Beauty products we regret..

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Anything you have found a waste of money and wish you didn’t purchase, I’ll start Kevin A contour pallet! Looks grey on my face

Anything Charlotte Tilbury. Overpriced over hyped rubbish. I fell for the hype spent £50 on a pot of "Magic Cream" which was just greasy gunk that broke me out in spots. I also spent nearly £40 on an "Air brush Flawless Finish Skin Perfecting Micro Powder". Absolute rubbish, the worst powder I have ever used. It all comes in this fancy glitzy package and idiots like me are fooled into buying this crap.

Also agree re Gro Gorgeous. I have tried various of their products and they do nothing for your hair. Just make it feel tacky.

Completely agree about Charlotte Tilbury.
And the irritating emails, darlings

The ordinary skin primer! That shit has my foundation PEELING off!!! I used the primark one after that and wow, what a great difference

Charlotte Tilbury lipstick - horrible drying texture

Dior “star” foundation, cost over £40 and looked like I had cement on my face. I am still pissed off about it 2 years on

Charlotte tilbury lipstick and liner. Absolutely terrible

$300 on makeup from Macy's from a brand I hadn't even heard off and was all light and organic. Basically did nothing but got peer pressured into it! Never again

Anything by The Ordinary - pure rubbish. Not really convinced about Hourglass products either.

Urban Decay Troublemaker mascara. I was sucked in by the cool looking holographic bottle and they had none of the other mascara left so I thought I’d give it a go. Now I know why the other stuff was sold out - the Troublemaker is atrocious! It has a stupid comb instead of a brush so you need to dip it a million times and you end up with mascara on your skin and virtually none on your lashes! The moral of the story is, if the other one is sold out then the one that they have loads of is probably shit.

Kiehl's avocado eye cream. Sits on top of my skin and makes my eyes water
Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara. Flaky and clumpy. Just awful.
Pretty much everything from Lush (except Dream Cream, very good for healing tattoos!)

Clarins beauty flash balm. Shite.

Bare minerals palette full of sparkly colours in similar shades reminiscent of mushed peaches.

Those striped bronzing palettes or anything with pearls/balls. Crap.

Any lip glosses that taste of bubblegum. Most do.

Charlotte Tilbury Pillowtalk and Magic Cream. Chanel nail lacquer, gloopy AND watery and amount of shaking helped. Paul Mitchell hair products. Sand and sky skin care did nothing for me. And a plethora of tanning products all promising what they can't deliver. However I am coming to learn that the simple things are normally the best. I've started using Astral cream again and it really is the most moisturizing formula. The scent is very grannyfied but it keeps my eczema prone skin in check. And ive recently found my dry scalp and frizzy hair have benefited massively from Pantene products. Who would have thought it? With the crazy money I have spent on hair things olaplex, bumble ect.

Phillip Kingsley elasticizer as it made my hair very greasy, Phillip Kingsley swimcap as I so rarely go swimming (which may be a little unfair to the product itself but it has sat in my bathroom for two years now and it taunts me)

Estée Lauder double wear nude. Transfers constantly and has zero coverage. I am a huge fan of double wear light, and thought this would be like that but lighter. It really isn’t. The reviews of it on Estée lauder’s own website are poor.

Elemis pro collagen marine cream. Made my nose oily.

Bioderma micellar water. Pricey (for micellar water) but was supposed to be the bees knees. I see no difference in it to Garnier sensitive micellar water which is about 5 times cheaper.

Nars chubby stick crayon type thing for lips. I can only use it when my lips are in tip top condition otherwise the dry patches look awful and the crayon lasted me about three weeks. Not good value for £20odd.

REN evercalm face moisturiser. Ok, I didn’t react to it at all, but it barely moisturised and for a moisturiser than isn’t good.

Pure hot cloth cleanser from m and s. It is their silicon free everything bad free vegan range. It was impossible to wash it all off so when I put my foundation on, I was pushing lots of bits of cleanser into my hairline.

Feel better now!

Me again.

Charlotte Tilbury Eyes To Mesmerise. Can't get the hang of it at all. My eyelids either look like a wet creosoted fence or the product is invisible.

Burt's Bees Hand Salve. Bizarrely greasy and dry at the same time. My child runs away from the smell.

Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse Dry Oil. Prodigious my arse. Which is about the only place on my body I can put it without breaking out in galloping acne.

Any lip balms. They all, with the exception of Aquaphor, bring me out in cold sores. Even brand new ones.

The Ordinary for me too. Really weird stuff exactly like semen

YY to the pipettes of baby gravy from The Ordinary. Their products are cheap as chips and it's easy to get sucked in by the lovely packaging.

Does anyone else get drawn in to purchasing from cult beauty they hype products like the ordinary up so much beginning to think there reviews are fake. I stupidly bought charlottes magic trilogy, thought it was ok will use them again now see if I think there as good after reading more realistic views haha

Charlotte Tilbury. It did not smell good. Sold the lot on ebay after one use.

CT Pillow Talk lipstick, I look like I needed an oxygen mask

Oh my goodness I am so glad I saw this thread, I've been searching high and low for the ordinary retinol and caffeine drops! I use elemis but wanted to try something cheaper!

For me, benefit they're real mascara. Pile of rubbish, clumpy and so not waterproof. Always sits on my skin under my lower lashes.

Yy to various tilbury nonsense, and to redken products. Also every balm cleanser I've ever tried, cheap to expensive that isn't the original and still the best - eve lom. All eye creams - utter nonsense, clinique foundation which oxidised like a bitch on me,

Elizabeth Arden 8 hour cream - ugh!!!
I remember buying it in my young, trying to fit in 20s (I'm now 51!) and balking at the greasy crap!

It reminded me of something in a car repair garage that the mechanic would smother all over bits of engine!

Totally crappy. It might be better now, but I don't give a damn about buying the stuff everyone raves about. I've much better things to spend my hard earned money on!!!

CT Pillow Talk lipstick, I look like I needed an oxygen mask

I’m the same with Mac Velvet Teddy. People recommend it constantly and it’s shit.