Hey, guys.
Welcome back.
It's time for another one of those disappointing
beauty products videos.
I've got some drugstore, some department store,
some indie, and some high end products to
share with you.
Phaedra wants to say hi.
Come here baby, good girl.
Phaedra says hi.
She hasn't seen you guys in awhile.
She hopes you're doing well.
You can usually see her hanging out on my
Instagram stories with me.
That's right, I love you baby.
On Friday I got my hair done.
I went to see a new stylist named Cliff and
he gave me this amazing hot pink hair, which
I absolutely love.
I think it is so much fun, so yeah, it's awesome.
The first product I am really disappointed
in is the Anastasia Beverly Hills foundation
stick.
I have the shade Warm Alabaster.
This is a pretty good match for my skin tone.
How I determine that is, I put it on my neck
and then you can see it striped right there
and then I blend it out and it blends in pretty
seamlessly with my neck.
Hopefully you can see it right there.
Warm Alabaster is described as very fair with
a yellow undertone.
I feel like this color matches me pretty well.
The problem I have is, I find it extremely
difficult to work with.
I cannot apply this to myself and have it
look good.
It will cling weirdly to dry patches, usually
like around my nose.
It will look cakey under my eyes.
It won't look very flattering.
Mickey can apply this to me and make it look
beautiful, I lack that talent.
I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a way
to use it during the summer.
Right now what I can do with it is spot conceal,
so it's not going to go to waste.
I do think it's a great product, I do think
it's more suited towards normal to oily skin.
It's only $25, it's like .32 ounces of product
and it's vegan, so I think this is a great
foundation, I think it has a great color range.
I just feel like my skin is too dry right
now to make it work, even though I've tried
and tried and tried.
I just don't feel comfortable with it.
I'm going to have to practice more but that's
why I'm disappointed, because I just wish
this could be so easy just to apply and have
it go from being a cream to a powder finish
and then boom, I'm done and I look great.
The next product that I have to show you that's
disappointing is from the drugstore.
It's the Nyx Total Cover Drops.
Once again, I love the color.
This color is Pale.
Pale is described as white ivory with a yellow
undertone, so let me see if I can drop this
on my neck for you.
Yeah, and I'll blend it out with my fingertip.
Hopefully you can see, I feel like it blends
in pretty well with my skin tone, I feel like
it looks pretty good with my skin tone.
The problem is this formula.
I have tried so many different brushes, so
many different makeup sponges, I've even tried
the Cailyn O brush that I bought.
Nothing works with this for me on my dry skin.
It looks like crap.
It clings to dry patches I didn't know existed,
like up here on my forehead where I never
normally have dry patches, it clings.
It clings to dryness all around my nose, which
I typically have dryness right around my nose.
It clings everywhere and looks terrible.
Nothing I can do can make this look better
on me.
Even Mickey tried to apply this on me and
could not make it look good, so while I feel
like this is a great drugstore foundation
if you have oily skin and it has a great shade
range, I don't feel like it works well for
me.
If you have dry skin like me you may want
to skip it, which is too bad, because I love
the color.
It's nice to actually see a color that is
a good match for my skin tone from the drugstore.
I feel like Nyx made a really innovative product
because they say that it's total control,
so you can apply it sheerly or as full coverage
as you want.
I just can't figure out the way to apply it
so that it doesn't emphasize my dryness.
I wanted to love this, but I just can't.
It just does not work for me.
My next problem child is the Body Shop CC
Cream.
Now this is the shade Brightglow, it's sort
of like a white with iridescent violet and
pink to it.
I thought it would be great.
I actually thought maybe it would be a little
bit like MAC Strobe Cream.
It's not like that.
It says it's supposed to neutralize sallowness
and brighten from within, which would be awesome.
However, it's also supposed to prime, smooth
and moisturize for 24 hours, minimize pores
and reduce shine.
It did nothing for me.
Yeah, it did nothing for me.
When I would try to wear another foundation
on top of it, my foundation would look like
crap.
It didn't work with any of the foundations
that I tried it with, so I've just decided
that it's a product that I personally cannot
wear with another foundation.
I tried wearing it on it's own, it doesn't
really blur enough for me or provide enough
coverage for me to be able to wear it and
have it look good.
I found it disappointing.
I don't really know what I'm going to do with
it.
Maybe I'll try layering it with like a highlighter,
like using it like a liquid highlighter base
and then putting the powder highlighter on
top, but I was really disappointed because
I was so hopeful that this would be a really
useful illuminating glow primer type thing
and it just did not work for me.
It failed, complete and utter failure.
The next product that was disappointing for
me was the Body Shop All In One Instablur.
Again, I thought this would be like a nice
primer.
I figured it probably has a bunch of silicones
in it, so it will be great.
I thought it maybe it would even be like the
Smashbox Photo Finish primer.
It's not.
It's like really crumbly when it comes out.
I don't know why.
It doesn't come out liquidy at all and I don't
know if you can see this but it basically
comes out in this weird glob and falls all
over the place.
When you try to like rub it into your skin,
because it has this just weird crumbly little
ball texture, it doesn't really go into your
pores.
It doesn't really want to do anything other
than kind of ball up on the skin.
I don't know if this is a bad batch, I don't
know what's really going on with this, but
it's supposed to blur imperfections, give
you a flawless photo perfect skin, reduce
the appearance of pores, shine control, hide
blemishes.
It doesn't do any of that for me.
It just does nothing other than sit on the
top of the skin and feel crumbly.
Yeah, another disappointing product that I
thought would be awesome, but I was wrong.
My next fail whale is the Youngblood Stay
Put Eye primer.
It claims that it prevents creasing, it intensifies
eye shadow and helps colors be true in hue.
It has a lot going for it.
It's like this really nice pale beige color.
It has a really, really dry texture.
I thought it was going to be awesome.
Unfortunately for me, it doesn't last on oily
hooded lids.
It's almost like I have nothing on at all
because it will wear off where the crease
of my eye is like basically the hood, so I
can put it on and it will be gone where I
need it the most after like an hour, hour
and a half.
I think that this is a primer that would probably
work just fine if you have normal eyes or
slightly oily eyes, but if you have super
oily hooded eyes like I do, this is a lost
cause.
It's not going to work for you or I don't
feel like it will work for you because it
really did not work for me.
I personally find it so hard to find primer
that will work for my oily hooded lids.
I've tried a million and one primers, as you
probably know, because I'm always bitching
about them in one of my disappointing videos.
I wanted to love this.
I think it's great for probably other people's
eyes, just not mine.
The next product is also an eye primer.
I thought I had mentioned this before but
I hadn't, so I figured well might as well
talk about it now.
This is by Nurturing Force.
This is their Twinkle Not Wrinkle, it's like
an eye cream plus eye shadow primer.
Actually sorry, it's an eye cream, plus eye
shadow base, plus HD primer, plus lip primer
all in one.
It claims to moisturize, firm, minimize line,
wrinkles, assist with eye shadow creasing
and dark circles.
It does have some great ingredients like Hyaluronic
acid and sweet cherry oil.
It feels really, really good but it does not
work on me as a primer at all.
It basically is just too moisturizing for
my oily hooded lids.
It does feel really good as a eye cream, it
feel really good as a lip cream, but it fails
like as a primer.
It doesn't really work as a base for me, which
is too bad, because if it did all the things
it said it did it would be an amazing product.
Last but not least is this Tarte Eyeliner
Duo that I bought it with a set from Tarte
cosmetics, so it's split.
It's like half black and half brown and basically
I thought it had a nice creamy texture but
what I've noticed with it is that it crumbles
off after like an hour or two.
I don't really know why, because the Tarte
Tartest Clay Paint liner is awesome, but this
seems to crumble off, just doesn't work very
well.
I bought it because I was like oh hey look,
it has a brown and a black, for those rare
occasions when I want a brown this will be
great, but no, no it's not.
It's terrible.
Anyway, that's it for my latest round of disappointing
beauty products.
I did want to chit chat a little bit.
I hope that you like my amazing hot pink hair.
I was curious to know if you have watched
Legion, which is a brand new superhero show.
I'm really into it.
I got very, very excited because I just watched
the first episode and I'm like what do you
mean I can't have the second one right now?
I ended up buying a season pass on Amazon
to watch it, so once it comes out I'll be
able to get my fix.
Anyway, I realized that I pretty much have
watched every single superhero show that's
been out for, I don't know, the past five,
seven years except for Green Arrow.
I tried two seasons of Green Arrow and thought
it was terrible.
I've heard that it's gotten better, so maybe
I'll go back and watch it later if I run out
of things to watch.
I watch stuff like the Flash.
I also watch Agents of Shield, even though
Agents of Shield is not as much fun as watching
the Avengers movies.
Legion is promising to be a ton of fun.
Basically the thing that we really seem to
do here is binge watch like a series all at
once.
Not that long ago we finished watching Wayward
Pines, which I thought was really good.
Right now we're watching maybe, I think it's
the Santa Clarita Diet, which has Drew Barrymore
and she's a zombie.
It's kind of hilarious.
The only show that I think I'm still watching
on pretty much like a weekly schedule is Supernatural
because I need my Jensen Ackles fix.
Anyway, what products have disappointed you
lately?
What shows are you binge watching?
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