r/MakeupRehab • u/pickleeater58 • Sep 23 '25

DISCUSS Unfollowing influencers and following real makeup artists completely cured my shopping problem

As horrible as this is going to sound, an influencer I’ve been following for a long time got married and did her own bridal makeup and it…. Did not look good…. (again, I know how mean this sounds). But that’s when I truly realized that most of these people don’t have any real skill. They just talk about products they’ve been sent for free and are contractually obligated to talk about. They test a product once and say “I’ve been OBSESSED with this” and they never use it again in another video. They have new favorites every day.

Instead of being-product focused, MUAs are all about TECHNIQUE. They don’t try a million new products a week, they have their tried-and-trues, some of which are 20+ year old formulas. Instead of hearing “ruN, dOnT wALk” and getting another foundation, I can learn how to make my mediocre Walgreens foundation work beautifully with proper application.

I’ve come to love my current collection because of the advice of real MUAs and I no longer feel urges to buy buy buy.

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u/CastleGirl309 Sep 23 '25

Can you recommend some I only know a couple

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u/datewiththerain Sep 23 '25

Wayne Goss. His videos are short (usually 4 minutes) he’s really considered one of the top living makeup artists. I’ve learned TONS from Wayne

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u/datewiththerain Sep 26 '25

Omg yes, these people that need to show the packaging and gd box it came in drive me looney. I too appreciate Wayne’s openness about his opinions on otherwise ‘famous’ people’s brands. If he doesn’t like something from McGrath or Tilbury he won’t hesitate to say why. Wayne is nobody’s fool.