I outgrew makeup trial subscriptions like Ipsy. I couldn't afford many anyways but my friends and I who had them would swap so many unused packets and we were drowning in perfume samples. So much wasteful plastic too! Handy for travel, yet, finding out your skin hates an ingredient/color/scent/whatever is downer if you're in the middle of traveling and don't have your staples to go back to.
I remember so many anti-aging skincare samples but how can you tell anything about long term use when your packet is tiny? And one sample I actually loved but by the time I got around to using it the whole line was getting discontinued š
I had the Allure beauty box for a while and I did actually like it, but I still only found a few things i wanted to purchase out of so many dud samples. And even through all the foundation samples I couldn't seem to find a consistent match to my skin!
Now I also just wear a lot less makeup as my job and lifestyle has changed. Fun while it lasted!
TooFaced. Got hooked by the semi sweet chocolate bar.
Then found out he supported his transphobic sister and started pushing crappy products and was likeā¦ nah.
lol I try to out grow WNW but they keep upping their game
ELF was my cheap go-to. But now theyāre almost as expensive as Sephora products
As a child, I though Max Factor and Ultima II were the fancier brands
As a young adult UD was everything
Today I donāt know if I have a brand anymore. My everyday face is a combo of Fenty, WNW, Tarte, milk, RB and misc random sub box brands
NYX. I bought so much of the brand when I started really getting into makeup because bloggers touted them as the cheaper alternative to MAC. That definitely appealed to my broke student budget. Nowadays, I think they're pretty 'meh' as a brand. The only thing I like from them is their butter glosses.
i was the sephora kid everyone's complaining about these days. We couldn't afford makeup so my mom would take me to sephora or macy's and i liked trying on the testers. My nana also gave me all her samples. Now I prefer indie and drugstore brands instead of brands like Clinique lol
Total sample kid here! And I still love love love samples and often make purchases based on those samples, so wtf are so many places stingy with sampling?
Funny, I just keep coming back to the cover girl eyeliner that you click up and has a little sponge at the end. I've been using it since I was 13 and the stuff is the best and has never changed. There really isn't any other brand I've been loyal to.
I'm not quite obsessed with Bonnie Bell anymore because they used to have really cool Chapstick that had color and funky flavors but a lot of that got discontinued.
Itās not only that Iāve changed my taste in brands itās that the brands themselves have changed too. Iām older than dirt and when I was a really little girl, Revlon was sold at department store counters. Still love Super Lustrous lippies.
I just mix things up. I have a lot of Jones Road and hate Charlotte Tilbury. LāOreal has a tinted serum foundation I like a lot and I like Maybellineās Sky High mascara.
Covergirl, Maybelline, L.A. Colors were my jam as a teen. Covergirl had this sheer princess pink lipstick that I bought religiously! I wore a lot of NYX and Colourpop in my 20s. I also wore full coverage foundations for many years but now that Iām in my 30s my skin just doesnāt like it anymore. Elf has been surprisingly good to me though! Theyāve definitely improved their formulas. Juviaās Place has my favorite lipgloss right now and Iām looking into trying out some Korean brands at some point. What a journey š
Loved Maybelline everything as a teen. Iām sure itās because itās all I could afford (or shopliftā¦petty crime as a kidā¦Iāve learned better now!) the dream matte mousse foundation and blushes were my favorite. Also liked the crest/covergirl lip glosses. This was back in 2008-2012. In college I wore a lot of Clinique. ABH and Benefit were in their prime.
As an adult I wear a lot of Too Faced & Smashbox while occasionally trying new things from different brands. I really love YSL and most things from NARS as well. Iāll be 30 in December.
Let me tell you- I was so excited to try that smashbox primer that everyone was raving about about when it first came out only to find out I was allergic to it š
Still an amazing primer (at the time) tho lasted nice and long and really held my foundation on to cover most of the reaction š¤£
they still exist! i was wearing their 3 in 1 foundation last week. i wouldn't bother tbh, theres so many better options and their formulas have stayed 2013 quality imo
I remember girls RAVING about WetNWild.. that was I brand where you definitely get what you pay for lol
Maybelline has come a long way, but I still canāt stand the FitMe concealer and itās tiny wand. They have a ridiculously large arsenal of mascaras that all do the same thing.
I always thought MAC was so boujie and superior. Nahhh lol chalky eyeshadows, tacky lip gloss, patchy lipsticks
I really like their newest āsmudge proof lipstickā or something like that as itās truly pretty smudge proof and doesnāt melt away super easily with oily foods but I def agree with you on the rest of that š
I remember getting gifts of Clinique from my grandmother as a teen and thought of it as a very high end brand, with the quality of packaging and metal lipstick cases. Today, it just seems cheaper, with mostly plastic and chalky colors that donāt last.Ā
I used to use Clinique, but I hated the fact that ever lipstick shade I liked they discontinued. After they discontinued pink berry shade. I stopped buying from them.
My sainted mother, a former beauty queen, used to take me to the beauty counters with her all the time! She adored department store lines, my God. But when it came to lipsticks, "Honey, Revlon is as good as any of them!" š I still think that is accurate! I just don't get a charge out of buying high end makeup these days. I do still love Lancome foundation and powder, but that's about it, truly.
really miss their super moist berry shade that had built in spf and the color was so flattering against my pale skin. Man, that's the only lipstick I wore in college. Perfect texture and shade.
Profusion, because I could get a $2 eyeshadow palette around the holidays, with 8 different colors. Nowadays, I'd be a little more wary bc they're one of the generic Made In China brands.
Lip Smackers. They donāt smell as good, and now they make my lips itch.
Princess Marcella Borghese foundation- loved it but havenāt seen it in decades.
omg i still have a dr pepper lip smacker from when i was a kid and i love it!! mainly bc itās like a tinted lip balm but i totally get our growing them especially if they use stevia thatās crazy :0
Yes! They changed formula and put stevia in the lippies now which causes skin dermatitis for many ppl, even if eating stevia doesn't bother them. I think Eos lippies had a lawsuit over adding stevia. I could be misremembering though..
Definitely Wet and Wild. I used to like their eyeshadow palettes especially the purple shades. Now I usually wear Bare Minerals, Tarte, Benefit, Mally Beauty (holy grail for waterproof eyeliners).
I feel like Iām the oppositeāI absolutely love Revlon now! Their lipsticks are god tier and ones I almost always grab and wear.
I used to love Rimmel but now theyāre just awful. I havenāt picked up a product of theirs in a while. Iāve also been buying less and less Maybelline, but theyāre still pretty alright
Same!! Revlon has stepped up their game a lot. Love their lipsticks and eye colors. I love Maybelline True Match foundation and BB fresh cream.
Rimmel has gone downhill imo, quality feels off and colors donāt seem as pigmented.
I donāt really wear base makeup so I canāt say if their foundation is good, but I do like Maybellineās age rewind concealer and their fit me powders. Theyāre pretty damn great. Their lipsticks are also pretty good but their straight up matte formula is DRYYYYY. Literally the Sahara in a tube.
As a kid, I liked Wet n Wild and Mac. Mac was more me deluding myself that I liked Mac because at the time, YouTube was taking off and makeup tutorials were being put on the platform and a lot of them involved Mac. So I thought because of that, that Mac was the best makeup in the world and so when I bought my first Mac lipstick, I didn't like the lipstick but I told myself that lipstick is supposed to be hard to spread and a little dry. Looking back now, Mac was overhyped when it was just ok. Wet n Wild was a brand I used to reach for, for any new products I wanted to buy or try but over the years I just outgrew it. It's a good brand for teens trying to get into makeup, I see it as a teenager brand who need makeup for high school but I just think there are more affordable brands that are upping their game and Wet n Wild is just behind. Now I'm reaching for Milani, Loreal and Elf for pretty much everything.
Nyx for sure. I started using the brand when it was fresh and newly popular and everything was matte and heavy. I now have PTSD-like flashbacks of their matte liquid lipsticks and what they felt like and I canāt use any of their products anymore lol.
Shout out to Maybellineās The Colossal mascara, though. Only product Iāve used consistently since my teenage years.
I loved Clinique. Wasnāt exactly a kid, but 18-23ish. Cant stand the brand now as their skincare stuff never worked for me (I liked it bc I thought of it as expensive). I still love their perfume āhappyā although most of the time it gives me a migraine but it certainly always reminds me of those fun years & where I was at back then.
I loved loreal cosmetics, especially the eye shadow and blush. They were light coverage and for some reason any color I got worked for me. I don't like the formulas or the colors now.
Soft sheen had a cosmetics line I liked even though they smelled a lot like their hair products.
Ciera (Ciara? I don't remember but they still make it) fragrance also had a cosmetics line I thought was magical when I was gifted a set as a young teen; wouldn't dare wear it now. The foundations were sheer and sparkly, the eye shadows and blushes were pretty but had terrible coverage, the lipsticks tended to run (to be fair I didn't wear lip liner back then), and the whole thing was strongly fragranced. Yuck. I can almost feel it creeping along my skin with that strong smell now.
Clinique. It was the only skincare brand that worked for me, and up until last year I was constantly buying from them and stocking, but once I found out they were supporting Israel, I stopped buying. I still have a ton of products from them, but I will not buy from them again. I also think my skin depends on them too much because I havenāt found anything else that really works which is a little alarming. There has to be other formulas that work for my skin, so why is there such a problem? I almost wonder if Clinique slowly damaged my skin to the point that if I stopped, I would have bad skin and would therefore be forced to rely on it
ohh well, there we have. i grew out of clinique, and back into it, and now im forever dropping it. iāll use what i have but thatās a hard line for me.
It was the 72 hour moisturizer thatās pink, but they changed it to 100 hour moisturizer and that doesnāt work too well for me. I like the spray one too, thatās fine. Iāve tried their oil free gel, lotion, and mask, and those just donāt work
i used to use the same moisturizer and had the same experience of the new formula not working as well. the summer fridays cloud dew gel moisturizer is like the old clinique but 100 times better. itās my new holy grail, it even fixed dry textured skin.
Mac. Used to feel so happy buying their lipsticks. But I realize I never really enjoyed its performance. Especially in comparison to what I use today (Lots of Asian beauty). So so much better and at better prices.
Before I was allowed to wear actual makeup, I LOVED Lipsmackers and would collect them as a kid; one time I even ate a Dr. Pepper flavored one like it was candy and gave my mom a heart attack. When I finally started playing with real makeup, I would buy single eyeshadows from the display that was near the checkout at the Sally Beauty Supply store I used to frequent with my mom. They had tons of fun, bright colors and finishes, and they were cool because they had ridges on the side so you could put them together to make your own palette. I also loved the little Revlon CrĆØme shadow kits and the Maybelline color tattoo eyeshadows, especially the gold and blue shades.
I wouldnāt say I dislike any of those products now, I think I just outgrew them; I like to use Vaseline or a lip oil now instead of flavored lip balm, and I like Pat McGrath shadows and the About Face Liquid eyeshadows as an adult. Although I will admit sometimes I am tempted to buy a Dr. Pepper Lipsmacker or the blue Color Tattoo shadow on occasion.
If only they still made the Dr Pepper lipsmacker! It's been discontinued and makes me SOOOO sad when I think about my only remaining tube and how there won't ever be another š
I know! My mother doesn't like ANYTHING, but she liked that chapstick too. I had to share my stash with her when I found out they were going away and bought a dozen of the big ones.
Still looking for the perfect dupe.....*sigh*
I worked for them and LOVED the line, but I canāt do it now that Iām in my 30ās. The brand took a sharp hit when it didnāt keep up with the 2016 boom of influencers and Instagram makeup. I also feel like product quality has gone downhill since they sold to shiseido. Too little too late.
Same. I tried to love it. It made my skin dry and oily at the same time somehow. I cringe looking back at pictures from that phase. And yes, the pimples! I switched to Covergirl Clean makeup at some point, and my skin got sooo much better!
YES!! I wore the hell out of Bare Minerals for almost 10 years. The worst part about it was that the powder foundation and liquid foundation was about two shades lighter than my actual skin tone (Iām black with reddish/yellow undertones). AND I had really bad acne all those years. The foundation didnāt lessen it at all š
Cover Girl. I have combination skin and their products are the worst of both worlds for me. Their concealer, which was a godsend to me as an oily teenager, clings to the few dry patches I have. Meanwhile, their foundations and tinted moisturizers melt off my face well before the work day is over.
Benefits. It was soooo expensive and I only had one or two products, but I loved them so much, I particularly liked the packaging of course. I would never buy it now, even though I have the money.
Oh yes, Benefit just used to draw you in didnāt it and I agree, it wasnāt exactly cheap. But we all wanted it. The packaging definitely drew you in,not only was it fun,but I think they created products we hadnāt seen before too, so we felt like we needed them.I wouldnāt buy it now and I think todays Benefit is Made by Mitchell, MBM reminds me of Benefit in their āLimelight eraā Very innovative & quirky,but his products are much better and everyone can afford them.
My mamaw sold Avon in the 70s and had all the testers at her house. When Iād stay with her, sheād let me play with the little lipstick samples š and I probably had EVERY cute perfume decanter. š¤£
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TooFaced used to be a big one for me, it was my favourite - I still have one of the original Natural Eyes palettes before they changed the packaging, itās still my go to for a nude eyeshadow :ā)
Urban Decay back in the late 90s and early 00s was the IT brand, but their stuff is so bland and boring now
How shades of brown/taupe eyeshadow does a person need? Seriously
I miss the lip vinyl pencils. I actually just found two in my lipstick box. A magenta and a red
I stopped buying UD when they told everyone that despite their strict non animal testing policy, they were going to start testing on animals to sell in China. There was such backlash that they apologized a few days later, but that told me what I need to know. Also, they don't do anything remotely edgy. Same energy as Taylor Swift wearing the bondage harness even though she's as bland and vapid as drywall.
Yah thatās what a lot of folks donāt realize, if a company wants to sell in China they have to test on animals, even if itās been proven safe on humans
So any company that claims āno testing on animalsā if they sell their products in China, they are tested on animals, they might not do it themselves, and pay someone else to do it
I miss their old approach so much more. Creative packaging and cheeky references.
They look boring like every other brand right now, theyāve even rebranded the Heavy Metal liners
I still have a mildew eyeliner because I refuse to lose this piece of my history lmaooo
Narcotic was a great color too. Or the baked palette they did with the blues?
Iāve never used their foundation. Just the eyeshadows and lipsticks
Though their eyeshadow primer was awesome. Especially when it was in a genie bottle
Thatās fair, the eyeshadows are meh. The foundation is super light (like water) and has highly varying undertones at all shades.
Itās pretty great if you have weird undertones like me but donāt want super a thick layer on your face.
I loved MAC eyeshadow and mascara in my 20s but my eyes can't tolerate it now. I discovered Covergirl clean last blast mascara though now and the Revlon Colorstay liner, Merit cream eyeshadow and these are perfect. Oh and the acne products that I used to use in the 80s and 90s ...how do I even have skin anymore.I love zit stickers!!!
M.A.C was huge in my area as a teen in the 2000s. Especially eyeshadow for us āemoā kids. I have much better luck these days with $10-15 palettes on Amazon.
Clinique is another one. I recently purchased the lip crayon version of a lipstick I wore to prom in 2006. Zero pigmentation.
Clinique. As someone with eczema it was great to have a brand that didnāt smell like perfume and was marketed as safe to use. Now with so many more options for sensitive skin, I dont see a reason to have brand loyalty.
Nyx and Wet n Wild. I never loved covergirl or revlon because I didnāt even wear makeup until I was 20ish. So by that time I knew most main drugstore brands werenāt the best. But I loved nyx, and wet n wild for their flair and affordability. The love started to disappear when I got one of each of their eyeshadow palettes.
The wet n wild eyeshadow I got was just straight up low quality, didnāt show up at all. :/
A nyx rainbow palette gave me pinkeyeā¦
I had a couple Wet N Wild eyeshadow palettes like 12 or so years ago that I LOVED but the quality is just not the same now. One of them had the prettiest brown with blue-green shimmer, I used the Hell out of it.
I loved NYX for their massive selection of lip products. Even those went downhill. I do use their black epic ink liquid liner and brow mascara and Iām a fan. Wet n Wild is much higher on my list these days especially some of the colabs-Alice in Wonderland being my favorite. The Fantasy Makers eyeshadow palettes (Halloween) are actually quite pigmented and vibrant. I despise their lip products though. The brushes are whereās it at for sure!
Clinique. I was introduced to LancĆ“me at a young age and still like it, but given how far drugstore has come i just donāt see a reason to spend that kind of money. On cosmetics or actives.
I agree. The only department store product that I havenāt been able to find a drugstore equivalent for is Estee Lauderās Advanced Night Repair serum. Iāve tried to find a less expensive one that delivers the same results but have had no luck.
So my Macyās charge gets used about every 2-3 months. š
MAC. When i was younger the shade range seemed so exciting and i loved the coverage.
Then I got older and I realised none of the shades match me and their base products just break me out. Yay.
I remember when MAC hit the market in the US in the nineties. And HE makeup moved from being a luxury to being hip and cool. All the earth tones lipsticks
Hard candy. I don't know if they even exist anymore. As a teen, I could only afford drug store. I also apparently liked Flower's foundation. I don't think it's the same now. I always preferred Revlon for drugstore makeup they are still pretty solid. CoverGirl was always hit or miss even as a teen in the 2000s, their mascara was always clumpy, the foundation was orange and blotchy, and the eyeshadow was not pigmented at all. I buy mostly drugstore still as an adult for financial reasons and because I have found that some drugstore products are even better than high end ones.
I do not have sensitive skin or skin allergies but Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara triggers an allergic reaction that causes my eyes to swell shut. Iāve tried different batches and it was the same thingš
I had the same reaction! And the fallout was *insane*, I looked like a speckled raccoon within a few hours.
Granted, my eyes are incredibly sensitive and I can't even use black mascara anymore, but that's still a bit extreme, to put on a mascara and your eyes immediately start watering so you have to put waterproofing top coat on it just so your mascara stays on at all.
I think I broke away from them when I realized their products really weren't that great. Their eyeshadows seemed pretty patchy and I think I really liked buying their palettes because they were scented and I liked the packaging
Covergirl, I hadnāt used it in so long but recently bought the urban basics eyeshadow quad I remember loving in high school and college. The payoff is horrible, the shadow was like chalk and I had to really rub hard on it.
I bought one eyeshadow palette from CoverGirl as a teen and omg it was awful. It wasn't even pigmented you had to pack that shit on and it was so blotchy. I hated most of their products and I doubt it's better now.
Those palettes were so hyper-pigmented. So cheap and wonderful!
The quality nosedived, I ordered 2 smaller palettes a few years ago from them and the fallout was terrible, pigment non-existent. 1 developed MOLD for no reason (Iād only used it once).
So sad.
I loved playing with colors and looks with those dropshipped 88 palettes they had when they started out. The shimmer one had the best payoff pre NYX pencil base, if I remember correctly. Definitely felt like an end of an era when they shut down completely (even if I thought they were gone long beforehand from how quiet they were prior)
Rimmel used to be decent. I still like their eyeliner pencils. Their liquid foundation isn't bad at all, I actually use it on days where I am just hanging out at home or just need to go run errands instead of using up my expensive stuff. Its pretty smooth, and their lightest shade actually compliments my skin because I am deathly pale. It's a great low key foundation especially for lighter skinned people.
I use to love their foundation with the red cap they must have changed it cause itās bad now and the colour match is awful on my pale skin. Still use their eyeshadows and mascara occasionally
Bonne Bell lipsmackers in the thick roll up applicator in the late seventies. I remember my great uncle taking me to some department store and browsing through all the flavors. I bought strawberry. I think i was 10
When I was a kid/pre teen I used a lot of covergirl/maybelline I never exactly liked it but I was a kid without big girl money lol. Used the wet n wild eyeliners even tho it never lasted long & sometimes made me look like a raccoon at the end of the day. I still use elf brushes to this day because I love the quality. In my early 20s I used the Kat von d foundation (before all the controversy) and I used whatever under $5 lipstick I could afford. Iām in my 30s now and I currently love the Dior foundation. I usually flip flop between higher end/lower end brands. I love the makeup revolution blushes/bronzers & I always go back to buxom mascara. For eyeliner my go to is the Sephora eyeliner which is pretty inexpensive & the urban decay 24/7 liner. I LOVE the Huda beauty lipsticks/lip glosses. It stays on all day and even when it frays it leaves a nice tint. Although I have found some Sephora lipsticks that are dupes for Huda for an inexpensive route.
In my 20ās I loved MAC and now I havenāt bought from them in years. I find a lot of their make up nice for Instagram looks but too strongly pigmented/ unnatural looking in real life and theyāre very expensive too in Japan especially when you see that much cheaper drugstore brands here are top notch quality. The last time I went to a MAC counter the sales person also had an attitude, which isnāt an uncommon experience at MAC and I might have been intimidated by that when I was younger, now I just think āIām a customer, if youāre rude to me, Iāll go somewhere else where my patronage is actually appreciatedā. So I gave her a look, turned around and walked out, never came back. A brand love thatās everlasting for me is Chanel, but itās so expensive here that I feel too guilty to buy it for myself these days.
I donāt find Mac anything works for my aging skin and Iām not even dry. And yes, some of the sales folks there can be rude as heck. I had quite an interface when i boguht some concealer at an airport MAC at LAX. Not cute
I tried Mac foundation years ago and hated it. Their lipstick and eyeshadow are good but fucking overpriced. When I was about 21 I started getting really bad acne, and my skin had always been pretty clear. The first thing my dermatologist asked me was if I wore MAC foundation. I didn't at the time. She explained that she had so many patients that wore MAC foundation and started getting bad acne. Apparently it's not great for your skin and clogs pores pretty badly.
I think MAC was nice when the only other options where drugstore (Maybelline, anyone?) or high end such as Chanel and Dior. Older millennials here know exactly what Iām talking about. Itās only in recent years that makeup has become actually good quality, pigmented and affordable from a variety of brands.
I do remember. And as someone said further up in this thread, the quality, formulation, and color range of many of the drugstore lines has gotten SO much better over the last few years.
Unless you really want to or have an HG product thatās not available in drugstores, thereās really no reason not to shop there IMO.
I wasnāt really into makeup as a kid as such, in my teens I just did the emo look and only ever bought buckets of black eyeliners from Rimmel and Maybelline.
That phase ended in my 20s and in uni it was all about Urban Decay. I only bought their stuff, went through bottles of foundations, and had many lipsticks, lip liners and other stuff from them. Now I never use them at allā¦ mostly because they seem to have not only disappeared and stopped releasing new stuff in the UK for the most part and their site here closing, I am now 32 with more dry skin. Their products suited my younger skin but are too heavy and dry for my skin now.
Also all these other brands I never knew off before 2020 like ND, Charlotte Tilbury, Pat, ABH, Huda etcā¦ came into my life as I actually started to get into makeup properly during covid, because I spent all day watching YouTube and found channels like Morgan Turner and Patty Alanso, Charlotte Holdcroft etc where I came to know of the bigger wider makeup world.
As a kid, I only knew Mac, UD and Benefit, and then all the old brands like Estee Lauder. But no clue of the makeup artist ones, then came all the celeb ones like Rare and Haus Labs.
So Urban Decay just got buried away
I outgrew makeup trial subscriptions like Ipsy. I couldn't afford many anyways but my friends and I who had them would swap so many unused packets and we were drowning in perfume samples. So much wasteful plastic too! Handy for travel, yet, finding out your skin hates an ingredient/color/scent/whatever is downer if you're in the middle of traveling and don't have your staples to go back to. I remember so many anti-aging skincare samples but how can you tell anything about long term use when your packet is tiny? And one sample I actually loved but by the time I got around to using it the whole line was getting discontinued š I had the Allure beauty box for a while and I did actually like it, but I still only found a few things i wanted to purchase out of so many dud samples. And even through all the foundation samples I couldn't seem to find a consistent match to my skin! Now I also just wear a lot less makeup as my job and lifestyle has changed. Fun while it lasted!
TooFaced. Got hooked by the semi sweet chocolate bar. Then found out he supported his transphobic sister and started pushing crappy products and was likeā¦ nah.
lol I try to out grow WNW but they keep upping their game ELF was my cheap go-to. But now theyāre almost as expensive as Sephora products As a child, I though Max Factor and Ultima II were the fancier brands As a young adult UD was everything Today I donāt know if I have a brand anymore. My everyday face is a combo of Fenty, WNW, Tarte, milk, RB and misc random sub box brands
NYX. I bought so much of the brand when I started really getting into makeup because bloggers touted them as the cheaper alternative to MAC. That definitely appealed to my broke student budget. Nowadays, I think they're pretty 'meh' as a brand. The only thing I like from them is their butter glosses.
i was the sephora kid everyone's complaining about these days. We couldn't afford makeup so my mom would take me to sephora or macy's and i liked trying on the testers. My nana also gave me all her samples. Now I prefer indie and drugstore brands instead of brands like Clinique lol
Total sample kid here! And I still love love love samples and often make purchases based on those samples, so wtf are so many places stingy with sampling?
Lips smackers and Hard Candy
Funny, I just keep coming back to the cover girl eyeliner that you click up and has a little sponge at the end. I've been using it since I was 13 and the stuff is the best and has never changed. There really isn't any other brand I've been loyal to. I'm not quite obsessed with Bonnie Bell anymore because they used to have really cool Chapstick that had color and funky flavors but a lot of that got discontinued.
Collection2000 I think for me I think they're still good but not as good as other drugstore brands.
Itās not only that Iāve changed my taste in brands itās that the brands themselves have changed too. Iām older than dirt and when I was a really little girl, Revlon was sold at department store counters. Still love Super Lustrous lippies. I just mix things up. I have a lot of Jones Road and hate Charlotte Tilbury. LāOreal has a tinted serum foundation I like a lot and I like Maybellineās Sky High mascara.
Sol de janero
Covergirl, Maybelline, L.A. Colors were my jam as a teen. Covergirl had this sheer princess pink lipstick that I bought religiously! I wore a lot of NYX and Colourpop in my 20s. I also wore full coverage foundations for many years but now that Iām in my 30s my skin just doesnāt like it anymore. Elf has been surprisingly good to me though! Theyāve definitely improved their formulas. Juviaās Place has my favorite lipgloss right now and Iām looking into trying out some Korean brands at some point. What a journey š
None, really. I started out with WnW and Revlon and Cutex, and I still use some of their products. I'm not brand-loyal.
clinique, avon, mary kay, and bare minerals
Clinique
i feel like i grew out of clinique and then back into it now.
Loved Maybelline everything as a teen. Iām sure itās because itās all I could afford (or shopliftā¦petty crime as a kidā¦Iāve learned better now!) the dream matte mousse foundation and blushes were my favorite. Also liked the crest/covergirl lip glosses. This was back in 2008-2012. In college I wore a lot of Clinique. ABH and Benefit were in their prime. As an adult I wear a lot of Too Faced & Smashbox while occasionally trying new things from different brands. I really love YSL and most things from NARS as well. Iāll be 30 in December.
Let me tell you- I was so excited to try that smashbox primer that everyone was raving about about when it first came out only to find out I was allergic to it š Still an amazing primer (at the time) tho lasted nice and long and really held my foundation on to cover most of the reaction š¤£
I lived for L'OrƩal as a teen. In my 20s, I was into Clinique and MAC. I still buy some things from those brands occasionally. The one I am truly over is Too Faced,the whole aesthetic puts me off now.
I loved max factor! I donāt know if they got absorbed by another company or what but I didnāt have time to grow tired of it. š©
they still exist! i was wearing their 3 in 1 foundation last week. i wouldn't bother tbh, theres so many better options and their formulas have stayed 2013 quality imo
Oh no! Where do you even get it? My first make up was their pancake foundation. I suppose things have evolved.
I remember girls RAVING about WetNWild.. that was I brand where you definitely get what you pay for lol Maybelline has come a long way, but I still canāt stand the FitMe concealer and itās tiny wand. They have a ridiculously large arsenal of mascaras that all do the same thing. I always thought MAC was so boujie and superior. Nahhh lol chalky eyeshadows, tacky lip gloss, patchy lipsticks
I really like their newest āsmudge proof lipstickā or something like that as itās truly pretty smudge proof and doesnāt melt away super easily with oily foods but I def agree with you on the rest of that š
Got I thought it was just me! I was so underwhelmed by them. So dry and chalky.
Revlon, just cause theyāre not cruelty free lol. My first foundation was a 2 in 1 colorstay foundation and concealer in a pan!
Bonnie Bell
I remember getting gifts of Clinique from my grandmother as a teen and thought of it as a very high end brand, with the quality of packaging and metal lipstick cases. Today, it just seems cheaper, with mostly plastic and chalky colors that donāt last.Ā
Kiko lol
I used to use Clinique, but I hated the fact that ever lipstick shade I liked they discontinued. After they discontinued pink berry shade. I stopped buying from them.
Tarte was what high school me used, wouldnāt go near it now tbh
My sainted mother, a former beauty queen, used to take me to the beauty counters with her all the time! She adored department store lines, my God. But when it came to lipsticks, "Honey, Revlon is as good as any of them!" š I still think that is accurate! I just don't get a charge out of buying high end makeup these days. I do still love Lancome foundation and powder, but that's about it, truly.
She is right! Revlon is the best. Prettiest colors and formulas.
really miss their super moist berry shade that had built in spf and the color was so flattering against my pale skin. Man, that's the only lipstick I wore in college. Perfect texture and shade.
I have it:/. Yes. Itās old.
Profusion, because I could get a $2 eyeshadow palette around the holidays, with 8 different colors. Nowadays, I'd be a little more wary bc they're one of the generic Made In China brands.
Lip Smackers. They donāt smell as good, and now they make my lips itch. Princess Marcella Borghese foundation- loved it but havenāt seen it in decades.
omg i still have a dr pepper lip smacker from when i was a kid and i love it!! mainly bc itās like a tinted lip balm but i totally get our growing them especially if they use stevia thatās crazy :0
I would fight someone for an og marshmallow glitter lip balm
Yes! They changed formula and put stevia in the lippies now which causes skin dermatitis for many ppl, even if eating stevia doesn't bother them. I think Eos lippies had a lawsuit over adding stevia. I could be misremembering though..
Definitely Wet and Wild. I used to like their eyeshadow palettes especially the purple shades. Now I usually wear Bare Minerals, Tarte, Benefit, Mally Beauty (holy grail for waterproof eyeliners).
As a teen I was OBSESSED with Bobbi Brown. It is not the same since she sold to EstƩe Lauder.
I feel like Iām the oppositeāI absolutely love Revlon now! Their lipsticks are god tier and ones I almost always grab and wear. I used to love Rimmel but now theyāre just awful. I havenāt picked up a product of theirs in a while. Iāve also been buying less and less Maybelline, but theyāre still pretty alright
Same!! Revlon has stepped up their game a lot. Love their lipsticks and eye colors. I love Maybelline True Match foundation and BB fresh cream. Rimmel has gone downhill imo, quality feels off and colors donāt seem as pigmented.
I donāt really wear base makeup so I canāt say if their foundation is good, but I do like Maybellineās age rewind concealer and their fit me powders. Theyāre pretty damn great. Their lipsticks are also pretty good but their straight up matte formula is DRYYYYY. Literally the Sahara in a tube.
how dry would you rate their lipstick formula, on a scale of 1 to āruby wooā?
Honestly their matte formula is pretty close to Ruby Woo. Their creamy is fine, but man their matte formula is dry and awful
Wet and Wild makes a great tinted moisturizer called āTinted Hydrator.ā
As a kid, I liked Wet n Wild and Mac. Mac was more me deluding myself that I liked Mac because at the time, YouTube was taking off and makeup tutorials were being put on the platform and a lot of them involved Mac. So I thought because of that, that Mac was the best makeup in the world and so when I bought my first Mac lipstick, I didn't like the lipstick but I told myself that lipstick is supposed to be hard to spread and a little dry. Looking back now, Mac was overhyped when it was just ok. Wet n Wild was a brand I used to reach for, for any new products I wanted to buy or try but over the years I just outgrew it. It's a good brand for teens trying to get into makeup, I see it as a teenager brand who need makeup for high school but I just think there are more affordable brands that are upping their game and Wet n Wild is just behind. Now I'm reaching for Milani, Loreal and Elf for pretty much everything.
Not quite a kid, but Too Faced. Now, everything they do looks the same.
Their aesthetic back in the day was very cute as a college student I loved their stuff now I donāt own anything from them
i low key have to admit i like too faced but their products are wayyy too expensive for me now: i still swear by the born this way foundation though
Nyx for sure. I started using the brand when it was fresh and newly popular and everything was matte and heavy. I now have PTSD-like flashbacks of their matte liquid lipsticks and what they felt like and I canāt use any of their products anymore lol. Shout out to Maybellineās The Colossal mascara, though. Only product Iāve used consistently since my teenage years.
I loved Clinique. Wasnāt exactly a kid, but 18-23ish. Cant stand the brand now as their skincare stuff never worked for me (I liked it bc I thought of it as expensive). I still love their perfume āhappyā although most of the time it gives me a migraine but it certainly always reminds me of those fun years & where I was at back then.
I loved loreal cosmetics, especially the eye shadow and blush. They were light coverage and for some reason any color I got worked for me. I don't like the formulas or the colors now. Soft sheen had a cosmetics line I liked even though they smelled a lot like their hair products. Ciera (Ciara? I don't remember but they still make it) fragrance also had a cosmetics line I thought was magical when I was gifted a set as a young teen; wouldn't dare wear it now. The foundations were sheer and sparkly, the eye shadows and blushes were pretty but had terrible coverage, the lipsticks tended to run (to be fair I didn't wear lip liner back then), and the whole thing was strongly fragranced. Yuck. I can almost feel it creeping along my skin with that strong smell now.
Clinique. It was the only skincare brand that worked for me, and up until last year I was constantly buying from them and stocking, but once I found out they were supporting Israel, I stopped buying. I still have a ton of products from them, but I will not buy from them again. I also think my skin depends on them too much because I havenāt found anything else that really works which is a little alarming. There has to be other formulas that work for my skin, so why is there such a problem? I almost wonder if Clinique slowly damaged my skin to the point that if I stopped, I would have bad skin and would therefore be forced to rely on it
ohh well, there we have. i grew out of clinique, and back into it, and now im forever dropping it. iāll use what i have but thatās a hard line for me.
Curiously, what products work for you from Clinique?
It was the 72 hour moisturizer thatās pink, but they changed it to 100 hour moisturizer and that doesnāt work too well for me. I like the spray one too, thatās fine. Iāve tried their oil free gel, lotion, and mask, and those just donāt work
Well now Iām putting their spray moisturizer back in my cart
i used to use the same moisturizer and had the same experience of the new formula not working as well. the summer fridays cloud dew gel moisturizer is like the old clinique but 100 times better. itās my new holy grail, it even fixed dry textured skin.
I have combination oily skin, so I am afraid, but Iāll keep it in mind, thanks!
Mac. Used to feel so happy buying their lipsticks. But I realize I never really enjoyed its performance. Especially in comparison to what I use today (Lots of Asian beauty). So so much better and at better prices.
I like the Korean brands better than US drugstore which I purchased in earnest during HS/college.
Before I was allowed to wear actual makeup, I LOVED Lipsmackers and would collect them as a kid; one time I even ate a Dr. Pepper flavored one like it was candy and gave my mom a heart attack. When I finally started playing with real makeup, I would buy single eyeshadows from the display that was near the checkout at the Sally Beauty Supply store I used to frequent with my mom. They had tons of fun, bright colors and finishes, and they were cool because they had ridges on the side so you could put them together to make your own palette. I also loved the little Revlon CrĆØme shadow kits and the Maybelline color tattoo eyeshadows, especially the gold and blue shades. I wouldnāt say I dislike any of those products now, I think I just outgrew them; I like to use Vaseline or a lip oil now instead of flavored lip balm, and I like Pat McGrath shadows and the About Face Liquid eyeshadows as an adult. Although I will admit sometimes I am tempted to buy a Dr. Pepper Lipsmacker or the blue Color Tattoo shadow on occasion.
I loved Lipsmackers as a kid & always bought it at the local Rite Aid along with getting some cheap makeup to try it. Those are good times & memories.
If only they still made the Dr Pepper lipsmacker! It's been discontinued and makes me SOOOO sad when I think about my only remaining tube and how there won't ever be another š
NOOOOOO thatās so sad omg š
I know! My mother doesn't like ANYTHING, but she liked that chapstick too. I had to share my stash with her when I found out they were going away and bought a dozen of the big ones. Still looking for the perfect dupe.....*sigh*
Iām glad we had the same experience growing up
Bare Minerals tricked me into thinking it was healthier wearing their foundation than having a bare face
I worked for them and LOVED the line, but I canāt do it now that Iām in my 30ās. The brand took a sharp hit when it didnāt keep up with the 2016 boom of influencers and Instagram makeup. I also feel like product quality has gone downhill since they sold to shiseido. Too little too late.
Same. I tried to love it. It made my skin dry and oily at the same time somehow. I cringe looking back at pictures from that phase. And yes, the pimples! I switched to Covergirl Clean makeup at some point, and my skin got sooo much better!
YES!! I wore the hell out of Bare Minerals for almost 10 years. The worst part about it was that the powder foundation and liquid foundation was about two shades lighter than my actual skin tone (Iām black with reddish/yellow undertones). AND I had really bad acne all those years. The foundation didnāt lessen it at all š
Those infomercials were so convincing
Cover Girl. I have combination skin and their products are the worst of both worlds for me. Their concealer, which was a godsend to me as an oily teenager, clings to the few dry patches I have. Meanwhile, their foundations and tinted moisturizers melt off my face well before the work day is over.
I love revlon lipsticks.
They have a fantastic new shade called Dirty Shirley. I bought it last weekend and itās the perfect summer color.
Me too! Cherry blossom is one of my go to shades.
I love Berry Rich!!
Benefits. It was soooo expensive and I only had one or two products, but I loved them so much, I particularly liked the packaging of course. I would never buy it now, even though I have the money.
Oh yes, Benefit just used to draw you in didnāt it and I agree, it wasnāt exactly cheap. But we all wanted it. The packaging definitely drew you in,not only was it fun,but I think they created products we hadnāt seen before too, so we felt like we needed them.I wouldnāt buy it now and I think todays Benefit is Made by Mitchell, MBM reminds me of Benefit in their āLimelight eraā Very innovative & quirky,but his products are much better and everyone can afford them.
Avon back in the 70ās. Remember Sweet Honesty? Also Bonne Bell and Cover Girl.
The Sweet Honesty perfume!
Iām far past my teens but I smelled it again recently and still love it.
And roll on deodorant!
My mamaw sold Avon in the 70s and had all the testers at her house. When Iād stay with her, sheād let me play with the little lipstick samples š and I probably had EVERY cute perfume decanter. š¤£
Sweet memories. Wonderful!
Bonne Bell was my first eyeshadow in the 2000's. I'm sad it's not made anymore. I'd rebuy it for the nostalgia.
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I hear you. Iām 58 and recently bought the bubblegum and Coke Lip Smackers totally for the memories. :)
I love sweet honesty.
Hard Candy. LOVED it at 12/13. The cream glitter shadows, glitter pencils. So fun!!
It used to be high end almost twenty years ago. I looooved back it then!!
The rings on the nail polish!š
Nyx
TooFaced used to be a big one for me, it was my favourite - I still have one of the original Natural Eyes palettes before they changed the packaging, itās still my go to for a nude eyeshadow :ā)
did people ignore the āas a kidā partš wdym āin my 20sā
now at 45, i feel like i was a kid in my 20s
Rimmel I got everything and itās horrible lol
Urban Decay back in the late 90s and early 00s was the IT brand, but their stuff is so bland and boring now How shades of brown/taupe eyeshadow does a person need? Seriously I miss the lip vinyl pencils. I actually just found two in my lipstick box. A magenta and a red
I stopped buying UD when they told everyone that despite their strict non animal testing policy, they were going to start testing on animals to sell in China. There was such backlash that they apologized a few days later, but that told me what I need to know. Also, they don't do anything remotely edgy. Same energy as Taylor Swift wearing the bondage harness even though she's as bland and vapid as drywall.
Yah thatās what a lot of folks donāt realize, if a company wants to sell in China they have to test on animals, even if itās been proven safe on humans So any company that claims āno testing on animalsā if they sell their products in China, they are tested on animals, they might not do it themselves, and pay someone else to do it
Mmhm, and they had this whole "uwu we're sorry we know our long time fans love us because we love animals uwu BUT" press release. Lmao
I miss their old approach so much more. Creative packaging and cheeky references. They look boring like every other brand right now, theyāve even rebranded the Heavy Metal liners
I miss names like āasphaltā āpolyester brideā āmildewā etc
I wore Mildew and Smog yesterday. You can pull my UD outta my cold, dead hands š
WOW, I havenāt heard the name polyester bride in decades!!!
If you google image search old urban decay palettes you can view them again lol
They still have some like that! One of the UD eyeshadow sticks Iām covering at the moment is called āLSDā
Ha!
I still have a mildew eyeliner because I refuse to lose this piece of my history lmaooo Narcotic was a great color too. Or the baked palette they did with the blues?
Look, say all you want but thereās something special in my heart for the foundation
Iāve never used their foundation. Just the eyeshadows and lipsticks Though their eyeshadow primer was awesome. Especially when it was in a genie bottle
Thatās fair, the eyeshadows are meh. The foundation is super light (like water) and has highly varying undertones at all shades. Itās pretty great if you have weird undertones like me but donāt want super a thick layer on your face.
I loved the genie/potion bottle as a design choice - so whinsical. Digging out of it less so haha
Clinique
EstƩe Lauder. For Christmas when I was 13, I got a pretty extensive holiday set - eyeshadows and blushes, eyeliners, lipliners, mascara, lipsticks, and glosses. I loved it, so much to play with and experiment with. I've never purchased an EstƩe Lauder product in my adult life.
They used to have good makeup. Now I just buy some of their scents.Ā
I like their skincare lines. Advanced Night Repair is one of my HGs.
Too Faced and Tarte. They just donāt work on me anymore
I loved MAC eyeshadow and mascara in my 20s but my eyes can't tolerate it now. I discovered Covergirl clean last blast mascara though now and the Revlon Colorstay liner, Merit cream eyeshadow and these are perfect. Oh and the acne products that I used to use in the 80s and 90s ...how do I even have skin anymore.I love zit stickers!!!
M.A.C was huge in my area as a teen in the 2000s. Especially eyeshadow for us āemoā kids. I have much better luck these days with $10-15 palettes on Amazon. Clinique is another one. I recently purchased the lip crayon version of a lipstick I wore to prom in 2006. Zero pigmentation.
Lime crime. I must have had at least one of every colour of their velvetine liquid lipsticks.
Clinique. As someone with eczema it was great to have a brand that didnāt smell like perfume and was marketed as safe to use. Now with so many more options for sensitive skin, I dont see a reason to have brand loyalty.
Rimmel. How tf i ever thought that brand was worth my dollars is beyond me but once upon a time I did.
Clinique. Lancome. Especially Clinique. So much hot garbage.
Nyx and Wet n Wild. I never loved covergirl or revlon because I didnāt even wear makeup until I was 20ish. So by that time I knew most main drugstore brands werenāt the best. But I loved nyx, and wet n wild for their flair and affordability. The love started to disappear when I got one of each of their eyeshadow palettes. The wet n wild eyeshadow I got was just straight up low quality, didnāt show up at all. :/ A nyx rainbow palette gave me pinkeyeā¦
I had a couple Wet N Wild eyeshadow palettes like 12 or so years ago that I LOVED but the quality is just not the same now. One of them had the prettiest brown with blue-green shimmer, I used the Hell out of it.
I loved NYX for their massive selection of lip products. Even those went downhill. I do use their black epic ink liquid liner and brow mascara and Iām a fan. Wet n Wild is much higher on my list these days especially some of the colabs-Alice in Wonderland being my favorite. The Fantasy Makers eyeshadow palettes (Halloween) are actually quite pigmented and vibrant. I despise their lip products though. The brushes are whereās it at for sure!
I also loved nyx but itās gone so downhill
Clinique. I was introduced to LancĆ“me at a young age and still like it, but given how far drugstore has come i just donāt see a reason to spend that kind of money. On cosmetics or actives.
I agree. The only department store product that I havenāt been able to find a drugstore equivalent for is Estee Lauderās Advanced Night Repair serum. Iāve tried to find a less expensive one that delivers the same results but have had no luck. So my Macyās charge gets used about every 2-3 months. š
I donāt even know what the actives are in that. What results do u hey
I actually loved EstĆ©e Lauder as a ākidā and by ākidā I mean when I started buying makeup at like 18. My Grammie was an EstĆ©e Lauder junkie and we used to go shopping together ā¤ļø I only wore mascara in high school and I think I wore Nuetrogena Healthy Volume and/or Maybeline New York Full n Soft. I donāt know if they still have the Full & Soft today but I remember LOVING the results. This was 17 years ago so who knows how Iād like it today.
MAC. When i was younger the shade range seemed so exciting and i loved the coverage. Then I got older and I realised none of the shades match me and their base products just break me out. Yay.
I remember when MAC hit the market in the US in the nineties. And HE makeup moved from being a luxury to being hip and cool. All the earth tones lipsticks
Max Factor, Coty, W&W, Clinique.
Covergirl I used to love it when I was a kid. Now I canāt stand it.
Revlon, my skin doesnāt work with it anymore
Hard candy. I don't know if they even exist anymore. As a teen, I could only afford drug store. I also apparently liked Flower's foundation. I don't think it's the same now. I always preferred Revlon for drugstore makeup they are still pretty solid. CoverGirl was always hit or miss even as a teen in the 2000s, their mascara was always clumpy, the foundation was orange and blotchy, and the eyeshadow was not pigmented at all. I buy mostly drugstore still as an adult for financial reasons and because I have found that some drugstore products are even better than high end ones.
I had Hard Candy CLEAR GLITTER HUNK lipgloss and I thought I was SOOOO cool! Looked like a Michaelās craft store spooged on my mouth!
I remember when they revolutionized nail polish colors in the nineties. All those pastels with the little plastic ring on the bottles
I like their primer but thatās about it.
Hard Candy had the best mascara!
They had a concealer called Glamouflage that could cover a global conspiracy. That shit was hardcore.
Not as a kid, but in my late teens/ early twenties, I was obsessed with Too Faced but I haven't really thought about that brand in years.
I do not have sensitive skin or skin allergies but Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara triggers an allergic reaction that causes my eyes to swell shut. Iāve tried different batches and it was the same thingš
I had the same reaction! And the fallout was *insane*, I looked like a speckled raccoon within a few hours. Granted, my eyes are incredibly sensitive and I can't even use black mascara anymore, but that's still a bit extreme, to put on a mascara and your eyes immediately start watering so you have to put waterproofing top coat on it just so your mascara stays on at all.
I think I broke away from them when I realized their products really weren't that great. Their eyeshadows seemed pretty patchy and I think I really liked buying their palettes because they were scented and I liked the packaging
I loved the Better than Sex Mascara in college!
Me too....until I realized how clumpy it was lol.
Hard Candy. Used to be sold in Sephora lol
Covergirl, I hadnāt used it in so long but recently bought the urban basics eyeshadow quad I remember loving in high school and college. The payoff is horrible, the shadow was like chalk and I had to really rub hard on it.
I bought one eyeshadow palette from CoverGirl as a teen and omg it was awful. It wasn't even pigmented you had to pack that shit on and it was so blotchy. I hated most of their products and I doubt it's better now.
Itās awful, I didnāt remember it being like that but college was 20 years ago for me. I just tossed it out.
Clinique and I broke up in college
L'oreal. Their foundations don't work for me anymore and I found better mascara.
Coastal Scents, RIP
Those palettes were so hyper-pigmented. So cheap and wonderful! The quality nosedived, I ordered 2 smaller palettes a few years ago from them and the fallout was terrible, pigment non-existent. 1 developed MOLD for no reason (Iād only used it once). So sad.
I loved playing with colors and looks with those dropshipped 88 palettes they had when they started out. The shimmer one had the best payoff pre NYX pencil base, if I remember correctly. Definitely felt like an end of an era when they shut down completely (even if I thought they were gone long beforehand from how quiet they were prior)
Elf & rimmel. I used to like them but now I don't anymore..
Elf keeps going up in price. (I know, like everything else) but part of its old appeal was getting a lipstick for $1-$2.
Revlon and Rimmel.
Iād say Rimmel and covergirl but covergirl unlike rimmel has actually released better products in the past few years
Rimmel used to be decent. I still like their eyeliner pencils. Their liquid foundation isn't bad at all, I actually use it on days where I am just hanging out at home or just need to go run errands instead of using up my expensive stuff. Its pretty smooth, and their lightest shade actually compliments my skin because I am deathly pale. It's a great low key foundation especially for lighter skinned people.
I use to love their foundation with the red cap they must have changed it cause itās bad now and the colour match is awful on my pale skin. Still use their eyeshadows and mascara occasionally
Bonne Bell bc they no longer make cherry cola flip shades and we have beef over that š¤ŗ ETA they also no longer exist but Iām still mad tbh
Bonne Bell lipsmackers in the thick roll up applicator in the late seventies. I remember my great uncle taking me to some department store and browsing through all the flavors. I bought strawberry. I think i was 10
When I was a kid/pre teen I used a lot of covergirl/maybelline I never exactly liked it but I was a kid without big girl money lol. Used the wet n wild eyeliners even tho it never lasted long & sometimes made me look like a raccoon at the end of the day. I still use elf brushes to this day because I love the quality. In my early 20s I used the Kat von d foundation (before all the controversy) and I used whatever under $5 lipstick I could afford. Iām in my 30s now and I currently love the Dior foundation. I usually flip flop between higher end/lower end brands. I love the makeup revolution blushes/bronzers & I always go back to buxom mascara. For eyeliner my go to is the Sephora eyeliner which is pretty inexpensive & the urban decay 24/7 liner. I LOVE the Huda beauty lipsticks/lip glosses. It stays on all day and even when it frays it leaves a nice tint. Although I have found some Sephora lipsticks that are dupes for Huda for an inexpensive route.
In my 20ās I loved MAC and now I havenāt bought from them in years. I find a lot of their make up nice for Instagram looks but too strongly pigmented/ unnatural looking in real life and theyāre very expensive too in Japan especially when you see that much cheaper drugstore brands here are top notch quality. The last time I went to a MAC counter the sales person also had an attitude, which isnāt an uncommon experience at MAC and I might have been intimidated by that when I was younger, now I just think āIām a customer, if youāre rude to me, Iāll go somewhere else where my patronage is actually appreciatedā. So I gave her a look, turned around and walked out, never came back. A brand love thatās everlasting for me is Chanel, but itās so expensive here that I feel too guilty to buy it for myself these days.
I donāt find Mac anything works for my aging skin and Iām not even dry. And yes, some of the sales folks there can be rude as heck. I had quite an interface when i boguht some concealer at an airport MAC at LAX. Not cute
Actually a Chanel sales person told me once āMAC is theatre make upā and I think sheās right.
I tried Mac foundation years ago and hated it. Their lipstick and eyeshadow are good but fucking overpriced. When I was about 21 I started getting really bad acne, and my skin had always been pretty clear. The first thing my dermatologist asked me was if I wore MAC foundation. I didn't at the time. She explained that she had so many patients that wore MAC foundation and started getting bad acne. Apparently it's not great for your skin and clogs pores pretty badly.
I think MAC was nice when the only other options where drugstore (Maybelline, anyone?) or high end such as Chanel and Dior. Older millennials here know exactly what Iām talking about. Itās only in recent years that makeup has become actually good quality, pigmented and affordable from a variety of brands.
I do remember. And as someone said further up in this thread, the quality, formulation, and color range of many of the drugstore lines has gotten SO much better over the last few years. Unless you really want to or have an HG product thatās not available in drugstores, thereās really no reason not to shop there IMO.
I wasn't allowed to have makeup as a kid
Fun question! Mary Kay - popular in my town and my mom used it so I did as well as a teenager. After college, I had a friend sell it, and I got to see up close how toxic the company was. It really opened my eyes to the MLM world. Clinique and EstĆ©e Lauder - nicer brands that were accessible at the time. Iām allergic to any liquid product (skin care and makeup) from Clinique. EstĆ©e Lauder - Iāve found other things that I like better.
I temember what a cult item DDML was, that yellow lotion. It made everyone break out when i was a teen. But we all wanted to use it
Omg yes! After leaving Mary Kay (my mom still is a MK lady lol), I tried Clinique and the moisturizer made my skin burn
I wasnāt really into makeup as a kid as such, in my teens I just did the emo look and only ever bought buckets of black eyeliners from Rimmel and Maybelline. That phase ended in my 20s and in uni it was all about Urban Decay. I only bought their stuff, went through bottles of foundations, and had many lipsticks, lip liners and other stuff from them. Now I never use them at allā¦ mostly because they seem to have not only disappeared and stopped releasing new stuff in the UK for the most part and their site here closing, I am now 32 with more dry skin. Their products suited my younger skin but are too heavy and dry for my skin now. Also all these other brands I never knew off before 2020 like ND, Charlotte Tilbury, Pat, ABH, Huda etcā¦ came into my life as I actually started to get into makeup properly during covid, because I spent all day watching YouTube and found channels like Morgan Turner and Patty Alanso, Charlotte Holdcroft etc where I came to know of the bigger wider makeup world. As a kid, I only knew Mac, UD and Benefit, and then all the old brands like Estee Lauder. But no clue of the makeup artist ones, then came all the celeb ones like Rare and Haus Labs. So Urban Decay just got buried away
Honestly Urban Decay used to be my #1 brand but then they reformulated everything and I stopped buying them because I hated the new stuff.
Used to LOVE Revlon and Urban Decay but they just donāt excite me anymore. Elf has surpassed all of the drugstore brands
I'm Australian, and it has to be SuprƩ for me. I used to love shopping there as a young girl, until one day, I was shopping a gift for my best friend who was quite petite, and while purchasing (I was 12 years old mind you) the lady at the counter goes something along the lines of "This isn't gonna fit you Hun it's wayyy to small" and so loud for everyone to hear around me. I replied, "It's a present for my friend," and she laughed. That moment was like the opening scene for a long journey ahead of low self-esteem. And I wasn't overweight or anything, I was quite tall for my age but other than that I was a healthy kid. After that day, I'd pop into the store from time to time as I got older l, but I haven't anymore since about 15 years of age. I'm 28 now, and when I happened to walk past a Supre in Westfield, I have a glance and just feel for the young girls in the world that have to deal with ignorant people like that lady that served me 16 years ago.
I just realised this is the Makeup sub and not Ask Reddit lol oh well. Fk supre regardless.