New Eyeshadow colours ~ where is the one for dark hair a pale skin?
Was organising my storage yesterday and tried out all the new palettes I’ve received of late.
Tried them all on, ( just in case), but no ~ none of them suit me.
I’ve never liked shimmery beige, even when I was a teenager, so it is nothing to do with age.
All the palettes I have are sold as mid to high end.
The mid palette from one company is exacly the same colours as the palette from another company.
One is mid end the other is high end.
Dupes
You have been.
I have to be honest and say as a consumer I detest dupes very strongly.
I once paid Ā£199 for a pair of Dune boots, only to find the exact same pair in a cheap shop. O.K., it didn’t have the fancy packaging but I bought the cheap ones and compared them, they were identical.
From then on I just bought my shoes and boots from the cheap shop as I’m not daft.
I don’t agree with this theory of Robin Hood or whatever it is, as I’ve done door to door sales and market trading. Also I was poor when I was little.
It isn’t as simple as that, in fact rich people tend to shop on market stalls and cheap shops as all their money is tied up in mortgages etc.
(Also we saved up for high end products and I was gifted expensive gifts from well off relatives).
I know who has the money.
Old School sales
Factories of yore did sell the same product to the different ends of the market, but in a way that you got what you paid for.
I learnt this in buisness studies at Art College.
Why this changed I don’t know, but it has deteriated all the world market down to the lowest end of the factory and I don’t agree with this concept.
Product Testing
Yesterday I decided to throw the eyeshadow palettes as I’m not going to use them and they are blocking valuable space in our illegally built house that we are ready to upsize from.
Having been brought up poor, my mum used to always snap the mirrors off old makeup palettes and so forth she was throwing away.
In a health and safety world gone mad ~ don’t do this as it is fairly dangerous.
I snapped too mirrors off and frankly was shocked.
With a high end palette you would expect some sort of wire holding it together or a sophisticated joint.
The palette snapped straight off, with shards of plastic flying revealing a nasty white plastic under the fake metal paint.
If this had been Constance Carroll prices I wouldn’t of cared less, but it is like a low end dupe?
If you like Rimmel you would of loved Constance Carroll ~ they had hundreds of different lipstick and eyeshadow colours and their eyebrow pencil was 50p.
Thinking back I bought mainly constance Carrol type products from independent small buisnesses, Loreal and occassionaly treated myself to a high end lipstick.
Bizarely the brand used to manufacture from Nottingham, the actual home of Robin Hood. (It was a good brand then).
Now it trades from New York and is manufactured in China?
Also the manageress of the counter was black ~ so it wasn’t rasicst?
She knew her stuff actually and I bet she is moaning about quality too.
So it sounds like rich people stealing from the poor, as they have stolen the jobs from Nottingham.
Also the product is fairly cheap, but a treat for poor people.
Conclusion
I feel confident to write this blog, even though I was just threatened?, as I know for a fact hundreds of women out there are complaining about how makeup quality has gone rubbish and they don’t like the colours.
If independent small buisnesses came back it wouldn’t matter what the fashion was as they sold all the colours you wanted.
I’m not a dedicated follower of fashion, so I only buy fashion when I like it.
Obviously I won’t be repeat purchasing these eyeshadows, it would be cheaper to just get a mirror and one that doesn’t need the cheap plastic edges filing off.
Loreal was in plastic, but priced correctly with colours you wanted. But clear plastic that I liked.
I repeat purchased Loreal all the time.
I never bought that brand of makeup I’m moaning about anyway and to cut my losses, it was free anyway.
Where I might of been duped is with the high end palette that has the exact same quality eyeshdow in.
Apparently all the makeup companies get their produce from the same factory.
Yesterday I found out they don’t and there are different factories.
Are there any factories left that are geniune, selling good product for honest prices with colours I like?
If so where are they?
(I’m fed up of being led down the garden path to be honest and I just want to get the colour makeup I want again, why should I be in fear of saying it? I’m not the only one saying it).
But to end on a high note, like a lot of diss ~ satisfied makeup consumers I have rediscovered Rimmel and hope to go on to discover more brands I like. Would rather not have to do this process but wondering if Loreal and Mac are going to go under if they don’t revert back to selling what people want?
I just want it to go back to how it was when it worked.
If not at least I’ve found a few good alternatives, going to keep ploughing on as I love makeup.
Hope you are enjoying your Sunday
Saphire
If we live in a world where you aren’t supposed to say what I just said, what has the world come to?
Really miserable place.
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