And it would appear that such is its PR/reputation, we are embarrassed by it.
Well NO MORE! I'm starting the 'I know it's a Hero Product but I just CAN'T' Support Club.
So I'll list mine below - and please feel free to add yours in the comments. This is a 'guilt-free' zone people.
Just a word though - this is most definitely not a free-for-all to slag products/brands off as a whole - just the odd thing that always makes you feel like you aren't 'in the gang'. Or rather... Keep it AWAY from me.com
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So mine are:
*deep breath*
Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair - I just can't. Silicone heavy on me.
Cleanse & Polish - I know 4 billion are sold every second (allegedly) but it makes my face go beetroot. Like sunburn beetroot. *cries, I'M SORRY*
Creme de La Mer - I don't want to have to rub it into my hands before I can rub it on to my face.... WHASSAPOINT?
OK.
Over to you: GO!
Cleanse and polish brings me out in spots SO big and hard they are like cysts.
ReplyDeleteIt's not for me
Oh controversial I like it:)
ReplyDeleteMy worst one is Clinique Instant Pore Perfector which randomly dries out people's skin when I use it on them and makes their foundation go flaky!
Ha! I knew Liz Earle C + P would be on here as soon as I read your tweet. Works like a charm for me but I've tried two of their moisturisers (which also get raved about) and all I got was horribly clogged pores. Non merci.
ReplyDeleteCleanse & Polish for me too, my skin hates it!
ReplyDeleteClarins beauty flash balm makes my face itchy and gives me breakouts.
There are more but I'll give someone else a go!
Oh god I am a freak! I do really like C&P and my skin reacts really well to it too. Until earlier today had Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair on my wish list, several tweets later and I have replaced that with a certain Moringa cleansing balm. And some flannels. My keep it away from me product is Elemis pro-collagen cream which gave me the nightmare 'travelling nose boil' that hurtled round my face for a week! Terrific post, love it!
ReplyDeleteAnother one for Cleanse & Polish! It just did nothing for my skin, disappointing. I'm not big on the scent of Soap & Glory stuff. A lot of the products are brilliant but I really, really do not like the smell!
ReplyDeleteThe cleanse and polish for me too. I so wanted to love it and had high hopes but it made my skin feel terrible and tight. Found the superdrug Vit e one to be much nicer
ReplyDeleteBioderma. It took me 8-10 cotton pads to get my face properly free of make-up. Made it to be quite an expensive purchase!
ReplyDeleteBioderma. Took 8-10 cotton pads to get my face properly make up-free. Turned out to be quite an expensive purchase!
ReplyDeleteLOL I'm a huge Cleanse and Polish fan but we'll bypass that, erm what are mine hmm
ReplyDeleteClinique Skincare in general - pore mimimiser and the eye products are the only things that don't make my skin cry
Smashbox /Gosh Primers - hate the feel of silicone on my skin
MAC MSF Natural - powdery mess
Maybelline Great Lash Mascara - why does this get raved about it clumps, drips, horrid stuff
Lanolips - so many people love this but no it just feels nasty and claggy and it made my lips itch
Vaseline - as above claggy mess just sits there and doesn't soak in or move
Louise, I wonder if you have an intolerance to lanolin if the Lanolips made your lips itch?
DeleteI'm the same with lanolips. :( I know its not the 'done' thing and that we're all supposed to love it - but I just CAN'T.
DeleteLiz Earle Moisturisers smell so bad, they make me want to hurl! Which is sad as i quite like the light version!
ReplyDeleteClarins Flash Balm - I get patchy and flaky - RANK!
ReplyDeleteBatiste - STINKS and does not do what it says on the tin ( on my hair at least! )
Here we go:
ReplyDelete- almost the entire Clinique 3-step "system" - actually I haven't heard many people except the Clinique SAs loving it. The only thing from the line that I like is the DDM Gel.
- NUDE Replenishing Night Oil: Thanks for that rash!
- Cleanse & Polish: irritated my skin and didn't even remove my makeup that well. I'm staying with my Bioderma (which is also sort of a love or hate product)
- Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage: chalky, dry, I just don't get it.
- Bourjois and Chanel foundations (except for the Mat Lumiere): too fragranced and nothing special.
And that's just a few! Phew, that felt good :)
Dermalogica products don't do anything for my skin, except make it look waxy and dried out. Big mistake. And I found the Estee Lauder idealist pore minimizer just a very expensive highlighter.
ReplyDelete-Margot
C&P. It does nothing except give me red skin. Not impressed by other products in range either. Also, Vaseline. It does nothing except clog my skin, cause breakouts and compound dryness. I just don't do mineral oil/petrolatum. Body shop body butters... Shockingly expensive, nothing special at all and the scents are really not nice. Also, the no 7 protect & perfect beauty serum, it is just full of silicone. And finally, lest I go on forever lol, smashbox primer... Compare ingredients with Lanacane and then wonder no more why it clogs your face.
ReplyDeleteDitto on Protect & Perfect. :(
DeleteI like Cleanse and Polish but I cannot wear it every night. And the Liz Earle tonic makes my noise so oily.
ReplyDeleteAnd I second the Batiste comment. It makes my hair go even more limp and smells horrible!
Cleanse & Polish for me too! It gave me awful cyst-like spots that hurt like hell. It's true that i almost feel i need to cower when i tell people of my dislike for it!
ReplyDeleteI also dislike Touch Eclat, i don't think it brightens in the way everyone harps on about...maybe it's better now that there's more shades, but i won't be rushing to find out.
Also, a hair related dislike - the Tangle Teaser brush. I think it's rubbish and scratchy, i'd rather use a wide toothed comb.
So, uh, yeah.
Great post! For me it would have to be Lush Shower Jellies. I just cannot work out how use the..tried putting a little in my hand and mixing with water and ended up chasing the slippery mess round the bath tub! Too. Much. Hassle. Another would be Soap and Glory products..the smell..urggghhhh! Lol Ahh that's better! :)
ReplyDeleteThey work really well if you use scrubby gloves or a shower puff. Put a blob of jelly inside your gloves or scrunch it into your puff and they work beautifully.
DeleteLanolips. Makes my lips dryer than the sahara unfortunately I wanted to love, alas I do not.
ReplyDeleteClinique Happy. Just disgusting.
Bourjois foundation, that one that everyone loves. Healthy Mix. Not good at all. Oxidises, goes patchy after a couple of hours and just generally grim.
Great post!
I love your adjectives Charlie! Grim, disgusting...LOL
DeleteGatineau floracil eye make up remover, left my eyes feeling oily. Lancome mascara, not found one that doesn't clump my lashes together.... There I've said it!
ReplyDeleteOh you did NOT go there with the Lancome mascara!!! LOL
DeleteOh phew!
ReplyDeleteDesperately wanted to use Cleanse & Polish but sets my eyes on fire
the so-called legendary 8-hour cream
Maybelline great lash
1) Creme de la Mer, hands down. Bough a 7ml pot and used it for about 6 weeks. Did nothing for my combination skin. If anything, left it ultra greasy in the mornings. Absolute waste of 30 quid.
ReplyDelete2) Lancome Visionnaire. Utterly useless.
3) Advanced Night Repair. The silicones just don't agree with me.
4) La Prairie and ReVive. Overpried and underwhelming.
5) Pretty much everything in skincare by Clinique.
C&P totally breaks me out. Bioderma makes my face look like I've been on a trip to the sun. Estee Lauder cleansers also give me the same redness. Creme de la Mer: at first it was amazing and then I started getting cyst style breakouts. Same situation with Revive. Meh.
ReplyDeleteC&P makes me break out. Bioderma makes me look like I've been on a trip to the sun. Same for all Estee Lauder cleansers. Creme de la Mer worked beautifully at first then started giving my cyst style breakouts. Revive had the same effect.
ReplyDeleteI love the disgust in some of these posts ;)
ReplyDelete-I loathe the smell of Soap and Glory products, it makes me gag. It's annoying because I really like some of the formulas.
-Bare Minerals is only just pale enough and after a few hours looks really obvious - not a good look. -Batiste is just horrible, smells terrible and makes me look like my Granny.
-Anything with mineral oil in it makes me break out in hideous cysts, practically on contact.
Phew!
This post made me laugh and laugh, always good on a Monday.
ReplyDeleteI too am a C&P non fan - cannot get it off my face, too much cocoa butter methinks.
EA 8hr cream - the smell makes me gag, I know there is a fragrance free in the offing but I also know that I will dream the smell.
Bobbi Brown Gel Eyeliner - I struggle to get it out of the pot, and then cannot get it to adhere to my eyelids.
Batiste Dry Shampoo - I think it is an age thing, I just cannot get it to work on me, my daughter cannot live without it.
Bioderma, the sensitive one supposed to be ok around the eyes - big fat no from me
ReplyDeleteAdvanced night repair - did nought
Alpha H Liquid Gold great if you want a face of whiteheads
Laura Mercier Oil Free Foundation Primer - no matter what I do, this product does nothing for my oily skin. I tried so many times and each time I'm just left wondering - why does it work for others and not me? why do make up artists love it so much? I have so wanted to love this product, but I've had to throw in the towel on it :-(
ReplyDeleteAnything by Biotherm makes my skin fry - no thanks..
ReplyDeleteAlso, Maybelline Great Lash? Nothing great about it.
I'd forgotten about 'Great Lash'. Does anyone actually like it? Makes me look like a panda in about 48 seconds.
DeleteC&P gives me big spots too.
ReplyDelete*Whispering* I didn't get on with the EH Moringa balm....I definitely feel like I'm the only one there! I somehow misunderstood the demo which didn't give a good start,and a rather large spot on my cheek where I never get them ensued. Then it melted to an oil in the summer heat and never went back to a nice consistency. I tried to get on with it! Honest I did!
Guilt free zone Helen! You crack on! :)
DeleteLoving the comments tonight. I'm with Kellie on LE CP - made my skin red raw. Couldn't understand why so many women raved about it. Now I don't feel so alone. Also, EA 8hr Cream. Yuck. Claggy. Oily. Hate it. Why do other people love it so much. Finally, this Maybelline mascara nonsense. Worst. Mascara. Ever. Phew. That feels good to get that off my chest :-)
ReplyDeleteAnything with Syn-Ake in, what is so cool about replicating the effect of being bitten by a viper?
ReplyDeleteLMAO
DeleteWhere do I start? Any Avon skincare. Smelly, drying itchy. Estee Lauder Idealist had no effect in any way, shape or form on my skin. Vaseline lip balms. About as beneficial as Lurpak, but doesn't stay put as long. Maybelline Great Lash, it removed itself from my lashes onto my face in minutes. Palmer's Cocoa Butter gradual tanner turned me into an Oompa Loompa overnight. A mere sample of Garnier BB cream caused a bad reaction on my face that took about three days to subside. This is better than an outdoor sport :)
ReplyDeleteRight then (I had to sleep on it): I'm another that doesn't 'get' the great C&P. I tried it more than 10 years ago now, before it got such cult status and I didn't think much of it. I don't get the gradual tanners either. I've not found one yet that doesn't make me look jaundiced.
ReplyDeleteI really don't like Botanics Cleansing Balm. It's probably great if you have dry skin but if you actually want to wash your face be prepared for scrubbing! Shu Uemura's Cleansing Oils are another miss for me, that would be the mineral oil. Ditto Bio Oil, I don't get how anyone can use that on their face. Bleurgh!
And finally - Neutragena hand cream. It might be great for fisherman (do they cook with it or something?) but it's doing nothing for me.
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ReplyDeleteGreat post!
ReplyDelete-I really don't get the vo5 miracle oil. It does nothing for me except make my hair go static!
-Also the tangle teaser does nothing for my very unruly hair, certainly doesn't beat my hair brush.
-And finally most products by clinique, especially their 3-step skincare - thought my skin was going to fall off using this!
What a genius idea for a thread. The thing about these hero products is that *if* you don't happen to think they're the best thing since sliced bread, or they do nothing for you, you kind of end up thinking that your particular beauty issue (large pores, eye bags, cellulite etc.) is beyond help and certainly beyond the powers of said wonder product to rectify! That's not a good feeling.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, products that fail to live up to their hype: back in the day I invested in some Rodial 'Glam Balm' - I've just googled it to remind myself of its ahem, special attributes and lo and behold it's billed as 'A best-selling cult product! Glam Balm is a 2 in 1 lip plumper and wrinkle smoother'. Sounds very tempting no? Well yes if you like spending £50 on glorified Vaseline. Plus I seem to recall it had a slightly gritty texture. A total waste of money.
I have similar feelings about Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, again it is almost sacriligious to diss it, but I hate the smell, taste and texture of it and would never, ever smear it over my face as we are encouraged to do. I don't think it even addresses chapped lips particularly well.
I bought the elizabeth arden eight hour cream and have tried it a couple of times but just can't bring myself to use it because a) it stinks! and b)i don't think it actually does much! I could maybe forgive the smell if it was the sort of miracle product people say it is, but to me it's not. I've heard of some people using it on their lips and I don't know how they can bear the smell/taste!
ReplyDeleteAlso (this is a biggie!) I'm really not that fussed on MAC lipsticks, other than the cremesheens. My lips dry out really easy and every other finish from them just seems to make them shrivel up, yuck! I've found lots of other brands that work better for me personally.
Clinique 3-step skincare system.
ReplyDeleteAnything by Benefit. Overpriced, over-rated, dissapointing.
China Glaze nail polish. It was a youtube "trend" a couple of years ago but they arent always great quality and they chip and peel like crazy.
Using Sudocrem as a spot-treatment. Another youtube trend. Don't ask.
oh gawd....I know I will be struck down by lightening for this one...
ReplyDeleteOilatum Natural Repair Face Cream...much applauded by the Pixiwoo girls but I just have to waive this stuff past my face and I have a breakout of epic proportions....am I the only person in the world who can't use it??
Clinque Dramatically Different Moisturiser....if by dramatically different you mean I didn't have spots before I used it but after I looked very 'different' like I had the plague....then you're work here is done Clinque.
wow....this is cathartic....
I'm going to say primers, full stop. They ought to be completely unnecessary if the foundation is any good and I get constantly annoyed at the idea that the beauty industry has somehow created this 'need' for a whole extra (expensive) product that no-one needed a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteAlso Lancome Genifique made me look 25 years younger - by creating a massive pustular acne breakout.
I do have to defend Night Repair though - it cleared up some longstanding subcutaneous damage caused by a steroid injection so it definitely does 'something'.
Clarins Beauty Flash Balm, Maybelline Great Lash were both underwhelming and Liquid Gold didn't make me gorgeous as promised ;)haha.I also spent a small fortune on Capture Totale foundation which was a complete waste.
ReplyDeleteBeauty Flash and Great Lash were both awful and yet are revered. Didn't get Liquid Gold or rather it didn't get me and my biggest waste of money was Capture Totale foundation. Perfect and Protect made me spotty and anything by Dove makes me itch.
ReplyDeleteOh, where shall I start?
ReplyDelete-CP. No, really. Made my normal/combination skin utterly dry. Made a Sahara out of husband's oily skin. Will never repurchase.
-Clinique, especially Superdefense. Should be called Superbreakout.
-Here comes the big one... Chanel Rouge Allure lipstick range. Gives me chapped lips. People, you pay for the fancy packaging.
-Another "high-end" nonsense is Lancome Hypnose mascara. Dries out the moment you open it. Horrible brush. Used couple of times and in the bin it went. Waste!
Feels much better!
Kerastase Elixir Ultime! And in fact all expensive hair oils, which do absolutely nothing on my hair (though I suppose the Kerastase at least smells lovely). I also feel that the Davines and Leonor Greyl haircare lines are completely overpriced and perform no better than drugstore products.
ReplyDeleteMAC mineralize MSF also disappointed hugely- it made my skin look lovely immediately after application, but broke me out within minutes.
Elizabeth Bloody Arden 8 Hour Cream - looks, smells and has the consistency of ear wax.
ReplyDeleteClarins Beauty Flash Balm - yes, I know the correct way to apply it. Still not impressed.
Facial oils aka break outs in a bottle
Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation - you don't have to spend £20+ on a foundation to get the same coverage that coating your face in crack filler would achieve.
Sanctuary, Soap & Glory, Champneys, Good Skin Labs, No7 cosmetics.
There's more but I may burst a blood vessel if I go on. Thanks for the rant.
NARS blush in orgasm. Have tried it numerous times (in the shop) and don't get the hype about this one.
ReplyDeleteThese BB creams that people are raving about. Sorry but a bog standard tinted moisturiser works way better xx
ReplyDeleteThis is an amazing post! I actually feel like we've made a new "cult" (non-scary, obviously!) for people who don't love C+P!! I tried it when it had the original pink and white packaging in a TSV that cost about £30 and had TWO FULL SIZES of each of the C+P, the tonic and the skin repair, PLUS one of each of the nourishing mask and the eyebright, also full size!!!!!!!!! What happened QVC??????? Where are the TSV's like this one????
ReplyDeleteI digress..........
- C+P, as with everyone else: cysts. Big, red, sore cysts.
- Vaseline = pointless!!!!!!!!
- ELizabeth Arden 8hr Cream. I bought this thinking "This is going to be the miracle that makes my lips happy" NO! This is the overpriced crap that
makes my wallet sad!
- Maybelline Great Lash = Maybelline Invisible Lash!
- Lancome mascara. As above. Seriously underwhelming, seemed as dry as some cheapo mascaras I have had the misfortune to try.
- YSL Effet Faux Cils mascara. Again, am I missing something here? It did nothing for my lashes at all!
- Rimmel Hide the Blemish. Slidey, slide slide right off that zit, dark circle, whatever.
- Clinique 3 Step - Did you know that you can use the toner to remove nail varnish? That's all I'm saying.....
- Nars Sheer Glow = Did absolutely nothing for my skin, patchy, poor coverage, shiny in a couple of hours. Also, no pump! Bad form....
- Nars Orgasm - Not sure if this qualifies but it really didn't suit me.
- Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturiser. No coverage, lots of shine. For £40??? Really??
- YSL Touche Eclat. My dark circles laugh in the face of your so-called brightening powers!
I don't think I've ever written a comment this long and I bet I'll think of more products later!
"I bought this thinking "This is going to be the miracle that makes my lips happy" NO! This is the overpriced crap that
Deletemakes my wallet sad!"
It made me cry with laughter - thank you! :)
Just thought of some more - Origins No Puffery (always on the best beauty lists in magazines), it completely dried my eyes out and may have taken down the puff (a bit) but left them really dry and red for a day
ReplyDeleteKiehls Silk Groom - for hair; no better than something from Boots and possibly even not as good
NARS Multiple Sticks - (don't think they blend that well and drag the skin - okay but not deserving of hero product status)
Clarins Beauty Flash Balm - this has been around for so long its hard to believe that this is still the "best" product for radiance and has never been bettered since 1990 or whatever. I think it's only okay
Moroccan Oil - great the first time you use it. After a few weeks the build up on my hair made it as lifeless and "matt" as an old mop head and I did only use two drops on my long hair
ReplyDeletealso
BeneTint - dries so quickly it is set on your skin by the time you've put the brush back in the bottle
NARS Rated R eye shadow - the lime green and electric blue one - very hard colours to pull off no matter what your age
Maybelline Great Lash- horrid. Baffled as to why so many MUAs and celebs claim it's their "hero" product.
ReplyDeleteMoroccan Oil-Initially my hair had a good response...then, like the previous post author made my hair dull and increased the number of split ends.
Ilamasqua Skin Base Foundation- Broke me out and too yellow.
Clinique 3-step- the clarifying lotion also doubles as a nail varnish remover.
Lancome Illusionaire- pore clogging, expensive pearly,oily fluid. ANR (unpopular here) better for me.
This is truly addictive..I've been musing over my other product 'misses' all day and these babies are also on my own personal sh*t list:
ReplyDeleteShu Uemura eyelash curlers - apparently models and makeup artists don't go anywhere without them. Perhaps they weren't suited to my eye shape but they just made my eyelashes stick out at weird right angles - so not a good look!
Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage - far too dry and difficult to work with.
Garnier BB Cream - possibly the most hyped product of 2011! I love the original Dr Christine Schrammek Blemish Balm (that inspired all the Asian versions incidentally) but this latest raft of BB creams seem to be a cynical attempt to repackage a bog-standard tinted moisturiser as an all-singing, all-dancing wonder product. The Garnier BB cream oxidised almost immediately leaving me orange and shiny - lovely!
Ive really only started to take a more indepth interest on what i put on my face.
ReplyDeleteThe recent clarins morning and night firming creams from a glossybox = bright rdskin for the better part of the day.
Illimasque skin base, feels like a mask despite 20 mins of buffing
Mac conceler, in a squeeze tube, cakes around my eyes despite setting and priming or not
Great post to see what people rate compared to what people hate!
ReplyDelete8 hour cream - stinks
Dermologica microexfoliant - pointless
Skinceuticals CE Ferulic - most expensive, oily mistake I've made
Phyto haircare - leaves hair a tangled mess (well my coloured, frizzy mop)
Great post - so interesting to read everybody's comments. Now, I do have ridiculously sensitive skin so I certainly can't say any of the below are bad as such, just "bad for me":
ReplyDelete- Ellis Faas foundation - used it for 3 days and LOVED how it looked on me, then on the 4th day I developed a reaction which left my skin blotchy, red, sore and super-sensitive for several weeks. I really did love how it looked though... and I haven't been able to bring myself to throw it away yet (maybe it was a coincidence...maybe if I have a week off work I could try it again...it really was beautiful....maybe I need somebody to stage an intervention)
- Bad Gal mascara - I have friends who wouldn't use anything else except (possibly) at gunpoint but I found it dry, clumpy and magnetically attracted to my skin rather than my lashes...serious panda eyes aftr just a couple of hours
- MOP hair products, sucked in by the marketing but it left me with large, bumpy spots all around my hairline
- Lanolips was (just) ok for helping my lips stay soft but I quickly developed a crop of tiny but noticeable pimples around my mouth so I stopped using it pronto
- Clinique winkle cream (anti-gravity?), made my skin dull and grey. Unlike my numerous other skincare fails I couldn't even pass it on to anybody else...how would you phrase that one? "'ere, you look like you need this luv..!" I hate waste (and am always very careful to decant new products especially so I can pass them on without any potential issues of contamination) but I'd hate even more to offend somebody
Jo ;-)
What fun! For me, the misses were
ReplyDelete1. Becca foundation. I foolishly paid over 70 quid for a tinted perfecting base and a separate foundation stick. The base did nothing for my skin but make it shiny, and the foundation stick turned grainy after a couple of months. V disappointing.
2. Benefit bad gal mascara, like Jo above, it gave me seriously panda eyes not 30 minutes after I put it in.
3. St Ives apricot scrub - so many people rave about this but it made my right cheek break out, twice!! Yes, I was foolish enough to try it again a few weeks later as I couldn't believe a face scrub could cause a breakout.
4. Eve lom cleanser. Expensive and did nothing for my skin.
5. Clinique turnaround cream. It turned my skin around all right - from pretty good skin to blotchy, spotty skin.
6. Neals Yard frankincense face cream. Gave me spots.
I now stick to what works for me - Elemis pro collagen face cream and Clarins multi active day cream. I've been wanting to try Maybelline great lash but after reading the posts above, I think I'll pass. I must say though that Hypnose is brill on my lashes. I love it. As well as Chanel inimitable mascara.
Mrs Hirons, can you do a post next week about beauty raves? I'd love to know what works for others.
Oh, and I forgot, one more - Nars orgasm blush - nice colour but makes my pores look enormous!
ReplyDeleteWow! This post is truly amazing. For some reason, I thought it was just me and my sister that reacted so badly to many of the "hero" products we apply to our faces. I've also been getting really bad large spots under my chin and along my jawline and after reading this post am now considering taking Cleanse and Polish AND Liquid Gold out of my beauty regime to see if they are the evil culprits. Couldn't possibly be the Moringe balm could it..
ReplyDeleteEve Lom Cleanser - Serious build up of mysterious blackheads over time. Realised it was this bad boy.
ReplyDeleteCliniques 3 step - Acne Central and then some. Won't touch Clinique products with a barge pole anymore.
Bare Minerals Foundation - Gave me a wonderful cluster of spots on my chin
Emma Hardie Hydrating Lighter Lotion smells and feels divine but gave me larger spots on my cheeks (sigh)
Vaseline makes my lips shed skin quicker than a snake covered in parasites
8 Hour Cream on lips, within seconds my teeth and tongue are covered in thick disgusting tasting gunk. Yuk.
Liz Earle tonic - pointless and spot inducing
Ooooh, feels good!
Batiste Dry Shampoo does nothing for me.
ReplyDeleteRimmel Sexy Curves mascara just went everywhere.
xx
Bare minerals foundation- it'll be fine with your skin! Uh, no, it makes me look flaky and patchy, no thank you!
ReplyDeleteI say this very quietly but I actually like LE C&P. The richness of it helps sort out my dry skin a bit. That said I prefer elemental herbology.
Anything containing sodium laureth sulphate or whatever it's called makes my skin go bonkers. Didn't know what it was for years. Foaming face wash for dry skin, don't make me laugh.
Alpha H liquid gold- must be the glycolic acid but turns me into a flaky mess. Took weeks to settle down the rash. WEEKS!!
Bourjois volume glamour max mascara- flaked all over my face.
Kiehls lip balm.
And I think I am done!! But would love to see everyone's beauty raves at some stage. Next week, Caroline?
Oh good one! Maybelline Great Lash Mascara - it's the worst, you will actually look better with nothing even if you have no eyelashes. Yet makeup artists always name it as a kit essential. (They must be paid to say that.)
ReplyDeleteI must say that all of those teen-targeted facial cleansers for battling zits contain all kinds of skin-clogging ingredients and give unwitting teenagers (and adults!) false hope, and worse zits! This actually makes me angry!
And L'Oreal mascaras. They will usually give you what they promise but they contain fibres which is how they extend/expand your lashes, and they wind up breaking off at the end of your lashes and leaving mascara 'dust' all around your eyes if you touch them even slightly, or just have it on for a long day. And the formulations are like tar, and therefore are the absolute worst for smudging.
I forgot, not so much a product but clarins facials. How to make my skin feel dry and tight with a layer of grease over the top. Yuck! And am almost guaranteed a mega breakout afterwards. Of the hard, red type. Nightmare as there is nothing you can do with them except wait (grrrr).
ReplyDeleteOoh, I forgot about Chanel nail polish. Always raved about but chips in minutes. One of the most over-rated products I can think of, actually.
ReplyDeleteSarahC. - I was going to include Chanel nail polish on my previous post. I think they are little bottles of gorgeousness (that packaging! those amazing colours!). BUT, the brush is just awful and the polish chips so easily. When I've had a mani at my regular salon and taken in my own bottle of Chanel polish, the technician always tuts and complains (politely) about how tricky it is to apply compared to OPI or Orly and such like.
DeleteI've bought so many bottle of Chanel NP including 2 of the latest LE shades: 'April' and 'May' so I'm obviously a glutton for punishment...
At first I was like....I don't have anything and then my brain started working and now I have A MILLION!
ReplyDelete1. Urban Decay Primer Potion - totally useless. I need to preface this with the comment that I have the oiliest eyelids in the WORLD and even with my beloved primer (not this one, it's rubbish) I can only manage about 3-4 hours of non-creased eyeshadow wear
2. Nars Eyeshadow Primer - also useless. Everyone kept saying, "oh if you've got oily eyelids this is 'THE ONE' for you. Uh huh. I made it 15 minutes before creasing.
3. Cream eyeshadows. WHY. WHY. Anything cream based near my eyes is just NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. I don't care if you set into powder. If you were cream once you will be CREAM BASED AGAIN SHORTLY.
4. SK-II - so I wanted to have luminous skin like Cate Blanchett but of course...this did nothing. It was like putting water on my face and then hoping for the best. It didn't break it out but it certainly didn't make me radiant. Pft
5. Dior Show Mascara - PANDA EYES. I don't get the hype. I don't really get mascara at all. I find I can flake off most mascara with my super powerful flake eyelashes of doom in about an hour bar very few mascaras that I treasure and you CANNOT HAVE.
6. Dermalogica - too harsh, it just makes my skin HURT. Like I can't rest my head on my pillowcase too harsh.
7. Youngblood - makes my face itch like crazy. It's super attractive when I put on mineral makeup and then can't stop scratching my face yelling "but it ITCHES!"
8. Clinique skincare - super smelly. I explained this to the lady shoving it under my nose who said, "but they're non-scented! You must be smelling some other products residually in your nose." I don't think so. They just smell bad to me. I'm scent sensitive sales lady, get over it
9. Lanolips - they just sit on my lips and never sink in, my lips will still crack and peel underneath the thick gooey layer of product
10. Philip B hairproducts - total waste of money and useless. did nothing for my hair, made it limp and ugly. And I actually had nice, non crazy hair then because I was trying to have straight hair and not my natural crazy lady curls
11. Any straightening treatments - my natural hair is curly and damn those curls are strong. They break through those keratin treatments after 1 wash (after the 1st wash, so 2nd wash?) and it's a total waste. I'm just destined for crazy lady curls because I'm too lazy to flatiron.
12. Estee Lauder Kohl Pencils - They just bleed ALL OVER MY FACE. Which is LAME because the colour payoff is fantastic. But I put them on my eyelid (over primer, over eyeshadow) and suddenly 15 minutes later the electric blue shade has migrated from my eyelid to my cheeks. SERIOUSLY!?!?!
wow. I feel a lot better!!!
xo
Sara
So, the big one that I hate and just don't understand at all is those little tins of Vaseline. Seriously, why do people use them?! They are never, ever going to soften your skin. They're a mineral oil. They just sit on top. And that's why your lips are always dry and you need to keep applying it all the flipping time. I just don't get the addiction.
ReplyDeleteClinique 3 Step System is one of the worst things I've ever had the misfortune to use on my skin. It destroyed it in a big bad scary way.
Bare Minerals. Oh the itchiness. The skin burning itchiness.
I feel like there might be some more and I've repressed them. It worries me that my dislike of products may have reach the point of actual repression.
Oh God and Batiste. I swear it makes my hair look worse, not better. And the smell is so overwhelming.
ReplyDelete1) Max Factor Fantasy Fire - Four coats and it still looks crap/see through. Do NOT get what all the fuss is about.
ReplyDelete2) Cleanse and Polish - smells like my dried herb cupboard, gives me red patches. As someone else said above, Superdrug Vit E hot cloth cleanser FAR superior and smells rather pleasant.
3) Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream - brought the back of my hand out in an attractive rash. Also, smells like a tramp's arse.
4) Clarins Flash Balm - see above, apart from the smell, which I don't remember being as bad.
5) Any mineral powder foundation. Makes my skin itchy and like the Sahara desert. Mmm, sexy.
6) That very expensive Chanel cream eyeshadow that I can't remember the name of and which ended up in my lid crease after approx 0.00001 seconds.
Great idea! Cleanse and Polish made my skin look like an oil slick!
ReplyDeleteAnything from ELF, it's crap and a waste of 1.50!
Garnier BB cream, horrible stuff awful texture, it's very sticky and it doesn't give any coverage!
The Body Shop body butters, yuk they don't do anything but lay on your skin and smell rank!
Soap and Glory, I hate the smell it makes me want to barf and the packaging is terrible!
Cleanse and Polish doesn't like my skin very much. I was sooo looking forward to using it but it turned me a rather un-fetching shade of tomato. Clarins Blue Orchid Facial Oil did nothing for me and the smell gave me the worst headaches. And I hate Soap and Glory. Smell, packaging, the hilarious names. No thank you
ReplyDeleteI just tried the oft-raved about Dermablend as a concealer - it was like seeing myself in 30 years time, and it wasn't pretty - cakey, thick and sunk into every line.
ReplyDeleteMoroccan oil gives me shiny hair, but god the smell just kills me - for some reason reminds me of an airport - a mix of jet fuel and faux vanilla.
I was about to go buy some Batiste - so thank god for this fab post, now I'm steering clear:)
Try Klorane dry shampoo, it's much finer and smells infinitely better. Downside is that it's £7.50. John Lewis stock it, Boots used to but I haven't seen it in a while. There are mini 50ml cans available on eBay for about £3. Oddly though, the version for greasy hair (green lid) is less effective than the regular version (white lid).
DeleteThe things that won't work for me but wish they would!
ReplyDeletePhilip Kingsley hair elasticizer
Chantecaille real skin foundation (just sits there)love the rest of the range
Chanel lipsticks (to dry)
Nude moisture mask(nothing
Oh yes! PK Hair Elasticizer. Did nothing good for my hair either.
ReplyDeleteAny kind of face serums, I hate them with a passion I don't care which brand they are!
ReplyDeleteThis is brilliant!!! I love this blog!
ReplyDeleteTotally with everyone on cleanse and polish and generally anything Liz Earle for me, does nothing.
And... dare I say it....Touche Eclat!! It's not a concealer, and yet it's a rubbish highlighter. You can tell instantly in pics who's put it on wrong!
Im a bit late here but I need to get it out
ReplyDeleteTouche eclat: cakey and emphasizes my dark cirlces
benefit erase paste: same as touche eclat and too heavy
Chanel nailpolish: amazing colors, dries amazingly and all but chips within a few hours, even with topcoat
MAC creamsheen lipsticks: I really really really hate the way the apply, no I really do, i love the lustres though
Vaseline and vaseline lipbalms: YUK
bioderma solution: i have to scrub my eyes to get makeup off and that really really annoys me, yet i keep repurchasing especially that its so cheap where i live
Maybelline the falsies mascara: clumpy and plasticy and i cant stand it
OPI nailpolishes: okay im sorry, I know no one will ever agree but mines dry out within a couple of weeks, not repurchasing
I also LOVE maybelline great lash and clarins beauty flash balm, I love nars orgasm, it makes my pores look bigger but i still love and use it.
Im kinda new to this blog but I love you, youre the most helpful and least selfish person ever and this post is amazing! Thanks Caroline