Bekah Sun
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Products They Love
“My one true foundation love this year is the new Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation…”
“This is the Danessa Myricks Beauty Lift and Flex Concealer. This is what I go for on like an everyday basis…”
“The Merit Minimalist Base Sticks continues to be one of my favorites…”
“This is a longtime favorite, my Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless…”
“This is the Makeup by Mario Master Mattes Longwear Cream Eyeshadow…”
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Variant: Glassy Ginger
- “Haus Labs Glossy Blush in the shade Glassy Ginger”16:04–16:07
- “It's another beautiful nudie nudie pink”16:11–16:13
- “It's definitely warmer than bespoke”
- “It has a little bit more peach in it, but on my skin tone, it's a very easy blush to wear”16:18–16:24
- “They're not as tacky as the glossy name maybe implies”16:24–16:28
- “They do have like a glow to them, but they're not thick or sticky or like super tacky”16:30–16:35
- “There's a glow to them, but I find that the glow sort of sets down throughout the day”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Date Cake
- “The other shade that I love for winter is one that looks a little intimidating, but it is so stunning. It's a date cake and it's this berry tone”14:41–14:51
- “Even though it's very, very pigmented, it shears out so beautifully”
- “It gives you that really like lit from within kind of look”14:57–15:01
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Bespoke
- “Merit Bespoke. Their flesh bomb and bespoke continues to be a favorite for me”15:18–15:25
- “I love the beiginess of this”15:30–15:32
- “This formula has really grown on me”
- “This formula is lasting on me a little bit longer”15:48–15:51
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 02 Peony
- “Dior Forever Blush Soft Filter”16:40–16:41
- “It's a liquid blush with a whipped consistency”16:46–16:49
- “It's the most gorgeous like nudie pink and it has a very cloudlike, blurred, diffused blend”16:52–17:06
- “It gives you time to apply, but then it looks like an airbrushed blush”17:11–17:23
- “It's so beautiful, incredibly longlasting”
- “This formula is very difficult to do well, but when you apply this, you can apply it directly on the cheeks”
- “It's very underrated”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Chill
- “In my collection, I have a powder blush. This is the CL blush and glow, I think they're called, or blush and glow”18:05–18:12
- “Specifically, the shade chill I really enjoy”18:12–18:14
- “I feel like it's really flattering if I want to set a blush or just on its own”18:17–18:22
- “They're very, very smooth, almost creamy to touch”18:23–18:26
- “They have that very buttery but thin feeling even though there isn't like glow or shimmer in here”18:29–18:36
- “I feel like it does have a pearlininess in the texture and so it melts into the skin”18:36–18:41
- “It looks super skin-like and I just feel like this shade chill is one that I reach for a lot especially as like a blush topper if I want something to be longerlasting”18:42–18:48
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “If you do like something a little bit more tinted, the INNBEAUTY PROJECT Face Glaze Highlighting Gel Cream is beautiful”1:25–1:36
- “I actually use this as both a highlighter on top of base makeup or as a primer underneath”1:36–1:42
- “It looks like this. There's also a bronzy version of this”1:42–1:46
- “This one has a little bit more pearl and a little bit more tint”
- “I like that it is also thin”
- “It really shears out and then it sets down”1:55–1:57
- “This one adds a little bit more hydration than the INNBEAUTY PROJECT, but the INNBEAUTY PROJECT has a little bit more pearl, but it's very, very refined and it's not as intense as like a true liquid highlighter”2:00–2:05
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Lumen
- “For powder bronzer, there was really only one I fell in love with this year and I really did fall in love. It's the Fara Homidi essential bronzer”20:51–20:56
- “This bronzer is so buttery”20:56–21:04
- “It's so creamy”
- “It's a powder, but it behaves like a cream and it melts into the skin like a cream”21:08–21:13
- “I have the shade Lumen, which is the second deepest shade”21:14–21:16
- “It doesn't have like a pearl running through it, but it does give you like a lit from within sort of look”21:18–21:23
- “It does come with a brush. I don't think you need the brush. I would just go with a bronzer”21:23–21:28
- “It's just like a next level powder bronzer”21:28–21:30
- “It doesn't look obvious. It doesn't look powdery on the skin”21:33–21:37
- “It looks creamy on the skin”
- “It's just so easy to blend out”
- “It's effortless”
- “Looks good on the eyes”21:39–21:40
- “You just like can't mess this up”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Light
- “My Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Serum is almost empty. This is the shade light”19:21–19:26
- “I wear this almost every day because it just makes the skin look ethereal, glowy, and a little bit sun-kissed”19:27–19:35
- “I love the undertone of the shade light”19:35–19:36
- “It's very subtle, but I kind of like that these days”19:40–19:43
- “Even though there's pearl in here, it's not visible on the skin”
- “You can barely tell that you're wearing makeup, but it just makes the skin look glowy like you just applied skincare”19:45–19:50
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 1
- “The Westman Atelier Sun Tone Bronzing Drops have been beautiful”19:50–19:54
- “These are There's no curl in these, but they melt into the skin”19:56–20:00
- “They're very fluid”20:02–20:03
- “It's much more fluid than the soft sculpt serum”
- “It looks so seamless with your foundation, with your other base makeup”20:08–20:11
- “It just melts in”
- “I really like a more subtle bronzer”
- “I like something that makes the skin look more dimensional and natural rather than looking like you're wearing bronzer”20:14–20:18
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Coconut Flakes 2.7n
- “I've rediscovered the Huda Beauty Faux Filter Luminous Matte Concealer”8:18–8:22
- “This is a little bit richer, a little bit creamier, and it definitely has more coverage”8:23–8:28
- “A little bit goes a long long way with this”
- “If I'm having a serious dark circle day, that's when I reach for this one”8:28–8:32
- “I like to use it sparingly, but you don't need a lot”8:33–8:37
- “I generally like to apply it on the back of my hand, then pick it up with a brush, then apply just so that I'm not caking on too much concealer, especially when I'm going around the eyes”8:40–8:49
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 4
- “This is the Danessa Myricks Beauty Lift and Flex Concealer. This is what I go for on like an everyday basis”7:44–7:55
- “It actually looks really good all over the skin”7:55–7:58
- “It has a medium buildable coverage”
- “It's very stretchy”8:01–8:07
- “It has like sort of a serumy consistency and so it's very spreadable, but it doesn't lose coverage as you're spreading it out and it looks very very natural and skin-like”8:01–8:13
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Oak
- “The Merit Minimalist Base Sticks continues to be one of my favorites”2:22–2:25
- “I think most days when I reached for a base product, especially from like January to June, it was this”2:28–2:39
- “I can swipe it on. I can just take a brush or a sponge and blend it out all over”2:49–2:54
- “It gives me a nice healthy glow”
- “It evens over redness”2:55–2:56
- “It's buildable to like a light medium, but it's not going to give you heavy coverage”
- “It's just something I use when I want to feel a little bit more put together on like an everyday basis”3:00–3:05
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Chisel
- “This is the Haus Labs Precision Sculpt Shaping Balm, and it's like a stick contour”22:01–22:06
- “I like that it's a skinnier stick because it gives you more precision”22:07–22:11
- “I wear the shade chisel which is a very good like truly cool toned shade”22:13–22:18
- “It has a very velvety blend to it”
- “It's not dewy. It's not shiny”
- “I feel like it looks really natural”22:19–22:21
- “One thing I would say is that I like to work one section at a time rather than applying to the whole face because it is on the matte side and it does set down”22:26–22:31
- “It's just very very natural but very very effective and I've been reaching for it a lot”22:36–22:49
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Biscuit
- “I also have a brand new stick of the Westman Atelier face contour stick. This is the shade biscuit”22:43–22:56
- “Usually I use truffle, the second deepest shade, but I'm very pale right now”22:56–23:00
- “Biscuit is actually a lot warmer and I almost use it more as like a neutral bronzer on my skin tone”23:00–23:07
- “It's also creamier”
- “It's not quite as matte as the House Labs”23:08–23:11
- “The House Labs is truly truly matte. This one is more of a natural cream finish”
- “I'm able to use it as a contour, but I sort of treat it as like a sculpting bronzer, whereas this is like a true gray undertone contour”23:13–23:25
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 3.5 C
- “My one true foundation love this year is the new Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation”4:52–4:59
- “The natural finish gives you the most beautiful satin sort of finish”4:59–5:04
- “I love how this blurs over pores”5:06–5:08
- “It just makes the skin look really smooth, really seamless, and it melts into the skin”
- “It wears beautifully all day long”5:11–5:13
- “It doesn't break up. It doesn't get greasy”5:16–5:18
- “It just kind of looks the way you applied it all day long”
- “I feel like it gives you a really fresh finish”5:21–5:23
- “I'm very pale right now, so I'm actually wearing the shade 3.5 C, and it's a good match for me”
- “I do find that the Makeup by Mario foundations tend to run warm, which is why I go for C in this range”5:26–5:31
- “A little bit goes a long way”5:37–5:38
- “It applies really well with a brush, with a sponge, with fingers. Any way you apply it, it's pretty much foolproof”5:41–5:51
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 2N
- “My glam stick foundation is one that I discovered sort of at the end of this year. It's the Dior stick foundation”3:05–3:12
- “It's a little bit creamier, definitely more coverage, buildable to like a medium full coverage”3:16–3:28
- “It is so creamy”
- “It's easy to blend out”
- “You can swipe it directly onto the skin and when you take a brush, it just glides across the skin”3:28–3:34
- “This is not that. It gives you the most gorgeous velvety finish and it looks even better as you wear it throughout the day”3:40–3:51
- “It's also a great product to travel with”
- “I can actually use it around my eyes as concealer. It does a great job of concealing over any spots or pigmentation”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 5
- “The skin tint is Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Gel Tint and I wear the shade five”
- “It actually has a really decent amount of coverage”4:13–4:16
- “I feel like it's buildable to a medium, but it looks so beautiful and dewy and like you just applied skin care”4:13–4:25
- “It gives you really gorgeous hydration throughout the day”
- “I do get shiny in the T-zone, but I'm enjoying products with a little bit more hydration. This is that”4:32–4:37
- “I would not recommend this if you have oily skin, but if you have normal to dry skin, I think you'll really enjoy this”4:37–4:47
- “I find this applies really beautifully with fingers if you kind of melt it into the skin”4:47–4:51
- “But I also really enjoy it with a brush”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Oak
- “The Merit Minimalist Base Sticks continues to be one of my favorites”2:22–2:25
- “I think most days when I reached for a base product, especially from like January to June, it was this”2:28–2:39
- “I can swipe it on. I can just take a brush or a sponge and blend it out all over”2:49–2:54
- “It gives me a nice healthy glow”
- “It evens over redness”2:55–2:56
- “It's buildable to like a light medium, but it's not going to give you heavy coverage”
- “It's just something I use when I want to feel a little bit more put together on like an everyday basis”3:00–3:05
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Medium
- “This one is an Asia exclusive. It's the YSL Touch Shake Claw Glow Packed Cushion, and I wear the shade B30”
- “It's a really good match for me”6:01–6:03
- “It's such a beautiful like buildable to medium coverage cushion foundation”6:17–6:22
- “They give you such a thin layer of like serumy coverage, but they don't look like you're wearing makeup”6:23–6:33
- “They are very, very good at blurring over pores, but also being buildable where you need them to be”6:33–6:38
- “They give you a really porcelain kind of smooth finish”6:39–6:47
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: B30
- “It's so stunning, and I always ask people who are traveling to Asia to get refills of this for me”7:05–7:10
- “This one has more glow and more coverage than the Chong Mur, but it's absolutely stunning”7:10–7:14
- “It's actually what I'm wearing today, and it looks so natural while giving you really decent coverage”7:15–7:20
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 6
- “Danessa Myricks Beauty Color Fix sticks”31:10–31:12
- “These are dual-ended, so they're magnetic”
- “Each one comes with a metallic and a foil”31:17–31:20
- “These have such serious impact”31:23–31:24
- “This is what I wear like on a glam day”31:29–31:32
- “Although this metallic is one I can blend out for a kind of everyday bronzy look”
- “It's really beautiful”
- “I like the silver reflect in there”31:36–31:38
- “That's the shade Celeste”
- “This side is the shade Nova”31:41–31:43
- “The foils are really I think what's unique about this release”
- “Nova is reflective beyond compare”31:49–31:51
- “There's nothing else in my collection that looks quite like this”
- “It comes on like it that's one swatch”31:55–31:58
- “It applies at full opacity and it does have a textured quality to it”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “If you do like something a little bit more tinted, the INNBEAUTY PROJECT Face Glaze Highlighting Gel Cream is beautiful”1:25–1:36
- “I actually use this as both a highlighter on top of base makeup or as a primer underneath”1:36–1:42
- “It looks like this. There's also a bronzy version of this”1:42–1:46
- “This one has a little bit more pearl and a little bit more tint”
- “I like that it is also thin”
- “It really shears out and then it sets down”1:55–1:57
- “This one adds a little bit more hydration than the INNBEAUTY PROJECT, but the INNBEAUTY PROJECT has a little bit more pearl, but it's very, very refined and it's not as intense as like a true liquid highlighter”2:00–2:05
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Penny
- “This is like the truest liquid highlighter, the Ciele Glow and Protect, specifically in the shade Penny”24:54–24:59
- “I love this shade because I feel like it's actually pretty unique for a liquid highlighter”25:00–25:05
- “It's like a rose gold that's not too pink and that's not too warm”25:05–25:10
- “I kind of like how neutral the undertone is and it has a reflect that's not too golden”25:12–25:18
- “I find that this really completely sets down, so it doesn't add any weight or any texture”25:18–25:25
- “It actually kind of blurs over texture and it's not going to add like hydration or anything like that”25:25–25:31
- “It's just such a thin layer that fully fully sets down and it's also very longlasting”25:31–25:35
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 2
- “If I want a little more impact, I go for the Dior Forever Glow Star Filter”24:06–24:10
- “This is the Dior version of like the Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter, but I kind of like this more for more impact and for more pigmentation”24:11–24:25
- “You can see how beautiful that reflect is”24:25–24:28
- “It's not glittery, but it is impactful”
- “It's really really stunning for like a glam moment”24:32–24:35
- “It also works really well like under base makeup, too”24:38–24:41
- “If you want to wear it sort of as a glowy primer, you can obviously use either of these that way”24:44–24:49
- “I also like that Dior has such a great shade range in these”24:49–24:52
- “There is a tint to it, so it does actually give you a little bit of coverage as well”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Warm Glow
- “The Saie super glowy gel I actually haven't had in my collection for a long time, but then I got my hands on their newest shade called warm glow, and I'm remembering how much I enjoy it and how weightless it is”23:29–23:41
- “This is probably the most natural of the three that I'm talking about here”23:41–23:45
- “It still has a decent amount of glow”23:47–23:49
- “I really like the sort of like warm champagne undertone of this tone specifically”
- “What I like about this is how thin it is”23:53–23:56
- “It doesn't add any weight”
- “It doesn't add any texture”
- “It sets down completely”23:59–24:00
- “It adds that glowiness without adding, I don't know, just any stickiness to the face”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Garson
- “Westman Atelier lit up highlight stick in the shade Garson, but it's a deeper shade”17:30–17:40
- “It's the most beautiful like brownie rose berry”17:42–17:46
- “It obviously has that dewiness of the cream highlighter, but I kind of use it as a blush topper or as my highlighter”
- “It gives me just enough pigmentation”17:49–17:51
- “It gives you a really juicy, beautiful cheek”18:00–18:03
- “It's very, very unique”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Chill
- “In my collection, I have a powder blush. This is the CL blush and glow, I think they're called, or blush and glow”18:05–18:12
- “Specifically, the shade chill I really enjoy”18:12–18:14
- “I feel like it's really flattering if I want to set a blush or just on its own”18:17–18:22
- “They're very, very smooth, almost creamy to touch”18:23–18:26
- “They have that very buttery but thin feeling even though there isn't like glow or shimmer in here”18:29–18:36
- “I feel like it does have a pearlininess in the texture and so it melts into the skin”18:36–18:41
- “It looks super skin-like and I just feel like this shade chill is one that I reach for a lot especially as like a blush topper if I want something to be longerlasting”18:42–18:48
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Fresh Pressed
- “This is the Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Glow Serum in the shade Fresh Pressed”1:03–1:07
- “It looks like a pearly light pink, but it's very translucent”1:08–1:12
- “I like that it's thin”1:20–1:21
- “It's very spreadable”
- “It's hydrating”
- “It just adds some glossiness to the cheeks”1:25–1:27
- “I'm actually wearing it today”0:59–1:00
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “If you do like something a little bit more tinted, the INNBEAUTY PROJECT Face Glaze Highlighting Gel Cream is beautiful”1:25–1:36
- “I actually use this as both a highlighter on top of base makeup or as a primer underneath”1:36–1:42
- “It looks like this. There's also a bronzy version of this”1:42–1:46
- “This one has a little bit more pearl and a little bit more tint”
- “I like that it is also thin”
- “It really shears out and then it sets down”1:55–1:57
- “This one adds a little bit more hydration than the INNBEAUTY PROJECT, but the INNBEAUTY PROJECT has a little bit more pearl, but it's very, very refined and it's not as intense as like a true liquid highlighter”2:00–2:05
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 2
- “If I want a little more impact, I go for the Dior Forever Glow Star Filter”24:06–24:10
- “This is the Dior version of like the Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter, but I kind of like this more for more impact and for more pigmentation”24:11–24:25
- “You can see how beautiful that reflect is”24:25–24:28
- “It's not glittery, but it is impactful”
- “It's really really stunning for like a glam moment”24:32–24:35
- “It also works really well like under base makeup, too”24:38–24:41
- “If you want to wear it sort of as a glowy primer, you can obviously use either of these that way”24:44–24:49
- “I also like that Dior has such a great shade range in these”24:49–24:52
- “There is a tint to it, so it does actually give you a little bit of coverage as well”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “This is the Easy Bake Powder Duo. It actually has two different shades in it. Cherry blossom cake and peach pie”
- “It's so beautiful”
- “I love this so much”9:28–9:30
- “It's so blurring but so weightless”
- “It does fill in the pores”9:56–9:58
- “It really smooths over skin”
- “It does make the skin look very, very filtered”
- “I like doing a targeted application of it”10:03–10:05
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: 01 Fair
- “This is the Dior Forever Nude Matte Filter”10:56–10:59
- “I like the matte version”11:02–11:04
- “This one is great for if I want to add a little bit of coverage, like just a touch of coverage or I feel like my foundation's kind of breaking up”11:08–11:13
- “I even use it to set my makeup”11:13–11:18
- “It gives me that super filtered look with a little bit of tint”11:18–11:22
- “It's also great for cleaning up like around your blush or around your contour”11:25–11:29
- “It is just a really beautiful soft, velvety, beautiful formula”11:30–11:34
- “The compact is also stunning. It has the Chanel leather cushiony embossing”11:37–11:42
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Rose Quartz
- “The Fenty Bright Fix Powder in the shade Rose Quartz has been really nice”10:24–10:29
- “This is a basically a tinted version of their Invisa Matte Powder”10:31–10:34
- “This one is great for touch-ups”10:35–10:37
- “It's very mattifying”
- “It doesn't take a lot”
- “I also use it to set my makeup”
- “This one also comes in several shades”10:41–10:43
- “It's something that I can really throw in my purse if I'm going to have a long day”10:52–10:55
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “It's even better when I pair it with the One/Size On 'Til Dawn setting spray”12:55–12:59
- “These two together will have your makeup on for days if you wanted to”13:00–13:05
- “I do feel like One/Size is more mattifying and it does claim to be”13:06–13:11
- “If I'm feeling really extra, I'll do Charlotte Tilbury around the perimeter. I'll go in with Danessa Myrix down the center and then for a really really long wear day I'll go over with this”13:13–13:23
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “I have two new setting sprays in my arsenal for long wear. The first one that I should mention is the Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin”11:57–12:08
- “It is phenomenal”12:08–12:16
- “I wish I had had this when I was very, very oily, like in my 20s, because it makes such a difference”12:08–12:22
- “I can actually entirely skip powder most days if I go over this”12:22–12:27
- “I actually like to layer over the Charlotte Tilbury”
- “It is truly blurring and it's very, very long wearing”12:33–12:37
- “It extends your makeup all day long”
- “Sometimes it's even too mattifying if I use too much because I am a glowy makeup gal”12:40–12:45
- “If you like a matte look, this is serious”12:46–12:48
- “If you feel like your makeup is starting to break up throughout the day and you go in with this, it will save your makeup”12:51–12:55
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “This is a longtime favorite, my Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless”11:47–11:50
- “It's kind of an everyday one where I want to retain some glow, but it still gives me long wear”11:52–11:57
- “I'm about to empty another one. I've emptied so many”11:57–12:01
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Glassy Ginger
- “Haus Labs Glossy Blush in the shade Glassy Ginger”16:04–16:07
- “It's another beautiful nudie nudie pink”16:11–16:13
- “It's definitely warmer than bespoke”
- “It has a little bit more peach in it, but on my skin tone, it's a very easy blush to wear”16:18–16:24
- “They're not as tacky as the glossy name maybe implies”16:24–16:28
- “They do have like a glow to them, but they're not thick or sticky or like super tacky”16:30–16:35
- “There's a glow to them, but I find that the glow sort of sets down throughout the day”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Toast
- “I also feel like they updated the formula of these”
- “I know people used to complain about them going grainy. None of my newer ones have done that”43:50–43:55
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Ribbon
- “Another tinted lip balm is the Road tinted lip balms”43:21–43:25
- “The shade ribbon, this light pink, and then the shade toast are my most used”43:27–43:32
- “They are a little bit thinner than the Edm”
- “I don't think they're as like thick, but I do find that these are really moisturizing”43:33–43:38
- “I reach for them all the time, especially just over like a lip liner or something like that”43:39–43:43
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Point
- “The one lip oil in this lineup is the new Merit lip oils, the tinted lip oils”44:00–44:05
- “They redid this. They kind of got rid of their old PH shades and then came out with a couple of new shades”44:06–44:11
- “Specifically, the point the shade point is my favorite”44:11–44:14
- “This is a thinner formula”
- “It's not like a gloss”
- “It does truly feel like a lip oil”44:17–44:19
- “It's hydrating, but not the longest lasting, but it's something that really looks very flattering on the lips”44:23–44:29
- “It makes my lips look juicy, and it's easy to reapply”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Gray
- “My last lip liner shout out goes to the Make Beauty Continuum lip liner”41:29–41:33
- “This is a gel lip liner, but specifically I want to mention this shade because I feel like it's really hard to find a truly cool toned lip liner”41:34–41:39
- “This one is really gray. Like it's even more cool toned than Endless Cacao”41:39–41:50
- “Sometimes I want a very sculpted lip. And this is when I reach for something like this”41:57–42:07
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Bespoke
- “I use Beverly Hills to fill in my whole lip and Bespoke as my lip liner”40:52–41:02
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Fawn
- “My classic lip liner pick, just a classic wooden pencil, is the Farohi lip liner”37:52–37:56
- “It's expensive, but it's so good and it's so long-lasting”37:57–38:02
- “I am wearing the shade Fawn and this is my perfect like smudgy contour lip shade”
- “These are very, very matte”38:04–38:06
- “They give you a precise line if you want, but I love them for a kind of blurred out lip line and they are so long lasting for a classic pencil”38:10–38:16
- “It lasts all day long”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Soft Pink
- “I reach for the Huda Beauty lip contour stains and these are beautiful, but they're a little bit more finicky”
- “I do think the shades are really nice”
- “I wear the shade soft pink just as a base stain on my lips like most days and I fill in my entire lip with these”39:54–40:08
- “I also like the shade rosewood if I want a little bit more pigmentation”
- “And then I like soft nude if I want something that's like a little bit of a warmer nude”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Cherry Cola
- “The best of the year, the award for sure goes to Bubble and Rudy Rudy Berry”38:29–38:34
- “They came out with two shades of this lip stain and it is so smartly packaged and formulated”38:36–38:42
- “I had to actually grab cherry cola out of my makeup bag”38:42–38:46
- “The nib is a brush tip and it's slightly angled”38:49–38:52
- “You can use it on its side for a very slim application or you can use it on the other side, the thicker side for more surface area”38:55–39:02
- “That's the shade cherry cola and that's my most used”
- “This is the shade raspberry jam and it's also a beautiful like berry colored stain”39:02–39:07
- “Cherry Cola is like a true lip contour shade and it stays true to color and that's very important to me”
- “It also has these little like beads so you can shake it up”39:14–39:23
- “It never skips”
- “It doesn't dry out and it's just such a fantastic formula that lasts all day long, like truly all day long”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Guava Fresca
- “These are the Lashu softening lip balms”42:19–42:22
- “This year they came out with a shade called guava fresca that I have not stopped wearing”42:26–42:31
- “It first of all smells truly like the real fruit”42:32–42:35
- “I can't get enough of it”
- “I wiped off the lip liner stains and they're still there”42:38–42:41
- “I used makeup remover and then soap and water. So, if that gives you any indication of their longevity”
- “Guava Fresca is like a true bright pink, but it's the kind of shade that brings so much life to the face”42:43–42:53
- “It looks a little scary because these are pretty tinted for tinted lip balms, but I find that they're really flattering, really shiny, and actually moisturizing”42:53–42:59
- “They actually stick on the lips”42:59–43:01
- “They're on the thicker side, and so they do give you real moisture”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Archival
- “I have to mention these because I am petitioning Merit personally to make these permanent”46:15–46:20
- “These are the Merit signature lip blush formula and they have all been limited edition and it kills me”46:21–46:26
- “This year they came out with a limited edition shade called archival”46:26–46:30
- “They're a little bit sheer, a little bit waxier”46:38–46:41
- “They're not quite as pigmented”
- “Last year they had a shade called Dour, and it's still one I reach for all the time”46:43–46:48
- “They also came out with a limited edition shade called Maxwell, which completely sold out very, very quickly this year”46:55–47:06
- “Maxwell's like a berry tone, like a brown berry”47:06–47:09
- “These are very similar to the mattes, but they're a little bit waxier, a little bit creamier, and a little bit more comfortable on the lips”47:12–47:25
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: P 158
- “I always get asked about it. It's the Prada soft matte lipstick in the shade P 158”45:02–45:07
- “Nothing really compares to this formula”45:08–45:10
- “If you want a comfortable diffused blurred lip, especially with the Faroh Homidi lip liner, it's just a match made in heaven”45:14–45:20
- “It's a very unique beige pink that doesn't go too cool toned and it doesn't go warm”45:26–45:31
- “It's not too bright. It's not too intense and it's just very flattering I feel on my skin tone when I want a nude pink lip”45:32–45:38
- “These are my most worn Prada lipstick shades and they just do pinks really well”45:38–45:43
- “This formula is so comfortable”45:54–45:55
- “It's matte, but it's very moisturizing on the lips over time somehow”45:59–46:03
- “It's not like a lip balm, but it doesn't dry out my lips”
- “It doesn't sink into lip lines”46:05–46:07
- “It doesn't get cakey around the mouth, which this kind of formula can do if it's not formulated well”46:10–46:15
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Lore
- “My other glossy lip favorite is not a new formula. It's the Hourglass Lippies, but specifically the shade lore”44:29–44:40
- “Lore is like a berry tone shade”44:40–44:42
- “On the lips, it's so flattering and it shears out more on the lips”44:46–44:50
- “In the winter I kind of transition more from like cooler tone pinks into berry tones. It's why I'm reaching for this one a lot lately”44:52–44:57
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Soft Black
- “The Make Beauty Infinite Brow Nano Pencil is fantastic”37:23–37:25
- “I love how teeny teeny tiny this pencil is”37:28–37:31
- “Gives you a lot of control”
- “The shade soft black is a very very cool toned dark brown and it's perfect for my hair color”37:34–37:39
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “For brows, most days I just still have been reaching for the Lawless Creamy Brow Wax”36:52–36:57
- “It's a really great middle-of-the-road brow cream”36:57–37:05
- “It's tinted, but it's not too tinted”
- “It gives me a little bit of hold, but not too much”37:07–37:10
- “It's not crispy”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “My liquid eyeliner, the one that I've used all year long is the Heroin Make Smooth Liquid Eyeliner”
- “It just has such a fine tip and it's very very long lasting”36:10–36:15
- “I love the control you get over this”36:17–36:25
- “It's a brown, but it's a cool tone brown and it's also a brush tip”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Perfect Brown
- “The Makeup by Mario Master Pigment Pro pencil in the shade perfect brown has been fantastic”35:38–35:50
- “It's actually kind of similar to this, a cool toned brown, and I'm able to get a very fine line, but I'm also able to smudge it out if I want to”35:51–35:57
- “It's like a true wooden pencil liner”35:57–36:00
- “Also, it has a brush tip that is shockingly good”35:33–35:35
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Mauve
- “This is the Makeup by Mario Master Mattes Longwear Cream Eyeshadow”26:44–26:54
- “This is all matte and they are almost like an eye primer”26:57–27:01
- “They're sort of whipped and fluffy almost like the Dior whipped blush actually in eyeshadow form, but they blend out so beautifully”27:04–27:10
- “This is very hard to do well because it's a siliconey formula”27:10–27:13
- “I have very oily eyelids. It lasts all day long on me”
- “It's very easy to blend out”27:16–27:17
- “It gives you that diffused look”
- “I actually use the shade mauve as a base for my eyeshadow today”27:21–27:25
- “They blend into each other. They give you time to blend and work them out, but once they set down, they do not budge”27:38–27:49
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “The only eyeshadow palette I've used a ton this year is the Makeup by Mario Neutrals palette”25:46–25:51
- “It's the kind of thing that is a workhorse in my life”26:10–26:13
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Space Cowboy Intense
- “Space Cowboy Intense has a little bit more texture, a little bit more glitter running through it”29:48–29:59
- “It also has that like peachiness of Space Cowboy”30:00–30:03
- “These are a really kind of surprising just interesting way to add gleam to the eyes without adding a lot of pigment or a lot of heaviness while still giving you that glossy look across the lids”30:06–30:14
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Viper
- “The Tower 28 Go cooling shimmer sticks are so fun”30:19–30:23
- “They're like a jelly stick”30:26–30:28
- “My favorite shade in this is definitely Viper”30:31–30:39
- “It's a really interesting like smoky purple taupe”30:42–30:45
- “It's really beautiful sheared out on the eyes or you can just apply it at full opacity”30:49–30:54
- “There are also these like little micro glitters running through it”30:55–30:58
- “It's not chunky, but it does have a lot of twinkle, especially when it catches the light”31:00–31:05
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Always on Your Mind
- “Patrick Ta extended their duo, their major dimension eye duo shade range”32:23–32:28
- “This was my previous favorite”32:30–32:32
- “It's a beautiful micro shimmer like pressed glitter that is so reflective”
- “I especially love this shade just to add like a glassy sheen to the eyes”32:36–32:41
- “I have a new favorite shade. This is always on your mind and it's a beautiful smoky taupey champagne duo”32:41–32:47
- “These have a little bit more base color than the previous shade I have”32:47–32:52
- “I especially love this top shade all over the eyes for a kind of smokey sort of look”32:54–32:59
- “They are just so reflective”33:00–33:01
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “The only other palette that I've really enjoyed this year is the Makeup by Mario Eyes Nature Palette”
- “It's beautiful, but it's a little bit warmer than what I've been reaching for everyday”26:25–26:30
- “I do think especially come spring and summer, I'm going to be reaching for this a lot”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: New Wave
- “Make Beauty extended their monochromatic eyeshadow range this year”34:12–34:15
- “This shade New Wave, this icy blue, I've basically been waiting all year to wear this across the eyes because it gives you that like snow princess sort of look”34:18–34:24
- “It's perfect for the season”34:24–34:29
- “These are not glittery at all”
- “They are a pure, buttery, smooth metallic”34:29–34:32
- “They apply at full opacity, especially when you apply them with your fingers”34:36–34:39
- “I also love this shade surplus. It's an olive, but it's a very, very bright olive”
- “It's not murky. It doesn't go brown the way a lot of olive greens do”34:41–34:45
- “Kind of lean into that like khaki place”34:47–34:50
- “This one stays really bright and clean”
- “For a smokier look, I really love this shade, Fusion”34:55–34:57
- “For an all over bronzy eye. It's not like a warm bronze. It's kind of a silvery bronze and I really really like that”35:00–35:05
- “I honestly love all of the shades in this range”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Possessed Pearl
- “Another pressed glitter that I love is the Half Magic Beauty eyeshadows”33:12–33:21
- “They came out with a few nude shades this year”
- “There are two that I really, really love that I've been wearing non-stop”33:23–33:27
- “This is probably the one I'd pick up if I had to pick one. It's called Possessed Pearl, and it has that silver smoky taupey glossiness to it”33:28–33:33
- “These are so so shiny, so glossy, so reflective”33:33–33:36
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Iris
- “The Merit, the solo shadow sheen is something I've been reaching for since they came out”27:43–27:56
- “I really love the shade Iris, which is kind of this like smoky lavender”27:56–28:08
- “And then the shade glass, which is like a beautiful shimmery peach”
- “These two together are absolutely stunning and they're very, very different from their original solo shadow formula”28:10–28:15
- “They're totally different from the matte formula, which I know dried out kind of quickly for a lot of people”28:15–28:24
- “This formula is also creamy”28:24–28:25
- “It does set down on the eyes, but it's not like dry like the mattes were”
- “I feel like these are just easy to wear because they have the sheeniness, like a peariness, but it's not so in your face”28:30–28:35
- “They're very daytime appropriate, work appropriate, but you can also build them up in pigmentation if you want”28:35–28:40
- “They are a cream shadow, so I find that the longevity is extended most when I use a primer”
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “This is the one mascara I've returned to over and over this year. This is the Long Up mascara super waterproof”36:17–36:29
- “It's tough to get off, but it's so smudge proof and long lasting”36:35–36:39
- “It gives me a lot of control”
- “Japanese mascaras are just excellent”36:41–36:42
- “It also has a curved brush that's not too big”
- “If you have smaller eye shape and you struggle to get into the inner corners, I guarantee you this will do the trick for you”36:47–36:52
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “It's even better when I pair it with the One/Size On 'Til Dawn setting spray”12:55–12:59
- “These two together will have your makeup on for days if you wanted to”13:00–13:05
- “I do feel like One/Size is more mattifying and it does claim to be”13:06–13:11
- “If I'm feeling really extra, I'll do Charlotte Tilbury around the perimeter. I'll go in with Danessa Myrix down the center and then for a really really long wear day I'll go over with this”13:13–13:23
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: Penny
- “This is like the truest liquid highlighter, the Ciele Glow and Protect, specifically in the shade Penny”24:54–24:59
- “I love this shade because I feel like it's actually pretty unique for a liquid highlighter”25:00–25:05
- “It's like a rose gold that's not too pink and that's not too warm”25:05–25:10
- “I kind of like how neutral the undertone is and it has a reflect that's not too golden”25:12–25:18
- “I find that this really completely sets down, so it doesn't add any weight or any texture”25:18–25:25
- “It actually kind of blurs over texture and it's not going to add like hydration or anything like that”25:25–25:31
- “It's just such a thin layer that fully fully sets down and it's also very longlasting”25:31–25:35
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
Variant: B30
- “It's so stunning, and I always ask people who are traveling to Asia to get refills of this for me”7:05–7:10
- “This one has more glow and more coverage than the Chong Mur, but it's absolutely stunning”7:10–7:14
- “It's actually what I'm wearing today, and it looks so natural while giving you really decent coverage”7:15–7:20
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “If you have small eyes, I would very much recommend the BK Beauty 208 brush”36:03–36:09
- “It's so so fine”
- “I'm really able to control the wing and get very, very close to my lash line”36:10–36:16
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “This is a dual-ended cream eyeshadow stick. And it's really cool because each side is magnetized. So, if you get multiples of these, you can mix and match”2:04–2:11
- “Each version comes with a metallic and a foil”2:13–2:18
- “This on its own is a really stunning one and done kind of smoky shadow look”2:32–2:37
- “But the foils are really unlike anything I've ever seen”2:37–2:42
- “It gives you the most gleaming, bright, twinkly sort of eye look”2:42–2:48
- “You can also layer these together. You can shear them out if you want”2:48–2:52
- “But I will say the foil is just where you're going to get impact”2:49–2:55
- “And if you love glitter, if you love glam, if you love a metallic sheen, this is the one for you”2:53–3:00
- Source: Sephora Sale: One and Done Eyeshadows - Nov 1, 2025
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