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So today we are looking at...
I think, RuPaul's makeup.
So I have a few bits here that I've been sent.
I have a few sets, lip
products, eye products, face things.
We're going to see what we can do with all of this.
What is it like? Is it good? Is it bad? Who knows?
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Okay, let's take a look at what we have here.
Let's talk about the concept first of all.
RuPaul having makeup.
It makes sense. It makes sense.
Yes, it's another celebrity doing a makeup thing.
Don't care.
It does make sense.
However, this is available at Superdrug here in the UK.
I don't know where else it's available.
The packaging itself, although card, and...
a lot of brands do this now.
It is giving cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap.
It's not great, to be honest with you.
It's not great.
Most of the products are these square, almost
like wholesale dropshipped, packaging components, like these multi
packs of lipsticks and things like this.
It's very drugstore at Christmas, bringing
out some last minute things.
We have, like, a whole face set. It's cute.
Some of the colors are cute.
So we'll take a closer look at that.
It's just the packaging
first off, I can see this being purchased everywhere
by people who, not really sure what to get their
friends for Christmas, but they know that their friends
like Drag Race or their kids like Drag Race.
So they shove this in their stocking.
It's stocking fillers, I'll be honest.
Okay, let's just do it.
I'm kind of confused where to start, because we have
a lot. Let me just whack on some eye primer quickly.
A lot of people still ask me
what my favorite eye primer is.
It is this one from Sigma.
I always use it in the shade Ignite,
but it does come in many different shades.
So it's a good one to have.
And I always have a discount code for
Sigma below, and I believe an affiliate link.
So go ahead and check them out.
Actually, all my affiliate and things like that are
down below, in case you fancy a discount.
So for our eyes, the option we have
is the All About Me Eyeshadow Palette.
This one's very kind of neutral.
It has a little pop of purple there.
Nothing...
Nothing crazy special.
We then have the Sashay Away 18 shade shimmer palette.
Oh, that's... these are cute, actually.
These kind of shades are cute.
This very much reminds me of
the Missguided, was it Missguided palette?
That was very much these shades and
this kind of texture looking as well.
And we have Shantay You Stay 18 shade matte eye palette, like so.
So let's just do a mix of everything, I guess.
One thing I want to say as well, one thing that's requested
of me a lot is, like, react to drag queen's makeup
or to do drag makeup, which I'm not really going to
do because I'm not really confident with it.
And I don't feel like I can
offer anything with that so much.
But also knowing... I did do, like, a drag certification
a long, long time ago, and I just can't imagine
drag queens using this makeup, to be honest with you.
Just an opinion.
There might very well be a drag
queen out there who would use this.
Okay, let's start off with, let's do just
like a light shimmer into a darker shimmer.
Let's start off with the shimmers.
And I just want to see, there's not very many like...
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Let's start off with All Stars, which is
going to be this shade right here.
Let's just cover this whole area here.
I'm going to make it quite big, quite blown out.
Honestly, they're not very, for shimmers
they're not very smooth.
What is this shimmer? Yes, shimmer.
They're not very smooth.
They look quite bitty.
I might mix in a little bit of
Entrepreneur, which is this one just here.
It's not the best. Let's be real.
I don't feel like this brand has
been made to be amazing makeup.
Trying to be in competition with bigger brands
or big celebrity brands or anything like that.
I actually feel like maybe it's just like a quick...
I literally think it might be a quick,
get them in at Christmas, kind of thing.
It does kind of baffle me how RuPaul would come
out with such a cheap looking and feeling brand, because
surely they could do anything with any other brand.
Surely people will be in the mind of
being a collector of whatever they release.
So you could not only reach an audience that is
a makeup audience, but also an audience that is your
fan base that may not even use the makeup, but
I don't think anyone who just likes Drag Race is
going to go out and buy this, you know, and display it.
You know, just from a marketing point of view.
Not that I've ever worked in
marketing or anything like that.
Okay, I want to do Fascination and then go
on top with Kitty Kitty, which is this one.
So let's go in to Fascination. Take it right to
the outside here.
The actual pigmentation that's coming
off in terms of depth of color, honestly,
they do feel extremely cheap.
Like, I wouldn't give this product to somebody who
maybe is quite experienced with makeup and loves makeup.
Am I being too harsh?
Maybe we'll see how it is when I'm completely finished.
But just, like, I wish like, for example, the
color that's on my lid now, compared to the
color we actually used is slightly, almost like this
is a little bit more metallic in the palette.
And actually, when you build it up with
fingers, it doesn't get much better.
We'll take that Kitty Kitty shade and we'll tap that.
I want to go in between that
blue and that kind of goldie tone.
That's kind of cute. That's cute, actually.
It's just not pink enough.
They're all very much a wash of color.
And I mean, if this is the pigmentation I'm
getting with a finger, I dread to think how
terrible it will be with a brush.
Okay, let's go into the matte palette and let's take
the shade Push It, which is this one right here.
Only because it's a similar kind of,
was a similar kind of blue to this blue.
And I just want to kind of
smoke out and buff that color out.
Hopefully that will work. Oh, actually, you know what?
Let's go into Charismatica, which is this one.
Be interesting to see how a lighter pastel blue
like that works, cause in like pretty bad palettes,
those kind of shades are really crap.
They're usually quite patchy.
I always think everything will look fine
once I have some lashes on.
Okay, now let's go in with a darker shade.
That Push it shade.
Let's get right into the crease here.
Honestly, it's not the best. It's not the best to be honest.
I'm just going to fix the fallout from under my eyes.
Okay, let's do a little bit of concealer under eyes.
To be honest.
you know what this collection is reminding me
of so far? Is like, when you know when you're just
like shopping and then you see like, shampoo
with your child's favorite character on, you're
like, oh, I'll buy that shampoo for them
because it's cute.
Or like toothpaste.
I always remember I had Miss Piggy
toothpaste, and it was bubblegum flavor.
It's like the characters on it, but the...
There's nothing different about it.
Nothing special.
It's still the same toothpaste.
You know what, I think... I don't know if I'm disappointed in
this or if it's just extremely underwhelming.
It's not good.
I'm gonna take the shade Sickening, this
purple, and just run that underneath.
I'm going to have to lean right forward
because this gives a lot of fallout.
And I've only just done my concealer.
That's a cute, I like that purple.
That's a really cute purple.
Okay, we will finish up the eyes
with some lashes a little bit later.
So for the cheeks, we have a few different things.
So we have this highlighter quad.
This is called The Final Four.
And there's four different shades, obviously.
I'm thinking I'm going to have to go for this one right here,
which is called...
Oh, so we have Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent.
I might even have to go for the first one, you know.
Horrible, horrible.
Bitty and not nice at all, actually.
Okay, really, really not nice. Not nice.
It's not very smooth.
You can actually see it's like chunky.
I'm actually going to mix the two.
I'm going to put this on first and then I will
add Uniqueness on top, which is a little bit more pinky.
You cajust see chunks of, like, shine.
Uniqueness can go on top.
This doesn't blend out very well either.
It's feeling like some kind of hybrid cream powder texture
that isn't quite doing what it's meant to do, almost.
I don't like it. I don't like that.
If you have maybe textured skin that you don't like, I
don't believe that this will be the palette for you.
I'm just going to help myself out a little bit
and tap over with my foundation brush that still has
a little bit of foundation left over from before.
I'm not putting any extra on.
So the only blush is in one of these, and
Hot Shot is the only blush that we have here.
I quite like with lip color as
well, so we'll maybe use that.
It's a nice peachy orange.
Can't really go wrong with blush. Well, you can.
I don't know why I said you absolutely can.
I'm just going to warm up
the whole hairline with this blush.
Blush is fine.
Works like a blush, so that's good.
Okay, let's move on to lips.
So we do have this kind of
multi pack of lipsticks right here.
And I also have a gloss and just
a red lipstick, so... oh no, they're all matte.
Okay, so let's try some of these lipsticks first,
and then we'll give a go, we'll give the matte ones a go.
Okay, so we have Mother Pucker, which is
this nudy peach, which is quite nice.
I quite like that one.
Pout It Out, which is this kind of like,
more of a cold nude, which I quite like
also because, you know me, I love a good nude.
And then we have Lip Lock, which is more of a nude.
So you know what I'll do?
I think I'm going to use Pout It Out.
Okay, just going around my lips a little bit
just to nude out the redness.
Okay, Pout It Out.
Urgh, it tastes like weed.
Oh, I hate, I hate that taste.
I hate it when you smell it.
I don't mind people smoking weed.
I just hate the smell.
It's my lip color in a lipstick.
The texture itself is fine.
Again, nothing overly... I don't know, stimulating. I don't know.
Okay, let's try the matte lip.
This is Pretty Pretty.
Smells good.
Sounds really nice, actually.
So these are naturally going to have a bit more color.
Okay.
I personally, that looks like I'm dying,
but it's just the color choice.
The texture itself is actually really nice.
I'm going to let it set down because
it's just getting a little bit sticky.
And see how that settles.
Let me put on some lashes, some
mascara, and we'll be good.
I'm using the Ciate Wonderwand Mascara. Beautiful.
It just grips to your lashes, gives them a bit of
thickness and volume, and fullness.
Quick lip update. It's...
I'm not going to keep this on, by the way.
That's why I haven't really made a big deal out of it.
It's setting very matte and not sticky. In any way.
I did use one from... sorry.
I did use one from Maybelline the other week
that stayed quite sticky and horrible feeling. It's taken
a little while to dry in these corners.
But, I mean, if I sat here like
this, it'll probably dry a lot quicker.
It's very comfortable.
Very comfortable on the lip.
I'm going to stick my lashes on, take this
off, and swap it out for something else.
Actually, I'll keep it until the end. Why not?
Okay, so this is our finished look
with the, the RuPaul? RuPaul's makeup.
I'm pretty sure in my mind that speculation and
just opinion, that if RuPaul had anything to do
with their own makeup brand, it wouldn't be this.
I'm very confused by it because something
just isn't adding up with this collection.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe they agreed to just stick the name on it,
the brand, and be like, yeah, done. Great.
Let's make some money.
But the makeup is subpar, and
it's not, it's not amazing.
I just feel like, you know,
the makeup world is saturated, right? Of course.
I'm not angry about it.
But the drag queens releasing makeup brands, isn't.
There's what? Two that I
know of, that are Kimchi, Trixie.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Is there anymore?
There must be.
Well, I don't know about it.
Well, those two are extremely popular anyway.
Mainstream wise. I feel like this collection
could have been better. The products,
like I said, these components,
we see these components everywhere. Lip glosses.
This is a completely different brand. Liquid Eyeshadows.
Indie brands use these. Packaging is cool.
It's very makeup focused and...
I don't know, maybe it's just disappointing.
I just don't like it. I don't like it.
The eyeshadow is fine. It's fine.
It's eyeshadow.
It feels dropshipped.
It feels wholesale.
It feels AliExpress, which I know it isn't.
And don't get me wrong, you can
get some good eyeshadow on AliExpress.
I don't really know what else to say.
It's not the best, I'll be honest. Not the best.
Highlighters chunky.
The best thing is probably this lip product.
I wouldn't rush out and buy this.
Even with the name.
I feel like, one, it's a missed
opportunity. Two, the product isn't that good.
I personally, if I was on that scale of
fame, in a world that's quite creative and in
a world that, you know, is known for using
makeup, I personally wouldn't release something like this.
That's all I'm going to say.
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