I recently caught wind of a massive sale at Besame Cosmetics. I found out about it on a Friday evening, and the sale was only good through the rest of the weekend.
I had questions about ingredients since none were listed on their site, and I couldn’t get hold of their customer service over the weekend. I did find a page that described their general ingredient philosophy. It seemed fairly natural, so I took the plunge.
Bad call! Turns out, everything they make is chock full of petrochemicals, bismuth oxychloride, dimethicone, and lots of other ickies. (Even the foundation has petrolatum listed very high on the ingredient list — blech.)
In their favor, the packaging is truly lovely. But I’m not sure I’ll ever be putting their stuff on my face, assuming I can find another way to rid myself of it! Realistically, I will probably just empty out all their (thankfully magnetic) compacts and replace the contents with pans from other brands. Or just put them on display somewhere — they truly are that beautiful. Too bad the contents didn’t wow me as well.
Sigh, this is what I get for shopping without doing ALL of my homework. I have a soft spot for a) bargains and b) fabulous packaging, so I made an exception to my normally stringent ingredient-checking rule. Hopefully this will serve as a reminder to anyone else thinking of breaking a worthwhile rule!
Not only was I out a bunch for skin-unfriendly cosmetics, but several lip items from my order failed to ship — but their coordinating liners did indeed arrive. That’s always fun; like getting the top of your bikini but not the bottom.
Luckily, these items have been hugely popular on Makeup Alley, so I expect to be able to swap at least some of them away. Thank goodness for the Internet — sure, it got me into this trouble, but it’ll help me get out of it too with any luck!