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Brands you don’t like because of the packaging

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SequinShagger · 05/12/2022 16:34

Me. Charlotte tilbury. Just looks shit and naff

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cezannesapple · 06/12/2022 07:33

Suemademedoit · 06/12/2022 00:36

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??).

Over packaging, especially when it is all plastic, drives me nuts.M&S Food comes to mind. I bought organic oats and when I got them home realised the packet was all plastic. I won’t buy it again. Fruit that comes in a plastic tray with plastic packaging over it also is a real bug bear.

I also hate packaging you can’t open. Bought an apple earplug link thing the other day. I couldn’t get it open for ages and finally gouged it out with a pair of scissors. Why?

Hidingawaytoday · 06/12/2022 08:30

Iamthewombat · 06/12/2022 07:11

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’.

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Actually I was thinking this morning that I don't mind the current one of Chanel no5 - can't see how it's relevant to perfume at all but I quite like the music and the couple dancing together. A bit less 'look at meeee' maybe

Exhausteddog · 06/12/2022 08:35

Me and DD were not impressed that celebrations and kitkats recently changed their packaging and it looks crap! DD said it looked like a "knock off" brand

LadyEloise1 · 06/12/2022 09:34

Spliffle · 06/12/2022 04:16

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.

At least with plain glass you know where to put it in the recycling.
Not that I could afford Jo Malone candles anyway.
It's the coloured glass candle holders I have a problem with.
If it's not clear, green or brown glass how can I recycle it ?

Imafirework · 06/12/2022 14:33

@fairydustt yes it is their initials but they know full well what it looks like. It's that impression they give off that it's cool because it is like a swear word.
Their clothes are horrible and overpriced too!

Imafirework · 06/12/2022 14:34

Also corned beef in tins with the stupid key thing that cuts your hand to ribbons!

Just update to a proper tin FFS

Elphame · 06/12/2022 14:45

Anything with too much unnecessary packaging and those who have regressed to plastic from foil and cardboard.

Tunnocks - if you are reading this, there is no need to use 3 layers of packaging in your double packs.

ALongHardWinter · 06/12/2022 14:48

Blackbutler86 · 05/12/2022 17:37

Anything in a tin made by Heinz because the tins don’t stack and it drives me mad 😡. I like Heinz products but I refuse to buy them anymore for the inconvenience albeit seeming very minor to most people.

Totally agree!

amijustparanoidorjuststoned · 06/12/2022 14:58

Dear God Paco Rabanne's fragrance packaging is obnoxious.

skyeisthelimit · 06/12/2022 14:59

Anything that has their name plastered all over it, like Superdry, Bench, Addidas etc.

TellySavalashairbrush · 06/12/2022 15:08

Good Girl- Caroline Herrera something deeply disturbing about the name and the stiletto bottle.

Kinder Milk Slice- The advert really puts me off and the adult pose of the little girl with her hand on her head eating the product is icky.

Firen · 06/12/2022 15:20

Agree with Ickle Bubba. Just typing it out makes me cringe, could never buy any products of theirs.

Frank’s coffee scrub. The packing is ridiculous, the cutesy, chummy names, the stupid step by step instructions ‘get naked and get in the shower’. Who gets in the shower fully clothed? The product is an absolute mess and you have coffee granules in the bath for days and my skin feels greasy after. Hate it!!

Kpcs · 06/12/2022 15:39

Pat McGrath. The makeup is good and teenage me loves it. But there is just no need for the sequins. They look cool but what am I going to do with hundreds of sequins? They’ll just end up in a landfill/ocean. Needs to be more sustainable.

AllTheAll · 06/12/2022 15:42

SequinShagger · 05/12/2022 18:44

This. WHY DOES MN STILL NOT HAVE A LIKE BUTTON

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This is the best thing I have read all day. Need more splodgy and squidgy.

Pecanpie12 · 06/12/2022 16:00

Mrs Hinch' range in tesco. Looks cheap and tacky. Very chavvy.

Whoneedsleep · 06/12/2022 16:13

Also hate Ickle Bubba!

Not necessarily packaging related but when last car shopping the most sensible option for us was a VW Sharan.
Who wants to drive a car with Sharon plastered in massive letters across the back 🙄 Put me right off!

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 06/12/2022 16:19

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

Fat Willy's Surf Shack is worse ...

xYerDaSellsAvonx · 06/12/2022 16:19

Anna Sui perfumes. I liked the handbag one but they have gotten ridiculous.

Brands you don’t like because of the packaging
NigelWithTheBrie79 · 06/12/2022 16:24

My sil collects these. No idea why. It's not like they're rare or expensive.

NigelWithTheBrie79 · 06/12/2022 16:25

That was about Anna Sui perfumes

JamieFraserskneewarmer · 06/12/2022 16:25

Chilly's - the box can only be opened by damaging it - it opens with a tearable strip. Hopeless if you want to check that they have done the (incredibly expensive) personalisation correctly and, apparently, they can't send a new box. I get the whole recyclable thing but this one hasn't been properly thought through - expensive gift will now look as though it came from the "reduced for quick sale" bin

Manchmal · 06/12/2022 16:32

baffledcoconut · 06/12/2022 03:19

@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.

Yep.

i bought The Worlds Best Fleece from FF sometime around 2002. it was kind of a lavender grey, warm AF and really, really well cut. I bloody lived in it for years, and alas it got nicked from a crummy backpackers hostel in Cambodia. Bastards.

Lillygolightly · 06/12/2022 16:45

Any ugly perfume bottles, I don’t care how nice it smells but if it’s going to look ugly on my dressing table I won’t buy it!

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 06/12/2022 16:47

ValBiro · 05/12/2022 17:34

Child's Farm. Great products, naff packaging.

In fact anything with a real life photo of someone else's baby or child on it.

Come to think of it... Any real life human depicted on the packaging.

Child's Farm was the one that came to mind as its the only one I actively buy because it is such a good product!

Oooh now you come to say it, I’d rather not see a real life human on the packaging too!

StrawberryFlowers · 06/12/2022 16:56

Sweaty Betty, Acne, Fat face, fat willys

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