- Annabelle mineral foundation. Looks cakey all the time.
- Aussie Sprunch Spray. Smells like a cocktail made with vodka and grape Dimetapp, makes my hair feel dirty, and only serves to make my hair messy rather than wavy. Salt sprays are far superior.
- Aveda singular note vanilla absolute. Expensive and smells weird... kind of smokey... vanilla gone bad.
- Balea shaving cream. It's just Life brand crap with a fancy name, and it feels like cheap body lotion. Absolutely useless as a shaving cream... which is what it's supposed to be.
- Bath & Body Works Twilight Woods collection, with the exception of the home fragrance oil. It smells too sweet on my skin.
- Bath & Body Works Secret Wonderland body cream. Smells like a strawberry lipsmacker and... something else. Not inherently bad, per se, just not mah fave.
- Benefit LemonAid. Colour seems to help my dark circles, but it's creasy, cakey, and expensive. Boo.
- Body Shop Tea Tree flawless BB cream in 01 - weirdly pastey, made my face feel sweaty.
- Body Shop Nutriganics cleansing gel oil makeup remover/cleanser. Does a good job but inevitably gets in my eyes and makes my vision blurry. Not a fan.
- Body mists of any type, with one small caveat emptor: I'm allowed to have one on hand during summertime, because they're refreshing when it's hot. But as a general rule, they smell cheap, and I can't use them up before I'm sick of the smell anyway, and all things considered, I'd rather just wear perfume.
- Chi flat irons. They burn out fast and are awfully fragile, especially given what they cost (exception: If I find one for less than $100 at Winners.)
- Clairol Herbal Essences Body Envy hairspray. Straight from the 80's. Makes my hair incredibly hard/crispy, but loses all hold if brushed through. Straight up awful.
- Clinique foundations. They always turn me orange.
- C.O. Bigelow cinnamon mentha lip shine. This product gives me wicked cognitive dissonance, because mint is cooling but cinnamon is warming. The two seem to cancel each other out, creating a weird, artificially sweet flavour.
- CoverGirl Lash Blast Length mascara. Looks like I have absolutely nothing on.
- Covergirl natureluxe gloss balms. Too expensive for a small amount of product, not moisturising in the least, and require frequent reapplication.
- Dr. Teal's "Relax" foaming bath. I think it's meant to smell of eucalyptus & mint, but instead it's like you're bathing in a tub of Axe body spray.
- Got2Be hairspray... something about "smooth," claims to have cashmere in it or some bs like that? Smooth Operator, perhaps? Smells great but has about as much holding power as water.
- Hard Candy tinted lip balms. So pretty, and yummy smelling, but they dry my lips out terribly.
- I Love Raspberries and Blackberries body butter. The texture got runny after something like a single month of storage.
- Lush "The Greeench" dusting powder. Smells like something you'd cook with & just generally sits unused in my medicine cabinet.
- Manic Panic cotton candy pink hair dye. Takes very unevenly and fades exceptionally fast.
- Maybelline mascara of any sort. They are consistently terrible.
- Maybelline Dream Fresh BB 8-in-1-beauty-balm: I'd heard that this was more like a tinted moisturizer than a BB cream, and I was cool with that, but it honestly smells and feels like tinted sunscreen. It oxidizes on my skin within an hour of application, and I get terribly shiny-skinned throughout the day with this stuff on.
- Marcelle mascara, with the exception of Ultimate Lash. They're generally too wet with bad wands.
- nyx eyeshadows. I really want to like these but they crease so badly, even with primer.
- Palladio rice powder. Turned me orange.
- Philosophy lip products. Dry my lips out.
- Philosophy moisturizers. Don't smell like what they claim to.
- Prestige My Blackest Lashes mascara... SAD, because it's so good in every way except that it smudges under my eyes no matter what I do.
- That horrible dry shampoo by Tresemme! I'm pretty sure it made my hair look dirtier.
- Le Bébé Coo Leave-In Conditioner/Detangler. A shame, because this is actually a lovely product, but I have to use sooooooo much for it to be effective on my hair, and it costs a mint. I've been using it regularly for about two and a half weeks, and my bottle is almost all gone already.
- bath and body works true blue spa salt spray stuff. Too bad 'cause it smells soooooo good (salty orange vanilla goodness), but it makes my hair feel gummy and dirty, and makes it more frizz-prone. Ick.
- TheBalm eyeshadows. They have this weird creamy/dusty quality which means that there's horrible fallout when you first apply them, and when you try to blend, they go patchy and muddy looking. No thx.
jan 27 2011 ∞
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