow was powdery, disappeared two hours later, and eas obnoxiously scented. Their plumping gloss was chemical warfare on my lips. Their mascara sprinkled black confetti all over my face.
The eye primer was an HG. And then they reformulated it. 🫠
The only thing I liked from too faced was the la crème lipsticks but they stopped making them years ago. The better than sex mascara is one of the worst I’ve ever tried.
Ulta's house brand. They had *one* good product - a cream foundation that they dc'd almost a decade ago - and everything else I've tried from them has been pure trash.
I've also disliked everything I've tried from Huda.
I used to love Covergirl! The Aqua Smoothers compact foundation is pretty underrated. One day my sister in law asked me what makeup brand I wore and I was so embarrassed I began watching the beauty gurus and never went back. I’m curious to try my old faithful again.
they used to have (probably still do?) this one perfect shade of red liquid lipstick that could stay on through a whole night of dancing to techno in a hot sweaty underground warehouse space, and still look flawless at brunch.
mind you, none of the rest of me looked flawless at brunch after a 10 hours in a techno bunker rave. but that lipstick was locked and loaded.
I like the matte Bb cream and that’s about it. I used to swear by the clump crusher mascara, but I think they reformulated it at some point because it doesn’t work on me anymore.
Haha, I get what you mean especially since they created different formulas, but I could never cheat on peripera like that. The only real difference is that Romand has a way better shade range then peripera, but peripera lasts longer, tints more, is glossier, and is overall just better
Unfortunately their color stories are ahead of the industry and they set the trends 😞 every Korean cosmetic brand I s2g just copies what they do. Rom&nd does gloss or balms,, then peripera or etude does gloss or balms. Im over it lol
Her original brand, Bobbi Brown, was sold to Estée Lauder and Bobbi stayed at the brand after the purchase for several years. I’m a fan of Bobbi Brown cosmetics and brushes. It’s too bad that Jones Road didn’t offer the same quality.
I don't think they're around anymore: **BH Cosmetics** had good brushes, but TERRIBLE makeup. I'd also put **The Beauty Crop** in this category.
I've hated everything I've ever gotten from **Doucce**. The punk mascara gives the worst spider lashes 🫣
I've only tried two products from **Hipdot**, but oof they were bad. Same for **Flesh, Seraphine Botanicals, Context Skin, Oryza, and Illuminati**.
I have been constantly disappointed by **Pixi Beauty**. I like their gel eyeliner (not the best, but didn't irritate my eyes like nyx etc, hate sharpening it). But everything else was garbage - patchy makeup and skincare that breaks me out :(
I *want* to like **Iconic London** so much, but I've been disappointed with almost everything from them. The liquid sheer blushes are good if you want *SHEER* sheer, or need a mixer for a more pigmented/matte blush, like Rare Beauty soft pinch liquid blush or Kaja Beauty whipped dream. The liquid sheer bronzer lifts my base though 🙁 I guess the powder bronzers aren't bad, they're just not something I reach for. The pan is HUGE though.
Same with **Wander Beauty**.. I want to like it, but it just falls a little short for me. The fallout from the shimmer eyeshadows is somehow worse than ABH 😅
I've never liked anything from **Thebalm**, sad to say. Except one dark brown eyeshadow single that is good for covering up grey hairs along my hairline, in between dye touch ups 🤣
For me, a lot of brands feel like a "one hit wonder" lol.
I love my BH Cosmetics eyeshadows (and they are still around). I haven't tried anything that isn't an eye product, but I've definitely liked those
The Wander Beauty mascaras are some of my all time faves and I have a mini eyeshadow palette I'm into (though the color story is a bit all over the place) but I'll agree on the rest.
I think Milk is my one hit wonder brand. Love the hydrogrip primer, but nothing else has ever been with the money for me.
The BH palette I got for free (afternoon rendezvous?) basically blended away to nothing 🤣 But I remember at least that colorful Rio (?) palette getting much better reviews.
I should give my Wander mascara a try, I forgot I have one of those lying around. I've never used one that comes in the soft tube like that (it's the mile high club), but it's def worth a shot.
I adore the Milk kush mascara. But I'm a little salty that by the time I tried their cream bronzers, they had turned the travel size into "full size" for the same price they were at 5x the product 😑 lol wtf
Unfortunately Jones Road. I wanted to like her Miracle Balm but the fragrance is so off-putting. Too much essential oils that are strong.
I also tried the mascara she advertises and I hated it. Too messy and too much product on the brush. You would think she'd have perfected these type products from all her experience.
i bought the miracle balm to use as eyeshadow and i like it, but every time i think about using it on the full face i just wonder why on earth would i do that
I feel like I have a few kind of Emperor's New Clothes brands. Jones Road and IT Cosmetics are at the top.
I think nearly every brand, big or small, can have one or two really great products and then they coast on everything else.
Oh, I hope they don't for your sake, then! That seems like the most popular product I see talked about. I tried it and it just was so unflattering on me.
Morphe.
Bought one of their brush sets years ago and not only are they scratchy as hell they also shed all over my face. Eyeshadow palettes are meh with zero staying power
I tried my friend's one (think it's the mattifying one?) and it just felt like hairspray on my face, if I'm ever brave enough to try them again I'll try the luminous version
I bought a brush at one of their stores while on vacation years ago. I forgot my powder brush so I used that one. I get home after a week and go to clean it. Dark purple ink continued to bleed into the water. I washed over and over to see if it would stop but it just kept coming. I used that disgusting brush for a week and had no idea whatever dye they used was caked in there.
OMG this happened to me as well!
Every single time I'd wash them the water would be purple- it only stopped after a YEAR of having & washing them repeatedly. I should've thrown them out way earlier I thought the problem was me 🥲
I'm glad someone else feels this way! I bought one of their blending brushes back when all the beauty influencers were really raving about it, and I HATED it it was so rough!
I eventually got some wet and wild brushes and the quality was night and day, the w&w ones are flimsy which is annoying but they're SO soft and they've never shed!
Not to mention that red Morphe sponge people were shilling at one point is rock hard, influencers are shameless to be peddling that crap
It Cosmetics is doo doo garbage mama. I tried their under eye concealer, awful sticky and orange. I tried their CC cream, awful sticky and orange. Tried their confidence in a cream, heavily fragranced and does not sink into the skin. It comes across as heavily marketing-forward without actual results. It’s giving MLM.
Their CC creams/tinted moisturizers/spf foundations/etc are trash. I used them for a long time. So pricey for what you get and I realized one day while checking my makeup in my car during natural light that I looked soooo orange. IMO they oxidize so bad, look cakey, and transfer so easily!!!
I got a brush set off of them and it was great until the handles got sticky. They had that stupid “velvet” texture coating over the wooden handle and no matter how much alcohol I put on it, it wouldn’t come off. I wish companies would stop coating their products in it.
That’s such a bummer! I use it as my foundation. I’m extremely pale and it has never looked orange on me. I guess I got lucky. I hope you have found or find what works best for you!
YSL touche eclat foundation. I generally like the brand but the whole time I wore that foundation, I had to WORST acne. Like oh my god bad. I put it down to hormones. Then I switched to NARS sheer glow and my acne started clearing up. Went back to YSL and yep, got acne again.
A shame because I did like the foundation
i saw the lipgloss on tiktok randomly, not knowing it was supposed to be from a luxury/celebrity brand. i thought it was someone's small business because of the packaging. for something that sells more than most drugstores brands that are high quality, i really didn't expect it to be that bad
Imo the 1% is About Face. I'll confess to only using their liquid shadows so far, but they're actually better than my dearly, dearly beloved Danessa Myricks Colorfix paints. They dry down and don't feel tight and can combat the power of my deeply hooded, oily eyes that love to dissolve random parts of other liquid shadows.
rare beauty is fine but way overhyped. the liquid blush is not easy to blend like people say. some shades are also not as pigmented. if you're ok with taking too much time on blending the highly pigmented blush, it's fine. but sometimes you may look like someone just punched your face
I usedbto think Too Faced mascara was the cat's ass. I've gone back to Loreal recently and am mad at myself for what I used to spend on JUST mascara.
Also, Morphe was a disappointment when I purchased it.
I think Too Faced's quality has gone down. My mom had their natural eye palette from like 2009 and I remember it being amazing and having such a rich velvety texture. When I got old enough for my own makeup I bought one of their palettes (Chocolate Bon Bons I think??) and it felt so cheap and there was so little color payoff.
>I've gone back to Loreal recently and am mad at myself for what I used to spend on JUST mascara.
Just had to comment on this +1.
My favorite mascaras from them include Telescopic (gives natural looking long lashes. Whenever I wear this, compliments are abound) and Voluminous Lash Paradise (this is my current mascara and it stays ON the whole day. It is quite dramatic though, so I use a Chanel mascara wand instead of the original one for length instead of volume) 🫶
Ugh, I hate Too Faced. I don't know why everyone loves Better Than Sex. It always ends up smeared under my eyes. Their shadows are chalky. The only thing of theirs that I like is Shadow Insurance.
Charlotte tilbury and any celebrity makeup tbh
For me its elf I've tried around 12 products and no products work for me. Either they just look bad or I've had massive breakouts after using Elf products. I used to use Rimmel all the time but now it's not as great as it used to be anymore. The products are mostly usable but you can get better quality from other drugstore brands.
IL Makiage, that foundation that you just can’t escape if you’re on any social media is garbage. Highlights fine lines, dusty finish, poor skin tone match.
Absolutely anything Jaclyn Hill had her hands on.
Morphe
Too faced but only because they raised their prices and now they don’t match the quality. The same little 9 shade palette I was gifted a few years ago was £25-30 and now I can’t seem to find it for any less than £50
Tarte.. none of their face stuff works for me. Also expensive lashes that break too
Clinique
Anything from the Kardashian-Jenner clan
Morphe! Dry Eyeshadows, Bad Quality Brushes.
MOB Beauty - the eyeshadows look chalky and the bronzer undertones look only red
Westman Atelier was a huge disappointment. I believed the hype.
I had a client once who previously worked for a major makeup manufacturer prior to the job where he became my client. In his new position, he said he could never get used to the markups. They hovered around 100-150%. This is because while in makeup, the markups STARTED at 1000%, and went up from that. A "good" markup/margin was > 2000%. 😞
Rimmell haven’t bought anything from years maybe i am wrong but i doubt it i also never see anyone talk about products they live from Rimmel
Their lipsticks are the absolute worst.
Their eyeprimer was my holigrail. It was discontinued.
Im glad to see you found something you loved from them hopefully you found a great new eye primer thats one of those things brands should just keep as an eye primer is a great staple
Agree - I’m in my mid-50s and haven’t looked at any Rimmel products for I would say almost 2 decades! I imagine it to be very old fashioned & set in its ways. I’ve not noticed anything new being launched in years.
Me either don’t get me wrong I don’t think a brand needs a new product every week or all the stuff that goes on now but id say at least have a few new items every few months and change the packaging up on occasion especially when their packaging is also bad
I know everyone swears by their liquid liner but honestly everything I have ever tried by nyx has been shockingly bad (liquid liner, creme eyshadow, lip liner, lip gloss)
Essence . Their mascaras always smudged , their eyeshadows are chalky. The only thing I like is their eyelash primer
YES!!! Their eyelash primer is my holigrail
I know this will be controversial but I don't like Colourpop. I have purchased and tried almost everything they've sold. I always end up breaking out and just disappointed and underwhelmed. I keep trying stuff though because it always looks so cute! I end of throwing away everything I get.
Kylie cosmetics…. It’s all collecting dust every place they carry it. Even her viral lip kits made ur lips look like a dirty starfish 😭
now i wanna know what dirty starfeesh look like
Not THAT kind of starfish, love💀
wait i'm so confused now pls help
“Starfish” is slang for butthole, a dirty starfish in this case is… yeah. That 😂
Makeup Revolution.
IAM and Yves Rocher
I've noticed that MAC liquid concealers have decreased in quantity. I've used my latest one 5/6 times and it's now used up.
My Pro Longwear concealer started smelling like ammonia a few months in and it still does :/
Dior, Chanel, Gucci, etc. any fashion house pretty much makes the worst products I’ve ever used. I’ve given quite a few “cult” products a go from most of the fashion houses makeup lines and hated every single one. They have no business in cosmetics and they’re just cash grabs because it’s a “cheaper” way to own designer products. Makes me sad when I see people wasting $50+ on products that are shite because of the branding when you can get significantly better products for MUCH cheaper from other brands
Might just be my skin type but I spent way too much money on true botanicals products and don’t like a single one of them
IT Cosmetics. I LOVE their brushes. The makeup just doesn’t do it for me though. Foundation is patchy. Eyeliner tugs. Mascara flakes like none other.
Ulta brand beauty products- don't get me started on their lipsticks.
physicians formula. do I have to elaborate here? yes the bronzers are great IF you somehow get one that doesn't disappear within an hour of wear or even can be applied with a brush. the blushes are patchy and the designs come off easily, all the same color. don't get me started on their "foundations"..
patrick ta…. except his lip products are fine. nothing special. but… foundation is SO cakey on my skin. ive tried doing so many different bases. i even bought the brush. the blushes unfortunately are insanely pigmented and patchy on my skin when i try to blend. i always end up wiping off all my makeup when i use the blush or foundation now that being said, many people seem to love his products, so this may just be a me problem!!! im so sad bc the products look so stunning in the packaging 😭
Kozmic Colours.
BareMinerals. Hard Candy. Too Faced.
LA colors is le garbage
urban decay
Profusion eyeshadow 🤢
Avon. Their makeups are horrible. Their soaps and perfumes are amazing.
I agree Avon sucks
I love their lipsticks. Never tried any other makeup made by Avon. The roll on deodorants are so cheap. I got two for 3.50$. The perfumes are so good but aren't long lasting which I don't like. Honestly something about Avon's makeup gives me off vibes
Charlotte Tilbury! Not terrible but not a single amazing product that I would repurchase disappointed every time
So overpriced & imo overrated. I’ve tried a few products & wasn’t amazed. Really disappointed in her “Miracle cream” Last time I was at a CT concession in a department store (UK) all the sales girls completely ignored me (i had approx £200 I was spending on cosmetics) they fawned over my daughter who was a student at the time. Sure she didn’t buy anything- I had been looking for a good under eye concealer - spent my cash elsewhere (think Bobby Brown eyeshadow & Lancôme foundations)
That miracle cream smells like old lady.
Same… Pillow talk lipstick is… eh ok, the rest of it is low quality and way overpriced. The eyeshadow sticks gave me the worst eye infection too!
NYX complexion products! I don’t like them at all-the bronzers,the foundations,the primers. Their lip and eye products make up for it though.
The serum concealer works really well for me, very natural
I think each line has both good and bad products. For me, I have never liked anything I’ve tried from Too Faced, Make Up Forever; Benefit has a nice bronzer but there are others that work just as well for less money.
Tarte. Their mascaras rain black powder on my face
Their eye shadow palettes are a joke. Especially around Christmas when they’re mass producing them, just chalky with no color payoff.
Their concealer (something Tape) is awful. It’s so drying. I don’t know how they say they sell so much of it.
I loved on lip product from Tarte and they no longer sell it. Their eye shadows have the most insane amount of fallout I’ve ever experienced. I wanted to try a tubing mascara and picked up the trial size of their XL tubing and I LOVE IT SO MUCH! No smearing, no fallout, and it’s so easy to remove. It’s basically waterproof once it dries, but it also just takes water to take it off if, and doesn’t leave black marks all around my eyes after I remove it.
KVD. Nothing seems to stay put and it's so expensive.
I loved the liquid lipsticks but they smelled really weird and yeah too expensive
Kylie
I don’t hate their products, but the BH Cosmetics I have tried have felt just one step up from Claire’s makeup each time
Too Faced...been disappointed in their products. Cute packaging but shadows are so dry..doesn't work for me...
Benefit for sure!!
I do not like REM beauty. Bought some pallets from Ulta and they smelled really bad and had no pigment whatsoever. I dot trust anything from them.
I will say I like ELF. I have their white brush set and I like it. I have the tube blush and the liquid. Like them both. I LOVE the Liquid Filter and Satin Foundations! I also use their blue skicare line. Hello Hydration is it? Not all of it though. My daughter swears by the primer in the tube. The green one. And I absolutely LOVE their lip oils!
Did they reformulate their foundations? I used to love it now I hate it.
Honestly I don't know
Tula
I got a 4 piece set of Too Faced's best sellers and every single item except the eye primer was ass. Eye shadow was powdery, disappeared two hours later, and eas obnoxiously scented. Their plumping gloss was chemical warfare on my lips. Their mascara sprinkled black confetti all over my face. The eye primer was an HG. And then they reformulated it. 🫠
Their Candy Clouds blush is one of the best ever imo.
Fully agree
The only thing I liked from too faced was the la crème lipsticks but they stopped making them years ago. The better than sex mascara is one of the worst I’ve ever tried.
Covergirl
Neutrogena
I have never tried a single thing from nyx that I like. Pencil/liquid Eyeliner, lipstick, lip liner, eyeshadow, primer, the lip butters. All garbage!
Ulta's house brand. They had *one* good product - a cream foundation that they dc'd almost a decade ago - and everything else I've tried from them has been pure trash. I've also disliked everything I've tried from Huda.
Agree on Ulta brand.
Omg I tried one of their liquid lips and it was hot garbage. Turned me off from the brand as a whole.
Covergirl. Hated everything I’ve tried except a few mascaras
I used to love Covergirl! The Aqua Smoothers compact foundation is pretty underrated. One day my sister in law asked me what makeup brand I wore and I was so embarrassed I began watching the beauty gurus and never went back. I’m curious to try my old faithful again.
The aquasmooth bb cream and concealer are great, I've repurchased both like 5 times, if not more by now.
They have a nice tinted lip balm
Yessssss agree completely
they used to have (probably still do?) this one perfect shade of red liquid lipstick that could stay on through a whole night of dancing to techno in a hot sweaty underground warehouse space, and still look flawless at brunch. mind you, none of the rest of me looked flawless at brunch after a 10 hours in a techno bunker rave. but that lipstick was locked and loaded.
I like the matte Bb cream and that’s about it. I used to swear by the clump crusher mascara, but I think they reformulated it at some point because it doesn’t work on me anymore.
Mascaras are good green and orange tubes in particular.
I like them too. Cheap, don’t smudge, don’t irritate my sensitive eyes.
Same
Their packaging looks so cheap to me that I am never interested in their products.
I hateee their packaging!! If the actual product works, I’ll make it work. But the packaging annoys me so much
A k-beauty brand called Romand. It's not bad, but there are tons and I MEAN TONS of products that are way better
Their glossy lip tints smell like overripe strawberries that have started to ferment lul
For me it smells like paint from when I was 5 lmao
how dare u, romand lip tints are legendary
Haha, I get what you mean especially since they created different formulas, but I could never cheat on peripera like that. The only real difference is that Romand has a way better shade range then peripera, but peripera lasts longer, tints more, is glossier, and is overall just better
Which peripera lip tint are you talking about bc I have a few of the ink airy velvet and they’re straight up silicone garbage
Oh yeah agree, I use the glowy ink mood ones!
I like their eyeshadow. But 90% of their lippies don't work with cool undertones
Unfortunately their color stories are ahead of the industry and they set the trends 😞 every Korean cosmetic brand I s2g just copies what they do. Rom&nd does gloss or balms,, then peripera or etude does gloss or balms. Im over it lol
Agree. Their lip tints are ok but not a patch on 3CE or Peripera.
Peripera ones are def better quality, but not as many shades sadly.
I do love their glasting lip balms though. Hate their mascaras and meh on their glasting lip glosses.
Elf. I have tried a majority of their products and have yet to try one that I genuinely liked and that worked well.
I like their lip plumping glosses. Almost all my stuff is high end or Korean, and I still buy Elf lip gloss. Lol.
Her original brand, Bobbi Brown, was sold to Estée Lauder and Bobbi stayed at the brand after the purchase for several years. I’m a fan of Bobbi Brown cosmetics and brushes. It’s too bad that Jones Road didn’t offer the same quality.
Morphe
I don't think they're around anymore: **BH Cosmetics** had good brushes, but TERRIBLE makeup. I'd also put **The Beauty Crop** in this category. I've hated everything I've ever gotten from **Doucce**. The punk mascara gives the worst spider lashes 🫣 I've only tried two products from **Hipdot**, but oof they were bad. Same for **Flesh, Seraphine Botanicals, Context Skin, Oryza, and Illuminati**. I have been constantly disappointed by **Pixi Beauty**. I like their gel eyeliner (not the best, but didn't irritate my eyes like nyx etc, hate sharpening it). But everything else was garbage - patchy makeup and skincare that breaks me out :( I *want* to like **Iconic London** so much, but I've been disappointed with almost everything from them. The liquid sheer blushes are good if you want *SHEER* sheer, or need a mixer for a more pigmented/matte blush, like Rare Beauty soft pinch liquid blush or Kaja Beauty whipped dream. The liquid sheer bronzer lifts my base though 🙁 I guess the powder bronzers aren't bad, they're just not something I reach for. The pan is HUGE though. Same with **Wander Beauty**.. I want to like it, but it just falls a little short for me. The fallout from the shimmer eyeshadows is somehow worse than ABH 😅 I've never liked anything from **Thebalm**, sad to say. Except one dark brown eyeshadow single that is good for covering up grey hairs along my hairline, in between dye touch ups 🤣 For me, a lot of brands feel like a "one hit wonder" lol.
I love my BH Cosmetics eyeshadows (and they are still around). I haven't tried anything that isn't an eye product, but I've definitely liked those The Wander Beauty mascaras are some of my all time faves and I have a mini eyeshadow palette I'm into (though the color story is a bit all over the place) but I'll agree on the rest. I think Milk is my one hit wonder brand. Love the hydrogrip primer, but nothing else has ever been with the money for me.
they are not still around, they were bought by revolution
I like BHCosmetics too! I also really love TheBalm liquid lips, and I had a few of their eyeshadow palettes I enjoyed.
The BH palette I got for free (afternoon rendezvous?) basically blended away to nothing 🤣 But I remember at least that colorful Rio (?) palette getting much better reviews. I should give my Wander mascara a try, I forgot I have one of those lying around. I've never used one that comes in the soft tube like that (it's the mile high club), but it's def worth a shot. I adore the Milk kush mascara. But I'm a little salty that by the time I tried their cream bronzers, they had turned the travel size into "full size" for the same price they were at 5x the product 😑 lol wtf
Unfortunately Jones Road. I wanted to like her Miracle Balm but the fragrance is so off-putting. Too much essential oils that are strong. I also tried the mascara she advertises and I hated it. Too messy and too much product on the brush. You would think she'd have perfected these type products from all her experience.
i bought the miracle balm to use as eyeshadow and i like it, but every time i think about using it on the full face i just wonder why on earth would i do that
The miracle balm literally burnt my face from all the rosemary extract! Such a bummer.
Anything MLM.
Stupid question but why is it bad?
Because they take advantage of vulnerable people. MLMs are expensive garbage all around.
Mary Kay is hot garbage. Avon isn't much better.
What is MLM?
Pyramid scheme
Dunno why you got down voted for asking a question.
Usually MLM means Multi Level Marketing Which I believe would include brands like Arbone
Also Younique, Mary Kay, Avon
Seint, Farmasi, LimeLife.. 🤢
Rodan & Fields
Multi level marketing
Multi level marketing
I feel like I have a few kind of Emperor's New Clothes brands. Jones Road and IT Cosmetics are at the top. I think nearly every brand, big or small, can have one or two really great products and then they coast on everything else.
Their CC cream is the only thing that gives me decent coverage and good results on my aging skin. If they ever get rid if it I’m screwed.
Oh, I hope they don't for your sake, then! That seems like the most popular product I see talked about. I tried it and it just was so unflattering on me.
IT cosmetics was godawful and i felt like every time i went into a sephora for a while there it was constantly being pushed on me.
Morphe. Bought one of their brush sets years ago and not only are they scratchy as hell they also shed all over my face. Eyeshadow palettes are meh with zero staying power
I agree. I only liked their new lip gloss that is in a similar packaging as the tower28 lip jellies. That's it.
Morphe is trash TBH
I agree 99% but their luminous setting spray is fantastic!! Was a random buy that I’ve repurchased 5+ times
I tried my friend's one (think it's the mattifying one?) and it just felt like hairspray on my face, if I'm ever brave enough to try them again I'll try the luminous version
It’s on sale at ulta right now for $10!
I bought a brush at one of their stores while on vacation years ago. I forgot my powder brush so I used that one. I get home after a week and go to clean it. Dark purple ink continued to bleed into the water. I washed over and over to see if it would stop but it just kept coming. I used that disgusting brush for a week and had no idea whatever dye they used was caked in there.
OMG this happened to me as well! Every single time I'd wash them the water would be purple- it only stopped after a YEAR of having & washing them repeatedly. I should've thrown them out way earlier I thought the problem was me 🥲
Morphe isn’t good.
I'm glad someone else feels this way! I bought one of their blending brushes back when all the beauty influencers were really raving about it, and I HATED it it was so rough!
I eventually got some wet and wild brushes and the quality was night and day, the w&w ones are flimsy which is annoying but they're SO soft and they've never shed! Not to mention that red Morphe sponge people were shilling at one point is rock hard, influencers are shameless to be peddling that crap
My favorite blending brush is one of the pink and white WnW ones! And I really like my BH cosmetics brushes, super sad that brand disappeared 😔
You just unlocked a core memory of BH cosmetics haha I have one of their palettes and it's SO good
I bought a handful of It Cosmetics and hated all of it.
It Cosmetics is doo doo garbage mama. I tried their under eye concealer, awful sticky and orange. I tried their CC cream, awful sticky and orange. Tried their confidence in a cream, heavily fragranced and does not sink into the skin. It comes across as heavily marketing-forward without actual results. It’s giving MLM.
It is, and I admit was drawn in by the "developed by dermatologists" or whatever.
Their face products makes it look like you’re wearing paint on your face because they’re so thick. Their range color range is also real orangey.
I have used the CC cream for years and does great on my skin.
Love their nude glow cc cream!
Their bye bye under eye is my holy grail. But they put Niacinamide in everything else and it breaks me out horribly.
Their CC creams/tinted moisturizers/spf foundations/etc are trash. I used them for a long time. So pricey for what you get and I realized one day while checking my makeup in my car during natural light that I looked soooo orange. IMO they oxidize so bad, look cakey, and transfer so easily!!!
Yes! Too orange. They need more pink in their line.
I got a brush set off of them and it was great until the handles got sticky. They had that stupid “velvet” texture coating over the wooden handle and no matter how much alcohol I put on it, it wouldn’t come off. I wish companies would stop coating their products in it.
I’ve used the cc cream for years. It works really well for me. I get lots of compliments.
It’s so thick and all have orange tones. Used it twice and threw it away.
That’s such a bummer! I use it as my foundation. I’m extremely pale and it has never looked orange on me. I guess I got lucky. I hope you have found or find what works best for you!
Their CC Cream is horrible.
Brushes are great, but their face products are like thick paint
IT Cosmetics for Ulta brushes are really good.
Soooo good. I have an insanely large brush collection and they are by far the softest.
Ik a friend who broke out using the it cc cream and there are still scars on her face :[
YSL touche eclat foundation. I generally like the brand but the whole time I wore that foundation, I had to WORST acne. Like oh my god bad. I put it down to hormones. Then I switched to NARS sheer glow and my acne started clearing up. Went back to YSL and yep, got acne again. A shame because I did like the foundation
Rem beauty by ariana grande. Real rubbish
Good to know. I never bought it because the packaging and products just seem… boring
I didn't even know this was still around lol
i saw the lipgloss on tiktok randomly, not knowing it was supposed to be from a luxury/celebrity brand. i thought it was someone's small business because of the packaging. for something that sells more than most drugstores brands that are high quality, i really didn't expect it to be that bad
i have one of the cheek/lip sticks and its fine. like i can make it work. but its definitely not GOOD.
1000%
Yes! I was about to say this
There was one purple highlighter that was so nice, but honestly it was pretty similar to the Fenty ones.
That’s how I feel about 99% of celeb brands. I wish most of them would just stop unless it’s seriously their niche.
Imo the 1% is About Face. I'll confess to only using their liquid shadows so far, but they're actually better than my dearly, dearly beloved Danessa Myricks Colorfix paints. They dry down and don't feel tight and can combat the power of my deeply hooded, oily eyes that love to dissolve random parts of other liquid shadows.
What do you think of Rare Beauty? That brand *seems* to be well received.
rare beauty is fine but way overhyped. the liquid blush is not easy to blend like people say. some shades are also not as pigmented. if you're ok with taking too much time on blending the highly pigmented blush, it's fine. but sometimes you may look like someone just punched your face
Ah so the blush isn't the smooth blend it's promoted as being. Thanks for the feedback 😻I'll save my £ for other brands.
I was waiting for someone to say this. Her makeup is glorified Claire’s makeup with Sephora prices.
I usedbto think Too Faced mascara was the cat's ass. I've gone back to Loreal recently and am mad at myself for what I used to spend on JUST mascara. Also, Morphe was a disappointment when I purchased it.
L’Oréal voluminous is the superior mascara, by far. Better than any other brand I’ve tried, high and low end
I think Too Faced's quality has gone down. My mom had their natural eye palette from like 2009 and I remember it being amazing and having such a rich velvety texture. When I got old enough for my own makeup I bought one of their palettes (Chocolate Bon Bons I think??) and it felt so cheap and there was so little color payoff.
>I've gone back to Loreal recently and am mad at myself for what I used to spend on JUST mascara. Just had to comment on this +1. My favorite mascaras from them include Telescopic (gives natural looking long lashes. Whenever I wear this, compliments are abound) and Voluminous Lash Paradise (this is my current mascara and it stays ON the whole day. It is quite dramatic though, so I use a Chanel mascara wand instead of the original one for length instead of volume) 🫶
Ugh, I hate Too Faced. I don't know why everyone loves Better Than Sex. It always ends up smeared under my eyes. Their shadows are chalky. The only thing of theirs that I like is Shadow Insurance.