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bareMinerals$33.50- “This product gives me the most beautiful finish ever and let me tell you, when you're in a rush, this is so convenient”▶ 1:40
- “This melts in like butter and again, it just gives the most stunning finish ever”▶ 1:26
- “It makes your skin luminous, but not too luminous. It doesn't slide off your face, but again, just melts in like butter”▶ 1:34
- “It's just you want to be able to blend this in quick and this does just that”▶ 1:46
- “This looks gorgeous. All I have is a little bit of skin care underneath”▶ 2:03
- “so natural looking. Doesn't look like makeup, but I feel like my skin just looks perfected”▶ 2:11

- “In my opinion, it really helps to use a big brush as well. This one's by Patrick Ta”
- “I like that it's really like big, so you can blend a large area in pretty quickly”▶ 0:32
Estée Lauder$30.00- “This is the concealer that I reach for because it lasts a really long time without creasing”▶ 2:30
- “This gives a lot of coverage, so a little goes a long way, but this never looks cakey”▶ 2:47
- “I don't want something that's going to settle into my fine lines at all”▶ 2:54
- “That concealer just covered up that redness so easily”
- “Where I want that coverage, this concealer really gave me that full coverage, so it looks way more perfected and flawless without looking heavy or cakey”▶ 2:22
Patrick Ta$30.00
Haus Labs$30- “Precision is such a good word for this product because the tip of this contour is so thin, so you can really be very precise with where you apply it”▶ 4:41
- “This definitely has the consistency of a contour balm, which I appreciate because again, when you're in a rush, you don't want to use something that's very like, I don't know what the word is, like pasty and heavy and hard to blend”▶ 4:50
- “This, just watch, I'm going to blend it in and just melts like butter”▶ 5:03
- “I love the color of this product. It's not too warm, it's not too cool”▶ 6:08
- “This has very quickly become one of my favorite contour products”▶ 6:12
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- “Going in with my trusty Refy dual-sided brush. This is one of my favorite brushes for any cream product, but specifically contour”
- “I love to use this dense side to just press this into my skin”
- “I don't know how they designed this brush, but it just disperses the product so nicely. It really just softens everything into the skin and again, so quickly”
- “I feel like this brush and this contour really gives me the most quick results, but also the best results”
NARS$36.00- “This is so pretty, but I'm so annoyed and over the names that NARS picks for their products”▶ 6:38
- “Oh, this gives such a pretty glow without looking glittery and these blushes aren't too pigmented either”▶ 7:10
- “This formula blends into the skin so nicely”▶ 7:32
- “Really not shimmery like glittery. It's very much glowy, so I feel like with this kind of blush, it kind of gives you blush and highlighter in one step”▶ 7:39
- “So, if you like a glowy products without having to do like separate blush, separate highlighter, this is a really good option for you”
- “And this blush actually works surprisingly well on the lips, and the glow of it is also really pretty. It gives like a slightly frosty finish on the lip”▶ 17:29
MAKEUP BY MARIO$36.00- “I'm taking this Makeup by Mario brush. It's double-sided, but I'm using the smaller side and I'm just going to tap that blush into the cheek”▶ 7:01
Morphe$19- “This actually does give a pretty nice brightening and smoothing effect to the under eye”▶ 8:59
- “Right off the bat, I think this looks pretty good”▶ 9:02
- “I've got to say, that powder looks pretty good”▶ 9:29
- “Is it to the same level the Givenchy Prisme Libre powder was, the original formula? I don't know. It's really hard to give another powder that ranking because that was one of the best powders of all time”
- “But, for the price point, like I don't think you can go wrong with this”▶ 9:42
- “I think the packaging of this powder actually beats the Givenchy powder”▶ 9:45
- “This is definitely one of the better powders to come out from the drugstore”▶ 9:50
- “I think this is really nice”▶ 9:53
Morphe$16.00ChromaPlus 6-Pan Eyeshadow Paletteshade · Underslated- “I think this might be the perfect cool-tone palette. And for the price, this is insane”▶ 9:57
- “These shades are actually perfect. This is all you need”▶ 10:08
- “This is the perfect crease shade”
- “It's kind of hard to beat these Morphe eyeshadow palettes because the formula is so good. It's very blendable at such an affordable price point”
- “Like, I would compare this formula to my my by Mario eyeshadows, which is crazy because I love my Makeup by Mario eyeshadows”▶ 11:28
- “I can't lie, I've been reaching for my Morphe palette more than my Makeup by Mario Master Matt Neutral palette, which is uh it is just crazy to me because I do love that palette so much”▶ 11:41
- “These shadows are just not chalky at all. Such a nice formula for Morphe”▶ 12:15
- “That literally took me less than 30 seconds. That is crazy, and you get such a nice rich color with this palette”▶ 12:46
- “this eyeshadow palette in particular, and this technique when it comes to liner, really saves me a ton of time”▶ 13:20

- “I love the shape of this brush because it is so fluffy, and it just diffuses all your shadow so easily”▶ 10:49
- “But, the tip is kind of like tapered, so I can actually go into my lower lash line, and this hugs my lower lash line so that it gives, again, a really diffused look underneath the eye”▶ 10:56


Urban Decay$25.00
Lilly Lashes$18Self-Adhesive Lashesshade · Wild Child- “These took me less than a minute. I just trimmed them, plunked them on, and we are good to go”
- “And yes, they do actually stay on throughout the day”▶ 15:25
- “Another cool thing about these lashes is you can rewear them up to five times, which I think is great. So, you can really get your money's worth”
- “It definitely takes a little bit of getting used to applying these, but once you get it down, it's super easy”▶ 15:53
Sweed Beauty$25.00- “The key here is that this liner is not white. It's actually kind of like a pinkish color, but it really just brightens your eyes and makes them look a lot more bigger and a lot more awake”▶ 16:17
- “This is the best liner that I've ever used for this technique. I highly recommend this one specifically”▶ 16:27
- “I've just never used another liner that has this tone that's this easy to apply”▶ 16:32
- “A lot of liners don't stick to your lower lash line very well, and it's really annoying”▶ 16:37
The Overliner Lip Liner Pencilshade · Skinny Dip- “This is the perfect cool tone liner. It is so nice”▶ 16:54
- “I love the formula, too. It's creamy, but not too creamy that it slips around all over the place. So good for overlining”▶ 17:01
- “Like, look at that color. It is so perfect. It's not too pink. It's not too brown. It's not too purple, either. It's literally the perfect shade, and look how much bigger my lips look”▶ 17:09
Merit$38.00- “This is like a foundation slash concealer stick that is actually really good for all over the face. I love this as a concealer and foundation. So good for traveling”▶ 17:53
- “But, I do actually like this to make my lips a little more nude. So, I'll just tap this right in the center of my lip just to give it kind of that perfect nude look”▶ 18:02
- “I'm a sucker for a concealer lip. I love a pale nude lip. I just think this looks so pretty”▶ 18:16
YSL Beauty$40.00- “These really do plump. So, if you don't like the plumping gloss, you're not going to like these, but I don't mind”▶ 18:40
- “This shade is so pretty. It's just like a very pale pink shimmery gloss”▶ 18:45
- “This is one of the prettiest lip glosses. I love how this color looks in the bottle. I love the packaging. I just think this is gorgeous”▶ 18:18
Smashbox$46- “And I actually think this is a really well-rounded palette. You have contour here, you have a highlight shade, you have a couple shimmery kind of highlighter shades”▶ 19:15
- “I just think this palette is really pretty”▶ 19:32
- “If you kind of want an all-in-one face palette, this one might be good for you”▶ 19:36
- “Again, a really great way to save time to have all of your products in one place”▶ 19:41
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