What’s your biggest makeup purchase you regret?
Friday, January 29th, 2010
What’s your biggest makeup purchase you regret?Share!
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Maybe MAC Mineralize Satinfinish, which I bought years ago and returned 2 days after I bought it.
Thanks to Dusty for this question!
Covergirl Lash Blast. The brush is gigantic and I wasn't able to get it on my lashes at all. Instead, I had black marks all over my eyelids. Ugh.
It has got to be Max Factor Volume Couture mascara. It got such rave reviews but when it got to me, it was clumps for days.
Impulse purchases of gift palettes. I don't use eyeshadow except when going out and hate the idea of trying to use the lipsticks in a palatte that you can't really put in a purse when you go out and want to touch up. I get suckered by the pretty packaging and good prices, then never use any of it.
My impulse purchases from the MAC Style Black line. I was a goth in the '90s so naturally I got this huge nostalgia kick from looking at MAC's new version of my old love. But really, what am I going to do with these black lip glosses? Seriously? No.
Maybe I'm swearing... but my biggest and pricey-est regret is YSL Touche eclat! IMO, it isn't a good highlighter nor a good concealer... I find a way to use it, but it wasn't worth it at all!
I bought Philosophy Purity Made Simple and never regretted a skin care purchase so much. It's expensive and it gave me huge painful boils on my face. I guess it is better used on problematic skin as my skin was clear to begin with, but still ouch.
Benefit Eyecon undereye moisturizer. It claims to reduce undereye circles, but it does *nothing* in that regard, makes my eyes burn if the product gets to close to my eye, and gave me milia. Definitely not worth the $30.
Chanel Les Folies Noirs Eyeshadow Quad. By the time I got around to try and return or exchange it, it was too late.
Philosophy Hope in a Jar. Didn't work at all for me. It gave me little bumps in various spots on my face... I returned it.
the first regret was estee lauder foundation brush. I hated chanel blush in love, chanel exeptional mascara, beiges de chanel quad, and the only chanel lippie I tried (love their e/s singles and their inimitable mascara). hated givenchy palette I got (the blue one). PX custom blend foundation was also terrible
Any bronzer apart from Guerlain Blondes. I'm pale so it can look muddy, even after an MA showed me how.
For me, it was buying into the massive MAC MSF hype. The only ones worth that price for me are the Sugarsweet MSFs, Refined & Perfect Topping. They're subtle, yet give my cheeks an amazing glow without looking like a disco-ball. I sold off all my other ones that I collected.
This Kevyn Aucoin lip gloss. It was supposed to be a sort of gray with a blue flash, which sounded like it would be great for layering over brighter colors. ....Yeah, always read the reviews first. It's tar black, with a horrible sticky streaky consistency that refuses to blend. Plus it smells like pan-fried death. YAY. *waves bye-bye to $30*
Smashbox Creme Eyeliner palette. The formula does not work on my eyes and whoever deemed it "waterproof" was deluded.
CHANEL Merveille loose powder. 2 years later and I still haven't used it more than once. I don't like sneezing glitter!
Where to begin haha Cliniques 3 step totally ruined my face :-( I.D Bare mineral Foundation both of them...agree ichy and made my skin look greeeasy! The matte made my skin look soo dull and pasty. I tried to live them :-( MUFE HD powder made me look like a coke addict in pictures. One other thing I love love love my MAC brushes but they all shed terribly :-(( I don't know that I regret them but I wish I didn't look like an animal was on my face after I applied foundation.
Shu Uemura cleansing oil... I don't know, i just can't make it work properly, i think when i'm done with it i'll buy the MAC one to see if there is any difference.
aww, I'm sorry to hear that. It's my staple for makeup removal and I love it so much, I almost feel like I'm an unofficial spokesperson for it! How are you using it?? Maybe I can help?? :)
Are you mixing it with water when you wash with it? According to MA I've spoken to, you're meant to rub it onto your dry face for half-a-minute to a minute, before rinsing it off with water. If you want, you can finish off with a mild, foaming cleanser, if you're concerned about excess oil. If you don't mind spending $$$, I use the Covermark one and it works like magic with my long-wear gel eyeliner. I totally rec it, though maybe you'd like to see if you can get a tester first, to see if it works for you.
I'll tell you guys a secret. Regular extra-virgin olive oil that you buy from the supermarket is the best eye makeup remover I have ever used! It gets rid of EVERYTHING super fast, and I like to wear really intense, colourful eyeshadow with tons of liquid eyeliner and mascara, so if it works for me it should work for anyone! Also, olive oil is apparently good for dry skin, and I have slightly oily skin and it has never once made me break out.
oh and i just remembered another one--benefit that gal primer. doesn't do a thing except make me feel like i'm wearing more makeup. too much $$$ for nothing.
mac pigments...they look nice in their containers, but i never wear the colors i bought. and ill never be able to use them up either. also, pretty much any colorful e/s that ive ever bought. i only wear neutrals (have been for the past 2 years). oh, and smashbox oil control compact...that thing is crap.
OHHH YES to the smashbox oil control thing!!! I forgot all about it since it tends to just stay in it's container all the time. it mattifies for about five minutes and then it just makes your skin wayyyy greasier. FAIL.
Bobbi Brown Skin foundation. For some reason this stuff slides off my face after a few hours! yuck!
MAC's Motif eyeshadow Urban Decay Midnigt Cowboy eyshadow
UD Midnight Cowboy is my HG shadow! If you don't care for it on your lid, it works beautifully as a highlight on your inner eye/tear duct area. Also, it works much better for me applying it wet rather than dry (no fallout).
The UD Colour is nice but I have it all over my place after applying.I need to try to apply it wet.Thanks.
MAC's Motif eyeshadow Urban Decay Midnight cowboy eyeshadow.
Blacktrack Fluidline... scratched the cornea of my eye & ended up in the hospital :/
The only beauty regret of mine that I have is Buying Maybelline Collosal Mascara with Collegen in BROWN. It's AMAZING, but the brown really doesn't pop at all. All I can use it for are my neutral looks for days when I want to wear hardly any make-up.
When I went to my first CCO and went crazy with the shadesticks. I bought like 5 or 6. They are a PITA to apply and when I do get them on, they crease within hours. I really wish I would have put that money into something else ;)
Kores facelotion/under eye lotion- do Not work at all, very expensive, sticky, and smell bad any other reason?! LoL
i would have to say that my biggest makeup purchase that i regret buying is the entire collection of blushes from the grand duo collection :( although i love them they do not love me :( they make me break out and that's not cute lol oh . . . i have another one too my entire colorful collection of eyeshadows that i own from Mac. I am now into neutrals and i just almost never wear those colorful shadows which is a bummer since i own a lot of them :((((
MAC Line filler. I tried every way imaginable to use it and could not get it to work for the lines under my eyes. All it did was make my makeup move/change color whether it was under or over it.
I love reading how some products work well for some and don't work for others. I have had great results with the MAC Mineralized Eyeshadow and I love my Bare Minerals Foundation...
loreal collagen mascara-Its the most horrible mascara i have ever tried! it made my naturally long lashes clump like crazy!! and i also regret buying this lipgloss by Stila in the shade 'fetching' its really sticky and doesnt last very long i have to reapply it every 5 minutes.i have lots more but those are the most recent ones Lol.
Bobbi Brown Shimmer Brick in Rose - the shade is too intense on me. It just sits in my drawer because since it was $$ I refuse to toss it & they don't take anything opened back. I will have to try using it differently than as is.
bare id mineral foundation= get itchy and messy, mac eyeshadow in hepcat= ugly red puple color, nars orgasm blush= does not show up on my tan skin and ysl faux cils, lancome defincil and mac zoom lash mascaras= give me stick straight lashes and do not hold any curls.
Mac paintpot in groundwork--its just too ashy for my skintone (its like the same level of deepness but the tone is grey). Mac released some starflash shadows in 2009 and i bought a pale, icy pink, a green with silver sparkle, a bluish green, and a purple that is identical to satellite dreams. MISTAKE! Oh, and two mascaras by L'Oreal: the telescopic and the collagen one. Crap! nothing beats my LashBlast!
100% agree on hating groundwork! It's the ugliest color ever and I surely returned it within 2 days. I was looking for eyeshadow primer, the SA recommended this, waste of time!
Too Faced Snow Bunny Bronzer.....was NOT the right product or shade to get as my first experience with bronzer....bronzer to me should NOT have a shimmer....
creme de la mer...made my skin soooo unbalanced it broke out like mad...still have the scars...hopefully one day they will go away!
I would have to say the e/s blue flame and young punk. While they are really pretty. They just didn't look right on my.
i love young punk! i really regret not getting it. :(
benefit thrrrob, and perfect 10 for the $$ I wish I got some NARS stuff
MAC Mineralized Skin Finish Natural. It made me break out horribly and I did not like the coverage it gave me at all. I dont know why people like this stuff, I took it back immediatly.
Bare minerals foundation. Hate it hate it hate it!!!!
My bigest regret of all time is Mac studio fix fluid. Made me break out!!! Also Im kinda not crazy about cremeblend blushes. I think the packaging should have been in a stick form not a pan.
Hard Candy Concealer Palette. It should be called a grease palette. I took it back immediately. I also wished I hadn't bought the MAC Irredescent Powder. I bought it for my wedding and never used it again. Should have gotten a sample. I kept it for four years thinking I may use it again, but I finally emptied it and am saving it for back to Mac, so I guess it wasn't a total waste but I only used a dusting for one day. Certainly not worth $22 or whatever it cost in 96.
Oops, I meant 2006. Coming up on our anniversary and I got it wrong by ten years. LOL.!
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