The Hype: This queen-of-the-infomercial says it will "give you an incredibly flawless, even application and picture-perfect skin. Its silky, soft texture looks like a powder, but it feels like a cream and buffs on beautifully, without settling into fine lines or drying out the skin."
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The Truth According to TotalBeauty.com Reviewers:
"Not so," say some women. "I keep wanting it to work for me. But it makes me itchy and gets me a little bumpy. And I never get bumpy," claims one. Another maintains that "aside from being difficult to use, the results were an awful enlarged-pores/caked-on look. The iridescent shimmer that it produces on the skin is horrifying!" Others concur: "It looked so cakey on my face no matter how I put it on! What a waste of money and the coverage wasn't even that great! Yuck!" and "it is ridiculous unless you're 19 and already have flawless skin."
The Bottom Line: If you find yourself getting sucked in to the commercial, change the channel.
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The Hype: This venerable mascara has been around forever and is often cited as every makeup artists' must-have tool.
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The Truth According to TotalBeauty.com Reviewers:
"Great Lash is horrible. Makes me look like I have 3 eyelashes all glopped together. Why does this crappy mascara get such rave reviews?" is what one reader wants to know. Another says, "it gave me stubby lashes and at the end of the day I just couldn't get it off." Still more contribute that "it's like tar," "it did nothing special to my eyelashes, just made them clumpy and stubby looking," and "I never understood the fuss over Great Lash, it gives me raccoon eyes."
The Bottom Line: Just because something's been around for ever doesn't mean it's necessarily great.
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The Hype: This infomercial darling was developed by Stanford-trained dermatologists Kathy Fields and Katie Rodan and has recently added Katy Perry and Avril Lavigne to its stable of celebrity endorsees.
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Every self-respecting beauty junkie knows the feeling. You hear or read about the latest "must-have" beauty product and suddenly you're making excuses to leave the office, the house, the bar exam to hightail it to the nearest CVS or Sephora. It's an addiction people! But hey, at least it's legal.
The bummer, as with all addictions, is the come down. And, sadly, for every Frizz Easehair care product that hits the market there are 2,000 Body on Taps ("Body on What?" My point exactly.) So, as a result, we hard-core beauty product consumers have hit rock beauty bottom far too many times.
Which beauty products irk us most? Which products contradict their marketing materials? Which beauty products make us cry foul? To find out, we went straight to the source. TotalBeauty.com readers clued us in to which supposed beauty product "stars" really leave them jonesing for something better.
