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If you are somewhat around the online beauty community you pretty much have been hearing comments left and right about lipsticks this past week, and it likely sent you on a path of not trusting any lipstick and probably checking all the ones you got on your vanity (even though some of them you got when the first Jojo pop star appeared- Alexa play Jojo-Get out).

The moment I saw that Jaclyn (Hill) was releasing a line of cosmetics many questions came to mind. The first one was about how she would name her line since we all call her Jaclyn -Hill- which is the name she got when she married her ex-husband. The second was of what kind of flaws people would find on these, let’s face it Jaclyn has not had a smooth ride when it comes to product releases, but before she was dealing with other brands and their labs and so on, so I had good hopes that she would put out something that people would not bash because she was doing her own thing. As soon as the first insights of the products came out I could hear people ragging at having so many nude shades, of how boring it was … it is not my kind of product and I am neither a Jaclyn follower so I didn’t care for it, but this product was fitting of Jaclyn. She is known for wearing nude lipsticks and smokey brown eyeshadow, it would be out of character to release a box of rainbow shades.

As I had expected, as soon as people starting receiving their lipsticks issues started to be raised, holes, black dots, sweaty spots, bending at the base, melting, hairs, fuzzy bits… And you start to question if these are about to become the subculture of lipsticks or just a few people trying to reach some sort of attention. (you can read more in-depth news about it here. ) RawBeautyKristi made a video comparing the lipsticks she paid for versus the PR, finding that her PR lipsticks did, in fact, have a ‘safer’ look than the ones she bought with her own money. (you can watch it here) . With this whole thing of people focusing on the issues with this one brand, I came across a post by Temptalia that goes over several issues she has had with lipsticks over the years, talking about what we should consider normal for a lipstick. Some of the pictures she shows look quite similar to the issues that have been raised by people over Jaclyn cosmetics (you can read about it here.)

Jaclyn came out last night, on a more candid kinda way, feet on the chair showing her knees on camera and thankfully the video was under 15 minutes instead of the common 40. She addressed the many issues raised by customers and cleared out rumours that the lipsticks were old and with mold. She deemed them safe (from my understanding) but people aren’t happy with this. Here are my thoughts on the situation.

– Jaclyn knows her releases are VERY likely to get backlash, not going steps further to make sure there is nothing people can go and pick on is a big thing. When you know people have their eyes on you and will likely find even the smallest of things to call you out on, you have to make sure you don’t give them that. And it seems like Jaclyn missed that crucial step. -Beware of the circumstances your makeup gets delivered. If you are ordering bullet lipsticks and your package sat outside on the Sun for hours and you get home and open it to swatch it with bullet fully up and painting your whole arm, that’s not a good idea. When I swatch a bullet lipstick I lightly swatch my hand to see the colour and never had issues of the product breaking. -If a brand tells you a product is safe but you feel that it doesn’t look like it, don’t use it! I personally wouldn’t put on my lips some of the defective lipsticks I have seen around, this product goes on your lips and even if you don’t want to to, you will likely still ingest it. -Know the return policies of a beauty company before buying from them. If a brand is new to you and you want to be safe that you can get your money back before buying something, make sure they have a good policy, either for money back returns and product replacement.

Marlena Stell , who is an OG youtuber and owner of a makeup brand has come out speaking of this situation and has mentioned some interesting things. (will attach screenshots)

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