 I have in front of me a ton of products that YouTube made me buy that I just really don't like. I keep them because I know that so many people talk about them in the beauty community, community, but I don't use them. I only use them for comparison purposes and see if there's something that's better out there. So we're gonna talk about those and we're gonna also talk about ones that I like better and use instead of, but first we're gonna talk about what I have on. This is a part of every video that I do for you guys and the reason I do that is because I always get asked by you guys, so we just made it a part of our videos. But if you don't wanna see what I have on, go to this timestamp right here and you can completely skip over my outfit and the clothes that I'm wearing because lots of people only come here for the makeup and that is perfectly fine. We also have a numbering system that all of these products will be numbered and so if you want to open up the description box, go look for the number that was next to the product and it'll have the link there and you can shop that way if you'd like to. All right, let's see what I have on today. Okay, we're starting off with the shirts. This is just a really cute cap sleeve square neckline t-shirt. It does have this cute ruching right here on the sleeves. I just, I think it's really great. It does come down over the butt, but I have it tucked in and I have it tucked in because of these adorable pants. These pants are super high-waisted but they have a gathering right here. This is an elastic waistband and they are so comfortable and so easy to wear. They do have pockets so you have that detail on there. The back is just flat back there, like flat like my butt, but I love the pockets in here and then hopefully you can also see how cute they are with the detailing down on the ankle. They're actually kind of just an ankle pant so they're not a crop. They just hit you right at the ankle, maybe a little tiny bit above the ankle, but they have the gathering right there and then they have the tie like it does on the waist. I just think it's so cute and I have a new pair of black sandals. I'm gonna get closer right now and I'll show you the sandals and I forgot to put the jewelry on so I'm gonna put the jewelry on so you can see that too. The jewelry I'm gonna put on is a Heart Link necklace. It's gold, it's gold-plated and it's just so cute. I wish that I could find this in a ton of different metal colors. I would buy it. I've said that before too. And then the earrings that I chose are just a double hoop down here. Actually they might have three. I think they have three. It's a triple hoop and then it has rhinestones. It's just a cute dangle earring so just goes really well together and then let's talk about these adorable sandals. You have a little bit of a wedge heel and it is a rubber heel. It looks like wood but it's a rubber heel. They're super duper comfortable and they have all kinds of bling rhinestones on here. When I saw this one I thought this is for me because I am having a hard time wearing super high heels. I still do it because I love high heels but this one is really easy to wear. It's really easy to wear in the summer without any hosiery or anything like that on. So I really have been enjoying this and it does have quite a bit of cushion in it. How cute are those? They're just so cute. That is my outfit for the day. Let's talk about the products that YouTube made me buy that I hate but guess what? I found something different and something better. Oh my goodness, we're gonna start out with the most expensive item that I own. Now when I bought this I think it was like $130 and it is the La Mer Foundation. I don't know why it got sucked into this. I guess I just wanted to see what the hype was. I got it on a sale, yes, but holy moly. To spend that kind of money, I did not like it enough to spend that kind of money. So it wasn't that I hated it but I hated myself for spending that kind of money on a foundation. It just was like, it wasn't for me. I even think this has gone up very recently with inflation. So yeah, I hated that I bought this. That was kind of on me. YouTube made me buy it but I hated it because I spent that kind of money. I'll tell you what I like better though. And not just because the price tag, I like it better because actually it performs better and it looks better on my skin. It's the L'Oreal Pro Glow that I've been talking about. I rediscovered this six months ago and I can't shut my mouth about it because I love it that much. The L'Oreal Pro Glow is a dream for my mature skin. Not only does it give me a little bit of a dewy look to my skin, it never shows any texture. It covers like a dream. I can spot cover with it if I need to so I can put two coats on. You can do one and have a very natural look. It's just that pretty. It's just that gorgeous and I love it. And my goodness. I don't even think that this is even at $15. It's like probably 10. And yeah, I hate myself for buying this. YouTube made me do it and I hate it. All right, YouTube made me buy this one last year and I knew the minute that I got it that I should have turned around and I should have taken it back but when this is your job you really wanna test things out very thoroughly and when I do test them out really thoroughly then I get to thinking it's not really fair for me to take something back. So the Natasha Denona, this is the face powder, the glam face powder that came out last year. It has the mirror, beautiful packaging. Her packaging is always pretty. Divider right here between the cream products and the powder products that you have. But this is not my colors at all. I could not wear this even a little bit because everything was so orange. And I will say that this right here, I thought that this was gonna be a cream. This is not a cream. I can't even pick that up. And I just, I'm trying really hard to pick that up with my finger. And normally when you pick something up you get that kind of situation right there where you get it right up on your finger. Not that other one, did you see how patchy that was? I mean, I've dipped my finger in there a ton and trying to get some pigment out of there and you can't. This one was the only color right there that I probably could get away with wearing underneath some blush. It just is super warm and actually not even warm. It looks orange. Everything in here, all the colors in here looked orange when I got them on my face. I was so mad at myself again. YouTube talked me into it, but I was mad at myself for actually doing the deed. So yes, this was a no-go for me, but I'll tell you what I have loved forever and ever and I would buy it a million times over is the Cali Contour from Smashbox. It's got a mirror in it. It's got heavy duty packaging, beautiful perfect cool toned contour that I use all the time. But it also has a pretty bronze, a pretty blush that I can very easily wear. And then it has these colors right here that this one right here is a little bit too orange for me, but the other color that is the hot, these are both highlighters, by the way. The other color that is a highlighter is perfect highlighter for me. And then it has a banana powder in here. What, I mean, come on. This thing you can get on sale all the time. The Natasha Genona one I think has gone up to like $69.70. And this one, I believe I picked this one up for 24. And this one, I mean, you can tell that this one gets used. This one doesn't get used. So yeah, I hate myself for buying this one. And I wish that I had just stuck with the good old faithful. Cause I love this thing from Smashbox. All right, the next one, I, the next one, I know better. I know better than to buy any of Charlotte Tilbury's eyeshadows. I've swatched them in the store. I have tried them on my eyes and I have never found an eyeshadow formula that I like less. And I'll tell you why, because there's no freaking pigment in these. And they are hard to build up and they are hard to work with. You cannot blend them very good. And I don't know whether it's just this palette and the couple of little quads I got or not, but boy, I, you know, at $75.80 for this palette right here. Again, I got sucked into the hype during a Sephora sale and man, I wish I had not done it. And I'll tell you what I would do in a heartbeat. I would go out and pick up as many of these Elf quads as I wanted, because there is no way that if you got every single Elf quad you could even get to this price. But you're getting quality. You're getting variety. You're getting different colors. You're getting different textures. You're getting something that's gonna perform and blend and look beautiful. So please do not waste your money. YouTube made me buy it and I wanna boink myself over the head with it, but these are amazing. And these aren't just the three I have. I think I have three more of them. So definitely, you know, I mean, you buy three of them you're getting $9 and this was around 80. Come on, that's insane. So definitely talk me into it and I hate it. Another one I got talked into and I hate is this Dior lip oil. I don't like it. It just does not make me happy. This one might not be the lip oil. This one might be that reformulated lip gloss that they had. I can't remember. It feels kind of like the lip gloss. So I'm gonna say it's that reformulated lip gloss. As I'm trying to rub it on there, it's super patchy. It doesn't, the formula doesn't glide. It doesn't feel good on my lips. I really debated about this for a long time and everybody was, oh my gosh, the Dior, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And man, I was so disappointed in myself for not, you know, at least going into this store and swatching it and see what I thought, but they were always out. So when they came back into stock, I just purchased one on the hopes that it would be good. It's not. Go in to Sephora while the Sephora sale is on or even if the Sephora sale is over, these are still such a better deal. There are the prettiest gloss, glosses from the Sephora collection and they are, and I put these in like three or four videos just recently, these glide and they feel so hydrating and they are, they have the prettiest colors. I mean, there's like probably 50 colors and they're just so pretty. This one is my favorite and I've said it over and over again, it's called Money and it's this multi-chrome shift on your lips. It is beyond beautiful. I will actually just do one little swipe here and you'll see what I mean. It just immediately sends dimension into your lip look. So please go buy something from the Sephora gloss, glosses and skip over this freaking like $45, $50 lip oil or lip gloss or whatever it is. Skip it, it's not good. This one is a long time ago. This one is the Hourglass Veil Powder and everybody flipped their lid. They lost their canoodles over this and I tried to make this work for such a long time. So really cool packaging on it, cool lid, kind of has a little well right there and then this doesn't let too much out at once. You still get quite a bit out but I just, this is very drying. It's a nice powder, it's beautiful but on me, I don't reach for it. Number one, probably because it's so very expensive but the other one, it just, it dried me out and so, and I didn't see all the hype that was behind it. So I decided that it was just something that was gonna live in the back of my drawer and that I wasn't going to be using it, just using it to see if I could find something comparable. But again, what I reach for all the time because this powder from Flower Beauty, it's just the light illusion powder and I believe I might import one. I love the packaging on this. I think it's great packaging. It's got the little mirror in there and then the puff down here that I usually substituted, better puff in there to travel with but good packaging on it. Really good packaging on it, nice. And the other thing I love about it, I love a pressed powder. I think that in order to press something, they have to put a few more, a million ingredients in it or binding ingredients in it and so when that gets on your face, it's not going to look like a very dry powder. I really love this one. I've compared it to the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood flawless filter powder and I still feel that way. This is like, I think my third one in all the years that I have been using the powder and I just think it's great. This one and the number seven light and lift and illuminate one is they're just superb powders and I don't think you could do any better in luxury and yeah, I do not like that I got so influenced. I think this is like five years ago. That's how long I've had this and I barely made a dent in this powder at all. All right, we're going to talk about a couple that are really recent and I'm really upset at myself. Nars Laguna Cream Bronzer. Now, when I looked at it in the store, I thought, okay, this might be okay for me a bronzer because I feel like maybe it's going to be a little bit more red, maybe it's not going to be so orange. I will tell you that I really do like the creaminess of this. It's a really good bronzer as far as a cream bronzer goes and you know, it's a really good bronzer as far as a cream bronzer goes and blendable and I do like that. It does a really great job as far as all that goes. But that orange in there, it just, it does not go well with my coloring. So what I have gotten recently because I haven't really found a cream bronzer that is very red toned is I take two of Elf's Putty Bronzers and for two of them, I think these are, what are they like, $6 for these. But you can see that the one is a pretty warm color. It's not like it's super cool or anything. It's actually pretty darn good, but it's still that orange color. So what I'll do is I will take this one and this one that is called Tan Lines, which is really cool toned and I will mix the two together and it works just perfect for giving me a natural bronzy color. I know that this is my job, but man, I got mad at myself. I got sucked into this one because everybody was saying how gorgeous it blended out and it does, it really blends out well. But what good is it gonna be on your face if the coloring's off, even if it does blend very well. So I really like the ones from Elf being combined together. I wish I could write them and tell them to put that color together. It would be perfect. All right, let's wrap it up with one that is actually both of them from the drugstore. I got sucked into buying the Morphe Continuous Mist Setting Spray. Great concept. I mean, the fact that you can get a face mist that comes out in an aerosol and that mist is super duper fine. I mean, that is a really, really fine mist. And when it goes on your face, your makeup's gonna be there all day long. If you're an oily gal and you struggle to find something that helps keep your makeup on all day long, little bit of powder, this on top, you're gonna have that on all day. And if you're not an oily gal for what I found myself being a very dry gal, this dried me out even further. Yes, it holds your makeup on all day. Yes, it has a super fine, lovely mist. But in the end of the day, I looked like a shriveled up prune and it has so much alcohol in it. That's what I found. Has so much alcohol in it that it is just virtually impossible for me to wear. So this thing is almost full. I think I've used it twice to test it out. And by the second time I'm like, that is not going on my face again because I'm just too dry and it won't work. But I'll show you my substitute that I found very, very recently. LA Girl Setting Spray. This is the fix and set for long lasting makeup. I really like this one. Okay, it has no alcohol in it. It does have a couple of ones that sound like alcohol. But as I researched them, they were not the alcohols that were bad. They were actually humectants or ones that are purposely put in there to be moisturizing. And I'm not crazy about this mist. So you know that. I'm not crazy about the mist. It's okay. It's a little bit heavier than what I would normally like to mist at. I just put this on a beauty sponge and then I'll dab it all over my face. Just spray it on there and then take your beauty blender and go over it and get any little droplets off of there. This is really nice and it keeps your makeup on just like the other one. But you're going to feel hydrated. You're not going to feel like you're as dry as the Sahara. So yeah, I like this for one time because of the mist. And then I hated myself for buying it. And I hate this is so bad for anybody that has mature skin that's not super oily. So definitely go for the LA girl. I think you'll like it so much better. All right, that is it for the products that YouTube made me buy that I do not like. So I'm de-influencing today, but I did influence a little bit and give you a few extra choices as far as all of the rest of them go. Hope you did like the video. Please give it a thumbs up. Tell me about anything that YouTube made you buy that you are so disappointed in. I would love to hear that from you. And please come back around very soon so that we can be together in another video. Hope you're all doing well. Love you so much. Goodbye, my friends.