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

Who mentioned the REN Evercalm moisturiser? It was my go to whenever my skin flared but I think they've changed the formula. It just seems to be sitting on my skin. Love the Frankinsense night cream though.

L'Oreal Extraordinary Oil shampoo and conditioner. Used it twice and it's made my hair look crap both times. It's going in the bin.

Elemis pro-collagen marine cream. Made my skin dry. Expensive and over-hyped.

Estée Lauder Doublewear - gives me terrible spots and in photos I look like a ghost when I wear it

The Ordinary - yes cheap, yes nice packaging, but made no difference and is way too complicated to work out which products to use when

Clarins Beauty Flash Balm - still not sure what this actually does

Lancôme Bronzer - supposedly gives an insta filter type finish - why did I believe that crap?! Overpriced and same as cheaper brands

Bare Minerals - very weird finish, sits in wrinkles and lasts 10 mins. It did help my spot prone skin. I think!

Estée Lauder Doublewear - gives me terrible spots and in photos I look like a ghost when I wear it

That’s because it has an SPF. It causes flashback.

Pillow talk made me look ill but suited my teenage dd beautifully I was so envious

Foreo gave me wrinkles

Bare minerals complexion rescue just sat in all my pores and left a weird sheen but made my skin feel dry and the product dragged

Estee Lauder double wear - it looks awful on me sits in my pores and even the lightest colour is too orange. It was an impulse buy - never again!

Anything by The Ordinary. In 20 years' time they'll have been debunked for the emperor's New clothes they are. Cheap yes, but their insisting you need 45 different products is relentless.

Jo Malone. How fucking much for a nice box and a product which is 80% water???

Doublewear- nope, the orange mask look isn't for me.

Benefit They're Real. Real gloopy slimy panda eyes maybe.

YSL touche éclat thing. Smells like a mucky dishcloth after about 2 days.

Personally, though I know others swear by it, EL ANR did nothing for me either.

Kerastase shampoos and conditioners.
Absolutely shit!
None of them worked and I tried most of them..
Expensive rubbish.

Benefit high beam looked dreadful on my skin.

Clinique colour correcting primer - really really chalky, as is their so called "super drench" moisturing foundation! £50 on those two and I looked like the singing detective, gutted.

I also tried the No7 colour match thing, they matched me to Calico and I appeared to have just been embalmed.

ELF primer. Can’t even get it out of the bottle! It has one of those pump-top things that you pinch to suck the product up into it (Like an eye-dropper)- but it doesn’t work. Haven’t gotten around to taking it back. Stupid design.

What do you do with products that are rubbish? I always feel guilty throwing them away. Do you use them up?

The Ordinary works for me. I only use a few products though.
Tried CT Magic Vanish colour corrector at the weekend and it was awful. Didn't buy it thankfully!

I give them to my neice who’s a mini beauty fan. Tween age

YYY to Charlotte Tilbury everything and Philip Kingsley Elasticiser - utter bollocks. Also Olaplex is crap too. Aveda shampoos manage to make my hair flat, greasy and dry all at the same time- some achievement there.

No 7 BB cream. Shit just like cheap foundation

Charlotte Tilbury Vintage Vamp eye shadow quad. 4 minuscule squares of product, 2 of which are about as good as your average drugstore brand, one of which is a glitter you're supposed to press on with your finger so it seals over immediately and becomes unusable, and one of which is bright red. None of it lasts more than an hour or so.

Charlotte Tilbury Magic Wand highlighter.

Charlotte Tilbury all-in-one palette. Eyeshadows are basic but ok; blushes are so tiny you can't get a brush on them but the bronzer and highlighter are MASSIVE.

I worked out too late after my CT makeover that "startled sex doll" is not my best look.

Charlotte Tilbury. The mascara caused my eyelashes to snap and break off, the face powder is okay and the three in one eyebrow pencil thing broke really easily.

Also things recommended by Beauty and the Boutique, the tutorials are good but the products not so much so.

The overwhelming majority of big brand skincare. I bought it in the hope it would help clear my skin, however, only prescription medication fixed that problem in the end.

In terms of make up, I have Asian skin but desperately wanted to be able to use brands like Benefit so relentlessly tried their products in my uni days but looking at photos, I just looked ridiculous

I've since still got caught up in cult beauty products - Clarins, Clinique etc until I decided to simplify my routine completely to plastic free items. Now my entire skincare regime comprises of a beauty balm, rosehip oil and a zinc balm for occasional breakouts. It is a dream to not even look at products in department stores

Charlottes tilbury bitch perfect liptstick - not much better than rimmel or L'Oréal ones.

@chasethesnow which beauty balm? I have Asian skin too and now use rosehip oil only as my night routine.

@redferrari I use Lyonsleaf, they are a British company and all their products are ethically produced. I briefly used their facial oil too but prefer plain rosehip oil which also happens to be cheaper so works in my favour!

Those black peel off face masks that were supposed to remove your blackheads. Left me with broken capillaries on my nose, cheeks and chin.

Bare minerals- crap. Made my skin look dusty

Armani- so so much money for something that made my face dry and greasy at the same time

Anything by Benefit (except for the dandelion brightener which I use in place of blush)

Thanks, it looks fab! I use ordinary rose hip oil. I did like Estée Lauder's famous serum but it's just too pricey.

Younique foundation (yes, I know...). Weirdly cakey on my face, even when I exfoliated and moisturised beforehand. And the smell was disgusting. I bought it to help my friend :/