Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much
for joining me. So listen, today I am,
I'm taking, I don't know what I'm saying. I
am, I know what I'm doing, why can't I get it across.
I am giving some products some second chances.
Listen, I don't believe that when a product is bad
the first time you use it, that's it, it's bad. So,
I have chosen five products that I didn't have the best
time with, not so like, some terrible, and some not so terrible. But listen, just
because I didn't have a great time with them, and may not in this video,
doesn't mean the product is overall bad. We all have different experiences with
products, that's why we prefer different brands, and we love different brush
brands, and all this other stuff. But, we're going to
try make it work again today. I will not give...
Oww! Stuck that into my hand, okay, dangerous, okay.
I will not give up. Just before we get into that today, if this is your first
time here on my channel, hi, my name is Robert. I'm a professional makeup artist
here on YouTube, and also in real life, and it's my goal
to help you become a Pro yourself, or just someone who's really good at makeup.
I'm sorry, I just got a chair that spins, not that I've never, like this isn't
my first time on a chair that spins but not in my studio before. So I'm
expressing myself. Okay, so, I have to be honest, I just really
screamed, I have to be honest, the first product we're going to use today
is by far the worst product I think I've ever used
ever but I only used it once. So we're giving it a second chance,
and a lot of people in the comments I featured this in a video... why did I do it?
It was in 'Your worst rated...' I did a video where I took your worst reviewed
products, products everyone hated, and tried them out, just
to see how they were. Some were fine, some were bad, some were great. So, again,
shows we all have different opinions. But
let's just do it, I'm a little bit nervous I have to be honest. We're going
to use the Profusion Cosmetics Spectrum 10 Shade Pro Pigment Palette.
Pro? I think people... pro pigment? Here's the deal, last time I used these
three colors here. Now, I feel like pastel shades are really
difficult to formulate, whoever you are, whatever brand you are,
so a drugstore brand, it may be a little bit more... but
then used drugstore pastel shades before, so ignore everything I just said.
But let's go for these three here. I feel like a purple, and a pink, and
this like burgundy pink are easier to formulate, and might work
better. Now, my issue that I had with this first time,
was that it was extremely patchy. It wouldn't blend properly, it wouldn't do
anything properly. So, so let's use it again,
why not? Okay, so let's start off with Rave, which is this bright pink
right here, and let's, you know what, let's not do anything too crazy. Let's just
keep it nice, and simple. So, yeah, and I'm gonna use
brushes that I know I like. So I'm using all my Sigma brushes today.
Okay this is fine but I said that last time, the color goes on absolutely fine.
And the issue was, when you try to blend it out, or you try to get any kind of
movement from it, it starts to go patchy but this is okay.
I'm not gonna rush it, I'm gonna take it like nice, and slow.
And what I'm gonna do with this brush, because it's kind of like flat this way,
I'm gonna push it into the socket, and then where it has like, it's wide
this way, I'm then going to use that to softly blend.
Still aiming for the socket but it just blends it the perfect height,
rather than you having to kind of drag that color up.
Okay, okay. Okay that's not that bad. Oh, by the way,
I'm using same eye primer, same everything. I really don't want to push
my luck but I just want to keep blending.
But I mean, who makes an eyeshadow that you can't blend anyway, like
surely that's the point. Can you imagine making an eyeshadow palette, and being
like, you know what, this will be fine as long as no one tries to blend it.
Let's go for the shade Totally, which is this one here,
and again, let's just smokey eye, keep it nice and simple,
and push it right into that socket here. Now, I'm getting more nervous as we start
to build the color up on top of each other, because
that's where everything went wrong last time. I'm going to take quite a large
blending brush, and just buff that through,
blending everything together. How's it going? Oh that's not a mirror. Okay,
this, this isn't as bad. I really do think it was just like the blue
end of the palette. Saying that, there was a blue,
when I used to really like MAC eyeshadows, and it was
the same shade as, it was almost like this,
and I can't remember what it's called but I could never get on with it,
no one ever liked it because it was such a horrible kind of texture to blend out.
It must just be like an overall thing. Okay, this is fine. I'm gonna go back in
with Rave, that bright pink, and just use it to kind of soften up
this whole area. Just start to get some shape there too.
The colors don't actually look that dissimilar from each other, and I think
that's an issue I had with the palette at first as well, as like,
yeah, they look different in the palette. But when you actually put them on,
it just kind of blends into one color. Okay, I think this is where might go a tiny
bit wrong, I don't know, I just, I don't know. So I'm
going to use a brush for a little bit more precision. I'm
going to use the shade purple, which is called... it's not called
purple, it's called Rain. Oh, Purple Rain. Here we go, okay.
So here's, here's the issue now, is because this
isn't insanely pigmented, I'm going to have to build it up even more,
which then starts to lead to patchiness, and if I just tap it on like this,
then we get like this really horrible, unblended finish.
But if I go to blend it, hopefully it won't go patchy, I don't know.
Yeah, kind of like it. Okay, it's not the worst. Last time I used it, it made me
want to die, and this time it doesn't so much. Just
gonna soften up, again, with that really thin edge
through the socket here. I'm actually just gonna,
I'm gonna grab a highlighter, not one that I particularly don't like, and just
tap in the middle, and on the inside corner, because I feel like we're okay,
and I don't want to ruin it. Okay, going completely off topic of the video, sorry,
it's not really what you signed up for. One of my favorite highlighters, this is
the Space Age Prophecy from Kaleidos, incredible. So, I'm going to tap a little
bit of that on the lid, and on the inside corner.
I don't know why I looked over there. inside corner here, let's just tap a
little bit on the middle here.
To be honest with you, I'm not overly impressed with this,
was it, it the brand Profusion or Spectrum Profusion palette in general, I
don't, I wouldn't recommend it. But I mean,
do what you have to do. Okay, I'm gonna apply some concealer. I don't have a
concealer I don't like, so I'm just gonna apply my regular
concealer, and then I'll be right back. Okay, so concealers on,
next up is foundation. Now, I've never used this on camera because,
because I've never liked it. But I'm going to try it again, I'm going to try
it a few different ways today. This is the Cover FX Total Cover Cream
Foundation. I really wanted a cream foundation that
I liked. It's gonna be too yellow, isn't.
I mean. So here's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna try it
one side with one of my favorite foundation brushes, and then the other
side I'm gonna try with this About-Face sponge, because I
really like this when I used it. So it's the foundation we're testing
today, so let's go ahead and use the brush
first. I'm going to use that on this side.
Now, the reason I didn't like this is because, it kind of felt like a bit
old-fashioned cream foundation, it didn't feel so,
compared to what's available now, it just felt like a little bit behind the times.
I don't know, just something about the way it sits,
just doesn't sit well with me, and I'm using a motion, because I know my
skin can be quite textured, and when I have a problem with
foundation that I think gives excess texture to my skin,
I prefer to stipple like this. When I'm rubbing I find, or blending, I find that
it interferes with the texture quite a bit.
So on the areas where I'm a little bit more textured, on the cheeks here, maybe
around the nose, I tend to stipple a little bit more. Just
because I'm lifting that brush off the skin, and I'm not interrupting the skin.
Yeah, no, I still don't like it. Okay, let's try with the
sponge. I never use the sponges that come,
come with, because I just, I mean they're Sh*t.
[Laughter] And it seems to be full coverage. I don't
mind full coverage, as long as it doesn't look
cakey. I think a lot of people think I don't like, I only like natural makeup,
and that's absolutely not the case, I just like makeup to not look
overly done. I like it to look acceptable in real life as well. I just like it to
work with skin. You can do full coverage, and have it work with your skin, you know.
I mean, it's fine, it's okay. I wouldn't...
I mean, I don't know what else to say. Okay, let's do under the eyes. I'm
gonna slide back, and lean forward because
this palette has so much fallout, I don't want it falling on my
skin that Ive just done, so excuse the angle. So I'm just taking the shade Rain which
is that purple. Oops.
And the same brush that I used before for the purple, then on the brush that I use
for like, the pinkish shades. I'm not adding any extra product I'm just going
to go around, and underneath that purple,
just to gently fade it. Okay, so our next product is by Beauty Pie. Now, this is a
really great, Beauty Pie is a great, what's the word... thing. They have some
amazing, amazing quality products. I think, it's the shade I've chosen is a
little bit for my skin tone, and again, this is
personally products that I find a little bit, for me.
For my skin tone, it's kind of like, it's in between like, are you a bronzer, or are
you a blush. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to try
it as, I'm just going to try it and see what happens.
First time I've use it, I was a little bit like, oka,y I don't know how to,
I don't know. See, it's definitely, it could be a bronzer but then it has a
slight grey tone, which makes it more of a contour,
and take a tiny bit onto the apples of my cheeks, just a little bit,
because I have a long face. I want to round my face off slightly,
whereas if I had a round face, I would come down more,
Iif you wanted to. So, I don't know, I don't know. Maybe it's just me being really
fussy but to me, the color is, it's, it could be a contour.
Yeah, it could be a bronzer yeah. But then it also has this warmth to it,
that doesn't quite make it either. It's almost as though, I'm trying to wear
blush but I've chosen a really terrible shade for me,
and I mean, that's exactly what's happened. I've chosen a really terrible
shade for me. I'm just going over with my foundation
brush, and just stippling, again, on top. Just to like, tie in all those seams.
Is that just me being fussy? Is that just me like, like it looks,
why do I, oh these bits always appear back on me.
Like it looks like blush but also bronzer but also contour.
That's the shade, Bad Girl, in the smart powder blush. I don't know,
I think that it would look really, really nice on a deeper skin tone
as a blush but on me, it's just, I feel like it's in between. I'm in the in
between. What is that redness that keeps
happening here? Again, I'm not too... I think, okay, at the end I'll just talk about
what I'm going to throw away. Okay, so this is, this is a product I got in
like, what... I was sent like like a bundle of
products from someone, it was, it was PR but it was like
a mixture of different brands, and one of the products in there was this,
Ghost Veil from Lime Crime, and this is a lip primer. Let me just, let
me just tell you, when I first used this product,
it kind of, it sat on my, I love lip primers by the way, I absolutely love
them, my favorite lip primer, this is the lip primer by Pony Effect,
absolutely incredible. Smooths out the lip, makes it nice, and like,
I wouldn't say plump but it smoothes everything out, and just makes the
product application on the lip so much smoother. This one, I felt like it gathered, and set,
and it almost had like, you know what it reminded me of, you know
when you bite into a glazed donut, and you get that crack along the glaze,
it kind of reminded me, I mean that sounds really nice but it reminds me, you
don't want that texture on your lips, it reminds me of that. It kind of set to a
weird texture, so it doesn't smell so great either. I'm
going to try it out again, and just see. Like, initially it looks
like it's doing what it should but I even think maybe the applicator
applies too much product, because you really don't need that much
but it kind of comes out like a gloss amount, I'm going to give it a helping
hand, and blot a little bit of the product
away, because lip primer shouldn't bundle on the lip
like that. I'm just going to see, I guess, I'm gonna
wait, or maybe I'll put some liner on or something.
Okay, so it's been a little bit of time, like two minutes,
so here's what I don't like, first of all about this,
it's so sticky. But look, look at it all flaking up, and
look, I got like, I got a horrible line. Horrible, horrible,
horrible, horrible. Look, it just bundles off.
Really gross. Lip primers don't have to be tacky like that, extremely tacky.
Some of the best lip primers are smoother than this. This is like a glue,
and I don't really think it's necessary, especially I mean, if you're going to
wear like a long lasting lipstick. They're long-lasting enough, you don't
really need this. Let's move on to another product that I
don't like, and just get, cover it. I don't even know where this is from,
Co Siero? Corsiero? It's from YesStyle, and I thought it was cute. It's like a lip
balm but you know, sits on the lip and changes
like the PH balance. I don't know if it's going to get
through the primer to change the PH balance.
But my issue with this, was how pink it went on me.
Yeah, see. That's way too pink. So you look at that, and like, oh it looks so nice,
and...see, I mean it's getting too, it's getting too pink.
In my, in my opinion that's too pink, and it's kind of tingly, which I don't really
like. See it just, it... okay, let me, let that do
its thing. I'm gonna put on a pair of lashes I
actually like. I don't have lashes I don't like. These
are Ava from Makeup Geek, so my absolute favorite. I haven't worn them in
so long. I went through all my makeup the other day, and that's when I kind
of pulled these products aside, and I just rediscovered so many things
that I kind of like move to the back of the shelf as more
stuff kind of stacks up. So I'm getting reacquainted again. It
just gets way too pink, it gets pinker, and pinker, and pinker.
It's like a nice, you know, a nice like, oh you know that's a light pink would be
really, really nice but. Okay, so that was a few
second chances. Listen, I'm not giving any of them a second chance to
be honest with you, I'm gonna throw this away, or sanitize it,
and give it to somebody else who will actually make good use of it. I'm not
fond of this, and to be honest with you, I have a few blushes that
are better than this. So why would I keep it? The foundation I'm not overly
impressed by, it's also very slight, if I'm being very fussy, very slightly too
yellow for me. This burns actually, and I hate the
pink tone it goes, if you like pink, great.
This is the worst, this is the worst. Well,
I mean, yeah. No, I don't, I don't, okay, I don't like it. Okay, well listen, I
tried, I tried to give these products a second chance,
they don't work for me personally, they might work for you. You might love the
way they look, I personally do not like them, so I'm gonna get rid of them
somehow, and yeah. I hate this on me so much, so, so I like the finish like it's a
really... [Chokes]
What was that? Like, imagine if it was peachier on me
but this is too, this is too pink. I really don't like it.
Anyway, thank you so so much for joining me. I will link the products down below
if you want to try them, or buy them yourself. But here's the thing,
don't knock a product until you've tried it, again, a second time, then you can be
really sure, you know. Different headspace, different
settings, maybe you were in a bad mood that one time.
But yeah, thanks again for joining me. Give this video a thumbs up if you liked
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