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Survey Says... September 23rd, 2009
- What are your top 3 favorite brands?
- What are your 3 least favorite brands?
- What was the first brand you purchased from?
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3 Favorite: Guerlain
Nars
Chanel
3 Least favorite: Benefit
Too Faced
Smashbox
First Brand Ever Purchased: Cover Girl
What are your top 3 favorite brands? Jurlique, Dr. Hauschka, and Yves Saint Laurent
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Covergirl, Sisley, and Neutrogena
What was the first brand you purchased from? Probably Neutrogena.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, MUFE and urban decay
What are your 3 least favorite brands? covergirl (irritates my eyes), i can’t think of 2 more
What was the first brand you purchased from? clinique, first makeup someone gave me was probably maybelinne or covergirl
favorites: urban decay!
mac
stila
least favorite:
clinique
prescriptives
estee lauder
oh and first ever? i think it was a nude shadow trio from maybelline, and i inherited a lot of free clinique lipstick samples from my mom
Faves:
L’Oreal
Sephora
Maybeline
Least Faves
NYC Colors
Yves Rocher
First Ever
Yves Rocher eyeshadow
Faves:
NARS
Chanel
BB tied with Laura Mercier
Least
UD
Benefit
cover girl (it just seems so dated)
First
Lancome and Clinque
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, MUFE and Benefit
What are your 3 least favorite brands? UD, BOBBI BROWN,REVLON
What was the first brand you purchased from? CLINIQUE
Favourites: Mac, Nars, Illamasqua
Least favourite: helena rubinstein, smashbox, givenchy
First product I bought… that was a Lancôme brown mascara 🙂
TOP 3:
NARS
MAC
Urban Decay
Least Favorite:
Clinique
Smashbox
Cover Girl
First makeup purchase:
Probably a 99cent black eyeliner from Wet ‘n Wild with my allowance money.
Top 3:
MAC
Benefit
Urban Decay
Bottom 3:
Clinique
Smashbox
L’oreal
First product ever bought: *way back then* Bonne Bell Lipsmacker of course. First color product was a Revlon lipstick.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? Chantecaille, By Terry, Mac (for tools and eye shadows)
What are your 3 least favorite brands? I hate clinique. Lancome is not appealing for me, and most chanel things were just ok.
What was the first brand you purchased from? it was many many years ago, Borjouis
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
– MAC, YSL and Shu Uemura/Nars/MUFE (three way tie)
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
– Used to love Smashbox back in the day before they went all ‘commercial’. Other than that don’t totally hate everything from a brand.
What was the first brand you purchased from?
– A Lip Smackers lipstick…
TOP:
M.A.C
Nars
Revlon
BOTTOM:
Clinique
NYC
Estee Lauder
FIRST:
Natural Collection
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
MAC
Stila
Urban Decay
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
Covergirl
NYC Colors
Estee Lauder
What was the first brand you purchased from?
First brand I bought myself was Maybelline Great Lash..yuck
TOP:
GOSH
Maybelline
Urban Decay
Bottom:
Hm.. I don’t really know?
First thing ever:..
A gosh waterproof mascara 😀
3 Favorite: Mac, Paula’s Choice (skin care), revlon (foundation)
3 Least Favorite: NYX, clinique, benefit
First Brand: covergirl
top 3:
MAC
NARS
NYX
bottom 3:
Neutrogena
NYC
Almay
First product: probably either cover girl or maybelline
Top:
MAC
Revlon
Cargo/Benefit (Tie! ^^’)
Bottom:
Neutrogena
Covergirl
Smashbox
First Brand: Oh man- it was this really crappy, frosty, pinky mess of a lipstick from Cover Girl I bought it for a special occasion. My mom snatched it up and out of my hands when she saw me wear it and gave me a bunch of her Clinique GWP lipsticks instead. Good times…
Top 3: MAC, MUFE, Urban Decay
Bottom 3: I don’t really know, but I’m usually disappointed with Clinique.
First Product: Covergirl Pressed Powder. First high end was MAC fluidliner in Black.
MAC
REVLON
NYX
Any “luxury brand”
YSL
CHANEL
DIOR
paying 30 bucks for a lipstick and 60 bucks for eyeshadow palettes is something i’d never do (i know theyre are tons of fans here, just my opinion)
my first was probably a maybelline lipgloss
Top 3: Chanel, MAC, Revlon (3 Colorstay!)
Bottom 3: Cover Girl, NYC, Yves Rocher
First Brand: Bonne Bell lipsmackers, yummy and cheap!
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, MUFE, NARS
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Smashbox is the only one I can think of right now.
What was the first brand you purchased from? probably cover girl.. way been about 16 years ago.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, YSL, Chanel
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Covergirl, Clinique, Maybelline
What was the first brand you purchased from? Covergirl
Fav 3: MAC, Urban Decay, Loreal
Least fav 3: Lush and generally products that are full of natural ingredients (ie. extracts) tend to break me out. Korres is actually one of them even though its your favorite Temptalia!
First brand I purchased from: Clinique
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
1. MAC
2. Urban Decay
3. Dior
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
1. DuWop – Their lip venom does nothing for me except giving my lips a disgusting burning sensation.
2. Benefit Cosmetics – Cute names and cute packaging, but the products rarely lives up to its claims. I have yet to try their lipsticks and eye shadows, so maybe I will give it another go after hearing great reviews from this site.
3. ?
What was the first brand you purchased from?
Hard Candy
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
– MAC
– MUFE
– Chanel
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
– Covergirl
– Clinique
– Maybelline
What was the first brand you purchased from?
Revlon! Eyeliner~ 😀
Top 3: MAC, Urban Decay, B Never Too Busy to be Beautiful
Bottom 3: Max Factor, Loreal, Clinique
Barry M Dazzle Dusts in Chocolate and Tan, I still really love the Dazzle Dusts, theyve just bought out the most gorgeous colour called Petrol, I think. Its black with electric blue and bright purple reflects in it, absolutely divine!
3 Favourite Brands:
1)NARS
2)MAC
3)Lise Watier
3 Least Favourite Brands:
1)Benefit (LOVE the packaging but POOR QUALITY FOR PRICE!)
2)Covergirl
3)Guerlain (TOO EXPENSIVE FOR WHAT IT IS!)
First brand: Good old maybelline great lash mascara
First high end: Urban decay eyeshadow in oil slick…..like ten years ago.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? Guerlain, Dior, Mac (+Urban Decay)
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Maybelline, Rimmel, LOreal
What was the first brand you purchased from? I cant remember, probably some cheap drugstore crap.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, MUFE and Urban Decay
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Estee Lauder, Benefit and Clinique
What was the first brand you purchased from? MAC and it was Studio Fix powder
3 Favorite Brands:
MAC
YSL
Benefit
3 Least Favorite Brands:
NYC
Neutrogena
LUSH
First Brand;
GOSH or Rimmel back in the early 90s
Faves
1. Makeup Forever
2. Mac
3. Nars
Least Faves
1. CoverGirl
2. Clinique
3. Smashbox
First to buy from
Mac
3 Favorites:
For higher-end stuff: Lancome, MAC, Bobbi Brown
For drugstore brands: Maybelline (for mascara alone), LOreal, Neutrogena
3 Least Favorites:
I dont actively dislike any particular brand but I always find myself disappointed in stuff from Clinique, Smashbox, and Stila.
First Brand:
That I actually purchased? Jane lip products and Cover Girl powder. That I got handed down? Estee Lauder and Lancome GWP goodies 🙂
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
Mac
Urban Decay
Bare Escentuals
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
Lush. Way too over priced for the amount you get!
Sephora brand. No color pay off in the eye shadows. =/ disappointment.
? not sure.
What was the first brand you purchased from?
Probably maybelline or the likes of that. I can’t remember that far back! =]
best…
MAC
NARS
Maybelline
least…love the jumbo eye pencils though
NYX
NYX
NYX
first…
Club A from the Home Shopping Network. Ha!
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, MUFE, Urban Decay
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Estee Lauder, Sephora, and NYC
What was the first brand you purchased from? Cover Girl
My top 3 fav: La Prairie, Lancome, Clinique
Last 3: Sephora, Chanel (I just had a bad experience today) and Rimmel
I cant remember…it was many years ago
You’re the only person so far with Clinique as one of their favorites.lol
Top 3:
MAC
NARS
Chanel
Least Favourite:
I dont really hate any brand but i have seem to have a couple bad experiences with Clinque.
First Bought:
Covergirl powder..I think
My 3 favs
Meow Cosmetics, Aromaleigh Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics
(though I also love Fyrinnae Cosmetics, Urban Decay, Spell Cosmetics, Glamour Doll Eyes, Dreamworld Minerals, Beautiful Girl Minerals, Benefit… I’m not good at picking just 3!!!)
My 3 least favs
Everyday Minerals, Orglamix Cosmetics, Clinique
My first brand was MAC
And I only wore MAC for about 10 years.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? Guerlain, Dior, Lancome
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Covergirl, bioderma (they dont have a makeup line but I had a bad reaction to one of their treatment cream took me weeks before my skin went back to normal) clarins (I just dont get it!)
What was the first brand you purchased from? Covergirl and Maybelline (still in my top 5)
Love: MAC, Urban Decay, NYX.
Hate: Don’t really have one.
It was an unbranded palette, with kids make-up. Contained some eyeshadows, blush, a mascara and lipsticks in kind of a pen.
I was in 1st or 2nd grade, I remember my teacher asked if I was wearing mascara 😀
It had a funny smell, but I loved it! I can smell it if I close my eyes <3
Top Fave:
1. Urban Decay
2. MAC
3. NYX
Least Fave:
1. Maybelline
2. NYC
3. HIP by Loreal
First Purchace:
My first trip to Ulta.. Probably Urban Decay or Bareminerals Foundation.
Favs: MAC, Nars, then either Urban Decay, Stila or Bobbi Brown
Least fav: Benefit are disappointing, don’t like YSL, or Clarins.
First product? I bought a lot of body shop make up when I was like 12. And I remember the first make up “look” was black eyeliner, vaseline and rimmel’s “black cherries” – I’m a brit and Rimmel is a right of passage in the uk!
Top 3: MAC, Benefit, Clinque
Bottom 3: Cover Girl, Neutrogena, Revlon
First brand I purchased from: unofficially Cover Girl I think it was the Toast of Town lipstick. Officially it is this bright pink lipstick from Mattel Barbie.
Top 3 ? MAC, UD, YSL
Least Fave 3 ? L’oreal, Covergirl, Lancome
First brand ? i’m not sure, probably Max Factor or Helena Rubenstein
top: mac, nars, laura mercier
bottom: rimmel, max factor, clinique
first product: cover girl pencil eye liner in ebony black.
TOP 3 ……. MAC,LOREAL,CLINIQUE
BOTTOM 3 …….. MAYBELLINE,NYC,RANDOM OFF BRAND
FIRST…. AVAON FROM MY MOM LOL
top:
MAC, YSL, NARS, Dior
least fav:
benefit, smashbox, givenchy
Top 3: NARS, Chanel, Shu Uemura
Bottom 3: Estee Lauder, Clinique, BeneFit
First: Max Factor
Favs:
NARS
MAC
Jesses Girl (star dust) tied w/ Chanel Lipstick
Not So Much:
Prescrpitives (eye shadow)
NYX (trio eyeshadow) I like the single eyeshadow (weird)
Maybelline
First:
Either Clinique or Revlon
What are your top 3 favorite brands? Urban Decay, MAC, and Maybelline
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Only Too Faced at the moment, I havent really tried too many though.
What was the first brand you purchased from? Wet n Wild!
What are your top 3 favorite brands? Make up Forever, MAC, NYX
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Cover Girl, Rimmel, Neutrogena
What was the first brand you purchased from? MAC
Top 3: Clinique (their foundation and powder never makes me break out and doesnt smell weird; their eyeshadows also have a beautiful subtle glow on top of the MAC Beige-ing shadestick), MAC (shadesticks, brushes), Benefit (their lipsticks are perfect)
Bottom 3: Bobbi Brown (way overpriced for the resulting product), Givenchy (hardly any pigment in their shadows), Chanel (their foundation smells like housepaint and made me break out like crazy)
First: Clinique foundation! 😀
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, YSL, and Urban Decay
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Not sure, but I guess the brands that dissapoint me most often are Benefit, Sephora and Cargo.
What was the first brand you purchased from? Either Cover Girl or Maybelline. Cant remember 🙂
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
MAC
Clinique
Neutrogena
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
Maybelline, sephora brand products, Bath Body Works
What was the first brand you purchased from?
Covergirl
* What are your top 3 favorite brands?
* What are your 3 least favorite brands?
* What was the first brand you purchased from?
Top 3 Fav: Revlon, MAC, Lancome
Least 3 Fav: Clinique, Cover Girl, Neutrogena
First Brand: Cover Girl
Top 3 Favs: Aromaleigh, MAC, BE
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
– MAC
– MUFE
– FRESH
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
– Estee Lauder
– Bare Escentuals
– Clinique
What was the first brand you purchased from?
– Wet n Wild Lipstick..It was this dark purple that passed for a pink.. I have no idea what I was thinking.
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
MAC, Stila, NARS
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
Most drugstore brands, but that’s probably because I can’t try colors before I buy!
What was the first brand you purchased from?
Clinique. Vivid memory of a birthday outing with my aunt, she bought me two eyeshadow duos and then we went to the drugstore to get Maybelline Great Lash (which I promptly hated) and she showed me how to do a simple eye look with both. It was one of my favorite birthdays.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, Benefit, & Urban Decay
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Maybelline.. haven’t tried enough brands (and products)
What was the first brand you purchased from? Covergirl
Top 3: MAC, Urban Decay (liners), Nars
Bottom 3: Cover Girl, Maybelline, Almay
First brand: Cover girl eyeshadow
Top: MAC, NARS, and Lancome.
Bottom: Revlon, Annabelle, and Sue Devitt (even though I’ve only tried one product from that line– it was pure crap and cost way, way too much)
First purchase: shitty bronzer from the Body Shop.
3 favorite brands:
MAC
NARS
Lancome
3 least favorite:
Maybelline
Mary Kay
Benefit
first brand:
probably Cover Girl
top 3 fav: Urban Decay, MAC, NYX
bottom 3: Cover Girl, Maybelline, Too Faced
first purchase: I don’t remember jordana maybe but real HE purchase was UD
* What are your top 3 favorite brands?
Dior
Chanel
Stila
* What are your 3 least favorite brands?
Clarins
Lancome (apart from Juicy Tubes!)
Elizabeth Arden
* What was the first brand you purchased from?
Probably a Maybelline Coverstick – the first *real* makeup was a Dior eye quint in Mystic Jade. I still have it and still love it! 🙂
favorites:mac,makeup forever,and too faced
least favorite:loreal,revlon and maybelline
fist purchased:jane
Top 3 favourite brands: Revlon, Paul & Joe, Shiseido
Least 3 favourite brands: Benefit, Anna Sui, Biotherm
First brand purchased from: Wet n Wild
What are your top 3 favorite brands? Natura Bisse, Chanel, La Prairie
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Revlon, Cover Girl, MAC
What was the first brand you purchased from? Neutrogena
fave:
mac
inglot
mufe and napoleon perdis (maybelline only for mascara!)
dislikes:
clinique
revlon
covergirl
first ever product: covergirl pressed powder… it smells rank
Top: Dior, Chanel, Maybelline
Least fav: LOreal
First brand I purchased from: Maybelline, when I was a teenager
Top:
MAC
Chanel (lip stuff)
Revlon (good prices)
Bottom:
Maybelline (I have been disappointed every time)
Dior (personal thing, a bit odd I know)
?
First item:
Not sure, but my suspicion is a lip smacker.
Top: MAC. NARS. Giorgio Armani/ Jill Stuart/Kanebo/Kose ( 4 way tie)
Bottom: Covergirl, Sephora brand stuff and lip smackers.
First: Dior lipgloss ( highend )
cant remember ( low end )
TOP: lunasol(a japanese brand from Kanebo)
laura mercier
revlon
BOTTOM:don’t really have one
FIRST GOT: covergirl
Top: MAC, Lancome/Prescriptives (mascaras), UD (would be ok if their shadows weren’t so frosty).
Bottom: Clinique, HIP (some of their products) can’t think of a third.
I haven’t tried that many brands because I tend to stick with MAC.
First purchase: Those green lipsticks that turned red when worn and they never rubbed off. The color would last for days. They still sell them at some beauty suppy stores.lol
3 favorites: MAC, GOSH, Urban Decay(even though I don’t own a lot of it)
3 least favorites: I really don’t know 😮
First brands I purchased from: Not sure, but the first item that I actually used was probably from GOSH.
What are your top 3 favorite brands? MAC, NYX, Clinique
What are your 3 least favorite brands? L’OREAL, COVERGIRL, MAYBELLINE
What was the first brand you purchased from? Geeze, can’t remember. Probably whatever was at the store lol…
3 favorite brands? NARS, Mac, Benefit
What are your 3 least favorite brands? Maybeline,Covergirl,Guerlain(OVER PRICED)
What was the first brand you purchased from? Cover Girl
Top 3:
MAC
Chanel
Stila, maybe…I wear mainly MAC
Least:
Maybelline
Max Factor (Great powder, but I had a lipgloss turn on me 3 months after buying it)
Cover Girl
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
MAC, Bourjois, Bobbi Brown
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
Lancome, Max Factor, Revlon
What was the first brand you purchased from?
Bourjois
What are your top 3 favorite brands?
Urban Decay, NYX and Too Faced
What are your 3 least favorite brands?
Covergirl, NYC New York Color and idk what else
What was the first brand you purchased from?
Max Factor or HIP L’Oreal. I can’t remember
Top: MAC, Everyday Minerals & Estee Lauder
Bottom: Avon, Clinique, Maybelline
First: Jordana