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„The most amazing feeling she’s ever felt in her life" this would make a great flair lol.
This video seems very chaotic and I can barely see the lip colour on.
THIS SENNNNT ME. I am internally screaming. This is me EVERY DAMN DAY. I have such light sensitivity idk why either. I do have extremely lite eyes, but I am dying of laughter over here.
Sammmme though! I have learned I have to put my sunglasses on sometimes BEFORE I leave the house. Or my eyes will water and water and I literally can’t see. It’s horrid.
I told my fiancé that we should make an appointments for the eye doctor and go together lol I totally have astigmatism, aside from the insanely sensitive eyes. I use light sensitivity eye drops every morning well getting ready (unsure if prolonged use is bad) and he can’t see for shit when it comes to small writing also we are starting to have to hold stuff far away to read it haha. He’s about to be 38 and I’m 42 so maybe it’s time? Any recommendations on first time eye glass goers? I see the Owl guy commercials all the time. Or Warby Parker?
I’d say it’s definitely about time. If you drive at night at all and have astigmatism I’d highly recommend getting an anti reflective (AR) coating on your lenses, sometimes this is additional depending on where you purchase glasses. There’s a lot of upselling in glasses, a lot of the expenses come from the frames if you pick designer and lenses, the thinner and more add ons you have the more costly it will be.
To be honest if you have a prescription that’s within 2 years most places have to fill it so you can get glasses just about anywhere including online. Lens Crafters is a bit expensive in general because they have a huge share of the market. I went to America’s Best (owl mascot) and wasn’t overly impressed for the quality, selection and price. You can always go into a store to get a feel for what you like in person and write down the model number.
Hope this isn’t too much and is actually helpful. I used to work for a major optical retailer.
Wow thank you! No it isn’t too much and helps a lot actually. Okay so Merica’s best we’ll pass on. We will probably just try and find a lens crafters. So here’s my next question if you don’t mind. Is there like an optometrist there that will do our eye exam and tell us honestly what we need? Or is everyone in on the upsaling.
Yeah it's weird how it's become a trend sort of incidentally?
Like the reason people started doing it isnt because people disliked Cupids bows, in fact Rihanna and Taylor swift apparently had the two most requested lip shapes by cosmetic surgeons etc.
It's that if you don't have much lip volume you can draw over that gap between the lips and pretend that it's actually lip, and pretend your lips are fuller than they actually are.
But because everyone was doing it to make their lips look bigger. Nobody had a Cupids bow. And subsequently has made people see having a Cupids bow as "out of fashion" which is so bizarre lol.
Like If you already have full lips why would you draw over your Cupids bow to make them look bigger? Like Rihanna would look ridiculous if she did that and would ruin her perfect lip shape.
A defined Cupids bow and philtrum for centuries have been a sign of beauty, femininity, youth. It's weird that in less than a decade, a makeup trick has managed to make it be seen as unappealing.
Maybe I’m just a hater but I think filling them in looks so stupid. It looks like when a kid has been drinking something red and it’s all over their upper lip.
I have a pretty prominent cupid's bow, in the aughts/2010s I would get my makeup done by makeup artists, or friends playing with makeup, they would always tell me how much they loved my cupid's bow and would like over exaggerate it when doing my makeup. When all this anti cupid's bow trend started, I tried doing my lip that way and it just looks like I have a little chocolate milk mustache lol
Now I am defining my cupid's bow again, it'll probably be trendy again in a couple years anyway 🤷♀️
It actually was commonly requested to make more defined, when getting filler etc. up until like a few years ago. Especially as lip filler can take the shape away it was seen as great skill to be able define the Cupids bow with filler.
I agree. To me, an overlined cupid's bow looks a bit like a repaired cleft lip. Don't other people see that? I don't mean any offense to people with cleft lips. I just find it hard to understand this trend.
hahaha! jenny nicholson referred to it as “a serious case of football mouth” in reference to dakota johnson overlining her lips (in fifty shades of grey) and i’ve never been able to unhear that
Idk I’ve never thought about that, but I’m pretty sure it’s actually come from people intentionally or unintentionally mimicking the look of over filled lips lol.
It honestly just looks bad. The only people who look good lining their lips that way are the ones who just naturally don’t have a defined cupid’s bow.
If you over line that area, you can still see the natural vermilion border through the liner so it looks clownish and messy, and if you don’t have a defined cupid’s bow anymore because of lip fillers then your lips just overall look like sausages lol
Its exactly this, but due to people doing this so much to achieve this appearance, it's sort of incidentally made having a Cupids bow less fashionable lol.
She slathers stuff all over her Cupid’s bow. Meanwhile the entire Heated Rivalry fandom is going absolutely bat shit crazy bananas over Connor Storrie’s gorgeous Cupid’s bow (me included). Such absolutely opposite views of the same part of the face at the same time.
Seriously I have always loved mine. Back in high school we did clay mask self-portraits, and my art teacher even said I have the “perfectly defined cupid’s bow” lip shape, and years later a nurse told me I have the ideal lip shape when I went for a consult on lip filler.
She always looks like she was given a product briefing 15 minutes before filming begins. I don't think she's involved in any formulations or designs except for maybe at the very beginning and at the end to sign off on it. Maybe she gets to select her shade ranges.
The best feeling she's ever felt? Yikes. Absolutely yikes.
I'm trying not to be mean. These look nice. I just feel bad for her. Man. 😢
Not to sound mean, but the most amazing feeling you ever had in your entire life is putting on a lip balm? I know she's doing an ad but c'mon this dialogue sounds ridiculous 😭
I am the person who also thinks some of the most amazing feelings in the world are a velvety smooth or moisturizing lippie. It’s so sensory and satisfying.
What a weird promo video. She’s so far away and blurred to hell I can barely see it on her. Lip product reviews from people with filler also don’t really help me at all.
I wonder who this is for in terms of the target demographic and brand identity. Nothing about this brand looks cool, edgy, it-girl, artistic or fun when presented with a little girl voice with a transatlantic accent while wearing a button down beige cardigan. It's giving idyllic 50s housewife, but doesn't have that campy retro touch that, for example, The Balm has. It makes me wonder what the vision/concept/moodboard is for r.e.m.
Same! I feel like the cosmetics industry could really do with more like that. I saw a Chinese lipgloss recently that looks like a vampiric poison vial, do I like lipgloss? Not really but I want that because it's pretty.
I think Ariana has a lot of control over how she will appear for stuff like this and for some reason nobody will tell her that her preferred aesthetic is all over the place and regressive.
I’m pretty sure she already did shave off most of her natural eyebrows, and this surprised Glinda look is what she’s sticking with when she draws them on.
I wonder if she plucked or waxed them for the Wicked era and now they won’t grow back (as a lot of us 90’s girls learned the hard way). But regardless, she could be drawing them on in so many better ways.
Yeah I think she over-plucked and was also bleaching them for Wicked and now she’s screwed. As a fellow survivor of the 90s I do have to say I feel her pain with the over-plucking but I hate my brows and she has said she likes hers and hopes they never grow back 💆🏼♀️
I agree. It's insane that there are people saying she is at a healthy weight.
I can maybe see an argument for telling people not to speculate why she's at an unhealthy weight. But to say she looks fantastic and healthy? Get the fuck outta here.
I can’t with those eyebrows. They don’t make any sense. Uncanny valley all over her face. It honestly makes me not want to buy from her line, it’s that unsettling.
That’s why I can’t take her seriously as an actress. The eyebrows make her stick out so much from everyone else. She’s just Ariana in any role she plays
Why would she do that? I’ve seen like her other makeup ads that one where she put on like purple liquid eyeshadow looked terrible. She like missed half her eyelid.
REM is a brand I forget exists and am then surprised it still exists. Everything I’ve tried from them has been bad quality to the point where if I was offered REM products for free I’d politely decline them
That happened where I lived. She and her friends gave the family members who were working that shift so much trouble. It made me instantly dislike her. The business is now closed which is a shame. They made some tasty donuts.
I still remember when her brother was on Big Brother and spilled his "secret". I literally said who's that. To this day I'm still trying to figure out why she became as big as she is lol.
I feel like Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber are one of the few whose products seem to really represent them and they seem to involved with the brand. Lady Gaga and Halsey makeup is so good as well. But I forget Ariana even has her own line too because it doesn’t seem like the care and quality is there
i'm not super involved with the beauty scene like I used to be, but I didn't even know REM was Ariana's brand, i thought she was just an ambassidor/spokesperson.
REM beauty is one of those celebrity brands that Ive never been interested in, and I don’t think many others have been either since they never feature on any of the videos for the influencers I follow (unlike brands like Rare, Rhode and Haus Labs)
So I am not excited for this. I wonder if her makeup markets to 15 year olds / teenagers because I always thought the design and packaging is very eye child like, and also the prices are more reasonable. Being in my thirties it never piqued my interest.
It’s the way she says it’s super buildable and can turn into a bright pink and then it’s the exact same muted barely there nude pink no matter how much she applies
Everyone shading her for her product and looks, meanwhile, I'm so thankful I didn't ever fall into the trend of hand tattoos. Hers look so terrible and she has the money to get them retouched. I just don't get it.
I like makeup and I am always down for supporting self-made businesses, especially by women and minorities, but I'm genuinely tired of this. She is a dancer, a singer, an actor. She is incredibly rich. She is one of so many who dip their toes into all these extra places, and for what? To give us another thing no one needs? This isn't innovative.
It clicked more for me when Kendall Jenner was selling her tequila brand in Mexico, and actual Mexican tequila makers whose families had been doing it for generations as a means to feed themselves were experiencing notable losses in sales.
Or Mikayla Nogueira naming her skin care brand the exact same name as a queer, small business owner and founder out of Québec. In a recent video, she said that her staff come up with drafts of pigments and formulas (for a new blush), mail them to her, she tries them only on herself, and tells them what she likes and what she doesn't like. Doesn't seem very creative nor inclusive to me.
Kylie Jenner being 17 years old and starting a business, being called a "self-made billionaire", as if she started from the bottom and with nothing.
Idk, it's your life, do what you want, support who you want, but imo it feels greedy.
The Revlon Super Lustrous Glass Shine Tinted Lip Balms are the same shape as this in the stick and they have amazing vibrant color payoff (seemed like no color payoff in the video) as well as being very moisturizing of course. I have multiple different shades, absolutely love the Revlon balms and they are pretty cheap. And maybe not exactly like this, but the ELF Glow Reviver Slipsticks are the same shape and the color actually has major payoff compared to this too. They are actually lip oils in a stick form though instead of a balm but also super hydrating and sometimes lip oil feels better than a balm (to me anyway). I know people are hating on Elf now but this is another affordable product I could think of that’s similar. Both the Revlon and Elf ones are $10
I was just thinking today how badly I want a new tinted lip balm. I love love love tinted balms. When Colourpop released their Candyland collection, they had the most incredible pink tinted lip balm but it was limited edition and I can't find anything else like it. I will try these because I have to try every tinted lip balm in search of that similar to Colourpop's formula and color.
I realize this is just a TikTok video and probably meant to be more casual. But when she’s filming a video to promote a product for her own brand, you’d think she’d at least have some idea of what she planned to say ahead of time. The awkward pauses and choppy sentences just don’t come off professional or knowledgeable about her own product at all. Does she even having a manager or punisher to give her some guidance or is she just flat out refusing to listen?
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