Most detested makeup brands

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Benefit - beneshit. Make up for teenagers or people who know bugger all about makeup but like the twee packaging. And it stinks.

Max factor - nothing I have ever bought from that range works. Infinity lipstick made me look like dried up hag, the cream blush has texture of ronseal, eyeshadows are crap, foundations crap colours.

MOST of maybelline. I tried that Eraser stuff out of morbid curiosity, it looked awful, like I had smeared PVA glue on my face. However I have a cream blusher from there which I love.

Clarins. I just don't get it.

nars orgasm is crap
as is bobbi browns shimmer brick

and nars the multiple
really? a lipstick?
#yeahright

as is clinique eyeshadow thayt oddly seems to win ST beauty awards every year... wonder why

Years ago Estee Lauder used to do lovely lipglosses in little cubes - stopped doing them now but I loved them, the colours were lovely & I wish they'd bring them back.

I have just got a little sample of Posie Tint from Benefit free with Glamour magazine - again, don't know what the hype is about. Makes me look shiny and a bit like Aunt Sally!!

oh yes the multiple is utter cackola.

might have been me, getorf, i wrote that the foundation is a dead ringer for chantecaille realskin (fifty odd quid) but not that it was made in same place.

Benefit is so shit.

All that twee nonsense. All style over substance.

I have never tried Bobby Brown, to me it is a bit like Revlon, all 90s looking. It is suppoed to be good stuff however, but it just doesn't appeal.

Perhaps tesco=chantecaille is a mumsnet myth

I went into Body Shop to try their highlighter/skin illuminator thing after Lisa Eldridge mentioned it on her liquid highlighter blogpost, and it was excellent like she said. But I saw some other bits while I was there and was impressed. The shop itself doesn't really appeal but we happen to have one so I went in there. That said, I used to use quite a heavy foundation by them back in the 90's when I was young enough to have spots. They discontinued it though which is a bad sign!

If you like those mattifying pore filling primers they do one just like all the rest but much less £££. I don't favour them personally as a primer because I think they make the skin too slippy and makeup tends to slide off but I do sometimes paint some over my forehead and nose with a light touch halfway through the day to mattify without adding powder.

There's just a few nice bits to play with and they are very good at giving samples if you are not sure you want something but want to try it.

x posts aitch - I embellished the anecdote then, evidently.

Or is it Chanel which is made in the same place as Bourjois?

bobbi brown VERY GOOD for gel eyeliner
nto as good as the clinique grey one though

also very good concealer

Getorf Max Factor Second Skin is easily the best foundation I've ever used (and I've tried shed loads) so I have to disagree... I also love No.7 eye liner pens, so there

But I also love Boujois foundation - they do a lovely light (as in coverage) one called something like '10 hours sleep effect' which I use in the summer as it's more like a tinted moisturiser.

The only make up I've ever really hated is Avon - it all stinks of cheap fragrance and brings me out in a rash.

Boujois and Chanel are indeed the same parent company or maker or whatever.

I bought the maybelline foundation the one with the big foam pad thingy on the top that you spread it on with. Absolute shit. Like painting my face with the kids finger paints. didnt blend at all.

I like the Max Factor mascara 2000 calorie mascara, cant stand the lipsticks but i'm not a big fan of lipstick most of the time.

ABF I bought that maybelline thing to see if the hype was true, like you, utter shit. Just lay on top of the skin. I gave it to dd, who threw it away.

I really like that Rimmel foundation that Kate Moss advertised as being good for when you've been out caning it all night. One of the shades is absolutely spot on for me and I like the slightly strange plasticky texture.

In fact I was going to post here asking for recommendations should I want to buy my foundation from a store other than Morrissons - something similarly plasticky in feel but in a nicer bottle.

chanel is to bourjois (sp?) as lancome is to l'oreal, isn't that right? ie same parent company but it really isn't the same makeup.

I too LOATHE benefit and no7. But I do like MaxFactor mascara and quite a lot of clinique. Mostly rate Bobbi Brown but whoever said it looks a bit 90s is dead right - too many brickish shades (ugh, remember when all American TV had women wearing brownish lipstick? like early Friends). Clarins I like the skincare but not fond of much of the makeup. Think Chanel eyeshadow is pants (no pigmentation) and love their lipstick; MAC the reverse. And there is only one base for me (Laura Mercier).

Anything from the 'normal' Boots eg rimmel, No 7 etc . Revlon. Max Factor . Estee Lauder - just find them 'yuk' and with all of the subtlety I d associate with Liz Hurley . Don't think it 's snobbery -really don't like them . Never tried Avon - no desire to . Wouldnt bother with Body Shop. Am a huge fan of By Terry, also like Chantecaille Laura Mercier Bobbi Brown and Becca which is fab but hard to track down.

have just checked and my mascara is max factor. big thick blue tube, it's really good.

You just reminded me Aquavit, back in the mid 90's in Australia this woman called Poppy King brought out a range of (really expensive or seemed it at the time) super dark super matte lipsticks. Everyone was wearing them. They were mega mega pigmented and very very matte. Everyone was just walking round wearing these Morticia like $20 lipsticks (that was a lot in those days)

I've got fairly unluxurious lips but of course being about 18 at the time I jumped on the bandwagon and sported some scary little mud coloured lines for lips for a few weeks before I managed to look properly in a mirrror...

I had a couple of sheer lipsticks in a really flattering red shade (the Holy Grail) from Body Shop, but I haven't been in for years either.

No.7 mascaras are really awful, IME, but I like their cream blusher. The Bourjois blusher is so cute and fun though- I might get some of that again now that you've reminded me. They also do a fabulous double ended (fnarrr) eye pencil in black and white. The pigment in the kohl end is really intense. I like their mousse foundation too, but I'm using No.7 Lift and Luminate at the moment. I wanted to love it after reading about it on here, but I don't think the colour is quite right for me.

I can't imagine wanting to try Avon. To me they sell 99p bottles of talc, and frosted pink lippy.

I remember being v impressed by Trish McEvoy stuff, but is very expensive, and have only ever seen it in Harrods (was too frightened of Harrods make up counter staff to linger for long, this was years ago btw, I would be all Lady Bracknell with them now)

Becca is great Polyhymnia...get yourself to their London shop, try absolutely everything, make notes of what colours suit you and you can wear, then buy at leisure and as budget allows online...

Rimmel Dream Mousse foundation is horrible, and it's so heavily advertised as the UK's number one foundation

It slides off oily bits and crunches and fizzles on dry bits.

Actually, I think it's Maybelline that do the mousse foundation, not Bourjois.

God yes re dark matte lipstick a la Monica geller in series one of Friends.

What were we thinking?

I wnet through a stage also of wearing dark lipliner on the outside of my mouth, and pale beige rimmel lipstick inside the lines. I looked a fright. No wonder no fucker asked me to the prom

I may have made this up, but I am sure I read on here about a colourless liquid eyeliner which you mixed with any old eyeshadow to make coloured eyeliner. Does anyone know what I am on about?

Oh that was a very 90's thing, the dark liner with nude/flesh/even lighter than flesh lip.

Hell I used to do that. It was surprisingly flattering on me from the point of view of it making my lips appear about as full as they could, but its naff in the extreme.

I basically think most cheap make-up is shit and generally only use make-up artist brands like Laura Mercier, Bobbi Brown and Mac. I am not snobby about other things and use Sainsbury's own face wipes and Sanctuary body butter and any old shit shampoo, but make-up has to be posh if it's to make it anywhere near my fizzog.

The exception is mascara. Posh mascara is rubbish. I like my lashes clumpy, like dead, hairy old spiders, and you can only get that with mascara from the chemist's, preferably if it's at least a couple of months old