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!!!

[heartsmyface]

Eyes watering after applying dark eye makeup.  Grrrrrr.   I had to adjust my makeup shape to exclude shading on the outer corners of my eyes.  

[GrellSutcliff]

My current situation and it creases 

[greeneyedgirl107]

Retailers that don't accept returns on used beauty products, like Revolve, Anthropologie and Iconic London. 

[TheMayMay]

When every day, my skin care routine is perfect morning and night, but every single second of every single day my nose is just so oily, but my skin is completely fine except my nose it’s so shiny and it really bothers me

[xobeautybri]

CREASING CONCEALER😩 my base looks amazing but I know the minute my concealer creases it’s gonna be a bad day!!!

[WhosthatgirlJ]

Same! No matter what hack I do, no matter what product I use, no matter in what order I put my concealer on! 

[francesmathilde]

when i have all of my makeup routine perfected just to find out that none of it is acne safe and i have to find and buy all new products. (true story.)

[Buootiful]

Oh that sucks. I hope you can find something good for your skin @francesmathilde 

[Mel231]

When you find your holy grail product and you think, this is perfection, I will always repurchase this, and then it gets discontinued.

[happyskincare]

this is so true especially with sephora collection @Mel231 😭❤️

[Buootiful]

That is so true and happens all the time. Even my hubby has had a few HG get discontinued at Ulta and Sephora @Mel231 

[Titian06]

Very relatable, @Mel231 ! 😠

[CorgiMommy]

@Mel231 I can  seriously relate to this

[danielledanielle]

@Mel231, I feel you so much on this and it happens soooooo much now.  It's either gone or reformulated and the reformulations 9/10 are just 👎🏽👎🏽 and more costly

[WinglessOne]

I applaud some brands for making refillable lipsticks. Then I see them offer just a handful of their total lipstick shades as refill-only (no case) purchases, and I wonder why they bothered with refills in the first dang place. How does this reduce overall packaging waste in any remarkable way? I mean, I guess brands think their narrow selection of refill-only shades will be ones most customers would repurchase… but even if that’s true, why force customers to buy additional cases for all the other shades? (Money grab. The answer is money grab.) 

I mean c’mon NARS, what the flippin’ heck is this: 

Collage: screenshots of NARS website product pages for Explicit Lipstick: all shades vs. refill-only shades.

You too, Dior, you’re not off the hook: 

Collage: screenshots of Dior website product pages for Rouge Dior lipstick: all shades vs. refill-only shades.

Dior does slightly better with their DIOR Dior Addict Shine Lipstick: of 45 available shades, 27 are available for refill-only purchase. Still not great though. 

You know who is doing great with this? Fenty: all shades of Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Fenty Icon The Fill Semi-Matte Refillable Lipstick Grill Mast'r (can’t tag without picking a random shade) are available as refill-only, and you can buy whichever Icon case you want, or no case at all. Pretty sure Guerlain also still does this with their GUERLAIN Rouge G Refillable Lipstick —and thank goodness, because the one custom Rouge G case I have is a usability pain and I almost never use it with any of my Rouge G bullets. 

If you’re gonna do refillable lipstick, make ALL shades available for purchase without cases so customers can truly avoid owning (and buying) multiple cases we probably don’t need. 

[Titian06]

I saw this too when I was looking at the Dior and NARS lipsticks, @WinglessOne ! 😖  I had planned to buy the refills like I did with Fenty, but, of course, the colors I'm interested in are not in the refills.  I'm quite happy using my Fenty's without a case and just using the plastic lid that comes on the refill.  Plus the refills are smaller case-wise, so no big case to put in my small bag. 😄

[WinglessOne]

@Titian06  Isn’t it great when refills can be used without a case? Plus, Fenty’s Icon case is big and bulky (though not as much as Guerlain’s 😂), and when I don’t use the case for a few weeks, I forget how to open and refill it because Fenty prioritized form over function when designing that case. Funny thing is, I actually like the look of the Fenty Icon case. 😅 

[greeneyedgirl107]

@WinglessOne wow!  I'm surprised by this 😞

[christaaustin]

Omg when my perfect eye look creases even when I use primer 🥺

[yssabelle]

My biggest is that I never get that magical smoothing effect of smoothing powders everybody is talking about 😄