I think Too Faced's eye shadows are beautifully pigmented, they just don't have that wide a range of colors, for me at least. Most of the colors are warm, and warms look terrible on me.
I really wanted to like their lip products, but since nearly all of them are flavored with some demonic cake batter/sugar cookie/frosting taste, I just can't abide wearing them. It sucks, because I really do love their Diamond Glosses for the sheer amount of glitter and sparkle and the just-released Status Glosses look like they'll have awesome color output. But if they've got that same horrible artificial 'delicious' flavor, then I'm out. Do people really like the taste of that crap? Ugh.
And as for the Lip Injection....dear god! I can't fathom people willingly putting chili pepper extract on their lips! Christ! I accidentally tried Lip Injection because I liked the syringe on the bottle and didn't bother to read what the goddamn stuff did. (aren't I a smart one.) Needless to say, I was cursing and flailing in the middle of Sephora for about five minutes or more until that godforsaken sting abided. My best friend about ruptured her spleen from laughter. (then again, I just don't understand the whole 'big lips = BEAUTY' thing that's been going since Angelina Jolie got popular. big lips don't look good on everyone and lip plumpers are evil. wouldn't it just be cheaper to crack open a [SIZE=-1]habanero, rub it on your lips and sprinkle some glitter on top?) [/SIZE]
Oh, chalk me up as another one whose had a Liquif-Eye fall apart on 'em. I just threw away the little felt tip and use mine with an eyelining brush. It works good enough. I wonder if Urban Decay's version of Liquif-Eye of which the name I can't remember right now is just as good or even better (and with an applicator that won't fall apart). Has anyone tried it?
And the Quickie Chronicles...man, I was severely severely disappointed in the one I bought. I bought The Future Lovers because I'm a fan of bright vibrant colors and glittery brilliance and it looked like that palette had both. When it finally arrived from Sephora.com I ripped it open and started to play. I tried the lipglosses first and my excited happiness just died right then and there. The glosses weren't true glitter glosses: they just had an overspray of glitter that was gone after one use. And the glosses underneath were all a disgusting yellow ochre/dark warm brown/medium warm brown. Only one was wearable and it was a clear bubblegum pink. After that experience I decided I wouldn't ever buy another Quickie Chronicle, though I'd been wanting to buy The Sweet Tarte through eBay. Is the Sweet Tarte any good? Or at least better than the travesty that was The Future Lovers?
The one thing I really really miss that Too Faced seems to have discontinued is the Lava Gloss mascara. That stuff was the most amazingly glossy mascara ever. It looked like your lashes were coated in silicone syrup and it came in awesome colors. the pain!
wow this is long. I apologize for that: I tend to ramble when insomniatic.
