Worst beauty buy?

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Your thoughts please so I don't waste my pennies.

I've just purchased another bottle (fool me twice...) of Co-Op nail polish remover that wouldn't shift polish

ever..... ever...... ever.

That white coat first mascara really suits me, gives me really long lashes that dont clump. I must have been using them 10 years now.

Lancome mascara was rubbish though. Cost a bomb too.

Holland and Barratt snail gel, mainly alcohol and bought me out in a rash. I took it back and the sales lady was really off with me. I bought it because I saw it on here.

Argan oil, didnt do anything for me at all. DH likes it for his hair though.

Maybelline great lash mascara.

Oh YY to Maybelline great lash! It's rubbish!

What is snail gel??

I did think Maybelline great lash mascara was rubbish. Palmers cocoa butter for stretch marks - overpriced and smells like chemicals. Couldn't stand it!

Clarins fake tan. I came up in chicken skin all over my neck.

Snail is meant to be healing and calming and I have poor healing skin so any spots take ages to fade away.

I thought it would speed up the process, it didnt and the main ingredients are alcohol.

So now you know never to buy snail gel.

Is snail gel like snake oil? But flammable?

Benefit bad gal mascara, possibly the worst ever.

Most no7 stuff.

Joules shower gel, cheap and nasty and smelly like cheapo washing up liquid. Consistency of watery diarrhoea.

My DH maintains most cosmetics/skincare/bodycare etc is snake oil.

See, I love benefit bad gal mascara! It just goes to show, some of the things on this thread are my 'must have' products.

Clarins Flash balm - glad I only had a free sample and didn't spend money on it, did nothing for me.

The entire Simple skincare range makes my skin all itchy and red.

As do all facial wipes that I have ever tried.

Most recent crap purchase was Bourjois Nail Varnish remover in a pink pot with a sponge inside, you poke your finger into the hole and so the label says you are supposed to have a varnish free nail in one second. Well, ten seconds of vigorous twisting and squidging still only takes off about half of it, quicker doing it the conventional way. Just binned it.

I must put in a good word for the Body Shop Rainforest Shine shampoo and conditioner though, lovely and low sulphate / free from silicones.

Agree with clarins beauty flash barm and benefit they're real mascara.

Clinique 3 step cleanser/toner/mois. Stripped my skin of any moisture and had to give up after 4 days.

gave it to my sister who loved it.

If anyone wants to sell their Clarins Beauty Flash Balm please PM me.

"Most no7 stuff"

I love no 7. What don't you like about it?

Anything from Elvive, revlon photo ready foundation - big bits of glitter, I looked like bloody Ke$hia! I emailed revlon and they sent me out a tenners worth of vouchers, so I brought revlon age defy foundation and it's lovely

Elegant touch 14 day French - only paid £1.50 for them so not too bad.

Benefit bad gal lash and tinted moisturizer in the red tube - the word "tango" comes to mind

Anything from Garnier - hate it.

My most recent worst buy has to be Nars The Multiple.
Good colour - but, and this is a big but, it seems to sink into my pores leaving lovely red coloured dots wherever I've put it...
I do use a primer etc but every time I try it, it still has the same pin cushion effect.

L'Occtaine almond shower oil. Horrific allergic reaction! Smell and softness didn't last on my skin either.

Have to agree Clinique 3 step is awful. I got bought some as a gift years ago. The toner smelt like industrial cleaning fluid and made me rashy & sore. The dramatically different moisturiser was shit. If a bottle of that stuff is sold every 7 seconds or whatever Clinique claim they're being done.

Dr Haushka rose day cream makes me greasy & spotty but I forgave them because the light version is perfect.

I also love Clarins Beauty Flash Balm.

God I LOVE these threads

Benefit BadGal mascara - so disappointing

Soap and Glory mascara - ditto

Clarins BF Balm - does nowt

Paul Mitchell Wild Ginger serum - pfffft

Clinique Dramatically Different moisturiser - face comes out in itchy rash

Clarins Beauty Flash Balm - sticky gloop, not sure what it should have done to my face but it did nothing

Bio oil - can't stand the smell

Clinique Aromatics Elixir perfume - have collected loads of samples of this over the years and it smells like furniture polish

But I love powder mineral foundation and Nars Orgasm blush. And Palmers cocoa butter smells gorgeous to me.

Re the no7 stuff.

I find the mascara dreadful. Dry, flaky and did nothing at all.

Foundation, greasy and poor coverage. Lasted about 3 hours.

Lipgloss, not great colour, thin and again lasted about 5 minutes.

Liquid eyeshadow went creasy. Nice colour though.

Nail varnish, goes on well but chips easily. Then again, most do IMO.

Nano blur. It did not do what it said on the tin

I like Maybelline Great Lash mascara - it doesn't go dry and clumpy on me.

Dislike No7 primer - made my skin really dry and the foundations settled in clumps.

Any "eye cream". Always makes my eyes itchy and watery. horrible.