When I purchased all of the Tom Ford Boys & Girls collection for the first time (50 lipsticks), I was like, maybe I’m taking the “review every shade” thing too far.
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Yes, I bought the new Clionadh palette and although I haven’t touched it yet, am already regretting it. I watched a few videos online and realized it isn’t as special as I first thought. 🫤
Yes, when I first bought the Bronze Blitz astral quad from PML. After years of having it, I’ve nearly scraped out Blitz Brown and hardly touched the other shades. Shortly after I got it the Platinum Bronze MTHRSHP went on sale for 50% off, and it covered that need for a metallic brown easily and several other bases as well. A good lesson on never justifying an expensive palette by convincing yourself you’ll use the other shades! You will not!
Absolutely! Especially when I get sucked in with gorgeous advertising for super expensive palettes (PML???). At the time I just HAVE to have things and after using them a few times realize I’m just not going to look like the models in the ads! Also I fall for the big 30% off and such sales and stock up on multiples of things I am loving now, only to find that something comes out newer and I’m stuck with lots of back ups I now don’t really want………
Yes, to all of that! I was so bedazzled by Pat McGrath for the longest time. Still trying to have my eye looks like those in the adverts.
Everything you said, Penny. That’s me, too!
Nope – at least I don’t think so. I don’t think I go overboard (probably compared to the “normal population”, I do but compared to many here, I’m quite restrained) and I try not to get caught up in the hype of some of the LE and collaboration releases. I’m sure I’ve bought more than a few items that, in hindsight, I didn’t need or don’t use much but overall, I don’t think I’ve had genuine buyer’s remorse.
Only when it comes to products that wind up irritating my eyes badly. For example; there’s 2 shades in PMG Labs Bronze Seduction Mothership that contain PET glitter, yet only the olive leaning one gives me itchy eyes, the bronze shade in the same formula doesn’t do so as long as I apply over a sticky base. But that palette requires more work on my end than any of my other Mothership! Shouldn’t be the case at the $125 price point!
Another few would be ND Retro and anything KVD.
Yes, I’ve purchased expensive PML eyeshadow palettes because there was so much hype about them and I didn’t want to experience FOMO…used it twice. And, as Penny stated, I often purchased backups of a product I am currently loving (YSL foundation), only to put the unused backups in a drawer because I want to try a new product that’s just been released.
When I bought a nuface. Which takes to much time. Hasnt shown real results and hurts to use
I did appreciate you reviewing all the Tom Ford Boys and girls lipsticks, I loved them so much and I wish they still did them.
In the beginning of my makeup journey, I did purchase a few eyeshadow palettes that frankly weren’t worth it – EL’s Emerald Oasis comes to mind, but other than that, mostly I have really used the beauty products that I have.
As my makeup tastes are fairly conservative, I tend to prefer neutrals and cool toned pops of colour – no pinks, mattes, black, white, orange, red etc (Mariella and I are makeup twins!) so many products just don’t work for me, so I am not tempted.
I should perhaps correct a misconception of my own making – I’m not 100% anti-matte. I have some that I use often (MAC Wedge, Cork, Soba – I think they’re all matte or “matte-ish”) for blending out or contouring my crease and also some other good matte shades (the Matte2 formula from MAC was so good – Typgraphic and Blanc Type) and I have mattes from pretty much all brands, even that KVD all matte palette, that I do use but I never do an all matte eye look and it’s not matte shadows that set my heart racing.
I remember when you did that and I was like, “Wow, that’s dedication!” As for me, all of my beauty splurges have been nail polish-related. It’s my one true love. Although now I am much better about having realistic expectations for how much I can actually wear!
Years ago when I was just getting back into make up after a 10+ year hiatus, I did.
Probably for the better part of two years I was a regular at Sephora and the MAC counters and bought anything and everything to make up for lost time. I was still applying my make up the way I learned in the beginning and was completely bewildered when it did not look like it used to. I ended up with a bunch of stuff I didn’t need that didn’t work for me. I overheard a Sephora employee refer to me as the “return retard” and that changed my buying practices. I was mortified and also ashamed that I was just on this blind rampant consumption mission and for what? All this crap I was buying and then wanting to return it because it didn’t work for me when I didn’t know how to use it in the first place and now nobody else could use it either and they had to throw a brand new product away. Thank God for YouTube tutorials, at least for a while – after a while, I realized that their livelihood depends on them hocking the latest release, and I could do just fine with the palette or lipstick that came out last year. My buyers remorse was part of a huge learning curve, and eventually settling in with techniques and products that work for me now.
Yes, I picked up 3 Nomad Cosmetics palettes and the Scooby Doo palettes from Glamlite. I decluttered all except for one of the Nomad palettes after 1 use. Just glad I bought them during the holiday sales so I didn’t pay full price.
Guilty as charged. Last year I bought a back up pf PML’s Huetopia palette, which I adore, during the 40% off sale, but I’m not even close to needing it yet. Not even close. There have been a few Motherships that I bought because I got whipped up in the excitement, but that I rarely use. More recently, when all the Natasha Denona palettes were on sale at Sephora, I impulsively added the Zendo palette to my order but I honestly don’t really like it that much. I didn’t want it before, so why buy it just because it was cheap??
ND Retro palette– I bought it when it launched but it’s much warmer than it looked online so I don’t think I’ve used it more than 2 times. $70 regret
Every time, to some degree. I lived most of my life poor, and can’t completely get rid of the guilt of spending money on myself.
I certainly have and now I am going to attempt a 4-month no-buy. My regret is mostly related to purchasing expensive make up that isn’t available in my country at an even a higher cost due to using a personal shopper on top of which I ended up paying a significant sum on customs; and most recently, I was careless enough to make a payment in a foreign currency, only to afterwards discover that I ended up paying an amount to paypal on currency conversion that comes close to bright daylight robbery. These “learning experiences” have made the total cost of a few make up items so high that I cringe when I think about it. What’s worse, one of the eye shadow palettes that I acquired this way was slightly disappointing; another two I haven’t even tried yet because of the hot weather and me not having time to wash my brushes – so it doesn’t look promising and the remorse is strong right now.
Ha!!! Understood on that one Christine!
The few purchases from the MAC Star Trek 50th Anniversary Collection, boo hoo!!!! They were bad, very bad! ST franchise should have sued as fans were VERY disappointed.