Remember back in the day when you were asked if you wanted to sit in smoking or non smoking? Perhaps cosmetics should offer a choice, with talc or without?
I’m sure it’s been profitable to blow it out of proportion and make the average consumer believe they had to replace their entire makeup collection with talc free products .
They are not just removing the talc; they are also reducing the weight (less product, less ounces), more expensive and much less shelf life. That's a ripoff. This does not feel like 'special' or luxury anymore. Also, more luring customers with packaging.
I’m with you about the consolidation and quality problem. I recently bought a couple luxury vintage handbags because the new bags just aren’t great quality for money with a few exceptions. The new generation doesn’t know what they’re missing and is easily influenced vs my generation.
The reformulations with a lot of EU brands is being driven by new regulations controlling ingredients no longer considered safe. Instead of these brands taking the cost of that and trying to reinvent their products, they are reacting quickly and releasing lower quality product hoping you don’t notice. I’m not sure it can be undone now because the regulators will continue in this direction and brands don’t have much incentive to be better
Another spot-on analysis, very enjoyable! 👜🎄🌺 My gripes are ingredients, in addition to losing talc, we have dimethicones and hyaluronic acid in literally every makeup product. Doesn't matter if it's drugstore, high end or luxury, the formulas all have the same ingredients (minus a drop of flower essence). Everything is reaching a samey-samey formulation. In addition, more and more chemicals, longer ingredients lists of chemicals. I'm not sure I want to buy foundations and skin tints anymore. Even older products I used to love have been "re-formulated" to include dimethicones and hyaluronic acid. One issue I have with most content creators is they are ignoring ingredients lists. It's been 30 years since Paula Begoun's book. We have had easy "education" at our fingertips for a long time. People recommend stuff or say it's good for them without analysing what ingredients are working for them, that may not work for other skin types. I feel like some channels have a shopping problem, or are more interested in clicks, or in trying to get PR, that they buy new products for "content" and "hype" on their channels. And in terms of waste, the "I don't buy expensive makeup" mainly drugstore channels actually buy the MOST makeup, declutter more products more often (like quarterly), and their "excuse" is "I buy it so you don't have to [buy it/throw it away]," but years on years of this with never questioning themselves. Like why not just say "I looked at the new X brand foundation, and the ingredients are similar to this other brand, so I don't need it." The "content" here is their investigation of it, going to the store, or reading the ingredients, and the decision to buy or not. To this end, I am grateful that you and other intelligent creators are buying more thoughtfully nowadays. This video here really puts me in mind of this at the start of a new year. And, you always make me inspired to use what I already own. While watching, I find myself reaching for a lipstick while watching, doing my makeup or a touch-up. or a skin care (more oils in glass bottles lately). I think it's your creativity with showing up in reindeer horns hairband having done a beautiful eyelook with boring old coral shades, all this inspires me to USE my makeup. I hope that's a "mission accomplished" trophy win for your mantlepiece for 2024! 💕💋💌🌹🌺🎄🍷
I love your channel, how you do your makeup, and your selection of products. You deliver the facts! I completely agree with you. In a time when most people want sustainability, it baffles my mind how cosmetic companies pretend to be sustainable. They have the nerve to go so far as to change the packaging rendering refillable packaging unusable (Guerlain, & Cle De Peau -about every 5 years- etc). Who are they kidding? They promote profound unsustainability. 10+ years ago, how many blushers or eyeshadows did we buy every year? I will take a talc product any day over a non-talc product. Meteorites old scent was so special. How about they offer both plus an unscented version? Make everyone happy. Nope. I will not buy another Meteorite unless they go back to the original (not tweaked) scent. There is no excuse for the year round, unending collection launches. Wasteful. They want to go green? Dive all the way in or stay out of that market. You can never make everyone happy. For example, I despise all minty lip products, no matter how great the formula is. Even great "unscented" lip products get overlooked by me. In the end, I grab the lip products that perform AND have pleasant scents/flavors (fruity and/or floral). Maybe we are going back in time.... where luxury will have to be purchased at individual stores or smaller boutiques (Bonwit Teller, Barney's). Nordstrom going back to private is very interesting. They have been my favorite and primary place to shop this past year.
I agree it’s sooo annoying when brands hide things and change great formulas to lesser formulas. Honestly I’d rather you charge more and keep the higher quality formula.
Thanks for the morning salt. Guess we will be saving money. I’m allocating towards fragrance and classic jewelry until the companies can get their poop in a group.
Another great video. I know some people might think these mini-rants about cosmetics are frivolous, but we spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on so-called luxuary beauty and should get what we pay for. I love luxury beauty and have also been disappointed this year in the lack of creativity and consistency that has been dogging some of the brands. I’ve always said I’d much rather have fewer products that live up to luxury standards than a drawer full of so-so, ho-hum products.
You made absolutely truthful points. And l love it when you use the word 'GREED', nobody wants to believe that exists anymore, but it exists in demonic proportions! Great video, well said!👏👍😊❤️
My goodness, you look so beautiful on this video! Happy holidays, and I agree with you about quality decline, unnecessary changes. Also, thank you for recommending Gerard Cosmetics eye primer (from past videos). It's been working really well for me!
🙏🏻 Jen, make a tutorial from start to finish with the quality of hair products you’ve enjoyed or not , including how - to achieve the fabulous , lush and bouncy aurora of breath taking hair! ( specifically in this video) 💇🏽♀️
This was another great conversation and you made some great points. I think moving forward it will be interesting to see the direction some of these companies go. Especially when some of them feel the need to change or fix things that aren’t broken 😂😂
You look stunning! Thanks for another great year of videos! I’m also so upset the Givenchy powder but I guess the talc issue will prevent them from going back.
I have loads of lipsticks and never finish them except for charlotte tilbury stoned rose..the original. It was a perfect bronzed rose. When I repurchased it was orange/coral. No warning. Same with Chanel’s Mademoiselle. Why change the colour? It was perfect.
@ I think it’s been a while. I can’t be sure but mine is numbered 05. It’s was rosier and now it’s more plum. The S.A. insisted no change until I showed her mine.
I agree with everything, except for one. With respect, the Hourglass Barney's palette was clearly marked as the old Elephant palette....you didn't have to compare the shades. I know because I read the product description on Hourglass's website & bought it BECAUSE it was the Elephant palette, which I missed. Yes, it was in the details, which most people can't be bothered to read, but that's on them. Thanks Jen....keep it up!
That’s a good point. It was in the details and I read it as you did. I should have said it wasn’t marked in the picture with a big “this is the same as “ kind of thing. Because you’re right, not one reads the details anymore 😉
I've been trying surratt, Kevyn Acuoin, and Mac, and Suqqu. Lately, well for over a year or so. How do you feel about some of these lines? I, am loving the new curated collection I have. Happy New Year 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎉oh yeah and Cle de peau. Love the eyeshadow and future skin foundation .
You hit another one out of the park with this video Jennifer. I think companies have been a bit disingenuous and careless with their customer base. In a way, it feels disrespectful. Hopefully 2025 will be different.
love that you keep calling out the lack of quality and customer care. I keep being disappointed by the new Dior eyeshadow. No matter how hard I try the new formula is lesser in quality, wear and performance and sometimes considerably so. I notice every time I use my older quints that shimmers and toppers are more emollient and smooth. I have been really loving a lot of the newer colour stories Dior released but what does that help if the performance is lacking and I don't like using them 😐 still SUPER salty about Guerlain! Think about all the people who bought what they thought were keepsakes lip cases often as gifts... And I'm extremely disappointed about Meteorites too. I really don't like the new scent. I don't want it on my face, it's too strong to ignore.
I’ve been saying for years that foundation shade ranges NEED to be expanded. In my case, brands really should offer more undertone options for the fairest shade (and I’d imagine, across the spectrum as well). Not all the palest amongst us have pink or cool undertones, yet in most brands, the lightest shade is usually too pink/too cool. I love my Armani LS in shade #2 (which despite the new “description” when #1.5 was introduced, remains as it always was, and is still fair-neutral, NOT peach). I pray it remains as it is, and doesn’t change 🙏🏻 I tried the La Mer liquid foundation a few years ago, and really liked the formula, but the fairest shade, which is what I’d need, is way too pink.
I love that we all have different opinions on makeup! My fave palette of 2024 was the Pucci (love the colours inside and out), and the new météorites' scent is so much better to me! 😅.
I think changes to regulations in both the EU and United States (MoCRA) resulted in a increased number of disappointing and sloppily developed releases in attempts by the brands to release the products before the new more stringent regulations take effect. MoCRA requires testing and disclosing where testing was performed. I believe some of the updated EU regulations ban talc but not 100% sure. Perhaps someone here can confirm. I was disappointed many times this year.
And I'm confused about whatever Chanel is doing. I liked some of their items and I'm fine not liking everything as we have different tastes... But some of their choices were just... Weird 🤔
Adore your take on a Mrs Grinch that brings , the ugly to a reality . 🤶🏽🦹🏽♂️ Fails & Flops are the quintessential of Quality, Artistry, Re invention that makes brands the iconic niche of the luxury market that revels common sense.🎓💖 If you can’t take a healthy look into why our love for luxury is the upmost eloquence. 💫 Expectations we demand, are VIP, that keeps an opened -mind , when going strictly luxury is quest essential 🤷🏽♀️🎓 You look simply ravishing while, delivering a eloquent take on a subject that gets poo pooed ,way to easily when we settle for less than perfection! 🫦
Remember back in the day when you were asked if you wanted to sit in smoking or non smoking? Perhaps cosmetics should offer a choice, with talc or without?
Yes! I'm buying up products before they take the talc out!
I’m sure it’s been profitable to blow it out of proportion and make the average consumer believe they had to replace their entire makeup collection with talc free products .
Good video! Btw, I’m still totally off Guerlain makeup due to the lipstick case debacle. Honestly, not too hard to do considering the color stories 🤣.
Chicagoan here. I *really* miss Marshall Field’s!
They are not just removing the talc; they are also reducing the weight (less product, less ounces), more expensive and much less shelf life. That's a ripoff. This does not feel like 'special' or luxury anymore. Also, more luring customers with packaging.
I’m with you about the consolidation and quality problem. I recently bought a couple luxury vintage handbags because the new bags just aren’t great quality for money with a few exceptions. The new generation doesn’t know what they’re missing and is easily influenced vs my generation.
The reformulations with a lot of EU brands is being driven by new regulations controlling ingredients no longer considered safe. Instead of these brands taking the cost of that and trying to reinvent their products, they are reacting quickly and releasing lower quality product hoping you don’t notice. I’m not sure it can be undone now because the regulators will continue in this direction and brands don’t have much incentive to be better
Another spot-on analysis, very enjoyable! 👜🎄🌺 My gripes are ingredients, in addition to losing talc, we have dimethicones and hyaluronic acid in literally every makeup product. Doesn't matter if it's drugstore, high end or luxury, the formulas all have the same ingredients (minus a drop of flower essence). Everything is reaching a samey-samey formulation. In addition, more and more chemicals, longer ingredients lists of chemicals. I'm not sure I want to buy foundations and skin tints anymore. Even older products I used to love have been "re-formulated" to include dimethicones and hyaluronic acid.
One issue I have with most content creators is they are ignoring ingredients lists. It's been 30 years since Paula Begoun's book. We have had easy "education" at our fingertips for a long time. People recommend stuff or say it's good for them without analysing what ingredients are working for them, that may not work for other skin types.
I feel like some channels have a shopping problem, or are more interested in clicks, or in trying to get PR, that they buy new products for "content" and "hype" on their channels. And in terms of waste, the "I don't buy expensive makeup" mainly drugstore channels actually buy the MOST makeup, declutter more products more often (like quarterly), and their "excuse" is "I buy it so you don't have to [buy it/throw it away]," but years on years of this with never questioning themselves. Like why not just say "I looked at the new X brand foundation, and the ingredients are similar to this other brand, so I don't need it." The "content" here is their investigation of it, going to the store, or reading the ingredients, and the decision to buy or not.
To this end, I am grateful that you and other intelligent creators are buying more thoughtfully nowadays. This video here really puts me in mind of this at the start of a new year. And, you always make me inspired to use what I already own. While watching, I find myself reaching for a lipstick while watching, doing my makeup or a touch-up. or a skin care (more oils in glass bottles lately). I think it's your creativity with showing up in reindeer horns hairband having done a beautiful eyelook with boring old coral shades, all this inspires me to USE my makeup. I hope that's a "mission accomplished" trophy win for your mantlepiece for 2024! 💕💋💌🌹🌺🎄🍷
I love your channel, how you do your makeup, and your selection of products. You deliver the facts! I completely agree with you. In a time when most people want sustainability, it baffles my mind how cosmetic companies pretend to be sustainable. They have the nerve to go so far as to change the packaging rendering refillable packaging unusable (Guerlain, & Cle De Peau -about every 5 years- etc). Who are they kidding? They promote profound unsustainability. 10+ years ago, how many blushers or eyeshadows did we buy every year? I will take a talc product any day over a non-talc product. Meteorites old scent was so special. How about they offer both plus an unscented version? Make everyone happy. Nope. I will not buy another Meteorite unless they go back to the original (not tweaked) scent. There is no excuse for the year round, unending collection launches. Wasteful. They want to go green? Dive all the way in or stay out of that market. You can never make everyone happy. For example, I despise all minty lip products, no matter how great the formula is. Even great "unscented" lip products get overlooked by me. In the end, I grab the lip products that perform AND have pleasant scents/flavors (fruity and/or floral). Maybe we are going back in time.... where luxury will have to be purchased at individual stores or smaller boutiques (Bonwit Teller, Barney's). Nordstrom going back to private is very interesting. They have been my favorite and primary place to shop this past year.
You are 100% on point. Thank you for expressing what we've all been thinking! The Prisme Libre powders are the WORST disappointment of 2024.
I agree. Lisa Eldridge is really nice! I love the skin tent, liquid eyeshadow, and the liners and mascara. So good. Love the rough experience!
I agree it’s sooo annoying when brands hide things and change great formulas to lesser formulas. Honestly I’d rather you charge more and keep the higher quality formula.
I love these kinds of videos😂!
Excellent video Jennifer. I definitely agree with you.❤
Tell them, Jennifer 👏👏👏 you spoke like a true lawyer 😜 🙏❤️
I always look forward to these videos from you. I 100 percent agree with everything you said! Thank you for your videos!
Thanks for the morning salt. Guess we will be saving money. I’m allocating towards fragrance and classic jewelry until the companies can get their poop in a group.
Another great video. I know some people might think these mini-rants about cosmetics are frivolous, but we spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on so-called luxuary beauty and should get what we pay for. I love luxury beauty and have also been disappointed this year in the lack of creativity and consistency that has been dogging some of the brands. I’ve always said I’d much rather have fewer products that live up to luxury standards than a drawer full of so-so, ho-hum products.
SALTY GRINCH. YES. I’m here for it
Love the hat! 👒
You made absolutely truthful points. And l love it when you use the word 'GREED', nobody wants to believe that exists anymore, but it exists in demonic proportions! Great video, well said!👏👍😊❤️
I'm new to Mac, but loving it!
Well said!
My goodness, you look so beautiful on this video! Happy holidays, and I agree with you about quality decline, unnecessary changes. Also, thank you for recommending Gerard Cosmetics eye primer (from past videos). It's been working really well for me!
🙏🏻 Jen, make a tutorial from start to finish with the quality of hair products you’ve enjoyed or not , including how - to achieve the fabulous , lush and bouncy aurora of breath taking hair! ( specifically in this video) 💇🏽♀️
The hat tho 💜
I miss Barney's, too. It had unique beautiful clothes.
You hit the nail on the head. There’s so many formulas I like but because the shade is not perfect I keep going back to my tried and trues.
Never lose your fun side! I look forward to your videos and viewpoints! Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year🎉
Violette fr is the new creative director of Guerlain makeup. Haven’t bought anything from them since, I.e. rouge lipsticks, meteorites.
This was another great conversation and you made some great points. I think moving forward it will be interesting to see the direction some of these companies go. Especially when some of them feel the need to change or fix things that aren’t broken 😂😂
You look stunning! Thanks for another great year of videos! I’m also so upset the Givenchy powder but I guess the talc issue will prevent them from going back.
Today’s makeup look is stunning-your eyes look like gems. 💎
I have loads of lipsticks and never finish them except for charlotte tilbury stoned rose..the original. It was a perfect bronzed rose. When I repurchased it was orange/coral. No warning. Same with Chanel’s Mademoiselle. Why change the colour? It was perfect.
When was Mademoiselle changed? That is a favorite for me as well
@ I think it’s been a while. I can’t be sure but mine is numbered 05. It’s was rosier and now it’s more plum. The S.A. insisted no change until I showed her mine.
@@marina56 thank you
I like how you did your eyes to match the hat so cute!!
Love you honesty and humor! And you are spot on!!! Happy New Year🎉🎉🎉
I agree with everything, except for one. With respect, the Hourglass Barney's palette was clearly marked as the old Elephant palette....you didn't have to compare the shades. I know because I read the product description on Hourglass's website & bought it BECAUSE it was the Elephant palette, which I missed. Yes, it was in the details, which most people can't be bothered to read, but that's on them. Thanks Jen....keep it up!
That’s a good point. It was in the details and I read it as you did. I should have said it wasn’t marked in the picture with a big “this is the same as “ kind of thing. Because you’re right, not one reads the details anymore 😉
I've been trying surratt, Kevyn Acuoin, and Mac, and Suqqu. Lately, well for over a year or so. How do you feel about some of these lines? I, am loving the new curated collection I have. Happy New Year 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🎉oh yeah and Cle de peau. Love the eyeshadow and future skin foundation .
This louboutin foundation is really beautiful on you❤
Burdines in Florida is gone .. Miss it so much !
You hit another one out of the park with this video Jennifer. I think companies have been a bit disingenuous and careless with their customer base. In a way, it feels disrespectful. Hopefully 2025 will be different.
love that you keep calling out the lack of quality and customer care. I keep being disappointed by the new Dior eyeshadow. No matter how hard I try the new formula is lesser in quality, wear and performance and sometimes considerably so. I notice every time I use my older quints that shimmers and toppers are more emollient and smooth. I have been really loving a lot of the newer colour stories Dior released but what does that help if the performance is lacking and I don't like using them 😐 still SUPER salty about Guerlain! Think about all the people who bought what they thought were keepsakes lip cases often as gifts... And I'm extremely disappointed about Meteorites too. I really don't like the new scent. I don't want it on my face, it's too strong to ignore.
I’ve been saying for years that foundation shade ranges NEED to be expanded. In my case, brands really should offer more undertone options for the fairest shade (and I’d imagine, across the spectrum as well). Not all the palest amongst us have pink or cool undertones, yet in most brands, the lightest shade is usually too pink/too cool.
I love my Armani LS in shade #2 (which despite the new “description” when #1.5 was introduced, remains as it always was, and is still fair-neutral, NOT peach). I pray it remains as it is, and doesn’t change 🙏🏻
I tried the La Mer liquid foundation a few years ago, and really liked the formula, but the fairest shade, which is what I’d need, is way too pink.
Makeup companies are never going to give us the real reasons for why they change packaging and formula. So we can just assume the reason is greed.
I think the only hope for unique products is the indie market.
I love that we all have different opinions on makeup! My fave palette of 2024 was the Pucci (love the colours inside and out), and the new météorites' scent is so much better to me! 😅.
I think changes to regulations in both the EU and United States (MoCRA) resulted in a increased number of disappointing and sloppily developed releases in attempts by the brands to release the products before the new more stringent regulations take effect. MoCRA requires testing and disclosing where testing was performed. I believe some of the updated EU regulations ban talc but not 100% sure. Perhaps someone here can confirm. I was disappointed many times this year.
These may be beauty disappointments but that thumbnail (this look) sure isn’t!
And I'm confused about whatever Chanel is doing. I liked some of their items and I'm fine not liking everything as we have different tastes... But some of their choices were just... Weird 🤔
🫨 I was hoping to live Chanel blush 🥲 Hot Malice, very excited about the color!!!!
Personally I think they are trying to make products more toxic.
Adore your take on a Mrs Grinch that brings , the ugly to a reality . 🤶🏽🦹🏽♂️
Fails & Flops are the quintessential of Quality, Artistry, Re invention that makes brands the iconic niche of the luxury market that revels common sense.🎓💖
If you can’t take a healthy look into why our love for luxury is the upmost eloquence. 💫
Expectations we demand, are VIP, that keeps an opened -mind , when going strictly luxury is quest essential 🤷🏽♀️🎓
You look simply ravishing while, delivering a eloquent take on a subject that gets poo pooed ,way to easily when we settle for less than perfection! 🫦