Swatches: Huda Beauty Gemstones & Coral Obsessions Eyeshadow Palettes

I went to Sephora on my birthday. I got a few gift cards, and really wanted to use them for something I wouldn’t usually buy for myself. I swatched Natasha Denona palettes, and the Huda Beauty palettes. They just were not worth the money. The quality, which I would expect to be superior at these price points were beyond awful. These lines that I have found to be extremely expensive, just don’t perform. I couldn’t believe how much I had to work them to get them to blend, show up, and look like an adult applied them rather than a child. The “revolutionary” formulas were awful. After my disappointment with ABH Subculture, I didn’t think another cosmetic line could ever disappoint me like that, but Huda and Denona sure did. Huda’s foundation was awful as well. I have drug store makeup that performs better. What are people thinking when they push out things like this? If they can’t get quality products out of the labs, why not just state that they are an experiment? Why do they keep making excuses for their products instead of just not releasing them? I would be embarrassed to put my name on these products. I have been in the beauty business for 37 years, and I have eye shadows that I don’t have to “tap”, “pat”, “wet my brush”, and use a magick wand to apply. Who has time for all that? Really, at these price points, it should apply it self, wear until you take it off., and should look amazing for 18 hours. Make any excuse, blame the consumer, insult people who have been wearing cosmetics longer than they haven’t. I am getting really jaded. Even companies I love have been scooped up by huge conglomerates, the price goes up, quality goes down. I think this summer, I am just shopping my own stash. I am not impressed with anything at this point.