I want to preface this by saying I don't wear makeup IRL. I have very little experience with it, so it might just be a "me" thing, but I find the makeup in TS4 hard to work with. A lot of it seems too...
I don't use makeup in my game. I think my Sims are too small for it to have any significance. But with the abundance of it available as cc, I would think that it must not be too good.