TOP 3 FAVES IN EVERY MAKEUP CATEGORY 2025!
Purito$21.50
Milani$17.50- “It's affordable”
- “It took the place of the glowish primer, my hooded beauty primer”▶ 5:42
- “These are thicker primers which almost give a cooling sensation on the skin and also help fill in any pores, fine lines”▶ 5:45
- “It just really provides a smooth, blurred canvas so that when you put your foundation on top, it just goes on more evenly and smoothly and doesn't settle into those problem areas”▶ 5:52
- “My makeup just looks way better when I use this”▶ 6:02
- “I can do a more dewy look like this and not be worried about my pores because I feel like my skin is just nice and smoothed out with this”▶ 6:07
MAKEUP BY MARIO$48.00SurrealSkin Natural Finish Foundationshade · 12O- “I like to mix something that's dewy with something more matte”▶ 6:26
- no stillMAKEUP BY MARIO$48.00SurrealSkin® Luminous Hydrating Foundationshade · 12O
- “I like to mix something that's dewy with something more matte”
L'Oreal Paris$14.99
Benefit Cosmetics$47.00- “I don't find it overly matte. It just is the perfect flawless finish”▶ 7:07
- “Kind of gives me what these two combined give me, which I've been doing lately”▶ 7:12
- “I love this just on its own”▶ 7:17
- “If you're looking for a really flawless longwear finish, the Benefit one I love, but I don't hear enough people talk about it, which I was shocked to love this as much as I do”▶ 7:18
- “That was one of my favorite product launches this year”▶ 7:26
beautyblender$29.00
Purito$21.49
Kylie Cosmetics$34.00Skin Tint Blurring Elixir Foundationshade · 5N
NARS$36.00Soft Matte Complete Concealershade · Macadamia- “It is so thin, longwearing, doesn't crease, it is smooth. It gives me everything I'm looking for”▶ 9:36
- “It doesn't age my under eye”▶ 9:44
- “I sometimes use this all over my face as a foundation because I just love the finish of this and the wear”▶ 9:46
- “I could limit it down to just this one concealer”▶ 9:51
- “If you've not tried this, I feel everyone could use a good concealer. Please try this. Please. I love it so much”▶ 9:57
MAKEUP BY MARIO$38.00SurrealSkin Soft Blur Setting Powdershade · 2
Laura Mercier$54.00- “Incredible. I'm wearing this on my skin today. It will give you a flawless finish”▶ 11:32
- “This helps me achieve the coverage, the smoothness, and then I will go in and do the glow that I like to keep everything looking fresh and not dry”▶ 11:34
- “Coverage if you're looking for you want a powder foundation option, that is my recommendation to you”▶ 11:54
Kosas$38Cloud Set Baked Setting & Smoothing Talc-Free Vegan Powdershade · Candy, Comfy and Breezy
Rare Beauty$26Soft Pinch Liquid Contourshade · Serene- “I like this glowy look, but having dry skin is hard to achieve sometimes. But I do find when you use creams and liquids, when your skin gets kind of on the drier side, it's the best for our skin”▶ 12:57
- “The formula is just so easy to build, blend, and you can't mess up with that formula”▶ 13:16
- “Even though it's a liquid, you might be scared. You can't mess up with that. It is really that good”▶ 13:19
- no stillSaie$26.00Dew Bronze Soft-Focus Effortless Liquid Bronzershade · Swim
Haus Labs$35Power Sculpt Velvet Talc-Free Powder Bronzershade · Terraas Soul
Gucci$65- “I fell in love with it that I actually need to buy a new one of this. I forgot how good it was”▶ 14:03
- “I love the tone of this. It also has this sort of sheen glow which really makes the skin more healthy looking, especially if you mattify yourself first like I do”▶ 14:09
- “This is one of those ways that I bring back the natural glow to my skin and gives that really subtle bronzy look”▶ 14:19
- “You can't mess up this color either”▶ 14:25
- “This I would highly recommend for bronzer”▶ 14:30
Major Dimension Blush Duoshade · Not Too Much
Tower 28 Beauty$20.00BeachPlease Lip + Cheek Dewy Cream Blushshade · Long Beach Iced Tea
Rare Beauty$24.00Soft Pinch Liquid Blushshade · Grateful- “I love a red blush. That's something I discovered is so flattering”▶ 15:40
- “Something about a deep tone on my cheeks, just super flattering. It helps contour my face almost”▶ 15:49
- “It looks really natural. Might be scary, but trust me when I tell you a red blush will do wonders for your complexion”▶ 15:57
- “It also looks like how we naturally flush”▶ 16:04
- “The Rare Beauty would last you forever. If they have a mini of this, just get the mini because you don't need the full size”
Charlotte Tilbury$44.00Unreal Blush Healthy Glow Stickshade · Rosy Glow- “Initially, I was going to pass on this launch, but I'm so glad I didn't because this shade gives you glow to the cheeks”▶ 16:19
- “This is exactly for formula wise how I want my cheeks to look. I want it to look healthy, glowy, evenly pigmented”▶ 16:26
- “It's just such a beautiful natural pink shade on me that's still punchy almost. It's like natural and not at the same time”▶ 16:32
Rhode$25.00Pocket Blush Buildable Hydrating Cream Blushshade · Toasted Teddy & Tan Line- “I don't think I've ever seen my cheeks look this good, as I did in that tutorial I showed you guys”▶ 16:51
- “Beautiful combination, healthy, glowy cheeks”▶ 17:12
- “These can also go on your lips, too. So, very versatile product, which I love”▶ 17:14
- “This is my favorite thing that Rhode does is their pocket blushes”▶ 17:21
- “I didn't think their makeup would surpass their skin care for me, but the makeup truly does for me, especially the pocket blushes”▶ 17:25
- “I would highly recommend checking out those colors, especially if you like the cheeks that I have going on now”▶ 17:31
Dior$54.00
NYX$14.00- “This formula truly shows that you do not need to spend high-end price tag on highlighter”▶ 18:23
- “This is what I have on my nose right now just to help with the contour there”▶ 18:29
- “I love how high shine this is. I can use my finger to put on my skin. It's almost like a creamy powder which I love and affordable”▶ 18:33
Sephora Collection$15.00Colorful® Powder Luminizershade · Sparkling Honey- “If you like the Dior palette and are looking for singles because you only like certain colors in that palette, just get Sephora collection because these are incredible for the formula”▶ 18:41
- “They have that baked jelly sort of texture. Go on the skin so smooth. You can do it really pigmented and sparkling honey is the most perfect tone for my skin I've ever found in a highlight”▶ 18:53
Sephora Collection$16.00Gleam & Go Liquid Luminizershade · Ice Pearl- “The perfect inner corner highlight. If you're looking for really really bright inner corner, look no further than Sephora Collection”▶ 19:10
One/Size$34
Naked Sundays$27.00- “I use it so much that the label came off”▶ 20:41
- “It's an SPF 50 reapplication mist. And this, if you need to reapply your sunscreen throughout the day and you wear makeup, is what you need”▶ 20:43
- “Definitely check this out because I know often those who wear makeup probably forget to reapply sunscreen throughout the day. This is a great way to do so”
Rare Beauty$21.00- “The Rare Beauty brow gel is even better than my Benefit. It holds my brows more, and I like to put it down first just to create the shape for my brow”▶ 21:43
L'Oreal Paris$8.99- “Since discovering this, best brows of my life. I actually have what looks like hairs at the front of my brows”▶ 22:17
- “This does the best job because it's so fine. It does it quick cuz there's two prongs and just the most glorious invention from L'Oreal”▶ 22:30
- “Thank you so much for this. I will forever repurchase as long as the market”▶ 22:40
- “It is the best pen for my brows”
Patrick Ta$44.00- “This is probably my favorite palette ever is the first one from Patrick Ta just because you can get really glam looks or you can do more natural makeup”▶ 23:01
Patrick Ta$70.00- “I like the third because you have both cool and warm matte tones. So, you can kind of supplement that with any sort of eyeshadow palette”▶ 22:54
Hung Vanngo Beauty$49.00- “This to me didn't draw my eyes in terms of all the palettes he came out with. I'm shocked that this is the one that I've been using the most because I thought I'd like new neutral”▶ 23:20
- “This is the wonderful warmth. Looks like a basic color story palette, but the formulas to me are so blendable and create that effortless sort of soft glam makeup that is just easy to achieve for everyday”▶ 23:33
Master Mattes Long-Wear Cream Eyeshadowshade · Chestnut
Danessa Myricks Beauty$38.00
Rare Beauty$22- “It is matte and black, really precise because it has a brush tip over a felt tip”▶ 25:05
Hung Vanngo Beauty$24.00
Sephora Collection$5.0012HR Colorful Waterproof Retractable Eyelinershade · Eggplant Matte and Cabernet Matte- “Depending on kind of the tone that I want to bring out my eye color, these are everyday sort of liners for me”▶ 25:36
- “I just put it on an angle brush, put this along my lash line. Just gives that subtle color to really bring out my eye color. I love these”▶ 25:42
- “I've recommended them for a while now, but they definitely made it into my top three”▶ 25:49
- no still
- no stillHourglass$34
- “I have it in black and brown. I'm wearing that today”
MAC Cosmetics$28.00- “I love this because of the brush for my lashes and I don't find it smudges”▶ 26:13
Huda Beauty$23.00Lip Contour 2.0 Automatic Matte Lip Pencilshade · Soft Nude and Toasty Brown
MAC Cosmetics$22.00Lip Pencilshade · Root for Me!- “MAC lip pencils always I feel like are going to be a top three for me”▶ 27:29
- “I recently discovered this root for me color which is really dark. Not wearing it today, but it's really nice blended out. I love that contrasting look as of recently”
Charlotte Tilbury$28.00- “I love the convenience of this to having both the lip line to fill in with the other side or to line if I want it slightly lighter”▶ 27:53
- “This just lives in my purse and it's easy for touch-ups if I needed to touch up, but genuinely I've been staining my lips as of lately, so I don't really need to touch it up”▶ 28:01
Rhode$19.99Peptide Lip Treatmentshade · Salty Tan- “I love a mauve. It's just such a pretty flattering color and this I do find actually hydrates my lips and smooths out the lines”▶ 28:28
- “I hated the old formula of these. Okay, so they were grainy. I never reached for them. I did not like the old formula. This is incredible. It is smooth. It's what I wanted these to be”▶ 28:38
Lip Butter Balmshade · Pink Guava
Anastasia Beverly Hills$28.00Lip Velvetshade · Pure Hollywood
M·A·Cximal Silky Matte Lipstickshade · Flesh Pot- “The lipstick I pulled was Flesh Pot from MAC, which is a really good center lightener for me”▶ 29:41
Armani Beauty$40.00
KAYALI$150.00- “This one is my number one perfume”
- “I love to smell like strawberry. I can't see how anyone wouldn't like this. How could you not like a strawberry milkshake?”▶ 30:58
- “I want to smell yummy and this smells so yummy”▶ 31:10
- “I don't find it offensive because when I wear it, people just say I smell light and they can smell me”▶ 31:15
Clean$118.00- “This smells great like after the shower you just smell clean, which typically I wouldn't say I like clean scents, but this is clean done right”▶ 31:46
- “Floral musk. Oh, yes. This to me is unisex. I feel like anyone could wear this and it just smells so appealing”▶ 31:54
- “If everyone smelt like this, I would be happy”▶ 32:00
- “This can flip-flop with my first place spot quite honestly just because of how much I love this and it's just happiness coziness in a bottle to me”▶ 32:07
Le Labo$240.00- “This is my elegant, elevated, not everyone around me is going to smell like this”▶ 32:21
- “I feel like because this is online only that I don't ever smell anyone around me with this smell, even though I feel like this is fairly popular online or for the fragrance community”▶ 32:24
- “This is such a great scent from Le Labo, their first launch, and I can't wait to smell their new one, which I haven't yet, but 22 hours is a go-to of mine”▶ 32:35
- “From the packaging to the scent, this is elegance in a bottle. Something that's ingrained in my mind and just a signature scent of mine that I cannot get enough of”▶ 32:44
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