Beauty Pet Peeves 2

[veronika23]

The other thread was getting too long and difficult to load! 

So what are your beauty pet peeves? What grinds your gears? Share your stories!!!

[tastelikewater]

@pocketvenus @danielledanielle I regret it too! I have French Press and Salted Caramel and should have gotten more. Haven't worn them in a while, but I recall not getting much coffee from the scent or flavor. Someone in a review compared the smell to something like "old peanuts," and I could never get that association out of my head! 

[pocketvenus]

@danielledanielle @tastelikewater Oh wow! I smelled coffee but I know there can be differences in how people perceive taste so many smell is like that too? The wild thing is, scientists still hav eno idea how scent works, there's only a bunch of theories.

[danielledanielle]

Old peanuts?!?  🤣 @tastelikewater   IMO it smelled like coffee, and I love coffee.  I still have one that's semi-used and one halfway done so there's that.  I wore one to my F-I-L and weirded out one of his dogs, so maybe he smelled old peanuts?

[WinglessOne]

@pocketvenus  I'm still peeved that Bite went in so hard on the meaningless and misleading "clean beauty" gimmick. I wonder if they've had lots of trouble reformulating all their lip products to "clean" formulas, or if the delay's due to financial issues or something else... I don't live near any of their Lip Labs, so I don't know what they've been doing on that front. Hmm. Since Bite has so heavily rebranded themselves as "clean," they're kinda stuck with that theme now. I'll be ecstatic if the whole "clean beauty" fad dies—but I think I've ranted about that in this thread before. 🤣 

ANYway... I miss Bite's lip liners and Amuse Bouche lipsticks, even though their bullets tend to bleed/feather on me. (Eh, easily prevented with liner and/or lip primer.) Kale was one of my favorite lip shades ever, and I'm sad I might never be able to buy it again. 

[pocketvenus]

@WinglessOne Yes, all-natural is a pretty useless term in fragrance too. The bulk of perfumes in this category definitely smell like there are synthetics in there ha ha.

I can totally imagine you rocking Kale while wearing Anubis or T Rex 🙂

[WinglessOne]

@pocketvenus "All natural" in general kinda cracks me up. Apparently there's a difference between "all natural" and "clean," though I'm not completely sure what it is since neither category has an industry standard definition, let alone US government certification. Anyway, some of those "all natural" fragrances do seem suspicious! 🤣 

Kale is fun to wear when you wanna pretend you're a short-armed dinosaur stomping through the middle of a burning tar-laden swampy orange grove. 💚

[pocketvenus]

@WinglessOne Yes, it's such a dodgy term. I'd rather have safe synthetics on my skin than like, burny essential oils. I think what tends to work best is a mix, kind of like getting that ultra comfortable cotton and elastane blend, just nice to have that extra give 🙂

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[haleyvvvv]

When you don't read the ingredients well enough at first and you discover your "hydrating" toner is just full of witch hazel 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️. No wonder my skin has been off this past 2 weeks.

[tastelikewater]

@haleyvvvv Oooooh my skin hurts for you! Hope it recovers quickly!

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you, @tastelikewater!! It seems to be on the mend now!!

[WinglessOne]

@haleyvvvv Ugh, I felt this in my soul. Hope your skin quickly rebounds! 

[haleyvvvv]

Thank you, @WinglessOne!! It seems to be going okay now!!

[V21988]

I don't like it when I see hair extensions on the back of the head and I am sitting right behind.

Sometimes I don't like it when I see somebody who goes bare, which is fine, but that I think would be so incredibly enhanced by makeup. Women of exceptional beauty who don't need it, and yet it bothers me that are not highlighting and accentuating their beauty with a little mascara, liner, blush, highlighter, some lip color.

I don't like the Tammy Faye Baker look. I don't like cake. I don't like makeup for everyday wear that is more costume.

Don't ever trust Hollywood - I'd say celebrity endorsements are a huge pet peeve. The only Harper's Baazar "this is my night routine" YouTube that I thought was legit was Demi Moore's. Do you think Penelope Cruz really wears Olay? I don't even use that and I'm an ordinary woman. That bothers me, Penelope, sayin' she's usin' Olay. Um, sorry, I'm not that gullible and a pet peeve is being lied to constantly, with erroneous advertising. Every time I see an ad with Cruz saying she uses Olay daily, I have to REALLY relax.

[QueenNelle]

Personally I love it when I see bare faces. Plus women don’t need to wear make up all the time. I go out bear face and I love it and then when I feel like it all enhance my features with highlighter and eyebrows and mascara. I guess it just depends on the day for people

[Seymore3]

I think this picture says it all and I had a parcel from Hudson's Bay last week with the other meteorites and 2 lipsticks that was the same.The meteorites are surprisingly intact in spite of the huge box and not one scrap of packing material.

[blackkitty2014]

😂🤣 @Seymore3 For a moment there, I thought you ordered the pearls from Neiman Marcus 😂🤣😀. I’m happy that your pearls arrive intact 🌹

[pocketvenus]

@Seymore3 😮 Was there no smaller box??/?

[V21988]

I am SO GLAD it came INTACT. Thank you, I needed to laugh badly and as I focused on the picture I howled. I really, really needed to. Bless your heart.

And I understand... you wonder what some folks out there are thinking (or really IF they are thinking, yes yes). Again, happy it's intact and I laughed, the tears are still in my eyes. 😆🙌

[danielledanielle]

@Seymore3   😑😞

[Harobedb]

I was curious to see reviews on a Tatcha The Dewy serum. Wow, 766 reviews...and color me shocked that not ONE of the reviews was from a verified purchase! I mean, NO ONE who reviewed it actually bought it?? Influenster should be put out of business!

[haleyvvvv]

The verified purchase is relatively newish (the past year) and only gets marked if reviewed in about a month after purchase, @Harobedb. So the verified purchase doesn't capture people who bought a while ago and are now reviewing (maybe after using a full size, which could take a while?), or people who bought elsewhere, or people who received a deluxe sample size with purchase, or people who bought a value set and are reviewing each item on their individual item page, etc... The influenster reviews are the "received as a free sample." It would be useful to sort those out. So a lack of verified purchase reviews doesn't mean they're all from influenster.