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So today I just want to... there are so many
makeup releases, which I'm not angry about, to be
honest with you, unless a brand does it every
week, then that gets a bit suspicious.
But I just want to talk about some products
I'm kind of over and tired of seeing.
And I don't think are unnecessary,
and I think they kind of just...
brands release them because they're, like, in trend,
and not much effort goes into them. And I'm just bored.
I'm just over them existing and being released in
every new release or every new brand that comes.
You know, I'm just over it.
So we're going to talk about that today.
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Yes, okay.
Let's just talk.
Let's start with the first one, right.
Lip oils.
Okay, so let me just say there are two
brands whose lip oils I absolutely love, and they're
not included in this because I like them.
They're different to everyone else's,
and they seem different.
That's Lunar Beauty's lip oils.
They have more of a nicer texture.
It's a bit more of a different experience compared
to most lip oils, and Sigma lip oils, which
feel a lot more like a treatment.
It feels like you're wearing a slight tint
of color while really hydrating your lips.
Here's why I don't like... I'm bored,
and kind of over lip oils, right?
They all look the same.
They all do the same thing.
All their packaging is the same.
They don't do much.
They don't feel nice on the lip.
They feel warm and what's the other word?
Almost like, urgh.
So, you know when you eat a donut or
like a sugared donut, and everyone's like, oh, challenge,
don't lick your lips.
And you get that feeling like... or when someone
hovers over your shoulder like this. You know when you're a
kid and you're like, doing this to your brother
or sister, and they're like, get off me.
You're like, I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you.
But you can feel that, that... urgh.
It's like that on your lips.
And I'm just bored of seeing them.
I'm bored of seeing the square packaging with
a lip oil, and it's like new lip
oil, and it's like, we don't need it.
Release a lip balm with a little
bit more shine, a little bit more
something. A gloss with some skincare benefits.
Let's do something a little bit more beneficial, because if
I'm going to buy, purchase, and use my money to
buy a lip oil, I might as well just use
a really shiny lip balm because there's no color, and
although they come like red, orange, you don't see it.
You don't see it.
So whenever... I'm not excited by lip
oils, I guess you could say.
And I think maybe at the time when
skincare was becoming... everyone was going crazy for skincare
over lockdown, you know, and I think it was
becoming, like a trend to use skincare.
Lip oils make a little bit more sense
then, but now I just feel like a brand
doesn't need to release a lip oil.
A lip balm with color would be much
better, with some lip care benefits to it.
Lip oils, okay, so it's slightly hydrating.
It's got no color, although it looks like it
has color in the thing and it's extra, extra shiny.
It's not shiny, it's oily.
To me, there's a physical
difference between shine and oil.
Am I even recording my sound? Yeah.
So that I'm just overseeing the releases for it.
Let's go to the next one.
And this is setting sprays.
Shine mists, shine sprays, facial mists, renewal sprays.
Unless I...
Right, let's say I owned a brand, right?
Unless I could come up with a really
good setting spray or mist, I wouldn't bother.
There are so many that all do
pretty much exactly the same thing.
That it's just a space that is full, full.
There has yet to be a setting spray that I have been so
impressed by that I would run out and buy another one.
I get sent a lot of setting
sprays, and I'll go through them all.
I'll use them as a primer when I'm doing makeup to go
out if I'm going to an event or something like that.
But I don't run out and buy,
I'm not like, oh, I need my setting spray.
Because I've yet to be that
impressed as an oily person, buy one.
So let's just say, everyone, let's not release
any more until somebody actually invents something that
locks in your foundation like crazy, but doesn't
feel uncomfortable, that isn't like, too shiny or
greasy or glittery or too dry.
Let's just find this nice balance before
we start releasing more setting sprays.
I just feel like when people are
acting like their setting spray is revolutionary.
It's not. Like you buy a setting spray
with all these promises, and then you use
it, and it's like, actually, you know what?
That wasn't that great.
And honestly, some setting sprays claim
to do the strangest things.
I just don't believe in them.
I like them as a primer.
I think they're great primers because it's directly touching
your skin and directly touching the impact of what
breaks down your makeup and what ruins your makeup.
But when it's on top I just don't... I know they work for
some people, but, I mean, I've yet to find one,
and I have used what feels like hundreds.
Okay, let's talk about glowy serums, okay?
Now, this is really the
product where makeup met skincare.
To have that glow to the face as a primer or prep
or just to have it look like your skin is naturally glowing.
The brand that does this right
is, of course, Glow Recipe.
Their watermelon glow serum.
Stunning, beautiful.
It's the right texture.
It's the right amount of shine.
It looks great without and with makeup.
And then every other brand released this glowy serum,
which just doesn't have the same impact.
You're just releasing a serum.
This is the problem when brands try to imitate and
jump on trends but just release any old sh*t.
It's like, this is a glowy serum. Where?
Where's the glow that looks different to any other serum?
A Hyaluronic Acid serum, for example.
Great as a skin primer.
It plumps up the skin, feels good, gives the
skin a little bit of a nice, healthy shine.
But it isn't that otherworldly glow, you know where it's like, oh
my God, you look like you just had a facial.
Like the Glow Recipe one does. That is something else.
It almost has this luminosity to it where it's like,
okay, your skin is healthy and then some.
Whereas other brands don't quite reach that,
and then some level, it's kind of
just like, yeah, you've moisturized, which I
can do with any other moisturizer.
I've seen glitter in some glowy serums or they dry
down to this really horrible white cast on my face.
And on me to have a white cast on my
face, you know then it's a sh*t product.
So you always get like these wonderful products,
like Glow Recipe is one.
This isn't an advert for Glow Recipe, by the way.
And then you get the imitators probably
Revolution coming in, like, oh, our glowy something.
And it doesn't reach the standard. It just isn't...
And I know there's a difference in price
point, but still, people who want to buy
something more affordable still want the results.
It doesn't mean you have to make something quickly.
That's the issue.
It's trying to get it out quickly and be like,
everyone is always going to want healthy looking skin.
Don't rush into releasing some bullsh*t, you know?
Which then kind of leads me on to skincare in makeup.
There is, in my opinion, not enough skincare within
a makeup product that is beneficial for your skin.
Maybe a lip product, you know?
But when foundations are like...
oh, we have something. There are ingredients in there that helps
it sit really nicely on the skin. Of course, it's skin.
It has to work with it.
But brands again, definitely jumped on
this trend of skincare makeup being
united, which they absolutely should go together.
But then, you know, the makeup industry take
it one step... well, the newer makeup industry
take it one step further and let's claim
all our products do all these things.
If it's actually beneficial, then yes.
But then I feel like this also
led onto the "Clean Movement". Clean foundation,
our makeup is clean. This is clean. This is clean.
And I feel like that comes from people wanting
more honesty from their products, more careful with their
face, more like "non-toxic" in quotes products.
If you're listening to this, I'm doing air quotes.
"No chemicals", again, in air quotes, when
actually everything you're going to get chemicals
and preservatives in your foundations and makeup.
And for me, when I see a makeup
product, lip balms, I don't include because I
really do feel like they can be beneficial.
But a foundation, for example, a blush, a bronzer,
and it's like, it cares for your skin.
I feel like okay, there can be nice ingredients on it.
But to say that it's beneficial and it benefits your
skin or it benefits your makeup or any of this
stuff, it just doesn't quite sit right with me.
Primers, absolutely. Sure.
But I feel like brands have definitely fed into that
want for more honesty and more care for the skin.
And I just, yeah, I'm just tired
of f*cking seeing it. Clean...
Does this. Skincare, oh. Like SPF.
No.
SPF, of course, SPF in foundation, doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter.
Okay, so here's something a little bit different that
I'm kind of bored of, is bad formula eyeshadows. Okay?
Let me tell you, there are extremely affordable
brands, indie brands as well, that make the
most incredible formulas in their eyeshadows.
And when it comes to bigger, I should say
actually big brands charging too much for bad formula
eyeshadows maybe is what I'm tired of.
For example, Natasha Denona.
Why is it so expensive? when I have used
something from e.l.f, which is far better, more easy
to blend, sits nicer on top of itself.
It's better as a product in general.
Why are you so expensive?
How hard is it to make an eyeshadow nowadays?
If you're going to charge lots and lots of
money for an eyeshadow palette, make sure there is
a reason you are charged for it.
A brand like Beauty Bay, who have their own formula,
which is incredible, and do these giant palettes for a
really affordable price, for the size of the palette.
And I've used something that's more expensive, maybe £50
or $50 more expensive and isn't as good.
Why?
H'why?
BPerfect cosmetics,
one of the most incredible eyeshadow
formats I think I've ever used.
It's in between. It's affordable.
It's not over expensive.
But yet again, I've used eyeshadows
that are extremely more expensive that...
Dior!
Dior eyeshadows.
You can buy a compact of four and then get 30
in a different formula, and they are the sh*ttest eyeshadows,
the Dior ones, I've ever used in my life.
Was that Dior or was that Chanel?
I think it was Dior.
And it's just, I don't understand why they think
they can charge that much when we're in this
world that is full of brands who are coming
out with these incredible formulas and are far less expensive.
Why? Why are we doing this? What's happening?
I'm saying, there is no reason for your eyeshadows to be sh*t.
Like foundations, concealers, lipstick formulas.
I get people have different
opinions because it's different textures.
People like different textures. People like, whatever.
But surely with eyeshadow what you
want from that is pigment.
And if you don't want pigment, then you use a tiny bit.
You can control how much
you get from that pigmentation, you know?
You don't buy an eyeshadow palette thinking, oh,
I hope this doesn't have much coverage.
I hope it doesn't blend well, you know? You need to step up.
You need to step up your game because
brands who are maybe...
less, have less of a...
less fame than you, reputation. What am I saying?
Who are lesser known than you, are doing incredible
things and you are going to get pushed out
the way with your 1950s formula that you have.
Okay, so here's something that's just a pet peeve for me.
Color changing products, color
changing lipstick, blush. What else is there? That's it really.
I feel like it makes, it has like a revamp every... whatever.
So maybe it looks black or it looks clear or
it looks green or it looks blue or gray.
And then it goes on and it's like, oh, a shade of pink.
So over it.
I'm so over it.
I keep getting tagged in things
like black blushes, clear blushes.
We know, we know this, right?
This is something that we had when, even when
I was a child, like PH balance changes.
And everyone's like, oh, it's different to your skin tone.
It turns the shade of pink and then
looks different because everyone's lip shades are different.
And people are like, does this work? It does.
And it has for about 50 years.
It's been around for a really long
time and actually it's not that impressive.
This is just a really personal one.
It's just boring.
It turns the same shade of pink.
And as somebody who doesn't really like pink
on myself, I don't find it that interesting.
If somebody could make one that maybe turns
a shade of orange, then I'll be interested.
But for now, it's the same shade of pink.
I've had a blush, a lipstick.
What else? Other blushers.
And they all just turn the same shade of pink.
Like we know it happens.
It's not magic.
We've seen it before and everyone's like, is this real?
Yes, it's real.
It's just boring now.
It's just boring.
It's like someone giving me a glass of
water and being like, have you tried this?
It's like, yeah. Or, you know, is this real? Yes, it is.
It's so basic and so real.
And it's just like, oh, stop.
And I think again, brands are starting to do
little things like this because it's such
a good reactionary thing on social media.
You know, like people go like, oh my God, it's changed color.
Yeah, it has.
Okay, well, those are a few things I'm just like.
You know what?
When I get tagged in them or see them
on like Trend Mood or something like that,
I'm like, I don't care, it's boring.
Let's do something, you know?
Okay, I would love to know what you're bored
of in the make up world down below.
It doesn't have to be product.
It can be anything, let me know.
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