The same shade collected a white, furry looking substance on my melt Gemini 2. I saw that melt said it was wax, so I carefully removed a section. I placed the sample on my hand and it melted with the heat of my skin. almost immediately. It's not mold. Mold doesn't melt. It would sit on your skin and stay furry. It's just the emulsifier separating from the pigment.
@@Balletified - I am aware there are preservatives in clean beauty. Most don’t use the ones that I need. I have a large collection and I prefer my makeup to last longer.
I frigging love when you call for Alex and insert his stream video, it just makes me so happy how creative your household is ❤ Also he and you are fucking hillarious in tandem x
Just a PSA here, but even if your other Melt palettes "look" safe, I wouldn't be using them. Outside of lab conditions mold, fungi, bacteria, etc takes a LOT of time growing before they can be seen with plain sight, so odds are that stuff IS there months before you can see it 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮
The Chanel cream foundation is a great formulation for older women as cream looks better on older skin and the rosy beige helps bring color to the skin for a more healthy look as tge color fades out of your skin as you age (50+)
I don't do melt palettes because of the stories I've heard about mould in the Gemini palette, literally years ago. I can't believe It is still happening, and in other palettes too, and people keep buying and promoting them like it's no big deal... No wander we see zero accountability on their part.
What they do is send a replacement. They even sent me one (mine had an issue with a crumbly unusable shade) even though I bought my Smoke Sessions off Beauty Bay, which was very nice. But it would have been way better to see actual changes to their products.
@@jayharker Yeah, that's not enough. There's obviously a sanitation issue with the brand that they're not addressing. Even with clean beauty brands it doesn't happen nearly as often. The fact that they are allowed to continue, and even keep being promoted, without doing anything about it is frankly a disgrace.
@@cccsssish It's a quality control issue in general. I forgot to add, the replacement they said had the same unusable crumbly shimmer. Like pebbles. Even crushing and repressing didn't change anything.
I feel like this is a "Are You Afraid of the Dark" episode where it ends like : and legend says she's wandering around the swamp growing penicillin and trying to remove a Oden's Eye bracelet 😅
@@saritavenkatapathynaidu9533 😥 That sucks... Mine were fine (Vida & Muerte); I rehomed any others I had. I've got fingers crossed that it's only the one palette that has issues which Melt may be able to (a) identify as a factory or ingredient contamination (or recipe) issue, (b) do a Mea Culpa, & (c) hopefully, both for customers AND their reputation's sake, make some kind of restitution for those with bad palettes.
Just a PSA here, but even if your other Melt palettes "look" safe, I wouldn't be using them. Outside of lab conditions mold, fungi, bacteria, etc takes a LOT of time growing before they can be seen with plain sight, so odds are that stuff IS there months before you can see it 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮
I have to watch your videos with headphones on so my toddler doesn’t hear the cursing but you are WORTH IT! I don’t have enough sassy energy in my life. 💅🏼 😁 ❤M
Purples, Yes! Viseart, hell yes!! Thanks for showing these. I need the cool tone one. I am so intrigued about the JR pink, as well. I still need to get the bronzer. Ummmm, yeah…..NOOO! to the Melt.
I’m still so salty with Melt. Bought a palette (which is about 100$ here in Canada) and it arrived with one completely smashed shade. I was like W/E, but then within a couple months, one shade is completely covered in mold, then another month later ANOTHER shade is covered in mold. 3/9 shadows having issues was my breaking point on that price level, so I contacted CS who also said it was wax bloom 🙃 they asked for my address to send me another one, and they never fucking did. It was also the exact same palette and shades as you. Sucks because I love their colour stories but hell no I am not supporting that brand.
They had a kickass sale on their website during lockdown so i ordered some things and to this day have never received my order. I contacted them and they said it's probably stuck at customs. The tracking didnt work at all and they wouldnt do anything. So now i only buy the melt that sephora carries and even then im still kind of salty and have to really want it. I think their makeup is overpriced for the quality that it is.
I desperately DESPERATELY wanted the Muerte palette when it came out... And I had come into a bit of money, so I could afford to splurge on an eyeshadow palette if I wanted. But w/ all of the issues surrounding their formula & shipping, yanno what I did? Bought BH Cosmetics Cherry on Top, Blueberry Muffin, & a couple singles from Devinah. That way, I get my blue/teal & red colour story AND some more options to round out my neutral collection [which was sparse]. I have zero regrets, except for that packaging... Which is kinda stupid. If I want pretty art, I can get a poster. 🙃
I may be wrong about this but I’m gonna stick my neck out and say the chanel product is a BRONZER for extremely fair/pale people that need something rosey instead of something orange. Like the Gucci bronzer in shade 01 but one step further 😍
I was thinking this too but someone in the comments from Aus mentioned that it was already released there some time ago and that it's used like a primer. I dont know. I may take one for the team and try it since im super fair and could probably use it multiple ways. Maybe ill see if holt renfrew or the bay (canada) have testers.
This makes more sense as a bronzer or a blush really, but it looks like a putty face primer--similar to what elf has. And theoretically, if it is to be used as a primer, I feel like all the rosiness would make my redness all the more prevalent looking. So, Idk. I'm like Theresa. Idk what this is and who asked for it lmao.
When the Gemini pallette came out I literally jumped on it even tho I wasn't familiar with Melt. I loved the colorstory & had been looking for mossy, earthy olive greens for a while. ( Now you can get those shades anywhere but circa 2012-15 not so much) I had the shadows balloon out of the pans & get a weird texture, plus I wasn't super thrilled with their shimmer formula even tho the mattes were fine. I also purchased the Smoke Session palette but never really used it since the greens were more emerald/turquoise leaning & kind of icy. I haven't purchased another Melt palette since even tho I love the shades they choose/themes & their package design is always gorgeous. Their quality is just too hit or miss for me. I have pretty much replaced Melt, ABH & Coloured Raine with Sydney Grace. I have all the greens, purples & neutrals I want & If I want any specific duo or multichrome I get it from Terra Moons. I haven't been a fan of pre-made palettes for a while now.
The rosy tone is a thing for older folks. Have you seen rosy tone moisturizers? I buy the It Cosmetics for my mom. It’s to counteract sallow tone that older skin can be.
Yep I had the same issue with my Gemini 2 palette. Got mold with the one I bought from Sephora within 3 months of it launching, Melt sent me a new one and that got mold too. Tossed all my Melt palettes and washed my hands of them. Their quality control needs a serious overhaul for the prices they charge.
My Gemini II also grew mold in the shimmer shades within a few months. Melt told me that it wasnt mold, but the binder crystalizing or something....I'm gonna pass on Melt new releases.
I love Viserart too! I was able to get the neutral mattes and dark mattes last Christmas to try them. And now have a wishlist of what else I want lol. And the new purple palette with those blushes looks so pretty!
In my hardcore party years when you all were in diapers (or zygotes!), I had such great fun with Urban Decay "Midnight Cowboy" eye shadow. A champagne nude chock full with silver glitter. Nobody knew how to use it to the best of its advantage. Pictures online were like, "Oh, there's something sparkling!" The way we did it (correction. *I* did it!) way back when glitter glue wasn't invented, was to apply MAC Cream Colour Base (MAC was cool back then, in a utilitarian way) all over your lids, then press on the eye shadow in layer after layer until you achieved the look of a Vegas show girl. I went to a party at Euro Pride (I'm a faggot!) in Stockholm once, got home to my BFF at 8 AM (those were heady days!), woke up the next...whenever and there was maybe two flecks of glitter fallen onto my cheeks. What you girls complaining about fallout? If I can do it, so can you. I'm a (hot) nobody and a weakling! I once arm wrestled an ant and lost! /welcome to Action Central! These are *Serious Pleasures!*
@Sally Humphrys Those were fun times, right? The same night I had also purchased Laura Mercier "Secret Camouflage" and the assigned brush (perfect brush for spot concealing BTW! Hear that, Theresa? You Laura Mercier heathen denier!) and I spent maybe 40 minutes just retouching my face, one quarter square inch at a time. Clearly not something you do before rushing to work, but I ended up looking flawless. F L A W L E S S ! ! !
@Tiffany Sollog I'm seriously OG. I had the "First Date to Pinup" palette. Site of a credit card, but nobody did palettes back then. The Skull palette (slightly bigger). "Sin" eye shadow. And, oh, Afterglow blush in "X". Like NARS "Orgasm", but it actually suited me! "Meeemories light the corners of my miiiind!"
Melt was very active in the comments when Beauty News first talked about the issue however many years ago. They were really proactive about telling people to contact them for replacements. They went back to their lab, and the chemists told them it was one of the ingredients not staying mixed in. Kinda like wax bloom on chocolate.
The Melt palette may very well be wax bloom, it looks like a white hazy crust. Old chocolate bars, colored pencils, and lipsticks will get it too. Wax bloom occurs because of the waxy binder in the product, and as the material in the products “settles” the waxy binder slowly rises to the surface producing the white haze. It's not usually toxic, if that's all it is. I wish Hourglass would let us build our own edit palettes, then I would definitely splurge on one.
Dear Hourglass - for the love of all that is holy, please just give us a fully customizable 3 pan and 6 pan option with refills of all the powders - finishing powders, blushes, right lighters, bronzers, etc. I swear you can have fists full of my cash I’d you just stop making these pre-fans that are full of things I either already have or don’t work for my skin tone. Sincerely, all the people
FUCKING EXACTLY. I can only use their absolute lightest Ambient Lighting Powder [even then, it still kinda leaves a cast] & they always include more than one, so like? Even if they theoretically only put the lightest bronzer, they always have several shades of the finishing powders... So there's AT LEAST one shade which will neverrrrr get used. At that price point? I can't justify the purchase.
I took your advice and did the air horns loud enough to get a reaction out of my cats. One of them just stared at me but the other gave me a look that is priceless 😂😂. He tilted his head, eyes as wide as they can go, staring at me like I had gone crazy!! Now every time I watch your videos, I'm gonna make sure he's around so i can do the air horns in front of him 🤣😂🤣😂
I’m guessing Mother’s giving us blush sticks. Still bored but eh? One of my favorite makeup artists (Cheri Voyage) said that purple is THE color for this year and I’m seeing it everywhere! As for the Oden’s Eye jewelry…😬. I’m a jewelry whore and that stuff looks like garbage but not the good garbage. AAAAAAAH MOLDY MELT THE UPSIDE DOWN!!!
I agree about the jewelry. It looks really cheap 90s jewelry, so I feel like Theresa was on the mark with the Pretty Pretty Princess comment. ( I was obsessed with that game as a kid tho)
Do you know I've come back to this video a few times after an edible *just to watch your take on the Jones Road Powder?* It's that effin hilarious and gets better each time!🤣😂
I'm so with you on those new Viseart palettes: I want all three. Viseart is one of my favourite eyeshadow formulas and the combo with matching blush in a handy travel friendly package. Plus all three look amazing! Can't wait!
My first thought with the new Chanel product is that it's the love child of the Jones Road Dusty Rose bronzer and the Chanel cream bronzer. There's been a bit of buzz about that particular color of bronzer for us fair babies, so I've been waiting for more versions to show up. Or I may be projecting my wishes, lol.
Hope the blood tests have gone well! I'm gonna watch Theresa while I recover from a punishing Physical Therapy session, lmao. My Physiotherapist believes in my joints WAY MORE than they deserve!! They're slackers. So... Gonna slather myself in Biofreeze & enjoy some YT. 😂🤣
First of all, I miss your air horns but your baby raptor chirps are adorable. Also, since UD’s ergonomic liquid liners turned out well, I’m willing to give the blushes a whirl, especially since they didn’t give them the naked name.
I almost pissed my pants laughing during the Melt pallets part 😂. My 13 year old loved the Stranger things reference and keeps saying “Dustin can you hear me?!”
I have the Chanel cream and my skin is the same tone as yours and dry. It's a blurring primer that perfects the skin but just adds colour to even out. It doesn't seem pink but might if you have sallow/olive/golden skin. Watch Night Star Beauty's review. We got it early in Australia and NZ.
OMG go back to 44:11when you were talking about touching the Melt palette and listen with your eyes closed! I was working on something and I heard that and was like - whaaaat?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Those Viseart palettes are so beautiful!! And I saw that all of them are magnetized, so if you DO buy all 3, you can switch the shades around to make it like you want it!😊
😜I find myself saying "No" right along with you. You have me talking about what I think. I'm guessing that the price point on the Kate Spade is up there. Needless to say I'm a costume jewelry freak so I was saying "Get an extender!" Your make-up looks fab! Check what to throw out. At least you inspect.
Theresa! You naughty naughty girl! Now I am a new member of Unearth Cosmetics, Oder's Eye, Lethal Cosmetics, and Camera Ready Cosmetics! LOL! But every code helps when I feel inspired to buy something! 😁
CHANEL Rosy cream- Night star beauty has a review. I purchased it and I use as a primer. It smooths and mattifies but with a beautiful sheen. I have dry skin and works well for me. Can use this and some concealer and your skin looks beautiful and even, no foundation needed. Texture like elf putty or tatcha cream primers. Can be applied with fingers or dense brush. If you like and use that sort of blurring product each day it is worth it.
i have the urban decay blush in “wrecked” and it’s def super dewey and lighter coverage, good for more natural looks for the summer and if you want a blush that’s got color but not to the extent of a rare beauty blush
The description for the chanel thing reminds me of a korean skin trend - the way they use rosy toned primers or foundations bc apparently when you’re cool toned, pink, you look brighter?
You won’t believe this but I got all my Melt palettes out and Gemini II the green shimmer had some weird crap on it. I wiped and sprayed alcohol. I just got that palette about 5 months ago. I sent Melt an email. I don’t want a replacement just an explanation what it is. My oldest Melt palette impulsive is fine and I’ve used the crap out of that. I’m scared to buy from this brand now because I keep my palettes for many years.
Just finally saw this video. I’m dying at “Did Jaclyn Hill make that?” Also, you’ve convinced me I need the Jones Road bronzer. You get me. I HAVE to get it. It’s settled. 🤣❤️
You and Alex are hilarious...and I would have touched it too 😂 I was willing you to do it through the screen lol. Hopefully you aren't sucked into the upside down but if you are tell Eddie I said hiyeee!!! ❤
THE WAY I CACKLED WHEN ALEX ASKED IF IT WAS FROM JACLYN HILL 💀
Omg RIGHT I DIED
“Did Jaclyn Hill make this?” “I think this palette came from the Upside Down!” “Dustin, can you hear me?”😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hahahha
I know it’s been awhile, but I love the addition of the Someone call Michelle Wang square on the bingo card. It always makes me smile.
The same shade collected a white, furry looking substance on my melt Gemini 2. I saw that melt said it was wax, so I carefully removed a section. I placed the sample on my hand and it melted with the heat of my skin. almost immediately. It's not mold. Mold doesn't melt. It would sit on your skin and stay furry. It's just the emulsifier separating from the pigment.
Nobody understands why I don’t like ‘clean’ beauty until they see mold on their makeup. Lol Team science, with preservatives, please!
@@Balletified - I am aware there are preservatives in clean beauty. Most don’t use the ones that I need. I have a large collection and I prefer my makeup to last longer.
Absolutely!
I unfortunately tend to react to several preservatives, which is why I stick to the cosmetics without them.
I have an autoimmune disorder and I need preservatives. Clean beauty is more expensive and expires quickly. Not for me.
I’m 50. I want the preservatives to work on me too. (I can dream)
Me laughing at the mould in your pallet, then realising I have a bunch of melt pallets I need to go and inspect 😂
please report back lol @sarah-23
Wow okay making me think I need to check my one and only. This includes their pressed pigments right??
“Dustin can you hear me?”
Now, I need to check my only Melt palette.
Theresa x Alex…. Comedy gold!
I love how you and Alex are both so disgusted but also so like enthralled by the mold. 😅 Not sure why I find that so funny. 😂
😂 right?! This isn't the first time I've seen other live reactions of Melt having mold. Absolutely NOT! 😮
Spicy Theresa is back and I’m here for it! *thunderous air horns*
I frigging love when you call for Alex and insert his stream video, it just makes me so happy how creative your household is ❤
Also he and you are fucking hillarious in tandem x
yess i love it
Let me tell y'all....theresa immediately called me and had my check my palette! The way her and I laughed!!! My palette was safe though
All I can think of is that episode on Tyra Banks and the germs on eyeshadow. Ptsd for life. 😂
Just a PSA here, but even if your other Melt palettes "look" safe, I wouldn't be using them. Outside of lab conditions mold, fungi, bacteria, etc takes a LOT of time growing before they can be seen with plain sight, so odds are that stuff IS there months before you can see it 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮
Dying during the whole “melt” section. You two are hilarious 😂
Between the moldy melt palette and no Colourpop in todays bingo, is the world coming to an end?
The Chanel cream foundation is a great formulation for older women as cream looks better on older skin and the rosy beige helps bring color to the skin for a more healthy look as tge color fades out of your skin as you age (50+)
OMG GURL!!! That Melt palette is gonna give you the CHEESETOUCH!!
Yup, Viseart never disappoints so buying all three makes sense. 😛
This is the most chaotic episode by far! More please 🥹❤️
Still waiting for that glamlite Bush’s Baked Beans collab.
IF THAT HAPPENS I WILL BE SO FUCKING HAPPY
I’m not a glamlite fan, but that would be a totally basic bee palette, of course! Hilarious!
Roll that beautiful bean footage! 🎉
Lol how come no one has done that yet???
I want a barbecue themed palette or spaghetti or sushi!
I don't do melt palettes because of the stories I've heard about mould in the Gemini palette, literally years ago.
I can't believe It is still happening, and in other palettes too, and people keep buying and promoting them like it's no big deal...
No wander we see zero accountability on their part.
What they do is send a replacement. They even sent me one (mine had an issue with a crumbly unusable shade) even though I bought my Smoke Sessions off Beauty Bay, which was very nice. But it would have been way better to see actual changes to their products.
@@jayharker Yeah, that's not enough. There's obviously a sanitation issue with the brand that they're not addressing. Even with clean beauty brands it doesn't happen nearly as often. The fact that they are allowed to continue, and even keep being promoted, without doing anything about it is frankly a disgrace.
@@cccsssish It's a quality control issue in general. I forgot to add, the replacement they said had the same unusable crumbly shimmer. Like pebbles. Even crushing and repressing didn't change anything.
@@jayharker Wow. Unbelievable...
This goes way beyond quality issues imo
@@cccsssish true... I loved their mattes but I moved on now. Will have to check for mold in my palettes too :(
YAY crossover episode with Alex! I was watching the stream when the mold happened lol...
Hahahhaa! 🖤
This is the TID/AIB inception we’ve been waiting for.
I died...screaming jajajaja
I feel like this is a "Are You Afraid of the Dark" episode where it ends like : and legend says she's wandering around the swamp growing penicillin and trying to remove a Oden's Eye bracelet 😅
Hahahahahahaha!!!
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😂😂😂
So, here's all of us viewers pausing the vid to go check any and all Melt palettes we may have! 🤣
Def did that, I inspected the smoke session with a flashlight for a good 10 minutes, happy to see it hasn't mold, yet.
Mine is moldy in the same shade!!!! And it’s one of my new palettes! Like… months ago, not even many.
@@saritavenkatapathynaidu9533 😥 That sucks... Mine were fine (Vida & Muerte); I rehomed any others I had. I've got fingers crossed that it's only the one palette that has issues which Melt may be able to (a) identify as a factory or ingredient contamination (or recipe) issue, (b) do a Mea Culpa, & (c) hopefully, both for customers AND their reputation's sake, make some kind of restitution for those with bad palettes.
I'm scared cos I have enough eye priblems as it is (glaucoma, lattice degeneration, severe myopia) I don't need an infection on top of it!!
Just a PSA here, but even if your other Melt palettes "look" safe, I wouldn't be using them. Outside of lab conditions mold, fungi, bacteria, etc takes a LOT of time growing before they can be seen with plain sight, so odds are that stuff IS there months before you can see it 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮
You are the queen of New makeup releases loved the mold and not fat friendly jewelry demos
I have to watch your videos with headphones on so my toddler doesn’t hear the cursing but you are WORTH IT! I don’t have enough sassy energy in my life. 💅🏼 😁 ❤M
42:48 😂😂😂 I’m dying in the car pick up line for the kiddos. Oh hell if the pollen don’t get me this pallet dust will 😂😂
Purples, Yes! Viseart, hell yes!! Thanks for showing these. I need the cool tone one.
I am so intrigued about the JR pink, as well. I still need to get the bronzer.
Ummmm, yeah…..NOOO! to the Melt.
I’m still so salty with Melt. Bought a palette (which is about 100$ here in Canada) and it arrived with one completely smashed shade. I was like W/E, but then within a couple months, one shade is completely covered in mold, then another month later ANOTHER shade is covered in mold. 3/9 shadows having issues was my breaking point on that price level, so I contacted CS who also said it was wax bloom 🙃 they asked for my address to send me another one, and they never fucking did. It was also the exact same palette and shades as you.
Sucks because I love their colour stories but hell no I am not supporting that brand.
They had a kickass sale on their website during lockdown so i ordered some things and to this day have never received my order. I contacted them and they said it's probably stuck at customs. The tracking didnt work at all and they wouldnt do anything. So now i only buy the melt that sephora carries and even then im still kind of salty and have to really want it. I think their makeup is overpriced for the quality that it is.
I desperately DESPERATELY wanted the Muerte palette when it came out... And I had come into a bit of money, so I could afford to splurge on an eyeshadow palette if I wanted. But w/ all of the issues surrounding their formula & shipping, yanno what I did? Bought BH Cosmetics Cherry on Top, Blueberry Muffin, & a couple singles from Devinah. That way, I get my blue/teal & red colour story AND some more options to round out my neutral collection [which was sparse]. I have zero regrets, except for that packaging... Which is kinda stupid. If I want pretty art, I can get a poster. 🙃
I still want Pat McGrath to make an all multichrome palette!
$2499 later......... 😂
It's allergies. I moved from NY to Alabama and now this happens yearly. Florida is probably the same. Feel better ❤
Light, fair… just once I want a makeup company to go with “pale.” “Unsettling.” “Anemic.”
“Did Jaclyn Hill make this?!”
When I tell you I about died!!! Hahahaha
I may be wrong about this but I’m gonna stick my neck out and say the chanel product is a BRONZER for extremely fair/pale people that need something rosey instead of something orange. Like the Gucci bronzer in shade 01 but one step further 😍
I was thinking this too but someone in the comments from Aus mentioned that it was already released there some time ago and that it's used like a primer. I dont know. I may take one for the team and try it since im super fair and could probably use it multiple ways. Maybe ill see if holt renfrew or the bay (canada) have testers.
This makes more sense as a bronzer or a blush really, but it looks like a putty face primer--similar to what elf has. And theoretically, if it is to be used as a primer, I feel like all the rosiness would make my redness all the more prevalent looking. So, Idk. I'm like Theresa. Idk what this is and who asked for it lmao.
When the Gemini pallette came out I literally jumped on it even tho I wasn't familiar with Melt. I loved the colorstory & had been looking for mossy, earthy olive greens for a while. ( Now you can get those shades anywhere but circa 2012-15 not so much) I had the shadows balloon out of the pans & get a weird texture, plus I wasn't super thrilled with their shimmer formula even tho the mattes were fine. I also purchased the Smoke Session palette but never really used it since the greens were more emerald/turquoise leaning & kind of icy. I haven't purchased another Melt palette since even tho I love the shades they choose/themes & their package design is always gorgeous. Their quality is just too hit or miss for me. I have pretty much replaced Melt, ABH & Coloured Raine with Sydney Grace. I have all the greens, purples & neutrals I want & If I want any specific duo or multichrome I get it from Terra Moons. I haven't been a fan of pre-made palettes for a while now.
The rosy tone is a thing for older folks. Have you seen rosy tone moisturizers? I buy the It Cosmetics for my mom. It’s to counteract sallow tone that older skin can be.
I did extra loud, throat scratching, air horns for you and my 3-year-old joined in! 😂🥝💚🖤
Commitment! 👍
Alex mold shots are everything
I am in TEARSSSSS 😂 Paul Giamatti's reaction and commentary OH MAH GAWD my side hurts. Yall cracked me tf up! I just love yall and yalls humor!
I don’t watch a lot of reality tv but I sure as shit love to watch Theresa get drunk and rant so this is basically my reality tv
would NEVER have guessed that was twelve hour makeup!
If you have any Patrick Ta palettes, make sure to check them for mold too! Mine went moldy within a year!
"Did Jacklyn Hill make this?" "Too soon?" 🤣🤣🤣
Please do try the pink Jones Road powder for science.
Yep I had the same issue with my Gemini 2 palette. Got mold with the one I bought from Sephora within 3 months of it launching, Melt sent me a new one and that got mold too. Tossed all my Melt palettes and washed my hands of them. Their quality control needs a serious overhaul for the prices they charge.
AMEN BABY!
My Gemini II also grew mold in the shimmer shades within a few months. Melt told me that it wasnt mold, but the binder crystalizing or something....I'm gonna pass on Melt new releases.
I love Viserart too! I was able to get the neutral mattes and dark mattes last Christmas to try them. And now have a wishlist of what else I want lol. And the new purple palette with those blushes looks so pretty!
In my hardcore party years when you all were in diapers (or zygotes!), I had such great fun with Urban Decay "Midnight Cowboy" eye shadow. A champagne nude chock full with silver glitter.
Nobody knew how to use it to the best of its advantage.
Pictures online were like, "Oh, there's something sparkling!"
The way we did it (correction. *I* did it!) way back when glitter glue wasn't invented, was to apply MAC Cream Colour Base (MAC was cool back then, in a utilitarian way) all over your lids, then press on the eye shadow in layer after layer until you achieved the look of a Vegas show girl.
I went to a party at Euro Pride (I'm a faggot!) in Stockholm once, got home to my BFF at 8 AM (those were heady days!), woke up the next...whenever and there was maybe two flecks of glitter fallen onto my cheeks.
What you girls complaining about fallout?
If I can do it, so can you.
I'm a (hot) nobody and a weakling!
I once arm wrestled an ant and lost!
/welcome to Action Central! These are *Serious Pleasures!*
I still have the nameless UD palette with the rotating bamboo lid and I still love it! I'd never seen anything so sparkly!
@Sally Humphrys Those were fun times, right?
The same night I had also purchased Laura Mercier "Secret Camouflage" and the assigned brush (perfect brush for spot concealing BTW! Hear that, Theresa? You Laura Mercier heathen denier!) and I spent maybe 40 minutes just retouching my face, one quarter square inch at a time.
Clearly not something you do before rushing to work, but I ended up looking flawless. F L A W L E S S ! ! !
I had the UD “chainmaille” covered palette back in the day. I hit pan on all of those shades…. I miss old skool UD. They had sass!
@Tiffany Sollog I'm seriously OG. I had the "First Date to Pinup" palette.
Site of a credit card, but nobody did palettes back then.
The Skull palette (slightly bigger).
"Sin" eye shadow. And, oh, Afterglow blush in "X".
Like NARS "Orgasm", but it actually suited me!
"Meeemories light the corners of my miiiind!"
Melt was very active in the comments when Beauty News first talked about the issue however many years ago. They were really proactive about telling people to contact them for replacements. They went back to their lab, and the chemists told them it was one of the ingredients not staying mixed in. Kinda like wax bloom on chocolate.
You trying on the jewelry is the best part of this episode! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love that Alex was playing Oregon Trail lol I have been playing that so much lol
I haven't even gotten thru 5 mins and Theresa, you make me smile and really lol. You are wonderful and thank you for that!!
Aww! Thank you love!
The Melt palette may very well be wax bloom, it looks like a white hazy crust. Old chocolate bars, colored pencils, and lipsticks will get it too. Wax bloom occurs because of the waxy binder in the product, and as the material in the products “settles” the waxy binder slowly rises to the surface producing the white haze. It's not usually toxic, if that's all it is.
I wish Hourglass would let us build our own edit palettes, then I would definitely splurge on one.
Dear Hourglass - for the love of all that is holy, please just give us a fully customizable 3 pan and 6 pan option with refills of all the powders - finishing powders, blushes, right lighters, bronzers, etc. I swear you can have fists full of my cash I’d you just stop making these pre-fans that are full of things I either already have or don’t work for my skin tone. Sincerely, all the people
FUCKING EXACTLY. I can only use their absolute lightest Ambient Lighting Powder [even then, it still kinda leaves a cast] & they always include more than one, so like? Even if they theoretically only put the lightest bronzer, they always have several shades of the finishing powders... So there's AT LEAST one shade which will neverrrrr get used. At that price point? I can't justify the purchase.
“Did jaclyn hill make this?” Hahahahha 😂😂😂
This is how the mold from The Last of Us starts. 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 I am dead
I’m dead with her 😂🤣🤣😂
Or Resident Evil Biohazard, and Resident Evil Village.
This was my first thought. Teresa this is how we get Clickers
I took your advice and did the air horns loud enough to get a reaction out of my cats. One of them just stared at me but the other gave me a look that is priceless 😂😂. He tilted his head, eyes as wide as they can go, staring at me like I had gone crazy!! Now every time I watch your videos, I'm gonna make sure he's around so i can do the air horns in front of him 🤣😂🤣😂
Mine comes over to stare at me.
I guess you're losing the $5 bet with the new PatMacgrath's release 😂
Technically no, Pat has done lip balms before, but they were in her lipstick packaging. 😂😂
@@joann33483 they’re for the lipsss??? I thought it was for the cheeks
@@joann33483 I also thought they were cheek products + one quad
They're absolutely balm blushes. And yes, a new shadow quad.
@@joann33483 They are blushes 😊
I’m guessing Mother’s giving us blush sticks. Still bored but eh? One of my favorite makeup artists (Cheri Voyage) said that purple is THE color for this year and I’m seeing it everywhere! As for the Oden’s Eye jewelry…😬. I’m a jewelry whore and that stuff looks like garbage but not the good garbage. AAAAAAAH MOLDY MELT THE UPSIDE DOWN!!!
She indeed is, just checked my email
I don’t get the jewellery release either. It looks like it will turn green in 3 months.
I agree about the jewelry. It looks really cheap 90s jewelry, so I feel like Theresa was on the mark with the Pretty Pretty Princess comment. ( I was obsessed with that game as a kid tho)
The way I spit out my water when Alex screamed 😂😂😂
Do you know I've come back to this video a few times after an edible *just to watch your take on the Jones Road Powder?* It's that effin hilarious and gets better each time!🤣😂
Alex shading mean girl Jaclyn sent me 😂
Oh my god “did Jaclyn hill make this” I literally died hahaha
I'm so with you on those new Viseart palettes: I want all three.
Viseart is one of my favourite eyeshadow formulas and the combo with matching blush in a handy travel friendly package.
Plus all three look amazing!
Can't wait!
A grownup version of pretty pretty princess. That’s too funny. My twin sister loved that game as a kid. When you said that, I just busted up laughing.
Omg I opened my gemini II and it’s a very new one and the same shade has silvery grey fuzzy mold!!! Omg idek what to do. I’m definitely calling melt.
I'm sorry you're not feeling well still, but at least you look good. 😢 Sending positive thoughts for your speedy recovery.
My first thought with the new Chanel product is that it's the love child of the Jones Road Dusty Rose bronzer and the Chanel cream bronzer. There's been a bit of buzz about that particular color of bronzer for us fair babies, so I've been waiting for more versions to show up. Or I may be projecting my wishes, lol.
The accent plus the Airhorns of Plague was so tragically adorable ❤❤❤
I forgot it was Friday so this was a nice surprise. Will be watching to calm myself down before I get my bloodwork done ❤
Aww yay! Good luck with it baby!
Hope the blood tests have gone well! I'm gonna watch Theresa while I recover from a punishing Physical Therapy session, lmao. My Physiotherapist believes in my joints WAY MORE than they deserve!! They're slackers. So... Gonna slather myself in Biofreeze & enjoy some YT. 😂🤣
First of all, I miss your air horns but your baby raptor chirps are adorable. Also, since UD’s ergonomic liquid liners turned out well, I’m willing to give the blushes a whirl, especially since they didn’t give them the naked name.
I almost pissed my pants laughing during the Melt pallets part 😂. My 13 year old loved the Stranger things reference and keeps saying “Dustin can you hear me?!”
OMG the Alex part 🤣🤣🤣 "You think _I'll_ go to the upside-down?" 🤣🤣🤣 I love you two!!!
I'm really loving my UD liquid liner but I think I'm going to wait and watch reviews on these blushes.
The way there was a Charlotte TILbury ad....in the middle of your Lovegasm rant 😂😂😂😂
I have the Chanel cream and my skin is the same tone as yours and dry. It's a blurring primer that perfects the skin but just adds colour to even out. It doesn't seem pink but might if you have sallow/olive/golden skin. Watch Night Star Beauty's review. We got it early in Australia and NZ.
I don't understand why Melt cannot get their palettes under control with the mold. It's been yearssss.
OMG go back to 44:11when you were talking about touching the Melt palette and listen with your eyes closed! I was working on something and I heard that and was like - whaaaat?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Those Viseart palettes are so beautiful!! And I saw that all of them are magnetized, so if you DO buy all 3, you can switch the shades around to make it like you want it!😊
😜I find myself saying "No" right along with you. You have me talking about what I think. I'm guessing that the price point on the Kate Spade is up there. Needless to say I'm a costume jewelry freak so I was saying "Get an extender!" Your make-up looks fab! Check what to throw out. At least you inspect.
The PM release are stick blushes and a quad that's, wait for it, pink
Theresa! You naughty naughty girl! Now I am a new member of Unearth Cosmetics, Oder's Eye, Lethal Cosmetics, and Camera Ready Cosmetics! LOL! But every code helps when I feel inspired to buy something! 😁
The day Dyson makes an airwrap without a cord...just take all of my money, Dyson.
CHANEL Rosy cream- Night star beauty has a review. I purchased it and I use as a primer. It smooths and mattifies but with a beautiful sheen. I have dry skin and works well for me. Can use this and some concealer and your skin looks beautiful and even, no foundation needed. Texture like elf putty or tatcha cream primers. Can be applied with fingers or dense brush. If you like and use that sort of blurring product each day it is worth it.
15:23 you should really try the new Dyson product. I would love a review from you.
New working title for my autobiography “Good, but not Great.”
The Dark Matter stack is one of my all-time favorite eyeshadow palettes and I purchased this palette as soon as they released it. Its amazing
Alex making that JH comment legit got me to laugh out loud, omg. XD
Almost peed myself laughing at the Kindergarten Cop reference. 😂😂
LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos (even sans air horn!)
Omg I’m so sorry Odens Eye but that jewelry is HIDEOUS 😂 what happened!!
i have the urban decay blush in “wrecked” and it’s def super dewey and lighter coverage, good for more natural looks for the summer and if you want a blush that’s got color but not to the extent of a rare beauty blush
I love the Alex is bored integrations ❤❤
Lol I love you going on a Pat McGrath rant wanting something new and then it ends up being ….. new product - balm blush 😘
At least the quad is pink!
The description for the chanel thing reminds me of a korean skin trend - the way they use rosy toned primers or foundations bc apparently when you’re cool toned, pink, you look brighter?
As a gemini myself, I 100% co-sign the gemini palette being the new covid... I feel like of all the signs it would be us. HAHAHAHA.
You won’t believe this but I got all my Melt palettes out and Gemini II the green shimmer had some weird crap on it. I wiped and sprayed alcohol. I just got that palette about 5 months ago. I sent Melt an email. I don’t want a replacement just an explanation what it is. My oldest Melt palette impulsive is fine and I’ve used the crap out of that.
I’m scared to buy from this brand now because I keep my palettes for many years.
Just finally saw this video. I’m dying at “Did Jaclyn Hill make that?”
Also, you’ve convinced me I need the Jones Road bronzer. You get me. I HAVE to get it. It’s settled. 🤣❤️
The chanel product is a glowy blurring primer.
The chanel product reminds me of the chantecaille rosy complexion product from last year - i dont get the purpose of that product either.
Hopefully you’ll have your voice back soon! All the good vibes sent your way. 😊❤
You and Alex are hilarious...and I would have touched it too 😂 I was willing you to do it through the screen lol. Hopefully you aren't sucked into the upside down but if you are tell Eddie I said hiyeee!!! ❤
I cracked up at the 'tell Eddie I said hiyeee!!" part of your comment. Ugh I miss that boi.
Watching your brain hurt so bad while trying to figure out the Chanel product 😂😂
Don't worry, I think my brain melted too