Judging the Viral Beauty Products Everyone's Buying | Honest Beauty Review 002
I’m judging more of the viral beauty products everyone’s been talking about after actually wearing, testing, and taking notes on them. Some lived up to the hype, some were just…good, and a few left me wanting more…of my money back.
CeraVe$16.99Invisible Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50shade · SPF 30- “This is supposed to be a invisible mineral sunscreen”▶ 0:48
- “It looks like it may actually settle down to a pretty invisible finish, but as you'll see, it's not invisible”▶ 1:14
- “There is a slight white cast, and you can tell it's a white cast”▶ 1:23
- “It's not something that I would be comfortable leaving the house with feeling like I didn't have a sheen or film of white cast on my face”▶ 1:29
- “I don't feel like it's a invisible mineral sunscreen”▶ 1:37
- “It smells really bad. Like bothersome bad. It's a artificial sunscreen chemically kind of scent”▶ 2:16
- “It's just a basic sunscreen. There's nothing else in it that gives it a edge”▶ 2:29
- “It's sunscreen plus peptides, sometimes niacinamide, um other things that make the formula special. There's nothing special about this”▶ 2:41
- “I think it's just okay”
Topicals$22.00- “These are amazing”
- “It's formulated with a hydrocolloid kind of feel to it”▶ 4:19
- “It has kojic acid, ascorbic acid, and niacinamide, and tranexamic acid to help reduce hyperpigmentation, to help prevent marks and spots while calming the skin”▶ 4:27
- “I noticed that when I had a dark spot, I could tell within a week that it had lightened up a little bit more”▶ 4:59
- “Now where I'm at here, it's pretty much gone”
- “This is an excellent product. I think this is a great product”▶ 5:16
- “My only issue is that if you are someone like me that has hyperpigmentation around my face at different points in time, this is not economical”▶ 5:19
- “Out of the 20 patches, it took me about 10 to see the lightening up, so I could get like two spots or two areas out of this, and then it's done”▶ 5:33
- “The usability to me is limited to beauties that have great skin that only have a dark spot that they need to get rid of every once in a while”▶ 6:05
- “For anyone else, someone like me that does not have the best skin in terms of hyperpigmentation and dark spots, it's better to just go ahead and get the topicals ointment version because you'll get a lot more use out of it”▶ 6:17
e.l.f. Cosmetics$8.00- “This is not one of those tingling plumping products. It's really more of a smoothing glossy lip treatment”▶ 6:39
- “This is very similar to what I feel like the Ole Henriksen lip treatments are like and I love those”▶ 6:50
- “I would say that this is one of the best like lip treatment glossy lip treatments from the drugstore right now”▶ 6:58
- “I have it on today like over my lip product and I love it”▶ 7:16
- “It just is a glossiness to it, but then it's also long-lasting, hydrating”▶ 7:20
- “This is really good”▶ 7:28
- “I think this is even better than their other lip balms”▶ 7:29
- “This is way better because it's longer-lasting, high shine still, and you feel like you're getting a smoothing and evening on the lips”▶ 7:42
- “This is more gloss and temporary like hydration, but more it's just like color with gloss”▶ 7:50
- “This is treatment. You can feel the treatment with this”
- “It looks really good”
- “I like these a lot”
- “I think that I will be repurchasing this”
- “I think this is a great product, especially at the price point”▶ 8:10
Too Faced$28.00- “I love this product”
- “This sort of moosie texture is my absolute favorite in products”▶ 8:55
- “You can just tell like there's pigment there”▶ 9:00
- “You can build it up, or you can just have it be like a little flush on the cheeks”▶ 9:04
- “You dot it on, you can blend it in with your fingers or brush. To me, either one works really well”▶ 9:07
- “It lasts all day”▶ 9:12
- “I've been wearing this since early this morning, so it's already been 8 hours”▶ 9:14
- “I have had the lip balm or the lip kind of like the lip color I have reapplied twice”▶ 9:24
- “This is an all day lasting product”
- “They do such a good job with this whole line”
- “I'm so glad that I have these three because I love them”▶ 9:41
- “I've been reaching for them”
- “This is a great product”
Legally Bronze Talc-Free Blurring Powder Bronzershade · Medium Deep 40- “I think they did a great job with this formula”▶ 14:09
- “This is a very neutral, deep shade that I think looks really beautiful”▶ 14:10
- “I like the pigment on this”▶ 14:21
- “You can build it up”▶ 14:23
- “You can define a lot with whatever brush you have”▶ 14:26
- “I've used it to carve out or contour a little bit of my nose, around the perimeter of my face”▶ 14:30
- “I think it looks really good and I love a neutral bronzer”▶ 14:36
- “I think it lasts a long time”
- “This has been on for 8 hours”
- “It's just blendable, beautiful”
- “This is a good product, but it's not a great product”
- “I think that they misstepped a little bit on the actual shade”▶ 16:18
- “The price is expensive”
- “Packaging is beautiful”
Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascarashade · Onyx 1- “The mascara has a completely different wand than in their original mascara”▶ 12:02
- “It has that sort of standard, what I consider like a Too Faced wand, where it's a little bit pinched in in the middle, and then a little bit wider, almost like a barrel kind of wand shape”▶ 12:07
- “It has the shorter bristles”
- “I have short and sparse lashes. This did not do much for my short and sparse lashes”▶ 12:29
- “It just put some pigment on them and did some separation”▶ 12:36
- “I was missing the volume, I was missing the curl and like real va-va-voom that I thought I was going to get”▶ 12:40
- “I loved the original Marc Jacobs mascara. This doesn't hold a candle to that mascara”▶ 12:48
- “This is just okay”▶ 12:59
- “I'll continue to use it, but it's just okay”▶ 13:01
Marc Jacobs Beauty$26.00Drawn This Way Long-Wear Waterproof Sharpenable Gel Eyelinershade · 200 No Shade- “The eyeliner is nice, but to be honest, this eyeliner style has just aged out and is not as special in the beauty space anymore”▶ 12:59
- “When Marc Jacobs came out with their gel creamy kind of eyeliners 10 years ago, this was really something”▶ 13:13
- “At that point, there was really only a handful of brands that had really good, deeply pigmented eyeliners”▶ 13:19
- “You had Marc Jacobs, Urban Decay, Stila. Those brands had really good eyeliners and I remember loving the Marc Jacobs liners”▶ 13:23
- “Since then, you can get a really deep black, long-wear, waterproof eyeliner from almost any brand and that makes this less special”▶ 13:46
- “I do love this eyeliner. I have it on right now, but it's just good, you know?”▶ 13:56
- “It's not anything special, especially for the price point”
Carolina Herrera$107- “This is a very interesting scent”▶ 17:02
- “They went completely different with a gourmand scent”▶ 17:08
- “This is a gourmand jasmine, caramelized toffee, roasted tonka bean scent”▶ 17:10
- “This scent is so good”
- “The balance that they were able to create with the jasmine and the tonka bean and the caramelized toffee is so elevated”▶ 17:20
- “It doesn't smell like a cheap gourmand at all. It smells like an elevated sexy gourmand that I just love”▶ 17:33
- “I really love this scent”
- “The jasmine is pretty soft, so I'm getting more of the tonka bean and the toffee”▶ 17:51
- “I feel like this is warm and luxurious”▶ 17:55
- “I feel like the longevity is pretty good. Most of the day, medium projection”
- “It's a beautiful scent”
- “It's not good enough for me to want to pay that luxury price point”▶ 18:08
- “It's a great scent, but not worth me spending $200 for a full-size”
- “This is so good”
- “There is just a lightness, freshness, citrusy-ness to this that I love”▶ 18:52
- “It's got lemon, frangipani, ambery woods”▶ 19:01
- “This is my favorite version of Light Blue that I've smelled so far”▶ 19:03
- “It feels like a modern version of a citrus scent”
- “It lasted longer than the original Light Blue mini I have”
- “It's a great fragrance”
- “It lasted about 6 hours, moderate longevity”
- “I would buy a mini of this, but probably not a full size”▶ 18:44
PHLUR$55.00- “I like this”
- “It's not giving me obsessed, but I like it”▶ 20:51
- “This is a good mix of all of the notes”▶ 20:59
- “You can smell the black currant, mandarin, and a little bit of all of the levels”▶ 21:03
- “This grew on me throughout the day”▶ 21:17
- “It's a warm floral with some depth”▶ 21:19
- “It lasted all day”▶ 21:22
- “I love Fleur fragrances for that”▶ 21:27
- “It has medium projection, projects a little bit but not the highest projection, which is okay because it is just a body mist”▶ 21:59
- “The mandarin threw me off in the beginning, but once it settled down, I loved this”▶ 22:12
- “This is a really nice scent”
- “It's a good scent. Just good”
Huda Beauty$130.00Easy Bake Intense Eau de Parfumshade · Easy Bake Intense- “I like it”
- “The original Easy Bake eau de parfum was really a riff of their loose setting powder that people loved the scent of”▶ 23:11
- “It smells exactly like the powder”
- “I barely use this not because I don't love the scent because I do”▶ 23:42
- “It's very much in my notes that said like a deep woody floral”▶ 24:56
- “This version, the 2026 version of the Easy Bake powder is different because it's still a floral and it kept that floral scent profile, but they added some more modern scent notes that people love”▶ 24:29
- “One being the wild cherry, they have white flowers, cinnamon bark, caramel milk, and vanilla bourbon”▶ 24:42
- “I feel like this is more floral than gourmand”
- “I think that it lasts about 6 hours”▶ 25:10
- “I do think that they added some trendy notes, like the cherry and the caramel milk”▶ 25:26
- “I don't think it's something that I would wear every single day”
- “I haven't been reaching for it every single day”
- “I think they updated it to have a trendiness that may not stand the test of time”▶ 25:51
- “This scent is so good”▶ 26:42
- “It's like nothing else I have in my collection and I am fully obsessed with it”
- “This smells like a luxury vacation to me”▶ 26:46
- “It feels like a luxury tropical vacation and the lime scent out”▶ 26:58
- “It doesn't smell juvenile or young or very typical coconut sunscreeny beachy type vibe that sometimes is hit or miss for me”▶ 27:00
- “They have something called their halo scent technology that is supposed to release the fragrance over time, making it a long-lasting scent and it does”▶ 27:14
- “I can still smell this scent the next day after spraying it in the morning and evening”
- “This is one of the fragrances so good that once I finish this, I may repurchase because it's so unique for me”
- “Ellis Brooklyn did a really good job with the packaging on this. This is a very thick bottle with a very heavy magnetic top”
- “I love that they are making their fragrances more luxury and elevated”▶ 27:14
- “I am a collector of Mugler fragrances and I was like, you know what? I got to give it a try because I got to give it a try”▶ 29:31
- “This comes with pistachio praline, pineapple musk, and berry licorice scents”▶ 29:16
- “The pistachio praline scent is the most pistachio scent I have ever tried in my life”
- “It has 6 hours of longevity for me”
- “Mugler formulated these to be more similar to an eau de toilette fragrance versus a body mist, even though this is a body mist”
- “The pineapple musk smells generic on a scent strip but on skin it mixes coconut and musk with pineapple to give an interesting, pleasant scent”
- “I wouldn't pay for a full size of the pineapple musk because it is nice but not unique enough”
- “The berry licorice scent surprised me pleasantly”▶ 29:49
- “The licorice adds complexity that makes the berry scent feel like a luxury fragrance”
- “It lasted about 6 hours on me”▶ 33:48
- “All the scents feel like a luxury version of a body mist”
- “I like these but wouldn't buy full sizes”▶ 34:19
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