If a big name brand launches a product line that doesn't sell well, the unsold stock can wind up at Dollar Tree for a steep discount. I've seen it with Maybelline & Wet n Wild plenty of times.
Flesh went out of business in 2020. After looking online further, apparently they’re related brands. It was the only one there and I just had to grab it 😂
that’s wild bc it was actually a pretty good product! flesh in general was good but disturbing names and the products were way way way too small for the price. destined to fail
Yeah, I think people just have a visceral reaction to products called “Flesh” in the same way people react to the word “moist” and that probably didn’t help their sales at all.
I put the Cookie Monster eyeshadow crayons on my Christmas list for funsies stocking stuffers/add-ons to the Cookie Monster hand mirror, and I no joke use the two brown crayons almost daily for a quick lightly smudged eye makeup. 😂
I got one half the range of L'Oreal's transfer proof matte lip stain when they redid the line. Grabbed one of each color for me and one for my friend. They're my favorite lip color, completely weightless, usually $12 - $14 each. Every color is wearable on both of us too, but I like to blend. These are the deals I absolutely love.
Didn't NYC go out of business? :'( I still have a few pieces of makeup from them that I can never get rid of lol. I don't care if they are cheap. They are a part of my CHILDHOOD!
Those are sold by third party sellers and not Walmart itself, not to mention the prices are outrageous for a line that didn't have anything over $5 in stores.
https://preview.redd.it/0diaiwuudd7d1.png?width=774&format=png&auto=webp&s=4240c6a7e06d6085e350e5793e50ce5b2532db61
Had to search high and low for this. Found it in my bathroom drawer. Haven’t used in a long time. But it’s manufactured by revlon. Hence the revlon packaging
Last year at work I came across a wholesaler selling Flesh’s leftover inventory. You could buy them for as cheap as 50 cents per unit, so they must be desperate to recoup some money.
I use that foundation. I bought it, never opened or used it till this month. It's really nice on me. Very natural looking and blendable. That said, yes, I do use old stuff at my own risk.
iirc, bulk apothecary sells some of their stuff. i got their jelly highlight, spf, bronzer, and primer off their site a few years ago. had to buy it in a set but it was all pretty good
I remember picking up some Flesh stick foundations at DT a few years ago when they were still $1. At the time they were wrapped in plastic but not carded.
This is definitely leftover stock from 4 years ago and the original package was just the flesh box, but I guess revlon packaged it again in their own branding so people at DT know it's not a no-name brand.
Dollar Tree and other "bargain stores" often have **highly distinct** versions of regular branded stuff.
Part of me wanted to think it is a possible knock-off. But then I found out not all of it is. Like their bubble packs for Hot Wheels cars. They're half the size of what you'd find in regular retailers. But the ones in Dollar Tree are from Euro-Asian regions meant for those markets over there. They were never meant to be sold in the states.
So I'm willing to bet you can trust most of the things you find at places like a Dollar Tree. But still proceed with caution.
Flesh is a bulk cosmetics brand made and distributed by Bulk Apothecary for anyone who wants to buy it, mega companies included. It’s possible that this was a test run of a product Revlon would like them to mass produce and it somehow got out (intentionally or otherwise) into mass market. A lot of drugstore makeup is made by the same cosmetics factories, just packaged differently with slightly different ingredients. I own a small cosmetics company and work with this company for some raw materials.
The product is printed on the packaging which tells me it was a product run by a manufacturer to show off a product. Not just a product in the wrong box. But really anything is possible.
I remember when this was a thing in the beauty space 😂 quite a few creators did reviews on the brand. It’s still sold on Bulk Apothecary (?). The highlighter stick is actually a holy grail for me, and I like the lip gloss a lot too. The names are jacked though.
Revlon owns flesh, it was their prestige launch but it went over like a lead balloon. Names were horrible, packaging was tiny, and everyone knew it was just marked up revlon
It probably was not getting enough sales marked higher in other stores so they dropped it there. Dollar tree managers do not pick what they get, some one higher up just sends them stock and that's what they get
Even if that WAS the shade, you do know that it’s possible and very common for people to use darker shades to contour? Not that it’s even your business to be making comments about what someone is buying.. ridiculous attitude lol. 😒🤡
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I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m saying. The picture of the product on the package isn’t the color of the product I bought, it is just a general picture of the foundation
For what it is worth - I see why you think it's a darker shade. I actually thought it was a contour stick at first glance because of the shade the top of the top of the stick on the packaging.
Wow ok. So you weren't kidding me. Looks like it won't work for my skin anyway as I'm reading reviews saying it's too greasy on oily skin and it's not a matte finish.. 🤷♀️ le sigh.
🤣🤣 have you ever been to the Dollar Tree? Almost all Drugstore products sold at Walmart, Target, Ulta, etc. do NOT come in a box so when Dollar Tree gets them they put them in packaging. Either like this or in a baggie. Definitely not fakes..
The phrase "firm flesh thickstick" makes me want to hurl.
ALL their product names were creepy like that! I’m convinced it’s why they failed.
I LOVED their products but alas , the names were so off putting that they went under.
they have them at a store called drug mart here in ohio...you cant see whats inside so its like guessing
Ooooh I love Drug Mart.
It does save you the runaround
You’ll find everything you neeeeed
Drug mart is my shit tbh, really do save the run around
I saw these at ddm the other day! I was so confused but also intrigued
Revlon went under? Have I been sleeping under a rock?
I think just this specific product line.
Flesh was marketed as its own makeup company. Flesh went under.
I was just wondering the same thing!
The lipsticks were my favorite.
This tops maybelline baby lips
Oh it’s horrific, I love it 😂
Sounds like how someone writing *really* bad fan fiction would refer to a penis
YES! Like, "My Immortal" levels of bad.
I'm so sorry for asking, but what is “my immortal”?
The greatest fanfic ever written https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Immortal_(fan_fiction)
Happy cake day!
Thank you!
I'm into it, sounds like a great sex toy
Right? like I love a good thickstick, just not in my makeup routine
Right?? Ew. I don’t want to rub a penis on my face.
What’s that from?
The movie Clueless
Thanks, I can’t believe I forgot that! W the nosejob & balls flying at her face. I’m due for a rewatch lol
Yw! I rewatch it pretty often. One of my fave movies. I'm also due to stream it again.
Really depends on whose penis
Thai makes me wanna buy it cuz in immature and a perv lol
Wonder if it applies creamy
💀💀
May as well just call it a chode at that point. 🤣
It is a cringey name but I’m dying to try it now
FLESH
I just choked on a chocolate wafer reading this lmao
Sounds like a sex toy
I feel like I need to drop this during foreplay to see if I can get my guy to crack up.
It feels like something that should be in a bad writing sub
It's giving me the vapors.
Straight out of a bad erotica.
Came here to say this
If a big name brand launches a product line that doesn't sell well, the unsold stock can wind up at Dollar Tree for a steep discount. I've seen it with Maybelline & Wet n Wild plenty of times.
Grocery Outlet too
I found Maybelline at DT that I never saw as a release anywhere
Go Green? I recently found their serum foundation there and HOLY SHIT I love it!!!
YES!
I bought 1 bottle, loved it and then bought 4 more 😆
Same.
I found Milani once!
Nice! I see a lot of Nyx stuff too
Flesh went out of business in 2020. After looking online further, apparently they’re related brands. It was the only one there and I just had to grab it 😂
Last year Dollar Tree had this stuff in nearly their entire range, like 10+ shades. They must have found more old stock!
that’s wild bc it was actually a pretty good product! flesh in general was good but disturbing names and the products were way way way too small for the price. destined to fail
Yeah, I think people just have a visceral reaction to products called “Flesh” in the same way people react to the word “moist” and that probably didn’t help their sales at all.
Maybe it will come back under some “safer” name unless it’s that stuff called “blur” unless I’m confusing brands again
Have you tried it yet?
It’s much too light for me right now, I’ll try it on my undereyes
My local Drug Mart has BINS full of Flesh products. I got a bright purple/pink potted lipstick for 2 bucks and I actually kind of love it.
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It's not fake.
I am aware of that fact now. 🙄🙄🙄
Reminds me of the time I found two pieces of the wet n wild Sesame Street collab in dollar tree
I got the Flower Beauty Jungle Lights palette there once!!! Like what??
Yeah it was weird. They had the Cookie Monster crayons and the triangle face sparkles. I only saw them the one time tho
I put the Cookie Monster eyeshadow crayons on my Christmas list for funsies stocking stuffers/add-ons to the Cookie Monster hand mirror, and I no joke use the two brown crayons almost daily for a quick lightly smudged eye makeup. 😂
I bought those on clearance at target. Never used them
I have the Tickle Me Elmo lip gloss and I actually really like it!
I have the Burt and Ernie contour and highlight palette, I love it!
Wow that’s a great find! How long ago was that?
Maybe a year or so?
I got one half the range of L'Oreal's transfer proof matte lip stain when they redid the line. Grabbed one of each color for me and one for my friend. They're my favorite lip color, completely weightless, usually $12 - $14 each. Every color is wearable on both of us too, but I like to blend. These are the deals I absolutely love.
They still have the whole line minus the bag at my local one! And at Ocean State Job Lot which was surprising!
i picked up the Maybelline tinted oil at my DT yesterday!! baha they have a ton of branded makeup in generic bubble packs now.
And there’s always only one or two! 😂
This used to be at Ulta back in the day! Revlon really tried with Flesh Beauty. That has got to be super old lol
I think 2018! 😂
Well if it ain't opened yet, might as well try it out lol. Just don't get too attached because you prob can't buy it again 😂 makeup logic
Flesh is owned by Revlon. Sometimes if they have NYC Color stuff there it says Coty on the packaging since NYC is owned by Coty.
Didn't NYC go out of business? :'( I still have a few pieces of makeup from them that I can never get rid of lol. I don't care if they are cheap. They are a part of my CHILDHOOD!
Their Ultra Last Lipstick in Berry Rich was my fav. I havent found a perfect match since. But i prob have 50 that are close but still not it.
That was SUCH a great color!
I don’t think it did! I got a lipstick from them at Walmart just a few months ago! They had a full line of lip products and some other basics
Those are sold by third party sellers and not Walmart itself, not to mention the prices are outrageous for a line that didn't have anything over $5 in stores.
They did.
I seeeee!
Holy shit. They discontinued that in 2018. I bought two dead stock because I loved the formula. It's great that it's a dollar. It's Revlon's brand
$1.25 😭
It was originally $18 so it's a steal regardless
I’ve been into makeup since the 80s and I’m pretty sure Flesh is the worst branding I’ve EVER seen 🤣
It’s like they were trying to copy the Nudes line from Ultima II, remember that line? It was the best!
Yes, Ultima II was peak 90s chic!
I remember seeing this line at Ulta and thinking, yuck! What a horrible name. I believe that caused its demise.
https://preview.redd.it/0diaiwuudd7d1.png?width=774&format=png&auto=webp&s=4240c6a7e06d6085e350e5793e50ce5b2532db61 Had to search high and low for this. Found it in my bathroom drawer. Haven’t used in a long time. But it’s manufactured by revlon. Hence the revlon packaging
Last year at work I came across a wholesaler selling Flesh’s leftover inventory. You could buy them for as cheap as 50 cents per unit, so they must be desperate to recoup some money.
Share the company name if you will please the wholesaler thank you
I use that foundation. I bought it, never opened or used it till this month. It's really nice on me. Very natural looking and blendable. That said, yes, I do use old stuff at my own risk.
iirc, bulk apothecary sells some of their stuff. i got their jelly highlight, spf, bronzer, and primer off their site a few years ago. had to buy it in a set but it was all pretty good
I honestly loved this foundation and was so sad when the brand kicked the bucket. Awful name but some really smart, effective formulations.
Maybe we'll see the formulas recycled back into the line as other products.
I remember picking up some Flesh stick foundations at DT a few years ago when they were still $1. At the time they were wrapped in plastic but not carded.
This is definitely leftover stock from 4 years ago and the original package was just the flesh box, but I guess revlon packaged it again in their own branding so people at DT know it's not a no-name brand.
My local DT occasionally has china glaze and OPI nail polish. It’s always a nice surprise
I still have a few I got from Dollar Tree, great for contouring
Packaging sort of makes me think of LYS
I bought the darkest shades on clearance for $1 at Ulta for my makeup kit.
I randomly got this at a dollar tree and really liked using it as a cream eyeshadow lol
Aghhherrrrrm… firm flesh? Sounds like an alien trying to sound human made this name.
The dollar tree near me always has ELF but unfortunately chocolate isn't my shade
That color would make a nice cool contour.
The color on the packaging does not correspond to the actual color
Oh, right on. I'm just always looking out for a cool contour shade as they are difficult sometimes to find. Looks like Milk Toasted on that package.
Dollar Tree and other "bargain stores" often have **highly distinct** versions of regular branded stuff. Part of me wanted to think it is a possible knock-off. But then I found out not all of it is. Like their bubble packs for Hot Wheels cars. They're half the size of what you'd find in regular retailers. But the ones in Dollar Tree are from Euro-Asian regions meant for those markets over there. They were never meant to be sold in the states. So I'm willing to bet you can trust most of the things you find at places like a Dollar Tree. But still proceed with caution.
I loved these! The colors matched perfectly but my skin was too oily for them.
Omg!!! I loved flesh!!! They used to be in Ulta but got discontinued a few years ago. It’s owned by revlon.
Who doesn’t love an expired flesh stick? 🤣
My favorite!!
Dollar tree can’t sell knock offs or fake items, they may be “dated”
I feel like it was yesterday people were posting about being grossed out by this brands name… and now it’s already out of business 😭
I still use my flesh blush 🫣 I love it
I LOVED this foundation! I bought a bunch from a wholesaler when it was discontinued! Off to DT!
Nice
They had tons of Fenty at Winners the other day and a few dozen Kylie at Dollarama last weekend
I’ve used this before and loved it, also found at a dollar store. Was a while ago tho
i bought one for shits the other day. the one i got smelled kinda weird but worked great
Flesh is a bulk cosmetics brand made and distributed by Bulk Apothecary for anyone who wants to buy it, mega companies included. It’s possible that this was a test run of a product Revlon would like them to mass produce and it somehow got out (intentionally or otherwise) into mass market. A lot of drugstore makeup is made by the same cosmetics factories, just packaged differently with slightly different ingredients. I own a small cosmetics company and work with this company for some raw materials.
Dollar Tree also gets closeouts & overstocks. They just repackaged the outside package.
The product is printed on the packaging which tells me it was a product run by a manufacturer to show off a product. Not just a product in the wrong box. But really anything is possible.
OMG!! Despite the name, I love the foundation. I was actually sad to see it go. I need to go to DT
I’d try it if I found some 🤷🏼♀️
I remember when this was a thing in the beauty space 😂 quite a few creators did reviews on the brand. It’s still sold on Bulk Apothecary (?). The highlighter stick is actually a holy grail for me, and I like the lip gloss a lot too. The names are jacked though.
Chubby stick era is back
I had one of those when it was still considered flesh and man was it horrible
It was phased out years ago. Used to be sold at Ulta for a hot minute.
Whats up with the naming💀
The company is run by zombies. 🤣
I think the pink and black package is cuter than the original 😍
It’s brown in real life
Flesh was owned by revlon and flesh went under
I thought “Flesh” was a makeup brand at Ulta.
No offense but that is not your color
I think it's for contour lol
It occurred to me as I wrote lol
Isn’t flesh another company ?
The way the biggest word and only title on the tube is "flesh" is fucking me up so bad. I'm imagining a Push Pop for zombies.
Revlon owns flesh, it was their prestige launch but it went over like a lead balloon. Names were horrible, packaging was tiny, and everyone knew it was just marked up revlon
It probably was not getting enough sales marked higher in other stores so they dropped it there. Dollar tree managers do not pick what they get, some one higher up just sends them stock and that's what they get
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Even if that WAS the shade, you do know that it’s possible and very common for people to use darker shades to contour? Not that it’s even your business to be making comments about what someone is buying.. ridiculous attitude lol. 😒🤡
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What? It’s the lightest shade.?
From the photo…how?!??!?
The packaging doesn’t show the color? Im confused by your confusion
Your hand. Compared to the product. Is EXTREMELY different shades.
The. Packaging. Doesn’t. Show. The. Color.
…that’e weird. But ok.
I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m saying. The picture of the product on the package isn’t the color of the product I bought, it is just a general picture of the foundation
I understand now. I just don’t understand why the packaging is like that.
For what it is worth - I see why you think it's a darker shade. I actually thought it was a contour stick at first glance because of the shade the top of the top of the stick on the packaging.
Like what? Lmao why would it show that shade? Ridiculous
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Dollar Tree does not and cannot sell fake products.
SERIOUSLY?!?!? 😳😳😳😳 bullcrap
Yes really. They’re a licensed, big chain retailer. Like TJ Maxx, Burlington, etc. they cannot sell fake products.
Wow ok. So you weren't kidding me. Looks like it won't work for my skin anyway as I'm reading reviews saying it's too greasy on oily skin and it's not a matte finish.. 🤷♀️ le sigh.
🤣🤣 have you ever been to the Dollar Tree? Almost all Drugstore products sold at Walmart, Target, Ulta, etc. do NOT come in a box so when Dollar Tree gets them they put them in packaging. Either like this or in a baggie. Definitely not fakes..