Actually, same here.I loved the tutorial Sali did about how to dry your fringe though, that actually was super useful and helpful!
The Parlux!! I considered this. Thank god. Well done on getting turned around Cher and sharing your storyI can definitely identify with the "bought all the crap the charlatan recommend" theme. I fully take responsibility for my own actions but I ended up £20,000 in debt because it was always about the new or the next for validation.
I do still adore beauty and skincare and am really passionate about it but now I have a drastically reduced budget (because 75% of my pay goes to paying off debts) I tend to be much more picky about what I spend my money on. Yes, I will Google for hours, watch YouTube demos, but mostly I trust my own instincts on if something is right for me.
I'll jump in and admit to an expensive Hughes recommended product that was a massive waste of money for me. Parlux hairdryer. Firstly, I air dry my hair 98.7% of the time and secondly I'd need to put in some serious gym time to be able to use it on myself as it is so phenomenally heavy.
The only use it gets it to blow dry the dog if he gets wet on his walk. Over a hundred quid for something only the dog uses.
Very brave of you to post this. And congratulations on being nearly debt free. How are you going to celebrate? Shopping trJust caught up and realised after reading everyone's spendy shames on the last thread how SH was really the gateway beauty dealer that led to the whole beauty spending problem I had a few years ago which culminated in going to the US for the first time and spending £800 over the week I was there purely on makeup (Sephora and Ulta can fuck off). Now, mostly that was because of youtube influencers by that point (2015) but it all started with the idea that the sexy empowered woman I was desperate to be in 2012 wore a red lip and did it in her sexy black chanel travel mirror, that Chanel Pirate, the stupid mirror I broke weeks later when it fell out of my handbag. Not to mention the credit card debt the whole stupid lifestyle left me saddled with (just a few months more until it's all paid off!)
Also this week I was idly looking on depop for Acne Pistols even though I can't wear heels, let alone wear them every day. This shit runs DEEP.
I'm so sick of the stupid beauty and makeup industry idea that face paint has more innovation than the bloody tech industry. That there's always a new bloody serum or moisturiser or newly discovered universally flattering shade of [insert current trendy colour here] that we just HAVE to buy, that these influencers somehow find time to change their skincare and makeup every bloody month, but still repurchase things of course, the old favourites they've loved for YEARS even if it only came out. It's all such bollocks driven by industry press releases and deadlines. I feel such an idiot to have fallen for it.
Hyper Consumerist Performative Makeup Culture isn't going to "solve" the problems of my life, all it did was make me want to buy all the things and hope they'd make me feel better. Years later though I'm still the same skidmark with saggy eyelids that'll never be big enough for drag queen elaborate eyeshadow looks, thin hair that will never look like it has extensions in it, and skin that's actually fine, thanks.
Same! I had the set with the Medieval lipstick (a sheer red), one sheer purple with shimmer and one that was coral (IIRC, gave it to my mum). They were OK to me, but nothing worth repurchasing. Or the price.Does anyone remember Poppy King Lipstick Queen lipsticks? They were pushed by Sali and then by India Knight in her Times Style column. I bought a set of three at a ridiculous price. They rub off immediately, colours are crap and they have now all broken off their bases. India Knight is also behind this buying of overpriced crap.
What was awful was that India Knight used her Style column to specifically go on about how brilliant and long lasting they were. She must have known she was lying. I’ve just googled and SH continuously recommended them.Same! I had the set with the Medieval lipstick (a sheer red), one sheer purple with shimmer and one that was coral (IIRC, gave it to my mum). They were OK to me, but nothing worth repurchasing. Or the price.
What would happen if you wear those boots with pants? Would one's botox dilute instantly? Would suddenly Eric appear behind as you look in the mirror?Sali didn't even manage to write all the tricky captions by herself.
Poor Lauren, by SH's own admission it couldn't have been done without her so why wasn't it credited to both 'authors'?
(Lauren has been paid in boots to kick us all down with)
Those lipsticks (from that particular set) are not long lasting, like most sheer lipsticks aren't. They are really the same as their drugstore counterparts.What was awful was that India Knight used her Style column to specifically go on about how brilliant and long lasting they were. She must have known she was lying. I’ve just googled and SH continuously recommended them.
So many of of us here now. It is absolutely brilliant. Buying something SH recommended. Thought it was 'meh' at best or just shit but still thinking 'this must be my fault. I'm just not getting it but everyone else is'. So buy the next recommendation to see if things change.I can definitely identify with the "bought all the crap the charlatan recommend" theme. I fully take responsibility for my own actions but I ended up £20,000 in debt because it was always about the new or the next for validation.
I do still adore beauty and skincare and am really passionate about it but now I have a drastically reduced budget (because 75% of my pay goes to paying off debts) I tend to be much more picky about what I spend my money on. Yes, I will Google for hours, watch YouTube demos, but mostly I trust my own instincts on if something is right for me.
I'll jump in and admit to an expensive Hughes recommended product that was a massive waste of money for me. Parlux hairdryer. Firstly, I air dry my hair 98.7% of the time and secondly I'd need to put in some serious gym time to be able to use it on myself as it is so phenomenally heavy.
The only use it gets it to blow dry the dog if he gets wet on his walk. Over a hundred quid for something only the dog uses.
So many of of us here now. It is absolutely brilliant. Buying something SH recommended. Thought it was 'meh' at best or just shit but still thinking 'this must be my fault. I'm just not getting it but everyone else is'. So buy the next recommendation to see if things change.
All fed the mantra makeup is important and empowering. In Pretty Honest I was perusing earlier SH keeps using the term 'nerdy' re her interest in beauty. 'Now I might be a beauty nerd but...'. Now I think this is quite calculated. It implies something almost scientific and specialist. Quite niche. Justifying endless buying of 'stuff' because I'm a nerd. Makeup isn't trivial but very important and almost a science. Normalising 30 expensive lipsticks because 'I'm a beauty nerd. You wouldn't understand. And if you don't you just aren't as cool as me. But buy stuff and you might be!'.
I like makeup and wear it but ffs it isn't important. It just isn't.
Here you go: https://tattle.life/threads/19920/At best "ever peripheral". I never could find those comments way back on the mumsnet thread someone posted in #2 ages ago. Maybe all deleted now. Reminds me of Bill Murray calling Chevy Chase medium talent.
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