What are your least favorite brands? If so, what do you use?
The one that sticks out to me is Max Factor – so little seemed to work for me. I’ve found that for every brand that I’m just so-so on… they still have at least one product that I do excited about.
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I agree on Max Factor.
Me three.
Even though I like some mascaras they have.
Other brands that don’t really cut it for me are Rimmel (yet love polishes) and Maybelline.
add me for max factor too.also i don’t like lancome.it’s not a bad brand but i could not get familiar with it.
I’m on that boat! Max Factor = 🙁
I love CoverGirl LashExact (and LashBlast, I suppose), but I don’t like anything else! All their products seem so weak in my opinion. I’m not really a fan of Bare Escentuals either — way overpriced for mediocre products.
And MAC…loljk.
Bare Escentuals only claim to fame is that they were “first” on the market for MMU. For what your paying for I’ve found better from Indie companies.
Also their BUXOM lips burn so bad with me. >__<
If your looking of high end MMU I go with Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics and Alima Pure. For more indie brands: Sassy Minerals, Meow Minerals, Silk Naturals, Lucy Minerals and Adorn with Grace which I can attest for quality despite not every formula working with my skin type.
Most drug store brands I don't like but some products from Physician Formula I do like as well as NYX and GOSH.
ELF: I've tried so many product out and over all the only good find where there synthetic pro brushes.
Eyeko: I didn't really love anything from them.
NARS: again it just the pricing the irks me for there products. I tried Orgasm blush but found it to be sophisticated with the gold glitter but I prefer more satin blushes.
Smakshbox: over all I find their product to be just ok over all besides their primers and O-Glow gloss.
Tarte: love to love them more but again fall under the OK catagory for shadows.
Korres: love to love them more as well and there skin products are nice if you have general blanched skin like me. Their Makeup is ok (some good some not so much) but I love the balms and liquid lipstick.
Sephora brands I have to love for are:
TheBalm and Sugar cosmetics (when the had it)
Jane Iredale has good mineral powder makeup that matched my skin well and I’m NC45. It’s expensive so I bought one of their powders and finished it all off two years ago.
Anything that tests on animals.
I agree, those are my least favorite brands!
I third this!
I agree with all of you
I’ve always found Rimmel to be utter crap! Also, most of maybelline and covergirl
I don’t like any drugstore brands at all except for Revlon…
I agree really, only Revlon for the most part except for Black Opal, although at one time their lipsticks looked great but they tasted awful like how Nars’ lipsticks used to taste.
That’s a difficult question, but I believe is Avon… But they still have some products are ok..
I kinda wanna say MUFE… only because I’ve had problems with a lot of their products. I bought their cream/liquid blush in Nip Slip and I was sooo excited about it, but it’s so hard to blend, it ends up sticking in some places and not in others. No matter what brush I use. And their HD powder is awful awful awful. Won’t blend for crap either, and it leaves an obvious whitecast on my face.
I do though, love the infmaous #92. 🙂
I don’t understand the rave of the HD powder… I like a glow/healthy looking finish to my face, and so many of these finishing products leave a dusty/chalky look to my complexion… I have tried going back to it a few times, but just never works how it should for me… I think its just my personal taste on the finish, or what I expect of it…luckily I only bought the travel size!
The HD Powder was a blessing to me. I have so much less problems with oily skin now. But I do agree, it’s a little more matte finish and not a glowing as I’d like it to be.
I don’t like Smashbox. I really think they are over-priced mediocre products. I also don’t like that pink sparkly brand that took place of Cargo here in Canada, I don’t care how great her design is or how famous she is, I mean…..we go to Sephora to buy makeup, not sparkly packaging (Which is tacky to start with) that contain crap, and Cargo was such quality stuff…..Drugstore wise I don’t like anything except Annabelle (this impressive Canadian brand) and Nyx.
lol i miss cargo being at sephora sooo much too!!
I know! I can’t believe Sephora replaced my beloved Cargo with Tarina Tarantino crap. You know I gave her a shot, I purchased her lipstick in leatherette the first time I went to apply it the lipstick broke off at the base and fell out. WTF seriously!?
Rimmel, Cover Girl, MUFE, Benefit…main reason being their products just do not work with me.
Don’t like Avon (though they have some good body care products), Lumene and BeYu
Only their famous bubble baths
I hate covergirl, maybelline and loreal! The products suck and they test on animals so I refuse to wear or buy it. Lancome is a bog bummer too. It feels like grandma makeup.
Lancome has been owned by L’Oreal since the 60’s – So if you aren’t buying from L’Oreal because they test on animals, you should scratch Lancome off your list… In fact you might want to look at Nestlé as well since they own a fair amount of shares in L’Oreal too. Nestlé doesn’t just make chocolate either, you’ll looking at scratching everything from Cheerios to pet food off your shopping list.
I’m a bit of a black and white guy, I’ve seen a few people here talk about animal testing and how it’s horrible, but I ALWAYS wonder if anyone does anything about it EXCEPT not buy from that brand.
If you live in the US, write your state Representatives in Congress – Perhaps it’s time for the goverment to say, “There are other ways you can test your products” and make the practice illegal. It’s been banned in the UK since 2002 – It can be done.
I agree with what you’re saying here and I’d like to add that even though PETA gets a lot of hate and many people don’t agree with everything they do, they are an excellent resource for information on where to write/ call to speak out against animal testing. Not just addresses/ numbers for government offices, but also for the companies themselves and stores that stock the products.
L’Oreal also owns Maybelline, Kiehl’s, Garnier, Redken, Pureology, Matrix, Vichy, Dermablend and a few others.
L’oreal is one of those companies that owns like everything.
Smashbox
Some Cover girl
Loreal
Max Factor
Avon. I also bought a coastal scents palette after seeing loads of reviews on youtube and HATE it. I agree that a lot of Maxfactor is rubbish but I do love their Second Skin foundation!! their mascara’s can be pretty good too.
Smashbox!
They don’t make pale enough colors for my complexion and their foundations are so yellow (complete oppisite of my skintone). Also none of their other products seem to work for me. :/
Try Vincent Longo Water Canvas, I think they have the BEST foundation (but not their liquid foundation though) but they are pricey and they get you by you having to pay extra for the compact itself.
When I worked at Sephora years ago I used the Water Canvas in Porcelain on a woman who had red hair, very fair skin, and possibly some freckles.
Almay to me is terrible. When I first started wearing makeup, I bought their hypoallergenic eyeliner that claimed to be great for contact wearers… it burned my eyes so badly it was unusable (on my waterline). Every product of theirs looks so boring.
I’m with you on the Almay hate. I used one of their “gentle” makeup removers and ended up with a chemical burn under one eye. Ouch!
I liked MF lipsticks, but didn’t try much else before they left the states. I don’t care for Bare Escentuals foundation, eyeshadow, or blush. I might try their faux tan and well rested and my opinion of the brand might change. I think most of my problems have been with cover girl. They really don’t have any good staples in their line.
Revlon and Stila
covergirl
Basically any and all drugstore brands, Rimmel, Nivea Beauty, p2, essence
Rimmel, MAC regular line in general (nothing exciting and ugly packaging), Smashbox (too much silicone), YSL (horrid smells),
Generally drugstore brands (like Maybelline and Rimmel, especially for their eyeshadows), but I also don’t like Nars, their blushes are okay (although very glittery) and I have a few eyeshadows, but I find the brand is way too overhyped, especially considering how expensive it is!
Max Factor, Almay and Rimmel. Everything I’ve swatched from MF (even the latest bright coloured eyeshadows, can’t remember what they are called) has awful pigmentation and I don’t know how you can build an entire lip colour range around one type of lipstick. Almay also has crap coverage, I think I have one e/s trio and it looks nice swayched but blends into a big muddy mess and thenfades in about 4 hours.
Rimmel, I think I have 3 lipsticks, I quite like the lasting finish formula (even though it doesn’t actually last!) but the Moisture Renew one smells awful.
Those would be Cover Girl, Maybelline, Rimmel, Max Factor, L’Oreal and any other company that still tests on animals (having the ingredients tested for you counts as well, *coughBenefitcough*).
Fortunately there are so many great brands that don’t, so I don’t feel like I’m missing much.
I agree with maxfactor. I’ve tried a couple of your products and I haven’t found one that I’ve liked yet. Their eyeshadows are a huge disappointment. The colors look so vibrant and them when you put them on they don’t even show and have no staying power. =(
N.Y.C make-up, it just comes across really cheap for me. Even their nail polishes are bad quality
I like Max Factor for their new lip markers and Masterpiece Max mascara but nothing else. Rimmel is actually improving. I don’t know if you get it in the states but Miss Sporty. Cheap, bad products for tweens >.<
we dont have covergirl in the uk and a lot of the products covergirl come out with come out with max factor here, i love their version of lash bast, but the formula sucks, after about 4 hours it starts flaking off all over my face. I do like their foundations, their new light weight one is lovely, and their other light weight one was good too (for a drugstore brand). ALOT of people love their face powders though and their eye pencils and shadows have such good pigmentation.
my least favourite drug store brand is bourjois, their products look amazing, but their shadows are so dry and not very pigmented, and a lot of their pencils are dry and theirs just no way you’d get them on your waterline. their mascaras suck, and their foundations break me out. their bronzer looks like chocolate and i got that because it looked so cool, but instead of looking like a nice chocolate brown its very orange and unnatural looking on. i just find alot of their products have such good promise but in real life they just dont deliver results
So agreed on Bourjois. Their stand always looks so enticing, but all the products I’ve tried (shadows, blushes, mascaras) have all been hugely disappointing.
I’d say l’Oréal, they never launch something exciting like the other brands !
I was going to say Smashbox until I read your comment and realized L’oreal existed. Now that’s boring makeup if I forget it’s even out there.
When I started wearing make-up – about at the age of fifteen – virtually everything I got was from Maybelline, L’oreal, Max Factor or Rimmel. Now these four brands are exactly the ones I really hate. In my opinion they mostly have products I would categorize as “plastic Barbie stuff”. (There are high-end brands I would pretty much put in the same pot…) And they test on animals 🙁 . I quite like Revlon, especially their foundations.
Every brand that tests on animals!
Nars and Chanel – had more products that didn’t live up to the hype & weren’t that high quality.
I’ve had long term success w/ MAC, Bobbi Brown, Stila. Now I also use Laura Mercier, Trish McEvoy, Illamasqua, Rock & Republic, and Sonia Kashuk at Target.
I would have to say Avon and Revlon….I can’t really find ANYTHING from either brand that works well for me.
I know what you mean about Max Factor indeed, but they have the best eye khokl nude color. It’s 090 Natural Glaze. It stays on my waterline forever and easy to apply. What more can a girl ask for?
Maybelline and Cover Girl. Those brands are absolutely useless to me. Chalky colors that fade too. Ugh.
I have to say ELF.. I guess I picked their worst products..
bare escentuals for sure. the mineral foundation, which i tried ages ago, does nothing for me and the brushes arent good either. theres one black shimmery eyeshadows thats cool, but overall the stuff is expensive and bad.
anybody who tests on animals.
and I’m also not a fan of Benefit
I most definitely do not like Bare Escentuals. I had the worst experience with their products. I’m also not a big fan of Too Faced, with the exception of their bronzers. As for drug store brands, I avoid Cover Girl, Wet ‘n’ Wild and half of Maybelline products.
Oh, I forgot to add that I don’t like Elizabeth Arden or Estee Lauder much either.
That’s a real shame that you ‘avoid’ Wet n Wild- their eyeshadows are absolutely amazingly pigmented and smooth! Since the prices are so cheap it’s obviously not going to be great quality packaging but inside the crappy packaging are GEMS! I have many dupes for my MAC and NARS shadows using my Wet n Wild ColorIcon palettes and singles- I almost feel like I wasted my money on higher end brands because the WnW shadows are really THAT good.
I would have to say covergirl I do like the lash blast mascara and shimmering sands trio. Other than that I feel they are really lacking and their prices seem to be rising.
Hands down – Bare Minerals.
Drugstore eyeshadow… Any brand, almay, covergirl, revlon, etc… The pigmentation is horrible and for a mere $10 more, you can get great eyeshadow from urban decay, great skin care from philosophy and foundation from clinique??
I dislike most drugstore brands. When it comes to my body, and especially my face, I prefer to pay extra for something I know is high-quality. Cosmetics are one of those things I don’t skimp on- my eyes and skin are really sensitive. To be more specific, I don’t like Revlon and L’Oreal. I tried foundations by Maybelline, Rimmel and CoverGirl- and never again. I also used to be a big fan of the Bare Escentuals products- until I found out that liquid makeup looks so much better on my dry, dry skin… It was great to discover that makeup doesn’t have to make my face look all dry and powdery ;).
Covergirl Lash Blast Mascara is okay but I hate the rest of their products. about 80% of drugstore brands are crap.
Definitely Rimmel or Almay for me.
I don’t particularly like Smashbox because I have found that their shades are too sheer and not long-lasting. They also don’t have any go-to products that I love.
Maybelline, Cover Girl, Mary Kay, Avon. And really, I can’t stand many Urban Decay products — ugggh with the horrible fallout from the eyeshadows. I like their 24/7 liners and that is it.
Tarte
All drugstore brands, and any other brand that tests on animals. No exceptions.
I dislike Covergirl, Max Factor, and Sephora Brand. They all have bad color pay off, just a waste of my money and time.
Loréal….
I hate to say it, but Neutrogena’s makeup has always disappointed me. (I like their skincare, though.) I haven’t had good luck with Cover Girl, either.
Maybelline.The eyeshadows I’ve encountered are sheer with lots of fall out. Also they seem to reject my very existance.
I would have to say Mary Kay….I have a few friends that sell for them and it is basically a pyramid scheme cult! I have gone to a few events and they are pretty crazy…I have used a few of their products and found that they are in fact really good quality, however the whole Mary Kay culture really turns me off to their products….I feel the same towards Avon too, only because I see them created for Pyramid selling and not really so much as cosmetics companies…I am sure the quality of Avon has improved over the years, it still just weirds me out to the point I cannot stand it….
Drug store brands..hmmm Maybelline really bores me and they haven’t came out with anything that has caught my attention in years… higher end-ish brands would be Too-Faced… I always see their products as over-packaged, low quality…they come out with tons of things in cute packaging, however I think that their products lack the quality of comparable brands…I get excited when I see new things, but every time I try them I am just meh….
I don’t know why, but I cannot stand anything from Clean and Clear.. But I also find that I can’t convince myself to buy anything from Benefit, because it all seems so gimmicky.
Yeah Benefit has this cutesy gimmicky thing going on that’s alright to me only because it’s wannabe retro looking, but with the exception of their lipsticks, glosses and body creams, their powders and bronzing powders suck because they don’t provide any darker, deeper pigmentation.
So I haven’t bought anything from them in almost ten years, and that was just a gloss they stopped making.
Ditto on Rimmel, and Smash Box with the exception of their lipglosses.
Neutrogena(so bland), max factor, covergirl, revlon, physicians formula, I’m really not a drug store person. Maybelline and rimmel r sometimes ok.
covergirl (with the exception of last blast) has nothing to offer me.
collection 2000 – i’m allergic to it!
NYX, Avon, Maybelline and Loreal Paris (I like Loreal HIP but I Can´t find them in Spain)
I only found L’Oreal HIP in one stupid annoying area of London, in Piccadilly Circus in probably the only Sally’s Beauty Supply in all of Britain which I don’t even know if that’s still standing there either.
I hope to God they start selling here in Britain properly, that and the Vincent Longo.
Rimmel. Words cannot descripe how awful I think their products are. And maybe a few years ago I’d say Avon and Mary Kay but even their products have improved (at least Avon has).
Almay, CoverGirl and Benefit, never had any luck with any of their products.
drug store makeup:::
Hard Candy. Full of glitter and fall-out, and the quality plummeted after they sold-out.
Mid range:::
I agree with the poster who despises Mary Kay. The whole pyramid scheme is obnoxious, the colors are outdated and always seem yellow-ish, and the packaging is really tacky, reminds me of Texan debutantes circa 1980’s.
High End:::
Smashbox. The O Gloss is great, but their other products are sub-par. Also, they try to emulate Urban Decay, going so far as ripping off Urban Decay’s current Facebook profile photo and posting the exact photo on their makeup artist’s twitter! It caused a huge conundrum on UD’s Facebook wall last week. Plus the whole Burlesque line they have now is really tacky. Ok, I’m done. 🙂
Benefit. All their stuff is very gimmicky and nothing worked on me.
Burts Bees.
Their natural oils cremes broke me out like crazy. Now I use nice silicone, glycerin, and mineral oil based Olay and L’Oreal, and my skin is so much better. Also Lanolin based lip treatments kick bees wax based ones’ butt any time of the year.
Also Rimmel, their mascaras suck. They are watery, smudge, crumble, clump, and don’t hold curl.
Um, mineral oil and silicone are quite possibly one of the worst two things to ever put on your face let alone human skin. I’m sorry for you.
The only complete BRAND that comes to mind for me is MAC, ironically enough. I don’t like their marketing campaigns or spokesmodels. Never been tempted to purchase. I will admit the Tartan collection for Christmas is a great and festive idea though.
e.l.f.
rimmel, smashbox, max factor, bare escentuals, avon, jemma kid (lip sticks STINK like kids lip stick. not worth $16 =[ )
Almay is absolutely awful. I tried a foundation (no coverage) and an eyeshadow (sheer). Never again.
Ohhhh, this question brings me back to high school – that’s not a knock on the teens, but for ME back in the day, I only wore Drugstore cosmetics, so Almay & Covergirl just make me shudder years later. You get what you pay for certainly rings true.
On a ‘higher’ end; I guess I have to go with Benefit. I’m always on the hunt for the Greatest Concealer, but they haven’t lived up. And, oddly enough, I admit their packaging weirds me out. I don’t like their ‘cartoonish’ girls on the boxes. I know. Odd!
covergirl for me
I don’t like much Max Factor (was called Ellen Betrix over here until some years ago), Rimmel, L’Oreal, Astor, Essence, p2 (it´s by the lingerie-brand Palmers), Nivea (grand name to it but the products have been terrible for tens of years – sorry – and now they are also totally overpriced for the quality), Esprit Cosmetics (like their clothes but the make-up seems weird and expensive), BeYu / Artdeco (owned by the same company – “trying to be entry-level in perfumeries).
I don’t like these either because of low-quality or low-average quality combined with excessive prices, or because of their formulations – MF for example is full of paraffins.
haha i saw this and thought “what a great question! [pause] why is my name there?” lol! i forgot i sent this one in. i’d agree with you on max factor – i never found a max factor product i liked. other than that i’d say almost ALL companies have at least one thing that i’m groovy with using. benefit has shelaq (the ONLY product i’ve found from them i liked). i don’t own any clinique but i used to use their skincare back in high school… that’s not to say i couldn’t find something i liked from them, i just am not drawn to any of their products.
That’s how I feel – like the more I’ve tried, the more I’ve found at least a couple of things I like by a brand, even though they may not be my go-to in general, there’s hope, haha.
Almay. Some of their products aren’t the best. While there’s been like an eyeshadow trio that was quite good.
I also don’t like Maybelline or Lancome.
Lancome because they test on animals and Maybelline because there are just so few products that work for me. I only like the lipsticks from them, which even then are only mediocre.
Estee Lauder- old lady makeup that’s too too too thick for me
NYC- awful pigmentation…probably the worst brand out there
Hard Candy and Rimmel- awful quality wrapped in a cute package
Smashbox- pigmentation of everything is awful, their “famous” HD foundation is runny and gross, and everything worth owning breaks me out
The new Hard Candy line is just terrible, terrible junk. I have to admit I went and bought it just for the nostalgic feel- that was a favorite brand of mine in high school. But the new stuff is dreadful, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised at the price it is and the fact that it is now a Walmart brand, but it still made me sad. ;_;
physicians formula, some mary kay, some avon, some benefit, some estee lauder
Physicians Formula, yuckkkkk! I tried one of their mineral powders and I sware it felt like weird baby powder and the color was horrid!
Most drugstore brands
Smashbox
Benefit
Bare Escentuals
MUFE
Clinique
MAC
I haven’t tried many drugstore brands, so I won’t comment on them. In general Pur Minerals and silimar brands don;t excite me.
Also TARINA TARANTINO is utter crap brand..for make-up.
Chanel E/s are over priced, esp for the pigmentation they give.
I’m shocked at how many people don’t like Smashbox. I am by no means a huge fan of their makeup, but I think their primer is the best!
As for my least fave high end brand, I’d have to say Stila followed by Clinique as a close second. Clinique is 2nd only cause I do like their anti acne concealer. It’s amazing! But all the rest of their products seem cheapy and drug store-like to me. I have never had any luck with Stila.
Drug Store brands – I don’t use them. In the past, I used Max Factor Mascara and loved it.
me too! I have tried lots of smashbox products and I find their shadows, blushes and bronzers SO pigmented…so much so that I have to use a really light hand. Their lip glosses are also great. all the anti smashbox comments really surprise me.
I would have to say my least fave is Clinique. No color payoff and their creams burn my face every time. I can never understand what the big deal is with their “famous” yellow lotion. It sucks in my opinion.
It used to work wonders for me when I was younger and had terrible dry skin. Now it just makes me oilier….:/
Yeah the Don’t Go Shopping For Cosmetics Without Me book said that Clinique’s yellow lotion is really bad and always has been.
be careful with that book, she does have an agenda behind it.
Yeah I know Paula sells her own cosmetics too but before she started that, she said some expensive and cheap make up and skin care was good and she said some expensive and cheap make up and skin care. Usually just picking out the pros and cons of all the different lines.
But she’s right about some of the cons.
Sorry I meant to say that Paula also said that some expensive and cheap make up and skin care was bad.
Bare Essentials – not enough coverage. Everything is too sheer. Tried a few Rimmel products and they were horrible. Had a waterproof mascara that took almost 15 minutes to dry then flaked and bled all over the place. Ew.
Sephora brand, Maybelline, Cover Girl.
I absolutely hate Clinique. Makes me breakout and products are mediocre, shade selection is boring
Drugstore: Max Factor, Almay, NYC, Rimmel, CoverGirl (horrible pigmentation) and Maybelline (don’t like anything but their polish), Hard Candy (the walmart line, everything looks cheap, but their polishes I do like)
High End: Clinique (such boring and bland colors)
cover girl, maybelline, stila, bare escentuals, sonia kashuk, pixi, elf, lorac
Max Factor – their pigments are weak
Maybelline – I don’t get the hype about their mascara. Have any of their fans used Diorshow?
Clinique- Just plain BORING!
Kat Von D – weak pigments/staying power
There is a lot…Covergirl, Almay, Max Factor and NYC….I HATED the blushable sticks everyone raves about. It made me break out so bad and the color did NOT last.
maybelline and L’Oreal , Bad quality and testing on animals :S
I’m not sure if I have a least favorite, but one thing I’m sure is I’m so not into mineral cosmetics. To me, the whole concept is kinda fake…so no mineral cosmetics brands for me.
i hate philosophy products. from their skin care, lip, and fragrance products. at first i loved the products but after a few days its always been a disaster.
I have to say Rimmel. I have some favourites in all the drugstore brands that I use often. Avon has two of my favourite lipsticks ever, Maybelline has great mascaras and I have had some good luck with Revlon and L’Oreal foundations.
Rimmel, however, has nothing that impressed me at any stage. Ever.
Drugstore makeup, with the exception of Sleek and NYX, is pretty craptacular. I’d rather spend a few $$ more and end up with products that don’t cause breakouts or allergic reactions, start to fade five minutes after application, or oxidize to the dreaded Oompa Loompa Orange.
Higher-end brands that have failed to impress me include Smashbox, Cargo, Tarte and that godawful Tarina Tarantino.
No are you mad? Sleek’s foundations and powders all look dreaded Oompa Loompa Orange and tomato red, they’re not even a proper brown. They are horrible. Only their lipsticks, balms, and loose mineral shadows deserve a look in maybe.
I can never really judge brands as a whole, because I usually love some products. I could never bring myself to say Covergirl (which we dont hav ehere in the UK) or MaxFactor simply because I have undying love for Pat McGrath, who seems to have found the diamonds in both the ‘roughs’ (max Factor and Covergirl). I am very excited for a new foundation that is being released by covergirl in november that Pat used in many of the spring summer 2011 shows. I do however find that I rarely trust many skincarebrand like clean and clear or even neutrogena, because my skin jsut doesnt like them. I have dry sensitive skin and I use Johnsons baby, simple, and a lotofdevotion(with odd hits of Garnier olive oil and sugar) to elp my skin, although I understand that they are good brands. I think skincare in so different to makeup, because skincare depends so much on the user, whereas makeup not so much.
Estee Lauder and Clinique. I do not like their skincare or makeup, they are all too expensive for their quality. If I am going to pay, I’d prefer adding just a little and going for others, which launch better skincare and more fashionable/unique colors.
I don’t like NARS, its just too overpriced and I don’t like Rimmel either.
Everything I try with Bare Escentuals is disappointing! I do have one Buxom lipgloss that I’m okay with, but their mascara, shadows, and lipsticks just don’t do it for me.
I totally agree on Max Factor but also Rimmel D:
My vote goes to Covergirl, but only their eye products- especially the quads and trios. Rubbish