This Drugstore Makeup Seriously Surprised Me! | Julia Adams
NYX$10.79Bare With Me Concealer Serumshade · Vanilla- no stillMAKEUP BY MARIO$38.00SurrealSkin Soft Blur Setting Powdershade · 1 Fair Pink
- “I used my Makeup by Mario Soft Blur Setting Powder in Fair Pink to set my under eyes as well as the center of my face”
NYX$12.00- “The brush looks like it's going to feel nice”▶ 0:41
- “Seems to be a stiffer formula”▶ 0:42
- “I do like the applicator”▶ 0:45
- “I feel like it's scratching underneath of my brows like in a nice way”▶ 0:49
- “Oh yeah, this feels like it's going to cement my brows down”▶ 0:55
- “I don't like it when my brows are like this stuck to my face”▶ 0:58
- “I like them to have a little bit of like 3D texture”▶ 1:00
- “I went in with this just to see if I could really plaster them down. And now I have regrets”▶ 1:07
- “As I've been expressing my face here, my brows have been slowly detaching from my face”▶ 9:32
- “It's starting to kind of break up and it's kind of creating like what looks like dust mites”▶ 9:36
- “It's not turning white though like a lot of these brow glues and gels can”▶ 9:43
- “For me and my brow tastes a little bit too plaster-like, but that might be music to your ears”▶ 19:31
Essence$5.99Soft Touch Butter Bronzershade · 10 whipped buttercup- “I have a few items in their line. So, I got two shades in the bronzer because I wasn't sure. I got the shades whipped buttercup and golden buttercream”▶ 2:33
- “I'm going to try the very light one”
- “It is on the more yellowy ochre side, which I do prefer over like orange or red”▶ 3:53
- “I like how soft it is”
- “The blendability was really easy”▶ 4:06
- “It's a more silky hydrated formula”▶ 3:36
- “It's on the more subtle side, but it does have a bit of like a healthy sheen to it without being able to see a physical pearl, but it has that really natural finish that still adds dimension”▶ 3:24
- “I did build it up so I could really see where I could get it”▶ 4:02
- “Next time I use this, I would use maybe a little bit less even”▶ 4:10
CoverGirl$9.99TruBlend Skin Enhancer Baked Luminous Bronzershade · 300 Honey Bun- “I did pick up another bronzer. This is the CoverGirl True Blend Skin Enhancer Baked Luminous Bronzer”▶ 4:17
- “What it looked like to me was a potential replacement for the glowish bronzer”▶ 4:33
- “Ooh, that tone is lovely”▶ 4:43
- “The CoverGirl one feels a bit on the drier side, which makes sense because the glowish ones aren't like a baked formula”▶ 4:50
- “It does have a very similar thing happening there”▶ 4:57
- “Dang, that looks really nice”▶ 5:18
Essence$5.99Soft Touch Bouncy Glowshade · Soft Glaze- “This one here is what got me excited. This one is in the shade 10. Soft soft glaze”▶ 5:27
- “I'm hoping that it's going to be similar to the MAC Bouncing Gleam highlighters that they came out with over the holidays”▶ 5:45
- “The essence one is quite a bit more sparkly”▶ 5:56
- “Oh yeah, it's very glittery on the face”▶ 6:14
- “Underneath of the glitter, it feels very similar to how the MAC one applies”▶ 6:31
- “I just I know I'm not going to use this”▶ 6:37
- “It looks really good on camera”▶ 6:39
- “But in person here, I don't know if I'd want to go to it, you know, unless it's like a very specific kind of look I'm after”▶ 6:42
- “It's more texture enhancing than I'd want and it looks very sparse on the face”▶ 6:52
- “Sometimes those glitters that are kind of here and there give it the illusion that it's patchy”▶ 6:59
- “This on the cheek does not portray soft touch to me. It looks really rough”▶ 7:07
- “I found it too glittery, texture enhancing, and kind of patchy looking”▶ 19:50
- “As I went on, the glitter has been like moving about my face, and I have like some on my chin and just like areas that it just I don't know how it got there”▶ 19:53
Essence$5.99Soft Touch Bouncy Blushshade · Roses in Berry- “Here we go with the soft touch blush. Now, I picked up this color. I wanted to get something that I didn't have much of in my collection. And this looks like a really nice berry. It's the shade roses in berry”▶ 7:07
- “It has a different formula. Like, as I'm touching it, feels like a wet, cold gel”▶ 7:43
- “This one almost feels like a dry balm, if that makes sense”
- “It feels like it's going to be very airy and blurry”
- “I really like this color”
- “It feels very wintry and cutesy”
- “It looks very pretty”▶ 6:57
- “It looks relatively smooth”
- “I really enjoy the bronzer and the blush”
Makeup Revolution$12.00- “I found this really pretty eyeshadow palette from Revolution. I thought the colors were so pretty. It's green. Okay. And berry. Berries and green. Berries and green. That's how you trap me”▶ 9:50
- “My expectations and my hopes and dreams for this have panned out”▶ 21:33
- “I am so excited for the greens in here”
- “My goodness, that green here is so pretty. It's like a true pea soup kind of green. true mossy color of Shrek skin tone green”
- “It's one of the prettiest green eyeshadows I used”
CoverGirl$8.97Clean Fresh Yummy Blur Matte Lipstickshade · 140 Into the Blur- “This is the CoverGirl Clean Fresh Yummy Blur in the shade 140 into the blur”
- “That finish is really nice”▶ 14:39
- “It feels a lot like the Prada lipstick I'm in love with”▶ 14:42
- “Even the finish on the lip is very similar, which is what I was kind of hoping for when I was buying this product”▶ 14:46
- “It feels very, very similar”▶ 14:52
- “I really like that color, too”▶ 15:07
- “I love this lip combo”
- “It's a very, very similar formula”
- “I think it looks amazing”
- “I love how the stain looks alone paired with this lip product”
- “Only downside is the smell”
- “Some people might really dislike it”▶ 20:41
L'Oreal Paris$10.99- “This is the L'Oreal Plump Ambition Hyaluronic Lip Oil”▶ 15:11
- “It kind of looks like it could be a dupe for or similar to the Makeup Forever plumping glo”▶ 15:18
- “It's so plumping”
- “Sometimes I have reaction. And especially with my cough right now, I do not want to risk extending it any further”▶ 16:00
- “I can't put this on. Sorry”
Milani$11.99
NYX$12.00- “These are the NYX lip lingerie lip stains that I have”
- “I think it's so easy to apply because of the ball tip”▶ 17:16
- “It allows you to be so precise and you can build this one up which is really nice”▶ 17:20
- “Some of these lip staining pens kind of often don't adhere to your skin around the lips if you want to overline very well, but this formula does”▶ 17:24
- “I went for a very precise application so you could see how thin you can make this one, which is really nice”
- “You can blend this out very easily”▶ 17:50
- “I love these and I love how the stain looks alone paired with this lip product”▶ 20:08
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