Brands you don’t like because of the packaging

[SequinShagger]

Me. Charlotte tilbury. Just looks shit and naff

That’s exactly what I thought it would smell like! 🤣

I hate that bloody Marc jacobs daisy ad!
’Daisy, Daisy, Daisy Daisy’. Boils my piss!

Yes it looks like a knock off bottle of zoflora from the pound shop or something like your great grandmother had on her dressing table for 60 years or put in her drawers and smelt of lavender the kind you can only get in really cheap chemist's it might smell really nice for all I know but wouldn't dream of buying it as it looks so shite.

Yes this is also really annoying 😬

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You’re right It does look like zoflora!

Tbf, coffee is vacuum sealed like this for freshness. You’re meant to decant it. So you don’t need strength to open it, just a pair of scissors.

BUT yes to anything in crappy packaging. Anything in clamshell plastic; anything in plastic that’s crimped shut at the edges so even when you go at it with scissors you slice your thumb open; anything with more than one layer of packaging (if crisps can not get crushed by the miracle of air and gas, anything can. Eggboxes keep bloody eggs from breaking and only use cardboard, why does everything else need to come in plastic??).

Love this thread

Can’t bear the Loaf ‘visit our slow rooms’

@Suemademedoit Yes I get the vacuum sealed for freshness and that isn’t the problem. It’s the fact they advertise that the part that is glued together should easily pull apart but it doesn’t. It’s the false advertising that p’s me off.

Sure, I could decant it.

Totally agree with the clamshell plastic. Awful to cut open.

@Manchmal I used to live in their ‘better a bad day on the slopes than a good day in the office’ sweaters. Loved them so much. Now their stuff is shit.

Oh yes - that cutesy/chummy tone and you just know that the start up capital came from someone's trust fund or their godfather named Crispin.

Thank you for the laugh!

It reminds me of the first couple of satc series where the shoes they are all supposed to be lusting after are hideous plastic mules which look like they came from Burgess Hill market.

Jo Malone, cheap-as-shit plain glass tumblers (candles). She must've pissed herself laughing when she came up with that one. Glass that must cost 2p a pop when bought in bulk.

I couldn't agree more. It's a revolting name and I'll never buy it for that reason.

It’s the Gucci Flora range, I am currently obsessed with the Gorgeous Gardenia one. It’s beautiful! I even like the pretty bottle.

Superdry and their fake Japanese writing.
They started in Cheltenham!

M&S veg - too much plastic...... and no evidence of attempts to improve it.

Colgate whitening toothpaste. Excessive plastic so I won't buy it a second time.

Yes! God I hope someone in perfume advertising reads this thread 😆

Even if they do, they won’t learn. Perfume adverts are always terrible, irrespective of how much money is spent on them. The only ones I ever liked were the Brut ones with Henry Cooper, later featuring Frank Bruno and Gazza. They wipe the floor with the current multi million ‘Sauvage’ one with Johnny Depp playing a guitar in the desert for some wolves. I’d have expected the wolves to have more sense. Maybe they misread the name as ‘Sausage’.

See also Loaf sofas, not that I can afford them, but all the “here’s our yummy splodgy Spotted Dick With Custard squishy armchair in delicious Toffee Crumble velvet, mmm, delivered on our white glove service by our squidgy van. As cosy as a fire!

This made me laugh!

This! I couldn't physically bring myself to purchase anything with that name. Makes me physically sick!

Superdry aren't Japanese???? I never knew that. I can't believe I've never realised that. All these years...... I never go in because I can't believe there would be anything to fit me. I always assumed Japanese = tiny.

I can't bear the brand Per Una. And The Ordinary. I want a bit more glamour from my cosmetics.

I think I’ll start one on products you deliberately don’t buy because the advert is either fucking irritating or shite or both.

I love the scent Tommy Girl but would never buy it because the name is so horrible.