by Begin Rant
What does any normal person do when panicking in quarantine? That’s right, buy a shitload of cosmetics.
I’ve never purchased directly from Rude Cosmetics. I’ve only purchased a handful of Rude palettes and eyeshadows from third-party resellers like YesStyle and Dolls Kill (with no issues). The inventory on the Rude Cosmetics website is bomb, but their quality control sucks.
YES, YES, Y’ALL! I opened two of my 11 Rude Cosmetics eyeshadow and lipstick haul and there was CLEARLY something wrong with almost all of the products.
For starters, their Goodnight Coconut Lip Sleeping Pack, the one they market as made in Korea for Kbeauty heads-something I was hella looking forward to-leaked. Not only did the sleeping pack leak (no, I couldn’t be as fortunate), it also has TWO HAIRS on the lip applicator!
That’s not all. This Rude Notorious Liquid Lip Color in Evil Deed has A HAIR stuck on the applicator! It was just ridin’ dirty aaaaaaall the way from the shipping warehouse.
Now, I’m forced to contact Rude Cosmetics customer service and ask for replacements because I can’t help thinking either the manufacturer doesn’t give a whole fuck about my health, or somebody dabbled in both items and the company couldn’t help trying to pawn the used items off on me. I mean, the graphic scenarios (other than those two) that my mind is producing are ENDLESS!
But wait! THERE’S MORE! Aaaaall of the Rude Cosmetics Notorious matte lip colors that I bought give the appearance of being tampered with. Now, if you’ve ever shopped for lip colors at a convenience store in the US, then you know these companies don’t give a damn bout tamper-proof packaging. You’ve gotta risk looking like a CULPRIT to open a lip color just to make sure it doesn’t look like someone stabbed the applicator back into the container forty-million times.
That brings me to the issue with these Rude lipsticks. My long history with terrible packaging not only wisened me, but it got me side-eying the specks of lip color caught between the container and the nozzle that the applicator slides into. When has packaging looked so messy the day it’s manufactured? Why is no one in quality control going, “this looks nasty like someone opened it already?”
I added the above photos, including a Rude eyeshadow, cause I don’t know WTF is happening with the packaging.
Bruh. I can’t with this brand. I was hella excited too because I wanna relive the old days when Nyx was known as the super pigmented cheap makeup brand. Rude is pretty close to modeling old-school Nyx in my opinion, but I never had an issue with Nyx’s product packaging. And, their packaging of old was quite ridiculous, that’s for sure!
I’mma let Rude Cosmetics rest…alone…for a while. Originally, I bought the Goodnight Sleeping pack with full intentions of reviewing it here. You know, I love Korean Beauty and similar, alternatives. I still want to review the sleeping pack, with the other unsuspicious lip care items I bought, but we’ll see how it goes!