Sephora Sale 2026: What You DON’T Need, Hidden Gems & My Top Picks
Too Faced$39.00Born This Way Super Glow Multi-Use Highlighting Skin Enhancershade · Honey Glow
MAKEUP BY MARIO$48.00SurrealSkin Foundationshade · 8N- “It has a really beautiful pearlescent finish throughout”▶ 4:43
- “It feels very thick and it's just not a foundation anymore that I grab for because it does kind of pretty thick and heavy on the skin”▶ 4:49
- “As your oils peek through, this doesn't look like skin anymore. It does kind of look greasy”▶ 5:10
MAC Cosmetics$39.00
MAC Cosmetics$39.00- “I think they're beautiful foundations. They both wear really well”
- “I just don't think you need it. Like out of all the foundations at Sephora, I just don't think you need it”▶ 6:48
Armani Beauty$69.00
Caliray$27.55
Milk Makeup$30.00
Dior$34.00- “They are pretty. I do like them”
- “It's almost too ethereal. I can't see it. And I have to dig into it so much”▶ 10:52
- “One was a beautiful white sparkly highlighter that I didn't think had a lot of back color, but you can see when I shift it in the light like this, it's blue”▶ 11:02
- “I would love this to have had a golden or pure silver undertone instead of a blue undertone. That makes it harder for me to use”▶ 11:16
Haus Labs$28Color Fuse Glassy Blush Balm Stickshade · Glassy Cinnamon
Saie$26.00Dew Blush Liquid Cream Blushshade · Cutie
SoftLine Lip Linershade · Pecan and Sugar- “These are gorgeous. They go on so well. I freaking love the colors”▶ 14:13
- “I like their lip stains better. So, I think if you're going to spend money on a lip product, get their lip stain”▶ 14:33
- “There are also so many at the drugstore. This is a pencil lip liner. I love them. I'm so glad I have them”▶ 14:46
Too Faced$34.00Sun Bunny Blushing Bronzershade · Strawberry Bunny and Sun Bunny- “They are gorgeous. They smell divine. I like them a lot”▶ 16:44
- “They are not for everyone. They are not for a lot of people actually, I would think, because they are so shimmery”▶ 16:57
- “It's a kind of baked formula that is very shimmery. It looks nice at first and then at the end of the day, unless that's really your look or you really have dry skin or you really just want to be kind of a disco ball, you do look dirty, greasy right in here”▶ 17:12
Givenchy$76.00- “I was super excited because it was very neutral and I was like, 'Oh, great. A super neutral, beautiful, amazing looking bronzer.' It's just very okay”▶ 17:58
- “This particular color for fair skin leans a little too neutral and it doesn't bronze me”▶ 18:08
- “I love this formula, but this is straight up orange in a compact”▶ 18:25
- “It is just very easy to go in heavyhanded with this. I think you just have to do a barely like tap tap tap and you're kind of good to go”▶ 18:36
Rare Beauty$30Warm Wishes Soft Matte Powder Bronzershade · Warmed Up- “I love the smoothness and the glide of this formula”▶ 19:07
tarte$32.00- “This is truly the most beautiful brightening creaseless concealer”▶ 20:18
- “It feels so lovely”
- “The formula is so thin. You see how it just blends into absolute nothing on my skin”▶ 20:31
- “If you are in the market for a good concealer that you like coverage, you have dark under eyes, but you really hate how heavy some of these other ones are, which are good, but like this is not your vibe, this is beautiful and definitely is something worth checking out”▶ 20:46
Lawless$36Talc-Free Skin-Smoothing Perfecting Powdershade · Tutu
Lawless$22.00- “It feels like a gel to water cream sort of base and then it really feels like it fills in your skin and fills in your pores, but it's a hydrating pore filling smoothing incredible essence”▶ 22:22
- “It is like a spa trip for your face in like 2 seconds”▶ 22:38
- “I absolutely love this in every foundation I put on top of it. It's like I need less because it glides over it so nicely”▶ 22:41
- “If you have dry skin, girl, I'm telling you”▶ 22:52
tarte$38.00- “The cream in here is really where my heart is at because as somebody who patches a lot on their dry skin, this gives me the most beautiful overall even tone ever”▶ 23:30
- “The undertones of this are just so so beautiful”▶ 23:44
- “I love the packaging. I love everything about these”▶ 23:54
- “The powder right here feels like absolute silk butter and it goes on that way”▶ 24:32
- “It gives you the most natural, even kind of barely there, not overly orange look to your skin”▶ 24:43
Laura Mercier$44.00
- “This just feels again like a spa. It's like a day at the spa. It is so beautiful”▶ 26:13
- “It obviously lays under makeup so well, and it does almost fill in the skin a little bit”▶ 26:35
- “It makes the immediate application of your makeup look like your oils have peaked through in a good way, but it doesn't add to that fact throughout the day”▶ 26:43
m.ph by Mary Phillips$49.00- “It is one of the more weightless foundations I have ever worn”▶ 29:03
- “It really does give coverage, but not too much to where you look like, ah, you're wearing foundation, aren't you?”▶ 28:34
- “It is very skin-like, but it doesn't feel like a tint, which is I think she's smart to call it a foundation”▶ 28:57
Dior$60.00
- “This is incredible”
- “This is my favorite foundation that like it's just like my buddy. It's like my baby”▶ 32:23
- “It makes my skin look plumper, which makes it look more youthful”▶ 32:39
- “I need foolproof. I need you to always work. I have acne skin. I have dry skin. I have good skin. I have any event I can think of, I can go for this guy”▶ 32:27
MAKEUP BY MARIO$34.00SoftSculpt Transforming Skin Enhancershade · Light Medium- “This is the most beautiful perfect your skin but better balm and I love his stuff”▶ 33:23
m.ph by Mary Phillips$64.00Underpainting Face Highlight & Contour Paletteshade · Light- “This is truly one of the better cream formulas I've ever used because it goes on dry skin extremely well, doesn't catch, doesn't tug, and also you can have it sit there for forever and it will still blend out later”▶ 33:50
- “I love the shade she has in here. She has three different colors depending on your skin tone”▶ 34:08
- “This pairs beautifully with her foundation as well”▶ 34:12
- “You can use these over or under makeup. This is so great for traveling”▶ 34:16
Dior$42Forever Skin Bronze Bronzing Balm Stickshade · Soft Fair
Blush Butter Balmshade · Pink Sunset
Charlotte Tilbury$44.00Unreal Blush Healthy Glow Stickshade · Rosy Glow
Patrick Ta$28Double-Take Mini Blush Duoshade · She Goes to the Gym- “These little minis are great because you get a lot of product that if you have more than one blush, you're probably not going to go through a full-size one”▶ 37:38
Rare Beauty$24.00Soft Pinch Liquid Blushshade · Happy
Charlotte Tilbury$36.00Airbrush Flawless Blur Concealershade · 2.5 Fair
Milk Makeup$29Hydro Grip Hydrating Gel Concealershade · 1- “This is really, really balmy. Like this is really really a almost emollient kind of concealer”▶ 41:25
- “It freaking stays where it's put really nicely”▶ 41:35
- “This sucks for covering up acne. It also can't twist back down. So, if you twist it up too far, you're not going to get this sucker down”▶ 41:43
- “Where these stick concealers usually fail is under your eyes because it's so thin and they're usually drier. This looked incredible on my under eyes”▶ 41:54
- “I don't think that this works for all skin types because I can clearly see the reviews. Like, some people really, really hate this”▶ 42:09
Huda Beauty$69.00- “Huda Beauty's pressed powder is still number one. I love that. I highly suggest it. I highly recommend it”▶ 42:22
Kosas$36Cloud Set Loose Setting Powdershade · Translucent Candy- “This is great. You get so much powder in here. It is insanity”▶ 42:37
- “This just gives you, especially if you are somebody with dry skin, Hudas is very matte and very blurring and that's really great when I want to look really good, but on a day-to-day sometimes it is a little dry for my skin”▶ 42:44
- “This is definitely a powder that sets your makeup that isn't so overly matte, like completely matte. It still has a little bit of like a skin-like satin finish there”▶ 42:55
- “This is freaking gorgeous. This is what I have all over my face today”▶ 43:42
- “This is beautiful to set the whole face and the under eyes for again a very elevated my skin is not wearing powder kind of a look”▶ 43:46
- “You can see my skin has like a really nice sort of ethereal cloudlike set to it but it doesn't look matte in my opinion but it doesn't look like glowy”▶ 43:16
- “This is the kind of powder I would use on my wedding day”▶ 44:07
Laura Mercier$35.00Secret Brightening Color Correcting Under Eye Setting Powdershade · Soft Pink- “This is definitely the best under eye setting powder I own, period”▶ 44:21
- “I like this on my under eyes better than Huda for sure because it gives me the same amount of blur here as Huda, but here I'll tend to look kind of dry and crackly. And this doesn't do that to me at all”▶ 44:26
- “This is so brightening, so perfecting. So lovely”▶ 44:40
Cloud Paintshade · Bloom
Rare Beauty$27Soft Pinch Luminous Powder Blushshade · Happy
Kosas$29Blush is Life Baked Dimensional Brightening Blushshade · Euphoria
MAKEUP BY MARIO$25.00Master Mattes Long-Wear Cream Eyeshadowshade · Bisque
Eye Tintsshade · 22 Cashew
Patrick Ta$42.00Major Dimension Essential Artistry Edit Eyeshadow Paletteshade · Light and Medium- “These are these six pan basic matte brown shades that you would think nobody would ever use in their whole life. And I reach for them every single day”▶ 50:34
- “I feel like this formula is better than his other palettes”▶ 50:52
- “They're kind of reasonably priced considering his other palettes are $70”▶ 50:54
Patrick Ta$42.00Major Dimension Eye Illusion Eyeshadow Duoshade · We Need Better Lighting- “These are the most beautiful scattered glitters that look insane when you put them on the eyes”▶ 53:52
- “I can't stop reaching for them every single day I do my makeup just to touch up just to give myself a little bit of something extra”▶ 53:58
- “They are absolutely so beautiful and so blinding”▶ 54:08
Hung Vanngo Beauty$24.00- “There is no running at all. I love his colors. They're so beautiful”▶ 54:26
- “They blend out so nicely. This also hasn't transferred to my top lash line, so it's like transferproof”▶ 54:32
- “They are budge proof. They're so creamy”▶ 54:39
- “This is my favorite thing from his line ever and the only eyeliner that has made me use eyeliner again. Period”▶ 54:52
MAKE UP FOR EVER$25.55Artist Color Pencil Extremeshade · Anywhere Caffeine
Kulfi$49.50Lassi Lips Staining Lip Linershade · Flames
Patrick Ta$24
Yves Saint Laurent$40.00- “These aren't my top pick because I understand some people feel these are too spicy for them, but I am not ever one to shy away from that”▶ 58:56
Kosas$34Shiny Objects Wet Glisten Highlighter Powder for Face and Eyesshade · Haloed and Glimmer Rose
MAKEUP BY MARIO$36.00
Sephora Collection$35.00- “This is a great shaped brush and it's perfectly like dense and packed for your foundation”▶ 61:39
Charlotte Tilbury$39.00
Danessa Myricks Beauty$36.00- “This is so beautiful, prolonging the longevity of your makeup”▶ 62:42
- “It feels like skin. It has one of the most fine mists you will ever find in a setting spray”▶ 62:44
- “If you are a little bit oilier, this will kind of keep those oils at bay”▶ 62:51
- “It really does keep your makeup on really well”▶ 62:58
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