Buy This, Not That! Makeup Products I'd Skip (& What to Buy Instead)
Patrick Ta$58.00- “I felt that it stayed very tacky on the skin”▶ 0:48
- “It didn't really set”▶ 0:52
- “It felt like tacky, or if I touched my face, it would transfer all over my fingers, or whatever touched my face, it would transfer on”▶ 0:52
- “It was very shiny”▶ 0:59
- “It was very greasy”▶ 1:01
- “It felt heavy, like I could actually feel the makeup on my skin”▶ 1:01
- “I could not get used to it”▶ 1:11
- “All day I felt like I had sticky tacky makeup on my skin”▶ 1:13
Hung Vanngo Beauty$46.00- “It just gives the skin a beautiful luminous glow without feeling sticky or heavy or tacky on the skin”▶ 1:41
- “It's actually very pleasant to wear”▶ 1:46
- “It does give you this luminous glow, but to me it doesn't feel like too shiny or too greasy”▶ 1:50
- “This one felt very like skincare ingredient focused”▶ 2:02
- “It just felt really pleasant and nice on the skin”▶ 2:06
- “I also love that all the shades that he launched are neutral shades”▶ 2:09
- “It's a perfect match”▶ 2:18
- “Really highly recommend this if you haven't tried this”▶ 2:18
- “I think that this would be best suited for dry, dehydrated, normal skin”▶ 2:21
- “I do think combo skin could wear this”▶ 2:26
- “You'll probably want to powder and set in a few areas”▶ 2:28
- “If you've really oily skin, I'd probably skip this and go with something a bit more matte”▶ 2:29
Charlotte Tilbury$36.00
Estée Lauder$30.00- “I love this”
- “Been my go-to this summer because it is so long wearing and it feels so lightweight, but it gives great coverage”▶ 3:22
- “I also really love the applicator of this”▶ 3:30
- “It's nice and wide”▶ 3:35
- “It allows you to really spread product without having to add extra product”▶ 3:37
- “I think a lot of times we over apply our concealer, me included, because the wands are not designed in a way that helps you spread the product”▶ 3:39
- “It's one of the best weightless matte full coverage concealers that is long-wearing out there without looking dry”▶ 3:57
Saie$26.00
MAC Cosmetics$30.00Strobe Beam Bronzelightershade · Flashlight
Tatcha$40- “It does not like it just feels very like watered down to me and diluted”▶ 5:30
- “It doesn't feel like lip balms are these days”▶ 5:34
- “It is very weightless, but in the sense that it doesn't stay on the lips”▶ 5:44
- “For a lip mask or a lip conditioner, you want it to be thick enough to where it really sits on the lips and it doesn't move”▶ 5:49
- “I felt like a a few of this or that or a drink and this was gone off of my lips”▶ 5:53
- “It was very watered down”▶ 5:59
- “I was actually like shocked about how disappointed I was in this”▶ 6:00
Ravie Beauty$24.00- “This one is so so nice”
- “It's just so conditioning, it's plumping”▶ 6:09
- “You can apply this as a gloss on top of liner or lipstick if you want to wear it as a gloss”▶ 6:11
- “I keep one of these by my nightstand and I wear this before I go to bed”▶ 6:15
- “It's part of my skin care routine, so I'll do all my skin care and then I always put a lip conditioner or a lip mask on my lips as my last step of my skin care and this is one of my go-tos”▶ 6:18
- “It feels amazing”▶ 6:28
- “You actually apply this and you like want to close your eyes and just savor the moment”▶ 6:28
- “Highly recommend this one if you're looking for a good clear lip mask or lip conditioner”▶ 6:34
Yves Saint Laurent$40.85- “It is like this like lip balm that gives a blurred look to the lips and it's supposed to have a matte finish to it”▶ 6:52
- “I swatched this on my hand at Sephora and I loved the color”▶ 6:58
- “I felt like it was really smooth and lightweight”▶ 7:00
- “When you swatch it on your hand, you can't compare it”▶ 7:06
- “My lips are very dry. They're textured. There's a lot of like lines and texture in my lips”▶ 7:11
- “I was thinking about an alternative to recommend”▶ 7:24
- “I just generally don't like these type of products”▶ 7:32
- “I love the blurring effect”▶ 7:34
- “I just don't like the matte or the dryness to these type of products”▶ 7:36
Lancôme$32.00Lip Idôle Squalane-12 Butterglow Hydrating Lip Balmshade · 36 Nude Now- “They're a little sheer, but you can kind of build up some color”▶ 8:17
- “They're just so pretty and comfortable on the lips”▶ 8:20
- “They add some shine”▶ 8:23
- “They're just easy to throw on”▶ 8:29
- “If you're looking for an easy lip product to throw on to give you a little color, to give you a little hydration, and you don't have to have a mirror because it has to it doesn't have to be so precise, these are great”▶ 8:30
Rare Beauty$25.00- “It's a challenging product to work with for many people”▶ 9:09
- “You really have to be careful not to apply too much”
- “These are so pigmented”
- “It took me the longest time to like really embrace this product because I would apply it as if I were applying any other liquid blush”▶ 9:22
- “I was always applying like three to four times too much product, and I really need to back down because I was just looking like a clown”▶ 9:30
- “I do feel like they have good staying power”▶ 9:38
- “I do like the color range”▶ 9:39
- “I'm not saying that this is a bad product, but I am saying that if you're looking for a liquid blush, there are others that are a little more forgiving and a little easier to work with”▶ 9:41
- “If you love a lot of color and you're like, 'Hey Lisa, the more pigment the better.' By all means, this is going to be your favorite”▶ 9:50
NARS$36.00Insatiable Longwearing Liquid Blushshade · Orgasm Fantasy- “This formula is new”
- “I have it on my cheeks today”▶ 10:12
- “Really beautiful”▶ 10:14
- “Definitely buildable, so it's going to give you a light kind of wash of color, but then you can build up to get a little more”▶ 10:14
- “It does have a very luminous finish, so you're going to have a little bit of a glow, but there's no pearl particles or shimmer in this”▶ 10:20
- “You're getting a glow to the skin without that pearl particle to it”▶ 10:27
- “It's really beautiful and I love the color”▶ 10:30
Kosas$38.00
Huda Beauty$29.00
Gucci$65
Charlotte Tilbury$50.00- “It's nice to have a touch-up powder that is a little bit on the more sheer side and that's why I love this”▶ 12:43
- “This is what I'd recommend for the purse”
Kosas$38Cloud Set Baked Setting & Smoothing Talc-Free Vegan Powdershade · Feathery
Lancôme$30.00- “I really didn't like this”▶ 13:02
- “I feel like this didn't do much for my lashes at all”▶ 13:04
- “I liked the wand when I saw it at Sephora”▶ 13:06
- “It's like this, you know, tiny little wand with tiny little teeth”▶ 13:10
- “I like them when they're nice and tight like this because they don't really create a lot of mess”▶ 13:11
- “It's easy to control and really grab each lash, but I just felt like I didn't see much benefit to this mascara at all”▶ 13:16
- “It was actually pretty terrible in my opinion”▶ 13:23
- “The mascara that I'm really loving, if you want some length, is the YSL Lash Latex”▶ 16:01
- no stillCharlotte Tilbury$32.00
- “I did not care for these”
- “They're going on my hand nice and creamy, but when I put them on my eye, I just was like, these are really nothing special”
- “I really love, this should come as no surprise, my Bobbi Brown”
- “They're so creamy, which gives you a lot of time to blend it out, or manipulate it with a brush or your finger”▶ 14:46
- “Once they set, they really do stay in place, and they don't crease or fade throughout the day”▶ 14:50
- “The shimmer is very refined”▶ 15:20
- “The product is still real nice and creamy”▶ 15:23
- “They are one of the few brands I think that does both shimmer and mattes to, you know, just very exceptionally”▶ 15:25
- “I have a few shades here that I recommend”
- “I have them on my eyes today”
- “I have the shade taupe”
- “I also have a little bit of golden pink in the inner corner of my eye that's giving me that highlight”▶ 14:55
- “I also lined my upper lashes with it”▶ 15:38
- “This is golden bronze. This is a beautiful color. It's got some, you know, kind of foiled metallic finish to it”▶ 15:40
- “I also have a little bit of golden bronze, which I love this color right here”▶ 15:30
- “This is nude beach. If you want a little light, actually this isn't going on light on my hand, but this is kind of like a mauvy neutral, little bit more pinky”▶ 15:49
- “Usually I will sheer it out pretty light on the eyes”▶ 15:57
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