Primers, face mists, pore strips, lip scrubs and tinted moisturizers are all “controversial” beauty products labeled (by some) as the most undeserving of your hard-earned paychecks. Some beauty editors, skin experts and makeup artists flaunt their obsession with the products I’ve listed above, and some practically condemn them as ineffective industry propaganda. This just proves that everyone likes different things, and you should really just buy any beauty product you dang well please.
In a previous life—a life I’ll dub BTM (Before Tinted Moisturizer)—I stubbornly maintained that I just wasn’t a fan of tinted moisturizers. They pilled, they didn’t match my skin, and they never provided me with the pretty wash of lightweight subtle coverage they promised. Eventually, after some peer pressure from a friend and fellow beauty editor, I tried a new formula I was convinced I’d hate, but miraculously, I became head-over-heels obsessed with it. It turns out that with literally any product in our saturated beauty universe, finding your perfect formula requires some elbow grease. Even if the first (or fifth) option is a fail, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a glowing new find to be discovered just around the river bend.
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