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The brand is more one note than anything else, which is fine if you love that one note, but it can be redundant after awhile. I am happy to have seen some shade extensions in various products over the last few years and hope to see that continue.
— Christine
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I don’t like her pricing and I don’t like all the hyped up advertising and the whole “is it magic?” shtick. I do love the 2 eyeshadow quads I have from her but they’re the only 2 that have any appeal to me (everything else seems red, orange, red, pink). I blame the quads on Genevieve….SHE started it! The shape of her lipstick bullets sort of annoys me too.
Thank you Mariella! I knew you would like the two eye quads that are not pink themed amongst the millions that she puts out.
“like” doesn’t quite cover it – LOVE is more like it. Given her pricing, though, maybe it’s a good thing that her other quads have absolutely no appeal to me whatsoever!
I’ve got cool undertones, light olive skin, and dark hair and eyes, and I don’t think a lot of CT’s color cosmetics compliment my complexion. Most of what I see CT putting out is too warm and light for me to want to invest. I do like the magic cream, though.
There is a certain amount of rather aged schlockyness to the label which is off-putting. I do not find the packaging attractive. I find in this price bracket, I tend to look at others first. I have a couple of duo-ended pencils which I like. I do not own any favourite core products from the label and I’ve tried many different items over the years e/s, lipsticks, blush, foundation, pressed powder.. and while decent enough and serviceable, none truly wow me.
WAY TOO Expensive for the ever-shrinking, tiny packages, and the shrill hard-sell. I am not amused by the innuendo of the names. There is a (small) place for vulgarity, and this isn’t it. I don’t care how good the products are, too many negatives.
I love her eye shadow quads (I have around 7!)
What I don’t like is the nonsensical punctuation eg Darlings, here is my NEW! blah-blah-blah product everyone’s talking about. This NEW! blah-blah-blah product is an online exclusive etc. etc. (you get my drift).
Call me old school, but surely an exclamation mark comes at the end of a sentence, not in the middle of one!
I like her formulas, but not her repetitive releases!
I haven’t kept the 2 products of hers I purchased to try. The lipstick (and subsequent samples) had a grey undertone that didn’t work with my skin tone. Which is too bad because there are a couple of shades that look pretty. I had a face and eye palette which was to light for me, and seemed dusty and blah. I can’t wear Pillow Talk and the endless flogging of the many offshoot products of this shade turn me off the brand.
I have the Green lights/new Rebel e/s quad and quite like it. Her brow gel is nice. Most other things run too warm for me and I just can’t wear them.
You ain’t kidding about the one note (or horse that she keeps beating to death!), Christine! I think it’s become a joke within the beauty community how many Pillow Talk things just keep comin’ down the pike, at this point.
And yet, the quality is STELLAR on most of her products. I have the Bejeweled Palette, and it is perfection! And I do still want to get Pillow Talk Intense Lipstick 😂
I really really like CT products. Her Bond girl lipstick is a desert island item for me and I really enjoy her shadows. I”m a fan of the products…..but….I can’t stand their advertising. Over the top celebrities and glamazons in a boudoir. Feels very old school Victoria’s Secret-esque.
It’s over rated and over-priced.
I agree that they gravitate to the same colors over and over but what I love about the brand is that is so easy to put a look together. I never look at her palettes, even the 12 pans, and wonder how to make it work. Overall, the quality is there.
The pressed powder is really nice and works very well for me (but it is awfully pricey-fortunately I was able to try a mini size first). I have tried a few other things but nothing else has lived up to the hype at all.
I do love some of her eyeshadow quads – The Rebel 2020 particularly and some of her other quads are fairly good too. I don’t own any of her lipsticks, blushes etc – way too expensive and mostly in pink toned shades.
Like Nars, CT got onto the pink themed bandwagon and has never gotten off it, apart from a couple of quads.
I think her skincare range is overpriced too.
I liked the old Rebel palette and the magic eye cream, when I used it. Bought a couple of the fancy lipsticks with the Hollywood starlet names – Amal and Jennifer. Although I really don’t like the starlet thing. Naming stuff after celebs doesn’t interest me.
I don’t like the Darlings marketing. I am not a darling. Maybe I feel too old for that term.
Some of the products are good. Some of the prices seem a bit much for what you get. I too have noticed the shrinkflation – smaller packages, more money.
The Pillow Talk line is starting to resemble a flat down pillow that has lost half its feathers and has a buch of dust mites. It’s getting old and stale. Haven’t bought much lately. One of her highlighters did interest me, but I have a lot of highlighters I have barely used. Less pinks, maybe some jewel tones or some desert tones would be a good change.
I really dislike the lipsticks, they go gritty on me, and I found out I am not the only one. I do not have dry lips either. The eyeshadow quads to me always looked like a rip-off of Tom Ford quads. Someone who works for Tom Ford once told me she worked and helped developed the early Tom Ford range, No idea if this is really true? But, I dislike quads that just have a pure sheer glitter one as I consider that is a waste. Oh, and give the Pillow Talk non-stop releases a break.
I do like her Five-Minute Face Palettes, have a number of those. Also do like her blushers.
I like the packaging and the wearability and ease of use of her products! I find the price point to be too high for what you’re getting.
As with all brands I like some and don’t like some of the products. Seen as a brand I do like it. I have some products from the brand, quite a few matte lipsticks that I love, I can’t use the K.I.S.S.I.S.N.G formula, it just seem to disappear very quickly from my lips, the matte ones are comfortable and pigmented. One of the lipsticks is in my top 5, it’s Bond Girl. I have almost used it up, and that is rare. It is my “I don’t know what lipstick to use” one.
I also like the lipstick called Glowing Jen for days when I feel for warmer lips,
I don’t have many of the eyeshadows, but one of them is a go to for all the days when I lack inspiration and still want a nice eye makeup, Uptown Girl.
What else, I like the eyeliner pencils I’ve tried, the first foundation she made is working fine on my skin.
I have tried some products that are fine, but nothing special like the first mascara from the brand and the pressed setting powder.
So to what I don’t like. Darling! is probably way overused by now as is “Pillow Talk” a fun name for what came first, I find I get kind of annoyed by repetition, the same goes for NARS Orgasm and PMG Flesh 1 and upward to wherever they’re at now
Anything else I don’t like, there are always products that doesn’t work for some, I have two single eyeshadows that I find quite bad.
I think that’s about it. Except for the price that I find a bit to high, but that goes for a lot of brands.
The marketing is extremely cheesy and turns me off! They really need to fire their marketing team and start over.
I’ve never brought any of it because I was so turned off by the price. I have comparable products at a better price that stick to my face just fine. 😀
What I like – some of the lipstick packaging. I’m just a sucker for quality lipstick packaging.
What I don’t like – Pink all the things. That’s why I haven’t yet purchased a lipstick in the aforementioned fancy packaging. I’m not in to pink. I’m not in to the bombshell look. I’m not in to easy glam makeup. I’m just not her target audience at all.
Most CT products lean too warm for me.
I don’t really like much. Maybe the bronzer and lip liners. She seems to make all her collections with warm pink, reddish , gold, and orangey shadows. These colors make my eyes look irritated and bring out the redness. Her lipsticks all have a weird warm undertone that tunes orange my on me. The few cool colors she has are too fakey pink color. There’s no real balance or neutrals. Foundation labeled cool undertone is very yellow still. Mascaras feel cheap drugstore quality. Face powder breaks me out. Blush don’t have much color.
I like the form of her lipstick (the flat tip) and The Hollywood Filter is still a staple when I want to add a slight dewy highlight to my foundation and under eye to cheek area.
I haven’t bought anything from them since my first purchase yeeeeears ago! Just nothing that stand outs and I found the lipstick a tad drying.
It doesn’t seem to matter what color a CT product actually is, in my brain it’s always one particular shade of pink. And it’s usually the same, or very similar, shade of pink that other brands have also leaned on for their “cult favorite.” And I do have that Pillow Talk lipstick on my wishlist, but it’s just basic curiosity to see how it compares to others than any kind of fomo or interest in the actual brand. But it’s a hard sell because I already have so many other dupes in my collection and CT is not cheap. The big problem is that companies that like to use one particular color or product as a kind of tent pole for the brand tend to obscure other things that I might actually find far more interesting or useful. So, I never think about them when I’m shopping for anything.
The only CT product I ever really liked were the color chameleon eyeshadow sticks. Everything else is meh, easily surpassed by cheaper products. I’ve got zero patience for fragrance in skin care as I really think we know better at this point. I felt like overall quality tanked after the acquisition. Once they moved into China and started unapologetically animal testing, I was done. I no longer purchase anything from CT..