She can be short with people. If someone says something in her comment section that she misinterprets as negative, she can be very rude in her reply. Instead of asking the person who made the comment to clarify something, she’ll scold them in a nasty way, even though that person didn’t even mean anything bad in the first place.
I like to read her reviews, but the swatch pictures can be misleading. As people here have mentioned, she has gained weight over the past few years, but I have no problem with that. It happens, and she’s still attractive. But her smile isn’t as big and sincere as it was a few years ago, which makes her recent pictures not as nice as they used to be, and her extremely heavy-handed blush application is so unflattering, and it does not give any idea of how the blush would look in real life.
Temptalia Part 2
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New user here, but I remember reading once in an old post about how she will post items in a collection individually, as opposed to a master posts of sorts, in order to maximize ad revenue....and once I learned this I saw how infuriating this is! All those Tom Ford lipsticks- does anyone really need to get a different update a day on them? I remember that being really bad, especially because there were just so many. Oh, and the MUFE face powders (blushes, bronzers, highlighters). I think she reviewed the lot of them, individually, and all in separate posts. And while sure, it may in theory get you more profit, your content looks the same. I never want to see a Tom Ford lipstick again (unless I'm being given a present in that case yes please)
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I love the concept of her page but find the layout almost impossible to find any info that I am after. If she fixed that it would a bomb website
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I don't follow Temptalia that much, unless I'm desperate for swatches that NEVER resemble what they look like in real life. But her shading Juvia's Place is just BS. She should be paying anyone to 'steal' her shitty photos. Usually no one is that desperate.BeautyTruthSleuth wrote:So, two weeks ago she was involved in some drama with Juvia's Place, a makeup company. Their products are considered amazing for the price. They do not have a stellar reputation due to getting too big too fast, but they now have a staff and are fixing things.
Anyway... One of the people who helps run the Juvia's Place instagram reposted a photo from another instagram and didn't know it was her. Ironically the other instagram didn't credit her either but they didn't get any shit for it like Juvia's did.
So Temptalia copyright strikes the photo on the JP instagram and got the pics removed. Naturally the person behind the JP instagram reached out to resolve it and eventually the owner got involved. They seemed to have worked everything out, until Temptalia decided to be petty hours after the fact and went on a big Twitter rant about it, failing to mention that they resolved everything before her rant.
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So true!!! She needs to fix her lighting.Karening wrote:I don't follow Temptalia that much, unless I'm desperate for swatches that NEVER resemble what they look like in real life.
I used to post comments to her blog, but I hate the way she plays favorites with her members. While one regular member can post how much she dislikes a product, if I said the something similar, I'd get a rude comment back from Christine. I still check out her reviews sometimes, but I am not a member of her "mean girls" community anymore.
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Long time lurker here, finally made an account. I agree with the above posters who say "How can she still be relevant?" What the f has happened to her over the past few years? Foundation that is way too light and way too heavy, garish eye & lip & cheek colors. Clown makeup. Kabuki theater makeup, downright scary looking. I used to be able to kind of tell what products would look like, but she piles it all on so heavily any more it's freaky.Persephone7 wrote:I used to post comments to her blog, but I hate the way she plays favorites with her members. While one regular member can post how much she dislikes a product, if I said the something similar, I'd get a rude comment back from Christine. I still check out her reviews sometimes, but I am not a member of her "mean girls" community anymore.Karening wrote:I don't follow Temptalia that much, unless I'm desperate for swatches that NEVER resemble what they look like in real life.
Someone asked her a bit ago if she could post some subtler looks like she used to and of course she replied with a bitchy comment that basically said that if you didn't like her style, sod off. Don't even want to give her the clicks any more but sometimes I go and look for a laugh. She must not get much free stuff lately; she pushes the same few brands over and over.
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I think she does not bring anything relevant, a majority of the good reviews I find on the non-popular websites pictures also. I don't even think that Christine is trying to step up the game.
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Ok, I'm now convinced she's either colour blind or doesn't understand colour vocabulary. MAC powder kiss shade "sultriness" has "warm undertones"?? Bitch WHERE??? I bought that shade specifically because it's neutral pink leaning cool toned. It's super close to my natural lip colour, which is almost lavander. How's she a makeup authority? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!!
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Not the happiest with her at the moment. Her photos are not accurate or true to life, color wise. And she changed her blog layout AGAIN to maximize page views. She took away the product grades from the front so you have to click on the individual review to see it. Now the blog looks horrendous and messy.
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I don't know how many products I've purchased based on her swatches that ended up basically being an entirely different color family once they arrived. The only reason I visit the site anymore is to do a quick drive-by and get names of new products in order to look for swatches elsewhere.
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I'm so sick of her posting eye looks, I go to that site to see new releases and all she does is post eyeshadow looks. Atm she is doing Sydney Grace eyeshadow looks. She should put those pics on her Instagram instead of on Temptalia. I agree with others, the colour accuracy is terrible. Sometimes there's even a pink light on some swatches that makes you think it's a duochrome product when it's not. The Stans in the comment section are the same people who always post. It's funny how many people DON'T comment anymore on her posts. I used to check it everyday to see what products were coming out, now I do once a week if that, just because I'm so sick of the crap she posts. Another annoying thing was when she put together her own palette ideas. That's the kind of shit that should be reserved for Instagram, not a review site.
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I usually go there for swatches and new release news, once in a while. But she can't put makeup on. Seriously. After all these years, girl just cannot do her own makeup and is stuck in the late 2000s (I remember her from Specktra.net and MAC was all the rage). Is it possible to be a "good reviewer" but have bad skills?
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Wow. Haven't seen a photo of her in YEARS. Did she gain weight? Did she get work done? What happened .... ?
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Age and weight gain. Not kind to any of us, but when you're a beauty blogger it's doubly cruel.
I gave up checking her site -- same few brands, same garish looks, same stans in the comments. Buh bye, relevancy!
I gave up checking her site -- same few brands, same garish looks, same stans in the comments. Buh bye, relevancy!
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I know everyone criticizes her for her bad makeup application, but her writing style is terrible too. She writes long-winded paragraphs with tons of clauses that are an eye sore. She doesn't know how to keep her reviews concise and makes them longer than they need to be. A lot of eyeshadow shades are similar to each other (especially pale whites and medium/dark browns) but she continues to describe them with so much fucking detail. Like it'll look the same once they're blended out on the lids.
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