Look at me posting on my blog two days in a row! (Gives self a high five).
So y'all knew this was coming. It's the products that I've tried within the last couple of months that I absolutely did not like. Now, just because I don't like them does not mean that they're bad products, it just means that they didn't work for ME. Everyone has different skin types, color preferences, looks they're trying to achieve so not every product is going to work for every single person out there. Just keep that in mind before you hate me because there is one product on this list that everyone absolutely loves and I absolutely hate it. We're all friends here, right? Right. So, let's get started!
Hi, in case you can't tell, I'm obsessed with buying facial sprays. This is the Physicians Formula Primer Argan Wear Argan Oil with coconut water. Breathe. I know that's a lot. ANYWAY, I really didn't like this product and it makes me sad because it sounds absolutely amazing. It's supposed to help improve your skin's tone, elasticity, texture and brightness. I don't know, maybe it does do that, but I didn't get far enough to completely test that out. It says that it's "exotically" scented. It just smells bad. You would think that it would smell amazing because of the coconut water but it doesn't smell like coconut at all. On the back of the packaging it says you can also spray this over your entire body and hair and let me tell you something, do NOT spray this in your hair. I didn't intentionally spray this in my hair, but when you're going ham on your face trying to look like a dewy princess, you're going to get it in your hair. This stuff made my hair hard and crusty and I literally couldn't run my hands through it. I had to put my hair up because it instantly made it frizzy and unmanageable and I was so mad. I couldn't keep it on my face long enough to test the hydration aspect of the spray because it smelled so bad I had to wipe it off. I paid $14.99 for this at CVS and I'm really upset about it because I could have bought like 13 wet n wild lipsticks. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. This brand is sold at cvs and Walmart and is cruelty free.
This is another primer that didn't tickle my fancy. This is the e.l.f. hydrating face primer in clear. I was pretty pumped about this because I read good things about it and I have extremely dry skin so it sounded like a win/win to me. Nope. Instead of absorbing into my skin and hydrating it, it just sat on top of my face and made my makeup look like a hot mess. Anything that I tried applying to my face whether it be foundation, concealer, powders, it just slid off my face because it was so greasy. I tried it more than once because I thought, well maybe I just did it wrong or I didn't wait long enough for it to dry but it did the same thing each time I used it. I was so upset because I have two other e.l.f. primers that I absolutely love but this was a miss for me. It might work if you have like extremely dry skin to where you have dry flaky patches on your face, but other than that I don't really see how this could work for any kind of skin type. This was $8 at CVS and this brand is cruelty free.
WHAT? YOU DON'T LIKE SHAPE TAPE? nope. I wanted to soooooo bad. Every person that I love to watch on YouTube swears up and down by this stuff. It's their ride or die, their holy grail, their I absolutely won't use anything other than this concealer and I absolutely don't like it. I tried so hard. It was okay on my chin and forehead but under my eyes.. oh my god it was disgusting. My under eyes are VERY dry but I tried absolutely everything. I looked up so many videos and tried fixing it time and time again and nothing worked. Like I said earlier, not every single product is going to work for every single person out there, but I really thought that this product would be the exception. If you're looking for an extremely thick concealer to hide fine lines, dark circles, blemishes, then this is probably the concealer for you. Now, if you have dry flaky patches, then I absolutely wouldn't recommend this because no matter how you try to set it, it flakes off, it gets crusty, it just rubs off. It's just a mess you guys. I'm still really sad about this. You can get this at ULTA or on the tarte website for $24 and this brand is cruelty free!
I don't really know what made me buy this foundation because I hadn't really seen people using it, I just thought it would be super cool to have a stick foundation and pop that bad bitch on real quick and go about my day but it didn't work out like that. This is the NYX mineral stick foundation. This was a really weird experience. I literally couldn't get anything to come off the stick on to my face. I tried four different primers and every time I applied this foundation, I couldn't get it to show up on my face and I purchased the lightest shade they had. It applied on the inside of my arm but it looked like I had absolutely nothing on my face. Like, I wish I could tell you the texture and if it blended well and things like that, but I honestly have no idea because it was invisible, so. I ended up giving up and returning this to ULTA. I know there are some really good stick foundations out there like the Anastasia and Makeup Forever and Hourglass so I may have to just try one of those instead. If you want to give this a go you can pick it up at ULTA or the nyx cosmetics website for $9.99 and this brand is cruelty free.
I'm crying right now as I'm typing this out. This is the Too Faced white chocolate chip palette. As soon as this came out and I started reading the reviews, it seemed like this wasn't going to be a very good palette, but I didn't care and I bought it anyway and it's so disappointing. The only thing that this palette has going for it is that it smells absolutely amazing, but honestly, I can run down to food city and buy a bag of white chocolate chips, sit on my couch and smell the bag until I went in a coma, eat the bag of chocolate and I'd have more than this palette gave to me. I don't know how this happens, I don't know what it is, but I swear when you put these shades on your eye lids and start blending them out, they just disappear. They all look the same shade on the eye lid except for the black shade obviously, but they all blended together and it was just so sad. The black shade isn't even that black, it's like a soft grey and I just don't understand how that happens. I like almost everything I've ever purchased from Too Faced but this is just terrible. I don't know what they were thinking when they released this. If you want to take your chances with this or feel like you absolutely just have to have this then you can purchase it at Sephora, ULTA, or the too faced cosmetics website for $26 and this brand is cruelty free.
Okay, so this may look a little familiar. In my blog post about the products that I loved this month there was a NYX eye shadow palette in 03 warm neutrals. This is one of the palettes in that collection (there are four total) and this is 01 Smokey and Highlight and I don't like it. These colors are absolutely beautiful but once applied on to the eye lid, they're not pigmented, they don't blend at all, they are patchy. I know that sometimes that's the case with dark eye shadows but the whole entire palette is like that. I mean, other brands are able to put out quality dark shadows, so I mean. Ya know? I know that I sound harsh but the other palette is so wonderful so it's hard to understand how they can put out such a good quality palette and then put out a dud one in the SAME collection. Maybe I got a bad one, or maybe I need some fix plus or maybe I have terrible brushes and maybe I'm just really bad at makeup and don't understand how to eye shadow but either way, this is a nope for me. This palette is also $17.99 at ULTA and the nyx cosmetics website and is cruelty free.
I know that this is a disappointment post, but there is a silver lining for this product. I have tried a lot of wet n wild products and so far, this is the only wet n wild product I don't like so that's pretty cool, eh? This is the wet n wild on edge longwearing eye pencil crayon A262 to my yang. That is the longest dang name for a white eye liner pencil. Now, I specifically bought this white eye pencil to use on my water line to make my eyes pop and it doesn't show up. Maybe this isn't a fair spot for this product as I haven't used it on my actual eye lid, but I'm honestly not going to be wearing white eye liner so I haven't tested it. All I know is that it didn't work for the purpose that I intended to use it for, so therefore, it's a disappointment to me. You can pick this up at Walmart, cvs, Walgreens or the wet n wild website for $3.49. This brand is cruelty free. 
Okay, cool, so those are all eight products that I have right now that I currently don't care for. Now, before you go, I do want to say a couple of things and inform you on something neat that you may know or not know about already, but could seriously save you some money. If you've read my previous post then you have kind of seen the pattern where I'm getting a lot of my drug store makeup at CVS. They have the coolest program and I don't know if a lot of people know about it because I completely forgot that CVS existed but they're the only ones who carry MILANI, so there I was. Literally every week they have sales on skin care, makeup, household items, all kinds of stuff where if you purchase $12 in that brand, you'll get $4 in cvs rewards dollars. The amounts are different for the brands though, so some are like get $7 if you spend $10, so on and so fourth. What that means is at the bottom of your receipt you'll have the $7 coupon and on your next transaction you'll get $7 off. Like, they're giving you free money to spend in the store. If you download the CVS app, for the first time you log on the app they give you $5 to spend in store. That's almost a free lipstick. They have sales on the app that you can apply to your card to get $2 off any $8 cosmetic purchase. You can join the beauty club so that every time you spend $50 on any kind of beauty item including skin care, nails, beauty tools, you'll get $5 in CVS rewards dollars. So every purchase you make gets you closer to reaching the $50 mark. You can use multiple coupons and combine them. I got $25 worth of makeup for $3 because I stacked all my coupons. They have sales like BOGO free or BOGO half off on all kinds of brands and it changes every week but at least half off their selection of makeup is always on sale and it's seriously so awesome. The prices aren't more expensive than Walgreens or Walmart, they're just giving away money. In one month, I have saved $65 at CVS just on makeup alone and it's seriously insane and I feel like everyone should know about it because it immediately makes it more affordable to try different makeup. Even if you're not super adventurous you can still save a little money if you need to pick something up! I hope that I explained that well enough lol. If I didn't feel free to ask me about it because it seriously excites me. I know you're probably thinking I'm crazy but I just really love makeup and I especially love drug store makeup because who doesn't like to save money?
ANYWAY, now that that's out of the way, look out for my next post which will be all skin care and hair care products. I'm going to put all of my likes and dislikes into one post because I don't have very many things that I didn't like (yay) so I'll let you know when that's up! And just a quick disclaimer, all the pictures in this post are from google, like I said before, so I didn't take any of those myself.
alright then. BYE Y'ALL!
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