HOLY GRAIL MAKEUP, ONLY. (2026)
RMS Beauty$49.00ReFresh Eye Brightener Broad Spectrum SPF 30shade · Adore- “I usually really hate SPF color correcting kind of like eye cream with a little tint for like the everyday, that kind of thing. I usually really dislike those kinds of products and this is one of the only ones that is thin enough but hydrating enough”▶ 1:34
- “Like it has that good balance to it”▶ 1:50
- “I think that this works better than a lot of the concealers for hollow under eyes that a lot of people recommend”▶ 1:52
- “Like I think that this is a better product”▶ 1:59
Kosas$45Revealer Skin-Improving Foundation SPF 25shade · 130- “This is a foundation I have used for years. It's definitely an old favorite”▶ 2:05
- “It is still a holy grail”▶ 2:11
- “What I really, really enjoy about this foundation is it has quite a lot of moisture without it necessarily being one of these obnoxiously self-setting smoothing, blurring foundations”▶ 2:25
- “This to me is just one of those great add moisture and coverage to the skin products”▶ 2:40
- “Think of this almost as like an IT Cosmetics CC cream kind of product”▶ 2:49
- “It is creamier though. It is almost like a BB cream kind of texture”▶ 3:11
- “So this was one pump and you see I have good coverage. I have really nice coverage”▶ 3:16
- “It's very creamy on the skin”
Kosas$30.00Revealer Super Creamy + Brightening Concealershade · 1.5 C- “With the Kosas and the Revealer foundation, they really blend like perfectly together”▶ 3:56
- “This is my classic shade that I use really no matter what”▶ 4:04
- “I think the undertone is really nice to cancel out some of these like blues and purples that I have with my veins”▶ 4:09
- “This is just such a good classic dry skin friendly base”▶ 4:24
- “It's all here. It just always looks good”▶ 4:27
Tower 28 Beauty$24.00Swipe All-Over Hydrating Serum Concealershade · BU
Saie$26.00Dew Bronze Soft-Focus Effortless Liquid Bronzershade · Sand- “This is just an incredibly user-friendly bronzer that is just going to get along with so many people”▶ 4:51
- “It's going to be just like a great easy to work with bronzer for the summer”▶ 4:57
- “It's always going to look very natural”▶ 5:10
- “It has a little bit of pink to it”
- “I think just looks so freaking natural”▶ 5:31
- “These just blend themselves out and they do not look heavy and thick”▶ 5:51
- “I just think that they're really really fantastic”▶ 5:57
- “I actually think that they are pretty price competitive for this kind of formula”▶ 6:07
- “I think that it absolutely beats some of the products that people just like go on and on and rave about”▶ 6:12
- “If we're talking strictly about performance, I think you're way better going with something like the Saie bronzer”▶ 6:36
- “Like you cannot tell that I have a bunch of texture going on here with the Saie Dew Bronze”▶ 8:15
Westman Atelier$58.00Sun Tone Hydrating Matte Bronzing Dropsshade · 1 Parfait- “I think the drops are better than the bronzer”▶ 6:45
- “This shade, if someone's after a shade that's not like straight warm orange, orange orange, I think that this shade absolutely fits the bill”▶ 7:10
- “It is definitely just has way way more pink”▶ 7:25
- “The Westman Atelier I think is excellent for very very fair skin”▶ 7:44
- “I think the drops are better than the cream”
- “If you're like me, I would just say those drops and the liquids are a much better bet”▶ 8:03
- “They're going to sit more evenly on the skin”▶ 8:08
- “And it does have a glowier kind of finish to it”▶ 8:55
- “But it really stipples in beautifully”
SOSHE Beauty$28.00Blurring Pillow Blushshade · Bare Muse- “I think that these are the most innovative formula”▶ 9:58
- “It's such an incredibly unique blush”▶ 10:13
- “If you have fair olive skin or in general you prefer these beiges, something a little desaturated has a little brown. It's just one of those all-in-one colors and it's fantastic”▶ 10:26
- “It is so so lovely”
- “It's that like, you know, is she even wearing blush kind of look”▶ 10:48
- “It is blurring. It is softening”▶ 10:53
- “It's like you cannot mess up this formula. It's so foolproof”▶ 10:56
- “It just has this like finishing powder effect”▶ 11:10
- “The best like no blush blush”▶ 11:26
- “It has this really like again blurry plushy kind of texture”▶ 11:48
- “It's just best blush formulas I have ever used”▶ 11:54
- “Just how blurring and softening it is. It just feels like a really elegant kind of elevated formula”▶ 14:49
SOSHE Beauty$28.00Blurring Pillow Blushshade · Copper Spice- “Copper Spice is essentially like a version of Toasted Teddy. It's a bronzer shade”▶ 12:11
- “This is pretty pigmented, so I'm not going to use like a ton of it”▶ 13:00
- “I will usually just use this alone as a blush bronzer hybrid if I'm going for that like sunflushed almost like that sunburnt kind of look”▶ 13:06
- “You see how it just brings this sun-kissed youthful kind of vibe”▶ 13:47
Dew Blush Liquid Cream Blushshade · Hottie
- “Kosas Cloud Set to me, this is my like everyday holy grail powder”▶ 15:54
- “This does such an elegant job at setting those areas without everything looking dry and heavy”▶ 16:40
- “Sometimes powders can really look waxy on the skin. You see how that just like perfected everything without sacrificing the quality look of my skin”▶ 16:47
- “God, this is so good. It's just it's a fantastic one”▶ 17:07
- “If I'm setting my face in the summer and I don't want my skin to look dry and heavy, but I need something to like help with longevity, this is the go-to”▶ 17:14
- “This isn't kind of a holy grail. It's been a holy grail literally since the launch”▶ 17:21
RMS Beauty$54.00Hydra Setting Powdershade · Light- “I think if I want more glam, I would go with the RMS”▶ 16:02
Rituel de Fille$39.00Ash and Ember Eye Sootshade · Half Light- “It is really difficult to find this kind of formula anywhere else”▶ 18:27
- “Rituel de Fille kind of pigment mixed with emollient kind of texture to them”▶ 18:31
- “You see how like they have that grungy kind of sy melting into the skin kind of look”▶ 18:42
- “Gave great definition but also didn't stray too far into the like metallic realm because this is not metallic”▶ 18:46
- “It's like something in between a metallic and a satin. I think closest it's closest to a satin”▶ 19:00
- “Gorgeous light reflection creamy quality, but it's not a cream. It's that cream powder kind of hybrid”▶ 19:07
- “For me personally, I do not think it gets much better than that”▶ 19:47
- “How like the swatches never even fully give it justice like when it goes on the eyes how it like turns into this lovely emollient creamy light reflective kind of vibe”▶ 20:04
- “It's never fully realized until it's on the eyes”
Rituel de Fille$39.00Ash and Ember Eye Sootshade · Anima- “This is more of that pink kind of taupey shade”▶ 19:55
SOSHE Beauty$24.00Waterproof Precision Eyelinershade · Brown
Sweed Beauty$30.00- “These days I actually am using my Sweed Beauty Lash Lift even more and that is unheard of for me”▶ 21:48
- “I will say that I wish the stopper was a little bit better and it removed the extra product more because I find that sometimes it has the perfect amount on it and then sometimes it gets gunked up. So that is one thing I don't like about it”▶ 22:01
- “It's still a holy grail though and I'm about to show you why”▶ 22:14
- “It is that lash lift effect. You just comb it through”▶ 22:26
- “And then my lashes are like freaking sky high”▶ 22:31
- “It just is one of those mascaras that if you are into that really defined, super lengthened look, but you don't want them to look kind of limp”▶ 22:35
- “I want my lashes to look really pretty and defined like this, but I also want them to be fanned out”▶ 22:42
- “I want them to have some definition. I don't want them to look kind of limp and undefined”▶ 22:46
- “This does a beautiful job of truly giving you that fluffy lash look while everything is defined and lengthened”▶ 23:01
- “You still want it to have a good fluff. You still want it to look like natural lashes”▶ 23:13
- “This is one coat. Beautiful. Very light, very fluffy”▶ 23:19
- “But you can build this up”▶ 23:22
- “This is why this so quickly became a holy grail last year for me”▶ 23:26
Westman Atelier$50.00HydroBalm Tinted Lipstickshade · Bob- “It's thinner. It's buildable. It's sheer”▶ 25:02
- “It's a satin lipstick, but it also is kind of balmy in a sense that is more sheer, but it's not going to gloop up and get really glossy as you continue to apply it, which I really love”▶ 25:04
- “It's stiffer. It's layerable, but it's not going to start turning into a really glossy effect”▶ 25:13
- “It just adds just the right amount of balmy moisture without it being a glossy lipstick”▶ 25:56
- “Still very thin on the lips, which I really, really, really enjoy”▶ 26:09
SOSHE Beauty$28.00Ceramide Refillable Lip Silkshade · Speakeasy- “This is a go-to for me”
- “The SOSHE Beauty builds up faster with pigment”▶ 25:28
- “It's something between an eye gloss and a jelly, but look at that. Stunning”▶ 31:12
- “And it looks stunning on the eyes”▶ 31:21
- “It to me it's like a cream version of Halflight with these intense sparkles added in in a creamier kind of texture”▶ 31:24
- “This absolutely has both a wet uh sparkle vibe to it and also like texturally will give you that wet look because it's creamier”▶ 31:32
- “They really like melt into each other well”
- “They make a lot of sense together in my opinion”▶ 32:18
- “My favorite shampoo of all time is at Credo the ARES Healthy Hair Shampoo”▶ 26:18
- “If you find that all shampoos weigh down your hair in general, your scalp gets pretty greasy pretty quickly”▶ 26:24
- “And also at the same time, your hair holds a lot of water and takes forever to blow dry. This speeds up blow-dry time like crazy”▶ 26:32
- “It has truly made a difference in making my hair silky and healthy, but not weighed down with product”▶ 26:40
- “This is no joke the perfect balancing but hydrating shampoo I have ever used in my life”▶ 26:49
- “It is my number one favorite. Always my number one favorite”▶ 26:56
- “It also has the ARES bond technology in it”
DedCool$30.00- “Taunt is I would say still is one of my signature fragrances”▶ 28:43
- “I just think it's the edgiest cool girl vanilla”▶ 28:50
- “It has this musky ambery kind of base to it”▶ 28:58
- “This is like deep rich vanilla mixed with it. It is so sexy”▶ 29:12
- “It is a very very good one”
- “It's fantastic”
- “One of the best in my opinion”
DedCool$90.00
DedCool$90.00- “DedCool Extra Milk has a little bit more of the lactic kind of smell, but not again, to me, it's not in like a weird way”▶ 30:14
- “It's just that fresh milky laundry slightly”▶ 30:25
- “It's so ever so slightly sweet”▶ 30:33
- “This one way more to me feels like this is the most like if we're thinking no makeup makeup, this is the most no fragrance fragrance smell”▶ 30:36
- “Just kind of smells like a little like oh she just smells good or they just smell good”▶ 30:43
- “I definitely at this point recommend extra milk over milk, the OG milk, because this lasts longer”▶ 30:58
evolvetogether$58.00Restorative Hand Washshade · Orange Blossom Jasmine- “I got to tell you, if there's one that I have been like, my boyfriend and I both were just like, I just freaking love that soap. I love that soap so much”▶ 27:46
- “It is hydrating and it just has that it is definitely that like hotel soap vibe like you know when you go to a fancy hotel and like all of the essentials that they give you are all really lovely smelling and feel expensive”▶ 28:02
- “Yeah, this is that vibe for sure”▶ 28:14
- “It is a very nice treat”
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