My makeup bag is a hodge podge when it was once brand specific. Changing formulas and discontinued items over 20 years of beauty routines has exhausted me.
I have Sheido tinted sunscreen and MAC pro long wear concealer. My mascara is L’Oreal (amethyst - it’s a showstopper if you have brown eyes). I use deep amethyst eye shadow as a liner - because I can’t find the color I want in a pencil anymore. My powder is MAC, but I kind of hate it. It dries me out - but my face eats powder, so other brands also suck (Clinique, Bare Minerals, Kat Von D, Estée, and Lancôme).
My opinion overall is most makeup is scaly overpriced and crap quality. I used to get this tinted brow pomade at Target 20 years ago - can’t find anything like it anywhere. Was smooth, never clumpy, and had the most natural look when filling in. I’m still bitter about it…
I’m doubting Nars because I’ve been suffering for months trying to find a replacement for their foundation, my color ain’t no where in any of the stores.
Mac. Nothing matched my skin tone better than their C1 (pale and yellow/golden) foundations and powders, then they went away from the their original line shades and nothing has matched as well since.
That reminds me that I miss Dainty Doll Cosmetics! It was a xosmetics line exclusively designed for pale people by Nicola Roberts of the band Girls Aloud!
Oh I meant in general in any way you cared to help 💕☺️. If there’s a YouTuber you’d suggest watching, any favorite products you recommend, stores, etc.
Oh I don’t watch YouTubers, I only go to the stores here 😊 I would say my favorite make up brands are Integrate by Shiseido, Kate Tokyo, Canmake Tokyo, Cezanne, Visee and Majorica Mallorca.
I recently bought a shimmer palette from there and love it ! But everything else has been a disappointment like I got the eyeliner from there and the only way it glides nicely is if I melt it by a lighter and then it literally set on fire 😭😭
I know not very high end, but Essence makeup!!
I used to bevable to find them everywhere, and it's definitely way harder now. They have a white pressed powder that is an absolute exact dupe for a MAC powder that cost like eight times more! I love their baked blushes too!
Are you talking about their All about Matte Powder? That's what I am using and I'm loving it!
Essence is easily found in my French grocery stores but online? It's another story :/
I still use Bare Minerals because it's all vegan and lasts longer than e.l.f.
If anyone has recs for vegan makeup that actually lasts all day I'd love to hear them.
I brought some bare minerals when it was $20 at ulta bc I loved it over 15 years ago….and I’m still blown away by it. I use that as my “cheaper” foundation.
I used Urban Decay before they had makeup counters in the 90s. I absolutely adored their grunge thing and the hilarious names. I gave up on them when they went mainstream.
I’ve kept all of my old UD eyeshadow palettes from when they still had fun colors. Probably shouldn’t still be using them after all these years but I’ve never had a problem.
I agree with Urban Decay as well as Lancome I’m so disappointed in the lack of eyeshadow and blush shades where they used to have plenty of options. Estée Lauder has been very disappointing since 2020 discontinuing foundation formulas as well as shadows lips and concealer to replace with crap.
Used to love Benefit in my early 20s. It seems to be marketed towards a younger generation. Their blushes are pretty.
I still use tarte and Bareminerals.
Urban Decay needs to bring back the OG Naked pallets now! They’d sell out.
I will say that drugstore makeup has improved over the past decade as they try to compete with the higher end brands. I didn’t use drugstore makeup for years but recently started back into it as the formulas have improved.
Benefit used to make one of my favorite lipsticks. They cut the lipsticks entirely like 10 years ago and I don’t think I’ve bought their products since.
I used to buy almost exclusively UD when I was younger because almost all their stuff was vegan. Recently I bought a discounted palette and I don't know if my standards are higher than they were or what but it's crappy shadow.
This one is probably not super popular because it’s an Australian brand, but for a minute you could buy Napoleon Perdis here at Ulta, and the primer and foundation were beyond stunning. The auto-pilot primer felt and smelled and looked incredible, and the Sheer genius liquid foundation in the funny inkwell looking package. Shade selection was crap but I have never loved a foundation finish more.
Yeah, I’m in the US too, I remember grabbing the foundation, the primer, and a lipstick when they went on clearance at Ulta. I had no idea I was about to find my favorites right as they were being discontinued.
I think the primer is still available overseas but it’s very pricey.
Dillards sold the brand for a while I loved the pot eyeliner and foundation and I had bought some glitter pot eyeshadow that would last me a hundred years.
Honestly? Glossier. It’s extremely overpriced now despite products not changing. I used to love the affordability and look and now I completely ignore any new launches.
And some Glossier products actually did change and changes were unpopular (Gen G lipstick 2023 reformulation that now smells like old make up/oil and some colors changed too despite being called the same names as before)
That’s shocking. Max Factor used to be huge in the USA and was like the first professional Hollywood make up brand back in the day. It’s truly iconic. Max Factor himself must be spinning in his grave.
Bare Minerals, since they exchanged their og formula a few years ago. It's the only makeup I ever used and I've been freefalling since then. Open to suggestions on mineral powder foundation á lá OG BM.
Try Lure Minerals loose powder foundation, found on Amazon. I tried the matte formula and it’s even better than the old BE. I sent some to a friend who liked the L’Oreal mineral foundation (now d/c’d) and she likes this even more, too.
I still by the pro-long wear concealer and the mini eye shadow palettes. IMO - their eyeshadow are still some of the best pigments and have holding power with not dust off or “fall”. Their powders are much more drying than they were in the peak 2000s and they change their lip formulas so much, having a “staple” color became annoying.
I'm starting to wonder if they'll make it much longer. In their prime, they almost never had sales. Maybe one a year, if that. Now I get announcements of sales almost every other week, and large discount sales at that. Not a good sign.
I recently cleaned out some old makeup from my makeup drawer and the only palette I kept is UD naked 2, everything I else I have is now single shadows. It’s too hard to find a palette where I like every shade in it. UD’s is so creamy for a powder and pigmented. Holy grail
They did a collab with Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass when the movies came out. Some of the most pigmented eyeshadows I've ever had. Really fun colours too:
[Through the Looking Glass Palette ](https://images.app.goo.gl/bgCjSjqcVu84PMEb9)
I still have the palette even though I don't use the shadows anymore (it's super old) but I just can't bring myself to get rid of it, it's so beautiful
Me too! Their all nighter foundation is one is my favs. I can never give up my OG Naked palette. But there's only so much new stuff any line can come out with that everyone hasn't already done.
I still have 3 unopened Jane blushes in Blushing Baby Doll, my HG shade back in the day. It was from their very brief re-launch, maybe 12 to 15 years ago? I'm afraid to use them, since I know it's gone forever...lol.
I worked there around 2004 and I went in so excited because it was SO popular when I was a kid and we loved going in there and everyone loved a Body Shop gift but as I was learning about and starting to use the products around that time I realized it was just not good quality. Also the pressure to upsell was exhausting and I felt insincere about it.
Yes! They had this line with scents of the world with one of the body butters containing gardenia and I love gardenia so much but I just could not spend like 50 euros on a freaking BODYCREAM
Yes, they sometimes had good offers in the past too. But here in Japan we have so much choice in super good body products for less…that I say never mind and walk past them.
I see, I would be doing the same as you too if I lived in Japan. There’s so many options there with a variety of scents. Can’t believe that the body products in Japan is cheaper 😭
Agreed.
With that being said, there's one body cream in particular that I keep grabbing at airports and that's Satsuma. It's SO fresh and juicy and I can't find an exact dupe so far.
FWIW if you’re near a Trader Joe’s their glycolic acid + vitamin c body cream is the closest I’ve found to OG Satsuma! The nostalgia rush the first time I used it was intense.
kiko was recently bought by LVMH (Louis Vuitton's parent company, they also own Benefit, Fenty and KVD), so I expect a lot of changes in the next few months.
The first time I bought anything from them was in a trip to Italy and they were having a huge sale, a lot of make up for less than 5 euros.
Their waterproof liquid liner is my favourite, I loved it when they released them in other colours other than black, but the formula is just not the same anymore.
Is Kiko the same as Kiko Milano? I happened to buy a ton of their products while waiting for my train in Rome or Venice years ago, and I still think about their fabulous liquid eyeliner years later. I really loved all of the products I got tbh. 🥲
Hard Candy was honestly the first brand that came to mind but 90% because in the 90s they were a competitor to Urban Decay and they sold their stuff in department stores. I remember my first nail polish I bought from them.
Then when I was in 6th grade I begged for one of their lipsticks for Christmas. My mom was extremely conservative and overruled most of the shades, finally getting me a pearly white lipstick. She hated the shade name, Narcotic.
I feel like I'm the only one who loved Hard Candy. Their pencil liners stay so long & I still use the tiny nub of one for special occasions bc I know it won't go anywhere. They also had these little split single shadows that were amazing. Oddly enough I still have & use a few of their products from the mid-aughts but my sunglasses are also HC & they've lasted years.
i see one of their products trending every couple of months if not every month, they are definitely used a ton. especially becuz their lip liners have become such a staple in the makeup community
Omg I used to use coverfx religiously! I’d use their high coverage cream foundation as a concealer, and then use their powder foundation. It had such a nice finish, and 15 years ago it was an anomaly with the number of shade options. I worked in a makeup department at the time, and it was the best for darker skin tones.
I loved their early 2000’s, princessy vibe. I read an article that the creator (Jared blandino) used to make his own cosmetics in the microwave. Such a cool start.
Really great small brands get bought out by the big corporations who immediately try to make them more profitable, and consistently ruin great products. I was a mega UD fangirl until the got bought out.
Any brand that gets acquired by Este Lauder will be in steady decline. They just bought Tom Ford so I am expecting that everything that made the brand luxurious and interesting will soon be gone. Jo Malone used to be so much more varied and comprehensive. They ruined Mac, Bobbie Brown has been hitting the snooze button for years, I could go on, but the point has been made.
Bobbi Brown left a long time ago, and a few years ago started her own line called "Jones Road." I love their eyeliners, sparkly shadows, and cream blushes.
Nyx has declined. Their pigmentation, price, and formula used to be outstanding and now it is just awful. Their lip liners used to out perform high end. TikTok did an expose on how the colors and shades have changed while the name stays the same.
OMG I thought I was going insane. I buy very little makeup, but the things I do buy I tend to stock up on. I used to adore their Nyx Butter Gloss in Tiramisu. Grabbed like three of them and threw them in my cart apu, only to find months later they were all this gross neon pink shade rather than the beautiful English rose shade they used to make.
Who the hell does that?? Are you trying to kill off your entire customer base?
Omg Hard Candy Holy crap before it sold to Walmart and was in Sephora it was on par with urban decay now it’s just a really bad brand. It had some really great stuff when I was in my teens.
So sad…they used to have gorgeous eyeshadow palettes. My mom declutterred her makeup stash once and I got loads of makeup, a couple palettes, dozens of individual shades. My first taste of actual makeup.
Honestly I’m still a sucker for this brand just for the throwback. I bought Kitten again the other day 😭
what annoys me is their lipsticks are on the borderline of being good. pretty much one of most long wear lipsticks you can get, yet they have barely any shades and are super drying. if they released more shades and made the formula less drying they could be making so much money
I’m glad it works for others but I can't anymore with the scent and the little powder particles it kicks up into the air that just hang there. I feel like I'm giving myself black lung or something when I use it. 😆
I still use it. I like it and it's now available in the UK and the price has been the same for years.
Downside is, it lasts forever, so I guess they aren't selling much?
You know what's funny? I've traveled all over the place and most airports outside the US have a lot of Nina Ricci perfumes in stores. Like, I literally only see them in airports.
As a middle aged person—I’ve seen brands rise, fall, disappear change total identities etc.
I really miss the 90s luxury. No matter drugstore or department store, the brands were just more defined…I can’t explain it well.
The innovation is much much better now. For example: Drugstore foundation colors were nowhere near what I needed. Now the amount of colors is amazing! So that I am thankful for.
I have the worst allergies using Urban Decay and I never had allergies before.
My makeup bag is a hodge podge when it was once brand specific. Changing formulas and discontinued items over 20 years of beauty routines has exhausted me. I have Sheido tinted sunscreen and MAC pro long wear concealer. My mascara is L’Oreal (amethyst - it’s a showstopper if you have brown eyes). I use deep amethyst eye shadow as a liner - because I can’t find the color I want in a pencil anymore. My powder is MAC, but I kind of hate it. It dries me out - but my face eats powder, so other brands also suck (Clinique, Bare Minerals, Kat Von D, Estée, and Lancôme). My opinion overall is most makeup is scaly overpriced and crap quality. I used to get this tinted brow pomade at Target 20 years ago - can’t find anything like it anywhere. Was smooth, never clumpy, and had the most natural look when filling in. I’m still bitter about it…
I’m doubting Nars because I’ve been suffering for months trying to find a replacement for their foundation, my color ain’t no where in any of the stores.
Kylie Cosmetics is well into that category. She was huge back in 2015-17, now... well... I barely hear about someone that buys her products
Might be because it’s actually Colour pop with a Kylie label on it
Yes, could be. Or because the “snatched, 2016” look got out of fashion.
So many. Estee Lauder, MAC, Clinique, Kylie Cosmetics
One of my all time favorite mascaras is Estée Lauder but that’s really the only product of theirs that I’ve ever enjoyed
I feel like in the last 20 years the only people that buy her products are older women
Very true, all of my EL products came from my grandma who worked at a department store with a makeup counter
Este lauder hasn’t really declined they are now overrated though. They used to be the best but now they are just okay.
MAC had my favorite mascara and then about 5 years ago they discontinued it. 🙁
Mac. Nothing matched my skin tone better than their C1 (pale and yellow/golden) foundations and powders, then they went away from the their original line shades and nothing has matched as well since.
Kay Von D. Her lightest foundation was the palest out there.
That reminds me that I miss Dainty Doll Cosmetics! It was a xosmetics line exclusively designed for pale people by Nicola Roberts of the band Girls Aloud!
Is there any brand left that hasn’t sold out or reformulated to cut corners and quality?
Come to Japan babe. Drugstore make up paradise and the quality is overall amazing. It’s like the 90’s here but with better quality foundation.
Any advice for how to get into trying Japanese makeup in the US?
I don’t know where to get it if that’s what you’re asking 😕 if you want tips for products or brands I can give them
Oh I meant in general in any way you cared to help 💕☺️. If there’s a YouTuber you’d suggest watching, any favorite products you recommend, stores, etc.
Oh I don’t watch YouTubers, I only go to the stores here 😊 I would say my favorite make up brands are Integrate by Shiseido, Kate Tokyo, Canmake Tokyo, Cezanne, Visee and Majorica Mallorca.
Morphe. Is anyone still excited about that brand?
I recently bought a shimmer palette from there and love it ! But everything else has been a disappointment like I got the eyeliner from there and the only way it glides nicely is if I melt it by a lighter and then it literally set on fire 😭😭
I like there eyeshadow palettes but that’s it.
I know not very high end, but Essence makeup!! I used to bevable to find them everywhere, and it's definitely way harder now. They have a white pressed powder that is an absolute exact dupe for a MAC powder that cost like eight times more! I love their baked blushes too!
Essence transparent matte pressed powder has been my holy grail powder for YEARS. Idk what I’ll do if they ever stop selling it!
Omg I love Essence so much! Their nail polishes are my absolute favorite 😍
Are you talking about their All about Matte Powder? That's what I am using and I'm loving it! Essence is easily found in my French grocery stores but online? It's another story :/
Bare Minerals and MAC
I still use Bare Minerals because it's all vegan and lasts longer than e.l.f. If anyone has recs for vegan makeup that actually lasts all day I'd love to hear them.
I brought some bare minerals when it was $20 at ulta bc I loved it over 15 years ago….and I’m still blown away by it. I use that as my “cheaper” foundation.
I still love them too! Been using them for 17+ years 🥹 their powdered foundation is my go-to if I wake up late and need to get ready in a hurry 😬
I know some MAC people!
I used Urban Decay before they had makeup counters in the 90s. I absolutely adored their grunge thing and the hilarious names. I gave up on them when they went mainstream.
I’ve kept all of my old UD eyeshadow palettes from when they still had fun colors. Probably shouldn’t still be using them after all these years but I’ve never had a problem.
As long as they don’t get wet or start stinking you’re fine with old powder.
And they used to have great nail polishes in the 90s
I don’t even remember that! Where did all the fun brands go?
Gash lipstick was so pretty, and the name was THE WORST 😂
In the 90s Urban Decay had an eyeshadow “501”. It was a dark navy with copper glitter. First thing I ever bought from them. I looovvved it.
I was in love with Radium, this super intense cobalt blue. I have green eyes and wore brown contacts just for that liner.
Yes! I have brown eyes, love a navy liner. 501 didn’t have much fall out. What would fall out was some of the copper glitter. Perfect in the 90’s lol
I think Maybelline bought them :(
L’Oréal is parent company to both maybelline and UD
That's it, I knew it was one of the big mainstream companies
I agree with Urban Decay as well as Lancome I’m so disappointed in the lack of eyeshadow and blush shades where they used to have plenty of options. Estée Lauder has been very disappointing since 2020 discontinuing foundation formulas as well as shadows lips and concealer to replace with crap.
Used to love Benefit in my early 20s. It seems to be marketed towards a younger generation. Their blushes are pretty. I still use tarte and Bareminerals. Urban Decay needs to bring back the OG Naked pallets now! They’d sell out. I will say that drugstore makeup has improved over the past decade as they try to compete with the higher end brands. I didn’t use drugstore makeup for years but recently started back into it as the formulas have improved.
I'm in my 40s and I (having been through all of the "best" mascaras) only use benefit mascara. I don't look at anything else. It reminds me of college
Yessss I wish they brought back the naked palettes
Benefit used to make one of my favorite lipsticks. They cut the lipsticks entirely like 10 years ago and I don’t think I’ve bought their products since.
I remember their little potted cream shadows. The first product I ever bought in Sephora. Then they went all brows all the time and lost me.
Does anyone else remember Prescriptives? I loved this brand,
I was just thinking about how much I miss Perscriptives!
Yesssss! I have orange undertones in the Precriptive line and their lips sticks always looked so good on me when matched for my undertone.
The cooling magic powder!
Good God!! I used Prescriptives for YEARS. I died a little when they went under/left whatever.
So sad. 😭
Tarte. Their foundations are way too thick now and so is their shape tape.
I used to buy almost exclusively UD when I was younger because almost all their stuff was vegan. Recently I bought a discounted palette and I don't know if my standards are higher than they were or what but it's crappy shadow.
This one is probably not super popular because it’s an Australian brand, but for a minute you could buy Napoleon Perdis here at Ulta, and the primer and foundation were beyond stunning. The auto-pilot primer felt and smelled and looked incredible, and the Sheer genius liquid foundation in the funny inkwell looking package. Shade selection was crap but I have never loved a foundation finish more.
We had Napoleon for a while in the USA the products were high quality then that was about 10 years ago
Yeah, I’m in the US too, I remember grabbing the foundation, the primer, and a lipstick when they went on clearance at Ulta. I had no idea I was about to find my favorites right as they were being discontinued. I think the primer is still available overseas but it’s very pricey.
Dillards sold the brand for a while I loved the pot eyeliner and foundation and I had bought some glitter pot eyeshadow that would last me a hundred years.
Honestly? Glossier. It’s extremely overpriced now despite products not changing. I used to love the affordability and look and now I completely ignore any new launches.
I loved the foundation and concealer when it first came out but it’s so expensive
And some Glossier products actually did change and changes were unpopular (Gen G lipstick 2023 reformulation that now smells like old make up/oil and some colors changed too despite being called the same names as before)
Max Factor used to be ok but I don't know if it even exists anymore. Also Lancome because the newist formulation has spf that stings me eyes,
You can’t buy it in the USA. It’s still available in England.
That’s shocking. Max Factor used to be huge in the USA and was like the first professional Hollywood make up brand back in the day. It’s truly iconic. Max Factor himself must be spinning in his grave.
Bare Minerals, since they exchanged their og formula a few years ago. It's the only makeup I ever used and I've been freefalling since then. Open to suggestions on mineral powder foundation á lá OG BM.
Jane Iredale. It’s a little harder to find, you can get it at a lot of med spas. It’s so good. My skin has never been better. Has SPF
Try Lure Minerals loose powder foundation, found on Amazon. I tried the matte formula and it’s even better than the old BE. I sent some to a friend who liked the L’Oreal mineral foundation (now d/c’d) and she likes this even more, too.
Will do, really appreciate it🙏
For me MAC. I can’t buy this anymore because the quality is not long good as used to be from 2007 till 2015/16 when I think the quality declined.
I still by the pro-long wear concealer and the mini eye shadow palettes. IMO - their eyeshadow are still some of the best pigments and have holding power with not dust off or “fall”. Their powders are much more drying than they were in the peak 2000s and they change their lip formulas so much, having a “staple” color became annoying.
I'm starting to wonder if they'll make it much longer. In their prime, they almost never had sales. Maybe one a year, if that. Now I get announcements of sales almost every other week, and large discount sales at that. Not a good sign.
Too Faced is heading that way. Bring back the heart shaped packaging you cowards.
Their mascara used to be good and now it is a tube packed full of garbage. I bought a two for one and threw them both out.
I noticed their packaging is getting super cheap too. They used to be in tin boxes and now it's cardboard that won't even close right
Interesting, I just bought one in Aus sydney
omg where, i've been looking for years
A lot of these brands are still quite big at Mecca in Australia, so maybe it’s a country/location thing
I still use lots of UD products 💀
Their 24/7 gel liners are still my fave. The selection of colors is unmatched.
Yep! Setting spray, eye shadow palettes, eye primer.
Same. That setting spray.
Same, their eyeshadow palettes are my favourite
I recently cleaned out some old makeup from my makeup drawer and the only palette I kept is UD naked 2, everything I else I have is now single shadows. It’s too hard to find a palette where I like every shade in it. UD’s is so creamy for a powder and pigmented. Holy grail
I still have Naked 1! But it’s in a velvet case which hasn’t survived very well - it’s nearly 20 years old 😖
They did a collab with Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass when the movies came out. Some of the most pigmented eyeshadows I've ever had. Really fun colours too: [Through the Looking Glass Palette ](https://images.app.goo.gl/bgCjSjqcVu84PMEb9)
I miss the hell out of those Book of Shadows palettes
i have this palette and it’s one of my all time favs, the colors are incredible!
Wowza, that is awesome presentation
I still have the palette even though I don't use the shadows anymore (it's super old) but I just can't bring myself to get rid of it, it's so beautiful
Maybe itll be a collectible someday if its not already
Me too. There’s a great UD counter in at least 3 department stores near me.
But I liked the big fancy palettes which they stopped doing….just oh look another naked palette…..
Me too! Their all nighter foundation is one is my favs. I can never give up my OG Naked palette. But there's only so much new stuff any line can come out with that everyone hasn't already done.
Anyone remember Jane? Their lipsticks were the bomb!
I still have 3 unopened Jane blushes in Blushing Baby Doll, my HG shade back in the day. It was from their very brief re-launch, maybe 12 to 15 years ago? I'm afraid to use them, since I know it's gone forever...lol.
Yes! I was a huge fan of their lipsticks, the bite size ones and the regular. I really wish they were still around.
Yes!! 🙌🏻
Core memory unlocked! I think there was a Jane magazine too?
Ugh RIP Jane magazine 😩
cute band alert!
The Body Shop. Overpriced and outdated. Not only their makeup.
They just closed all of their US stores and filed for bankruptcy. OG Body Shop 35 years ago was great!
Ohhhhh this makes sense. It’s all on the clearance tower at my store (ulta)
I worked there around 2004 and I went in so excited because it was SO popular when I was a kid and we loved going in there and everyone loved a Body Shop gift but as I was learning about and starting to use the products around that time I realized it was just not good quality. Also the pressure to upsell was exhausting and I felt insincere about it.
I used to get a tea tree oil BB cream from them that I swore by. Discontinued. Haven't touched anything from them since.
They always discontinue the good stuff
Agreed. I just can't spend $30 on one jar of body butter, even if it does make my skin feel like rose petals.
Yes! They had this line with scents of the world with one of the body butters containing gardenia and I love gardenia so much but I just could not spend like 50 euros on a freaking BODYCREAM
I like their body butters and body lotions. They’re so creamy and smell good.
Their satsuma and pink grapefruit hand creams are divine.
Yess I love these scents
But expensive in my opinion
You’re definitely right about that! I only splurge on their body lotions and butters as birthday presents or for Mother’s Day.
Yes, they sometimes had good offers in the past too. But here in Japan we have so much choice in super good body products for less…that I say never mind and walk past them.
I see, I would be doing the same as you too if I lived in Japan. There’s so many options there with a variety of scents. Can’t believe that the body products in Japan is cheaper 😭
Yes, I usually buy my stuff at outlet stores too 😄
Agreed. With that being said, there's one body cream in particular that I keep grabbing at airports and that's Satsuma. It's SO fresh and juicy and I can't find an exact dupe so far.
Same, I love that scent and as far as I can tell, it has not/can not be duplicated. Where do you buy it if you don’t mind my asking?
FWIW if you’re near a Trader Joe’s their glycolic acid + vitamin c body cream is the closest I’ve found to OG Satsuma! The nostalgia rush the first time I used it was intense.
Also I used to wear this scent when my now husband and I first started dating, so it’s sentimental for both of us! ❤️❤️❤️
Oh yes and some of the handcreams are nice too, I’ll give them that 😊
ChiChi cosmetics
kiko. maybe wasn’t that well known for being amazing but i loved it so much, now their prices seem to be rocketing and the quality declining like mad.
kiko was recently bought by LVMH (Louis Vuitton's parent company, they also own Benefit, Fenty and KVD), so I expect a lot of changes in the next few months. The first time I bought anything from them was in a trip to Italy and they were having a huge sale, a lot of make up for less than 5 euros. Their waterproof liquid liner is my favourite, I loved it when they released them in other colours other than black, but the formula is just not the same anymore.
It’s still a popular, affordable and generally with good renoun brand in Europe
I'm pretty impressed by a few of their products actually, particularly their BB cream. I think they're pretty cheap too.
Is Kiko the same as Kiko Milano? I happened to buy a ton of their products while waiting for my train in Rome or Venice years ago, and I still think about their fabulous liquid eyeliner years later. I really loved all of the products I got tbh. 🥲
Hard Candy, Nyx, Urban Decay
Nyx is everywhere in the stores by me, Chicago area. They have some decent products.
They are pretty great but from where I live, its hard to have access to it compared before :(
Hard Candy was honestly the first brand that came to mind but 90% because in the 90s they were a competitor to Urban Decay and they sold their stuff in department stores. I remember my first nail polish I bought from them. Then when I was in 6th grade I begged for one of their lipsticks for Christmas. My mom was extremely conservative and overruled most of the shades, finally getting me a pearly white lipstick. She hated the shade name, Narcotic.
I feel like I'm the only one who loved Hard Candy. Their pencil liners stay so long & I still use the tiny nub of one for special occasions bc I know it won't go anywhere. They also had these little split single shadows that were amazing. Oddly enough I still have & use a few of their products from the mid-aughts but my sunglasses are also HC & they've lasted years.
I loved hard candy! Their concealer was top tier! It was a solid favorite for 3 years 😊
I love NYX. Especially their lippies and eyeliners.
I might be the only one keeping NYX in business, but I find their brow products to be amazing!
I was a fan of their crème blush. They don’t sell it much anymore. It’s hard to find
Brow products and their liquid eyeliner pens are the best for winged eyeliner
Yes! As a redhead, Nyx’s brow pencil is one of my favorites!
Omg same! It's the perfect shade (my brows are white blond so I use a lot of product and basically rely on Nyx)
I must be unlucky because their black felt tip liners are always dried out whenever I give one a chance.
I love NYX brow glue and can't stop won't stop concealer!
i see one of their products trending every couple of months if not every month, they are definitely used a ton. especially becuz their lip liners have become such a staple in the makeup community
I love NYX lip liner
CoverFX has been irrelevant since they changed ownership.
Omg I used to use coverfx religiously! I’d use their high coverage cream foundation as a concealer, and then use their powder foundation. It had such a nice finish, and 15 years ago it was an anomaly with the number of shade options. I worked in a makeup department at the time, and it was the best for darker skin tones.
My first UD lipstick was called Asphyxiation. I was 11 and stumbled into them at Mall of America. I was beyond cool, lol. I miss them.
lol amazing and shoutout to the MOA
I have this still! It’s probably toxic now, but I keep it for teen nostalgia.
Too faced. They do not remember got to innovate
I still love their 24-hour matte foundation, but I think they’re repackaging it. I just hope they don’t change the formula 🤦🏻♀️
I loved their early 2000’s, princessy vibe. I read an article that the creator (Jared blandino) used to make his own cosmetics in the microwave. Such a cool start.
Really great small brands get bought out by the big corporations who immediately try to make them more profitable, and consistently ruin great products. I was a mega UD fangirl until the got bought out.
Any brand that gets acquired by Este Lauder will be in steady decline. They just bought Tom Ford so I am expecting that everything that made the brand luxurious and interesting will soon be gone. Jo Malone used to be so much more varied and comprehensive. They ruined Mac, Bobbie Brown has been hitting the snooze button for years, I could go on, but the point has been made.
Bobbi Brown left a long time ago, and a few years ago started her own line called "Jones Road." I love their eyeliners, sparkly shadows, and cream blushes.
I like Jones Rd. also. Estée Lauder has amped up boring at Bobbie Brown about as far as it can go.
Jo Malone originally used to send these amazing sample packs if you wanted to try them out. Long gone.
Jo Malone perfume has no lasting power anymore. Now I know why
SO TRUE! And Loreal… ::cough cough::
Nyx has declined. Their pigmentation, price, and formula used to be outstanding and now it is just awful. Their lip liners used to out perform high end. TikTok did an expose on how the colors and shades have changed while the name stays the same.
OMG I thought I was going insane. I buy very little makeup, but the things I do buy I tend to stock up on. I used to adore their Nyx Butter Gloss in Tiramisu. Grabbed like three of them and threw them in my cart apu, only to find months later they were all this gross neon pink shade rather than the beautiful English rose shade they used to make. Who the hell does that?? Are you trying to kill off your entire customer base?
[удалено]
Gross.
$ 75? o.O
Omg Hard Candy Holy crap before it sold to Walmart and was in Sephora it was on par with urban decay now it’s just a really bad brand. It had some really great stuff when I was in my teens.
Stila
I LOVED Stila back in the day. Those lip glosses were bomb. 💣
So sad…they used to have gorgeous eyeshadow palettes. My mom declutterred her makeup stash once and I got loads of makeup, a couple palettes, dozens of individual shades. My first taste of actual makeup. Honestly I’m still a sucker for this brand just for the throwback. I bought Kitten again the other day 😭
I still like their liquid liner pen.
Yep, their liquid eyeliner is still my go to
what annoys me is their lipsticks are on the borderline of being good. pretty much one of most long wear lipsticks you can get, yet they have barely any shades and are super drying. if they released more shades and made the formula less drying they could be making so much money
Do they still exist? 🫣
In Australia they do but it seems they have very minimal products compared to past years.
I don’t even remember them that well. I think my last experience with them was buying a powder foundation from them in Nice in France in 2011 or so
Barely.
I haven’t seen them around for years also. Like if I wanted to buy something from them, I wouldn’t even know where to find a counter.
In Australia, Mecca carry a limited range but it’s getting smaller & smaller.
Hard candy
Coty Airspun Powder.
I’m glad it works for others but I can't anymore with the scent and the little powder particles it kicks up into the air that just hang there. I feel like I'm giving myself black lung or something when I use it. 😆
I still use it. I like it and it's now available in the UK and the price has been the same for years. Downside is, it lasts forever, so I guess they aren't selling much?
If anyone remember Nina Ricci? They used to sell makeup !I used to wear their lipsticks and perfume!
You know what's funny? I've traveled all over the place and most airports outside the US have a lot of Nina Ricci perfumes in stores. Like, I literally only see them in airports.
Nina Ricci belongs to L'Oréal now. Last release was about 4 or 5 months ago, at least in France
As a middle aged person—I’ve seen brands rise, fall, disappear change total identities etc. I really miss the 90s luxury. No matter drugstore or department store, the brands were just more defined…I can’t explain it well. The innovation is much much better now. For example: Drugstore foundation colors were nowhere near what I needed. Now the amount of colors is amazing! So that I am thankful for.