Why the Raggy Dolls? 'Cause they lived in a reject bin!
I had the idea a while ago to, once a week, post a digest of all these products with a super-mini-review for each one. So, this is going to be my first installment of stuff that didn't make the cut for a full review, for whatever reason.
Foundation
MAC Studio Fix Fluid SPF 15 - A lot of people love this, I don't. Even the lightest cool shade NC15 is too dark for me, and considering MAC have such a wide array of foundations and shades, I'm annoyed they would've overlooked the pale. It doesn't last all day, coverage isn't great, and it seems to make me greasier than I am. Basically, it just makes my skin look worse. Ick.
Price: £19.00 (MAC)
L'Oreal True Match Super Blendable Powder - Feels and looks creamy, but goes on pretty dry. Adorable packaging, actually light enough for me, but I hate the formula as a base foundation. Works fairly well as a finishing powder over a liquid foundation, though, but it doesn't wear well.
Price: £7.82 (Boots)
Mascara
Maybelline Colossal Volum' Express - Apart from the obnoxious apostrophe which irritates the heck out of me, volume is the one thing this DOESN'T provide. Loads of people love this, but it is no different to every other "large brush" type mascara ever. Big brush = long lashes, nice separation, zero volume skinny lashes, zero drama. Doesn't live up to its hype, but makes a nice base mascara to use underneath something more volumising.
Price: £6.84 (Boots)
Virgin Vie Renaissance Liner/Mascara - This is the double-ended blue mascara/gold liner I got free from Virgin Vie. I'm glad it was free. The mascara itself is all right - a decent "big brush" type mascara, but the blue isn't blue, it's an off-black navy, meaning it's not black enough to be black but not blue enough to be blue, so I wouldn't use it except under a proper black volumising mascara. Length, separation, nothing else. The liner is bits of gold glitter suspended in clear liner which isn't as bold as I hoped, but it is very fine glitter and I can probably find some use for it in the future, but it's not pigmented enough for me as standalone eyeliner.
Price: £10.00 (Virgin Vie)
Eyeshadow/Liner
The Body Shop Eye Definer & Metallic Eye Definer - Many Brits got these free with the last In Style magazine, I got the ones in Black and the laughably named "vibrant emerald". In reality the black isn't so black and "vibrant emerald" is more a paleish shade of greyish greeny blue. It's so in-between being a nice colour I'm not sure what it is. Smudges easily, the lead broke repeatedly during use, just generally doesn't measure up to the awesome Urban Decay 24/7 liners. At £7.30 for 1.25g they're cheaper than the £10.00 for 1.2g UD product, but I'd rather pay the extra £2.70.
Price: £7.30 (The Body Shop)
Rimmel Star Shine Glitter Eyeshadow Pencil - I think this came in some mass eBay haul, I know I didn't buy it individually, because I wouldn't, it looks like it was designed for 10 year olds. Heavy on the glitter, not so much on the eyeshadow. It sticks on pretty well, but the pencil is hard and scratchy, huge and imprecise, and generally unsuitable as eyeshadow. I can't think of any occasion when I'd want to use this, if I wanted glitter I'd opt for a loose powder over this, it feels like wax-crayoning my eyelids.
Price: £2-3 now, unsure of RRP. (eBay)
Skincare
Prescriptives Px Super Line Preventor Xtreme - I have a special hatred of anything with "Xtreme" in the title, or variations like "eXtreme", anything where the X is capitalised. I expect better from Prescriptives. That aside, this was free with a magazine subscription. It's impossible for me, at my age, to know whether the line prevention works or not, but just as a serum, this is OK. It's fairly moisturising, but quite thick for a serum and smells unpleasant to me. This isn't awful, but doesn't justify its price tag either.
Price: £38 for 30ml (House of Fraser)
10 comments:
As a matter of fact it does say Colonel on my uniform
3 September 2009 10:35x] I didn't get that until I started re-watching Stargate this time around.
3 September 2009 10:38Geez Ana, your makeup graveyard is almost as large as mine!!
3 September 2009 12:43Blogsale coming this week-end, by the way! (and maybe you should organize one too!
Hmmmm...Now you've got me about to go check my stash and what needs to be thrown out. About once a month I do it and just bite the bullet. Some things I swap out but the other stuff which if I don't like and it's really crappy I don't send to others either.
3 September 2009 13:01I just HATE how my Colossal mascara SMELLS. I don't like to use it because of the smell :3
3 September 2009 17:12I didn't buy the Lash Stiletto thing mascara, 'cos it smelled even worse :3
Mariella, I have a tooon of products I never use for one reason or other. I'd feel really bad about selling anything I hated though, unless it was a product that just didn't work for me and might for someone else.
3 September 2009 18:52All of this stuff is either used or too old or just too crap x]
I hardly ever throw anything away, Tala. All that stuff I just mentioned I put back away in my drawer!
3 September 2009 18:53Omg me too, Jangsara. I hate the smell of it, it's smells cheap and nasty to me =S
3 September 2009 18:54Oh funny you mention the smell of the Colossal, I haven't noticed anything thought I have a very sensible nose. I hate Rimmel mascaras for this reason, a lot of them still smell after you applied, eeeek!
3 September 2009 19:00Wow, really? It smells so strong to me. I think my Rimmel Sexy Curves smells like old walnuts, though.
3 September 2009 19:04I have a Vitamin C cream by Virgin Vie which smells incredibly sickly-sweet like really really sugary oranges and it even stinks when it's on my face =S
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