ALLURE – Four Award Winning Beauty Products That Didn’t Work For Me

ALLURE Beauty Award Winners

Allure is an American women’s magazine that concentrates on beauty. A hallmark of the magazine is its annual Best of Beauty awards, these are elite beauty products recognized by their editorial staff. Allure’s prominent and popular Best of Beauty Award Winner ribbon assists readers to choose the best makeup, skin-care, and hair-care products on the market.

And I must admit I’ve made many beauty purchases based on that quintessential Allure red seal of approval. Unfortunately, not all these award winning expensive beauty products have been satisfying. Below are the four beauty award winners I regret buying. I know this is going to be frowned upon by some because these are popular products in the beauty industry, sadly, they just didn’t work out for me.

1. LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask

Likes & Dislikes

LIKES

• PINK
• It looks really pretty
• Portable – It’s small. Great for travel. The jar is durable
• Comes with little scooper – no dirty fingers in product
• Yummy aroma
• Feels nice…at first
• Soft scent, not too overwhelming
• No parabens or phthalates
• Not tested on animals
• Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner

DISLIKES

• $20 plus tax
• Contains red & yellow dyes – can cause acne
• Contains fragrance
• Doesn’t work
• Too glossy
• Doesn’t hydrate
• Lips still chapped after using as directed
• Too gimmicky
• Leaves sticky residue
• Leaves a thick and messy coat on lips
• Would have been better in a tube, jar is just too messy
• Too hyped up
• The scooper needs to be cleaned and sanitized after every use, it eventually becomes sticky & messy
• The clear, plastic baggy for the scooper gets gunky, goopy, and dirty if you don’t wipe the scooper off before inserting
• The entire experience was a hassle
• If you sleep on your stomach, then the ‘mask’ will end up on your pillow
• Does not help reduce flakiness as claimed
• No quick absorption as claimed
• Fragrance might irritate consumers with sensitive skin

Lip Sleeping Mask

I never finished this product, I threw it away after several uses. This Laneige product has 7k reviews on Sephora’s website and it has 240k hearts, seriously? It won a 2018 GLAMOUR BEAUTY AWARD. I really wanted to love this product. I had huge expectations with this purchase and they all turned into disappointments after one single use (enjoy Laneige unboxing here). 

The goopy product smells like strawberries, very sweet and yummy fragrance. It goes on thick, my lips are left bright & shimmery, and they stay that way for a while. However, after a couple of hours my lips are sticky, flaky and still chapped. It’s not very practical as a ‘lip sleeping mask’ especially if you sleep on your stomach, because it’s doomed to end up on your pillow. It doesn’t sink in immediately as claimed, it sits on top of your lips for a couple of hours, so a lot of this $20 product will end up on your bedding. You need to wipe the scooper after every use or else it sits in the plastic pouch, which becomes unsanitary after several uses. Overall, my entire experience with this lip mask was too sticky, too goopy, and too messy.

All positive/beneficial claims made by Laneige and Allure are not true in my humble opinion. 

I thought I was crazy for not liking this Laneige product, but I have read other negative reviews online (not too many, but they are out there) that share the same opinions as my own. Also, beware, if you have sensitive skin there is a fragrance associated with this product and it could irritate your lips.

2. DRUNK ELEPHANT’S T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial

As soon as I bought this product, on the very first use, the pump broke. So I was forced to use a stirring stick to scoop out the product. This was an $80 purchase, and it broke the first time I gave it a go. I didn’t just buy this product because it’s pink, I bought it because everyone is praising the hell out of this all over social media. All the hype, I was intrigued, so I made an impulsive pink beauty purchase (enjoy more pink beauty purchases here). 

This stuff stings. It stings like crazy, like almost to the point where it was super uncomfortable. The product needs to be left on for about 20 minutes and then washed off. Voila! I should now have baby-soft skin, right? Meh, I didn’t notice much of a difference. Let me be more clear, I didn’t notice an $80 difference. There were no immediate results. It was instructed to use this Allure beauty winner weekly, I did, and I’m still not impressed. 

An Expensive Disappointment

I know it’s a faux pas as a beauty blogger to write negatively about Drunk Elephant. Because they are committed to clean ingredients in their products and they support elephant conservation. Sadly, this is not the first, nor only DE product that was a disappoint to me (but that’s another blog post entirely). I don’t care how many positive reviews I read or hear about this specific DE product, it was officially a ‘one’ time purchase for me. 

Likes & Dislikes

LIKES

• Love the pink bottle.
• Generous amount of product inside the bottle – might last 2 to 3 months
• Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner

DISLIKES

• Uncomfortable stinging sensation – not worth the pain for the meager results
• No immediate results
• Defective dispensing product
• I didn’t notice an $80 difference – too expensive
• Didn’t live up to the hype.
• A ‘one’ time purchase.

3. TATCHA Camellia Gold Spun Lip Balm

This was my first official purchase from Tatcha. All their products are so girly and pretty. So, I ordered my Camellia Gold Spun Lip Balm from Tatcha.com and it was a satisfactory online experience. With my $30 purchase I got three samples and one travel size cleansing oil as well (Enjoy TATCHA unboxing here)

Tatcha does make an effort to personally connect with their customers. The receipt was personally addressed to me, and they ended the letter with a hand written comment for me as well. Nice personal touch.

The lip balm came in a presentable box.

Likes & Dislikes

LIKES

• Gorgeous lip balm 
• Product itself is not sticky or gummy
• Soft and soothing. 
• Smells like lemons
• It does work pretty good, again, just not $30 good.
• Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner

DISLIKES

• Jar is not glass, more like an acrylic, plastic material. The lid is a plastic material as well.
• Made to look luxurious, but handling it you can feel this isn’t lux at all, at least not $30 luxurious.
• Gold flakes are gimmicky. They serve no purpose. If you do manage to get a few flakes of gold on your lips, it’s not that impressive. Please don’t buy this if you’re on a mission to look like a Golden Goddess, this will not make you look like one despite all the gold flakes in the product.
• Not worth $30 dollars.
• Glorified expensive chapstick.

#4 NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer

This NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer is super hyped up on Sephora, like it has 11k reviews and 753.1k hearts. And it’s an Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner, so this product must be perfect, right? Ugh, below I’ve listed all the reasons why this award winning concealer did not work for me.

Likes & Dislikes

LIKES

• Compact – easy to travel with or keep in purse
• Attractive container\tube
• Free of sulfates, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, and phthalates
• Allure Best of Beauty Award Winner

Dislikes

• Not cruelty free
• $30, pricey for a little package
• Applicator doesn’t bring out too much product, have to constantly dip into container for more product
• Not good for dry skin
• Does not blend well at all
• Not creamy
• Creases & gets patchy
• Cakes
• Limited product in tube
• I never reach for it
• Way too hyped up
• Other better quality and affordable concealers on the market
• One time purchase, never again for me

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