Things About Makeup That Irritate Me

Things About Makeup That Irritate Me

I love watching youtube videos. I do. I spend a lot of time watching a handful of makeup artists and "gurus" on youtube to get ideas or see reviews on stuff that I'm interested in.

So when I was watching a favorite youtuber of mine, (Emily Noel, check her out, she's awesome) she mentioned something about foundation packaging that irritated her and I totally connected with that. And really, when I thought about it, there's a lot of things about makeup and the people connected to makeup that absolutely drive me crazy.

SO HERE WE GO:

Foundation Bottles With No Pumps

What. The. Hell. Who would even make a bottle for foundations without the pump? 

First of all, super unsanitary. Unless you wash your hands vigorously every time before you use it maybe, but even then you're still touching your face and then going back to the bottle.

Also, don't even try to tell me "just pour it on the back of your hand first" because that's just as unsanitary and also, super wasteful.

Ever pour foundation on your hand first? You ALWAYS end up with left over product. 

Always. 

Unless you're some kind of voodoo witch and in that case- I don't trust you.

Companies Who Sponsor People Not Suited to their Brand

Pantene routinely sponsors "regular girls".

Um. You are a hair brand, I should hope you at least tried to contact the hair stylists on youtube/blogs first. 

Otherwise, wtf.

Makeup Products with Crazy Long Names.

NYX- Slide On, Glide On, Always a Turn On Waterproof Extreme Shine Eyeliner.

Urban Decay- Naked Skin Ulta Definition Liquid Makeup.

Maybeline- Eye Studio Master Precise Ink Pen Eyeliner

Just stop, seriously. This is annoying.

Palettes from the Same Company that Overlap Colors

Urban Decay, I'm talking to you.

In almost every single palette you include Half Baked.

I get it, it's gold and shiny and fun and most people like it- but so help me. I think I literally half 8 pans of Half-Baked now. Stop it. Seriously. I don't need nearly enough gold to make it worth it.

Companies That Make Packaging so User-Unfriendly

Palettes that don't fit in drawers.

Bottles that are too bulky and take up room in my travel bag.

Eyeshadow packaging that is so strange it wont all line up in a drawer nicely.

FOUNDATIONS WITHOUT PUMPS.

Eyeshadow primers with applicators that don't actually reach all the product in the bottle and you get really mad cause you're like, "I paid 20 dollars for this!" and then you end up hulk smashing the bottle open and scraping it out and sticking it in a container and when people are like, "what's that?" you're like, super embarrassed to say what happened and WHAT YOU DID, BECAUSE YOU ARE A SAVAGE.

And as a side note, here's what bothers me the most...

People Who Call Themselves Makeup Artists Who Only Do Makeup On Themselves

I'm talking to you, girls on youtube. 

I'm talking to you, girls from my school.

I'm talking to you, girls who do their cousin's makeup for prom.

No.

Stop it.

Unless you are trained in client safety, unless you took classes on sanitation, and frankly- UNLESS YOU GET PAID, you are not a professional.

Don't even test me.

This subject makes me so mad- especially the whole youtube scene.

People like Pixiwoo, NikkiTutorials, etc- those are real makeup artists. They get paid and make their living from doing makeup, or teaching at makeup academies. They understand not double dipping or working from a palette. They get that half of the battle is sanitation. And they do makeup ON OTHER FACES. (Sure, they are the main subject, usually, but they bring in people all the time).

If you are someone who started doing tutorials on yourself, from your own stuff that you don't sanitize, have never worked a gig in your life, and somehow got youtube famous and maybe even sponsored- you better not even remotely call yourself a makeup artist. Don't even. You make me mad. How dare you.

And let me be honest, yes I still watch youtube videos from girls I wouldn't classify as makeup artists and here's why:

They never call themselves makeup artists.

Emily Noel for example: She does hands down some of the best review videos around. She's thorough, and fun to listen to. She does a tooooon of makeup looks on video but I don't think in the, whatever, 6 years she's been on youtube she's ever called herself a makeup artist. 

And I like the honesty.

And lets say you're new and the odds are you're working for free for a little while- if you've never applied makeup to a face that is not yours AND YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO- just switch careers and stop bugging me.

SO THERE YOU GO,

-SamanthaK