I like how involved Rihanna seems to be with the brand–she promotes it, but she also seems like she drives a lot of the way the brand is handled from the business side as well as creatively. I’m hoping they’ll improve the consistency and overall quality of their eyeshadows over time because that’s one product that’s left me so-so. (The Killawatt highlighters are better eyeshadows!)
— Christine
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Her foundation is everything if you have oily skin. It doesn’t feel heavy or cakey and looks really nice and natural on the skin. I’ve used it for performances and it always holds up nicely. On Saturday, I performed twice and wore really well and it held up great. I also really like her face primer, b/c it is mattifying while being moisturizing. I only use it on the outside perimeter of my face, I use a different primer in my t-zone b/c it is ridiculously oily.
I did like her glitter palette a lot, but I didn’t pick up her latest palette b/c I heard that the mattes weren’t pigmented enough for darker skin. I’m hoping they fix that in the future.
I love how inclusive the foundation shades are. I love how involved Rihanna is with the brand, and how the products truly look like things she’d wear. The only products I’ve tried so far are the Summer Daze and Summer NIghts Lip Luminizer trios, but I really love the shades and formula.
I’m not familiar enough with the brand to have any rants.
The quality of the Fenty products I own is generally good, and when I do see room for improvement in the way a lipstick or a highlighter performs, they’re still fun to use and look very pretty on the skin.
What irks me a little is the constant excessive praise surrounding the brand, which is sometimes treated as the second coming of Jesus even when products are not the best in terms of performance and/or pricing (I’m looking at you, fairy bomb pompom and body lava).
Rave: Not much. Some of the products are interesting, but they all have a major dealbreaker for me — foundation is way too dry and orange, highlighters are pretty colors but too gritty/glittery, lipstick shades are interesting but way too tiny, etc etc.
Rant: Reviews of the products are skewed by people who like Rihanna. I’m glad I didn’t buy into the initial hype of the brand because a lot of the products I’ve tested out are pretty meh.
Since I’ve been a fan of hers ever since I heard Umbrella, strengthened even more when she kicked her abuser to the curb and pressed charges, this was only further solidified after RiRi came out blazing with 40 shades of foundation that cover nearly *everybody*. Rihanna has her persona and energy engraved on her Fenty brand. Her brand isn’t just new, it is truly fresh. The quality of just about everything is superb, has true creativity to the color product shades, plus brand presence done correctly on social media!
I do agree with your comment, Christine. The eyeshadows need some tweaking in order for them to be consistent. One more “complaint” I have is the teensy lipstick size. Not that I have used up a tube of anything in quite a little while, but still; those are tiny!
I’ve never been a big Rihanna fan but was absolutely compelled to buy her Galaxy palette and brush . Love them both !
We only get some of the Fenty products here in Aus, but I do love their foundation range as to how inclusive it is and their products seem to be in the very good range.
I guess the only rant is how excessively social media fawns over it all.
I only have one l/s and one killawatt, but will further indulge. Quality is there, but though I may dent Freckle Fiesta, there’s no way I’ll hit pan on the HL. The l/s was downsized, but the HL is huge. Love the inclusivity in foundation and the charge that it led. But, they all (“cools”) swatch yellow on me, nothing new. The SAs made me reswatch to make sure I had picked the correct shades. Verdict of SAs: ‘That’s really horrible. I don’t understand.’ Love the multipurpose of the killawatt. Have respect for Rihanna as a person, an artist, and creator of a brand, but I fess up to being a classical music person, who is not very familiar with her oeuvre.
Like : Same as you, she’s behind the scenes ( a lot, at least it appears that way). Coming out with the wide range of foundation colors.
Dislike: Poorly performing eyeshadows (or perhaps just not my texture, glittery and not pigmented). Price of the kilowatts. For me, it’s like paying 17$ a piece for an eyeshadow, because I’d only use them for that.
Rant;The brand to me is over hyped. I like her foundation but it seems to settle in my pores and I have others I love so I don’t reach for it. At first I was so into getting the eyeshadows but then I got over it. Got none of it.
I have her bomb gloss and to me it’s nothing special just a clear gloss. I watched her tutorial and just don’t buy her as a mua. Nothing against her but I’m not into celebrity makeup.
Rave; the large shade range was earth shaking. It’s something I personally never thought about before being white but set a precedent which should go down in the makeup history books.