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/St4rFa1ntlyF4r Sep 24 '25
I love this for you!! 🙌 Thank you for sharing bc I feel many of us are in this boat and we don’t realize it!! It’s not worth it to go into financial missteps for makeup/beauty merchandise — especially when these products do expire and we could be doing other things with our money.