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.

Hester,do agree with what you said on Clarins - really like their skin and body care and use lots of it but their make-up just isn't worthwhile at all . Though I think I have one tinted lip balm of theirs - a freeby - which is OK. Strange.

HipHopOpottamus that MAC lip palette was probably a limited edition Christmas palette. They come out every year with different colour combos. Have a look at the label on the bottom, if it's still there, for names of the colours as some of them are staples from the full size lipstick range.

Yes, Cosmetics To go is now Lush.

GetOrf, I've signed up to it but haven't received one yet - it looks like it's processing. Not sure what that means but I hope I get it soon!

I mix and match too :

Clinique for foundation - only brand EVER to find a match for my skin, but I hate that is come sun a glass bottle as it's such a waste! Applied with a brush, not sponge.

Clinique for mascara too - High impact in black, gives massive volume and doesn't "drop". Have about 45 other brands in my makeup crate (not joking!) that I couldn't get on with.

Rimmel for power - cake but applied with a brush to "set" foundation.

Rimmel liquid eyeliner - essential. For a pencil liner - the Avon Jill Dempsy one is brill, with it's smudger end. Couldn't use pencil on lower lashes until I tried this one.

Avon latte lippy - gorgeous nudey colour.

For shadow, I have a massive range; clinique, MAC and illamasqua are faves.

Avon shadow is shit, as are their foundations and mascara - but the items mentioned above are great.

Why do I hate Clinique...hmmm. Its mainy the skincare that I hate, I think I started hating it back in the early 90's when everyone had that ridiculous bar of soap, paint stripper clarifying lotion and the incredibly overpriced Dramatically Different moisturising lotion combo. I just felt it was all marketing no substance. I tried the lotion once and it just felt horrible. No problem if it works for anyone else though.

I think they do have some good sun products, particularly if you are a bit allergicy. But their foundations I find are too gloopy, the wrong colour, etc etc, so never found one I liked, but I did used to like a couple of their powders, but they discontinued them. Their quickliner goes on nice, but if you ever drop it and it breaks, then that's it, it doesn't work anymore due to just silly casing in my opinion. And its easy to drop them when they are round, and therefore might roll off a surface.

I don't have a hatred of their mascvaras like some people but they are no better than something cheaper.

What I do like about them is the fact that they are easy to come by, and you can stand there and play with their makeup with minimual intervention from the often over-made-up dolly birds. Its just not often I find anything I end up buying.

They are not dreadfully awful, I just don't like their skincare and find that they are discontinuing anything I did like (like the true khaki quickliner, which brings out brown eyes a treat) which means they are just more and more far removed from my kind of thing.

I love the By Terry foundations and Touche Veloutee too - my husband said to me yesterday that I put on makeup really well! He meant it and I took it as a compliment

I want desperately to like Benefit but don't. Although Benetint does work well for me and I love the smell.

Rimmel used to steal buy it as teenager. Boujouis sooo much perfume.Would love to treat myself to Channel but scared of making expensive mistake.

That's the one! It's amazing you've got any skin left, OsbegaEthelwulf.

I like Benetint

But then I am wearing a No7 lipstick.

I actually have to confess to quite liking the Benefit boing concealers. I think they go on nice. Their cream eyeshadows dry really well on me to a smudge proof, crease proof finish. They have a really ice taupe powder demi matte shadow called "where there's smoke". Their bronzer is not too bad in a non sparkly not too orange kind of way but the box it comes in is just silly.

Don't like a lot of their other stuff, the concealer called "erase paste" is awful, don't see the point of lemon aid if you are going to wear eyeshadow anyway, though can see it makes eyelids better if you don't, but then so does a bit of concealer, bluff dust is silly, bluff stick is silly, Bad Gal is rubbish, ah what's that tinted moisturiser they do called - you rebel, that's it, the light one is okay but the regular one is orange.

I used to like the little tubes of blush they did but of course they stopped doing them. I was younger then though, I might not look so good in that kind of thing now, I've got a more grown up cheek colour now.

I thought you'd be along soon, MI!

I like Benefit Erase Paste.

Clinique High Impact mascara for me too - it STAYS ON. (I am a face-toucher).

Don't bother with Benetint, get the cheapy version from Superdrug (2true) - I get the pink one and now Posietint seems to just have no colour at all in it.

Bobbi Brown gel eyeliners - if you are going on Viring Atlantic or BA they have black + brown pots with a little brush for £23 (normally £15 for on pot, plus you have to buy the brush).

you seem angry OP lol

tbh must be some well off teens to afford benefit, swear by rimmel , miss sporty

never really liked no.7

A vote here for the Clinique high impact mascara but not for the often scarily over made up counter assistants or the paint stripper toners

I think Laura Mercier is overrated

Totally agree re Benefit - plus they always do the hard sell and won't let you just browse (admit I am unlikely to be their target market!)

Oh I have just had to order the glossybox! Won't receive it till mid August tho

I've lost count of the shit products I've tried.

Recent purchase was Dior complexion enhancer and I can't see the difference at all.

Don't think Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser is over-rated - it's oen of the best, I find (though using Becca at moment). But can take or leave most of their make-up. Love Becca eye tints, and Bobbi Brown cream eye shadows, which really do stay put.

Clinique skincare seemed to work OK in my much younger days, but haven't used it for years. Sure I'd find the 'clarifying' stuff far too harsh now.

Not actually a huge fan of Dior or Chanel stuff either, though do like Dior eye palettes and have a weakness for Chanel nail polish.

Realised that I am wearing Bluff Dust! It's what I use when I don't want to wear makeup - it takes the red edge off my face and makes it appear a bit smoother.

I get Birchbox and Testtube in the US too - worth checking out if you have a US shipping address!

This thread is making me want to go make-up shopping...

I love Benefit Blushers ( the boxes ). Hate the packaging, but I've never found a blusher I prefer. And I like their concealers too. Not rated anything else I've tried though.

I really like Bourjois foundations. They're only a tenner and comparable to high end brands that I've tried. They work better for me than the likes of Dior, Chanel, Lancome etc

Lisa Eldridge really rates them too, so they must be good. And Pixiwoo.

My favourite lipsticks are actually Virgin Vie ones. Although I got a 2.99 Collection 2000 one last week, which although it smelled a bit cheap, and the packaging was crap, it did the job just as well, and lasted for hours.

Reading through this thread has sort of solidified my view that there are very few if any entire makeup brands that have no worthy products whatsoever. Where absolutely everything is absolute shite. I think they all manage to do something well.

Its fun to hate their packaging or marketing though.

I've never even tried Avon and I'm sure they have good bad and okay products but the marketing seems just so middle-aged and housewifey and I just can't imagine ever trying it.

Never tried any of the Tesco stuff either - I've heard its okay but I can't ever imagine trying it. Don't shop at Tesco so that doesn't help...

Its like foam hair dye, never tried it, never likely to so can't really say its crap but like to think it is...

Avon has got some really innovative skin care and their eye pencils are veh good

I agree with Benefit for the most part but I still find myself always going in to buy myself a bottle of High Beam. It's one of the best highlighters I have ever tried.

No.7 mascara is generally crap and Barry M anything I find either slides off my face, is far too pigmented for it's own good or chips within an hour. Anything cheap apart from E.L.F seems to be bollocks too.

I swear by NARS, MAC, Urban Decay and Lancome though.

GetOrf Yes try Tesco makeup - think one of their foundations is made by the same who make Chantecaille (I read that on here).

Wow - really? I really like that Barbara Daly face primer - called Face Lift. It smells delicious, all fruity and it gives my face a slightly tighter, glowy look, all for a tenner. Veh impressed.

Agree about Bene-shit. Although WEIRDLY - got a free sample of Posie Tint by them in a magazine and it's very pinky pale but suits my very pale, freckly skin perfectly.

I find Touche Eclat a waste of time

Don't get Elizabeth Arden either.

I have lots of products but have recently been swayed by bare escentuals.

I don't think there are bad brands. I think you change what you do and do not like with age and experience.

Also, what works for me (as this thread has shown) is loathed by others.

If we all liked the same we'd all be at one counter!

I do like Urban Decay palettes though!

And no one will ever take me away from bobbi brown gel liners.

I am particularly liking the new chanel lipsticks!