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Most over-rated products

  • 01-08-2007 02:52PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭


    I got a sample of Clarins Beauty Balm Flash the other day, and so far have been far from impressed with it. It seems to make my skin look unhealthily shiny and my make-up doesn't seem to be lasting as long as usually does with it underneath.

    If I'd never heard of it before I wouldn't have been as disappointed, but since it's got such a great reputation I was pretty surprised at how mediocre it is.

    So name and shame folks: have you ever been surprised at the crapness of an overhyped product?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    Welcome to my world! I'm a marketers dream...always buy these products and then go "why did i waste my money on this rubbish". - biggest waste was creme de la mer. It was cr@p!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,469 ✭✭✭Pythia


    Touche Eclat. Don't see anything special about it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    trowsers. the most over-rated thing in the fashion world. who need them?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    The Bollox wrote:
    trowsers. the most over-rated thing in the fashion world. who need them?

    LOL. Good point, although they do add a certain air of mystery to the wearer...otherwise everything would be out in the open...no surprises! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 Anney


    Touche Eclat, fantastic, wouldn't leave home without it, transforms me from overtired bag to beauty!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭deedee lepoopoo


    Beauty Flash balm - overrated for sure, but their beauty flash balm eye cream is good!

    The Body Shop do a better version of Touche Eclat.

    Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream - overrated - Neem Cream or Aloe Vera is miles better.

    Mac foundation is overrated.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    Beauty Flash balm - overrated for sure, but their beauty flash balm eye cream is good!

    The Body Shop do a better version of Touche Eclat.

    Elizabeth Arden 8 Hour Cream - overrated - Neem Cream or Aloe Vera is miles better.

    Mac foundation is overrated.

    Defo agree on the eight hour cream...it smells!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭lady_j


    `doesnt cost a lot but remember the fuss when johnsons gradual tanner came out? You couldnt get it for love or money, I tried it and ended up all streaky...

    actually I think I could put all self tan in this category


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 123 ✭✭BreeVdK


    Bought Beauty Flash Balm a while back due to the amount of hype continuously in magazines etc and I was totally unimpressed with it.
    I put it on (after exfoliating) and after it dries in, if I rub my face, skin (and I suppose the dried in cream) starts to peel off !!!

    The same happens if I use Johnson's Baby Pink Body Moisturiser. It smells lovely but peels !!

    I also think Johnson's self-tan is crap, descry, the same thing happened to me !

    Rimmel mascaras are rubbish as are the lipsticks.

    I recommend Guinot Gommage as an exfoliator - AMAZING and Body Shop Body Butters !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭lady_j


    BreeVdK wrote:

    The same happens if I use Johnson's Baby Pink Body Moisturiser. It smells lovely but peels !!

    Is that the one thats suppose to limit hair growth after shaving?If it is it definately didnt stop me being a hairy molly


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭artnotort


    the johnsons moisturising and tanning stuff.

    such crap
    not worth the hype at all


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,142 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Any self tanning product... I can just about tolerate the Johnsons, but no other..
    actually sunshimmer instant tan is very good...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭artnotort


    most mac products are over rated too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭ptashka


    Pythia wrote:
    Touche Eclat. Don't see anything special about it.

    my friend uses it as a base for lip gloss..!!...at that price..???!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭ptashka


    any shampoos and conditioners that promise to make your hair anyhow different. remember my hairdresser saying - don't be expecting miracles from them!

    Over the counter teeth whitening kits are another big disappointment.

    And bikini waxing kits - there is no way one can inflict such a pain by oneself!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭lady_j


    ptashka wrote:
    my friend uses it as a base for lip gloss..!!...at that price..???!!!

    a base for lip gloss???? jeez does she lie in a bed made from gold too...:eek:

    How the other half live, huh...?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43 Xylem


    Maybeline mascara in the pink and green tube. Hyped as the BEST MASCARA EVER.

    But it's pretty much like every other chemist bought mascara.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    MAC eyeliner,lipstick, actually most of their products... overpriced and not very good


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭Nala


    Xylem wrote:
    Maybeline mascara in the pink and green tube. Hyped as the BEST MASCARA EVER.

    But it's pretty much like every other chemist bought mascara.

    Yep! Though the rest of their mascaras are good, just that they're impossible to get off!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 543 ✭✭✭Electric


    Clinique foundation is crap. It cakes on and it smells!!!

    Tresemme shampoo and conditioner is rubbish. It was billed as being professional hairdresser's choice, but all it did was leave my hair greasy and dull!

    Home waxing kits are a joke!

    I know it's not exactly a product but epliators are completely ridiculous!! Expensive and have the same effect as you sitting there for hours plucking hairs from your legs with a tweezers!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,257 ✭✭✭jos28


    I agree with Ptashka on the teeth whiteners. Total waste of money. Promise you the sun, stars and shiny white teeth but they don't do what they say on the tin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Nala wrote:
    Yep! Though the rest of their mascaras are good, just that they're impossible to get off!


    In the ad for that mascara in tiny print down the bottom it says "filmed using lash inserts" so the lashes it'll give you are nothing like what the ad shows!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Most benefit stuff i bought was a waste of money. i went through a big phase of it. Especially he body/bath stuff. It's just more expensive cos it's in very funky packaging but now I have shelves of funky looking stuff that I never use. It's not cheap either.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭Malteaser!


    ^^^ true story... I never bought loads of it but I have a fair amount that I never use!!

    The silky leg stuff is pretty cool and some of the other things smell nice, thats baout it though!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    I'd have to disagree about the Touche Eclat - it works a wonder for me.

    Big let downs for me are Johnson's Holiday Skin and Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturiser and Tresemme shampoos. Utter waste of my moolah.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 356 ✭✭dirtydress


    phasers wrote:
    MAC eyeliner,lipstick, actually most of their products... overpriced and not very good
    I'd have to disagree, MAC's kohl liner is gorgeous and lasts all night and their lipsticks keep your lips moisturised and don't dry out like other ones. I'm a big MAC fan, their colours are amazing!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 617 ✭✭✭flynnser19


    i think that benefit stuff defo is a waste of money big time!!!its pure crap!!touch eclat is alright it lasts forever like so its good in that sense but i wouldnt say it makes me look more awake!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭meowCat


    Johnnson's fake tan moisturiser was a big disappointment. The tan is not a nice colour and it streaks ways too easily. Olay and Nivea are fab though. The Dove one gives me pimples.

    Also, expensive face moisturiser, thus any you can buy in BT. I once bought one thinking it would be really great for the skin. Big mistake. It's back to basics there.

    Various volumising mascaras. They just go sooo clumpy. Especially that one from L'Oreal which comes in a funny shape and has two sides. The mascara side has a comb like applicator. Soooooo bad!!!

    Special Eye Make up removal lotions. I've tried several and finally tried that clinique one that has two parts. You shake it before usage in order to mix the two fluids. Still woke up the next morning with panda eyes. I now use water, soap (Dove!) and a flannel to get off most of it and then swipe with vaseline over the eye to get the last resedues and moisturise the area. Never had panda eyes in the morning again.

    John Frieda Brilliant Brunette Shampoo. My hair was greasy again the same evening. Yuck! Their shine shock for brunettes is fab though.

    I'm sure there's loads more that I just forgot at the moment. But different things work well for different ppl. Nothing saves you the trouble of trying it out yourself, unfortunately.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Niamho!


    sorry for dragging this back up but... Yves Saint Laurent - Touche Eclat.
    Alot of peopl on here even rave about it - i dont get it. its the EXACT same as Benefit High beam.... i Wasted Money on it. piece of overrated, overpriced crap!! :mad:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭bills


    watna wrote: »
    Most benefit stuff i bought was a waste of money. i went through a big phase of it. Especially he body/bath stuff. It's just more expensive cos it's in very funky packaging but now I have shelves of funky looking stuff that I never use. It's not cheap either.
    yea i second that, looks great but does not do what it says!!!


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