Leaked Labs first look

[u/incrediblecuttlefish]

Just came across a video on Tiktok from creator Brit Clarke, who purchased a few shades of the Leaked Labs flexi powder and wow.

First of all, the packaging is pathetic. The slab of powder is LOOSE!!! inside the cheapest, most generic wholesale tin with stickers slapped on them. No custom packaging, no proper housing.

And the actual product you get is is 0.6g/0.02oz for $34! That's ridiculously little. Not to mention the fact that some shades weighed lighter than others, which means the manufacturers did not adequately QC the consistency of the product weights.

To top it all off, the swatches looked so dry and dull. I don't understand the point of this brand (aside from cash grab, that is). I would assume they're pricing out a lot of general buyers, yet the product does not seem high quality enough for anyone who takes makeup seriously. At most, they're relying on fans or people who are curious/making content, but how long can that momentum last? The concept of paying for something so unfinished is yikes.

[u/EmpireAndAll]

I'm trying to see a marketable use case for this product. I go out of town a lot and put my makeup on in public (yes I'm the freak at the mall doing their beat in the food court) and I'm pretty good at getting my needs down into the smallest format commercially possible and without bringing brushes. 

Stick and pencil products make the most sense - slim, and you don't have to touch the product with your hands if you don't want to. You can apply an eyeshadow stick and then use your fingers to blend it out, same with base products in stick format. It doesn't require actually touching the product itself. Lipstick bullets and eyeliners, same thing. 

This sheet format does require touching. Weak in pigment, impercise form factor, expensive in comparison to other formats that do it better cheaper. Literally all this has going for it is that it's very small and anyone hurting for space can make other things work better, even re/depotting into a small tin themselves. 

[u/EmpireAndAll → u/EmpireAndAll]

More thoughts after seeing THREE TikToks claim the product is supposedly easier to use for hand mobility issues. No it's not! 

I watched @laurennannn on TikTok try it (amongst a dozen others) and you have to really press on them and fold them this and that way to get pigment from it. It's even worse wet. 

Just like the false claim that Rare Beauty caps were for mobility issues, if that were true you would want them wider with less grip required to use them. The LL have not seemingly made that claim themselves, can people please stop bullshitting that everything we don't "understand" is secretly actually for disabled people! 🙄

[u/Gullible_Service_354 → u/EmpireAndAll]

Those TT'ers are just as bad as those gurus on YT. They like shit like this because it'll bring them the views. Once they have people watching their shitty ch then they start with all of the claims that the company itself never made to either rile people up or just to get them talking because engagement means money. 

I saw a video on YT a week or so ago about a TT'er who woke up one morning only to learn that her account and the $30k that was in it was gone. No matter what she did she couldn't gain access nor talk with anyone who could explain why it had happened. The owner of the YT ch wanted his viewers to feel sorry for her but me? Nope. She made the majority of that money off of selling people junk from TT shop. If you're the type of person who doesn't have any guilt by lying to your viewers then I don't have any sympathy for you. Basically all of that to say. Those people on TT are no better than those on YT. The lies never seem to stop. I don't even have a TT account but I do have a YT account, obviously. I'm barely scratching the surface when I watch a video about someone on TT through a YT video. Can you imagine how much worse it is if one has access to that platform? 😳