Temptalia Asks You – What was your WORST purchase ever?
Monday, July 14th, 2008
What was your WORST purchase ever? What made it so bad? Didn’t work? Waste of money?
this mary-kate and ashley lip gloss. it came in a set of two for the price of one, thank goodness it was only 3 bucks. the consistancy was like water!
Hi Lisa, LOL! Thank goodness indeed for it being a cheap bad purchase!
I'm probably going to be crucified here, but I loathe fluidlines. I bought a Macroviolet and a Dipdown thinking I'd fall in love, but they're so different in texture from my Smashbox cream liners... I just cannot get them to do right! And I misplaced the original boxes, so I couldn't even return them! They're literally just taking up space in my stash... too expensive to just throw away, so I take them out and experiment with them occasionally but it's usually to no avail. I just KNEW I would love them. *sigh*
Hi Mandy, Wow! I am so surprised, but you know, UDPP doesn't work for me, SO. I'm not one to believe cult faves work for everyone :) What about them doesn't work for you? Do they just not work at all or they apply funny? Since you can't return them, we have to convert you!
I would have to sadly say I have not had much luck with Benefit either. Anything I have bought I am disappointed in, but they always lure me in with their catchy advertising. The girls that work the counters really know how to suck you in. They will use a product on me that i have already bought and hated, and I will start second guessing my own opinion! The last thing I bought was the luster dust, and *sigh* that was also a dud. Looked really pretty on but not even UDPP could keep that stuff on, after an hour it was like it had never existed. Oh and Revlon 3D mascara. That stuff went on clumpy and was flaking within an hour of application.
Hi Val, That's too bad! I feel like Benefit is such a cute line. I don't own much from it, though.
mac liquidlast liner! i think it was plum.. something. thick, horrible brush, very hard to apply. i'll stick with my inglot liquid liners...
Oh no! I love the liquid last liners, but they are definitely hard to apply!
Too Face Mascara!!! Felt like there was barely any product!!!
Oh, that sucks! I hate when a mascara feels empty already!
MAC Metal X I bought 8 of them and never got around to returning them!
Oh, no! That's terrible that you didn't get a chance to return them since they didn't work out for you :(
Anything by covergirl.
I haven't tried CG in so long, besides their mascaras (which worked out).
I'd have to say Urban Decay's eye pencil in "smoke out".. it dries up quickly, after maybe an hour if i want to reapply i would have to sharpen it again.. :( bad investment.
Hi Zoila, Sorry to hear this! I have had pretty good luck with UD thus far. Hope this doesn't happen to me!
Yeah I don't like ULTA lipstcks either.
Ulta lipsticks....they are incredibly drying and colors arent the best, i tried to save money by avoiding MAC and playing with some cheaper brands but all it did was remind me why i stopped buying makeup from rite aid :)
Hi Kirsten, So unfortunate to hear that they didn't work well at all!
M.A.C. Myth lipstick... an MA had used it on me to balance out a smoky blue look she did on my eyes. It looked weird in the store but thought I could make it work by layering it with lipgloss, but I think I'm too dark to pull it off (I'm an NC35).
Hi Iris, Myth is a very light lipstick for sure, and it makes me look corpse like without layering a gloss over it, personally (I'm NC30!).
Diorshow, for sure. Horrible horrible horrible. For such an expensive mascara, it looks like you're not even wearing any when you apply. My L'Oreal Voluminous and Stila Major Lash do a much better job for half the price.
Didn't work at all for me, either, Taylor! You're not alone.
Diorkiss (Discontinued version) cost about $36 CAD a tube when I bought it, it's too sticky for me. Though it does smell pretty and lasts longer then I expected. Claire's eyeshadow I expected it to be honest but I just wanted to get rid of my gift card that had been sitting in my wallet for ages and I don't like the jewelry there (Rusts so easily) so I bought some colours that looked interesting, but not to mention they had very little pigment to them I had to apply layers upon layers to begin seeing the colour I wanted.
Hi Brenda, Too bad that it was more sticky than you wanted. Sticky gloss tends to be more long lasting, though!
Oh yeah and TooFaced Lash Injection. Womp Womp. Did NOTHING for me but waste money from my Sephora card.
Oh no! I tried this, and I didn't see any spectacular results either!
Tony and Tina Nailpolish. It chips soooo fast. They don't even make it anymore.
Glad they don't make it anymore then!
benefit- that pink pencil thing youre supposed to put under your eye to make your dark circles go away.. IT ENDED UP BEING SO HARD! I RUBBED MY UNDER-EYES SO HARD APPLYING IT I GOT WRINKLES! AND IM ONLY 21!!!!
Hi Annie, Oh no, that is terrible!
Visionaire LLL from Barbie Loves MAC(my first Liquidlast). Horrible, goopy, nasty texture and like zero color pay off. Shows up as a whiteish goop only -- not frosty baby pink. :(
Hi LAS, I skipped out on that, and this makes me glad I did!
I don't know why but anything I buy from Benefit always disappoints me.
so sorry to hear that :0 they are like my favourite brand... what did you buy from them??
Ouch! What have been some disappointments?
all of my beauty duds have luckily been cheap stuff- like Avon's luxury liners. I don't even hate them, they just don't have staying power.
Oh, lucky for your wallet! I always return anything that doesn't work for me or that I hate, ESPECIALLY if it was pricey!
A tight squeeze between Smashbox Photo Finish Primer and MakeUpForEver camo concealer. They broke me out so badly, that I was in pain for almost a week!!
Hi MissVizzy, Oh, no!! I hope this doesn't happen to me :( I have yet to try it, but I do own it (LOL), and I've heard several raves for the Photo Finish Primer.
liquid eyeshadow by VICTORIA'S SECRET, it burned the heck out of my eyes. and when i went ot th estore to exchange it they tol dme they dont take back used makeup.
Hi Tricia, VS' glitter liners burned my eyes!
I would have to say.. Bare Minerals. What a freaking joke. The foundation was bad, but nothing is worse than that damn Handy-Buki. I was so interested in BE and my friend had drank the bare minerals kool-aid and convinced me to go into it, too. $25 for the foundation wasn't bad to me, considering I usually spend $60 on Px Custom Blend. That stupid brush was $20! Consensus?: I ended up having a horrible ALLERGIC reaction to the cheapy Bismuth, and that stupid brush was so scratchy and pokey that is irritated the hell out of my already upset skin. I would also have to say NARS multiples aren't my favorite. They go on too heavy and shimmery. That's OK, because NARS makes amazing everything else. Vincent Longo's diamond eyeshadow is also ridiculous, it crumbles too easily and the glitter in it always ends up in my eye. Lancomes artliner is amazing, but the Loreal Intensifique is THE SAME and $18 cheaper or something like that. I found that out after buying the artliner 5 times over. I'm also going to have to put MAC on blast with their Velvet and Lustre shadows - they are not worth the work it takesm and the concealer in the pot is not my favorite, either. I also have to be an advocate for the people that pay crazy amounts for their products that they discontinue to only have it re-released months after (even before the beauty blogs know about it) Gotta stand up for those women who paid $60 for Parrot and $30 for Sharkskin.. or just hoarded either one bc they were so frightened, lol.
Hi Pquanda, So terrible that BE did NOT work at all for you! Ugh, doesn't get much worse than an allergic reaction to a product :( Thanks for the tip on L'Oreal's Intesifique!
Mary Kay's foundations. It's nice, applied great, and was perfect. Only problem, I applied it in the early morning in a darkish room, so it took me a drive in the car when the sun was bright to find out that it was wayy to dark for me. Even though it was the lightest color they made. and I've got a few different kinds of foundation from them, all too dark. So...that's cool. But foundations are alllways too dark. They never make them light enough in any brand. :(
Hi Hillary, Oh, that's terrible. I feel so sad for all of you paler ladies who cannot get a good and light enough match :(
I bought the eyeshadow palette from Lancome's Spring 2006 colour story - the ad had Daria Werbowy wearing dramatic lilac & purple eyes, it was totally beautiful. Unfortunately the eyeshadows were so lightly pigmented on me they hardly showed up. I should have returned it.
Hi Cloudburst, Oh, that sucks! I really hate when shadows aren't pigmented enough - probably my number one pet peeve for shadow.
Vincent Longo C Collection mascara. Possibly the worst purchase ever--it flaked and hurt my eyes. I returned it, which is something I never do--I usually give colours that don't work on me to my friends. I have happy friends, lol
Hi DJ, Haven't tried this, but I definitely think I will stay far away from it!
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