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Brands you don’t like because of the packaging

189 replies

SequinShagger · 05/12/2022 16:34

Me. Charlotte tilbury. Just looks shit and naff

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Tickledpickled · 05/12/2022 18:57

pg tips. Love the tea, hate the packaging.

Euphesmia · 05/12/2022 18:58

whilst I cannot abide the Kardashian/Jenner clan, kylie’s baby range has the most divine packaging

VeggieSalsa · 05/12/2022 18:59

Papergirl1968 · 05/12/2022 17:50

Not the packaging as such but the name Ickle Bubba.

Yes, I immediately dismissed all of their products as I couldn't bare to see that embellished on any of my possessions.

WildFlowerBees · 05/12/2022 19:01

Sweaty Betty. Awful name and overpriced. Not all of us are sweaty thanks.

Obsidianrocks · 05/12/2022 19:03

HintofVintagePink · 05/12/2022 17:29

Who Gives A Crap loo roll. I don’t want that branding in my bathroom.

Yes, same here! My son has just started reading everything and anything!

Manchmal · 05/12/2022 19:04

Bloody overpackaged berocca.

Fizzy vitamin pills wrapped in foil, in a plastic tube. In a cardboard box. WTF. Read the fucking room guys.

LimeTwists · 05/12/2022 19:04

Pai skincare. Gorgeous products. The front of the moisturisers have huge testimonials from named customers in quotation marks. I’m thrilled Michele likes her moisturiser but I don’t care enough to have to read her quote twice a day in my own bathroom. Totally dominates the front and makes the packaging look a bit ‘budget buy’ but they are priced around £49-£50. Put it on the box!

Brands you don’t like because of the packaging
LimeTwists · 05/12/2022 19:05

*£39-£50

louderthan · 05/12/2022 19:05

Monty Bojangles chocolates
Anything self-consciously retro

Imafirework · 05/12/2022 19:07

The French connection fcuk range.
We're so cool we put wrongly spelt wear words on our overpriced crap"
And products endorsed by MRs Hinch or Stacey Solomon.

Littlewasp · 05/12/2022 19:15

Hate Soap and Glory, was gifted a selection once - straight to the charity shop!!

JenniferBooth · 05/12/2022 19:22

Oh i like Soap and Glory They have a Christmas scent Jingle Blooms which is nice.

donttellmehesalive · 05/12/2022 19:27

Head and Shoulders. Super shampoo but dislike products that tell anyone using your bathroom that you have a problem. Look at me, I have dandruff copiously wafting across my head and shoulders and need special shampoo.

Idtotallybangdreamoftheendlessnotgonnalie · 05/12/2022 19:27

FlappyFish · 05/12/2022 17:54

The clothes company Fat Face. I like some of their items. The name is utterly off putting.

Doesn't bother me, it's the name of the ski slope where they first started trading. I'd rather that than some half baked invented marketing name, looking at you Jack Wills...

donttellmehesalive · 05/12/2022 19:29

Just package your shampoo nicely. I want it to look nice in my bathroom. I'll permit a small 'anti dandruff' subtitle somewhere.

CruCru · 05/12/2022 19:30

I can’t stand anywhere that, when you buy online, sends it to you with a shitload of polystyrene. Seriously, if Apple manage to send out laptops with cardboard packaging, so can pretty much anyone else.

donttellmehesalive · 05/12/2022 19:31

Not packaging I suppose, but nauseous marketing from feather down farms. A million pounds to harvest an egg from a chicken and sleep in a tent because you are an adventurer.

CruCru · 05/12/2022 19:32

I don’t like Superdry. Mainly because they make out their stuff is from Japan but it’s actually from Cheltenham. It’s the clothing equivalent of badly spelled tattoos.

LindorDoubleChoc · 05/12/2022 19:33

Really interesting question.

For me it's things like Cillit Bang and toilet cleaners in black bottles. Vanish in bright pink plastic. They just look so toxic! I suppose for some consumers that's what they want, but I'd probably buy those products without thinking too much if they were in white or fairly neutral type of bottles.

DiaDeLluvia · 05/12/2022 19:35

Yankee candles

dementedma · 05/12/2022 19:36

Tony Chocoloney....or whatever the hell its called. Hate the garish packaging

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 05/12/2022 19:42

Anything with the name Mrs Hinch or LadBaby.

Tins that dont have ring pulls on them.

BT11 · 05/12/2022 19:42

Hidingawaytoday · 05/12/2022 18:04

Not packaging but basically every single perfume advert puts me off buying it. Especially the one with the woman prancing around and then going 'And you, what would you do for love?' With a weird smile. I just don't get it.

That advert makes me cringe inside out 🤣

LucySno · 05/12/2022 19:45

Agree about Ickle Bubba 🤮

Before I had DC the name Tommee Tippee used to piss me off. Why not just Tommy Tippy? But when I had DC I was just grateful for it because DD would take the bottles and I got over it.

I despised the clothing brand with the playboy bunny logo.

I saw a bottle of perfume with a pair of legs in high heels sticking out of the lid, also vile.

luxxlisbon · 05/12/2022 19:48

Horsesandzebras · 05/12/2022 18:12

I don't like much packaging. I studied marketing. We need to just have products in plain reusable packaging and forget the aspirational/ marketing comms packaging BS.

Why is plain packaging any better though?

Would they all be sold at the government ration store?

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