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Community Faves | August 28th through September 3rd
Here’s a look at our community’s favorites from the past week! 🙂 Any new favorites that you discovered this week?
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Don’t know if this is the correct forum but I love the IT 302 LBD foundation brush. What an epiphany. I’ve never used anything like it before. Wonderful. I use only one dropper of Tarte Rainforest foundation. Such a natural looking application too. Better that even my Beautyblender.
That is excellent to hear 🙂 It’s LBD is SO, so good.
Another big fan of the IT LBD Foundation brush! I have 2 of them. It applies well without soaking up foundation. I only need 1/2 drop of the MJ re(Marc) able Full Coverage Foundation Concentrate for my entire face.
You have on the L de P in the gold and green eyes. It’s so perfect on you! Bruise looks fine. I’m so in the middle of tossing lipsticks that I’m not sure whether I tossed it, or was going to try to whittle it and see if anything is salvageable…and if it looks anything like that one. I think I remember that it doesn’t. The eyes are subtle and lovely. Don’t crave anything this week, which is good, bec I put in a Memebox order, mostly Cosrx, through your link. With the discount, I scored a lot of product at less than Amazon current prices. Just thrilled. Didn’t even know it was happening, and saved joining prime. You are constantly ‘value adding’ my purchases. Thank you so much.
I wish Bruise was as complex as UD made it sound… or you know, had that shift of the polish, even it was subtle!
So glad you were able to save a bit on your Memebox order, KJH 🙂
I know that Chocolate Soleil cropped up in other forms and did well (which is apparent by the description in the bullet list — ” It was nicely pigmented and applied easily.”), but the Read Full Review link takes us to the one in the Nikki palette that got an “F” and was described as “difficult to work with as I struggled to chip away at it to get any color coverage.” It must be odd to re-review products that got a very different grade at different times.
I have to look into that, because I am guessing it is taking the product’s score, which would be an average across reviews…
Carbon is fun. I think I’ve given it as high as an A and many Fs…
How does that even work? Why would a company reproduce the exact same product so differently? I think we’ve all come to the conclusion that many items produced for palettes are of lesser quality, but if a brand is putting a permanent, long-running standard in a palette, it’s just bizarre to completely change it. Frustrating!
One of the world’s great mysteries!
The most repeated explanation is the one you mentioned – trying to reduce costs for a palette/kit. From my understanding/time here, I know that products are made in different factories and by different machines – so that palette might be made in Germany while the single is made in Italy. They might make slight tweaks to the base formula for product integrity (say a smaller pan holding together better vs. larger pan) as well.
But why one would make dramatic changes in quality and not expect customers to go, “Hey, I see what you did there…” is more mind-boggling.