I Tested 75+ Makeup Products So You Don’t Have To | Speed Reviews (2025)
Rhode$48.00- “This is just like a really gorgeous cream”▶ 1:11
- “Beautiful hydration all over your skin”▶ 1:13
- “It preps face beautifully for makeup”▶ 1:19
- “It doesn't have a smell to it”▶ 1:24
- “It feels like almost like thick milky water because it feels thicker going on and then it kind of settles down into something really really thin”▶ 1:26
Thayers$21.60
Maybelline$12.99- no still
- “My dry skin loves a serum”
- “This doesn't make my makeup pill”
- “If you are into grippy primers and you're into giving your skin hydration, this is a great pickup”
- no still
- “These are beautiful. They are such a great price point”
- “You can mix them into your foundation. It goes well under your foundation”
- “I loved this kind of primer for the summer especially”
MAC Cosmetics$65.00- “This is gorgeous”
- “This is absolutely just as good as the Watermelon Glow Recipe Drops”▶ 2:51
- “This reminds me a little bit of the one size base thinner”▶ 2:56
- “They are beautiful. They are such a great price point”▶ 3:01
- “This is beautiful. This is my surprise favorite because it does not get enough hype for me”▶ 3:13
- “It feels like almost like a silicone primer but in a hydrating serum form because it just fills in all your pores, gives you hydration, and then your makeup just glides over it, and you feel so pampered when you use this”▶ 3:23
- “I would buy 10 bottles of this if it wasn't an arm and a leg”▶ 3:37
- “It actually performs fine and it's just not something from my personal preference and I don't think this works well on dry skin very much and I am not a fan of watermelon”▶ 4:10
- “This one is just not in need”▶ 3:57
- “It's a little bit of like a watermelon scented, stronger take on their original E.L.F. Grip Primer”▶ 3:59
- “If you love your E.L.F. grip primer. I think just stick with that because this is basically the same thing with a little bit of added watermelon, maybe a little bit more hydration and a little bit more tackiness, but it's not something that I think you need to run out and get before it sells out”▶ 4:21
Missha$11.50
- “This really does stay all day, which is what I really needed today”▶ 5:28
- “If you mix it, which is what I love to do with most of my products in general, is to mix my favorites to get my custom workable blend, then I love this”▶ 5:36
- “It kept my skin looking like skin while giving me flawless coverage and very long wear without feeling so cakey on my face”▶ 5:51
- “I surprisingly loved this foundation. It was incredible”▶ 6:01
- “It just gives luxury. It's giving your skin. It's giving I went to a spa because I'm rich and I get my skin done professionally”▶ 6:43
- “This is beautiful”
- “It is very lightweight”
- “It gives beautiful coverage”▶ 6:55
- “It's so comfortable”▶ 7:05
- “If you've got the money and you want to treat yourself, I love it and I think this would work for every skin type”▶ 7:07
Kylie Cosmetics$34.00- “This is beautiful”
- “This is so stunning”
- “If you love the lightweight feeling of a skin tint, but you want the coverage of a foundation, this is my top pick for you”▶ 7:19
- “This is great for all of them. Acne, rosacea, people who want lightweight, but they want coverage”▶ 7:29
- “I think you could use this all year round”▶ 7:36
MAKEUP BY MARIO$48.00
Versed$19.99
Maybelline$15.99
Maybelline$15.99
PÜR Minerals$26.00- “It's got skincare ingredients in it”
- “Man, does this feel so hydrating”▶ 10:36
- “It is definitely like more of a medium to full coverage concealer”▶ 10:46
- “It's got a really really nice flat doe foot applicator as well and it's such a pleasure to use”▶ 10:58
- “I think anyone would love this and Pur is formulated with such good ingredients”▶ 11:03
Estée Lauder$38.00
Morphe$13.00
Versed$14.99
Rimmel$5.97
Maybelline$13.99
Vital Skincare Concealershade · L1
tarte$28- “This is very very nice”▶ 14:33
- “If you don't have a color corrector and you want to take a color corrector on the go with you, you don't wear a ton of makeup all the time, this is great”▶ 14:35
- “I love this mainly for the packaging component because it comes with a mirror which is amazing and you can put this on with a brush or with your finger”▶ 14:44
- “A lot of the other wet concealer like color correctors you have to use a brush with”▶ 14:55
Morphe$13- “These ones are basically my favorite ones in my collection”▶ 15:31
- “I think these are so fantastic”
- “They are butter in a stick”▶ 15:35
- “I love the undertones of these”▶ 15:38
- “I love the size of this. It is so convenient”▶ 15:41
- “This looks like skin on your skin. It is stunning”▶ 15:47
- “They blend out so well and they look just like skin instead of ah that part of your skin is brown”▶ 16:28
- “I think they are so fantastic, worth every penny, and I've just been loving this so much”▶ 16:36
MAKEUP BY MARIO$32.00- “I have said over and over and over again, Makeup by Mario is my personal favorite when it comes to any cream contour product, period”▶ 16:21
- “They blend out so well and they look just like skin instead of that part of your skin is brown”▶ 16:28
- “I think they are so fantastic, worth every penny, and I've just been loving this so much”▶ 16:36
Armani Beauty$59.00- “I can't tell you how much I love this bronzer”▶ 16:44
- “It gives such a gorgeous life to the skin, which is what I love in my bronzers”▶ 17:00
- “It blends out so well on my skin”▶ 17:24
- “It looks like it has some shimmer in it, but on the face it just translates to, 'Oh, you haven't powdered your face.'”▶ 17:07
- “When the sunlight hits my skin, it looks like I've been out in the sun and not brown powder on my face”▶ 17:16
L'Oreal Paris$9.97Lumi Bronze Le Stick Soleil Bronzer Stickshade · Toasted Sunlight
Haus Labs$34Precision Sculpt Shaping Balmshade · Silhouette- “If I need my shape to last all day long, I will go in with this”▶ 18:16
- “This is very creamy. It is super buttery. It's very pigmented and then it stays pigmented”▶ 18:22
- “If I really want that chisel to actually be there and not to blend away and something diffused, I would use this especially for nose contour”▶ 18:35
- “It can be kind of iffy because then your nose contour will not look as blended out sometimes”▶ 18:43
- “This one is absolutely great for a specific need”▶ 18:50
Underpainting Paletteshade · M.ph Underpainting Palette- “I'm such a huge fan of this”▶ 19:10
- “I love the component. It makes it feel so luxury”▶ 19:12
- “It goes on so well over bare skin and then you can let it sit there for 30 minutes and it will still blend out like butter and not dry down in the best way”▶ 19:22
- “It doesn't slip and slide around. It's just malleable and I love it”▶ 19:32
Givenchy$52
Hung Vanngo Beauty$38.00
Morphe$17.00Cloudlight Soft Glow Veil Finishing Powdershade · Sunset- “This is in the darkest shade, this is Sunset”▶ 21:16
- “I use this for a bronzer”
- “It is very Hourglass akin”▶ 21:18
- “It has got a nice beautiful shift to it”▶ 21:22
- “When you put it over, you just see all of this gorgeous glow”▶ 21:24
- “I even like this better than my Hourglass”▶ 21:33
- “I love this powder so much. Incredible”▶ 21:39
- “It's kind of like a highlighter”▶ 21:46
- “It's just kind of hard to put on”▶ 21:48
- “You really have to like rub it in like crazy”▶ 21:51
- “It's very pigmented and then it's kind of sticky”▶ 21:52
- “It doesn't rub around very easily, so it kind of takes off all the foundation underneath”▶ 21:56
- “It's a no for me”
- “They're not the cheapest brand on the market”▶ 22:04
Unreal Flawless Blushshade · Rosie Glow- “It is the most fabulous”
- “We wear it without makeup, wear it with makeup, wear it over top of powder, wear it on its own, blend it out with your finger, put it on a brush”▶ 22:43
- “It is a flattering color for everyone”▶ 22:51
- “They're pigmented”▶ 22:53
- “They make my skin look more juicy than my skin actually is and more plump”▶ 22:53
- “I love every single thing about this formula and the packaging”▶ 22:58
- “These were what I thought was going to be incredibly boring and just like everything else. And it turned out they actually were so gorgeous and so confidence boosting”▶ 23:03
NYX$9.99- “This is a very, very liquid blush, and it looks like it's going to be intensely pigmented, but then when you go to put it on, it just gives you juicy, gorgeous, yummness”▶ 23:30
- “It stays all day”
- “I would put this over a jelly tint, and it was my favorite blush combo for a long time”▶ 23:42
- “I would not reach for anything else”▶ 23:48
Kylie Cosmetics$22.00Hybrid Blushshade · Winter Kiss- “It's like a Korean putty that's sort of like a mix between like a powder and a putty and it just has the most beautiful sort of I'm going to blur out your skin look”▶ 24:12
- “Whenever my blush was patchy and I didn't want something super highlighted going all over my face, I would reach for these and I can't stop reaching for them”▶ 24:23
- “They are so beautiful. I love them”▶ 24:31
NARS$42.00- “This gives the most matte, blurred, incredible look”▶ 24:49
- “It has like a bunch of blush toppers, which I have been so into for 2025”▶ 24:54
- “I think the colors are really beautiful”▶ 25:02
- “I think they can work on a really wide variety of skin tones”▶ 25:03
- “This is my favorite palette to date”▶ 25:06
- “One of my favorite formulas in blush, period, and I can't stop using it”▶ 25:10
Glossier$20- “If you need blurring all over your cheeks, maybe you have some texture, maybe you just love a blurred cloud-like look, you cannot go wrong with these”▶ 25:28
- “They're not too pigmented, you get they can really be built up though, and they have a really gorgeous shade of colors”▶ 25:35
- “They have a really gorgeous shade of colors”▶ 25:37
- “I love those”
- no stillMaybelline$9.99
- “This is like a really nice moussey color that goes on”
- “It's a cream and you can use it for your lips or your cheeks and it just does a really nice again it's got like blurring technology in it”
Glimmer$12.99
Huda Beauty$43.00- “They have literally been all that I'm wearing every single day”▶ 27:24
- “They just give beautiful perfection”▶ 27:30
- “My favorite thing about every single one of these palettes is the highlighter because I'm loving blush toppers because it does look like your blush color, but your cheek looks a little more alive”▶ 27:34
- “These have just been everything to me”▶ 27:43
Too Faced$28.00
Charlotte Tilbury$44.00- “If you like a juicy, bouncy, plushy kind of cheek, these are really great and really well performing products”▶ 28:34
Dior$42.00
Yves Saint Laurent$115.00
Morphe$17.00Cloudlight Soft Glow Veil Finishing Powdershade · Dawn
Essence$5.99
Givenchy$59.00Prisme Libre Blurring & Color-Correcting Matte Pressed Powdershade · 03 Voila Rose- “This is so gorgeous”
- “It's hydrating”
- “It's very lightweight”
- “It would be beautiful on somebody for their wedding or mature skin or if you just want to look flawless everyday for a very high price”▶ 32:53
Laura Mercier$35.00Secret Brightening Color Correcting Under Eye Setting Powdershade · Soft Pink
Lawless$36Talc-Free Skin-Smoothing Perfecting Powdershade · Tutu- “This is so great for basically if you love like a Charlotte Tilbury Air Blush pressed powder”▶ 33:35
- “This is like another version of that for a little bit better price point”▶ 33:40
- “I love this especially when I need to cover up acne”▶ 33:44
- “I'm just having like a really gray dull skin day and I need something a little bit thicker”▶ 33:49
One/Size$40
Benefit Cosmetics$38.00Glow La-La Blurring Powder Highlightershade · Rhea- “This is the most bey”
- “It is almost like a mirror highlighter”▶ 34:34
- “I have it on my nose today, but just a cute little nose highlight”▶ 34:37
- “I actually love how lightweight the packaging is”▶ 34:39
- “I love that it doesn't feel like it's going to be so heavy it's going to drop out of my hand”▶ 34:45
- “This is so stunning and beautiful”▶ 34:48
- “I love it every single time I use it and I get compliments”▶ 34:51
Wet n Wild$6.99Chameleon Chrome Highlightershade · Too Sirius
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