Do some actual research. Who told you that, the makeup company itself? Let us not forget the many lessons of Beauty and the Bullshit (pay particular attention to reason #1 at the link). Here is another good overview of why some products are more expensive than others. A summary: (1) A better formula is only sometimes the explanation - you have to read the ingredients and reviews. Often companies sell the exact same product in two different lines at vastly different price points. (2) Trendier colors. (3) More elaborate packaging. (4) More money spent on marketing. So while you might just get lucky and actually get a better product if you spend more, there are PLENTY of reasons that a mediocre product could be costly. Look at all the expensive shit that Temptalia gives a rating of F or D. Not to mention just . . . companies can charge more, because people are snobs and will pay for prestige.
Back to the xoVain article, though, she goes on to provide a video demonstration of her fancyass concealer on a person with nothing to conceal. It doesn't tell you anything useful. This is another "non-review" as commenter boopmynose put it. So not helpful.
Note: I'm not saying it's not good concealer. It might be. I've never tried it. But it's not good simply because it's expensive, and this article does nothing to convince me to spend $45 on some fucking concealer.
My head is going to explode. There is so much wrong in that non review. I'm so focused on the trust fund whie girl usage of the word "dope" and the salesperson using Alek Wek as a color shade description just comes off as gross. If it was a POC talking to another POC then it wouldn't gives me skeevey vibes. Butgoing by the rest of the article is comes off very LOL CUZ SHES SO DARK.
ReplyDeleteThat coupled with the severe lack of information about the actual product lead me to heavy eye rolling because of the obvious audience intended for her posts, just what the world needs more of, privileged riich white girls writing for other privileged white girls about so they can all pat each other on the back and feel "sassy"
Yes! You hit on a number of other problems that I wasn't even prepared to deal with there, because my head was spinning. Ugh.
DeleteYeah, that article is not good. Sensual Skin Enhancer (that name!) happens to be a really, really excellent concealer (and IMO worth the price because it's so concentrated, so you really get a lot for your money), but you can't tell that AT ALL from the post. And the whole tone of the article, ugh.
ReplyDeleteThe concealer actually sounded good once I started reading the comments, but I shouldn't have had to do that. God knows I like a sassy writing style, but this is just lazy and bratty. If they just wanted to write cutesy or provocative articles that happen to slightly touch on a beauty subject, they should have just left them on xoJane.
DeleteHer comment on emulsification is such bullshit! Separation happens with certain types of formulas and has nothing to do with quality. When I was at a Chanel counter to get a sample of their Vitalumiere Aqua foundation, the girl there told me to make sure I shake the crap out of it because it tends to separate. Girlfriend needs to sit down and shut up.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It sounds like a department store makeup salesperson read the marketing copy for some product, then garbled it and told it to this writer, and then the writer garbled it more and passed it on. And it was nonsense to begin with. I don't know what kind of magical, expensive processes she is envisioning.
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