EOS lip balms, for sure. To my nose, these smell like a cross between musty socks & crusty underwear. Needless to say, that smell turns the flavor of these things into something that's utterly gagtastic to me *bleh* They also do absolutely nothing to moisturize my lips, or even keep them from drying out during the day. Useless product. I second the Tarte Lipsurgence. They dry my lips & feel gritty *all day long* Even after the color wears off. Hate them. Disappointing because Tarte does make other products which are quite nice. All Covergirl & Maybelline mascaras. ALL Covergirl products, for that matter. The only Maybelline product I'll use is the Color Tattoos, but not that many of them. I also second any brand's long-wearing gloss-type garbage, drugstore brands or otherwise. They peel & flake all day long. All Urban Decay products. There are so many I can't stand that I can't pick just one. If I wanted to walk around looking like a 10 year old glitter-bomb who just got her first ever makeup, I'd take a shower in the stuff. Their liners also never stay put on me. Really don't like anything they make. Benefit products. Every single thing I've tried from them, from face to eye to lip products bit goat balls. Horrible staying-power/texture/etc. Big fat pass! Guerlain loose powders. Hate them. Nothing but overpriced, cheaply made, talc-based rubbish. I do like their Meteorites, though. Although they're also talc-based, they're good products. Started collecting past limited edition ones last year. Found a couple that double as really gorgeous blushes. Can't stand NARS for the most part. I've returned everything I bought from them except one limited edition blush (Boys Don't Cry), a limited edition blush/bronzer/highlighter palette (not because I liked it; I was lazy), their radiant loose & pressed powders, as well as one of their eye paints. Other than that....*big wet fart*....I've never been impressed with their collection or quality of blushes, eyeshadows, lip products, shadow pencils, liners or foundations. With the exception of a very *very* few, they're products are incredibly disappointing. Calvin Klein perfumes, *except* for Obsession for women & men, all smell very urinal-like to me. This brand does make some nice cosmetics, though. I've got some CK eyeshadow singles that are AMAZING. Smashbox, the majority of their products. I believe somebody mentioned their gel liners. I second that, along with their pencil liners. Then there's their nasty primer *yuck* that breaks me out, their crappily formulated lip glosses, their cream shadows that actually wear off, their beyond useless eye primer, foundations, sad little cream liner palette etc. The list never ends. I've got one eyeshadow palette from them that is great - I think it's Smokebox, and that's it. Their 2013 Christmas offerings were just as pathetic as the vast majority of their stuff. Hourglass face primer. Yucky, silicone texture. Breaks me out. Does nothing to extend the wear of my foundation. Way overpriced for what it is/does. The only thing they make which I've learned to like are their Ambient Lighting powders, although I prefer Guerlain Meteorites & NARS radiant face powder (loose & pressed). Bobbi Brown blushes & cream shadows. Her blushes are seriously overpriced for the amount of product you get, and they're nothing special. Wet n Wild makes far more pigmented blushes which also wear longer. BB cream shadows are, I've found, horrific. They dry the skin around my eyes, feel like they're pulling the skin around them, & are a witch to build up to any kind of intensity without looking like you got hit in the face with a frying pan. Her Shimmer Bricks are another thing that don't impress me, but they're far better than those stinking cream shadows she cranks out. I like her 'bronzers' however, even though the bulk of them are far from 'bronzing'. At least with those you get a nice texture and far more product for your money. I also like some of her lip glosses & lipsticks, which really wear for a long time & (some) are really well pigmented. Everything Lush, except for Angels On Bare Skin. Their products are yet more that gag me with their scents & quality. I work with natural raw ingredients & essential oils & would torch anything I made if it came out smelling as god-awful as Lush's rubbish. Nearly everything they make irritates my eyes & nose and gives me screaming migraine headaches to boot. Stila lip products. A goopy, nasty, gritty nightmare with the WORST applicator ever. I wind up with more hair on my lips than actual gloss. Love the new lipsticks they came out with a couple of years back, though. Super moisturizing & amazing pigmentation. I've got a couple. Their cream blush is also great. MUF Aqua cream shadows. Drying on my eyes, not enough time to blend them out, crappy plastic jars, the product dries out in the jars at the speed of light, etc. For that price, they better get far better packaging & tweak the formula. NYX lip products. Hate the smell/taste/texture of all of them. Some actually make my lips & tip of my tongue numb, with a nasty chemical taste in my mouth. In addition, I've found that every themed shadow palette they've released is horrible. Powdery, lacking pigmentation, bad quality overall. And those ridiculous roller-ball loose shadows & glitter palettes? Phht! I do like a lot of their other products, though. Blush, shadow singles, cream blush sticks, slide-on liners (they don't budge), fat shadow sticks, several more. They should really improve their lip products & pare down their product line. MAC. Foundations, eyeshadows, eyeshadow palettes (THE WORST), pressed powders, lip glosses, etc. Too many products to mention them all. They're just more overpriced fodder for the toilet which either break me out, cake up, magnify my pores, or which are constantly stuck in my hair. There is very little that they've come out with in the last couple of years that I've been impressed by. I will say, however, that I've gone through 4 tubes of Bare Again lipstick in a very short amount of time. Best everyday product I've found that I can wear with anything from a full face of makeup to a totally bare face. As for Paint Pots, I've only liked a couple out of all the ones they've released over the years. Unfortunately, as with NARS, I've returned almost everything I've bought from them since about 2010-2013. Their product quality & formulations have gone in the toilet for the most part, while Estee Lauder has largely been getting better. Go figger.... Speaking of Estee Lauder....their lip products make me gag with that fake *fig* smell that never goes away. It just lingers like the wet fart above....disappointing, because I do like the formula otherwise. I also love their blushes, which blow most of MAC's away. I like their Double Wear products, too. They really do wear for a very long time, without breaking me out. Juice Beauty lipstick, pressed powder & cream highlighting stick from the Alicia Silverstone line. The worst 'natural', so-called 'organic' product line I've tried. Lipstick: not even the slightest bit moisturizing. It feels like a dry oil going on, and like the pigments weren't properly mixed into the crappy base oils they used. Once applied, it feels like a waxy mess. After it wears off, my lips feel dried out. I seriously make better stuff right in my kitchen with raw, organic bees wax, organic plant-derived oils & mica/iron oxides/pigments. If I can do this, what's their excuse for turning out such rubbish? The highlighter is also a waxy mess with non-existent highlighting. Hell, you can't even use it as a lip product, or a blush, or anything else. Crappy texture with zero emolience. Like trying to color your face with a slightly mushy candle & getting nothing. I expected far, far more from this brand. To make things even worse, Juice Beauty absolutely refuses to publish anything but 5* reviews on it's website. I know because I tried to leave reviews on their site twice, both rejected. And all I saw there was 5* reviews. How convenient....very dishonest company that's pumping out a lot of crap. Hate Dior's lash primer. Complete & utter useless crap. Love their mascaras, though. A lot. Great formulation & brushes. Never flake, smudge or goop my lashes together. Lancome's & Estee Lauder's lash primers are both amazing, however. Giorgio Armani pressed blushes & eyeshadow palettes. How can such products at such a ridiculous price point suck so badly? I'll pay for high quality products, no problem. Unfortunately, these ain't them! Disappointed from the first time I used them. So many many more craptastic products out there. It's shocking, especially when you consider the sheer volume of products on the shelves of so many stores. When are cosmetic/hair care/skin care companies going to get it right? With the technology & ingredients available to even the average person, it's more than possible to turn out nothing but products that are high in quality & fair value for the prices we pay. There's simply no excuse for doing anything otherwise.
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