Huda Beauty$25.00Lip Contour Stainshade · Toasty Brown- “The Huda Beauty lip stain is one of my all-time favorite products, not just for 2025, but for the lip category in general”▶ 2:57
- “I put this on at like 10:00 a.m. this morning. It is almost 11:00 p.m. at night and it is still on”▶ 3:07
- “My favorite shades are toasty brown, which is what I have on my lips right now. And also shade soft nude. Love these. These are fantastical”▶ 3:23
Guerlain$160.00- “This one is incredible. It is extremely pricey”▶ 4:00
- “It is one of those products that I believe is a splurge”▶ 4:12
- “It is one of the best serum priming oils out there”▶ 4:17
- “What it does is it coats your skin with this layer of hydration and also this balancing sensation, something that you could actually visibly feel and see on the skin”▶ 4:45
- “This product to me just preps the skin in the best possible way for the next step”▶ 5:17
- “It is my all-time fave”
Dior$45.00Dior Backstage Face & Body Foundationshade · 4WO- “My go-to of all time, my absolute favorite luxe foundation has got to be the one and only Dior backstage”▶ 6:44
- “This is so trusty. It is so promising”▶ 6:54
- “If you have freckles that you want to show off, but you have acne scars that you want to cover up, this is probably the best product to do it with and make it look completely undetectable”▶ 7:11
- “The undertone is so right, so flattering. It's so realistic. It looks like skin”▶ 7:37
- “It covers, it perfects, it beautifies”▶ 7:43
- “It kind of sets and it locks in. It becomes one with your skin”▶ 7:45
- “I already feel like my skin is dressed up. Like I can even skip concealer”▶ 7:55
Haus Labs$52- “If you have oily skin, this is just an incredible, incredible foundation”▶ 6:28
- “It does everything that you need your foundation to do if you are an oily skin type”▶ 6:31
- “It lasts, it looks beautiful. It has that really reliable, medium to full coverage, buildable type of formulation”▶ 6:37
- “I even like this one in the winter time. And because it's creamier, it offers just a little bit more pigment. So more coverage for those of you who need it”
jane iredale$56.00Skintuition SPF 30 Radiance-Boosting Liquid Foundationshade · 48 Medium- “This looks very much like skin. It acts like skin care. It has mineral SPF, so it's good for your skin. It's acne safe”▶ 8:26
Colorescience$79.00- “This is a color corrector, a sunscreen, mineral sunscreen, an eye cream, and a concealer in one”▶ 10:11
- “It does so much and it is so unique in that I almost don't feel bad recommending it for this price because I honestly haven't come across anything that does this much”▶ 10:25
- “It brightens, it conceals, it protects. It's amazing”
- “This doesn't need to be set with powder”

Hourglass$38.00Vanish Airbrush Concealershade · Drift- “Hourglass is beloved for a reason, and I will say it's probably up there for me”▶ 12:14
- “This is very, very creamy, very pigmented. You need just the tiniest amount”▶ 12:43
- “The finish here is matte and it has a beautiful light reflecting brightening effect”▶ 12:53
- “It will cover up everything without adding that extra bulk”▶ 13:23
- “It definitely dries down flat and then you can continue adding it if you really want to build it up”▶ 13:36
Saie$26.00Dew Blush Liquid Cream Blushshade · Flirty- “These shades are so juicy. They're so flattering”▶ 14:01
- “They were by far my most reached for, my favorite liquid blush for the summertime”▶ 14:15
- “What I like about this one is that it goes on creamy, but the way that it sets still makes it look like it's a little bit wet, like it's a little bit dewy”▶ 14:38
- “It's not makeupy. It's still fresh. It's still kind of glowy and youthful, you know?”▶ 14:51
- “I really like this formula. It is like a 10 out of 10 for me”▶ 14:54
Blush Butter Balmshade · Sweet Rosé
Eye 2 Cheek Blushshade · 3- “For me in the true luxe category, nothing beats the Valentino blushes. These are my absolute favorite”
- “They are so stunning. First of all, the shades are just so expertly picked”▶ 15:49
- “It's not patchy”
- “I far prefer them over the Dior blushes that are super viral”▶ 16:37
- “I like the colors. I think they're a little bit more interesting, a little bit more sophisticated, and definitely more flattering. Not so just like trendy and momentary, but a lot more timeless and classic”▶ 16:45
Danessa Myricks Beauty$36.00- “After I tried this one, all others just paled in comparison”▶ 17:09
- “This is like a powder in a spray. This is so different from all the others because it absolutely sets your makeup. It melts it, but it also gives it this nice velvety sort of veil that just makes your skin look more blurred than before”▶ 17:20
- “This is incredible. This is my favorite. I just got my hands on a second bottle, and I'm like cherishing this”▶ 17:39
- “This is nowhere near that. It doesn't give you that sensation. It doesn't give you that look or feel. Also doesn't feel like hairspray. It's just wonderful”▶ 17:55
- “Probably up there in like my top 10 or my top five best product of 2025”▶ 18:05
- “Sometimes if I'm wearing a lot of different layers, like if I'm wearing full coverage and like lots of concealer, I sometimes even skip powder and I only use the spray just because I want it to look very natural and very dewy and like not as makeupy. And it works even for me. Even for an oily skin type, it works”▶ 18:32

MAKE UP FOR EVER$23.00HD Skin Perfecting Pressed Powdershade · Light Medium- “MAKE UP FOR EVER came out with the best pressed powder, you guys. This HD skin perfecting pressed powder”▶ 19:32
- “I gotta say, is one of their best launches in a while”▶ 19:44
- “This is incredibly forgiving on textured skin. It's one of those powders that you can continue piling on and it will continue looking really, really undetectable and flawless”▶ 20:06
- “This is my favorite, my most reached for pressed powder of the year”▶ 20:35
- “In 2025, a new powder came out that is just as good, if not better, than the Charlotte Tilbury”▶ 20:46
Patrick Ta$56.00- “This to me is a very unique concept. I appreciate it. I think it's very cool. It's very different and I really really loved his launch”▶ 22:47
- “This isn't your 2016 highlighter. This is cool. This is current. It's dewy. It looks editorial. It looks very thought out”▶ 22:40
- “The effect that it gives is kind of in duplicatable. You can't use any other products in order to achieve this”▶ 23:08
- “This was definitely my most reached for, at least for the first half of 2025, highlighter of the year”▶ 23:17
Patrick Ta$42.00Major Dimension Eye Illusion Eyeshadow Duoshade · When the Sun Sets- “You cannot talk about 2025 makeup without mentioning the iconic, and yes, they are iconic at this point, eyeshadow duos from Patrick”▶ 23:45
- “These are incredible. These are so different and so worth the price of $42 per duo”▶ 23:56
- “The effect is so different from everything else. The sparkle on these eyeshadows, the wet finish effect, that super glossy, super expensive luxe type of feel is what you're paying for. And this definitely delivers it”▶ 24:07
- “These are definitely worth splurging on because they look so unique and so different. You can almost immediately tell that someone is wearing these. That's how special they are”▶ 24:45
- “When I wore these is when I would receive the most compliments on my makeup”▶ 24:55
Natasha Denona$82.00Eye Sculpt Texture & Tone Eyeshadow Paletteshade · Dramatic- “If we're talking about neutrals, I'm going to give it to the Natasha Denona Eye Sculpt Texture and Tone Palette in the dramatic shade”▶ 25:44
- “This is great because it's numbered by undertone and by intensity”▶ 26:10
- “Kind of like really easy to understand how to build your look around it, how to sculpt your eye, your features. Very, very nice palette”▶ 26:27
- “I reach for it all the time”
Seamless Glide Eye Pencilshade · Renaissance Gold- “This is just the most beautiful antique gold you've ever seen. I mean, it looks exactly how it sounds”▶ 30:03
- “The quality of this is just outstanding. These are some of my favorite liners”▶ 30:24
- “You can easily smudge it out if you want or wing it out. These are very, very flexible, easy to use pencils”▶ 30:32

Natasha Denona$24.00- “All of these are supposed to be lip shades. So they're not necessarily going to be contour shades. They're not actually supposed to be noticeable on your lips”▶ 36:31
- “All of these are kind of shades of nude and pink to actually mimic natural lips”▶ 36:40
- “These are definitely great for that because again, they're expertly picked specifically for the color and so they serve that purpose”▶ 36:56

Huda Beauty$21.00- “My most used lip oil for the year was actually the Huda Beauty Faux Filler Jelly Oil”▶ 34:55
- “I actually ran out of the third color. I emptied it. And I don't think I've ever emptied a lip product since I started this channel”▶ 35:04
- “It was basically my everyday go-to, something that I would throw on just to look a little bit cuter and a little bit more alive”▶ 35:20
Rouge G De Guerlain Customizable Lipstickshade · Signature Red- “My absolute favorite lipsticks for that, like something that makes you feel super feminine when you take it out and apply it in a restaurant”▶ 33:22
- “They just come with these really beautiful collectible type of compacts”▶ 33:36
- “This would be very sophisticated and very pretty and super chic, and I would totally recommend it”▶ 33:54
- “They absolutely do feel very luxurious, very cool, very sophisticated”▶ 34:10
Natasha Denona$36.00HY-SCULPT Liquid Bronzershade · Toasty
Danessa Myricks Beauty$38.00
Hourglass$34
Lisa Eldridge$32.00- “It has the absolute tiniest little applicator. You can create the most precise wing or you can even draw your bottom lashes in if you want to”▶ 32:41
MAKE UP FOR EVER$27.00Artist Color Pencil Extreme Waterproof Lip Linershade · Wherever Walnut
Benefit Cosmetics$28.0024-HR Brow Settershade · Clear- “My brows are kind of groomed and glued down. And I'm using the Benefit 24-hour brow setter”▶ 3:32
Haus Labs$30.00
Patrick Ta$44.00
- “This one is so special and it's got to be one of my favorite palettes of the year”
- “Not only does it have these gorgeous, beautiful finishes and textures, the metallics, the foils, the sparkles, the duo and trio chromes that Danessa is so known for, but it also for the first time ever has these gorgeous mattes”▶ 28:09
- “I think this is Danessa's best work. This is the best palette that she has ever produced with her team”▶ 28:38
- “Very innovative, not just for the artist, but also for the makeup enthusiasts, which is what makes it so, so fun”▶ 28:53
- “I absolutely absolutely love this one. Got a lot of love out of me, I can tell. And it's going to continue getting that love”▶ 28:58

- “This year, I really like the Kosas Stargazer liner. I like the fact that it has a little smudger on the other side. Just a retractable pencil, very nice and black. Very easy to use”▶ 30:41

- “I really, really love her eye pencils. Her liquid liner is incredible. And this kitten lash mascara in the shade burnt umber and also shade black are just incredible”▶ 31:20

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