I Tested KYLIE COSMETICS vs SKKN BY KIM

Today is the ultimate battle between sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner to see who makes the better makeup. Kim's skincare line, Skin by Kim, just came out with makeup. And of course, my first thought was to compare it to Kylie Cosmetics. Let's start with the packaging because it's literally identical. The same box, just different color, the same sticker to close it with. And if you check the shipping label, they definitely ship from the exact same address. This could all have to do with the fact that they are owned by the same parent company, Cody Brands. This video is not sponsored, by the way. I spent all of my own money on this stuff and maybe controversial opinion, but I actually really like both Kim and Kylie. Let me know in the comments if you feel differently. Kylie's makeup brand has been around for almost 10 years now, so I'm really interested to see how Kim's first launch with Skin is gonna compare. Although Kim is not new to makeup overall, she did have her Kim Kardashian West makeup line, but that's gone and this is the replacement. It's so funny to see how they took the exact same box but made it so different for each sister. Like Kylie's comes with these cute stickers. Look at these. And then the paper that says her name on it. And then Kim's is way more neutral. We've just got a nice closeup picture of Kim and then this stuff instead of tissue paper. I don't really know how I feel about that. Guys, I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty bugged right now. I always wonder if you can tell when I'm a little bit annoyed. Energy's a little bit different in the videos. I have some drama with some of these products. I'll tell you later in the video. All right, I already did my base makeup. So everything that I'm not testing today, foundation, lashes, blush, highlight, all that stuff. So today we're gonna be mainly focusing on eyeshadows, lipsticks, and lip liners because that is what Miss Kimberly just released. So Kim's is called Classic Mattes Eyeshadow Palette. I really do like this minimalistic packaging. A is a lot smaller than I thought it would be. Maybe I'm just used to like the Morphe palettes that are huge, but I was not expecting it to be this little, and especially for the price point. This is $50. Oh, wow. Yeah, the pans are so small. I was expecting everything about this to be bigger. That's so interesting. And here is Kylie's even smaller. Oh my gosh. So this is the Classic Matte Eye Palette. Okay, here it is. Okay, so Kim's is like cardboardy. This is plastic though. This is $32, which I was gonna say is like a mid-price range but for how small this palette is, I might classify this as a high price range as well. Pretty similar in color. Definitely not exact, but I'm really excited to test them against each other. And as I'm testing these shadows, we gotta talk about shipping because this is where the drama comes in. All right, so shipping prices. Kylie Cosmetics offered free shipping over $40 and Kim is free shipping over 100. Kind of interesting. Shipping time, skin said seven to 10 days and it showed up right on day 10, which I don't know if that's typical or if it was just because it was a big launch, maybe it's normally faster. And then Kylie said three to five days and it showed up on day five or so I thought. So I sat down to film this video thinking I had all my makeup and I opened my Kylie box to realize it was only part of what I had ordered. I have $600 worth of Kylie Cosmetics that I ordered almost a month ago that they just never shipped. Yeah, so I'm pretty annoyed about that. I sent them an email and asked them for a refund. Although both of these brands do no refunds, no returns. So I'm hoping I get an answer from them by the end of the video, but I'm also so bugged because if you watch my other channel, Hang With Hope Scope, you might remember my Skims Swarovski review. I ordered so much stuff from that collection and the same thing happened. They sent me part of my order and just like didn't send me the rest of it for like a month until I reached out and I was like, hey, where's my order? And they were like, oopsie, we don't have that item. So we just didn't send it and didn't tell you. And I was like, am I overreacting that I'm so bugged by this? But you guys backed me up in that comment section. So the fact that this is the second time this has happened, two times in a row with a Kardashian brand that they just keep my money and don't send me my stuff. I don't know, guys. I've been reviewing Kardashian stuff for many years. I'm so annoyed. I don't have everything that I wanted to review and compare. I did the best I could with what I have. We did an Ulta run to get some of it, but yeah, that's where we're at. Okay, now that I got that off my chest, let's test this eyeshadow. We're going to be doing Kylie on this side, Kim on this side. Base for Kylie, we're gonna be using base. Oh, I like that. See, for reviewing the makeup, I'm gonna try to set the shipping thing aside for now and just be as neutral as I can, but nice. Okay, I love base as a base, that's great. Now we see how Kim's number four. Okay, I'm watching this footage back and I'm realizing I'm saying the wrong numbers for these skin shades. You have the colors of the palette and then it's mirrored on the back. So ignore the number that I'm saying. The number on the screen is correct for all of these. Compares. I mean, this one definitely has more of a pinky undertone when the Kylie one is more of like a neutral cream. Also pretty good. I think Kylie wins for that color, but we'll see how it all blends together. Shadow from Kylie. Okay, this is nice. Blends very, very easily. And skin by Kim, we're gonna try number one, which is almost an identical color. Okay, very similar in color, but I'm not getting as much pigment from it. Okay, so I'm not gonna lie, I'm liking the Kylie palette a little bit better, which makes me mad because I'm angry at Kylie Cosmetics right now. That wasn't supposed to happen. Once they're on, they look very similar, but I think you can see that Kylie, just a little more pigmented. We're gonna deepen it up with, I'm thinking cedar, this kind of warmer brown. Amazing. Okay, Kim's number six is pretty similar. Maybe I'll mix a little bit of six and 11. I don't know, the skin one is like slightly more patchy. It's not blending quite as well. All right, and then let's try on the very ends a nice dark color, like chocolate from Kylie Cosmetics. Oh, wow. It's good. Let's see how number 12 from skin compares. Also, almost identical in the pan. It's like 75% of the pigment of Kylie, so whether I like it or not, I think the Kylie Cosmetics is a slightly better product. Oh my gosh, and fall on the skin. That didn't happen at all with Kylie. Guys, what? I didn't wanna give Kylie the win, I'm not gonna lie. It is the better palette. It is the better price point. Yeah, I think Kim's does have more makeup still. I could pull a Sofia and pull them all out and dump them all out and then measure them. Should I? Make a Franken Kardashian makeup palette? I might do it, because I'm really curious who has more makeup in their palette. The ounces and grams are actually on the packaging. Skin has 12 times 1.5 grams of makeup in it, and Kylie has 10.9 grams of makeup in it. So the skin one does have a little bit more. I don't know if it's enough to mark it up to $50, but. One comment that I did see a lot on the skin Instagram comment section is a lot of people were comparing Kim's eyeshadow palette to the Makeup by Mario eyeshadow palette. I went to the website and checked it out and they are nearly identical. So I had to get one of those to side-by-side also. This is literally... Okay, they're not owned by the same company, but you cannot tell me that this is not the same manufacturer. I can almost guarantee that the same factory makes all of this. Okay, Kylie and Mario, wasn't expecting that, but okay. And then the actual shades though. Here's skin, here's Mario. Oh, it's similar. I see what they're saying now. A whole color story lines up very similarly. Interesting. Okay, let's swatch a couple of colors. So Mario's, Kim's, very similar. Let's do a middle one like this. There's Mario, skin, very similar. All right, let's do the darkest brown here. There's Mario's, there's skin. A lot of these are close. Both color-wise and just like formula-wise, you guys weren't wrong. Okay, we got to test it against the Kylie now because they're even more similar. There's Kylie's rust and here's the rusty Mario. Mario's is a little better, honestly. Let's do camel from Kylie versus this top one from Mario. That one's really similar. Ooh, let's do the black. There's Kylie's. Oh, here's Mario. Oh, that's an impressive black. All right, let's test skin's black just for fun too. And here's skin, kind of right in the middle. Okay, after testing those blacks, I decided A, I needed some eyeshadow on the bottoms of my eyes and B, I want to do something with the black. So I'm adding some black to the lower lash line and then I'm going to smudge it out with some chocolate from both Kylie and Kim. And here's the final eyeshadow look from both sides. Wow, that was interesting. Okay, Kylie's is still the cheapest though at $32. Makeup by Mario's is still 50. So if you really don't want to buy from Kylie though, I mean, moving on to lips. As far as the shopping experience online goes, I would say they have like pretty similar websites, just format wise and ease of navigation and stuff. Once again, that probably has a lot to do with they're under the same company. Lipsticks, let's talk price difference first. So overall Kylie Cosmetics price range is 13 to $36 per product. And Kim is 22 to 50 per product. But I also feel like it's important to talk about who they're marketing to. Kylie launched in 2014 and primarily targeted like teens, girls in their early 20s. And I still feel like that's who they're targeting. Kim's brand feels a little bit more mature. It has that like millennial minimalistic vibe to it. So I think she's more targeting those of us that are leaving our 20s and 30s, 40s, her age of women. And anybody can buy any of this, but I think it's important to talk about the demographic because that goes into price point sometimes as well too. Lips, I tried to pick the most similar colors possible. So skin launched 10 different shades of both their lipstick and their lip liner. And I got five of them. These are interesting because all of her makeup products are just called like nude one, nude two, nude three. Whereas Kylie has like the funny names like irreplaceable, you could never, up to no good. Okay, here's our skin lipsticks. I was not expecting them to be long and skinny. Like I saw the pictures and stuff, but I still, it kind of caught me off guard. And then obviously from Kylie, we have more of your traditional lipstick. Cute packaging. The big Kylie on the bottom and a little Kylie stamped on the lipstick. I mean, it looks to me like you get more product out of the Kylie one. A similar Kylie with a similar skin, the best I could with what I have. And this is what we got. Obviously Kim's has like a little bit of a shine to it though. But in the tube, Kylie's is like matte, matte. All right, let's do some swatches. So starting with skin nude number three. So there's what it looks like after like a few passes and let's compare it with up to no good from Kylie Cosmetics. Huh, I don't know. I mean, it depends on what you're going for. Kim does advertise hers as like a soft color. Nude seven from skin. It's an interesting formula. So far I'm not loving how it comes off, but we'll see on my actual lips also. Okay, and then Kylie, you could never. Kind of similar in color. Yeah, Kylie's are just smoother. Oh, I don't know. Skin nude number two. Yeah, this like takes a couple. Versus Kylie irreplaceable. Whoa, those ones are really similar. I mean, skin is definitely matte once it's out of the tube for sure. Okay, so that's seven over here on the skin side. Okay, it goes better on the lips than it did on my hand for sure, but definitely not a one coat situation. You could never Kylie Cosmetics over here. I don't know. The Kylie Cosmetics one is just like butterier. Is that a word? And I just like kind of the traditional shape of a lipstick more than this flat one, but all right. Moving on to lip liner. By the way, if you are enjoying this video, I would love for you to subscribe to the channel so that you don't miss future ones. Lip liner. Here is our skin by Kim packaging. Kind of like everything else, just very minimal. And she went with a good old fashioned lip pencil that you sharpen and stuff. I will say I really like lip liner pencils like this. It's kind of a pain to have to sharpen them, but I think they do a better job than these ones like Kylie's that you like, whoa, it didn't show up. So we're comparing this one to Kim's pencil. Okay, so I got five shades in this as well. And like I said, I was able to match them up really easily with the same lip color. Whereas Kylie's, I just kind of had to guess which one looked like the lipstick. Okay, so I'm gonna be using Sister Sister on the Kylie side. So I think I did this backwards. I think you're supposed to do your lip liner and then your lipstick. Gosh, some of the girls on TikTok go like so over-lined. I've never done that, yeah. Yeah, on camera it looks good, but in real life, not so much. Ooh. All right, so I'm gonna nude seven on the skin side. Yeah, like I said, I do love the precision of a pencil. The skin one is $22 and the Kylie one is 16. So like, I just, I'm having a hard time seeing why it's $6 more. Turns out this liner actually doesn't twist to get more out. And after digging through some of the reviews, it also confused a lot of other people, but this does require a sharpener to sharpen, which honestly is just not the best design and not the easiest thing to sharpen. So I don't know how I feel about it. Okay, there's our final lipstick looks. I don't know. You tell me if you think one looks better than the other. All right, I'll see you in a few hours for our wear test results. Okay, it's been five or six hours. I got some work done, I ate some dinner, and now it's time to reveal how it all held up. As far as the eyeshadow goes, I'm honestly not noticing any creasing or fading on either of them. But like I said, overall, the Kylie Cosmetics one just went on better and more pigmented. And then lipstick, I probably shouldn't have over lined the Kylie quite so much because that did kind of give it an advantage. As far as the actual lipstick, I feel like it wore off at exactly the same rate, to be honest. And the Kim liner definitely came off in the corners more than the Kylie one did. But I like how the Skin by Kim one applied better and it's a lot easier to sharpen. So that's the winner there. On my Kylie Cosmetics order that ghosted me, they actually did respond to my email in just two hours. And they said, thank you for contacting us. So sorry you haven't received your shipment. Upon checking, it appears that the carrier lost your shipment during transit. Happy to replace or refund right away. Thank you and look forward to your response. I don't know, what do you think? Should we give them the benefit of the doubt? They're gonna refund me either way. It's just a bummer it happened twice in a row, you know? Well, make sure to check out all of my other celebrity reviews or my unrealistic beauty products videos if you haven't been to watch those yet. And I will see you in the next one.