Emperor's New Clothes - what beauty products are over rated?

[Thedarklady]

Charlotte Tilbury - style over substance, the money seems to have gone on the packaging and marketing rather than the ingredients. The eye pencils are terrible and Pillow Talk is so bland. The skincare descriptions are a load of nonsense.
Clarins beauty flash balm - does nothing for me and pills like nothing else
Clinique chubby stick - meh to me
Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser - no coverage? Costs more than most foundations.
Liz Earle cleanse and polish - stingy malingy
Most perfumes - Jo Malone are very expensive given the poor longevity and spillage.

Sisley Rose face mask - fairly ordinary in my opinion. It's over £100 now and it's basically shea butter coupled with mainly meh ingredients.
Origins drink up is similar style product (thick creamy mask) but much better and much cheaper.

Guerlain Meteorites

Clarins beauty flash balm - does nothing for me and pills like nothing else
This sounds like you may not be using it correctly. Watch Lisa Eldridge on YouTube for a tutorial on how (and when) to apply it - it was a game changer for me.

Yes I agree with Boys I love Claims Beauty Flash bakm, but you have to apply it a certain way - basically v quickly and then quickly put foundation or whatever over the top before it has a chance to dry, so that it sort of combines with your foundation. Doing it this way it never pills and really does look amazing.
I've run out and have been searching for a dupe for ages with no luck, so may just have to fork out again.

Chanel nail polishes are the height of emperor's new clothes for me, awful gloopy formula and chip easily.

Sorry about typos, Clarins, and balm

Yes re Chanel nail polishes- beautiful packaging but difficult to apply and chips very easily

Liz Earle - broke me out horribly. Full of wheatgerm oil (cheap filler ingredient) & fragrance. My skin hated it, I threw it away.

I love my tan de soleil, although I’m sure cheaper versions would be just as good.

Have just bought no7s hydro drench (?) or something serum and moisturiser as my skin is ridiculously dehydrated and dry.
It just makes my skin wet then once sunk in it’s drier than before I put them on 🧐

The Ordinary

CT magic foundation - bought a sample from eBay, thought wow! Bought a bottle, ebayed it.

Decleor. Basic lotions and potions with a couple of drops of essential oils. Put some oils into your Nivea. Same thing.

Benefit They're Real. Real if you want sludgy gloopy eyelashes

Double wear. Now, it's not necessarily ENC, because it does what it says on the tin. It's just that you can generally see a DW wearer coming a mile off because it looks caked on and is invariably orange.

Absolute winner is Jo Malone though. How much for a fancy box and an average smelling product that isn't even perfume OR eau de toilette but cologne (ie 80%+ water) give over.

I threw a tube of Flash Balm away the other day, pointless stuff. As is Nip and Fab Nano Blur.

And absolutely Jo Malone, nice smells with zero staying power.

Chanel No.5 - smells like the cat’s pissed behind the radiator.

Chanel Vitalumiere foundation - brought me out in itchy spots.

Clinique Clarifying Lotion - had a similar effect to neat bleach.

Ruby Woo didn’t suit me. It dried my lips to a crisp, migrated all over my face and made me look like Heath Ledger’s Joker.

Ruby Woo makes me look like a corpse.

I have to disagree about Meteorites and Hourglass powders, though. I love both.

Gosh yes Touche Eclat. Stank like a dirty dishcloth after a week.

Looking forward to it wormentrude!

The ordinary for me. I had high hopes, given the active ingredients, but some of the formulas are awful, gritty feeling Vit C, sticky BHA, awful primer, the list goes on. They also change the formulas slightly to keep costs down so it’s not consistent in what you buy. I appreciate it’s cheap though but false economy in my opinion.