THE FINAL VERDICT: Best & Worst Makeup of 2025 (Save Your $$)
Catrice$6.00
Morphe$12Wakeup Artist Under Eye Correcting Concealershade · Papaya- “This is under $15. It trumps the Huda Beauty color corrector”▶ 2:30
- “I go through color corrector so fast, I don't want to be paying $35 for a color corrector. So, this one does the job, and it's not so orange it makes your face look like an Oompa Loompa, which is great, too”▶ 2:48
- “I do wish this had a couple more shades because I think the shade lighter than this one might be too light if you're like a little bit lighter than me, but you're around my skin tone, papaya and the shade after are perfect”▶ 2:35
Isamaya$44Color Correcting Serumshade · Olive
L'Oreal Paris$8.99
Maybelline$15.99- “Not only is this foundation thick with three C's, but it's also helps me constantly an Oompa Loompa again”▶ 4:18
- “This claims to be 90% skin care formula and has long-wearing claims. And I'm sorry, I don't even have that oily skin. By the end of the night, I was looking like you could fry chicken on my face”▶ 4:26
Maybelline$15.99Super Stay Up to 30HR Lumi Matte Foundationshade · 332- “This formula is so good. It's so thin”▶ 4:55
- “The shades for this foundation do run a little bit warmer, but they're not so orange it's unwearable”▶ 4:58
- “This one also wears so well for me over time. This is one of the foundations I wore on my wedding day, and this one gives me really good coverage without looking cakey”▶ 5:09
- “I actually even prefer this foundation formula to a lot of high-end formulas, and that I think says a lot”▶ 5:28
- “I'm like over halfway through this. That's rare, especially for how much makeup I review and how many products that I put on my damn face”▶ 5:34
L'Oreal Paris$18.99- “I've tested this concealer so many times, and I cannot get it to blend out smoothly”▶ 5:58
- “I am someone with more textured skin, and I have hair on my face, which is completely normal. And apparently with this concealer, you're supposed to blend it out so fast it almost feels like the damn makeup Olympics to try to blend this concealer out”▶ 6:02
- “The shade range for this also runs really yellow and really orange”▶ 6:23
- “After seeing Juvon Ford's review on this concealer, I realized that this concealer has similar ingredients to a liquid lipstick. So, honey, do we want to be wearing liquid lipstick on our face? I think not”▶ 6:35
L'Oreal Paris$12.99- “This one is a thick with three C's again formula. I don't know what it is, this Lifter foundation plus concealer are giving thick with four C's, okay?”▶ 6:52
- “If you have fine lines under your eyes like me, it just again give me gave me wrinkly butt hole under eyes”▶ 7:02
- “This claims to have a serum-like texture, but it just settled into all of my fine lines”▶ 7:08
Estée Lauder$30.00- “The range of shades is so beautiful. I think Estée Lauder nails undertones really, really well, and I feel like this is the Estée Lauder Double Wear foundation's younger sister, but not as thick and not as matte, okay?”▶ 7:29
- “If you are brown girl or honestly anyone with hyperpigmentation, redness, rosacea, whatever it may be, you want to cover something up, this will cover up all your mistakes in your life, I promise”▶ 7:46
- “I wear shade 4W, but this layers really beautifully under my makeup”▶ 7:56
- “This with the Maybelline, both of these I wore on my wedding day, and my makeup looked flawless, lasted 18 hours, and I had like five events for my wedding”▶ 8:09
- “This is the first concealer where I actually have an empty up. I rarely have empties of my concealers, but I'm like almost married to her”▶ 8:21
Makeup Revolution$10.00- “The first ingredient of this palette is hydrogenated polyisobutene, which is a great ingredient for lip gloss. It helps skin, gives shine, it's an occlusive. But no offense, I don't want that ingredient on my face”▶ 8:53
- “It looks really glossy, it barely gives you any coverage, and overall just really cakey”▶ 9:05
- “The shade range needs to be expanded because I only have a medium-deep skin tone, and I use the deep palette”▶ 9:12
Made By Mitchell$32.50Curve Case Cream Makeup Paletteshade · Medium-Deep- “I really like the medium-deep Curve Case. Again, it is a more of a waxier formula, so you have to warm it up, but I love the shade range for this, absolutely phenomenal”▶ 9:37
- “I'm actually going to be taking this with me probably to New Zealand on my honeymoon. And that, I feel like what you travel with shows if you really like something or not”▶ 9:47
Haus Labs$30- “I feel like if you have brown skin or honestly even fair skin, sometimes contours just run really warm or they run really really cool, almost gray. But, I feel like the shade range that Haus Labs curated was perfect”▶ 10:13
- “I get a medium deep olive shade. And this is one of the few contours on the market that doesn't make it look like I have hyperpigmentation and it really makes it look like I have a shadow on my face”▶ 10:31
- “The formula's really pigmented, it lasts all day. I'm absolutely in love with this contour stick”▶ 10:49
- “Even though it's a pretty penny, I think she's worth it because this is a really unique shade on the market”▶ 10:54
Saie$32.00- “The first ingredient I believe is mica, which is quite literally shimmer. And the moment I put this on, I turned into Tin Man”▶ 11:17
- “It emphasizes all the texture in my face, all the hairs on my face. It is not cute”▶ 11:36
- “Even if you have dry skin, I would not recommend something like this cuz you actually need a powder to like set your face”▶ 11:41
- “I almost consider this like highlighting powder, almost”▶ 12:06
Catrice$9.00Soft Blur Matte Setting Powdershade · Medium- “She retails for $9, has like six shades. I wear the medium shade”▶ 12:22
- “This is also a really pretty like brightening peach shade. I feel like when you get to my range and deeper, they all like go banana and yellow. But, this shade and the next three shades after it, they're more peachy and more neutral”▶ 12:25
- “I've done multiple wear tests with this. Keeps me matte all day. And guess what? She's talc-free, baby”▶ 12:46
- “I would even say it's even more finely milled than the Huda Beauty powder, which I was surprised about cuz yeah, if y'all know me, I'm a ride or die for Huda Beauty powder. This one is I would dare say better and there's no fragrance”▶ 12:55
- “Does not give me any flashback. If I could have used this on my wedding day, I would have used this on my wedding day, but this hadn't existed on my wedding day”▶ 13:09
Fenty Beauty$39.00- “This is the only brightening powder on the market with really deep peach shades. So, Fenty RiRi was in the lab. She got all the brown and black girlies covered”▶ 13:26
- “I literally use this every single day as well because it helps give my face a blurred matte mattifying finish, especially in the area of my T-zone where I need it”▶ 13:43
Glossier$26.00Cloud Paint Plush Blushshade · Flow- “The formula's kind of unique. It's somewhere between a putty and a powder. So, if you have drier skin or even oilier skin, it's going to look really good on you and it lasts all day”▶ 14:18
- “This is also a great powder blush for beginners. It's a really beautiful buildable formula. So, when you put it on, it doesn't look like you got punched in the face”▶ 14:28
- “Glossier came out with quite a few shades of this product and quite a few really beautiful rich deep shades, perfect for like my melanated girlies”▶ 14:37
- “My favorite shade is the shade Flow. This is my favorite product from Glossier and this is my favorite blush of 2025”▶ 14:48
- “For like 60-plus dollars, this kind of was giving absolute nothing for me”▶ 15:19
- “I really liked the first palette, but every palette after that has kind of been a miss”▶ 15:22
- “The shimmers were not shimmering. And I know these is supposed to be like eyeshadow toppers, but for me at least these were not giving like the oomph that I really needed”▶ 15:27
- “This is just a really boring palette”▶ 15:35
- “This is the Optimus Prime of eyeshadow palettes because they stack and they also disassemble into a palette. This is such a cool idea, but also the formula is amazing”▶ 16:09
- “These eyeshadows are straight-up unreal. Whenever I wear this eyeshadow palette in video, outside, to dinner, I straight-up get compliments all night”▶ 16:22
- “This is my favorite palette of 2025 and I just love the innovation of it. I love the thought that went behind it and the shades just look so good on darker skin, fair skin, all skin tones”▶ 16:36
- “I love that Danessa Myricks just wants to make makeup fun again. Like with these boring-ass launches on the market, like I need some fun. I need some light. I need some light works in my life”▶ 16:53
L'Oreal Paris$15.99
The Ordinary$9.90- “This essentially is a clear mascara fixer. And the way I've been loving to use it is when I'll curl my lashes, I'll put this on, and then I'll use a non-waterproof mascara after it dries over it”▶ 19:04
- “This works wonders for me because if you have short lashes like me, where they go straight down, you know you need a waterproof formula. But, waterproof formulas aren't great for your lashes, but they're also really hard to take off. So, now I can use this under any normal mascara”▶ 19:24
- “It helps keep my lashes lifted all day, keeps it long, no flaking”▶ 19:34
- “This is a really good lash primer and it's under $10, okay?”▶ 19:39
- “The Ordinary put film formers in here. So, this actually creates like a barrier and a film on your lash and that's how it gets to hold your lashes”▶ 19:50
- “This is super thin. It doesn't make it crispy, which is really nice. So, it layers well under any mascara that you put over it”▶ 20:00
Maybelline$12.99- “My favorite combo has been The Ordinary Lash Finisher with the new Maybelline Bubble Colossal mascara”▶ 19:43
L'Oreal Paris$10.97- “I love the dual-tone shades that they came out with”▶ 20:21
- “It claims to be waterproof. It's not waterproof, but it's smudge-proof, it doesn't flake, and it's super super pigmented, and I love the precision tip of these eyeliners”▶ 20:26
- “This is the one of the few liquid eyeliners on the market that I can actually do graphic eyeliner and it actually looks really good and thin”▶ 20:35
- “It's long-wearing. It like makes my graphic liner looks really fun or just eyeliner overall”▶ 20:51
NYX$9.00
NYX$12.00Lip Lingerie Lip Liner Stainshade · Hot and Heavy- “I love the shade range that NYX came out with and the innovation and it's under like $12”▶ 21:49
- “I will be honest, it is not super easy to put on and if you don't store it upside down, she will dry out. So, it's a little bit of a high-maintenance lip product, but once this is on, it will last all day. It'll last through literally anything”▶ 21:54
- “I really love this shade in hot and heavy. It's a really pretty like deep purple lip liner and I feel like it really pulls the fun purple in my eye look into my lips”▶ 22:15
L'Oreal Paris$10.99Plump Ambition Hyaluron Lip Oil Plumping Lip Glossshade · Berry Jolie- “This is my favorite lip oil of 2025. I feel like this is a perfect mix of like pigmented enough, but not too pigmented”▶ 22:35
- “Not thick where it's sticky. Like this is such a good formula and the shade range is also really nice”
- “My favorite shade is actually Berry Jolie. It's the perfect pink lip oil if you have brown skin. I get so many compliments on this lip oil whenever I wear it out”▶ 22:57
Moisturizing Serum Lipstickshade · Hold the Door- “My favorite shade that has the perfect cool-toned almost mauve-y nude shade on brown skin is the shade Hold the Door”▶ 23:17
- “Not only is the formula of this matte lipstick really comfortable, she's also really pigmented and she has pretty good wear for something that's not like super transfer-proof”▶ 23:30
- “These focus more on hydrating your lips, the colors, the actual application of it. So, you will have to reapply these lipsticks throughout the day. I don't mind that because I'm not going to be getting crusty butt hole lips throughout the day and they don't settle into my fine lines”▶ 23:48
- “The shade range is also amazing. I feel like any skin tone can find a shade that they really like from this lipstick”▶ 24:01
Kosas$36.00
One/Size$34
Danessa Myricks Beauty$36.00- “All of her Liquid Blurring Balm products have this Upsalite technology where it kind of helps reduce oil and like sweat and whatever over time”▶ 25:00
- “You do have to shake this because this has like a powder formula in it. So, if you don't shake this, it will spray like patchy”▶ 25:11
- “This is for my really oily skin, combo skin girlies. If you want to be matte all day without feeling crusty, that's why I recommend this”▶ 25:17
- “What's nice is you can even press it in with a powder puff, a clean powder puff, and it kind of gives you like a really beautiful matte long-wear finish”▶ 25:25
L'Oreal Paris$12.99- “I really like the L'Oreal Panorama mascara”▶ 18:42
L'Oreal Paris$12.99- “If you're looking for a really good drugstore concealer, the L'Oreal Infallible concealer and the L'Oreal True Match concealer, try those two concealers and tell me that these two are not trash”▶ 7:14
L'Oreal Paris$16.99- “If you're looking for a really good drugstore concealer, the L'Oreal Infallible concealer and the L'Oreal True Match concealer, try those two concealers and tell me that these two are not trash”▶ 7:36
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