Hello everyone, welcome back. So, today's video is going to be slightly different.
I did record this whole video and me being me, as it was uploading to YouTube
I was like, right, let me cleanse my computer of
every file. Moved it to the trash and then emptied it. So
I've tried to recover the video but unfortunately I can't. So this video is
going to be me voice overing, and I've added in some
clips of me using these products. And these products are going to be some
products that I really, really hated using in 2021. I've seen a few people do
this video, I think we kind of all wanted to leave the year the same way but yes.
So a warning, there may be some products in
here that you love, it doesn't mean that they're wrong for everyone, they're just
products that didn't necessarily work for me. So let's just get into the first
product. This is an eyeshadow palette from Dior. I'm gonna go ahead and let
myself explain it, and then I'll come back to me again for more.
This is the... oh, and this is the Couture Golden...Golden Nights? Golden Nights
eyeshadow palette. I think this might have been a Christmas release because
there was a snowflake on a package. Now, I'm absolutely not going to use these
brushes that come with it, as much as Dior like to use them on their Instagram.
I will keep them for... because they're good for like glitter and
packing on pigment but not so much eyeshadows. I do have to be honest
with... I've never really dove into brands like Dior and I've never been inspired
to until I saw this, this blush. Because of their packaging I think it's
really cheap, and I think it's really old-fashioned. It doesn't necessarily
feel luxe in any way. There's absolutely nothing luxury about this packaging, in
any way. Very old-fashioned, needs an upgrade. That's really why I haven't gone
for any like high-end luxury before because I find the packaging is not
really worth it, and the products sometimes aren't either. But let's try it.
I've actually never tried Dior anything, except for blush.
Not really the color in the palette is it? Although it's a nice color, it's nice
and deep and rich in pigment, I'll give it that. That's a really great pigment
actually, it's really, really very deep and very pigmented. It kind of doesn't
blend, it doesn't really move very well. It could be... I mean the primer I've
used is the e.l.f Putty Primer because it's super, super dry and my eyelids are
super, super oily. And I've used this eye primer with many brands, high end and
drugstore, independent brands, and it's one that I find works with every single
quality of product, it really won't budge. I do like that color though. It's
very deep. So there's a navy blue, a black, and a silver.
Oh. As well... when is this from? I feel like this is like, this is a super old
palette because this color concept, the silver and the black is very
2000, don't you think? Let's just go ahead and
take that shade right to the inside corner then, let's make it really deep.
I'm really, really struggling to blend this. Yeah, okay. Let's, if we can, blend it
into a really rounded shape. It's just, it's really like gripping. Look,
can you see it's kind of like, it grips onto
the shape that you... it doesn't move, where's my camera? It doesn't move, it
doesn't budge. It's, it's really not moving very well.
I don't know, it just looks muddy and patchy. It's, what it's done is it's
gripped on to where I've applied it, like where I've
initially applied it. It hasn't really blended from that space. Can you see
where I've applied it here? I've gone in with my brush here, it hasn't really
moved it around. Okay, hmm. What do I do? Let's take a little bit
of the matte black right here, and let's just give it a really deep corner. Look,
look, it doesn't, it does not move. It just does not budge. This is awful actually,
it's really, really bad. Really unimpressed.
So this has to be maybe one of the only products
ever that has like severely pissed me off. Like this product like
annoyed me, like it reall,y really annoyed me. I could not understand how a really
expensive brand could put out an eyeshadow palette like
this and it'd be such poor quality. And by
poor quality I mean the blendability. And the fact that I've used super, super
affordable brands. For example, those small, you know those little tiny e.l.f
like bite-sized eyeshadow palettes? They are far superior in terms of
blending than this Dior palette. I was so, so disappointed. And I did, I believe I
gave it a second chance and it just did not work, again. And here's my theory on
this, right, I feel like... I think I said it in that clip, it was a Christmassy kind
of themed palette. So in my mind, had it been in storage
somewhere maybe for over a year and it's kind of like
not got the best formula or the correct formula? Maybe it was defective in some
kind of way. That's what I'm going to say because a
lot of people were saying they really liked it, they love Dior eyeshadow. So to
me I was confused, I was like, why? Why?
You know? [Laughter]
But it was almost like the color stamped on and then wouldn't budge. I was so, so
disappointed. Yeah, and to be honest with you it's not the kind of price
point where I would risk buying it again, just to then be
disappointed. I would love to know if there's a Dior eyeshadow palette I
should give a go, let me know which one it is below.
However, there is a Dior product again coming up later in this
video, so I'm not on the good side of Dior so far.
Okay, let's take a look at our next product
and this is a bronzer from Gucci. Again, I'm gonna play the clip and I'll be back
for further explanation. Let's move on to bronzer.
We have, it in its own private bag, we have the Gucci Bronzing Powder, looking very
expensive.
The f*ck do you open it? Oh, like a normal bronzer, Jesus Christ. Oh, there's a brush
underneath, I didn't realize. I hate these brushes so I won't be using that. This is
£46 which, to be fair, isn't far off most blushes and bronzer prices on the
market nowadays. Some are about £30, so yeah.
Oh, oh my God, there is a lot of fallout. I don't know if you can see, look at all
that powder coming up. And I'm very light-handed. That's, that is a lot and it
keeps going. That's a lot of wasted product.
Oh, I hate that so much. Oh, I really hate that. It doesn't blend
very well on the skin, it, it... you can see where I applied my
brush it really, really sits.
The only way I can describe the texture of his Gucci one is stubborn, it's like
it stains and doesn't move. I don't like this at all. So this is another high-end
product that, again, I felt let down by. Kind of pissed off about. Because, you
know, when you spend money on something you kind of expect it to work, right? Like
imagine... let's compare it to food, although I'm
sure it's not really well comparable. But if you go to a really expensive restaurant,
you expect it to taste better than like some,
you know, truck food. Actually no, food truck food
is really good. Let's say Mc... oh no, Mcdonald's is really good as well.
Okay, say you pay 10...
$10 or pounds for a pizza, right? And you go
to some fancy restaurant and you're going to pay £70 or $70 for
a pizza. I can't think of somewhere that charges that much but just imagine,
let's play pretend. You, I mean that expensive pizza better tastes better,
right? It better taste like the best thing you've ever tasted, ever. This Gucci
bronzer was the texture of, and when I say mud, I'm in no way referring to the
shade because the shade is gonna suit someone but it was the texture. It was
almost like that gritty, it's not gonna move, it's just gonna roll around and
stick into place kind of muddy grippy texture. Yeah. Okay, let's see what's up
next. Now, this is a powder that everyone, it was one of those TikTok...
and I'm gonna quote “viral” you know I've got air quotes, “viral"
products. Yeah, let's go ahead to the clip. See? Okay, so here's my issue first
up, so when you rub it to get that kind of coverage you need to really push it
into the, into the thing, and it kind of crumbles away which means you're kind of
like... look, it's everywhere, it's all on my phone screen. J: It's all on my exclusive
merch. R: It's all on my phone screen. But we're gonna get a good coverage.
J: Can I do it now? R: Yeah, let's do it.
J: Wow I can see every pore.
R: It's not that, it's actually not that much coverage.
J: This is horrible. I mean, you see on my nose actually.
R: Look. I mean, just the way it crumbles when you do that. People need to stop over
exaggerating guys. Just, just be honest. If you don't like, if a foundation just acts
like a normal foundation... J: Was that was like an advert?
R: No. Oh, it was? So that was an advert. And you know what this happened a lot with
KVD, the foundation, there were adverts. People are paying for their product to
go viral so people think it's good. J: Well, this is the thing when you
look on TikTok, and this isn't, you know, accusing the creator of doing
anything. And not, obviously not saying she was lying it looked very good
on her skin. A lot of people are saying the products going viral when they're
not. R: Yeah, yeah. Viral... I know.
J: That looks horrible. R Looks awful.
J: Oh! Oh my God it looks like you're dead and you've had a
mortician do your makeup. R: Yeah, it is very like 80s. Let me
just try... I just want to... J: Like I can see every single pore on my nose.
R: Here's, I'm so... do you know what, these f*cking
foundations acting like they're amazing, and people acting like they're the best
thing is really starting to piss me off. And here's the deal, to get this full
coverage, like you can still see rosiness on my cheek here, I'm gonna have to have
a really, really...
Isn't it horrible?
J: I hate that. R: Here's the deal, right, if you want to see
good reviews just go to YouTube or like an Insta...
not even a Reel because like 60 seconds isn't enough to really look
at a foundation. This stinks! It's got like a fragrance to it, like a
rosy... J: A very traditional female 1920s rose smell to it.
R: Well, that's one... look how flat my
face looks as well? So I've spoken a few times about brands and,
you know, like sponsoring people to create content using their product. And
something new that seems to be what brands are doing in sponsored videos, is
telling the content creator to mention that the product has gone viral when it
hasn't. So, I'm hoping this year, 2022, brands kind of jump off that
advertising trend and stop telling us that products gone viral, because TikTok
creators are then, you know, purchasing products
you know, to kind of use to make, you know, a viral content video. This powder right
as well, when I was looking into it a little bit further there are only
six shades in this powder. Now, a powder that claims to be full coverage like
this powder does on their website or have a good coverage.
It, you need to get the shade right. If you've seen this video, James is wearing
one shade lighter than I am wearing. The shade James is wearing is too light,
you can see around his hairline his skin tone is deeper than that. And the one I'm
wearing is too dark. With powder foundation you need to get
that shade right because it is so matte there is no space for, you know, error
really. One shade wrong and it is obvious, it is very, very obvious. And like I
mentioned as well, you have to give like, if you want a full coverage from it like
these TikTok videos were claiming, and this video with, from the joint
channel that you're seeing is, is kind of recreating TikTok, sorry,
TikTok's that are claiming a product acts a certain way, you know, full
coverage, whatever. It just, it really wasn't that great. To get full coverage
you would have to build more, and more, and more. And that power texture will
look horrible on the skin. You can always refresh it with a little bit of
hydrating mist to make it look more natural but we know what happens when
you dampen powder slightly, it deepens. Especially people with oilier skin, that
powder is going to oxidize on your skin if you get it too wet. So this powder
was not all it's cracked up to be. Maybe a light layer on top of, you know,
whatever. But the shade range as well just wasn't, wasn't it. Okay, let's move on
to blush. Yeah, take a look. Okay, let's move on to blush, and this is from Dior.
Now, I've tried the two of those, you know, the ones everyone was using.
But I wanted to try another one of their blushes and just see how it was. And this...
oh, that's that. I wasn't going to use that brush anyway. This is the Rouge
Blush in the shade 136
Delicate Matte. I don't know, I don't know how to read these things. Yes.
It, it baffles me. I had to go, I had to go into that one color quite a few times to
even build it up this much. How are you gonna charge me that much for a blush
and give me zero pigment? Messy, messy. Right? So this, this blush, it had to be
one of the most disappointing because I really liked the color. And looking at it,
it kind of looked like one of those like baked, you know you get those like baked mineral
ones that look kind of like they have a nice glow to the skin.
But using it, the way it sat, right, it was almost like... if we imagine the blush was
a human or, and it just like walked past me and
gently like farted its color onto my face, like it was a wash of gas.
There was no pigment. I do just want to say on the other side, I was doing a
comparison video, and the other side is the Sigma blush from the palette, the
Cor-de-Rose palette, so much better. That blush is just not worth the money from
Dior. Okay, next up. We're gonna try
from Kiss Lashes, Falscara. "The new way to lash." And basically the wisps
go underneath your lashes. Do I apply mascara first? "If you can mascara, you can
falscara." What? "Step one, bond: Infuse with..." something. "Bond is non-damage and
primes the natural lash to prep them for the wisps. Seal formulated with
nourishing Vitamin E. Seal removes any flaky residue and locks in the..." And
this, this is this thing by the way. And then the applicator, "Applicators unique..."
Oh okay, okay, I see. Okay. Now, I'm not a fan of the lashes under the lash
line situation. So let's go in with the bond stage first. Do I need to put lash,
mascara on? So I'm guessing this is like the glue?
Okay, so this is obviously quite sticky, it's kind of sticking my lashes to the
bottom there.
And it's gonna go underneath
the lash.
And the reason I'm not really a fan of lashes underneath the lash is because
I, I don't like the idea of glue going, like latex based glue, going so close to
like, in the eye. But because this bonding is just on
your lashes...
Erm... honestly I'm actually, I think I'm just gonna take them off. I think it's, it
takes more time than it's worth for not, not really any kind of overall...
I don't know, I don't know. Let me just grab some false lashes. Yeah, to be honest
I think it took a bit of time to do that. And for the final look it has like,
you could probably just have, get like a quite a good mascara. It's a lot of like
fiddling around for not much of a result. Okay, so I think as I mentioned in
that clip there, that it was just so much work, so much fiddly...
Do you know, have you ever, right, I know some people are extremely gifted. My, one
of my weaknesses as a makeup artist is putting on individual lashes, I hate it. I
cannot stand it. Strip lashes, I'm good but those tiny little individuals I
don't have the time for it. I, I try to do it.
I did it once on a bride and I kept dropping the lashes on the floor and the
floor was dark, dark grey like a charcoal and I couldn't find them. So I just have
bad memories, and I think it just takes up too much time anyway.
These lashes like that are kind of, for me, were way too fiddly. But I have seen, like
I said in the video sorry, way too fiddly for not much of a result. I've had
mascaras that did better. However, I have seen it look good on other people,
like it looks genuinely like really, really nice on them. I don't have the
patience, and I prefer a, personal preference again,
fuller looking lashes if I'm doing makeup. This might be nice for weddings,
you don't know. But again, I wouldn't take that
risk as a makeup artist to use something on someone's eyes that they could be allergic
to, you know? I, I don't, I don't know. I just didn't see the benefit of it. And I,
I just, to be honest with them, I didn't even like the lashes. Yeah, that's that.
Okay, the next one is going to kind of explain itself. Let's take a look at this
TikTok. Okay, listen. If you ever go to Primark and you come across this lip
plumper for £3, do not buy it, please, I am begging you. Do
not buy or try this product. Let me tell you... no, actually let me show you
my experience with this devil product.
No. No, no, no. F*ck!
Ow! Ow, ow! That's not even fun painful. Sh*t.
Now, I've used lip plumpers before but this was really something else. Don't say
I didn't warn you. Please do not buy this. Okay, so we've all used these lip plumpers
before, right? We all know how they work, they sting, you know, they plump your lips,
all this kind of stuff. Now, before everyone's like but that's what
they do, that's what they do. No, you don't understand. This...
this was something else. Like in school right, we used to have competitions with
this lip plumper, not this one but a different one, because it was so
painful. So the longer you could keep it on
like you won, basically. But it was so intensely painful.
This one from Primark felt like somebody was holding a lit match to my lip and
just going ahead and ripping and burning off my skin, it was
horrific. Really, really painful. And I've used,
you know, more affordable lip plumpers, high-end lip plumpers, and some of them
were like, oh this is, this is barely copable. Like it's a little bit, you know.
But this, this was intense. Insane. Way, way, way too much.
Okay everyone, thank you so much for joining me. Sorry about the weird kind of
setup of this video but it's the only way I could think to do it. I can't,
couldn't refilm it. I basically... sorry, I've basically filmed all my content for
January because I'm moving at the end of this month so I've packed everything up.
So I'm basically sitting in front of my computer with my microphone so I
couldn't refilm it, unfortunately. But this is the only way I could find to
do it, so I do apologize about that. Thank you so much for joining me. Let me know
if there are any products that you hated from last year that you just couldn't
understand why they were so crap, leave them below in the comments for me.
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