Anti Haul #1;

I watch a lot of Anti Hauls on Youtube and I really love the concept of talking about things that don't tempt me even slightly. I personally started my blog to share my opinions on things and its not always going to things I love or even want, but usually when I don't want something I pretty much forget about it straight away before I really have an opinion on the product or why I don't want it. But recently I've found a few products that I really don't want and want to tell you why.
This post is no way meant to be taken as me bashing brands or saying the products are bad, or that you shouldn't buy them this is literally my opinion on why I personally (probably) won't buy these things. I haven't tried any of the products so I obviously can't say anything for the quality, and if you buy these and love these then you do you!

 Re-Loaded Palettes - Makeup Revolution

The product or rather products that me want to write this were the newest additions to the Re-Loaded  eyeshadow palettes. Now let me preface this by saying Makeup Revolution is my favourite makeup brand, I'm very tempted by a lot of things they have come out with recently, I love the look of their new glitters and the Carmi and Tammi palettes look gorgeous. I'm sure the quality of this is amazing as with every eyeshadow I've bought from Makeup Revolution. However, I stumbled across these on Instagram and I knew I didn't want any of these palettes. All of the palettes have a few pops of colour, but are for the most part full of neutral browns. Its definitely a marketing tactic used by a lot of brands and I feel like I'm starting to see through it. They throw in a purple or a green, but the majority of the shades are brown and I have brown. I even have all of the pops of colour in other palettes. None of these palettes really give me inspiration to create any looks that I couldn't do with palettes I already own and I feel like this will be the same for most people.

Weekend Festival Palette - BH Cosmetics

Next up is another palette, a palette that sounded like it would be right up my alley! Festivals are my favourite place to be, for me the makeup is all about colour, glitter and all of the things I couldn't get away with wearing to work. I've just bought the Take Me Back to Brazil palette also from BH Cosmetics, so maybe I just have my fill for colourful eyeshadow at the moment. But even still I would expect this palette to pack more of a punch like the Take Me Back to Brazil palette which is full of vibrant, almost luminous shades. In comparison this palette has quite a few neutrals and a few of the colours are more muted. I would definitely have expected a festival palette to have brighter,  more glittery and shimmery shades. Compared to the Makeup Revolution palettes this is a lot more colourful, but for a palette named Weekend Festival I would have expected BH Cosmetics to have upped the amp by a couple of levels.

Hello Happy Foundation - Benefit

The next thing I don't want to buy is this foundation. Firstly I don't think I will buying anything from Benefit for the foreseeable future, I own a few of their products and really like them all but as they are not cruelty free I do not intend to buy anything else from them. My first thoughts about this foundation is that I don't like the packaging or the name. The bottle has a smiley face as is called 'Hello Happy' which to me sounds very childish, I know you can't judge a product by the outside but it doesn't really appeal to me as an adult and doesn't seem like a foundation that costs £25.50, it looks more like it belongs in Claires. It may be that everybody else thinks this is cute and great, but for me its the first thing that doesn't appeal. The bottle is also large and square with a spout on top, and again I could be wrong but I think its going to be messy and I can see it being a bottle that pours out way more product than you need. I've also heard next to nothing about this product, I've literally seen 1 review of this and I can't remember who did it or what they said which goes to show that nothing amazing was said about this. I've looked on the Debenhams website and it describes this as a lightweight foundation with to light-to-medium coverage. To me that sounds something similar to a BB Cream, which is not really something I tend to like, I prefer something more full coverage. I also think that £25.50 is a lot of money for a light coverage, if I'm buying a higher end foundation I raise my expectations and I definitely want more coverage. I just think that I could get something that does what this foundation does for cheaper, and I don't think its anything new.

Dream Glow Kit - Anastasia Beverly Hills

The last product I want to talk about is ABHs latest addition to their Glow Kit highlighter range. This is one that I have seen on a lot of anti hauls and seen literally no reviews on - it seems like nobody wants this! I am no different, but I think my reasons are a little different. This seems to me to be another holographic multi-coloured highlighter palette. Now personally I love different coloured highlights, I go to a lot of gigs and festivals and I think its really cool to have your face glowing purple or bright pink in the light and its something that I love to experiment with. But at this point we've seen it before, Anastasia have their own Moonchild kit and I personally own the Ultra Cool Glow palette that Makeup Revolution do. I think most people who do like a brighter highlight are still not going to be brave enough to wear it to work every day and it’s going to be reserved for special occasions so it will take forever to use up this kind of product, so I think right now is not really perfect timing to release yet another one of these. I think all of the people that want a bright coloured highlighter palette already have one and those who don’t just don’t want one!

Is there anything new out that completely doesn't tempt you in the slightest?

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None of the photographs used in this post are mine they have been taken from Instagram Debenhams and Beauty Bay.