Alexandra Anele, makeup artist: 425 skincare products reviewed

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All 425 products Alexandra Anele has reviewed, grouped by product type. Click a product to see the full guru consensus.

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Eye Makeup71 reviews

"I'm going to use the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Ash Brown. This is a really great way to fill your brows naturally. I don't know what it is about going against the hairs, but it just works so much better than trying to go with them."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Something Brown Coffee Brown Eyeliner

"I'm starting with the Lisa Eldridge black trile eyeliner. This is my favorite because it's extremely creamy, so it's very, very blendable. The Lisa Eldridge liners really give you like work work time, so you don't need to panic."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette

"The Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes palette is a favorite amongst so many makeup artists, especially for bridal, and it also has some really beautiful deeper taupe shades with good options to choose from."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Patrick Ta Major Dimension Eye Illusion Eyeshadow Duo in In Your Dreams

"This is the Patrick Ta Major Dimension Eye Illusion Eyeshadow Duo in In Your Dreams, which has these really beautiful champagne colors. The finish of this product is just absolutely incredible and it really creates that glittery finish to the eyes."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Lancôme Flutter Extension Mascara

"I'm liking this Lancome Flutter Extension Mascara. I'm keeping it relatively close to the base of the lashes because it's not about length, it's really more about density."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Blend Bunny Divination Palette

"This is Robert Welsh's palette with Blend Bunny, the Divination Palette. You have two really beautiful options here, one is more of a duo chrome, but this shade right here is really, really beautiful and would look really stunning on deeper skin tones."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sweed Lash Serum

"Thanks to the Sweed Lash Serum, I have these long lashes now. Holy crap, I can't stop talking about it because it's just changed my life. If you're trying to grow your lashes, it's literally life-changing, I can't believe it."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Swede Peptide Lash Serum

"The Swede Lash serum has my lashes so long that they actually get in the way. Now I know the struggle of all the people I envied for many, many years."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Blend Bunny Rotten Palette

"I feel like the aqua color is everything I've ever needed in my entire life, it's absolutely beautiful. I would highly recommend it, I don't know if Blend Bunny still has this palette available, but it is perfection. You're surprised at how much you need it because it has neutrals in here, it's got a lot of really beautiful warm tones, but those pops of color are perfect. [...] I don't ever need to create a palette because this is the one I feel like I would want, [...] this has everything that I need, I love it so much. [...] Blend Bunny has some of the most beautiful eye shadow formulas in the world."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette

"I feel like this is a really nice neutrals palette. I just like it. I think it's actually quite nice and we have like a good range. I like the colors she chose. I actually do. This palette has really grown on me. When I first tried it, I was like, yeah, it's really nice, but like it's not like necessary. But now I'm like that's all I'm grabbing."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

ColourPop Stone Cold Fox Palette

"Stone Cold Fox, also from ColourPop, one of my absolute favorites. Like so gorgeous, lots of taupes, lots of earthy, it's slightly more like on the cool-toned side in general, more like muted and less traditional kind of like nude tones. So we have lots of different variations you can see in this palette. You have the bluest-toned gray that exists in this palette, which is more blue-toned, [...] but it's not too cool-toned in my opinion. It's not like too too blue, and I like that it is involved with all of these kind of like taupey shades. So you can sort of mix and go back and forth. And on this side we're more of a taupe shade. [...] So we have those nice variations in tones. This is just like a really nice palette to have. Whenever I don't really know what to use for a neutral palette because it has so many options, I often reach for this one."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Liquid Silk Eyeshadow

"First of all, beautiful color. Have you ever seen anything blend out so beautifully? Like a cream eyeshadow blend out into like the most beautiful like sheer wash of even stunning gunmetal. You can also build on top of it. It's not like those cream eyeshadows or eye paints that just thicken up and then you can't build on top of it. This color really spoke to me when I first tried it because it's just like not your typical shade. When I look at the pearl it looks like there's little bits of lavender pearl in there which just gives it this something a little bit different. It's not like a strictly dark gray black base and then a silver pearl. There's just something different about it."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Eyeshadow Palettes

"Literally any any eyeshadow palette. [...] They blend forever. They're so forgiving. And there's there are formulas for everyone."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze

"I currently use Benefit Precisely My Brow, Benefit Gimme Brow, Benefit Brow Setter, and Anastasia Brow Freeze. Nothing keeps them in place, girl."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

NYX Micro Brow Pencil

"I did start using the NYX Micro Brow when I dyed my hair red. And I did think that it was kind of like a wet formula. I didn't notice it like it wasn't something that was like a bad thing for me necessarily."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Flexible Lifting and Laminating Eyebrow Gel

"It is supposed to be like a lamination gel. So if you are not able to really laminate your brows then like what's the point. But I think it held them well enough. I'm happy with the way that they set. I don't think that it looks bad. They haven't completely fallen down. [...] So I'm going to continue using the brow gel and we'll see where it goes."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner in Brown

"I'm not a fan. It felt like it kept drying out really quickly. I had to keep flipping it upside down and shaking it out because it kept drying out very quickly. So I'm not a fan of the eyeliner."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

NYX Lift & Snatch! Brow Tint Pen

"I love the NYX brow pens. Those are so great and they have wonderful colors. [...] I love this brow pen because it is really tiny. You can really draw in those strokes."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Micro Stroke Detailing Brow Pen

"I've been using this and I actually really like it. It's super tiny, like real nice."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

ColourPop Brow Boss Brow Pencil

"I've been actually really liking the ColourPop Brow Boss Brow Pencil. [...] I've been using the one that is light brown. It's actually a little bit warm, warmer than I've been used to."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Passionate Purple Eyeshadow Palette

"The passionate purple palette is one I haven't really given any love to, because typically these sorts of purples -- with the exception of these two, which are really, really beautiful -- these cooler-toned, sort of grayish purples just don't speak to me. They're not particularly flattering on my warmer, paler skin tone."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Creamy Coal Longwear Eye Pencil in Very Brown

"I'm using the Huda Beauty Longwear Eye Pencil in very brown. This doesn't have a sharpener, so I'm just rubbing it on the side of a paper towel to sharpen it up. This is a nice creamy coal, so if you mess up, you can sort of like blend it out."

✓Yay

Notverified

Maybelline Colossal Bubble Mascara

"I do like this mascara though. I think this is like brownish black, but that's fine because we have brown eyeshadow on. I like it."

✓Yay

57%Guru Score

Essence Stay and Play Gel Eyeliner

"It's the Essence Stay and Play gel liner in the shade Black Raven. It's quite creamy and easy to blend. Because it's waterproof, I can use a blending brush to press it into the lash line to soften that liner. I'm using it as a base for the eyeshadow so I can build on top of it, and because it is waterproof, you can use a brush if you want to move this around a little."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Buxom Lash Extension Lift Mascara

"I'm going to use the Buxom Lash Extension Lift Mascara and coat all the lashes. As I get to the outer part, I'm going to pull them to the side to make them kind of spiky and angled, which just looks pretty cool with this more angled look."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Glide Eye Pencil

"I'm probably going to use Lisa Eldridge. This is Night Forest from Lisa Eldridge. It's like a really, really dark green."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Covergirl Lash Blast Mascara

"Covergirl lash blast. Shout out."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Clio Kill Lash Super Proof Long Curling Mascara

"It just holds that curl really, really nicely. And I'm also going to be using the Clio Kill Lash Super Proof Long Curling Mascara in the brown one on my lower lashes just because it looks so natural. Since the rest of my face like my base is very natural and the eye is kind of like statement but also soft, I want to use brown just to keep this like a little bit softer on the bottom so that it doesn't bring the eye down."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Dior Eyeshadow Palette

"Now I'm going into this palette from Dior which is this gorge and picking up this really beautiful kind of like peachy [...] color. Building it up a little bit on the outer part of the lid. And then sort of building up the V shape on the outer part of the eye just to give like a little bit of a wash."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

NARS Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base

"I'm going in with a little bit of my NARS eye primer on my eyes. I did take a teeny bit of foundation onto my eyelids, so there was like already a little bit of color there. And now I'm just applying this to be a really beautiful like velvety base for my eyeshadow. And then making sure to pat it out and then setting a little bit with some powder."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Color Story Eyeshadow Palette New Neutral

"I'm going to grab the Hung Vanngo New Neutral palette, which is the slightly more like neutral of the browns in his collection. And I'm going to pick up this shade right here, which is number one. These are, especially with this brush, pretty pigmented shadows."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Duo Brush On Lash Adhesive

"For glue, I'm going to be using the Duo brush on lash glue. I feel like this is one of the most accessible lash glues out there. The brush really allows you to be a little bit more precise. So, I like this. It's probably my favorite."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Grip Mechanical Gel Eyeliner

"This pencil is a little more waxy. It sets relatively quickly. It says it's a gel mechanical liner."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

L'Oreal Brow Stylist Definer

"This is my first time trying this brow pencil. It's pretty good. It's not like too too red, but it's a nice tone."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Exaggerize Volumizing Mascara

"I'm going to use my Charlotte Tilbury [...] Exaggerize Volumizing Mascara, focusing it mostly on the outer corner of the lashes. [...] It's really just to kind of blend the lash into that eyeliner. If you're really trying to go for this, you don't even necessarily need to curl your lashes."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Eyeshadow in Taupey Mauve

"And you've heard me talk about her eyeshadow palettes a million times but like the formula is stunning so beautiful like so easy to use user friendly and it really packs an impact without being like this insane foil you know really gorgeous"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

House of Lashes House of Lashes

"These lashes from [...] House of Lashes are perfect perfection for this look because they're a blend of black and brown. The color is so perfect for my eye color. The shape really helped to accentuate the cat eye. They're also so easy to apply. I haven't put a strip lash on in such a long time and I feel like I didn't mess this up."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Benefit Bad Gal Bounce Mascara

"It's a hybrid brush, so you have a more comb side on one end and then [...] a more brushy, fluffy side, which is interesting to me. It seems like a nice formula. I haven't used it yet but it seems like not too wet, which I always appreciate. [...] I like the split design, it's [...] literally one half of the wand is a comb and one half is a brush, which is intriguing to me. [...] I'm always skeptical of mascaras because of my lashes, but I've been embracing the fact that my lashes just don't hold a curl."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Hindash Beautopsy Palette

"My Hindash Beautopsy Palette, this is one of my favorite palettes in the entire world. I think it might be my most used eyeshadow palette ever. Just mixing between that brown and that gray, I'm going in and setting and just kind of smudging, adding a little bit more depth, a little bit more softness. The tiniest amounts you can hardly see that I'm even putting anything up there, but I am just the teeniest teeniest amounts slowly building and then buffing into that winged liner, which is just going to soften it a little bit and make it not look too grungy."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Paradise Big Deal Mascara

"I'm actually pretty impressed with that. It doesn't say waterproof anywhere, and at Ulta it's 21% off, it's usually like $16 but it's $12.50 right now which is really really good. It says it's a washable Paradise Big Deal buildable washable mascara. I actually really like it. I want this in brown. It gave my lashes like length, not like a ton of volume, but I would say mostly length and it lifted them. That's actually really nice for a non-waterproof mascara. I'm super surprised by this, very excited about it, and I am hands down purchasing it in black brown. Very impressed by that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Benefit Bad Gal Bang Mascara

"I'm going to use a brown this is Bad Gal Bang from benefit which is in brown again chaos I think the lashes are a little long but I do like them."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara

"I'm going in with L'Oreal Telescopic. Now this is a waterproof mascara, which isn't necessary for this look. I could use a regular mascara, but to be honest all of my drugstore mascaras are waterproof for some reason, so use what works for you."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Milani Anti-Gravity Waterproof Mascara

"I'm going to go in with the Milani Anti-Gravity Waterproof Mascara. This is a waterproof mascara. I pretty much only use waterproof mascaras that are drugstore. [...] So I'm going to focus at the base of the lashes so that I am not coating the falsies in a bunch of black mascara because I want them to maintain their fluttery tips. [...] I'm mostly focusing at the base and then using the tip of the wand to flare out the inner [...] lashes, but just pressing the outer lashes into the falsies so they look like one. [...] I really like just having that kind of flare on the end. I just think it's pretty."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Blend Bunny Cosmetics Robert Welsh x Blend Bunny Divination Collection Palette

"The mattes Blended so beautifully the last video that I used these in um or the first video that I used these in I had I was not familiar with blend bunny but the formulas are stunning"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Blend Bunny Cosmetics Robert Welsh x Blend Bunny Divination Stackable Lashes

"They give a nice little um flutter flare to the eyes without being too much you know"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Patrick Ta Major Dimension Eyeshadow Palette

"I know there's a lot of controversy around the Patrick Ta eyeshadows, I love them. This one in particular, I don't remember the name, but it's just, oh, I can't live without it. It's like the staple of this look."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

ColourPop Eyeliner

"For lids I'm using this ColourPop eyeliner, [...] gorgeous red, because I knew everything else I was using was going to be very gray toned, [...] so I wanted to include a pop of color that was really going to make my eyes pop. That's why I went in with that kind of burgundy red."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Master Mattes The Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette

"I'm going to grab the master mattes the neutrals palette from Makeup by Mario"

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

L'Oreal Shadow Stick Twinkling Rose

"For my eyeshadow I'm going to be trying once again from L'Oreal the Shadow Sticks, this one is in the shade Twinkling Rose. They're kind of like rounded like this and I'm hoping that they're easy to blend. It feels kind of cooling and then I'm just going to pat it out. I'm just going to be interested to see how it wears."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Hourglass Unlocked Instant Extensions Mascara

"I used one of the Hourglass mascaras, the Unlocked Instant Extensions. I think it's a tubing mascara and it really holds. I love it. I got a sample but it's actually pretty good."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Ardell Lash trios

"For my extra little lift I'm using the little trios from Ardell. I'm using the long and the medium, so I think [...] it's one long and two medium. [...] I'm just focusing it on the very very outer corner to create that kitten lash lift."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

"I usually use Urban Decay something sheer close to your skin tone so that the color does not pop too much and you only need a little bit you don't need to build it up a ton."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Kitten Flick Liquid Eyeliner

"I'm using the Lisa Eldridge Kitten Flick Liquid Eyeliner, which is really great because it's super tiny. If you hate tight lining but you feel like you need to do it because your lashes end up looking really obvious, this is a really good option because you don't have to completely tight line. You can still see the skin under there. It just kind of makes the falsies look more one with my natural lashes because I'm not really putting it in my tight line, I'm just kind of drawing basically little lines, little dots to kind of thicken up the lash area, and then it just ends up looking way better."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Neutral Brown Creamy Obsessions Palette

"The formula of this palette is so beautiful. It's kind of like somewhere between a cream and a powder, which is really nice. When I look at it in the pan it looks like slightly more [...] of a neutral, ever so slightly more cool-toned color, but when I start to put it down on my skin it starts to look a little bit more warm."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 Make Waves Lengthening and Volumizing Mascara

"I personally over the spoolies of like Brands like Tower 28 and also the give Beauty mascara um I prefer the wand for this mascara"

✕Nay

92%Guru Score

Huda Beauty One Coat Wow Mascara

"It's a heavy formula, it's very wet, and when I put it on my lashes, a lot goes down. So it is very thickening, but it's extremely heavy and wet. If you are like me and you have a problem with your lashes falling flat, not holding a curl, or just being weighed down, you're not going to like this at all. If you already have curly lashes or you don't have a problem with mascaras weighing your lashes down, it is very thickening, so if you have really skinny lashes and you want extra volume, it might be worth looking into. But I just know that it does not work for me at all."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Duo in Ash Brown

"Anastasia Brow Duo in Ash Brown, I decided to just go straight in with the darker one rather than layering my blonde powder first. I was going for a punk, goth sort of look with the jewelry and outfit and makeup, so I just went dark. I really took my time with my brows and finally trimmed them a little bit because they haven't been super even recently."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Clio Kill Waterproof Brown Curling Mascara

"Cleo, has Cleo ever done us wrong? No. This mascara absolutely not. It's super proof, long curling. So good. It holds the curl, it defines your lashes. This is always, if I do go in with a second mascara, which I'm going to in this video, this is always my base mascara. Always. So waterproof. I'm going in like quite a bit, I'm not dipping it back into the tube though. And then I'm using that on my lower lashes, and then once my upper lashes are completely dry I'm going to use this to build up my upper lashes as well. I just do waterproof light coat and then build up that definition with a thickening mascara."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Velour Brush On Lash Glue

"The Velour Brush On, I always put like a little bit of glue on, let it get tacky, let it sit, put a little bit more glue on, let it get tacky. This is like a pretty good one though."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Melt Cosmetics Fatally Yours Eyeshadow Palette

"I have the new Melt Cosmetics palette look at these colors fabulous fantastic stunning gorgeous I love, and these are some pigmented shadows you guys pigmented shadows"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

BK Beauty N13 Tapered Eyeshadow Brush

"I'm really loving this blending brush from BK Beauty, the N13 brush. Just a good one."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Groundwork Palette

"I recently picked this up because I got to have all of them. [...] These are like [...] really soft powders, and the larger pan is a Pomade. It's weightless velvet Pomade that works for eyes, brows, face, lips, everything."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

e.l.f. Lash 'N Roll Mascara

"I'm going to be using the e.l.f. Lash 'N Roll Mascara which I've been meaning to use for like a really long time and I just haven't. I doubt it'll hold my lashes up but I like the wand. The wand for this mascara is very similar to the Benefit one, they even have like the colors, you know what I mean. The Benefit one has like a lot more flexibility in the wand, like there's like a little bit of a give to it which just makes it feel a little bit nicer. This wand is just like a little bit more stiff. It's really good for my lower lashes too. I think I like this mascara. It's not something that happens often so when it does, you know."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

NYX Ultimate Shadow Palette Warm Neutrals

"I've got this NYX ultimat wait is it ultimate or ultimat I whatever I also talked about that in my Halloween video just any colorful palette is like so it's just so necessary"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Doll 10 Give 'Em Lash

"These little lash segments have a clear band, and they don't have the little knots, which I really hate. I'm just going to use [...] the tens -- just a little something something, nothing crazy -- and then finish with one of the eights on each side."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Merit Eyeshadow Cream Pots

"I went in with one of the Merit cream eyeshadow bases, Ventura, and that's kind of what ended up making me hate the look and stop filming. I like the product, it blends nicely, it's cool and everything, but it just didn't work super well as a base underneath what I was doing."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Kosas Brow Pop Dual Action Defining Pencil

"This is my first time trying this new Kosas brow pencil and I really love it. I used the taupe shade to draw in and structure my brow. It's like perfect for the go, the kind of thing that you can just throw in your bag and have for touch-ups or if you're someone who doesn't do their makeup until they get to work or school. It's really really nice. I like it. The color was very very good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Iced Mocha

"I'm going to use the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Iced Mocha, which is kind of the perfect tone especially for someone who's very pale because you can kind of see it actually has a little bit of silver in it. This is like a really nice natural bronzy tone. See how nice that color is."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Fawn Palette

"I'm going to be using the Lisa Eldridge Fawn Palette. The outside is gorgeous as well. What's so incredible about the Lisa Eldridge palettes is their formulas are so soft that you can really sheer them out. It's like a really beautiful satin like melt into the skin look. And Lisa's formulas are perfect for that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Kitten Lash Mascara

"For my lower lashes I'm using my Lisa Eldridge mascara. I want definition, I don't want them to be so crazy. This is a very natural mascara."

✓Yay

Notverified

Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Universal Volumizing Mascara

"I received these mascaras in PR and they just didn't work for me. They didn't hold my lashes and I didn't really like the applicator. I was initially like, 'Oh, I might like this,' but it just didn't work for me. I tried giving it another shot, letting it dry out for a few weeks, but my lashes just don't trust it. I have extremely straight, flat lashes that don't want to hold a curl, so if a mascara can't work on me, it's not going to work on most people. Not a fan of these, unfortunately."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Powder & Setting43 reviews

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray

"I'm using All Nighter Setting Spray real quick, the original. Just buy the original."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Angled Powder Brush

"This is a brush from Rare Beauty. It's not a bad brush. I think it's the powder brush. It doesn't have a name on it. Um, and it has synthetic fibers."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Pressed Powder in Cherry Blossom Cake

"I have these new Huda Beauty Easy Bake pressed powders. I'm gonna grab the shade cherry blossom cake, this like super pink, light pink shade, and I'm going to just dust it on with like a big blending brush. [...] I'm just [...] going to place this directly underneath my eye to do a little bit of brightening and also just like blending it into that blush. And it's just going to add like a little extra coverage."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Milani Make It Last Matte Setting Spray

"I really like this one from Milani. It's the Make It Last natural finish setting spray. It's just like nice and hydrating. It has glycerin and niacinamide, which is nice. And you can use it to prime, hydrate, set, whatever. So that's one of the things that I like about it is just kind of like rehydrate things. Because this is also a setting spray, this really helps to melt everything into the skin. So you can do this at any stage, like whenever you feel like you need it, it's a really great way to bring a little bit hydration back between layers."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Setting Powder

"Oh my god, I forgot how much I liked this powder. [...] It has such a nice luminosity to it. It's smoothing, but it has that fine pearl, so it doesn't look heavy on the skin. It gives this slight reflect."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

NYX Mineral Matte Finishing Powder

"I'm just going to take a little bit of the NYX Mineral Matte Finishing Powder in the shade light medium and [...] gently set above the crease since we went in with concealer, so that blends nice."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder

"Laura Mercier, the original powder is good for oily skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder

"Translucent setting powder is ultra fine silica based with a blurring finish. If like me you've been using a cornstarch powder and you're like oh, maybe this is breaking me out, in place of cornstarch though, you could use rice based powders. They're typically gentle and they're less likely to feed on bacteria. So if that's something you want, if you love the idea of having a cornstarch powder but now you're worried about it, you could try a rice based powder."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Haus Labs Bio-Blurring Loose Setting Powder

"The Haus Labs blurring powder contains fermented arnica and silica. So if you're going in that direction, like if you're down with silica, that's a really good option."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Pore Eclipse Primer

"Another primer that I actually really like is the Pore Eclipse from Milk. If you're looking for something that's going to do a little bit of mattifying, this is really nice because it is water-based, but it is also mattifying, but it's also hydrating enough. There's a lot of mattifying products out there that are just like they just feel like heavy and dry on the skin. I don't like that. I like my skin to feel hydrated. So if you don't want something that's like heavy and mattifying, this is a really great primer to try out from Milk."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Blur Perfection Powder 20 Translucent Light

"This is such a nice powder because it has kind of like a soft luminosity to it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Pixi Flawless & Poreless Primer

"The Pixi Flawless Beauty Primer, I kept in all those videos I kept saying like you could use this as an illuminator. It's like a really beautiful nude champagne kind of shade for my skin tone. Love, love it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Milani Conceal + Perfect Blur Out Smoothing Primer

"I personally really like this Milani Conceal and Perfect Blur Out Smoothing Primer. The reason that I like it so much is because it's very moisturizing, but it does do a good job blurring. [...] I think it's worth a shot. [...] It's kind of cool to the touch. [...] This is like particularly good if you have combination skin because typically those blurring primers just they'll tend to like cling or make your skin like a little too dry. Make sure you're starting off with like a small amount so you're not building up way too much. And it does help with these kind of primers to kind of like press it into those areas."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

e.l.f. Stay All Day Micro Fine Setting Mist

"Or I have the um Stay All Day Micro Fine Setting Mist from E.L.F., which I would say like keeps your skin looking like pretty like it adds a little bit of hydration, but it's not going to make you look like wet."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

About Face Curtain Call Set and Smooth Loose Powder

"I'm using the one from About Face because I basically just always get creasing in here, this little area of my eye. As I get older it just becomes heavier and it just creases, so this is going to set my lids."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Power Grip Primer

"The combination of one of the cones and the e.l.f. Power Grip Primer to me sounds like a bad combo. It feels like that's where we're going wrong. [...] I would suggest is trying to skip the e.l.f. Power Grip Primer in this situation and see if that does something. [...] The combination of the e.l.f. Power Grip Primer and the dimethicone in the moisturizer to me it just feels like those might be clashing. They might not be working together very easily."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

MAC Fix Plus Stay Over Setting Spray

"I also do this with the MAC Fix Plus Stay Over Spray. This is also really great for this."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Setting Spray

"I'm going to set it using the Easy Bake Setting Spray from Huda Beauty."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Baking and Setting Powder in Cupcake

"I'm setting that a little bit with a powder setting underneath the eyes same powder, Huda Easy Bake, love it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Iconic London Underglow Blurring Primer

"I've been loving this Iconic London primer, have to say it is so incredibly smoothing and it does contain a pearl so it creates like a really beautiful luminescence to the skin without making the skin look at all oily, like not at all. So if you're someone like me who can be oily, highly recommend checking it out. It really does give such a flawless finish to the skin, especially if you're going to be going in with like a skin tint or foundation or something along those lines."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty You Mist Makeup Extending Setting Spray

"I love this so much, this might actually be my favorite Fenty product that's launched in a long time. What I love about it so much is that unlike other setting mists, a lot of them end up making your makeup look too dewy. You have this beautiful matte finish and then once you go in with your setting mist it ends up making your skin look a little bit more wet. But this is a really great non-aerosol setting mist for people who don't want that. You finish your makeup and you want it to look that way. You don't want too much hydration, you just want to make sure that it's staying put."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Blur Silicone Free Smoothing Pore Minimizing Primer

"This is described as a natural airbrush foundation and when I tell you it legitimately blurs the skin I was shocked by this. It's very similar to me to the MAC foundation but there's a little bit more moisture in it in my opinion. It's a little darker and a little bit more on the orangey side. It's a little dark for me, I typically will use a more brightening concealer when I use this foundation, but I have to say in terms of full coverage foundations that are going to provide a really flawless base this is a winner. This is an absolute winner. I really love that while the packaging isn't anything super special it's really great for travel. It's very lightweight, which I think speaks to the sort of slightly mousey formula. It just feels a little less ever so slightly less dry than other foundations. And it gives you nice working time to your skin."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter

"I'm going in with Charlotte Tilbury [...] Flawless Filter just to kind of prep. I want glow in the outer perimeter of my face around my cheekbones."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Setting Spray

"I'm going in with this Fenty Mist which I've been loving by the way. Very good, keeps your makeup set all day and night. But it doesn't manipulate it, doesn't make you look dewy. It just, however your makeup looks when you apply it, it's going to look the same. I love that."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Kosas Cloud Set Baked Setting Powder

"I'm skeptical although upon swatching they do appear pretty sheer and the formula seems nice. The kimchi powder was pretty matte and I do like the fact that these have like a little bit of that Pearl. It feels very soft and satiny and I do appreciate that. I just wish there was one more color that was lighter than these."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 3-Second Setting Mist

"I'm going in with the L'Oreal Infallible 3-Second Setting Mist to set my face, nice fixing spray to make sure everything stays in place."

✓Yay

57%Guru Score

e.l.f. Power Grip Dewy Setting Spray

"I'm adding a little bit of the e.l.f. setting spray to just kind of rehydrate, which really, it's one of my favorite tips for making your makeup like sink into the skin and stay put."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Coty Airspun Translucent Powder

"The formula is so nice um the scrubby things were gentle enough not to hurt my scalp"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 Jet Set Blur Plus Set Talc Free Pressed Setting Powder

"The new Tower 28 powders really really nice. I've been it's been one of my go-to for like setting my face. In terms of like setting powders I really really like it for like the whole face. I have the shade Pink Palisades, they make it look way more pink online it's very neutral."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Pressed Powder

"I'm going to go in with a teeny bit of the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Powder, this is the white one, just to do a little gentle brightening. I feel like I lost a little bit of the brightening when I applied that powder. I'm not placing it on my dark circles, I'm just placing it underneath, just right here, just to kind of brighten and bring focus back to around the eyes."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Setting Spray

"I use the LH setting mist. I love that one, I need another one."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Givenchy Prisme Libre Loose Powder

"I'm going to go in and set my face with my [Givenchy] powder which is my absolute favorite. It's just so good, so blurring around my nose."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer

"I'll go in with a more hydrating primer today. I use the Milk Hydro Grip, something that's like grippy that gives me a little bit extra moisture depending on how my skin is feeling."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer

"I'm going to use a little bit of the All Nighter primer from Urban Decay which is meant to last. It's meant to be like a very grippy base for your makeup. So if you have a difficult time with oiliness in your T-Zone but you feel like you want a little bit more grip to the skin, this is a really great option because it's like relatively moisturizing but it's not too dewy. So you can see that it adds like a nice hydration to the skin but really what this is for is just kind of like creating more of a grip so that my makeup is going to last. It's not like a particularly wet primer."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Smashbox Photo Finish Smooth and Blur Primer

"So I'm going in with the smooth and blur primer from Smashbox which I really love to smooth"

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Smashbox Photo Finish Primer

"Smashbox Photo Finish in the very center of my T-Zone, this has been like a go-to primer for me recently. I've been really just enjoying it in general for like really creating that grip."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

One/Size Secure the Glow Tacky Hydrating Primer

"One size secure the glow uh this has been like a go-to primer for me recently I've been really just enjoying it in general for like really creating that grip"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder

"I have this little deep depotted thing from Danessa Myricks, it's the Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder. I'm just mixing my own little concoction of brightening, just added a little bit of the balm, and I'm doing a little extra highlighting in certain areas, mostly just in the center of the face because I personally like the way that looks."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tatcha Silk Powder

"I just never use it. It's just like a little bit too shimmery for me."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

MAC Fix+ Setting Spray

"I'm going to rehydrate with my MAC Fix+ not necessary but I do find myself doing it often."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Smashbox Photo Finish Primerizer Hydrating Primer

"I've just been kind of loving this little Smashbox combo so I'm mixing the Smashbox Primerizer with the Photo Finish. I literally just mix them together and I really like it. I find that a lot of smoothing primers can sometimes just make my skin feel a little bit dry, so mixing in the Primerizer kind of like evens that out a little bit."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Poreless Putty Primer

"I'm going to use a little bit of the e.l.f. Poreless Putty Primer in the center of my face. I'm gonna swipe it on and then press once it's like evenly distributed."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

NYX Marshmallow Primer

"I always use a primer before application. The products I use are... [...] the NYX Marshmallow Primer. Love that primer. I have naturally oily skin."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Blush & Bronzer40 reviews

Merit Flush Blush Trio in Stockholm

"I'm going to use Merit Bespoke. I know they have a lipstick. I don't think I have the lipstick, but I do have the blush. And I feel like this tone is going to be really nice."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Bronze Balm Sheer Bronzer Stick

"I'm using one of my favorite golden bronzers, Quint from Merit, which is really great for pale people who still want a bit of that warmth and need a slightly more yellow, not orange toned bronzer."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Milani Baked Bronzer in Amalfi Glow

"One of my favorite bronzers is the baked bronzer from Milani, that would really be great for this look. I just wanted this exact color combination so that's what I used instead."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Cheek Blush

"This is a hybrid cream to powder blush in shade 5, Mauve Blush. The color is really pretty, I gravitated toward it immediately, it has a really beautiful neutral base, not too much blue or orange, so it's not translating too warm on the skin. It blends really nicely and gives a soft matte glow without being too dewy, which I appreciate since a lot of the blushes I've loved recently get oily on my cheeks. Beautiful color, stunning, obsessed, I do like it. I do think $40 for this tiny little product is crazy, but it is Armani so what do you expect. I don't think I'll go through it that quickly, and the packaging is travel friendly, which is nice."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Merit Flush Balm Cheek Color in Beverly Hills

"I've been really liking this blush. I think it's really really pretty. The actual blush itself, like the way that it's made, the component really does allow for you to just sort of dab it on, which is nice. So if you're one of those dab it on and go kind of people, it's really good for that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Covergirl True Blend Skin Enhancer Contour Balm Stick

"In terms of creams, if you're looking for a more olive contour shade, Covergirl Skin Enhancer Balm in the shade Defined is incredible. Like, look at that. It's amazing. If you just hold it next to like where my skin naturally shows shadows, it's like the same color. It's so incredible."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Milani Luminoso Blush

"The OG Luminoso. God, what a throwback. Then they reformulated and it's never been the same. It's still pretty, but it's just not what it was. [...] This is just bringing a little bit more of that like peach and gold to the cheek plus like that beautiful luminescence. [...] It does have like slightly larger golden specks in it than it used to, but it's still pretty."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Milani Cheek Kiss Cream Blush in Nude Kiss

"I'm going to use a cream blush and then reinforce it with a powder. I'm going to use the Milani Cheek Kiss Nude Kiss 110. I think it's better to go in with something a little bit more nude because I'm going to reinforce it with another Milani blush. I want like a cream base. It's a pretty color."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Physicians Formula Mineral Wear Diamond Bronzer

"I'm going to use the Physicians Formula Diamond Bronzer. I love this bronzer so much. This is in the shade Bronze Gem. It's really beautiful. It's dirty, so you can tell I like it. There's definitely cat hair in here, so you can really tell I like it. It's a really nice blendy formula."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Victoria Beckham Cream Highlighter

"It just creates this beautiful glow on the cheeks without making my cheeks look icy or like they don't belong with this golden eye that I have going on. I just love it. It's so beautiful. This has recently kind of replaced all of my powder highlights. Like, it's the only highlight that I've been using, which is insane. But yeah, it's expensive. Victoria Beckham products are really expensive. I don't feel like I dabble in them very often, but this is a really good, if you've been thinking about it, it is as beautiful as you think it's going to be."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Haus Labs Power Sculpt Velvet Bronzer

"I'm also using Haus Labs for my bronzer. Nothing new. If you watch my videos, there's nothing new. I've been using all of this stuff recently."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Haus Labs Pomelo Peach Blush

"I have the Pomelo Peach. I'm going to use the teeniest amount of peach. This is a really great trick. When I look at her face, it looks like she has maybe like the teeny teeniest bit right here that just sort of blends into her bronzer. Just like that much. Like hardly at all. Just like the slightest color to the face. And that is one of my favorite tricks to muting a blush. Don't forget that you can mix your powder products, too. It's just like little teeny bit of a hue. Like, I can see the tiniest bit of a hue on her cheeks."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

e.l.f. Putty Blush

"I have these [...] putty blushes from e.l.f. [...] I'm going to mix these two together because this is a little too orange and this is a little too pink. One part Bora Bora, two parts Bahamas. Yeah, I like that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Milani Silky Matte Bronzing Powder

"I'm going to use the Milani Sunlight Silky Matte Bronzer 01, which is a nice light bronzer, so it's not going to be too much on my skin. I'm doing kind of like a bouncing motion where I'm bouncing this gently against the skin. Just because it's a powder, you can absolutely apply it like this, maintaining that coverage, not dusting anything away and reinforcing that definition and color."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

e.l.f. Putty Bronzer

"I really like this as a drugstore option. I really like these formulas, they're very creamy and blendable but they have a little bit more of a matte finish, so if you are a little bit more oily, they're easy to work with, they're easy to blend and they just blend forever, so they're really really soft. It's like this beautiful soft matte. It's a little bit more tan than some of these others. If you're really really really pale this can end up looking kind of muddy on you, but I think it's really beautiful. I like it a lot, especially for sculpting the cheeks. It has more of a matte kind of finish, so it's easy to blend and it blends out into this kind of like soft, very very soft finish which I like."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Maybelline City Bronzer Shade 200

"If you're looking for a matte bronzer that's like similar to Quint but you like you want a powder then this is such a beautiful such a beautiful option i love this is one of my absolute favorites i just think the formula is really gorgeous it has like a luminosity to it without being shiny it's not a shiny bronzer it's definitely a matte finish but it kind of creates a little bit more of a satin look to the skin so if you're oily and you need a powder gorgeous formula it is like it has good pigment so unlike the E.L.F one or the Benefit one you want to just be a little bit careful it can build up quickly if you are very very pale but yeah it's beautiful beautiful i love it"

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Patrick Ta Double-Take Creme and Powder Blush Duo

"The formulas are meant to be together so they just work so beautifully. The color range is gorgeous, the finish is so incredible, and even though this color might seem intense it just isn't. When you apply it everything is so soft and works beautifully. I love, love, love it. I know Patrick Ta is not super cheap, but if you're looking for a new blush, these are just going to be my go-to for spring and summer."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Fawn Contour Stick

"Switching over to Anastasia Beverly Hills to do my cheekbones. Somebody told me that they're discontinuing Fawn so if you need to pick it up pick it up. I don't know if they're just discontinuing the stick in general or if they're coming out with new shades, but I just went and I bought two because they're discounted, so get them while you can. It's something that I really like to do. It's something I just can't live without."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour

"I really love the formula and I hate the color. It's so damn red. I don't know if you're more neutral it'll work for you but I just, I can't use it. I think I'm just too green to be able to get away with it. I want like a real contour because this is supposed to be a liquid contour. The packaging is cute, I always love her packaging."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Amber Suede Bronzer Contour Stick

"I used to use Fenty Amber which is pretty similar"

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Blush

"I have the exact blush that [...] she was wearing, it's the blush in Happy. I'm going to try not to use too much of this because she has a darker skin tone than me and this is like a relatively bright blush and it just doesn't look as like, you know, on her. So I'm going to blend it out a little bit so that it's thinner and I'm not picking up too much."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Warm Wishes Effortless Bronzer Stick in Bright Side

"For my bronzer, I'm using the Rare Beauty Warm Wishes Effortless Bronzer Stick in Bright Side. This isn't like the warmest bronzer, it's slightly more neutral for my skin, but it's kind of like how it looks, it's not like so bronzy because it's just a little softer, everything is a little bit more soft, a little bit more natural, a little bit more like on the neutral side. I'm going to focus the forehead and the temple area first so right here up to the hairline just to add a little definition to the side of the face."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Contour

"I'm starting off with the Sephora Contour, the super gray one, for my jawline. [...] I love the tip of taking it down the contour of the neck, I do that all the time and it's fantastic, it makes it look much more sculpted and also natural. However, if I did that it would do the complete opposite of what I want, which is why I'm placing all of my contour underneath, because I do not have that jawline."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

L'Oreal Lumi Liquid Blush

"L'Oreal came out with these Lumi liquid blushes that are very very pretty. There are some that have like this one is like a matte formula you can see like this really beautiful peach color and then this one is which is um dewy rich coral that makes like a coraly kind of color and then um this one is glowy gold pink which is exactly that like super glowy definitely like um a little bit more on the pink side than this but it still has that kind of like coraly tone to it and it has um like a slightly pinker base but with gold reflex in it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly Tint

"I'm wearing their Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly Tint in the shade Burst. It's such a beautiful formula and I love the color. It's really really light so it's perfect for my skin."

✓Yay

50%Guru Score

Patrick Ta Double Take Cream and Powder Blush in Just Enough

"But then on top of that I'm wearing Just Enough by Patrick Ta"

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

KJH Hey Shine Highlight

"I'm going to use a cream highlight so I'm going to use KJH Hey Shine Highlight in light gold. She has cream highlights that also come with a gloss you can kind of customize the formula. It's somewhere between a serum and a gloss, it's definitely glossy. I'm just going to take a teeny bit of the gloss and mix it back into the cream highlight, and then I'm going to grab the sponge that I applied my foundation with, pick that up and pat that on the tops of the cheekbones. It is glossy so I'm not going to take it everywhere, I'm just going to pat it right over that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

BK Beauty N14 Highlighting Brush

"I'm going to use Nikki's highlighting brush, this is the N14 BK Beauty, just a very pretty like neutral and it's got a little color since I'm not wearing blush yet it'll add a little color to the cheeks."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Givenchy Prism Libre Blush

"I really like these formulas"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Soft Pop Plumping Blush Veil in Barely Blushing

"For my blush, I've just, I can't stop talking about this, it's the Makeup by Mario Soft Pop Plumping Blush Veil in the shade Barely Blushing, just like a nice natural color. I love it. And I just put the butt of my sponge and then I just pop it and since I haven't done my concealer, I'm going to kind of like build it up a little bit extra because that concealer is probably going to go over a bit of it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Powder Highlighter in Champagne Pop

"Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Powder Highlighter, this one's in the shade Champagne Pop. These are some of the most incredible highlighter formulas that have ever existed. They have stood the test of time, they have lasted long past the brand itself. The brand doesn't even exist anymore, but Smashbox thankfully acquired these. If you have been looking for a highlighter that is just perfect, I would recommend Champagne Pop because I just love this color so much. It's amazing. I'm not wearing it today but I wear it in like almost all of my makeup looks. If you're considering other highlights, this is the one. They've got gorgeous shades, amazing for like every skin tone."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Matte Liquid Blush in Bliss

"For blush I'm going to use Rare Beauty, this is Bliss, which I believe is the lightest shade. I'm going to put this on the back of my hand. We're focusing on cream products. I'm going to mix a little tiny drop of my Foundation with it, lightening it a little bit. I'm going to pick that up with my sponge and pop that on the top of the cheekbone. I don't want to take it too close to the eye, I basically just want to focus it right here."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Blush Brush

"I'm using a very small amount and I'm applying that with the Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Blush Brush."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Contour Wand

"For bronzer I'm gonna go in with the elf hello glow Contour stick in light medium which is just like a little bit warmer"

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Highlighter Beauty Wand

"I'm going to start off with the Halo Glow Beauty Wand from e.l.f. this is in light medium. You can see the difference between Fair light and light medium is much warmer. These are pretty pigmented so don't like apply too much. You really just need some little dabs basically, a little bit goes a long way. So I'm just going to do a little to my forehead, a little up on the top of my cheekbone, do a little bit on my nose. I'm going to blend that out first. This is actually the opposite order that I typically do it in because I like to kind of build on top of the sculpt which would be my contour, but if you're going for something bronzy and you want that bronze warm color to be your focus, it's obviously going to depend on your skin tone."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Elevated Glow Highlighter in Pink Moon

"If you don't like the idea of a balmy highlighter, this is probably your best bet because it's a little bit more serummy. It's got less of that like intense glow. I prefer this because of how it looks. I have been loving this ever since I received it. If you have dry skin, I can't imagine you don't absolutely love this product."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Positive Light Silky Touch Highlighter

"I grabbed my Rare Beauty Enlighten Luminizer because I feel like this is a beautiful formula. It's not super wet, it's not particularly heavy, and the pearl in it is definitely glowy, though I mixed it in with a color corrector. It does contain SPF. Used underneath concealer with the color corrector, it makes a beautiful finish and I'm loving it. If you don't have hollows, or you have hollows but aren't dealing with darkness, this could be a really beautiful combo because the illuminator by itself is incredibly light and comfortable on the skin. That said, since it's an illuminator it might be a little much for under the eyes, and up close it may be causing a tiny bit of texture, though I'm not sure if that's the illuminator or my own flaky skin."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

NARS Orgasm Blush

"So soft. So soft. So soft. Perfect. Perfect. You barely see anything. So soft."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Clio Prism Highlighter in 01 Gold Sheer

"This right here is one of my favorite powder highlights, the Clio Prism Highlighter in 01 Gold Sheer. While the tones are very different from the Dolce and Gabbana, the Clio highlighter is lighter. I would say not the biggest difference in Formula, but huge difference in price point."

✓Yay

Notverified

Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Bronzing and Shaping Serum

"I wouldn't use this as a bronzer because it's very cool tone, which is why I used it to contour also used it to contour my nose and around my lips. I just kind of blended my nose contour with my finger same with the contour around my lips. I like these a lot. I think that they're impactful while remaining very wearable and simple to use. The formula itself is really easy to work with. When I used the product and I kind of just dotted it on my skin it didn't do that thing that a lot of serum formulas do where it starts to dry up and set quickly. Especially putting on top of a foundation sometimes it can be a little too runny and then it can end up creating a little bit of a patch where it removes the coverage of your foundation. I didn't have that problem with these at all. I would dot dot go in and blend go in and blend and it was completely fine. It wasn't removing product so I'm very excited about these. I'm going to be using them on the regular because I think they create a really beautiful natural finish."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Lip40 reviews

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Shiny Non-Sticky Lip Gloss

"I'm going in with the Huda Beauty Faux Filter, the clear one, just for a simple gloss, since she doesn't seem to have any shimmer on her lips."

✓Yay

Notverified

Rabon Ghosted 310 Lipstick

"It's this Pepto pink lipstick, Rabon, I just keep coming back to it. This is the famous lip color in the shade Ghosted 310, which is a little too cool toned for this particular look though."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Buxom Power Line Plumping Lip Liner

"This is the Buxom Powerline plumping lip liner in Dolly Light. I don't know why it's called plumping, it doesn't spice your lips or anything like that. I'm not the biggest fan of these thicker angled lip liners, but this color is really beautiful."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Sheen Screen Hydrating Lip Balm SPF 50

"I use it every single day. It's SPF 50. It's amazing. And the best thing is that it doesn't smell or taste like ass. Cuz most SPF lip products smell and taste like ass. This does not. It smells like a funfetti birthday cake. So good. And like we need to take our suncare seriously, so make sure you're using an SPF lip balm. And the fact that it's SPF 50, like are you kidding me? Gorgeous. And it works so nicely with my lipstains."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Flushed Lip Stain

"The Summer Fridays Flushed Lip Stain in the shade almond is so beautiful. For a lip stain to look that color, it's stunning. I love the formula. It stays, and at the end of the night when I wash my face, I still have a bit of the stain on my lips, which just looks nice because it's a very natural nude color. I'm so obsessed with it. It's my go-to. To be able to have a lip stain that's basically the exact same color as my lips and not too pink and not too red and not too orange is just magic. This shade in particular sells out pretty quickly. The formula is really beautiful and I do like the applicator. Highly recommend it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Traced Out Lip Liner in Rose Amber

"It's also quite longwear, but it doesn't like set down immediately. So you have the opportunity to be able to like blend it out. Like, if you have ever used the Fenty lip liners once you draw a line, girl, that's not moving. Like, you can't really blend them. At least in my experience, I've struggled with them. Um, so like it's great if that's what you're looking for, but these I feel like have the same amount of like wear time. Like they last as long, but they give you a little bit more like room to work with."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Velvet Lipstick

"The velvet lipsticks are probably the best velvet matte lipsticks ever. The pigment is unreal. It applies so evenly and it still has this lightweight feeling. It's very difficult to create something that's incredibly pigmented that's also got this beautiful lightweight feeling on the lips. It's not going to overpower the lips or make them feel incredibly dried out. My only criticism is I would like some lighter shades."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Lip Contour Stains

"The Huda Beauty one is a little thick for my taste lip liner stain. I'm a little bit on the fence about the actual applicator. The color is so beautiful and it really stays put."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Creamy Matte Lipstick in Shade 88

"For my lip color, I'm using the Hung Vanngo Creamy Matte Lipstick [...] in Shade 88, just patting it on the lips. It's a matte, which she didn't typically use, but I am going to layer it. I really just wanted this for the tone, so just a little bit of that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner in Muted Mauve

"I'm going to be using the Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner in Muted Mauve. I think this is going to give like a nice sort of like definition to the lips and be like a good tone for the rest of the lip look."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

NYX Lip Lingerie Lip Liner Stain

"The lip lingerie lip liner stains, they're just fantastic. In particular, this color, Barely There. This is actually the second one that I bought. They are so freaking tiny. The precision is insane. When I was a red head, I actually used some of the warmer ones as like fake freckles, like a fake freckle stain. So they're a versatile product. They are obviously meant to be a lip liner, so you can really get that precision. I like using them for that precision. Sometimes I'll just like pick it up with a brush to really create like more of a blurred look so that I can really blend the lip liner, and then if there's any areas where I just need a little bit more precision, I'll go in with the line."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Lip Contour Stain in Soft Nude

"My two favorites are this and soft nude. I love using soft nude."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Lancôme Lip Glowy Balm

"I'm just going to use a little bit of my Lancôme Lip Glowy Balm. I'm going to apply it with a little brush, focusing in the center and then just patting out. You just want to be careful not to mattify the outer part of the lip. It's going to undo everything that we did. So just be precise about your application. I think focusing it a little bit lower than you would think is helpful."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever Wherever Walnut Lip Liner

"I'm just going to grab my Make Up For Ever Wherever Walnut Lip Liner and do the most messy, smudged-out lip liner ever. I don't know if I say this often, but this is literally my go-to everyday kind of lip liner. If you're someone who struggles, this will not stay on, I'm someone who, when I'm wearing makeup, I just know not to touch my face, I just don't touch my [...] lips, so I don't have to work hard at it. [...] Just a little definition, a little something. Kind of looks like an extension of the blurred-out color on the rest of my face."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Rimmel Lasting Finish Lip Liner 705 Cappuccino

"I love the Rimmel has some of my favorite lip liners. This is in 705 Cappuccino. It's a dark darker kind of like contoury color, but it has a little bit more warmth. It's more cool toned than like my typical lip liner, but it's not like a MAC Stone. MAC is like very very like gray. It's not grayge. It's a little bit more of like a neutraly brown kind of color, with like a little bit of red in there. It's like a little bit reddish purpley toned."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Cream Glide Lip Liner

"Once again, this is my new favorite lip liner to do"

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Milani Keep It Full Plumping Gloss in Champagne

"I'm going to go over top of that with the Milani Keep It Full Plumping Gloss. This is in the shade Champagne. It's a little caramelly and juicy. It's like a little pink, but once I added this, I feel like it got a little closer. It's pretty."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Signature Lip Lightweight Lipstick

"I'm going to try the Millennial lipstick from Merit just because I feel like it will really work for this look. Look at that color. I was a little like, am I going to like this? And then I tried it on and I was like, this is fabulous. This is the shade Millennial. Just focusing it in the center. I don't even really want to blend it into the lip liner as much."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

MAC Stone Lip Liner

"Whatever. I'm going to start off with Max Stone Classic lip liner."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 Beach Please Lip and Cheek Cream Blush

"This blush is gorgeous from Tower 28, so pretty. I'm really really loving these blushes. This one's in the shade Samo Spritz, so pretty, like absolutely just really complimented the ube powder. I wanted to kind of build it up and play with dusting it a little bit on my nose, and then I just wanted to kind of bring that into my crease. It's pretty."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Dior Rouge Volupté Lipstick 220 Beige Couture

"The Dior one, it's really pretty. This was the shade 220 Beige Couture and I remember seeing some comments from people being like, oh my God, the Dior one was the winner, and it is beautiful. I loved the color, I love the formula. It's pretty matte, it's their velvet formula which is like more on the matte side, but when my lips are not like dead from trying 18 different lipsticks, it's very comfortable. It is comfortable. And it's such a pretty color, [...] just like a beautiful nude."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Pillow Talk

"Pillow Talk Fair looks a little more pink, slightly more saturated. You can see a little bit more brown in Pillow Talk. Fair feels a little too light and too pink for me, but very pretty when I shear it out. It's nice. I like it better than I thought. The satin cream, it's not bad. I like it. I feel like I just want to wear it with a lip liner, but no, it's not bad. It's actually pretty. I feel like it would be because of the pink, it feels like it would be a little bit better for like a slightly more cool-toned fair. Regular old Pillow Talk, the matte has just like a square applicator. I don't really know why. I don't know which one I like better. I think I like the regular one better, but I don't know. And since buying this, this has been what I've been using the most recently."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Hello Sunday Lip Balm Broadspectrum SPF 50

"For lips I use the Hello Sunday [...] Broadspectrum SPF 50. This is a lip balm that is SPF 50 and it is a chemical SPF. [...] It's flavored with strawberry so it doesn't smell horribly like sunscreen, but this is the best one that I've been able to find that is SPF 50. Usually you can only get 35 tops."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 ShineOn Lip Liner

"For my lips I'm using this liner from Tower 28. This liner was really beautiful but it was a little bit more saturated than what I wanted so I'm really really softening it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil

"The formula is so nice. I can't believe how much I was like I'm going to hate this product and it was the complete opposite. I absolutely ended up loving it. [...] There is like a slight tingle, like the slightest tingle, but it's not irritating like a plumping gloss at all. It doesn't hurt, it just feels like a little bit minty."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Tower 28 ShineOn Lip Jelly

"I love this Tower 28 lip gloss as well. I just love those like warm kind of shimmery glosses so I'm just patting that to make sure that everything is hydrated."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

NYX Slim Lip Liner Nude Beige

"NYX Nude Beige lip liner. There are a lot of options but NYX Nude Beige is kind of light, not super dark. Most of the other options are just darker with more opacity and contrast. But this shade works well for me when I apply it with a light hand and blur it out."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Lip Oils

"The new Milk Makeup Lip Oils are beautiful. I love layering them on top of bolder pink lipstick."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Dior Addict Lip Maximizer

"I've been using the Dior Addict Lip Maximizer which is a plumping gloss which I didn't know when I got it. I hate the Dior foot, it's awful, [...] they're just like hard and stupid. But [...] I like the color, the color is really nice. I pick up a little bit on the brush and start with the center of the lip where it tends to get drier, then blend it into the lip liner. That's been my go-to lip combo recently."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner in Deep Taupe

"I don't have allegiance to lip liners, but one day I just [...] reached into my lip liner bucket and pulled this out [...] and it's now my obsession. It's the only lip liner that I've been using. [...] The first time I used it I thought it was too warm or maybe too brown, but it's so good. [...] It works so well with my blush."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

MAC Stone Lipstick

"Sometimes I'll go in with Mac Stone and just do like just under the lower lip"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tower 28 SOS Lip Softy

"It's actually a really good lip balm. [...] It stays put, it's not sticky, it smells nice, and I like the little applicator. For the most part it mostly stays on my lips. When I wear it overnight it's not quite as long lasting as Oric in my opinion, but I do wake up in the morning and my lips are not dry, which is what I'm looking for. If [...] you have more access to Sephora, the Tower 28 lip balm is so good. I'm really loving it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Burt's Bees Lip Treatment

"This is the Lip Treatment, it's the same formula but instead of being in their little pot, it's in a stick form which I love. It's unscented and untinted, so it's just got a little applicator that pops out and then you can just put it on your lips and [...] use the cooling metal applicator to smooth it on. [...] I love it so much. I was really hoping they would do this. It's so nice to just have a little one of these that you can throw in your bag, [...] and this is just a little bit easier for travel."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Lush Lip Scrub

"I ran out of my Lush Lip Scrub that I always use, my like holiday one that I love. I really need to reup cuz I don't know what to do without a Lip Scrub."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick Plus Sunscreen

"For my lips I use Aquaphor with SPF, is it like 25 or 30 I can't remember, but you gotta reapply."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

NYX Nude Truffle Lip Liner

"I'm gonna use nude truffle from NYX which is a little bit warm but why not. I feel like it'll complement this lip stain. It just kind of [...] adds that to the lip."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Rouge Experience Refillable Lipstick

"Lisa included in the box that she sent me her ribbon lip liner, which is one of my absolute favorites to wear with it, which is a true like blue toned cool toned um not like too cool, but it's much more blue toned than this. So you can sort of like manipulate the colors uh by using this lip liner."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Dancing Rose Lip Gloss

"That's not going to feel heavy on the lips, that's not going to dry your lips out, it has this incredible pigment and soft, even color. [...] My all-time favorite lip gloss of all time, Dancing Rose. I can't even talk to you about how much I love this lip gloss. It is such perfection. It has the most beautiful combination of pearl in it where you have this pale gold, but you can see almost a minty green almost with this beautiful fuchsia pink. [...] This is hands down my favorite one. [...] I love that the doe foot is so comfy. The formula is so comfy. You can see it's very sheer."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Velveteen Liquid Lipstick

"I have this super hot orangey Lisa Eldridge liquid lipstick in the shade Dragon."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment

"I've really been loving the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment. They're just really nice, very very very hydrating. I was super surprised because as you guys know I pretty much only [...] ever wear the Auric lip treatment. [...] This was probably the first time that I used a lip treatment, lip balm, anything like that that didn't dry out my lips and actually hydrated them. I love this and I will not stop using it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Other36 reviews

Inglot Duraline

"This is Duraline from Inglot, a great mixing medium for your makeup. It helps things last longer, you can create eyeliner out of powders and such, it has so many different uses."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre

"I used MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre, which has been my fave."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sigma Switch

"Sometimes I forget to use my Sigma Switch and I like reach for a paper towel. I always have a paper towel in case I like spill stuff, [...] but it just doesn't work. It doesn't work as well. This is so good. It's just like this rubber, if you didn't know, it's just this little rubber pad. This [...] just pulls off all that product so you can switch between shades without changing your brush, which is the point of this."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Shiseido Eyelash Curler

"Curling my lashes with my Shiseido lash curler. I've been loving this lash curler. I start with the middle, then I go into the inner corner of the eye, and then I go to the outer corner of the eye."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Oral-B Round Electric Toothbrush

"The Oral B brush heads, first of all, they're plastic, wasteful. Second, there are so many components because it is one of those twisting ones for moisture to get into, for water to get into, and no matter how much I dry it pointing down so that water doesn't get up in there, and then I shake out the stupid brush head, it just feels like there's moisture getting caught everywhere. It's like so gross to me. I don't like that."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Suri 2.0 Sonic Toothbrush

"I like that it's recyclable. I like the idea of that. And it's also quite sleek. I think it's going to be really good for travel. I've been using it every day, twice a day. I like it a lot."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter

"This is a beautiful [...] luminizer. [...] Very, very, very, very, very pretty. Just sort of softens everything, you know, very nice and sheer."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Haus Labs Precision Sculpting Shape Balms

"I actually picked up these contour sticks from Haus Labs. I picked up two of them. One's a little more cool toned and one's a little bit more warm. They're pretty pigmented, so just be careful. They're very blendable. This is actually kind of my first time using them. I'm going to focus this up by my hairline to do a little bit of sculpting, and I'm going to utilize the point of the brush to go around my hairline so I'm not getting it all up in my hair."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Kenra 25 Dry Texture Spray

"This is such a good texture spray. It's really fantastic for just creating like a nice body. You don't need like a ton of it either. You can kind of just like mist it throughout and just kind of like mess it up. And it smells so good. It's kind of like a berry scent, fruity, but not like too sweet. If you're somebody who has been looking for a hairspray that will create body but is touchable, this is a way better option to go for a dry texture spray than a hairspray because I've used a lot of hairsprays that claim to do that and they don't. They really make you crunchy. Love Kenra. And it lasts forever. It took me a really long time to go through this."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Half Magic Sparkle Stick Eye Crayon in Cloud Skin

"This is the Sparkle Stick Eye Crayon in [...] Cloud Skin. I love this so much. This is something you can literally just draw all over your lids and it stays put. It's absolutely stunning. [...] The payoff is incredible and they're so easy to use. The size is so easy to use, I can really get in here into those tricky little areas."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Tower 28 Multi-Liner Pencil

"I'm going to use the Tower 28 Multi-Liner Pencil. This is a work of art because it's like it's warmer but it's not too orangey, which is what I want. You can use it to overline your lips, and you can also use it to shade the lip. As I'm lining I'm kind of holding it against my skin flat against the skin so that it's sort of blending into that lip stain. It adds a little bit more dimension."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Kiss ImPRESS Press-On Falsies

"I have these Impress falsies from Kiss. These are prelued, basically they're for under lash application. And these are the style natural, I believe. The only hesitation I have is I've picked up some other ones of Kiss that are like this, the prestick for under lashes, and they were so bad. Like so bad. They were flaking. Like the glue stuff was flaking off. So we'll see what happens with these if they are any different. But basically, I love an under lash application because number one, you're not going to have this problem where your lashes are popping off at the corners. The problem is that you need to get nice curly ones. So these are nice because they are quite curly. So they curl up so they're not going to like drag the eyes down too much."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

e.l.f. Total Face Sponge Duo

"I'm going to be using for underneath my eyes the E.L.F. sponge. I hope this is still available because this is so great."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Lumi Glotion

"The L'Oreal True Match Lumi Glotion is a beautiful formula. It's a little bit less thick, a little bit more lotiony feeling, thinner and a little bit more hydrating feeling, and the effect is a lot more natural. It's a very pretty kind of natural sheen. The L'Oreal Glotion is really beautiful. It's lightweight and it's a great first step before foundation. You can mix it in with foundation. I wouldn't recommend putting it on top if you're looking for a highlighter on top."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

About Face Matte Fluid Eye Paints

"The About Face eye paints are amazing because they're literally meant to be waterproof. So using that and then you can set it with an eyeshadow like you can go in with an eyeshadow on top, but utilizing that for your eyes rather than just using like a powder eyeshadow or your regular old cream eyeshadow."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Avène Thermal Spring Water

"I didn't have anything for my sink where I wash my face a lot of the time so I like to pat off the nasty LA water and then rehydrate with something that's [...] cleaner. Avène in general is expensive and in comparison to the Bioma, I think I would probably go with my Bioma Mist to be honest with you. [...] I'm just going to kind of hold off and maybe finish it before I decide."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Revlon One Step Volumizer

"It would have been so much easier to just like pick it up out of a big tub"

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao

"I believe that is just Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao, just a contour shade. Really really contouring the lips, sticking with those cool tones, you know, fading in a little bit. My typical contour situation, blending blending with a little brush."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Make Up Forever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao

"I'm going to do a little bit of contouring with endless Cacao from Makeup Forever"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Color Fix Liquid Pigment

"I took out a lot of my Danessa Myricks Color Fixes from my kit recently except for very specific shades. They're just real thick. They are very thick."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Caudalie Beauty Elixir

"I use this every single day it's one of my favorite Mists in the entire world"

✓Yay

63%Guru Score

Colgate Total Toothpaste

"I have it when I need it."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Curology Emergency Spot Patches

"You always need them"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Good Molecules Hydrocolloid Patches

"I have good molecules Hydrocolloid Patches. Whichever one I just throw it in here because you always need them. [...] You have the option to just take a single one with you if you're just on the go, so that is nice. It gives you the option."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Crest Whitening Strips

"I happen to have very nice white teeth I'm just trying to maintain so I basically just use them for maintenance. I use them essentially once a month for like 20 minutes just to keep it up, remove stains and stuff. It's just something that I feel like I always need because sometimes there are those days, especially if you're a coffee or tea drinker, you just look in the mirror and you're like, how did it catch up with me. So pick up your Crest Whitening Strips."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Colorful Luminizer in Iced Pearl

"This is just such a beautiful highlight. I was on Sephora and Sephora Collection is something that I'm always intrigued by because they have some really good products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Colorful Luminizer in Rose Quartz

"To finish off I'm going to be using this luminizer in is it pink quartz it's from Sephora"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Beauty of Joseon

"I brought Beauty of Joseon which was great. [...] I wore that like a lot. I was super diligent about my sunscreen because I typically am and we were on the beach for hours at a time."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

NYX Epic Wear Liner Stick

"I'm going to use the NYX Epic Wear Liner Stick, this is in Emerald Cut, straight up green. I'm going to place this right in my waterline. Sometimes I like doing this before I start applying any eye shadow so that it's a little bit easier to blend into it. Also it kind of gives you an opportunity to see like how long, like if the eyeliner is actually going to last and if I need to just go over it with something else, you know, because if it starts to disappear from my waterline I might want to use something else. This is actually a really good eyeliner because it's a little waxy so it's pretty good for your waterline because it's going to stick, you know what I mean. It's not like a formula that's going to like slide around."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sensodyne Toothpaste

"I've been using Sensodyne, and it's very very good. It's not just like the regular Sensodyne, it's like something a little bit more specialized because I have sensitivity from clenching."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Vichy Mineral 89 Prebiotic Recovery and Defense Concentrate

"I use a little bit of a hyaluronic acid serum from Vichy underneath my eyes"

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Uzu Eye Opening Liner

"They're felt tipped liners so you guys know but look at that color payoff I thought it was really good. They're not like the most opaque but it's decent pigment and you can like layer them, they draw over each other pretty nicely. It's a nice formula, they're like pretty liquidy but the felt tip is pretty firm so you have a lot of control over it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Enhancing Tint

"Something that I've really been struggling with recently is oiliness in my T-zone. I recently used another skin tint that otherwise should be pretty nice, but it just ends up always making my T-zone a little too oily. Luckily, Lisa Eldridge doesn't really do that."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Sleep and Glow Omnia Pillow

"The Omnia Pillow was specifically designed to prevent sleep wrinkles. It was designed by orthopedists to make sure that you have proper posture while you're sleeping. What's really nice is it has these tiny little grooves in here, so your face just sort of nestles in here while you're sleeping and it just protects the delicate center of your face, especially those under eyes, whereas a typical pillow doesn't have those grooves. So you're just like mushed against it, which just causes all of this creased skin. And let's face it, you're sleeping for 8 hours. [...] This was designed by orthopedists and it was specifically designed to create proper spine alignment, which is really important when you're sleeping. They also conducted a study in Barcelona which found that 87% of patients saw their wrinkles reduced. I've been using it for years since they first sent me one."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Shaping Stick

"These are nice they blend well nothing to really write home about"

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Find Comfort Stop and Soothe Aromatherapy Pen

"It's made with a natural blend of peppermint, lavender, and tonka bean aromatherapy oils to help de-stress and decompress. It's a leak-proof pen. When I would use this is probably like on my way to an event when I'm going by myself and I'm afraid that I'm not going to know anyone and I'm just going to be standing there by myself alone feeling awkward. This would be really good for that."

✓Yay

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Foundation34 reviews

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Foundation

"If you're a fan of Haus Labs, I really love that foundation, and I think that would also create a really beautiful base for this look."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Red Carpet Skin Luminous Foundation

"I'm using the new Hung Vanngo foundation because it provides incredible coverage and has kind of a blur effect on the face. I'm using shade number two, which is a little dark and a little orangey for my skin tone, but it works. This foundation really fills the pores, it creates this soft blur effect to the skin, it's pretty incredible. Typically when a foundation claims that I don't believe it, but this one really does. Despite the texture I have going on with my skin right now, it looks so beautiful, so beautifully hydrated."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Cushion Foundation

"This cushion foundation gives soft matte coverage that feels weightless, which I really like considering my skin type. The finish looks very soft, and it smoothed things out nicely without looking overly matte or dry. The coverage is really nice and seems relatively buildable. I really really love the finish, I'm very happy with my base, it looks beautiful and feels really comfy. But it's the age-old struggle of getting a foundation light enough that's actually my undertone. This one is definitely not light enough and reads orangey yellowy on my skin, so the neutral shade is a bit better than the others but I still don't have a color match for this beautiful finish."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

NARS Natural Matte Longwear Foundation

"I loved the finish. Problem is my skin congestion prone, acne prone. Heavier matte foundations like this tend to make me break out. And guess what? This one did exactly that. Loved the finish. I loved it. But like at the end of the day, I ended up with two big breakouts that weren't there in the morning. I tested it a couple times and the same thing happened. Either I had a smaller breakout that ended up being way larger at the end of the day or I had like just breakouts happening at a time when my skin was really good and it didn't correlate with my hormones."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

NARS Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation

"The final thing that I would say you can skip is the NARS Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation, and the only reason I'm saying this, I loved the finish. I thought it was beautiful. It's like a satin matte full coverage, gorgeous. I don't have the proper colors, but it makes me break out. Not horribly, not like with rashes or anything like that, but it just suffocates my skin, and any tiny little breakout I might have is going to be ten times as big when I wash this off at the end of the day. [...] So I avoid the heavier coverage foundations, unfortunately. I really did think it was beautiful, but personally, because of that experience, and I've heard from some of you that you also had that experience, I would skip it. But if you don't [...] have sensitive skin or you're not congestion prone, it's gorgeous and you should absolutely pick it up. [...] If you've been curious about it, yeah, it's really beautiful."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation

"Even the recent reformulation with Armani Luminous Silk, the lighter shades, though they did start to include a little bit more of the olive and ultramarine tones into their foundation, the pigments into their foundations were still quite orange. [...] The shade Mont Blanc [...] is a little bit too on the orange, yellowy orange side. [...] The formula does feel quite nice, I have to say, like hydrating for a matte foundation."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever HD Skin Hydra Glow Foundation

"Makeup Forever has always had this problem with me. I'm a very pale person, so my experience with the shades is going to be more so in the pale range, but even the colors that were sent to me are quite yellow and [...] orange. [...] So I'm going to use the shade Mont Blanc, which you can even just see from the packaging is a little bit too on the orange, yellowy orange side. [...] The formula does feel quite nice, [...] hydratingish for a matte."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation

"I have found that to be the case with a lot of Nars foundations. There are other brands that have also had this problem. I do feel like MAC tends to like lean that way. Even their olive tones tend to be like a little bit too yellow and orange."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 32H Fresh Wear Foundation

"This is such a beautiful foundation. It has really really nice coverage and a beautiful finish, but it doesn't feel heavy on the skin. It's the best when you find a full coverage foundation that doesn't feel like it's suffocating your skin. I tend to prefer a more full coverage foundation, especially when I'm breaking out around my temples and my forehead. If I can get a good amount of coverage with the foundation, it makes spot concealing a lot easier. Gorgeous formula."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Revlon Illuminance Skin Caring Foundation

"Just wanted something light and luminescent. Is this expired? You know when you have a bad pistachio? That's what this smells like. You know how the Revlon foundations and then also like the MAC foundations, they usually smell like paint, like fresh paint. This doesn't smell like that. It smells like a bad pistachio. I think we're going to pivot because I don't want to ruin my face."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Missha M Perfect Cover BB Cream

"I tried with Estee Lauder, L'Oreal Accord Parfait, Missha BB cream. Love Missha BB cream."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Bare Minerals Original Loose Powder Foundation

"Bare Minerals is kind of like the one that everybody knows about."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

MAC Face and Body Radiant Sheer Foundation

"MAC Face and Body I think is water-based."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Super Blendable Foundation

"For my foundation, I'm going to be using the L'Oreal True Match. This was [...] actually a foundation that Nenah called out in a drugstore video where she was shopping for drugstore products. So, this is in the shade W1. I'm putting one pump of this on the back of my hand, and she applied it with her fingers, which I just don't ever do, but I'm going to try."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation

"I'm going to use the e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation [...] because [...] it's a soft satin foundation. So it'll maintain flawlessness in the center of the face, but it'll go over that glow, that glowy primer really nicely. The shade 12 Fair Warm is just a little bit on the yellow side, but I'd rather that because I am quite yellow than like orange. This foundation's a little bit light for me. It's pretty light. [...] I usually mix it with other foundations."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Too Faced Born This Way Foundation

"Several years ago, I got Too Faced Born This Way Foundation. I got shade matched at the counter. It's my perfect shade and I love the foundation for my combination. I would probably say it's my holy grail foundation. So, one day I just basically started to use it as a concealer instead and I've been doing it ever since as I don't mind my natural skin being shown either."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Estée Lauder Futurist Hydro Rescue Foundation

"I'm not super familiar with the Estée Lauder Futurist Hydro Rescue. So that would be interesting to look into as well."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 Hour Foundation

"It's definitely full coverage but it's not ridiculously matte. It's a very moisturizing foundation. When they say it has a hydration boost it absolutely does. It feels like a skin care cream when you're blending it out. The finish is a satin hydrating finish. It has a little bit of a scent, just keep that in mind. The formula feels slightly thicker than some other foundations, but the finish is very similar to more expensive options. You can see that hydration in the wear."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Jane Iredale Pure Pressed Base Mineral Foundation

"I'm intrigued by mineral foundations, I want to make them work. [...] The shade warm silk is too dark for me and it's a little bit too orange. That's one of my problems with powder foundations, we have even fewer shades that actually work, especially in studio lighting. [...] The product feels kind of heavy when I first put my finger into it. When I swatched it on my hand, [...] it has a nice satiny finish to it, but it does feel a little heavy. In the area where I swatched it, I feel like it accentuates the lines in my hands."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Reveal the Real Skin Tint

"I have been mixing the Lisa Eldridge skin tint in the shade T3 with the Sephora Collection Reveal the Real Skin Tint in the shade 120 White Fair."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Sheer Skin Tint

"Summer Fridays, what colors are these? They sent me shade one and shade two, such a similar thing. They're like so close to the same colors. How is that supposed to be a tint for pale skin? That's one. How am I, what am I supposed to do with that color? I don't get it. I don't understand it, doesn't make any sense. To be fair, the Summer Fridays one is way closer to my skin tone than this one, but still I just don't understand why we want a skin tint to tint our skin the wrong undertone or the wrong color. I know how that's faster, I don't know how that's better. Doesn't make any sense. I don't get it."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Liquid Touch Weightless Foundation

"It took forever before I replaced the rare Beauty Foundation"

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Soft Matte Longwear Foundation

"If I didn't already have this Foundation I would absolutely be adding this Foundation because I have this Foundation is so good. If you haven't tried it, everything they say about it, the fact that it blurs and provides this incredible coverage, highly recommend. I like the packaging, it's nice and travel friendly, it's nice and lightweight. The color that I use is 140G in Cashew, which is ever so slightly more on the peachy kind of neutral side compared to my skin tone, but it works beautifully."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Blur Foundation

"It is a matte, [...] full coverage foundation but it's very lightweight like it doesn't feel heavy on the skin. It provides such a really beautiful amount of coverage. [...] It just kind of melts into the skin, it literally just melts into the skin. The coverage is [...] so impressive, I was so impressed when I used it. I [...] used just that little pump that I put out, I haven't picked up any more than that. I'm not layering a ton of product on my face, I'm just making sure that it's well blended and pounced in. [...] It looks so beautiful and it creates such a smooth effect to my skin."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place Longwear Matte Foundation

"Estée Lauder Double Wear is actually quite a bit orange. It's not like so orange, it's not as bad as the Makeup Forever one. It's a little bit more of a yellowy orange. It's not completely terrible when you look it next to About Face, but you can definitely see that that orange is really standing out, especially next to the olive foundation."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Foundation

"The Lisa Eldridge Foundation is actually quite similar to um very Valentino it's a little bit darker and it's got slightly more yeah it's just a little bit darker but you can see that they both have that kind of like yellowy orange shade to them I would be super interested in trying 2.5 um I feel like that would be a much closer match"

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Kosas BB Burst Tinted Moisturizer Gel Cream

"We have the Kosas BB cream, number 10 which is just very light, not a horrible color. Especially when I compare it to the tarte one, like if I mix those actually it could be quite nice. Just very very light, but the tone is actually quite nice. It's kind of like a pale yellow. And then we have number 12 which is slightly more on the olive side, maybe ever so slightly too cool toned. I would say that this is more neutral and not so orange because when we compare it to Makeup Forever and also the Smashbox, it definitely has way less of that orange in it. So if you are a maybe slightly more cool toned olive that's like fair to light, that would actually be like a pretty decent shade for you."

~Mixed

57%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Face & Body Foundation

"I've been using the Dior Backstage Foundation, I can't remember the shade I'll link it down below, it's like a pretty yellow one, it's a little bit dark for my skin but it's nice. I like to take my time building up my foundation. I'm not applying too much, you can see there's still like little freckles, I've got little bits, you know, little breakouts here and there. I'm not worried about completely concealing. I would say it's a matte formula."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

About Face Performer Skin Focused Foundation

"For my base, I'm going to start off with the About Face foundation. I've been loving this in general for these kinds of looks where skin really looks like skin. It provides a really good amount of coverage, but it also is very skin-like. It's not like a full coverage foundation, and it doesn't feel heavy on the skin. The only thing that bothers me about this, I wish I had a pump and not a doe foot."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Smashbox Always On Skin Balancing Foundation

"If you've been following my channel for a long time then you know I was obsessed with this. It was the only foundation I was wearing for such a long time. This is the skin balancing foundation with hyaluronic acid and adaptogens. It's kind of like a medium full coverage to be completely honest with you. It is really soft, really smoothing. It's meant to like really melt into the skin and mimic skin. It's literally called the skin balancing foundation, so it's supposed to work with your skin with your skin type. So if you are dry it's supposed to like balance that by adding moisture, and if you're oily it's supposed to balance that by like not absorbing the moisture. But basically it's supposed to adapt to your skin type. And I have to say, my experience with this foundation has been nothing but positive every single time I've used it."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion Foundation

"The classic mask fit red cushion is more of a satin formula it provides like a really beautiful amount of coverage and I would say that this is probably the most universal in texture if you're someone like me who tends to be like I would say normal to combination sometimes I have dryness sometimes I have a little bit of oiliness this is one of my favorite formulas because it really adapts to like whatever my skin is going through at the time"

✓Yay

55%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit All Cover Cushion Foundation

"What's nice about this foundation is that a little bit goes a long way. I personally think that one of the best ways to apply it is with the little pad it helps to prevent from manipulating any formulas, you know, you're not adding moisture with like a damp sponge. With brushes you could use a brush but brushes I just always end up with streaks. It just doesn't soak up as much of the product. For a more matte and also full coverage foundation, it's just providing so much beautiful coverage without looking heavy on the skin. My skin still just looks like skin. It feels incredibly lightweight, which is true of all of the formulas, which is really nice. It just doesn't feel like you're wearing a ton of makeup when you apply it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Unreal Skin Sheer Glow Tint Hydrating Foundation Stick

"The Charlotte Tilbury Unreal Skin Foundation Stick is a beautiful highlighter. I don't know how anyone could use it as a foundation. It's labeled as a foundation stick but it's actually a beautiful highlighter. It's like a filter in a stick."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Clio Kill Cover Mesh Glow Cushion Foundation

"This foundation is really nice because it has a very natural but buildable finish so if there are certain areas that need more coverage you can focus more coverage in those areas without it feeling heavy. Using the puff allows the formula to do exactly what it's doing without mixing it or manipulating it in any way, so you get a beautiful natural sort of glass skin finish with the foundation."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Concealer25 reviews

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Matte Buildable Coverage Waterproof Concealer

"For my under eyes, I'm using Huda Beauty concealer in the shade marshmallow, which I believe is their lightest concealer shade. It's a nice full coverage concealer, and I just think it's going to look good with this overall tone."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer

"I'm using Nars creamy concealer in the shade nougatine as my color corrector. It has a really beautiful orangey golden color to it, which really helps to warm up the darkness underneath my eyes so I can go on top of it with a brighter concealer and cancel out the gray tones."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Concealer in 100W

"I'm using my Rare Beauty Concealer in 100W, the lightest. It's this nice pale yellow shade, which I personally, for my skin tone, really love. A more yellow concealer for brightening, especially underneath my eyes."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Concealer

"I want to use like a relatively full coverage concealer. This one got a little bit thick. I'm going to go in with my Haus Labs concealer [...] in the shade 01 Fair Neutral. I don't want to use like way too much of it, but I do want like a decent amount because I'm also going to use this to kind of help carve the brow."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

About Face Illusionist Skin Focused Concealers

"These are the Illusionist Skin Focused Concealers from About Face. I do really like their packaging. [...] About Face already proved to me that they were creating beautiful olive tones when they launched their initial foundation. They do have some really beautiful olive tones, like true olive tones. The one that I've been using is F2 Olive, which is quite nice. It's maybe like a shade half a shade dark for my skin, and it's ever so slightly more on the neutral olive side. It's lacking a little bit more of that yellowy warmth that I tend to prefer as a slightly more warm olive, but it's quite nice."

✓Yay

60%Guru Score

Covergirl TruBlend Undercover Concealer

"This is the CoverGirl TruBlend Undercover Concealer in the shade Fair Porcelain. This is a beautiful dark circle concealer. Like, very full coverage. So I don't need a lot. You're going to be amazed at how much product you save."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Live Tinted Concealer

"This is the shade 21. It's like a little bit peachy but it's really light. It's kind of replaced my [Haus Labs] concealer. There's just a little bit more peach in the Live Tinted one. The Live Tinted formula is a little bit more like lightweight feeling on the skin. I've been really loving it for like highlighting areas of the face, using it underneath my eyes, forehead, chin, a little bit around my nose. It's not the most full coverage concealer in the entire world. In terms of buildability and formula, it's actually closeish to the [Haus Labs] foundation like in the form of a concealer. It is very creamy. It feels really nice. It has like a nice set time, too. It stays put. And there's something about the color that I just feel like brings a little bit more life to my under eyes, especially because my dark circles have been extra dark. Having that ever so slightly more peach color in it or tone to it because it just kind of helps to like brighten that."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

NARS Radiant Creamy Color Corrector

"I'm using Nars to do some color correcting around my eyes, which are so dark because I've been sick. I'm really working this into the skin. I like to just kind of go between all of these depending on the area of my face. Use Nars as a basis, but make sure that you are tailoring it to you if there are certain areas that you feel like you need to pay more attention to."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Hydrating Camo Concealer

"What worked really nicely actually in my Anathaway tutorial was mixing my LA Girl concealer with my E.L.F. concealer. Light ivory, [...] which is quite peach. It's a little dark and quite peach for my skin tone."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Maxine's Revenge French Face Concealer in Fair Cream

"I knew I was going to like it. Gabby was really talking it up and she knows how I am with concealer, she knows my dark circles, so I assumed I would like it. I really like that concealer formula. My complexion looks nice."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Natasha Denona High Glam Concealer

"I'm trying this new, well not new, it's the Natasha Denona concealer and I haven't used this in a really really long time so I kind of wanted to give it a shot. It's a beautiful concealer, great coverage. I really liked this color."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil

"The pinpoint pencils are fabulous. I love that they're very very creamy and soft and they give you the option to like draw in a section, blend out with your finger, and then you can use the point to really really pinpoint. Isn't that so nice?"

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Tarte Shape Tape Concealer

"The elf camo concealers are very similar to the Tarte concealers however the shade range is very weird. [...] That's something to keep in mind if you are someone who has a niche that you're looking for that is very difficult to find, you may need to spend a little bit more to find the correct product."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Merit Minimalist Concealer

"I'm using Merit concealer, the lightest shade. I have all of my base products on except for coverage and I've been using this as my spot conceal and I love it. My shade is 10. It took me several tries to get my correct shade, but I love it."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

YSL Touche Éclat Concealer

"I have the YSL Touche Éclat, which is in the shade 1.5. This is more of like an 'I'm not putting any other makeup on, I just woke up with under eye circles or I have a lot of redness or whatever and I just need to look a little less like dead' kind of product. This is what I use it for because it is like hydrating on its own. I don't feel like I need a whole lot of skin prep for it. And because it's a pen, I can just go under my eyes, around my nose, a little bit of my forehead, and then just blend it out with my fingers."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Givenchy Prism Libre Skin Caring Concealer

"One of the ones that I really like as in terms of green color corrector because I don't have a ton of redness in my skin is the Givenchy Prism Libre Skin Caring Concealer. This is really great, their color correctors are really nice because they're super hydrating and they're pretty lightweight. They're not a full coverage color corrector so if you're looking for something full coverage this isn't necessarily for you but if you're looking for something a little more sheer, it's perfect for that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Concealer

"Fenty, this is the shade 120N, okay lots of peach, okay nice, fair shade but very very very peach."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Maybelline Fit Me Concealer

"It's described as a yellow concealer that's supposed to neutralize purpley under eye circles. [...] That's why I purchased it in the first place. [...] The sponge is disintegrating on my face. That's nasty."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

NYX Born to Glow Serum Concealer

"The formula is very lightweight and hydrating, so if that's something you're looking for, I like the formula personally. It is a little dark for me personally, and it definitely looks like a slightly more cool-toned olive upon first swatch. It almost disappeared into my face, which is definitely olive."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Concealer

"I was so disappointed when I bought it. I was so disappointed because I feel like the way it was described on the website I wouldn't have purchased it had I known it would look like this. This is very much the Makeup Forever experience where everything is like orange, pink, or even the yellow stuff looks really really orange. So this is Light Ivory, very disappointed. Orange. But honestly, it might be fantastic for someone who has like slightly deeper or more medium or just like more tanned skin."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Concealer

"I'm going in with Armani Luminous Silk Concealer in 5.5 to conceal and brighten. [...] I'm basically just going in and doing like pretty light amounts, light layers, [...] because especially for bridal you want to make sure that your products are lasting. If you're using small amounts of everything it's just a lot easier to build up the look that you want without overwhelming the skin. [...] You really take your time blending, lots and lots of time. It's [...] all about the blending."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 Swipe Allover Hydrating Serum Concealer

"I'm using this concealer from Tower 28 that is a little bit lighter and I'm going over top of that and then I'm starting to blend that more into the rest of my skin. You can definitely go back in to build up. It works for what I was doing."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Color Corrector

"I have used something a little bit warmer and slightly darker first, maybe my Huda Beauty color corrector, and then gone in with this. I did two passes of this as well. After I set with the powder, I go in with another pass of the color corrector because obviously you're still seeing some of that darkness. I want it blended in with a sponge."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum

"I'm going to do a little bit of spot concealing using the Bare With Me Serum Concealer from NYX. Light is a little closer to my skin tone. I'm just going to put this in areas where I have some redness, and I'll conceal underneath my eyes."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Kosas Revealer Concealer

"I'm going in with my Kosas concealer [...] in 0.5 Neutral, which is a really nice match for my skin tone, it's very close and not ridiculously bright in any way. [...] This isn't an overly full coverage concealer, it has a nice coverage, [...] not ridiculously full, so it just adds a little bit more coverage and color correction where I need it."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Sunscreen18 reviews

Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation

"The formula is just a little too oily for my skin. The color is not quite there either. If you are someone who is more dry, you're probably going to love it. But if you're like me and you tend to get very oily in your T-zone, I would skip it. I want to love it, but it's just not quite there. If CL extended their range to include more olive tones, I think I might be obsessed with them because I love their whole ethos. But personally I would skip it."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50

"I have four Haruharu Wonder Black Rice sunscreens. I've talked about this already. I like it. It's very good. It's my daytime sunscreen that I use like all the time. The only thing is that like one day it just started peeling on me when I do makeup. So I don't use it underneath makeup. I use something else. But [...] I use them like on my regular days when I'm not wearing makeup. So it is very good. If you are like me and you're very sensitive, like your eyes are very sensitive to chemical filter sunscreens, these filters do not sting my eyes, which is amazing. It's like [...] a little bit [...] more lightweight, like it has a little bit more of that sort of like milky, like a whipped milk sort of texture to it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++

"The Round Lab Birch Juice, the filters do not sting my eyes, which is fantastic. This is slightly more of a dry formula, [...] it's a little bit more [...] lightweight, like it has a little bit more of that sort of milky, whipped milk sort of texture to it. And this is what I like to use underneath my makeup. So, this does not peel on me, which is fantastic, and it doesn't sting my eyes."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Hada Labo Wonder Black Rice Sunscreen Airy Fit

"This is a very beautiful, like velvety matte finish. The only problem is that I recently have been dealing with pilling with it. And I don't know why, just like happened one day. Um, and it doesn't matter what I'm wearing under it. Doesn't matter if I'm wearing nothing underneath it, it peels. It's very frustrating, especially as a person who wears makeup. So, this might work beautifully for you if you are like me and your typical like avabenzone, octinoxate, homoalate, all of those UV filters sting your eyes like crazy, because I can't go near them. Cannot go near them. This is a great option if you're someone who's a little bit more oily and you're looking for something that's like a little more matte but not dry because it is moisturizing. So, it is really good. I do like it. I still use it on days when I'm not wearing makeup."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Future Screen SPF 50 Modern Mineral Sunscreen

"This I would say is very similar. Has the same kind of tint. So, it has that dark tinge to it for my skin tone, but if you like this kind of formula, the tint would be great for you. It is a very liquidy formula. Uh so, it's a little bit difficult to control in my opinion. I'm not like wild about really watery formulas."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Vibrant Screen SPF 50 Sweat-Safe Face and Body Sunscreen

"I just again cannot tolerate the ingredients and um yeah, I just can't tolerate the ingredients. I can't. They just they sting my eyes like crazy."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream SPF 50+

"I love IT Cosmetics. This is a foundation that will always be in my collection. It's very full coverage. It's described as a serum, but it's got a pretty mousse texture. The mousse is so lightweight. When I start to blend it out, it feels like a lightweight, creamy mousse. Sometimes with a full coverage foundation you have a heavy feel and it just sits on the skin. This one sinks into the skin and doesn't feel that way. This has a very lightweight feel. Again, the color is not completely perfect. It's a little bit more on the orangey side, but the formula is so beautiful. It's really creamy. It's hydrating. It's comfy. Again, it leaves my skin with a satin finish. It provides a really nice blur to the skin without being too matte. It has SPF 50."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

MAC Studio Fix Fluid SPF 15

"This is a 24-hour matte foundation with oil control. As a person who is a little bit on the oily side, it's not ridiculously matte and it's not a ridiculously drying formula. I tend to prefer my foundations to be a little bit more on the satin side, and this is a beautiful formula. It creates a flawless base for your makeup and it stays put all day. When they say 24-hour wear, they mean it. The main reason it's described as a matte foundation with oil control is that it absolutely just stays looking exactly the way you applied it all day long. This is the foundation that I brought with me when I went to London because I knew I was going to be having long days. When I know that I need something to last and perform, this is the foundation that I choose. It has a very sort of mousey texture to it. If you are extremely dry, it may settle into certain areas, so you want to make sure that you are really taking your skin prep."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++

"That and Haru Haru black rice sunscreen are my faves"

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Ginseng Moist Sun Serum SPF 50+ PA++++

"I was really excited because it is such a nice hydrating formula and I thought oh this could be so nice especially for winter when my skin is a little bit drier but no I couldn't. The second it got near my eyes it stung like crazy. So if you're someone who's really really really sensitive to sunscreens and you've been curious I would not recommend it. It is extremely hydrating, like it gives a shine, like it really gives a shine, but the eye stinging is a dealbreaker for me. I would recommend the Sun Relief sunscreen over this any day."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Color Correcting Treatment SPF 30

"Serum serum camid Skin Barrier moisturizing I see moisturizing I buy it"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40

"I bought one like a long time ago and it smelled rancid. I think I got [...] a bad batch or something. I heard from some other people who had that problem as well, and then I tried it later on and it didn't have that scent, so I'm pretty sure I got a really bad batch. But I [...] have a complicated relationship with skin tint to be honest with you."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Skin Aqua Super Moisture Barrier UV Gel SPF50+ PA4+

"This is a great sunscreen, it's super lightweight, absorbs quickly. It's my go-to summer sunscreen because a sunscreen that is sitting on top of my skin, there is nothing worse than that, especially on my body. If I go to cross my legs and they are sticky, nah. So yeah, it's very good if that's the kind of thing that disgusts you like it does me."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Face Liquid Sunscreen SPF 70

"It says Ultra Sheer dry touch and it's SPF 70, lightweight clean feel. I picked this up because I was getting really low on those other ones. It's water resistant so when you first put it on you can feel it a little bit and it does kind of dry down, but it makes it dries out my skin like crazy, especially the SPF 70. And anywhere where your skin creases, like in your elbows, you'll see white start to build up. If I had to choose between this and this, I wouldn't recommend this."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Nivea SPF 50 Japanese Sunscreen

"Nivea has a really great sunscreen as well, very similar formulas."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation

"It's Tower 28 sunscreen. I wanted to love it. They have like a bunch of different colors and I just don't like it. It's really disappointing. Not to call them out directly, I love a lot of their products, but I just really wanted to love this and didn't."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Luna Concealer SPF 34

"For concealer I've just really been liking this one from Luna. I got it when I was in Japan, it's a Korean concealer and I really like it and it's got SPF and that's like really exciting."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Neutrogena Pure Screen Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid

"This is a really good sunscreen. It's SPF 30, it's mineral, it's Neutrogena, it's tinted, and they have like various shades which is nice as well. I do like it as a foundation replacement. This is also a very moisturizing formula. It adds a little bit of a tint, nothing too crazy, but for summertime and like bronzy skin I really like that, just like a nice sheer coverage that's comfortable."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Body & Tan17 reviews

SkinFix Eczema Extra Strength Body Cream

"This is just like a really good hand cream. It's very, very moisturizing... this is fantastic if you have very very dry hands, especially in the winter time... Skin fix. Shout out."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Soft Services Retinol Hand Cream

"It's so fragrant. [...] The fragrance is so heavy. [...] I think it's so unnecessary and it actually bothered me how fragrant it was. [...] If you feel like something cute like this would help you to actually apply retinol to your hands, then maybe it's worth it. That's what I thought. But it's just not."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Olay Retinol 24 Smoothing Body Lotion

"It's a very lightweight formula. It absorbs quickly. [...] It glides on the skin, so you don't have to apply a ton of it to make it move around the skin, which is really nice. [...] It does have kind of a medium strong scent, [...] so if you're very sensitive to scents, maybe you wouldn't like it, but I [...] would rather an unscented version. It's very moisturizing. [...] It's a dream. It's an absolute dream. [...] It was relatively affordable. [...] The packaging is a little bit annoying though. The formula is slightly thicker and it's a lot harder to get out of the packaging. With the squeeze tube it's a little easier and you can cut open the top and scoop it out, but if you get the larger one with the pump, [...] it's almost impossible to get out."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

L'Occitane Almond Sublime Softening Shower Oil

"It smells so good. I've talked about it a million times. It's one of my favorite shower gels. I typically just use the Bioderma one for daily, but I like to use this a couple times a week, especially if I am too lazy to moisturize my whole body because sometimes it happens. And this just leaves your skin feeling so soft and moisturized. It's really really great. And it has a really nice clean almondy scent. I gave it to someone and her literal words were, 'I smell like a rich person when I use this.' It's such a nice thing for the holidays if you're looking to put together a gift bag for someone because the almond scent just makes me think of the holidays."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion

"I'm not super familiar with the Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion, so let me look that up real quick. It contains dimethicone, 1.2%. I have a difficult time with any kind of skincare product that contains silicone or some kind of a cone in it. It can be really, really great, it's a great ingredient, it's great for skin, especially for people who tend to be a little bit more on the oily side but need that hydration. However, the combination of the cone in the Aveeno moisturizer and the E.L.F. Power Grip Primer to me sounds like a bad combo. It feels like that's where we're going wrong. [...] It just feels like those might be clashing, like they might not be working together very easily."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Josie Maran Pink Algae Pro-Retinol Body Butter

"I got this from Josie Maran, this is the Pink Algae Pro-Retinol Body Butter. I do use retinol on my face so this is the kind of thing I'll use on my hands whenever a brand sends me like a retinol serum. I just ran out of all of my retinol body cream so I was like oh this is perfect. It does have kind of a funky smell, it's a little bit of a pinkish color. I'm going to be trying this, I'm interested, I'll keep you posted."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Naturium Skin Renewing Retinol Body Lotion

"It's encapsulated retinol, allantoin, shea butter, and sodium PCA. [...] I do wish I knew [...] what percentage of retinol was in it, because they don't say, and that's annoying because they do for your face. Anyway, it's nice, I like it. [...] It's expensive, definitely more expensive than the Gold Bond one. It is very moisturizing, so I don't know if it's my favorite because I liked the Gold Bond one, it absorbed nicely, it felt very buttery, it felt moisturizing without feeling heavy. This feels a little bit heavier, it kind of sits on the top layer of the skin. So if you are someone whose skin on your body is just too sensitive or has been very sensitive to retinol and you want to use a retinol lotion, this is nice because it combats that dryness with the amount of hydration. If you're someone who's sensitive, if you have dry skin, you would probably like this a little bit better. I've used other [...] retinol body lotions before that I find very drying, so if you've used those and don't like them, this is a good option. I just don't know if it's my favorite for the price, you know what I mean."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Naturium Smoother Glycolic Acid Body Lotion

"It doesn't feel like it absorbs. It just kind of sits on top of your skin like a film, and there have been times where after I've taken a shower I'm sitting on the couch and I'll go to scratch the back of my neck or my shoulder or something and the lotion just pills up and it'll [...] be all over my sweater or my top. It's kind of horrible, I kind of hate [...] this product. That being said, I do feel like it works, the glycolic acid definitely does exfoliate my skin nicely, but the formula is just so gross that I can't. [...] I have one more squeeze tube left of it, I'm going to finish it up, but I don't like it, it smells terrible and it pills, and I would not recommend it, to be honest with you."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Derma B Daily Moisture Body Lotion

"This one's a little bit more rich and I'm not as wild about the scent of it. [...] There's [...] like an old person baby powder kind of scent to it, but the formula is really nice. [...] I've gone through a few bottles of this and [...] I continue to purchase it because I like the formula, but the scent really really bothers me. It's a little bit weird. If you are very sensitive to scents you might want to skip it. [...] It's not a heavy formula, just slightly more creamy, and you feel a little bit more moisturized."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA

"The KP Bump Eraser from First Aid Beauty, [...] I liked it for a while until I discovered the scrub from Narium, and this one is just very rough. [...] The scrubbies in it, [...] it's just a little too harsh for my skin. It's very easy to overdo it and end up actually scratching yourself, especially in more sensitive areas like around your underarms. And it's less of a cream sort of formula, so it balls up and falls off the skin pretty easily. It has 10% AHA, it's fine, but it's not my first choice. I much prefer the Narium one."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body & Face Lotion

"I love this, I think I've also talked about this before but it's just fantastic. It's so good if you have been wanting to use retinol on the rest of your body, this is a really great cream. It's retinol and peptides, it's got seven moisturizers, three vitamins. I picked this up because of a Dr. Dre recommendation. I was originally just using a regular moisturizer and mixing in retinol and that just got really messy, like having to mix them together. The retinol is already in here which is great, I don't have to worry about it. It's also super gentle, very very gentle. I can use it on my neck which is a very sensitive area of the skin. It's also very lightweight, so there's nothing heavy about it. It absorbs nicely. You can apply it in the summertime and be wearing shorts and to bed or whatever and not feel like all sticky and gross. It's just overall a really great formula. I've been really enjoying it. For now this is my go-to. I also have this on a subscribe and save."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

Aesop Daily Moisturizing After Shower Mist

"I also really like the mist from Aesop. It honestly smells kind of milky, just a little something to rehydrate my skin because I live in LA and the water here sucks. That's basically the only reason that I use it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lumi Whole Body Deodorant

"I tried using Lumi, this is the Whole Body Deodorant for pits privates and beyond. It's majority mandelic acid, which basically gently exfoliates your skin and prevents bacteria from growing that causes odor. Why I love this is it helps to neutralize odors and exfoliate that area, which makes your underarms look so nice and smooth. But it will not prevent you from sweating. It just helps to kind of neutralize odors and exfoliate that area. The only problem is it doesn't prevent sweating."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Josie Maron Vanilla Vibes Body Butter

"I'm so obsessed with it. Oh, it's so good... it's so nice and it's so moisturizing... I love it and like it's such a so like comforting... I'm telling you, it's just so good."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Necessaire Deodorant Gel

"I love the scent. It's like a musky vanilla Play-Doh. That's literally what it smells like. Musky vanilla Play-Doh. But it's nice. I like it a lot. And I like that it's a stick. It's creamy enough, but like the other ones were squeeze tubes and you had to rub them in. And I just like so much more convenient to just like roll on a stick. I use this most often and it's so good. Like it's so good. The Play-Doh maybe doesn't sound so great but it does have a really nice scent and the scent overall it just like works with all my perfumes which I really appreciate."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Find Comfort Hydrating Body Lotion

"I was using the body lotion on my body regularly and I was using the hand lotion on my hands, obviously that's how you use them, and so I stopped. I just stopped completely. It has to be the lotion because I had these patches all over me, on my hand, my wrist, my arm, my chest, my back, the back of my right leg, all around my ankle, the back of my calf, on the back of my shoulder, a little bit on the top of my knee. It was so bad on my leg. It was so bad. So I stopped completely, went back to my regular routine, nothing else had changed, and the patches went away."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Find Comfort Hand Cream

"I can only conclude that it was the body lotion and the hand lotion"

✕Nay

Notverified

Moisturizers17 reviews

The INKEY List Bio-Active Ceramide Repairing & Plumping Moisturizer + Barrier Strengthening

"I've used multiple ceramide moisturizers and I keep going back to that one. It's funny, I'll use it, finish it, and move on to something else, but I always end up repurchasing it because one use, like if my barrier is ever in a state of disrepair, then I use it one night, the next morning my skin is so supple and soft. It really is just one of those products that I'm like, I need to have this for those times. I don't like using it many times in a row because I feel like it's a little too moisturizing. But when I really need it to come in clutch, it does."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"I just did my Bioma hydrating mist or balancing face mist and then my CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion. It's pretty much been what I do to prep my skin for everything."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

AmLactin Daily Moisturizing Lotion 12%

"This smells really bad. It smells so bad. Like really bad. I mean, it's not like horrible, but it like it smells bad. Like lactic acid just doesn't smell good. [...] It has that like chemically like almost sulfuric like I just got some on my nose scent to it. [...] The formula is like nice enough. It's like it's kind of like a gel somewhere between like a gel and a cream moisturizer. So, it glides really nicely on the skin. [...] It's described as non-greasy and lightweight. I would agree with that. And to be honest with you, it did a pretty decent job. Like it was gentle enough, but it definitely like exfoliated well. So, it's actually quite nice. But like because the scent is so nasty, I actually think that I'm going to stop using exfoliating moisturizers."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Anua 3 Ceramide Panthenol Moisture Barrier Cream

"This is the Anua 3 Ceramide Panthenol moisturizer barrier cream. So this is what I use on the days when I'm using my tretinoin. If I have exfoliated I use something a little bit more moisturizing. That's what I use. And it's just really great. I love it. What I love about this in terms of barrier creams is most of the time they're very very heavy. And this isn't, it's not super heavy. It is very moisturizing but it has a more lightweight feel on the skin. So if you're someone who's congestion prone or if you just don't like to feel super oily, this is really, really, really good. And sometimes if I have gone in a little bit too much with my exfoliation, I'll use it in the daytime and it doesn't feel like it's sitting on top of my skin and I can actually apply my sunscreen. Sometimes when you use a more moisturizing moisturizer, it just feels like it sits on top of your skin and then when you go in with your sunscreen, they mix together and you're just kind of messing everything up. So yeah, really good. I've already repurchased this and I will be repurchasing this for the foreseeable future."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream

"This is an oldie. This is a callback for OG makeup people. The Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. This is basically an ointment. But this has been used in the industry for years to create a glossy effect on every area of the face, body, whatever. I just wanted to use a throwback."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The INKEY List Omega Water Cream

"This is a moisturizer that I really like. This is from The Inkey List. This is the Omega Water Cream. You want to look for ingredients that have water first. [...] A water cream is going to be really good."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Tatcha Water Cream Oil-Free Pore Minimizing Moisturizer

"I prepped my face with my Tatcha Water Cream and kind of regret that just so you know. I feel like it made my skin a little too dewy."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

The Outset Nourishing Squalane Daily Moisturizer

"The Outset Nourishing Squalane Daily Moisturizer is probably one of my new favorite really moisturizing moisturizers. It's very moisturizing because it's got the squalane oil but it is not greasy, it's not too heavy. A little bit goes a long way which is nice, but it doesn't make your skin look like it's dripping. This is actually my favorite moisturizer to prep my skin for makeup. I like to use their collagen serum and then this moisturizer and then I do my makeup. It is the most beautiful base. I love it so much. It does go a long way which is nice. The only thing is the packaging. It's very difficult to get the stuff that's at the bottom with this glass packaging. It's so hard to get what's at the bottom and it's just not long enough and then you end up having to get something really long to dig product out. I hate that whole process of having to dig product out. It's just really annoying."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream

"I usually use Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream for my moisturizer. I love it, it's my favorite daytime moisturizer. It's perfect, it's simple, there's nothing in it. It's moisturizing without being too heavy. It doesn't leave me looking oily or too shiny or anything."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

SkinFix Barrier+ Triple Lipid & Peptide Cream

"I had been using this as my moisturizer with my Tretinoin on the nights of my Tretinoin because I needed something that was going to be a little bit more thick, a little more moisturizing on those nights because I was dealing with dehydrated skin. [...] Since I've healed finally my dehydrated skin I kind of don't need it anymore regardless."

✓Yay

95%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream

"From COSRX I really liked this, I liked it a lot. It contains allantoin, probiotics, and a ceramides complex. It was very creamy. I had been going through this long period of healing my dehydrated skin and this really really helped. I actually really liked this formula. I felt like it lasted long enough and had a decent shelf life. I just absolutely loved the formula."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream

"I have two of the First Aid Beauty [...] Ultra Repair Creams which I use as a body moisturizer because it's nice and hydrating but also lightweight. [...] I just always pack these for body moisturizer because it works for me."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Verso Dew Point Moisturizing Gel Cream

"I've been using this Verso Dew Point moisturizing gel as a primer. It's just a moisturizer, but I've really been liking it as a primer just because it's like a lightweight hydration and it gives me a kind of a nice grippy base."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

ColourPop Cream Gel Liner

"Their eyeliners are some of my absolute favorites they have every single color the formula is so creamy and nice like I find it doesn't irritate my eyes at all"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tatcha Dewy Skin Cream

"My favorite base are the Tatcha Water Cream and then the Tatcha Dewy Skin Cream. I use both of them. I usually use the water cream all over my face as my moisturizer and then I'll use the Dewy Cream sometimes like as a second layer, depends on how dry my skin has been, but at the very least I will focus that in more dry areas. I also always super hydrate underneath my eyes because obviously you can see dark circles, that's where I need a lot of coverage. So all the areas I need a lot of coverage and dry areas I want to make sure that they are sufficiently moisturized. I also really like using the Dewy Skin Cream on my lips to moisturize."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Cloud Dew Gel Cream Moisturizer

"I use the Summer Fridays Cloud Dew oil-free gel cream, this has been my kind of like daily moisturizer recently."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Typology D41 Nine Ingredient Face Moisturizer

"I've been using the nine ingredient face moisturizer. This is the D41 from Typology. I have a few different moisturizers that I'm going between right now, but I've really been liking this one. Very simple. I probably used somewhere between a [...] large pea and a dime sized amount for my whole face."

✓Yay

Notverified

Haircare15 reviews

L'Oreal EverPure Sulfate-Free Clarifying Shampoo

"As far as clarifying shampoo, I'm loving this one again from L'Oreal. This is the EverPure clarifying shampoo. This is really really great, [...] it says specifically for hard water exposure. Removes residue and buildup. It has a [...] clarifying complex with glycine and vitamin C. [...] I find it to be very, very cleansing, not in a drying way, which is fantastic. [...] I don't use it every single time I wash my hair, but there are times when I use it like two washes in a row because I have a lot of product in my hair, and even when I do that, I don't find it to be particularly drying in any way. [...] This does contain salicylic acid and benzoic acid. I really like it. I think it's nice and I like the scent of it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Olaplex Volumizing Blow Dry Mist

"Olaplex Volumizing Blow Dry Mist is one of my favorite volumizers, especially when my hair is nice and short. Olaplex is great, it's also got a built-in heat protection which is amazing. So what I really like about this is that I obviously will focus it at my roots, so my roots are not only going to be volumized, which is where I want the volume, but also the heat protection is there, and then I can focus the rest of my heat protection mist on the outer part of my hair. I have very fine hair, it tends to get oily, so I don't like having a lot of heat protection mists that are just really oily and heavy, having it deep down at my roots just kind of makes my hair look more greasy, so it's really nice to not have that. This is just a very very gentle lift, it's not heavy, it doesn't weigh the hair down like a lot of mousses can, especially if you have very very short hair. When my hair is real short, I just don't need to be using [...] a mousse or anything like that. It's really good. So if you have really fine hair and you're looking for something that's going to help protect your hair from heat and humidity and also give it that lift."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

K18 Peptide Prep pH Maintenance Shampoo

"I really like it. It really gets down to the scalp and I feel like it fluffs everything up. So if you are someone who uses a lot of product and you tend to get buildup, using a clarifying shampoo occasionally, so good. So good. Or even if you're just someone who has an oily scalp, you know, your hair is fine, you have an oily scalp, using a clarifying shampoo occasionally, it just makes such a difference. You'll notice so much more volume in your hair. And I've really been liking this one. So I already bought another one because I ran out of it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

K18 Airwash Dry Shampoo

"What I love about this so much is it's not aerosol. It's a little mister. It's probably the best dry shampoo that I've ever used if I had to pick one. It's literally just like a little mist. If you're not careful and you don't mix it up well enough, sometimes you can get little white spots on your forehead. But you basically just mist it and leave it for like a minute or something and then you can just brush it through. It just makes your hair look so clean. Here's the reason I like it: you hold it four to six inches away, whereas with a traditional aerosol dry shampoo, they say to do like 8 to 10. So you can get a little bit closer to your scalp, which means that you're omitting the ends of your hair. If you color your hair or have dry hair, your ends are probably a little bit more dry, so I don't need dry shampoo in my ends. I want to be able to get closer to my scalp so that I'm not drying out the ends of my hair. This has replaced all my other dry shampoos. I just bought the full size and another travel size."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo

"This is the bond repair shampoo. They have the bond repair line. [...] I've used all of the Olaplex Bond Repair products. It's pretty much what my hair stylist uses on my hair every single time she washes and conditions. I think it's a really good basic go-to shampoo, pretty much my go-to shampoo if I'm not using my K18 one. [...] Bond repair is really great in general if you're dying your hair. I don't have a ton to say about it because [...] a shampoo isn't one of those things where you use it and you're like oh my god, but I trust them mostly because Sarah, who does my hair color, always uses Olaplex, and bonds are important for your hair."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo

"So many of them they just are duds. I open it and this happens, and then you try to poke, like 'is there a clog?' but it's like it's never been used before. Try to run it under some warm water, the nozzle nope, nothing worked, nothing at all. This is a full full dry shampoo, can't use it, completely unusable. [...] I switched to another brand because that was just happening way too often and I was over it. [...] A lot of you have been having that same struggle with Living Proof. It's really disappointing. Hopefully it's just a manufacturing error, [...] but until I can be sure that I will not be receiving a dud, I am not buying it anymore."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask

"K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask, so good. I honestly I just recently started using it, like actually using it, and it is really really good."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 3 Hair Perfector

"I kind of want to just look at gift sets cuz the gift sets have been fire recently absolutely"

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

K18 Molecular Repair Hair Oil

"The hair oil is something that I never used and then now that my hair is getting longer I'm realizing how important it is. Don't skip out on a hair oil. That's a really good one, you guys."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

"It's a Dyson, I've never used that before. I actually think I kind of like it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Olaplex Clarifying Shampoo

"I will use a Clarifying Shampoo this one like twice a month probably. I try not to use it too much because I don't want to strip my hair because it is an intense one, it's a good one. Your hair is going to feel squeaky clean and then I'll do like a hair mask afterwards, but it's so good. If you need a really good Clarifying Shampoo, this is the one. [...] I love all of Olaplex, they're just so good. [...] All my shampoos are Olaplex, so good."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Advanced Clean Dry Shampoo

"Perfect Hair Day Advanced Clean Dry Shampoo, listen dry shampoos suck most of the time they really do they suck, I love this one. It's the first time I've ever used a dry shampoo that actually felt like it was doing something. It actually makes my hair feel clean, it doesn't leave a residue, it feels nice and lightweight, it adds a little bit of body to my hair without making it look crazy. I know that this one sprays white so if you have darker hair I don't know what the review would be. I don't know if they have tinted ones. But [...] this really helps when my hair starts to get oily because when my roots start to grow in my hair is very fine and oily naturally, so when my roots start to come in this is like a necessity."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Olaplex No.4P Blonde Enhancer Toning Shampoo

"I'm going to pick up another Olaplex purple shampoo. This is hands down the best one. Hands down best purple shampoo in the entire world. You don't need to sit around and wait for it to tone the hair. You just wash it and rinse it out and you're good. It's amazing. I love this purple shampoo. The girl who does my hair color put me on to it years ago and it's what I've been using since I have been platinum this whole time."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner

"I have the Olaplex No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner, and I really like it. If you are a fan of Olaplex, like the Bond repair mist, which is a pre-shower or pre-wash treatment, you'll probably like this too. Plus, I like the scent."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Find Comfort Body and Hair Fragrance Mist

"I just use it as like a regular perfume. Those were notes that I wasn't necessarily attracted to usually, I go for something different. Like lemon, if I saw lemon I never would have gone for lemon, you know, but they all work together so beautifully. It kind of inspired me to try something different and oh my God, this has replaced everything. It's the only thing I use. It's kind of got like a sharp wine scent at first but then there's like this soft honey, it's so beautiful. One mist of this lasts all day for sure, like you do not need to spray it a lot. It's like a long mister, very luxurious, you don't have to spray it a million times. A decent amount comes out and it has an open back so you can see how much you've used, which I also appreciate. What I love about this is that it smells like every season. I have certain perfumes that I feel like I can only wear this in the spring or I can only wear this in the fall. This smells like every season. It's very adult, it's very like expensive smelling. I love it so much. It's going to be my go-to. I haven't used any of my other perfumes since I got this."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Serums15 reviews

Anua Azelaic Acid 10% Hyaluron Redness Soothing Serum

"I went in with my Anua azelaic acid 10 drops as part of my skin prep. This is pretty much what I've been using to prep my skin recently, it's been my basically go-to daytime skin care."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Prequel Multi-Quench Plumping Hydration Serum

"I've been trying so hard to love Prequel. I understand that basically one of the ingredients that Prequel revolves around is glycerin and I love that idea. I want to love it. It doesn't work for me. This is the Multi-Quench Plumping Hydration Serum. It doesn't matter what I do, doesn't matter how little I use, doesn't matter what layering, if I use it on its own, it doesn't matter. It pills on me no matter what. And that seems to be the case with glycerin products. In leave on products, it just doesn't work for me. And even if I wear it at night, when I'm just going to bed, the second I touch my face because I have a little scratch or like a cat hair, it pills. I just hate it. I hate it. And I want to love it and I want to love all of the products from Prequel, but for whatever reason, the vast majority of them just don't really work for me that well."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

The INKEY List Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I use the hyaluronic acid [...] on my hands before I moisturize. The hyaluronic acid really helped with the really dry hands and itchy eczema I would get [...] in between my fingers from washing my hands all the time. [...] Applying the hyaluronic acid first and then sealing it in with a moisturizer made the biggest difference. When I used to just use a moisturizer, it kind of felt like it was just sitting on top of my hands and it wasn't penetrating the deep layers of the skin. Having that humectant to really draw in that moisture made such a difference. My hands have not [...] had that [...] itchy dry eczema problem basically since I started using it. I love the Inkey List because the products are really good and it's super affordable."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster

"Paula's Choice azelaic acid 10% booster really saved my skin when I was going through a crazy breakout phase. Including azelaic acid in my skincare routine has been like a game changer for me in every aspect. It's such a gentle exfoliant but it also helps to reduce redness. If you are experiencing big painful breakouts or rosacea, azelaic acid is a pretty popular ingredient for that. This is 10%, so it's low and it's not prescription, you can just get it over the counter. The 15 and 20% you have to get a dermatologist's prescription, but I didn't really need anything higher than that. I love having the booster because you can mix it in with your moisturizer, you can apply it to your skin and then put moisturizer on top, or add it to a serum. It's fragrance free, doesn't irritate my skin. It's one of those things that I'll always have. I probably use it like once a week or so now."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Prequel Lucent-C Brightening Vitamin C Serum

"I'd gone through at least like two bottles of this. I [...] love it. I really do. I like it a lot. [...] I did experience a purge with this when I first used it, [...] but if you just stick with it, you get through to the other side and you look fabulous. I'm back on it and things have been going well. [...] I like that it's nice and lightweight, but there's still like a little bit of a silk to it, so it adds like a little bit of moisture. Today I'm not really wearing a ton of makeup, but all I'm wearing for my base is this and some sunscreen."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Aveeno Calm + Restore Triple Oat Serum

"I'm going to go in with a tiny bit of the Aveeno Calm + Restore serum. This is great for helping with redness. I like when I do skin care, I like to work it into the fingertips and then kind of dot it around the face. I feel like it's the easiest way to apply it evenly without having to apply a ton."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Light On Serum: Centella + Vitamin C

"I've been using every day, every morning, a pump or two of the Beauty of Joseon vitamin C serum. This is a very basic vitamin C serum. It's not the intense, collagen-producing vitamin C, but it's just a calming, brightening vitamin C, and I'm happy with that. I really like it for brightening and I like it for daytime. It's nice and lightweight. If you've been looking for a vitamin C serum and you want something brightening that's going to help dark spots fade, this is fantastic and super gentle."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Calming Serum: Green Tea + Panthenol

"I've been using this quite a bit when I feel like I just need a little bit more moisture. This has made a really really big difference. This is a really nice like hydrating calming serum. I use this first on my skin which makes the retinol a little bit easier to spread a smaller amount on the skin. I'll usually do like however many drops of this, maybe I probably overdo it because I overdo everything, which you don't want to do, learn from my mistake don't do that."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Glow Deep Serum: Propolis + Niacinamide

"I've had a complicated relationship with vitamin C serums, most of them have broken me out like crazy. I tried so hard, I probably bought like three or four bottles and they just broke me out no matter what I did. So this is incredibly gentle, which I really really love. My experience with Korean vitamin C serums has been very positive. They're very very gentle, they don't break me out, they don't pill with anything. I've really been loving this one, so if you're looking for something and you've had that problem, highly recommend."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado

"Then I will go in with my Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado, which is super nice and creamy and rich. You don't need to use a lot, a little bit goes a really long way. I really like using it on the days when I'm filming or doing really glam makeup, because [...] I tend to get dryness around my eyes, and [...] I need that extra moisture because I like coverage there. It helps to counterbalance the powders or coverage that I'm applying in the delicate eye area."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

BYOMA Barrier Repair Treatment

"This is the BYOMA Barrier Repair Treatment with avocado oil, urea, and squalene. This is a very, very heavy moisturizer, also very, very heavy, great for dry, very dry skin or a compromised skin barrier. But I don't think that I would use this underneath my foundation because I think that it would end up just being like too much hydration. I've used this at night."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

The INKEY List Collagen Peptide Serum

"I'm using the collagen peptide one from The INKEY List. I like to put the serum on my eyelids to help expel that fluid that has built up. You can literally feel the fluid in your eyelids moving. I don't want to be tugging on my skin too hard, which is why I want the serum so I can just go back and forth really slowly."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

d'Alba White Truffle First Spray Serum

"The d'Alba White Truffle First Spray Serum is a spray serum. It has kind of like an oil and a mist in one. This is a really beautiful skin care product in general. It provides hydration without being oily, which is really important because you don't want too much hydration under your eyes. I really love this. I truly use these interchangeably. If you want to use something that's more of a skin care kind of ingredient or product, this is really great."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Tatcha Luminous Silk Serum

"This is a lovely serum. It has like this beautiful pearl in it. It's great for underneath makeup and it's a really great step for like after a mist and before moisturizer, especially if you have very very dry skin or you have dehydrated skin. I was using it when my skin was really really dehydrated, especially when I had to do makeup, and I would do a mist, I would do the serum, and then I would do some kind of a moisturizer and it was just like such a nice combination. That said, it's super expensive and it's definitely not necessary. If you have some money to spend on skincare and you want to indulge in a little bit of luxury skincare, it is really nice and it does make your skin glow. If you wear it on a day when you're not doing your makeup, just on your face, it doesn't make your face look like shiny or sparkly in any way. It just makes your skin look hydrated, which is really nice."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

City Beauty City Lips Night Oil

"This is from the brand City Beauty, the City Lips Night Oil. I love a hydrated lip, and in the past most lip products would just dry out my lips further. I feel like a lot of brands are finally figuring out how to actually hydrate lips. This is so good. [...] I used this whole thing up, and I actually repurchased it myself, which I got on Amazon. [...] I usually use this at night like it says. [...] It'll be the last step of my nighttime skincare routine. I put it all over my lips and it's just so good. It's very [...] lightweight but super hydrating. The only thing is I hate the scent. [...] It smells like lemon cello and I hate that, I hate it so much. But I really like the formula."

~Mixed

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Cleansers14 reviews

Lancôme Bi-Facil Makeup Remover

"One of my favorite makeup removers is the Lancôme Bi-Facil. This is so good. Take a little Q-tip, kind of loosen up the glue."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

CeraVe Renewing SA Cleanser

"They're using a salicylic acid cleanser for prep for their skin."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm

"Also by Inkey List their cleansing balm that's like my typical cleansing balm that I use every single day to just like remove my sunscreen and then I'll cleanse with a gentle cleanser. I'll probably pick that up because I don't think I have a backup and I'm usually stocked."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser

"The Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser is something that is so fabulous. [...] I started using this every day, using a few pumps on face and neck before all the other stuff. [...] I did experience breakouts and [...] flakiness [...] around my nose, [...] upper eyelid, and sensitive areas like around my eyes and mouth for about three weeks, but after that, things started to calm down and go away. Now I'm using this every single day in the morning and I'm not breaking out like that. I'm very happy with it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The INKEY List 2% Salicylic Acid Cleanser

"I decided to buy the salicylic acid cleanser because I was getting low. It's also glycerin based and has salicylic acid. I think it only has 1%, so it's a percentage down, which is nice, so I think it'll be a little bit more gentle on my skin overall while continuing to take care of my skin barrier. I finished this and it is great. The INKEY List is tried and true. They have really great products. They're relatively affordable, and you can get them at Sephora."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

PanOxyl 4% Benzoyl Peroxide Cleansing Wash

"The 5% was a little bit too much for me so I decided to pick up PanOxyl which is 4%, so just bringing it down that 1% made a big difference."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The INKEY List 5% Benzoyl Peroxide Cleanser

"I decided to explore benzoyl peroxide cleansers, which brought me to the INKEY List one, which is about 5% benzoyl peroxide. I continued to use that and started to recognize that I loved using a cleanser so much more. I was making tiny little steps to get to where I am now, but the 5% was a little bit too much for me."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Creamy Cleanser

"I typically use the one from La Roche-Posay, but to be honest with you it's not my favorite cream cleanser."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

BYOMA Melting Balm Cleanser

"It's fine for breaking down sunscreen, but waterproof mascara, absolutely not. [...] It took ages for me to work this into my lashes to be able to break down my waterproof mascara, and even then I had flakes left over and I just couldn't rub my eyes anymore. So I personally would not recommend this product. [...] I used it to remove sunscreen and stuff and then do my regular cleansing, but it definitely doesn't remove waterproof mascara, so I wasn't really a fan of this."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Farmacy Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm

"Pharmacy is pretty pretty good in terms of removing my waterproof makeup."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Naturium Purple Ginseng Cleansing Balm

"The Purple Ginseng Cleansing Balm might be the best cleansing balm. This removes my waterproof mascara so easily. That's how I test a cleansing balm, I use my Clio mascara as the test, and if I have to sit there forever working it in then it's a fail. This I just do gentle circular motions on my lashes and it's not irritating, my eyes don't hurt afterwards, my lashes are intact. You do have to work it in a little bit, but not like other cleansing balms where I'm sitting there for like five minutes trying so hard to remove it. It's fantastic, I love it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Enhancing Treatment Cleanser

"Basically, it's a cleansing balm, but it feels like honey. Like, it's so luxurious. She just makes the process of washing your face a luxury moment. It's this honey kind of consistency and then it breaks down all of your makeup and then when you add water, it turns into this milky consistency and it just washes all of your makeup off. It does a great job cleaning your face. You don't have to go in with a cleanser afterwards unless you're wearing like a waterproof sunscreen or something like that. I will say it doesn't do the best job of getting my Cleo mascara off."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Peach & Lily Ginger Melt Oil Cleanser

"But I have to say, in terms of oil cleansers, this got everything off my face. It was so good while remaining relatively gentle, I think, not stripping in any way. It dissolves everything. If I was wearing makeup, it got rid of everything. I was very impressed with it. Sometimes I'll use a cleansing balm or oil and feel like I need to go in with at least a gentle cleanser after that. I did not feel that way with this. It got everything out of the way, removed everything. It was really good. I was super impressed. I wasn't expecting to finish it, to be honest. It was great. This brand I'm kind of obsessed with. I've been using their eye cream, their brightening eye cream, and I really like it. So if you've been looking for an oil cleanser, about the packaging, it's this nice tall slender bottle that fits so nicely in those awkward shower caddy spots that are difficult to fill because they're too small."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Tatcha Pure One Step Camellia Cleansing Oil

"It's very runny because it's an oil, pretty liquidy. The scent is pretty classic Tatcha, kind of like dead florals but slightly more fresh than that. I do kind of like the scent. In terms of removing my waterproof mascara, which is like always the test that I put my cleansing balms and oils to, it's fine but I have to work it in for a really long time so I don't know if it's necessarily worth it. It's Tatcha so it's expensive, and there are so many more affordable options out there for a cleansing balm or oil. I personally prefer a balm because an oil just kind of goes everywhere. I wouldn't recommend it really. I just kind of think it's not worth it."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Mists & Essences9 reviews

Fresh Kombucha Antioxidant Facial Treatment Essence

"This is what I use underneath my sunscreen. It hydrates beautifully. Do I know if it's really like repairing and protecting? No. But my skin has looked really beautiful since I've started using it. So I'm like kind of sold on it, which sucks because it's $85. But yeah, I really really like it. I've had it for a while. It's been lasting really nicely. Really, really nicely. So, I appreciate that. Like, if you're going to spend a lot of money on something, it better go a long way. Yeah, I'm sold. I'm going to buy another one."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

BYOMA Balancing Face Mist

"The BYOMA Balancing Face Mist, I love this. I love it. I love it. It's my favorite face mist. I've always been a fan of some kind of a face mist. [...] This has a tri-ceramide complex, probiotics, and allantoin. Basically it helps to repair your skin barrier, which if you've followed me at all, I have a horrible habit of overdoing my exfoliation and ruining my skin barrier. So this is something that has absolutely just come in handy for me. I really like it a lot. It lasts pretty well. I'll be honest with you, I hate BYOMA's packaging. I just am not into the look of it. [...] It's big and bulky, and I guess you could call it graphic. The colors are cool and everything, it's just not my vibe. [...] I don't like that it's square, it really bothers me. But I love the product, I really do. I just think it's so fantastic and it's a really great way to hydrate my skin before I go in with any serums or moisturizers or whatever. And I use it before my moisturizer every single time."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

ILIA Base Face Milk Essence + Lightweight Moisturizer

"I don't know if I like that ILIA Base Face Milk Essence + Lightweight Moisturizer just saying I think it's kind of unnecessary and I think it's like adding a little too much underneath my eyes."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Cally Grape Water Mist

"I actually really liked this mist, and [...] it's not a bad formula and this will work for some of you. The reason that it is a nope for me is I got bleached hair. [...] When I would mist it on my face, the perimeter of my hairline was turning orange. [...] I thought maybe it was from washing my face, like I was going too close to my hairline, and then I realized that it was this. There's just no way for me to use it without that happening, even when I would wear headbands, somehow it would get underneath it. So I have had to say farewell to the Cally Grape Water Mist. I do really like it if you have warmer colored, deeper hair, then you're probably fine, but I can't use it anymore."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

"I like to go in with a little bit of the Snail Mucin 96, the power essence. I've gone through all of the snail mucin from COSRX, and I kind of like them all honestly. I'm using this one right now. It's fantastic for kind of like trapping in that moisture, so if you're trying to heal dehydrated skin, it's really, really great for that. I find it to be much more effective for my skin than hyaluronic acid, but it might be something good to use on top of hyaluronic acid."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail Radiance Dual Essence

"If you're interested in this and you want snail mucin and niacinamide just in one go, it's a really good product. I feel like it lasts relatively long, I'd usually just use a pump or two. It's more so a daytime thing, though sometimes I use it at night."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Skin and Makeup Enhancing Mist

"I'm going to use the Lisa Eldridge Mist. You want your skin to be really well hydrated, and then if you have something with a good grip to it, like a little bit of a stick, that's what's really going to hold all of the makeup so it doesn't go anywhere."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray

"I'm going to be using my Tower 28 mist. I need like mist, I just it's been sitting for a minute and I want to rehydrate it so it's not too dry. It has like a very lightweight feel which is really nice, doesn't feel heavy at all."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist

"Tatcha Dewy Skin Mist is probably like the most popular one. I feel like the most iconic one. It is super hydrating. So, if you're like really dry and you need to like rehydrate throughout the day, that's a great thing. Like, just buy the mini one, keep it in your bag, and just a quick mist to just sort of like bring the skin back to life. That's a great supplement. If you are doing all the other steps and they're not necessarily doing everything that you need or maybe you just feel like you're missing a little, your skin is missing a little bit of life like halfway through the day and you need a little pickme up."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Eye Care8 reviews

Skin Iceland Hydrocool Firming Eye Gels

"I'm prepping my under eyes with these hydro cool eye gels, which help pick up fallout. Nothing wrong with giving the under eyes a little extra love, especially while you're doing other areas of the face."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

L'Oreal Revitalift 2.5% Hyaluronic Acid and Caffeine Eye Serum

"A product that I've really been liking is this L'Oreal Revitalift hyaluronic acid and caffeine under eye serum. One of the things that I really like about it, caffeine is supposed to help promote blood flow basically. The hyaluronic acid is very hydrating. I like this because it has a really nice lightweight hydration and it creates a little bit of a grip if you struggle with your concealer staying in place. It has these little metal balls, like ball bearings, that just kind of glide over the under eye. If you deal with puffiness and you need to reduce inflammation, if you wake up in the morning and you're just fluffy, then this can be really helpful if you need to be somewhere early. These little ball bearings just stay nice and cool and they can help to really cool down that area. I don't get puffiness and I don't even really care too much about the ball bearings because I don't necessarily need that. But I do like the serum actually. It's quite nice. I like it a lot."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Eye Cream

"I picked up the La Roche-Posay Toleriane eye cream. This is mostly like one of those things where I just want to hydrate my eyes before I go in with any of my other products and then I use it. That's it. [...] It works fine for me. I do like it."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Positive Light Under Eye Brightener

"For me, typically I use a brightening concealer like the Rare Beauty one underneath my eyes."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

ILIA Bright Start Activated Eye Cream

"That eye cream kept my under eyes too wet despite me letting it really set in, and I'm just getting creasing up in here. I don't like it."

✕Nay

59%Guru Score

Olay Retinol 24 Eye Cream

"I will apply the teeny tiniest little bit of the Olay Retinol 24 Eye Cream, okay teeny tiniest little bit. What I mean is this: I do this amount and I split that between my fingers so I'll split it, just the teeny tiniest little amount, literally just like here underneath my eyes from like here, just like that. If I take it up any higher my eyelids will get irritated, so I'm not trying to dehydrate my eyelids."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Eye patches

"I'm going to throw down the Rare Beauty Eye Patches because I've just been really liking them and these are they're so good they just like stick and they hold in all the moisture they're so they don't slide around I love them."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Jet Lag Overnight Eye Serum

"They just sent this in like a little PR box not that long ago, this is the Jet Lag Overnight Eye Serum, and I was like that's going in my little travel bag."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Tools7 reviews

BK Beauty 210 Brush

"I'm going to use the BK Beauty 210 Brush cuz the brush that I've been using no longer exists and people are always asking me about it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sigma Switch Brush Cleaning Mat

"It's double-sided, so if you dirty up one side, you can use the other side. I [...] just clean it with a little bit of dish soap to break down all the buildup, lather it up. [...] It's nice because it prevents you from wasting things like paper towels. [...] It works really nicely, especially to remove powders and stuff. [...] It is a game changer if you need something like this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

BK Beauty N16 Brush

"I have been loving recently Nikki La Rose her collab with BK Beauty, the number 16 brush. Let me tell you why. So she has this beautiful bristle variation all up here, which just really helps with that blending. You have like much more density in the center of the brush and then as you get out to the outer edges you have this nice bristle variation. What I also like about it is that it's a little bit wider, it's wider going this way and then when you turn it it gets a little bit thinner which is amazing for people like me who need to have a little bit more precision in these tiny areas."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Beautyblender Original

"I'm actually going to use a damp sponge to apply this, this is a new one from Beautyblender. I just thought, you know what I mean, like it just works."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

BK Beauty Angled Brush

"I'm going to use [...] a super tiny Angled Brush from BK Beauty and I'm going to pick up Moonbeam, the purpley periwinkle, and place this in the gap. [...] I ran this along my lash line and then placed it in this gap between these two shadows, and I kind of faded it in that gap [...] so that you had this nice reflective look in that area."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sigma E54 Medium Sweeper Brush

"I'm going to grab my Sigma E54, my fave, to start blending the shadow from the inner part of the eye toward the outer part of the lid."

✓Yay

Notverified

Sleep and Glow Copper Tinsel Pillowcase

"They have the copper pillowcase in which copper threads are woven into the tensil pillowcase preserving the natural strength of copper molecules. Copper actually helps to heal the skin, reduces skin inflammation and rashes by preventing harmful bacteria from building up and other organisms from spreading. It provides an anti-acne effect. Copper prevents acne by killing propionibacterium acnes, an acne-causing bacteria that lives on the face. Copper can also help to stimulate collagen, which promotes elastin, which is going to help keep the skin looking young. I highly recommend it. I love it so much."

✓Yay

Notverified

Masks & Peels6 reviews

Paula's Choice Skin Perfecting 6% Mandelic Acid + 2% Lactic Acid Liquid Exfoliant

"I started using this from Paula's Choice. This is the 6% mandelic acid and 2% lactic acid. My skin likes lactic acid. It likes mandelic acid, which is very gentle. In the past I was just trying to get my skin to like harsher exfoliants. It just doesn't like it, just does not. And then I remembered that back in the day my skin really responded to lactic acid. So I was like, 'Oh, I might as well just like try this slightly more gentle liquid exfoliant.' I just put it out on a cotton pad and wipe it on my face. It's quite nice. It's gentle enough. I've seen definitely like an increase in positivity in my skin. It does a really good job of like just managing breakouts. And because it's nice and gentle, it's been like a very good counterpoint to my increase in tretinoin."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Sheet Masks

"They usually sell like a set of Sheet Masks and my favorites are the Dr. Jart+ Sheet Masks. This one is the Ceramide one, big fan of ceramides. They've just been very very helpful with my skin barrier, especially since I started Tretinoin again. I had to take a little break and use a retinol that was like a little less effective, so I experienced a little bit of purge, some flaking, some dryness. Ceramides are so helpful if you are experiencing that or if you're starting Tretinoin or if you're starting a retinol. I always pick up like at least one of their packs. They have the blue one, the green one, it's all like hydrating. If it says hydrating I'm picking it up."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel Pads

"Those Dr. Dennis Gross, the orange ones where it's like an exfoliant and a retinol, I actually just got my boyfriend to start using them and those are really great. They're just like a pad, you do this, wait 2 minutes, do the next one, apply your moisturizer. It's a great way to start."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Mask

"I'm going to apply the Beauty of Joseon Mask and then squeeze whatever is left over in the little packet out and just put it on top of that."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask

"I have the Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask which I just always have as like an in case, you know, like if maybe I'm on a really long flight and my skin is just drying out like crazy I might go to the bathroom and like rinse my face [...] and then maybe I'll drench my face in this."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Etude House Mask Proof Fixing Tint

"I did use one of these when I was there and I absolutely loved it like I just loved it so much it was so nice. This formula I really really liked. It smells like strawberry."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Fragrance3 reviews

Pears Glycerin Soap

"Soap is the only thing. This is the best one. I keep it in a little baggie. It's Pears soap. It's really great because it's translucent and it has a little bit of that yellow tinge so it doesn't leave that white like residue in your hair. You don't need a lot of it. You just put a little bit of water or like I like to use a setting spray and then a spoolie. Brush your hair. Nothing keeps your brow hairs in place like soap. Nothing. If you are looking for something because you have very very stubborn hairs, I'm telling you, give up on all the brow products and just buy this. Like I got it on Amazon. It's so cheap. Usually I think I get like a two pack. I just have them. And look, I cut off a chunk and I put it in my like travel makeup bag for when I travel. So like you don't need anything. It lasts forever. It's so cheap. It's so good. Especially for someone who's doing their brows all the time."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Jo Malone Ginger Biscuit Cologne

"I got this little sample at a YouTube event where Jo Malone was part of it. It is so delicious, it smells exactly like a ginger biscuit. [...] I love it so much. [...] With this one, Jo Malone is giving Maison Margiela a run for their money, because they really nailed the replica. This should be a replica, because it smells exactly like a ginger biscuit, 100%. It's got that sweet, it's got that ginger, which I love. I love a gingery, spicy scent: slightly sweet, slightly spicy, a little bit of grounding, which it needs so that it's not too much. It's perfect for layering."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Glossier You Eau de Parfum

"It has that warmth and a little bit of that clean scent, it's not overwhelming, it's not too much. It's a perfect combination of clean warmth that is its perfection for daily wear. Like I would absolutely wear this on a plane. This has absolutely become my go-to everyday fragrance. I love it so much. It works perfectly and what I love about it is that it feels like it'll work for every season. It's not too like sometimes there are certain fragrances that feel very much like a fall winter fragrance, and wearing that in the summertime it just doesn't really work. This feels like it'll translate into spring and summer which I love. The packaging is very attractive, it's simple but it's pretty, it'll look nice on your nightstand or in your bathroom or wherever you keep it. It has sweet violet which I don't know that I do, I smell sweet violet a little bit now that I'm thinking about it. And it shares the warm musky bass notes."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Tech3 reviews

CurrentBody LED Light Therapy Mask Series 1

"Current Body reached out to me and sent me their mask, which I like a lot better. It just contours to the face more. When it comes to the red light therapy, it's impossible to know that anything is happening because you need to be so consistent. I would say I use it like at least three times a week, so I have been consistent with it."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

CurrentBody Skin LED Hair Growth Helmet

"The one from Current Body is very bulky. So, I'm not saying that that one isn't going to be effective. It is more affordable, but it is very very bulky. So, just keep that in mind. Like, it's quite large."

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

Kenzie IPL Atome Laser Hair Removal Device

"I've done sessions on my lower legs just in the spots where I needed it and I haven't had to use it since three or four months, and I've never had laser on my legs so I'm very happy with the results. It's so nice you don't have to make an appointment and go somewhere. I can just do it at home and it fits into my schedule perfectly. I was very pleasantly surprised by this whole experience. If you've ever had professional laser done, you can't wear deodorant, and then you go out in summer when it's 115 degrees and you're boiling, and it's very uncomfortable. And then afterwards you can't shower for like 24 hours, it's just a lot. So to be able to handle this at home is so nice. And considering the full price is $249, I spent that much in essentially two sessions of going and getting it done professionally. With my discount code it's $199, which makes it cheaper than two professional sessions. I'm really glad that I tried it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Retinoids2 reviews

Paula's Choice Resist Barrier Repair Moisturizer with Retinol

"I also really like the Paula's Choice Barrier Repair Advanced Moisturizer which is with tripeptides and ceramides, really great and just like a little bit more accessible."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Medik8 Crystal Retinal 20

"I'm using a retinal from Medik8, which is one of my favorite brands. They're expensive but most of the products that I've used from them I've really loved. [...] This is the Medik8 Crystal Retinal 20, which is much higher. They have [...] a series of retinals and you can start with the lowest percentage and kind of work your way up, which is really great. It's a stable retinol retinal night serum. [...] It's not quite as strong as my other retinol, and so I've seen quite the reduction in irritation, which has been fantastic. It is very expensive and it's bright orange, which is really annoying, so [...] I sleep on a black silk pillowcase because this will stain the hell out of your pillowcases, which is really annoying. But it's a really great formula."

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84%Guru Score

Acne1 review

COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch

"You always need them"

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75%Guru Score

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Anua Rice 70% Glow Milky Toner

"I use the Anua rice toner and then also a liquidy kind of moisturizer. The rice 70 by Anua is great for acne prone skin. The toner is a little bit more watery and then you go with something slightly more milky. Neither of them are heavy, but they provide a really perfect amount of moisture for my skin."

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75%Guru Score

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