HotandFlashy: 475 skincare products reviewed

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Sunscreen80 reviews

CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"This one from CeraVe is going to be the least expensive. This is a drugstore product. It comes in a couple of different shades. I think it comes in three shades. On me, it tends to stay a little bit damp feeling, a little bit oily feeling. It doesn't absorb in as well as it will for people with drier skin, but I have a friend with super dry skin who uses this every day as her everyday like go-to no makeup makeup look, and it looks beautiful on her skin. It doesn't feel wet or oily. This is going to be the most hydrating because it does have the CeraVe ceramides in there, which I love about it."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41

"This is a great product because it's gentle around the eyes and it has this nice metal applicator. So it's nice and cooling."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Kopari Bright As Day Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This sunscreen is perfect for all my different skin types. It doesn't make me feel dry, it doesn't make me get super oily. It's just perfection in a sunscreen. It gives you a beautiful skin-like look that is very sheer. It won't settle in your wrinkles. It's just gorgeous."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 Zero Feel SPF 50 Day Cream

"I discovered an amazing new sunscreen that I'm absolutely in love with, the Geek and Gorgeous Zero Feel SPF 50. It has a PA++++ rating, which means it's the highest UVA protection. This is the first sunscreen I've ever tried that I could put on my face and not have to do anything else, just go about my day without looking weird. With every other sunscreen I've tried it's either a white cast, the tint doesn't match me, it's super shiny, it makes my pores look huge, it feels super greasy, I need to powder it or put makeup over it. It comes out of the tube basically white, rubs in quickly and easily, and dries down to the most beautiful finish that just looks like your skin. It's an amazing sunscreen, I absolutely love it, and it plays really well with makeup."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Supergoop Glow Screen Sunscreen SPF 40

"One of my favorite lip sunscreens is the Supergoop Glow Screen, the pink peppermint. I actually keep this right next to my door so that when I go out to walk my dog, I just pop this on before I go."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Actinica SPF 50

"The ISDIN Eryfotona, beautiful sunscreen."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Neutrogena Pure Screen Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid

"Another one that I like a lot is the Neutrogena Pure Screen. This is also a tinted mineral."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Abib Quick Sunstick Protection Bar SPF 50+ PA++++

"A stick sunscreen I bought because I saw it and thought that one looks great is the Abib stick sunscreen. I keep this next to my front door and sunscreen up my hands every time I'm going out to walk my dog. It's so convenient because you always forget to do your hands, and I can just do my chest, my neck, my face. Great little sunscreen, very lightweight, fragrance-free, really terrific."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Hawaiian Tropic Sheer Touch Sunscreen

"My favorite body sunscreen [...] is the Hawaiian Tropic Sheer Touch Sunscreen, SPF 50. The smell of it is great. I love how it feels on my skin. It's just beautiful, it makes me feel hydrated and nice."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

CeraVe Invisible Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is their Invisible Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50. This uses a new type of zinc oxide that is more sheer on the skin. So this isn't tinted on me. It gives the tiniest white cast that really I don't have to put any makeup on over it. Of course if you have darker skin tone than me it's going to give you a little bit of white cast but is the best as far as not giving a white cast of any mineral sunscreen that's white that I've tried so far. And I really like this one because like all CeraVe products it's got the ceramides in it and the ceramide helper. It's got hyaluronic acid."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Physical Tinted Moisturizer SPF 44

"This is a zinc oxide sunscreen. It doesn't have any chemical sunscreen boosters in it. The price point is reasonable for a 2 oz tube. And I do have a 20% off code with dermatology, which is Angie 20. You can use that at checkout any day of the year on any dermatology product, which makes this very, very affordable. I recommend this for people with drier skin. It's super moisturizing. It is tinted, so you can put it on and that can be like your makeup for the day if you're going for a really casual day. It looks beautiful on the skin. It's a great sunscreen and super hydrating. I love it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50

"Merit's the Uniform Sunscreen is an SPF 45, and it comes in a bunch of different shades. It has 15% zinc oxide. I'm wearing the shade 22. If you're looking for a great mineral sunscreen and you like to use one just as a standalone, you don't want to put makeup on top of it, this is awesome."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Tower 28 SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation

"At the 8-hour check-in, I thought it was very worn off on my nose, my chin, my cheeks, above my eyebrows, was shiny in my T-zone. It was giving me speckly polka dot pores on my cheeks and on my chin. So, this definitely shortens the wear of foundation, but it didn't feel drying to wear throughout the day. So, as a standalone sunscreen, I would give this one a four out of five. As a sunscreen to wear under makeup, I'm going to give it a three out of five."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Skin Recovery SPF 50

"As a standalone sunscreen, I'm giving this a three out of five because it was so drying throughout the day. The foundation was very worn off everywhere and it felt so drying throughout the day. Throughout the day, I thought my skin looked very textured every time I saw myself and it was modeled on my forehead and giving polka dot pores everywhere else."

~Mixed

92%Guru Score

AXIS-Y Complete No Stress Physical Sunscreen SPF 50+

"This is a white medium-weight lotion that feels nice going on, but has a very strong white cast. It sticks to hair and it immediately settles into every wrinkle, especially neck wrinkles. This is not wearable on its own for me. I give it a zero out of five as a standalone sunscreen."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Kiehl's Beyond Screen Mineral All UV Serum

"I really can't fully recommend it to people with dry skin. I'm going to give it three out of five for a standalone sunscreen and two out of five for how it did with makeup."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Supergoop Mineral Glow Screen Soft Radiance Drops SPF 40

"Once this is dry and set, it really feels great on the skin. It reflects light in such a beautiful way, but it almost acts like makeup primer. This is so good under makeup."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Abib Airy SunStick Smoothing Bar SPF 50+

"This Abib Airy sunstick protection bar, it's an SPF 50. It feels really nice, doesn't feel greasy, feels nice and silky, and it's so easy to put on and such an easy way to prevent the visible signs of aging on your hands now that spring's here."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Ageless SPF 50

"Another one of my all-time favorites is the ISDIN Eryfotona Ageless SPF 50."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Elements Tinted Sunscreen SPF 44

"One of my all-time favorites is the EltaMD UV Elements sunscreen. I don't use it as much myself since it's been reformulated because the color on it is a little bit too warm for me."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50

"The Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 was a top ranking sunscreen in my mineral sunscreen testing videos a couple years ago."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Brush-On Shield SPF 50

"I recommend the Sunforgettable powder sunscreen. It's an SPF 50. It's great for topping up your makeup later in the day or mattifying your sunscreen."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Colorescience Total Eye 3-in-1 Renewal Therapy SPF 35

"The Color Science Total Eye 3 in1 is a great product. It was the first like under eye sunscreen that I really loved. It's a tinted mineral, so it hydrates under your eyes. It color corrects and it also protects that delicate eye skin that shows the signs of aging first. And mineral sunscreen also is less likely to irritate your eyes."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

MERIT Uniform Tinted Mineral Sunscreen Broadspectrum SPF 45

"The pigments used in the Uniform are much more elegant, much more sophisticated pigments. They're just not as heavy as the ones used in the E.L.F. Putting this on at an eighth of a teaspoon, I really thought it looked great. There weren't any problems with rubbing it in anywhere. It covered my entire face. And it feels really, really nice. It doesn't feel heavy. It doesn't feel greasy. The pigments don't look heavy. It doesn't look like a mask of makeup, and it looks still very sheer, but yet it evens out my skin tone, covers up my redness, makes my skin look better than it is, and I like the finish on it as well. It's not super shiny. After about 15 minutes, this does dry back and set, and so my face doesn't feel oily and greasy all day long. It just feels like I have on one of my favorite sunscreens that has dry and set and feels really nice. I'm using it in shade 22, Oak Bisque. And this is a perfect shade match for me. This feels lightweight. It doesn't feel greasy at all. It feels beautiful going on the skin. It is just gorgeous. The skin tint is lightweight and lovely. It color corrects a little bit, but you can still see your skin through it. It definitely isn't makeupy at all. This one just blew me away with how good it is as a standalone sunscreen."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Glow Screen SPF 50

"The Colorescience Glow Screen is an SPF 50 and it is a beautiful sunscreen. It is just over $40 and 20% off."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Daily Tinted Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40

"This comes in 12 shades. So inclusive. This is 20.90% zinc oxide. It does contain octal salicyate. And it also contains SD alcohol. I mentioned that because this really hurt my soul and my skin. It really burned my face, which I wasn't happy about because I was so psyched about it. And it's also not water resistant. So this is a runny tinted liquid. It feels lovely going on like a lightweight oil or serum. It has a wet yet powdery feel to it. It blends well around hair and eyebrows. The finish is softly dewy but not shiny. The tint is a good match for me and it evens out my skin tone and looks really natural. I did put makeup on over this one. With makeup, I don't love how this foundation looks over this sunscreen. It looks more dry and cakey than normal, and it's more settled into wrinkles than it normally is. At the 4-hour check-in, the makeup was still wearing well. It looks fine from a distance, but it's really not blowing my socks off. I've seen this makeup look better. After 8 hours, this was kind of a mixed bag. The good was that the makeup still looked in place and hardly worn off at all. So, it's almost primer-like under makeup in that it really helps your makeup to adhere to your skin. But the bad news was that up close, it looked very dry and very crusty. It made my skin look drier."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Mineral Sunlow Broadspectrum SPF 43 PA+++

"So, I'm giving this one a three out of five for sunscreen and a three out of five for how it sits under makeup."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This retails for $18.99 for 5 oz. So it's only $3.79 an ounce. It contains 10% zinc oxide, 8% titanium dioxide. It does contain sunscreen booster salicylate. This is fragrance-free and it's 80 minutes water resistance. This is a white thick lotion. It goes on feeling super heavy, super greasy, and it has a really strong white cast that doesn't dissipate even after 20 to 30 minutes of dryback. And I'm putting dryback in air quotes because this never dries back. It stays greasy feeling. I gave it a zero out of five as a sunscreen."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Alastin HydraTint Pro Mineral Sunscreen SPF 36

"I love how it looks, but I'm just not sure about the UVA coverage. And I gave it a three out of five under makeup."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Future Screen SPF 50 Modern Mineral Sunscreen

"As a sunscreen, I give this a five out of five. It is perfection. As a standalone sunscreen under makeup, I give it just two out of five."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Velvet Screen SPF 50 Blurring Mineral Sunscreen

"It feels pretty thick going on, but not wet or greasy. It feels more dryish, and it spreads easily. Even though it's thick, it feels lightweight on the skin, and the tint hides any white cast, but doesn't color the skin or even out the skin tone. The finish is velvety, but not a flat matte. It looked okay, but it settled into wrinkles right away everywhere, including neck wrinkles. So, as a standalone sunscreen, I gave it a two out of five."

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

Ciele Prime and Protect SPF 30 Primer

"I felt like this felt drying throughout the day. At the 4-hour check-in, it still looked pretty good. It was mainly still in place, but looking just a little shiny by the sides of my nose. At the 8-hour check-in, the makeup was pretty worn off everywhere, and my skin looked really dry, especially under my eyes, making it look crepey under there. I'm giving this a three out of five as a standalone sunscreen and a three out of five under makeup."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Live Tinted Hue Guard Tint SPF 50

"So, I really like this one. I gave it a four out of five as a standalone sunscreen and a five out of five under makeup."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Tinted Sunscreen SPF 50

"I felt like it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. It wasn't drying, but it wasn't particularly hydrating either."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Sun Coverup Super Tint SPF 50

"There's the Sun Coverup Super Tint SPF 50. I think that looks really nice. It's definitely got a very dewy, very luminous finish to it. I think the shade match is perfect, it's spot-on. This is nice, I think it looks pretty. It definitely is too shiny for me. I will have to powder it, but fortunately I have two of their powders to try so hopefully those will work well."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Live Tinted Skin Tint SPF 50

"This is an awesome brand. This one is just ever so slightly darker of a tint than the other, but it does blend in with my skin tone really well. I can just put this on and go. It does have a bit of a luminous finish as well."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Matte Universal Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46

"There are a couple sunscreens of theirs that I really like a lot. The one that I'm loving right now is their DRMTLGY Matte Universal Tinted Moisturizer, an SPF 46. This is a hybrid chemical mineral sunscreen, it's tinted, and this one when I rub it in it goes matte and I don't really have to powder it, I can just put it on and go. The tint is a perfect match for my skin tone and I really just love this sunscreen. The normal price on both of these sunscreens is $29, they're both $20.30 with your 30% off."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

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

"One of my very first loves in makeup, it's an all mineral SPF 50 makeup, it is amazing."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence SPF50+ PA++++

"It is slightly green, so I wonder if it's going to be a little bit color correcting. That is definitely a difference between this and my Hada Labo Wonder Black Rice Airy Fit, in that that one doesn't have any kind of a tint or a cast to it, it's just white, but it rubs in perfectly clear. What I like about this one is that it's not shiny. It goes on feeling really, really nice. It just feels like a lightweight skin lotion. It doesn't feel greasy, and look at that nice finish. It does have a little bit of a soft luminosity, but nothing like super duper shiny. It blends in really, really nicely. I'm not sure that the green tint really did anything as far as reducing the redness like I feel like you still see the redness here."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

C Tint and Protect SPF50 Tinted Serum

"It's not really so much a foundation as it is a tinted serum. This is beautiful, it's lightweight and fluid and it just glides over the skin. It blends like a dream. I've worn it over three or four different sunscreens and it's worked perfectly with each of them. The shade match is dead on for me. It does have a fairly luminous finish to it but it's not a super hard shine, it's a very forgiving shine."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40

"I don't use this because it's a standard chemical sunscreen and chemical sunscreens really irritate my skin, so I can't use it, but everyone tells me how fantastic it is."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

EltaMD UV AOX Elements SPF 50

"This is another one of my favorite sunscreens that was reformulated this year, it's an SPF 50, it's a tinted sunscreen, it only comes in one shade, it's still a fantastic sunscreen."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow Serum Foundation SPF 40

"This is my favorite of the IT CC cream foundations."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical Tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is a fantastic all-around sunscreen, one of the very few that you can wear to the beach, to the pool, doing your sports, and also every day with your makeup on over the top. It is a beautiful sunscreen that acts primer-like under makeup. If you have enlarged pores and or oily skin, combo skin, normal skin, this is going to be the sunscreen for you because it smooths your pores, it smooths your skin, it looks so beautiful under makeup because it does have that primer-like smoothing going on. It's incredible. But the one caveat I would say is that it can be a little bit drying to the skin for me. I don't tend to wear it in the winter; I'll usually just wear it in the hotter, more humid months. But I do take it with me on vacation every time I go. This is like my beach sunscreen. Or I'll mix it with another sunscreen or I'll layer it with another sunscreen because this is so tenacious. You put this on and it's so hard to get it off, so for water sports, swimming, laying on the beach, sweating."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Ageless Ultralight Emulsion Broad Spectrum SPF 50

"I absolutely love how it looks, I love how it feels, I love everything about it, but I can't wear it. It's so heavily fragranced that I just can't stand the perfumey smell on my face all day. As a standalone sunscreen it is beautiful. It's lightweight, it's fluid, it blends easily into your skin, it's got a matte finish, it dries down, it's not greasy, it's not shiny. It's everything that you want a mineral sunscreen to be. It is tinted and only comes in one shade, so obviously the shade isn't going to work for everyone. The only other problem I have with it is that it does contain SD alcohol fairly high on the ingredient list, like at number five. So if you have super dry skin I would not recommend this for you. But if you're someone with combo to oilier skin and you need something that's going to control the oils, this is a beautiful sunscreen. It's also water resistant to 40 minutes, so not only does it make a great sunscreen under makeup but you can also wear it to the beach, you can wear it for sports."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Prequel Sun Barrier Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 50

"This is a pink lotion that feels lightweight but wet and oily going on. It doesn't rub in well or sit well on the skin. It balls and pills with skin care and it does leave a slight white cast. It looked so shiny, it literally looked like I had poured oil down my face. And this one really irritated my skin, so this one is a zero out of five for me."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Bloom Effects Tulip Dew Sunscreen Serum SPF 50

"It does have a really shiny finish, the foundation goes on over it nicely and looks good, but the shine comes right through the makeup. The makeup had crashed and burned though after only 2 hours of wear. My nose looks so weird and modeled, the makeup just doesn't stick to this sunscreen and it settled into all my wrinkles. So I give this one a three out of five as a standalone sunscreen and a one out of five under makeup."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Colorescience No-Show Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is a white liquid lotion that feels wet and oily going on. It spreads well and there are no problems in the hair. It does leave a white cast, so for something that is called no show, it does show. I give it zero out of five."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Iris and Romeo Weekend Skin SPF50+ with Vitamin C and Glow

"It comes in three shades. I got it in the lightest tint which is called Universal. It feels slightly greasy but not heavy, it's very very shiny. The tint works well for my skin tone, it's easy to spread but it doesn't sit great on the skin and it slides around and comes off and is very settled into my neck wrinkles. This one got zero out of five points."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Bubble Plus One Tinted Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 40

"This is a tinted lotion. It takes a little work to rub this one in, it kind of foams a little bit, but once you work it a bit it does actually blend well in the end. It feels pretty greasy going on and it's got a pretty shiny finish. The tint is slightly dark for me. It definitely hides the white cast but doesn't give any coverage."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Supernatural Radiance Serum SPF 30

"Through once I had powdered the foundation down it felt hydrating and comfortable but not greasy. At the 8 hour check-in it looked just okay, it was a little bit worn off on my nose, my concealer was worn off and it did look pretty shiny and there was a little bit of settling into wrinkles by the end of the day, but it didn't feel drying. So I'm giving this one a 3 out of 5 for sunscreen and a 3 out of 5 for under makeup."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Premium BB Tinted Moisturizer with Niacinamide SPF 40

"This is like a beauty balm and sunscreen hybrid, it's an SPF 40. It is a hybrid chemical mineral sunscreen so it's got zinc oxide and titanium dioxide in it but it also has a couple of the chemical filters Octan oxide and octos salate. So this is a really lovely sunscreen you could wear this on its own. It comes in four different shades. This is the second shade, the light medium shade, and on me this is actually a tiny bit dark. I love using this just as almost like a tinted moisturizer just to color correct, even out my skin tone, get rid of the redness on my nose."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Undefined Beauty RNR Sun Serum SPF 50

"Another favorite is my Undefined Beauty RNR sunscreen, this is an SPF 50, it's water resistant to 40 minutes. This one is very oil forward and it's really great for people with super dry skin. Some people, if you have more combo skin, you may find it to be just a little bit too oily feeling on your skin, but if you have really dry skin this is amazing, especially in the winter. And I love this one so much. This one is tinted, it does come in three different shades so you can find the shade match for you. It comes in a light, a medium, and a dark, and I wear the medium tint in this. And I love this sunscreen, it's so good."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Undefined Beauty RNR Mineral Sunscreen

"I'm wearing my Undefined Beauty RNR sunscreen which is why my skin is a little bit dewy, but this is a really hydrating mineral sunscreen. It works really well under my makeup."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical SPF 50 Tinted Face BB Cream Fair to Light

"People always ask me about a couple of the other tried and true the ELA MD UV elements SPF 44 and the Australian Gold Botanical face BB spf50 and I do still use these I love these"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical Mineral Sunscreen

"Another really great sunscreen from the drugstore is the Australian Gold Botanical SPF 50. This is another tinted mineral 50 and it comes in four different shades, so hopefully you can find a shade that matches you. This one is a little bit drying on me, so I would say it's more for people with oily skin, maybe combo skin, possibly normal skin. If you have super dry skin, I might not use this. This is a lot thicker, but it makes a really good primer for makeup or it can just be your makeup. It's 3 ounces for about $15, so $5 an ounce is an amazing price for a really solid mineral sunscreen."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Luminous

"EltaMD UV Luminous is an SPF 41 and it has a pale pinkish tint to it so for people who find the other one to be a little bit too orange a little bit too warm they've released a new one that you might like."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Hawaiian Tropic Sunscreen SPF 50

"I've been using this Hawaiian Tropic one lately, it's also an SPF 50. I like this one but the fragrance is super heavy, really coconutty, really Hawaii-ish, but it feels nice on the skin. It doesn't settle in my wrinkles."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Fenty Skin Hydra Vizor Invisible Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30

"I really appreciate the packaging that it comes in two pieces so when you're finished with this you slide this out and you keep this and then you just buy like a new one of these and pop it in. I tried this one twice and I didn't 100 love it either time but I don't think it's terrible either, it would have been kind of in the middle for me. First time I tried it I was in Charleston South Carolina and it was humid and this didn't dry or set, it stayed really really wet feeling, it had a really super strong shine and a little bit of a white cast. I did put makeup on over it but it made my makeup like slide around, made my mascara smudge under my eyes and I didn't love that. Once I got back home to New England where it's not as humid I tried it again and it was much much better so it's one of those ones that's going to depend on where you live how greasy it feels. It still wasn't 100 a favorite, it still didn't live up to their claims which is that it's really primer-like and really fantastic under makeup. I didn't find it to be that. It does leave a little bit of white cast."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Good Molecules Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"Good Molecules Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30 is a white lotion sunscreen that feels like skin care, is non-greasy, spreads easily, and leaves a very minimal white cast with no smell. The finish is nice, mildly glowy but not shiny, and my face didn't feel greasy or oily. However, I did have some pilling on my eyelids and to the sides of my eyes, and it peels up a little bit in the eyebrows. Under makeup it wasn't wearing great after four hours, and after eight hours it was very worn off. It also started feeling drying after about six and a half hours. As a sunscreen that's wearable on its own, I give it a four out of five, though you would not have that pilling around the eyes."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Daydream Broadspectrum SPF 40 Moisturizer/Sunscreen

"Dermatology Daydream SPF 40 gathers in your hair and your eyebrows, leaves a slight white cast, but your face feels really sticky and really greasy and it settles into neck wrinkles. I'm giving it two out of five because you could technically wear it on your face, but if you have a neck that has wrinkles, stay away from this one."

✕Nay

Notverified

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

"The Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun Rice and Probiotic Sunscreen is an SPF 50 plus with a PA plus plus plus rating. This is a standard white sunscreen. This is a really lightweight sunscreen. It rubs in beautifully. It only takes like a couple of seconds to put it on and get your whole face done. It doesn't get tangled up in your hair or anything. It does have a pretty luminous finish for me, so I would have to put on something to kind of take down the shine. I wore this for a few days just to test it and see if it would irritate my skin. I didn't have a ton of irritation from it. I can't say if that would be the case if I used it long term, but I put it on for like three or four days straight and I thought that it was fine. It's a really nice sunscreen. It works really well under makeup."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

"The CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion is an SPF 30. This isn't like a dedicated sunscreen, but it's a moisturizer with sunscreen in it, and this is a really great way to save steps in your morning skincare routine. If you're already using a bunch of serums and stuff and you just want to mash two steps together, which would be your moisturizer and your sunscreen, you can do that with this. This is a mix of chemical sunscreen agents and mineral sunscreen so it has zinc oxide and then it has a bunch of your standard U.S. approved chemical sunscreens. But this also has all the same great skincare ingredients that the CeraVe PM does, and CeraVe PM is one of my all-time favorite moisturizing lotions for day. It's a nice lightweight lotion, and so is this. It contains ceramides, niacinamide, and hyaluronic acid, so it's a really great moisturizer and also a really great sunscreen. This goes on without leaving any white cast. It's really beautiful on the skin. It definitely leaves like a dewy lit-from-within kind of glow and luminescence on the skin, which people are really into these days. It is an SPF 30. The minimum sunscreen you should use every day is a 30, so this is a great option."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Restore Broad-Spectrum SPF 40

"This is another tinted sunscreen that I had tried a couple of years ago. I kind of like this one but not for my face. This one is also kind of shiny and oily, but I use it on my chest and my neck more because I was liking to save the elements for my face. I probably won't repurchase this one, but if you have dry your skin and you're using Elta MD UV elements and you find that one drying, this one is a lot more hydrating, so you might want to give the restore a try."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Tatcha Silk Sunscreen SPF 50 Weightless Mineral Sunscreen

"This is a very runny, watery liquid sunscreen with a light peach tint. It's so lightweight and fluid, it glides over the skin and rubs in easily with no problems around hair or eyebrows. It has a tacky feel, not necessarily a greasy feel on application. It gives a slightly light cast when first applied. After 20 minutes of drying back, it's got a very shiny finish and only the slightest white cast. With makeup on over it, the shine from the sunscreen comes right through, making the finish more luminous and accentuating my pores. The sunscreen caused my makeup to settle into my wrinkles right away. The makeup wore off much more quickly than usual, wearing off on my nose at the four-hour check-in. The shine had come back through the powder pretty quickly, making my skin look more textured and making my foundation look shinier than it should after just a couple of hours. It looked patchy by the end of the day and crusty by the sides of my nose. It's extremely shiny, and for 60 bucks, it really needs to make my makeup look perfect. The hype I heard was, oh my God, it's like a primer for your makeup, it'll make your makeup go on so perfectly, and for me it just didn't do any of that. It wasn't really wearable on its own; it was too shiny and it didn't do anything for my makeup."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Bliss Block Star Daily Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"This is a tinted, thicker cream texture sunscreen with a strong fragrance that smells strongly of lavender. I don't like a lot of fragrance and I don't like to smell things on my face, and the fragrance I felt with this was very, very strong. It took a little effort to rub this in, especially around my hair and eyebrows, but it did eventually rub in well. The tint matched my skin tone pretty well. Bliss Block Star didn't feel greasy and wasn't overly shiny. It does feel a little heavier on the skin than the thinner, runnier liquid sunscreens. After 20 minutes of drying back, it had set and it felt dry with a matte finish and is smoothing on the pores. However, with makeup on over it, it looked thick and cakey and settled into every wrinkle right away, especially on my forehead and around my eyes. It was majorly worn off on my nose after just four hours, looked patchy on the rest of my face, and was still settled in all my wrinkles. Unfortunately, this was so not good under makeup that I can't really recommend it wholeheartedly for people who wear makeup and want just one sunscreen that's going to work on its own as well as under makeup, but it could be very wearable on its own."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

ILIA C Beyond Triple Serum SPF 40

"This is a tinted runny liquid that glides over the skin and is very easy to apply. It feels wet when going on like a lightweight oil. The tint matches my skin tone very well and has a luminous finish. It made my eyelids start itching right away with little itchy pin pricks all over my face and neck. By the end of 20 minutes, my eyelids were burning and red. It still felt wet and oily after 20 minutes and was really, really shiny. Because of the itching and stinging, I had to wash this one off. This one was just too shiny and too itchy for me to even wear for more than 20 minutes. Other people may not have that itching, tingling, burning sensation with their skin. This might work fine for some people; it just didn't work for my skin."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical Tinted SPF 50

"The Australian Gold Botanical Tinted SPF 50 is another sunscreen that I finished up this month. This one was the winner of my sunscreen testing, I don't even know how many years ago, was it five or seven years? A lot of you guys are using this and you love it. This sunscreen is going to be much better for people with normal to combo skin. People with dry skin tend to find it a little bit drying. This is another tinted all mineral sunscreen. This one is eighty minutes water resistant. It has that SPF 50. This one is like a thicker, more cream texture so it does sit a little bit heavier on the skin, but it does rub in beautifully. It comes in three different shades. This is the medium to tan, which is the one that I buy. It's a little bit too dark for me, but I love mixing this one in with like my white sunscreens that leave me a little bit of a white cast. This is a really great one to mix in because it has more of a matte finish, and a lot of the other sunscreens have more of a shiny, dewy, greasy-looking finish, so this kind of mattifies them down a little bit. This is a great one for mixing in with a lot of other sunscreens, or you can use it on its own. I have purchased another one of those."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Supergoop Play Everyday Lotion SPF 50

"There is Super Goop Play, this is a mineral stick which is an SPF 50. These will kind of remove your makeup and mess it up, but if you're looking for sunscreen coverage and you don't really care that much how your makeup looks, you can use one of these."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Stick

"There is this one from EltaMD, this is their UV Stick, which is an SPF 50 plus. These will kind of remove your makeup and mess it up, but if you're looking for sunscreen coverage and you don't really care that much how your makeup looks, you can use one of these."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Pipette Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is a thick white lotion that takes a while to rub in. It feels pretty greasy and has a very shiny finish. It leaves a pinkish purplish white cast. It didn't dry back at all after 20 minutes and was still very shiny, very white, and very greasy looking and feeling."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40

"I had tried the previous ILIA Skin Tint that didn't have sunscreen in it and that one didn't work for me at all. No matter how I put it on, it just did not look good on my skin. It didn't sit well, it just was not for me. And I gotta say this one was exactly the same. I didn't have to use it with sunscreen since it has sunscreen in it. I tried it as my sunscreen, so using a lot of it over my skin care didn't work. Looked weird on my skin, broken up on the surface, just not good. I tried it without putting on any skincare, like not even a moisturizer, and still it went on weird. It broke up. It just didn't sit on my skin right. So no matter how I use this, it just doesn't sit on my skin right."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Super Light Daily Wrinkle Defense SPF 30

"I'm glad I finished this up and I'm probably not going to purchase another one of these because I found another sunscreen that I like mixing with the LTMD better than the Paula's Choice."

~Mixed

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Face Liquid Sunscreen SPF 70

"My two favorites from the drugstore are the Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Liquid, which is SPF 70. These are both very lightweight, very fluid. They go on the skin really beautifully. They don't leave a white cast and they work great under makeup."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50

"I used a chemical sunscreen one day, my Haru Haru Wonder, and my foundation looked even worse at five hours over that sunscreen. That one I don't love under makeup, I feel like it makes my foundation settle into my wrinkles more and makes my makeup wear off a little bit faster."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation

"This is an SPF 50 tinted serum foundation. This is lightweight and fluid. It's got a lot of glow to it, so it's going to help the skin to look more youthful. You're not going to look like you have on a heavy mask of makeup. This one works great with a brush. This one has a dropper."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Banana Boat Light as Air SPF 50 Body Sunscreen

"Another favorite body sunscreen is the Banana Boat Light as Air, which I recommend to people who do not like the sticky feeling sunscreen can give. You put it on and feel like you do not have anything on. It is great, and it is 25% off."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Every Sunday Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+

"This is one of my favorite sunscreens of all time. It's an SPF 50 plus and it's a plain white sunscreen, not tinted. It does leave the slightest paler cast on me but it pretty much rubs in and is almost invisible. The things that really make me love this sunscreen so much is that it dries down, it's really lightweight, it doesn't feel greasy, it sets and it's not super shiny. It actually has a nice matte finish so it doesn't accentuate my pores and texture. The other thing about it is that it's very primer-like, so if you're someone who uses a primer to disguise your pores and texture I'd recommend just this because it really does smooth my pores, smooth out my skin and just make my makeup go on so beautifully over it. It actually helps my makeup to wear a little bit longer."

✓Yay

63%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Weightless Liquid Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"The sunscreen I use for that is the First Aid Beauty Weightless Liquid Mineral Sunscreen and I like this one for that because it's very lightweight, it's got a slight tint to it so I just look normal when I put it on. It's not super shiny, it's not greasy and it dries really quickly and I don't feel like I even have anything on but I don't have a white cast and I just look regular in this."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Isntree Hyaluronic Acid Watery Sun Gel SPF 50+ PA++++

"The ISNTREE Hyaluronic Acid Watery Sun Gel is an SPF 50 plus with PA plus plus plus. This has eight types of hyaluronic acid in it. This is one that I have really enjoyed for years. This is another Korean sunscreen that uses a mix of sunscreen ingredients that we have approved here in the U.S. as well as some that are not approved here in the U.S. that are approved on the rest of the planet. This is another one that's so lightweight. It just rubs into the skin so beautifully. When you give it 20 minutes to set up, it's not greasy on the skin. It's not heavy. It's not going to make you feel hot. This is also really hydrating because it does have eight types of hyaluronic acid in there, but it also is formulated to be cooling on the skin. If you're the kind of person who always felt like sunscreen made you super hot, you could give this one a try because it's not going to feel like your skin can't breathe. It's going to feel like a moisturizer or something even lighter than a moisturizer, maybe like a serum. This could be the perfect sunscreen for you."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Eye Makeup56 reviews

Maybelline Super Lock Clear Brow Gel

"I add a coat of Maybelline Superlock Clear Brow Gel to hold my brows in place all day."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette

"For the eyeshadow today I used the new Rare Beauty eyeshadow palette. I really like it, it blends beautifully and there's hardly any fallout, very nice."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

ColourPop That's Taupe Pressed Powder Palette

"All of the nine pan ColourPop palettes are in it, and this is one of my all-time favorites, the That's Taupe palette. That's an awesome palette. It has a nice mix of mattes and shimmers, the shimmers are gorgeous, no fallout, really good quality eyeshadows."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Mini Eye Sculpt Eyeshadow Palette

"This is the mini Eye Sculpt palette. It's super simple. Just five pans of matte color. Perfect shades. They're not too warm. They're not too cool. They'll work on every skin tone. If you are new to eyeshadow, are overwhelmed by big palettes, this is the perfect little palette. It's very versatile, very beautiful palette."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

L'Oreal Extensionist Mascara

"I tried this one without very high hopes for it because I have not been happy with any drugstore mascaras for a long, long time. They always chip, flake, smudge. And guess what? This one actually delivers. The marketing on this is that it makes your lashes 5 mm closer to your eyebrows. I put it on one eye and then compared, and my eyelashes sure were closer to my eyebrows because it made them look much, much longer. So I really like this and it stays put all day and it's not hard to take off at night."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked Palette

"This Urban Decay Naked Palette was in my best makeup of 2025 video. I've been raving about this since the very first time I tried it. It is one of my favorite palettes of all time because it has 10 pans of color, but the four in the center are cream eyeshadows. I love to use them either as an eyeshadow base or as a primer. They help make my crinkly, discolored eyelids look smooth and beautiful, but they also help the powder shadows stay in place and blend out so beautifully. I get the smoothest blend with this palette."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Thrive Causemetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara

"My new favorite favorite mascara is from Thrive Cosmetics. It's their Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara, and it is a beauty. It only takes one coat to give me long, silky lashes that last all day. If you love a tubing mascara, then you will love this mascara because you put it on once, it stays put all day. It doesn't flake, it doesn't smudge, it doesn't come off until you take it off."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

L'Oreal Shadow Stick Twinkling Rose

"These are an eye shadow stick. These are from L'Oreal. These are the Lush Shadow Sticks. I liked them so much I reviewed them twice this year. I must really, really like these. They come in mattes. They come in shimmers. This formula is so good. They're so creamy. They just glide over the eyelids. They're so easy to blend. They don't dry super fast. You can blend them with your fingers or you can blend them with a brush. These have a cooling minty sensation when you put them on."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

L'Oreal Paradise Big Deal Mascara

"This is my new drugstore favorite for this year. For those of you who don't love a tubing mascara or who just want a drugstore option, this is the L'Oreal Paradise Big Deal Mascara. This is a beautiful mascara that makes your lashes look long and silky and actually gives them a little bit of curl. With this mascara, it does take a couple of coats to build up volume, to build up length. I have this one on this eye today so you can see the difference. This one wore pretty flawlessly all day long."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Essence Stay and Play Gel Eyeliner

"My favorite everyday eyeliner that I tried this year is from Essence. It's their Stay and Play Gel Eyeliner. It's longasting. It's waterproof. And when they say it's waterproof, it really is. I have been a fan of the Essence eyeliners, gel eyeliners for a long, long time. This shade is called Stardust Love. It's a really dark gray almost black. This does have some glitter flakes in it. If you don't like that, I wouldn't get this color."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Eyelights Cream Eyeshadow

"The other thing I loved of theirs are the highlights. It's a cream eyeshadow. The shimmer ones are stunning. And you don't need an eyelid primer with it. You just put it on and it stays put all day long. They are just gorgeous."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

ColourPop Stone Cold Fox Palette

"One of my all-time favorite palettes is the Stone Cold Fox palette. It is one of their mega palettes. It is just a stunner. A cool palette, but it does have enough warm tones in there and it's gorgeous. I used it today."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked Shaped Multitasking Palette

"I've got a new eyeshadow palette that I just tried and I love this palette. I can't get enough of it. I've been using it constantly. It's from Urban Decay. I haven't bought an Urban Decay palette in so so long. But this brand as far as eyeshadows is an OG because they're so good. They blend beautifully. You never get any fallout with them and the shades are really, really wearable. This palette is called the Naked Shaped Multitasking Palette. It comes in two colorways. This is the cool, which of course is more of my alley. It also comes in a warm. So, if you prefer warm shades, then there is a separate version of this palette. The lid slides open like this. And what you get in this palette are both creams and powder eyeshadows, but the creams are multitaskers. So, all the creams are here in the middle. And these are awesome. And this makes a great travel palette because you can use the creams as eyelid primer or you can use them as eyeshadows. You can also use them as contour or as bronzer. And this nice rich black here. If you have a really skinny angled brush, you can use that as eyeliner or you can use it to smoke out your look. But then it also contains 10 pans of eyeshadow. And the shades in here are just so so beautiful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Universal Volumizing Mascara

"This brush is huge for this size cap. I guess they give you a full-size brush even though it's the mini mascara. The brush is just so huge, a little difficult to control it. I think it gives enough volume, but it really didn't offer any lengthening because I feel like my lashes look really stumpy. The Rare Beauty is giving more volume."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

SWEED Cloud Mascara

"As far as the mascaras are concerned, they both actually look really good right now, and neither of them are chipping or flaking, but this one is definitely just smudged a little bit below this eye. So, I'm giving the win on the mascara to the Sweed."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Maybelline Colossal Bubble Mascara

"I loved it at first because it went on and made my lashes really big and really bold, but there was just like little chunkers all over them that I knew were going to come off later in the day. And sure enough, they did and they were like on my eyelids and under my eyes and it also smudged beneath my eyes."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Maybelline Super Lock Brow Glue

"Let's talk about a product that lives up to its marketing, lives up to the hype. My brows are still totally glued in place."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NYX Mechanical Eyeliner Pencils

"The NYX Mechanical Eyeliner Pencils are [...] 36% off down to just over $5. [...] The bronze is gorgeous, a really dark brown for brown eyeliner, not too reddish or too light. They are really creamy and easy to get on, but they stay put once on. You can wear it in your waterline, and I wear contacts and it does not get all over them. These are really great eyeliners and for $5 each you really cannot go wrong."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

e.l.f. Lash 'N Roll Mascara

"This claims to be like super curling mascara. I feel like this is a very dry formula. Like there's not a ton on the brush. And when you're pulling it out, the squeegee is very squeegeeish. One coat is not dramatic, not anything major going on. My favorite mascara is still the Cali Ray Come Heller High Water. This doesn't really curl my lashes as much as I thought it should, and it didn't give me like the length and the volume that I get out of other mascaras. There's a little bit of smudging right under one eye. I think that's the mascara."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Straightup Volumizing Peptide Mascara

"Oo that's pretty giving the lashes a really good amount of curl yes love the mascara"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Liquid Eyeshadow

"This is so beautiful. I just love it. It just gives the prettiest shimmer and it gives you so much payoff. Like even rubbed in, you still get that nice sheen, you still get that nice color. So I just pop that on my eyelids and that will stay put all day."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Merit The Minimalist Mascara

"The other mascara that I liked a lot was from Merit. This one is really pretty, it gives very natural looking lashes. So if you are like a not big makeup wearer and you just want to have just a little bit of mascara that's going to look pretty all day, and again, no chipping, no flaking, no smudging. The Merit mascara was really, really good."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Benefit Precisely My Brow Pencil

"There was a super fail of a brow pencil that I did buy for that video: it is the Benefit Precisely My Brow. This gets such great reviews, this is like you know four and a half, five stars. I hated this. This is another micro fine brow pencil but this pencil is so hard I have to press so hard that it hurts. It's hard, it's chalky, it doesn't blend well. It just didn't do it for me."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Merit Eyeshadow Cream Pots

"If I'm going to wear a minimalist makeup and they're going to have an eyeshadow in a cream pot, I want to put it on and I want it to stay put and last all day, and unfortunately the wear on this was just so terrible. It had moved and settled into my eye crease within a couple of hours of putting it on and it really didn't last throughout the day. I loved the color of this though, it is beautiful, but I think with this you do need to lay down a primer first, which I don't think you should have to do since it is minimalist makeup."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

About Face Eyeshadow Stick in Pearly

"And the about face Eyeshadow Stick in Pearly on the lowers"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Solo Shadow Matte Eye Color in Studio

"This is really a pretty color, really very subtle. Goes on the eye so beautifully, blends out really nicely. It's like a color that you would actually see on your skin. It's not too orangey, it's not too warm. So far really loving this eyeshadow. It's got such a nice slip to it and it blends out so easily, really really pretty. I didn't use any primer because for things like this that you're supposed to be super minimalist, I hate to add extra products, so if it doesn't work without primer I'm never happy with it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Jones Road Mascara Pitch Black

"I also really like the mascara this was really pretty and it lasted all day it didn't chip or flake and it gave me really nice like silky long lashes but also increased the volume I always have like the Bobby Brown mascaras and this was no exception"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Natasha Denona I Need a Nude Palette

"I cannot do a job without this palette it is so stunning. It's so soft. It's not too warm but there are warms in it. Even like the shades, it's not like a super orangey peach, it has enough gray to it that it really just sits so naturally on the skin and it just looks like a color that would normally be there. The shimmers are beautiful about this palette. You can't go wrong with any of the shimmers in my opinion."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Velour Brush On Lash Glue

"I'm using for lash glue the Velour Brush On Lash Glue. This is an on-hold, you can cry, you can sweat, you could probably jump in a pool and your lashes will not come off with this glue. So this is an incredible glue that I love."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

L'Oreal Waterproof Mascara

"For a bottom mascara I like to do a little bit of a brown mascara. This one's from L'Oreal, it's a Waterproof Mascara, crucial if you're going to apply mascara on the bottom lash line. Don't put a regular formula on a special occasion. It's a really dark rich brown. Throughout the makeup application it's easy to get a little bit of makeup underneath the lashes because we look down and concealer hits it and they end up looking kind of dusty. This is a great way to kind of revamp them, bring them back to life, darken them a touch too."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Clio Ray Keller High Water Mascara

"This is my favorite mascara. This is the Clio Ray Keller High Water Mascara. This is like the perfect mascara for me. It makes my lashes look long and silky. It's easy to apply and it's also easy to remove. And this is a tubing mascara, so it never has clumps. This does go on a little bit wet, but once it dries, it is in place. If you have like leaky eyes every time you go out in the cold and you always have that little mascara dribble down there, then this is going to be the mascara for you to replace whatever you're using, because this one stays in place. And because it's a tubing mascara, it also doesn't chip or flake, so you never end up with little black speckles underneath your eyes during the day."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

NYX Ultimate Eye Shadow and Liner Primer

"The Nyx Ultimate Shadow and Liner Primer is also a great product. This one comes with a doe foot as well, even though it comes out looking like it's a shade and it does come in shades. It doesn't really color your eyelids as much as the Rare Beauty one does. Eyeshadows just blend over it so beautifully."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

e.l.f. Bite-Size Eyeshadow Palettes

"E.L.F. is a drugstore brand that really makes fantastic eyeshadows and they make these tiny little bite-size palettes. The color payoff is so beautiful, the shimmers are so beautiful. I mean look at those shimmers, the mattes are so beautiful. This one's kind of like a warmer color way. They have this beautiful kind of pinky purple one called rose water. That one is so stunning. I use that one a lot this year."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara

"I also tried the Tarteist tubing mascara and this was kind of a fail. I really liked it all day long, it went on really nicely, it looked really good all day. Problem was at the end of the day it had left me like a little dribble over here by the corner of my eye. I have one eye that's always like a little dribbly, and when I wear my Clinique tubing mascara I never end up with the little dribble at the corner of my eye. With this one I had it. So not in love with this, even though it was pretty. I think that the Clinique is far superior because it stays put until I take it off."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Tarte Tartelette In Bloom Amazonian Clay Palette

"If you're looking for a less expensive dupe then I would recommend something like the Tartelette In Bloom. This is just a classic Tarte palette, it's been around for years. It's kind of similar to Natasha Denona in that it doesn't go super dark, it's very muted, it's got some warm neutrals, it's got some cooler neutrals. You could probably dup a look from the Natasha Denona with the top row of this palette and you could probably dup the look that I have on today with the bottom row from this palette."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Superhero No-Tug Shadow Sticks

"Of the IT Cosmetics this is their no tug eyeshadows so the matte one is this beautiful mauvey pink and then the Shimmer one is more of a taupey Shimmer"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NYX Ultimate Shadow Palette Warm Neutrals

"I impulse purchased a new eyeshadow palette from NYX, it's the ultimate warm neutrals palette. This is a really pretty palette. I thought it would be perfect for like summer into fall. Look at all those pretty colors and they're not too too dark. I've been really into more subtle kind of eyeshadow looks lately. The shades I'm wearing today are this nude color and then the perfect disguise your hood shade, which is actually light enough for a change, and then I went for this one down in the corner for the outer corner, this kind of gray smokiness, and then I went in with a little bit of this pinkish shimmer. They're really easy to blend but they're not super pigmented and they're not real grippy so you can move them around. You can get kind of a sheer overlay wash of color and I think that they just look so pretty and so natural. So really loving this palette."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Grip Mechanical Gel Eyeliner

"I use the infallible grip liner on the upper water line that's still in place."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

L'Oreal Telescopic Lift Lengthening Mascara

"If it doesn't give you telescopic lift and length to your lashes—these are probably the longest, most feathery and pretty looking lashes that I've had on in a while. This lasted all day. It isn't waterproof, but it didn't come off until I took it off and then it was really easy to remove. It gives you a really nice feathery, almost like wearing a false lash kind of look."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Palette

"This is a beautiful beautiful palette. I got this in the Sephora sale but this palette costs sixty-nine dollars. Every time I use it I love the eye look that I get from it, but it is missing a shade or two for me. Like it doesn't have a really pale matte shade that I can use on my eyelid. Every time I use the Natasha Denona palette I grab another palette to grab a color to do my eyelid in a pale color. But it is beautiful, and if you are an eyeshadow palette collector and you love Natasha Denona then you definitely have to have this one."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Natasha Denona My Dream Palette

"The Natasha Denona My Dream Palette is just so so gorgeous, these colors are just so holiday ready. I decided today to just go for a much more colorful eye look, I use this dark purple down here, I use this nice kind of reddish maroon over here, and I used a bunch of these shimmers. These shimmers are gorgeous, it's a beautiful eyeshadow palette, and I think combining it with a makeup case and some brushes makes a really great beauty gift."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

ILIA Limitless Lash Mascara

"Another mascara that I liked a lot was this Ilia Limitless Lash Mascara. This one I was actually impressed with. I have tried a few Ilia products and didn't love them, so I was kind of surprised that I actually liked this as much as I did. But this was another really good one. It definitely gave me those same kind of lashes that I like where they were longer and more volume and separated, but they look very natural and very silky and very like lash-like."

✓Yay

99%Guru Score

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

"An old favorite that popped back into my faves this year is the Urban Decay Primer Potion. I hadn't used this in years. I did a Nordstrom video and was trying all their five-star makeup, and this was the highest rated eyelid primer on their website. So I was like, yeah, maybe I'm missing out on something there. Sure enough I was. I really like this and I've used it I think every single day since I did that video. I have really been enjoying this. This one is much less grippy as well, so it gives you more of a blendy kind of eye shadow."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High Mascara

"The drugstore one is the Maybelline Sky High Mascara. I tried this one in a trying all-new makeup video and I was really really impressed with this, especially with the length that this gave my lashes. So if you have a decent amount of lash volume but you just need them to be like longer, like telescoping out, then this is going to be the mascara for you."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

NYX Brow Glue Crazy Lift

"I use this NYX Brow Glue. If you have unruly brows and you want that like brow laminated look, this will give you that. This really will hold your brows in place."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette

"I love the Mario eyeshadows, but today I decided to use my Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette, and I was really disappointed with this. The main thing was that the shimmers in this palette, they have so much glitter and so much fallout, and they don't give you any payoff on the eyelid. [...] It didn't stay in place. You couldn't even see it. [...] I had glitter all over my cheeks. [...] I like the mattes in this. I don't like the shimmers. [...] The only shimmer in this palette that is kind of like problematic is this white one, and I wish this one wasn't such a big pan because this is really a glitter fallout shimmer. So stay away from this one."

✕Nay

80%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Precision Pencil

"Favorite brow product from Sephora is the Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Brow Pencil. Really love the shape and the tininess of this brow pencil. It's really, really small. [...] It's really creamy and easy to use. It's easy to fill in your brows, draw in those tiny little brow hairs, and really just beef up your brows if you're a little bit brow challenged, as we tend to be as we get older."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Retractable Eyeliner

"These are the Sephora House brand and so everyone can get these at 30% off during the sale. They're not expensive to start with. There are two different versions of it that I like: one is a mechanical pencil, one is a sharpenable pencil. The mechanical pencils are $14 normally, the sharpenable pencils are $12 normally, so 30% off you're getting these under $10. They are the best eyeliners hands down. They're waterproof and so when you put them on in your waterline they stay put, and if you're a contact lens wearer like I am it doesn't get all over your contact lenses. You can see perfectly with these eyeliners. So many other high-end eyeliners just aren't as good. I put them on, they're all over my face, smudged by the end of the day, they're all over my contacts. These never do any of that, and that's why they're my favorites. They come in a huge array of colors that are so much fun. You can get your standard black, your standard brown, whatever you're looking for, but they also have really fun colors like greens. They have this beautiful olive green in the retractable, they have this beautiful mint green that I'm wearing on my lower lid in the sharpenable. I love them all. These are creamy, they're easy to draw a line with, never tugging on your eyelids. They're like the perfect eyeliners."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Essence Lash Without Limits Mascara in Brown

"I was so surprised to finally love an Essence mascara because they send me every mascara and I always love how they look when I first put them on but within a few hours or by the end of the day they've always chipped and flaked. This is their Lash Without Limits mascara and this one is brown. It lasted all day, it was really really good, it gave me nice looking lashes, didn't flake, didn't chip, didn't smudge, and was easy to remove."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Glossier Monochromes Eyeshadow Palette in Jute

"This is their Glossier Monochromes palette in the shade Jute. This only has three pans in it and it's almost a perfect palette. These are really pretty eyeshadows, very unusual colors just because they are so neutral, and it's a great palette for like an everyday look. So if you just want to disguise your hoods you just pop this neutral matte color in the crease and you're good to go. You want to add a nice shimmer, it's got these two really pretty like taupey shimmer colors, a lighter one for the center or the inner corner and a darker one for the outer corner of the eye, and it makes a beautiful simple everyday eye look."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Icy Nude Eyeshadow Palette

"I noticed the Huda Icy Nudes palette and I threw this in my shopping cart. Since then I've kind of been using it non-stop. Between the two, I am kind of leaning more towards the Huda palette than the Mario. They're both gorgeous, it's just that with the Icy Nudes I feel like I can get more use out of this, more wear out of this, and I actually like using these a little bit better. This is definitely a cool icy palette. This one has 18 pans of eyeshadow with seven shimmers, so that leaves 11 matts, and the variety in the mattes I think is what makes this just a slightly better palette for me. I'm wearing this one today, I did more of a lavender kind of icy look with it. I also put it on in the video where I was thinking about retiring from YouTube and I did much more of a pink look that day. It doesn't really go super dark, which is what I really like about it. In this one, if I ignore the shimmers, I can do a beautiful everyday matte look with it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze

"I love this for softening out my brow after I've drawn it on with little hairlike strokes. I do like to soften them out and this is great for that, so really enjoyed this product. Highly recommend if you're a brow pencil type person."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Master Mattes The Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette

"The first Mario palette I bought was the Master Mattes The Neutrals. I bought this in the previous Sephora Insider event and I am a complete convert to the Mario eyeshadows. They are some of the best eyeshadows I've ever used as far as the blendability. You cannot make a mistake with these eyeshadows, they blend out so beautifully. This is like my everyday go-to palette, this is the one I reach for, and it has just such a nice variety of colors but it doesn't go too dark too fast. You know, it's my age-old problem with palettes, is they just get too dark too fast, and this one has so many shades that are really wearable. So your eyeshadow won't come out looking too heavy-handed, too overdone, too theatrical. The everyday palette would definitely be worth the money because you will reach for this every day and it will up your eyeshadow game exponentially in the blend and everything. It's really, really good. This is the one I would recommend for the vast majority of people."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara

"This is a tubing mascara and I love that about it because I don't know why I have like leaky eyes and I always end up with mascara dribbles down here and with this mascara I never end up with dribbles. I put this one on this morning when I did this tutorial and then I took my dogs for a walk outside it was about 38° out today so pretty cold and my eyes were watering and look at that no running no smudging. This doesn't come off until you take it off but once you go to take it off it's really easy to remove. I love how it makes my lashes look it gives me volume and length and curl."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara

"I also do love the Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara. This is more of a traditional mascara. I think I saw that they have a gift set that has this plus their primer, the Lancôme Définicils. This mascara doesn't need it, but I know a lot of people do like a mascara primer, so there is a nice set."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Glam Palette

"The Natasha Denona Glam Palette is still my favorite for the holidays. A lot of new palettes have been released for me but nothing tops this palette as far as like a holiday Glam Palette. So even though it's a couple years old, if you don't have it, I would still pick that one up."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Foundation39 reviews

Hung Vanngo Red Carpet Skin Luminous Foundation

"I really like the Hung Van Go. This is really pretty. I think it looks really nice on the skin. It's a really nice looking foundation. It definitely settled in my wrinkles, but the coverage is really nice. It looks really good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maybelline SuperStay Lumi Matte 30-Hour Foundation

"Maybelline makes one of my favorite foundations, the 30 Hour Lumi Matte. This one is great on my skin, it lasts all day, it doesn't settle into wrinkles, and it doesn't look like a heavy mask of makeup. Between the two, I definitely recommend the Lumi Matte over the lifter foundation."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Maybelline Lifter Plump and Glow Foundation

"This foundation, it's not funny, because I'm sure they were trying to make a good product, but this looks terrible already, terrible. It settled in every wrinkle on my face, and it just looks heavy, waxy, makeupy. Today is almost a complete fail, just save your money on this. I was really, really disappointed in this foundation. It just felt like foundation sitting on the surface of my skin all day, and I didn't really think it did anything for me. It really seemed to accentuate pores and texture throughout the day. The wear is pretty good on it though, I'm not really seeing a ton of wearing off."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Maybelline SuperStay 30 Hour Foundation

"Two from the drugstore that I also love are the Maybelline SuperStay 30 Hour Foundation, this one is truly long wearing, if you need to get ten or fifteen hours out of your foundation this one will give it to you flawlessly. It's full coverage but you can put it on a little bit sheer and it looks beautiful on the skin, it doesn't accentuate wrinkles, and it has an easy to match shade range."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

NYX Make and Wonder Soft Matte Buildable Foundation

"The newer one is the NYX Make Them Wonder Foundation, this is really good. I've heard from people that it's very difficult to get a shade match, the first one I tried was sixteen beige or neutral and it wasn't neutral, it was much more warm and orangey, so I switched to fifteen buff and that's a much better shade match for me, so you might have to play around with the shades a little bit to find a match. But it's a really good foundation, very full coverage but stays in place really well, doesn't get shiny later in the day, doesn't break up on the surface."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum

"My skin feels hydrated, but it doesn't feel like sticky, greasy, hydrated. It just feels comfortable, which is really, really nice. I think I like it better than the original version. I definitely like it better than the It Do It All, which at 5 hours I think didn't look this good. It was definitely starting to wear off on my nose at 5 hours and on my chin at 5 hours. Really no settling into wrinkles to speak of at all on the forehead. Very not worn off anywhere here. It looks really nice, really natural on the skin. Zero wearing off on my nose. So really happy with that."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dior Forever Skin Glow Foundation

"I really, really enjoy wearing this. [...] This wears really well. It looks beautiful all day. [...] I tested it for a 10-hour day and it looked great for eight of the 10 hours and then just the last two hours, it just got a little shiny right through my T-zone and that was pretty much it. So that's if you're looking for like a medium to full coverage bulletproof foundation for those special occasions. That is a great one and I can highly recommend that."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation

"The Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation is a lovely foundation and it looks beautiful on the skin. It's supposed to be blurring and longwearing. It definitely did seem blurring to me. I really like that about it. I'd say it's a light to medium coverage, so it does look fairly natural on the skin."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Hy-Glam Foundation

"This one just was like a little bit heavy and it didn't wear as well and it didn't smooth my skin as well as the Makeup by Mario"

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Skin Tint

"I thought this looked really nice for most of the 4 hours and it looks pretty good. It's mainly still in place like from here down. It all looks really, really good except for right by both sides of my nose where it's a little bit shinier and a little bit gathering up in there, but I'm not getting a huge amount of settling into wrinkles or wearing off. As a skin tint that you wear over a different sunscreen, it works pretty well and it looks pretty nice. It isn't getting really super shiny, although I did use my most mattifying setting powder on it. At the 8 hour check-in, it looks pretty worn off. This is the third time I've had this on. This was showing a lot of signs of wear. It definitely is not a longwearing skin tint or foundation for me. There are definitely foundations that stay on my nose longer than this. It was looking really thin on the rest of my face, so it wasn't really giving me any coverage. It didn't really fade away in a bad way. It wasn't like sliding around or looking weird anywhere or gathering in pores or gathering in wrinkles too much. But considering that I had to buy two of these and mix them together and it's not something that I would ever be able to use as a standalone sunscreen, I just don't feel like this is something that I'm going to be reaching for."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

BK Beauty 109 Foundation Brush

"I also love the smaller version, the BK Beauty 109. It is in between my concealer brush and the full size foundation brush, and it is great for blending out your bronzer, especially getting into smaller areas like by the sides of your nose."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation

"There was no wearing off anywhere and there was very very minimal settling into the wrinkles by the end of the day I was still really happy with this one. I just felt like my skin looked better than it really is, felt like it looked younger than it really was, and I was just really falling for this hard. This is probably my most worn drugstore foundation so far this year."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Covergirl Simply Ageless Skin Perfecting Essence Foundation

"I like it a lot. I think it looks very natural, very skin-like. It looks like nothing on your skin but it does give you some coverage and it stays in place really well. So that's a really great one for like the natural look girlies out there who really just don't want to look like they're wearing any makeup but you have some things on your skin that you want to improve the look of or you just want a dewier, more glowy look to your skin. This will deliver that with a very sheer wash of pigmentation. It does get kind of shiny and a little bit oily looking in the afternoon, so I would definitely wear a little bit of a more matte setting powder with it, but if you have super dry skin you may just love this as it is."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Dior Forever Skin Perfect 24Hour Multi-Use Foundation Stick

"It's super fragrance clearly I got the wrong shade and it just doesn't sit right on my skin it looks terrible it's like sitting in my pores giving me polka dot pores not blending evenly"

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Jane Iredale Pure Pressed Base Mineral Foundation

"Another foundation that I tried over the last few months and liked pretty well was the Jane Iredale powder foundation. This is another like minimalist brand and I got to say like between this and the Merit I would go with the Merit stick over this but if you're a powder foundation girl this wasn't bad. I think the reason I didn't like it as much as I might have is because I used all of the Jane Iredale helpers with it which I'm not sure that I needed there's a primer and there's a setting spray and I used it all but I did use the primer only on one side of my face and I got to say the side of my face that I didn't use the primer I liked how this looked a lot better. I felt like the primer just made my pores be more accentuated and everything so for me you don't need to invest in all that other stuff those two other products for me it was just that this powder was nice it looked nice."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion Foundation

"By the end of the day it was still too worn off, too settled in my wrinkles, and accentuating way too much texture everywhere on my face for me to ever wear it again or even like it. I just couldn't wait to take it off by the end of the day. It was slightly better on day two because of the sunscreen, but other than that it was still kind of a disaster for me. All in all, the Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion Foundation for me sadly was just a fail."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Trinny London BFF Serum D-Stress Tinted Moisturizer

"So the one I ended up using for the video was the BFF serum destress and I actually liked this a lot thought it looked really nice and thought it wore really really well throughout the day"

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation

"It's the perfect foundation for a light to medium coverage for someone with normal to dry skin. It's not great for super oily skin, but it has a beautiful finish to it. It's very skin-like but it's very very radiant and it just wears like a dream the whole entire day. You will look flawless. It feels very high-end. You can see through it, it doesn't look like makeup. It's lovely."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Revlon Illuminance Skin Caring Foundation

"The makeup I use this year is the Revlon Illuminance Foundation. This is a really good one with my normal good wear sunscreen. This lasts on my skin for a good 8 to 10 hours solid with no wearing off and no settling into wrinkles."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Face & Body Foundation

"For Angie's complex, for her foundation, one of my go-tos that I use professionally on a regular basis is the Dior Backstage Face and Body. This is a very longwear foundation, it's also heat, sweat, humidity resistant, it's extremely longwearing, it's great for an all day wear."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Jones Road What the Foundation

"I did a dedicated review on that a year ago and spoiler alert I kind of hated it. It completely separated over the year of not being used so I ended up throwing that one out."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Super Blendable Foundation

"The drugstore foundation I'm talking about is L'Oreal True Match. This one has been a favorite of mine for many, many years. This is longer wearing, gives you better coverage, looks better on your skin, and is more hydrating, so it's a great foundation for mature skin because it doesn't settle into your wrinkles and it doesn't dry out your skin. It sits so beautifully on the skin, it covers what you want to cover but it looks natural and skin-like. It has a nice amount of light reflectiveness but it's not super shiny, it's also not matte, so it just walks that fine line of being the perfect foundation. The only snafu in the reformulation was that they changed the colors, so if you had been, like I was, N3 in the previous formula, you weren't N3 in the new one. W4 is my new shade in this, and I'm so happy with this foundation, and it is definitely a Holy Grail."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Maybelline Super Stay 24-Hour Skin Tint

"The Maybelline Super Stay, I think this definitely is super staying in place it isn't really wearing off anywhere especially on my nose it really does have good wear. It's not really my favorite though, it's gotten pretty shiny through my T-zone and I feel like it's accentuating pores and texture. It didn't settle in my wrinkles per se but it is kind of cracking to the sides of my nose and in my nasal labial folds, it's definitely like cracked and weird looking there. I've got some skin flakes popped up above my eyebrows. From a distance it is still giving me some nice coverage, but from up close you can see that it is getting a little bit thin at the inner corners, though it doesn't look terrible. I actually think it's a reasonable concealer overall, but the wear over 10 hours does show some wear in the nasal area."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Smashbox Always On Skin Balancing Foundation

"Smashbox Always On Skin Balancing Foundation it stayed on all day with very little settling into wrinkles"

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Sheer Skin Tint

"I really had high hopes for this one you know I love these nice lightweight natural looking things but it doesn't work with my sunscreen it is not going to work for me. It doesn't look terrible it doesn't look great either. The finish on this is a little more luminous than I'd like and even though this is supposed to be self-setting it is luminous. It's just like separating on top, it's balling and pilling all over my face. It's not blending into my skin. As a tinted moisturizer goes I don't love this just because it was so finicky and didn't play well with a lot of my other things. It looks so terrible, so crusty looking, really bad really like ick."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Hourglass Ambient Soft Glow Foundation

"I did a Foundation Friday where I put the [Haus Labs] by Lady Gaga Triclone Skin Tech Foundation head to head against the Hourglass Ambient Soft Glow Foundation. I felt like there were better things. They both looked beautiful at first when I first applied them, but as the day wore on they both got shiny and accentuated texture and they both didn't last very well."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Foundation

"This foundation just looked fine when I first applied it, nothing blew my doors off. It gave solid medium coverage with a pretty luminous finish, maybe a little more luminous than I like, and it did accentuate pores and texture. Throughout the day it wore off really heavily on my nose, was very broken up on the surface, looked speckly and weird, and kind of settled into wrinkles. It didn't look like natural skin sitting on my skin, it definitely looked like makeup sitting on my skin. At the five hour check-in it was majorly worn off on my nose, very worn off on the side of my face, and on my forehead it was basically gone. The side I set with powder wore better than the unset side, which slid around and melted off my face getting really patchy within about three hours. I had trouble blending my bronzer over it, and it balled and pilled a little bit. I didn't hate it, it didn't dry my skin out and didn't look cakey, but I didn't really love it either, and I was definitely not impressed with this foundation."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Il Makiage Woke Up Like This Foundation

"I was late to the party on the Il Makiage Foundation. It's been out for a couple of years and you guys asked me to review it for a while, but I wasn't interested because I feel like a lot of products that heavily spam you with Instagram ads only do that to get one sale from people and then you're not going to like it and never rebuy it. But you finally wore me down and I tried it and did a review on it, and yeah it wasn't great."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo CC Cream

"I like this better than the IT CC cream which was a favorite of mine for a long time. People were comparing it directly to the IT CC cream and when I tried this I was like I like this better. It's not as heavy looking on the skin as that CC cream. This retails for about fourteen dollars and offers medium to full coverage. This has an SPF 30, it's a hybrid mineral chemical SPF, and having sunscreen in here is fine. This also does contain some skin care with collagen peptides and niacinamide. It's very hydrating so this would be really great for people with drier skin. Like the L'Oreal foundations this was easy to apply. This did settle in my wrinkles a tiny bit but the things that don't crack and make my wrinkles look bigger and make me look cakey, I really don't like. This is really beautiful and natural looking on the skin, it doesn't look like makeup sitting on your skin. It wore great on my combo skin, it wore really well in my t-zone, and didn't wear off on my nose through a full ten hour day of testing. This is a beautiful foundation that I really loved when I tried it and I think it's a really good one to try if you're more mature and looking for a great foundation."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

NARS Light Reflecting Advanced Skincare Foundation

"When I first put it on it looked so beautiful. It made my pores disappear. I was like oh golden, holy grail. By the end of the day I couldn't stand it. Definitely worth a try for some people, but I don't tend to reach for it even though it does look good at the beginning because I want something that's going to look good all day long. I don't want to think about it during the day."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Foundation

"When I first put it on it looked so so good and I was like wow it's really making my skin look beautiful, but then by the end of the day I just did not like this. I couldn't get more than like six hours of wear out of it, no matter what I did, no matter what products I put with it. I felt like it was really drying which drives my skin out and just really annoys and irritates me. So by the time I was done with the three days of testing on this, I literally like never wanted to see it again."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20

"This is very very sheer, all it is like a moisturizer. It's not disguising anything, it's not covering up any redness, it's not covering up any age spots. It balls and pills with my sunscreen or my skin care. The dryness and flakiness continues to be more and more apparent as the day wears on. I don't know why this is so drying but it is. At eight hours, I have skin flakes popping up all over my nose and under my nose and by the side of my nose, it's just like a skin flake nose fest. It's very worn off on my nose and on my cheeks. It's so dry feeling and so drying. I've just really not been happy with it at all today."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

KVD Good Apple Foundation

"I did a foundation friday on this. This was another viral crazy product and I liked it but I didn't love it. But there was one aspect that it was really great for and that was for your nose. It was really long-wearing on the whole face, but it was really long-wearing on my nose especially when wearing a mask. I felt like this was a little bit heavy to wear on my whole face all day and I didn't love it for my whole face. But when I had certain foundations that I know don't last on my nose, I'll just take a little bit of this and put it on the end of my nose and then I know that the redness of my nose is going to be covered all day."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Foundation

"I don't hate it, I don't love it though, and I'm so disappointed. I really wanted to love it. It's not going to replace any of my holy grails, and it's probably not going into my top five. The foundation looks beautiful and skin-like when I first apply it, and it's easy to apply with your fingers, brush, or sponge. I love the natural skin-like finish and the sheer to medium coverage. However, it gets shiny throughout the day and doesn't keep its nice satin matte finish, it's really finicky about what you put under and over it, and it can accentuate wrinkles depending on what I put underneath. The wear time is inconsistent, and it's fairly expensive at sixty-two dollars for an ounce. It's been kind of a rollercoaster ride with this one."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Estée Lauder Futurist Hydro Rescue Foundation

"Another foundation that they have there that I really love a lot is the Estée Lauder Futurist foundation. This one just missed holy grail. It's very smoothing though, but it did need a lot of other products kind of thrown at it to help it to wear long enough on my skin."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear Foundation

"I like this a lot, especially that it really smoothed my skin. In the sunshine test and the flash photo in a darkened room test, my skin looks so smooth and so perfected. I really was like wow I love it. However, I don't love the shade I bought it in. I think I need to go back and get a different shade. The other thing that I didn't love about it is that you kind of had to throw a lot of helpers at it to get it to work right, to get it to really last. In order to get it to last for 10 solid hours looking good, I had to add primer or setting spray or setting powder to it. So it just needed a lot of helpers."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

BK Beauty 101 Foundation Brush

"One of my all-time favorite BK Beauty brushes is the BK 101, a foundation brush. This is what I used today to put on my makeup."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Tarte Maracuja Tinted Moisturizer

"This is really beautiful as well. The finish on this is very similar to the Say. It's got a very dewy finish so for me I always have to powder it. It gives sheer to medium coverage and it never looks heavy or cakey on the skin. It always just looks so sheer and so natural. I just love it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Smashbox Halo Healthy Glow All-In-One Tinted Moisturizer

"I reviewed the Smashbox Halo Tinted Moisturizer in my trying all new makeup video and it was one of the hero products of that video. It goes on the skin really nicely just with your fingers, so if you don't like to fuss a lot with your makeup it's really easy to apply and it looks really nice. It gives pretty good coverage, actually more like a medium coverage, not your standard tinted moisturizer. But the greatest thing about it was that it didn't settle into any wrinkles all day long and it stayed put pretty well. The only place that it wore off was right on the end of my nose, but everywhere else it stayed in place really really well."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lip37 reviews

Prequel Lip Visor Sunscreen SPF 30

"Look at that pretty color."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Milani Keep It Full Plumping Gloss in Champagne

"I switched to the Milani Keep It Full Glossy Plumping Balm. It just feels so hydrating, the color is really nice."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Rav Beauty Lip Renewal Treatment Oil

"I put on some lip oil from Rav Beauty. Really nice lip oil."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

YSL Loveshine Plumping Lip Oil Gloss

"The YSL Love Shine lip glosses are in the sale as a two pack. I discovered this earlier in the year and I love this lip gloss. It's in my handbag, and it's so pretty."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

ColourPop Fresh Kiss Glossy Lip Balm

"The last makeup product is the ColourPop Fresh Kiss lip balm. It's so comfortable on the lips, they're so hydrating. If you're not a lipstick lip combo girly and you just like a plain balm that's easy to put on, these are so great. It just smells so good."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Supergoop Glow Gloss SPF 40 Lip Balm

"One other sunscreen product that I wanted to mention is lip sunscreen. Most of the SPF lip balms taste terrible, feel terrible, dry out your lips. So I tried this one from Supergoop and it is their Glow Gloss in pink peppermint and it's an SPF 40. It's got a peppermint scent to it. It doesn't really taste so much like anything. It's very neutral flavor-wise. It's not like sweet. It doesn't taste terrible like sunscreen. It's just like a little pink lip gloss. Very easy to apply, doesn't put a ton of color on the lips, but absolutely a beautiful product to protect your lips from the sun."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross DermInfusions Plump + Repair Lip Treatment

"The most effective lip plumper that I've tried is the Dr. Dennis Gross Plump and Repair Lip Treatment. It does give you a nice minty tingle that's not over the top. I bought this two years ago and this is what I put on like every time I'm just doing my makeup and I want to just moisturize, hydrate, and plump up my lips a little bit. I put this on and let them base while I do the rest of my makeup. They came out with them in colors. So, I picked this one up in shade beige. It's a very sheer shade, but it does offer a little bit of color to your lips."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Shaper

"The lip liner is the Too Faced Lip Injection. This is the Extreme Lip Shaper in Puffy Nude. So, this is a plumping lip liner. I don't know if it actually does, but it definitely gives that minty tingle, which I'm a fan of. I love me a good lip tingle over it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NYX Lip Lingerie Lip Liner Stain

"Was not impressed with this at all. I had trouble getting it on and it just definitely didn't last even for 5 hours. It's supposed to be a stain. It didn't stain."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

NYX Duck Plump Plumping Lip Liner

"I love this lip liner because this is a plumping lip liner from the drugstore. This is NYX Duck Plump Plumping Lip Liner in Pink Junction. And this is my favorite lip liner of the year. I love the shape of this lip liner. It's a rectangle, so it's wider in one way than it is the other. So it gives you the choice of doing a traditional lip liner or if you turn it the other way, you can fill in your lips really, really easily."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Legendary Serum Lipstick

"The shade is called Melanie and it is just a gorgeous coraly red. [...] I love it because it stays put. It's a red that doesn't run up into my lip lines whether I wear a lip liner with it or not. It is a gorgeous lipstick. This stains your lips and it really lasts. This is a very, very long lasting lipstick and one that I highly recommend."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

The Ordinary Squalane + Amino Acids Lip Balm

"I love the packaging. It is so adorable, and I thought it was going to be like the most hydrating, the most nourishing lip balm. Oh boy. It is just not. Sadly, there just wasn't much that I liked about this. Putting it on, it just goes on like so thick and weird on the lips. I just didn't enjoy it. I didn't feel like it gave me any kind of hydration. I felt like it actually dried out my lips by the time it was off. My lips were so dry and I was running for my regular lip hydrator."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer

"I love these Fenty lip glosses. It's like a really pretty coral color with a little bit of a rose gold like overlay. And it's so hydrating and keeps my lips so moist and so nice feeling. Absolutely love it. I've been wearing it every day since I got it. And it smells really, really good as well."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Dior Addict Lip Maximizer

"These lipsticks are pretty good. They're pretty expensive for what they are, though. There are other lipsticks that are just as nice. It doesn't really do anything to smooth my lips or plump my lips or any of the things that it says it's going to do. It's not the most longwearing either. It is fairly transferproof, which is nice."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Balm

"From Tarte, their Maracuja Juicy Lip Balm is in it. Those are great. They're so hydrating and so just moisturizing to the lips and they're really sheer and nice to wear."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Lip Silk SPF 40

"I love this is their new Lip Silk SPF 40 lip gloss. They sent it to me in two colors. So, it comes in more of like a hot poppy pink color and also a really nice nude. I have the nude on today. I think it's mineral. It doesn't taste like anything. It doesn't smell like anything and it gives you SPF coverage while also looking like a really pretty lip gloss in a great color."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Plump Ambition Hyaluronic Lip Oil

"I just didn't feel like it really stained my lips that much and it wasn't as longwearing and it wasn't as hydrating as I wanted it to be."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

ColourPop So Juicy Plumping Gloss Balm

"Of the two lippies, I definitely preferred the ColourPop lippy. It's nice and creamy and hydrating feeling. I like the tone down shade of this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Signature Lip Lightweight Lipstick

"You don't get a ton of color payout with this. It's not as opaque as regular lip liners. I am definitely on the fence on it."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Westman Atelier Baby Cheeks Lip and Cheek Cream Blush Stick in Petal

"The Westman Atelier blush sticks are the most beautiful blushes. You get two sticks in the package, they're minis, it's $35. I love these. They're so pretty. This is such a pretty blush, and it blends in so easily and so nicely. You can apply it with a brush or you can apply it with your fingers. Just very natural looking, very easy to work with. It gives you the most beautiful flush of color and it's got a little bit of sheen to it. So it really makes your cheeks pop."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NYX Duck Plump Plumping Gloss

"The duck plump lip gloss is also really nice. It is very thick and it's hard to get like a lightish coating of it on your lips, which is my only complaint about it, but I do like it and it did look pretty and the colors are very nice."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil

"This is my favorite of all the tinted lip oils that came out this year. A lot of them are just like too oily, too shiny, too everything, but this one is more like a gloss. The ones that are just an oil, I find when you put them on they're too shiny, they get up into my wrinkles really quickly, they don't stay where they're supposed to stay, the colors worn off in three and a half seconds. I really like the Summer Fridays one. I thought this one was the best of the bunch."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Merit Slick Tinted Lip Oil

"I like the lip oil felt like this was really nice this actually has a good amount of pigment in it. It's not sticky it doesn't feel like a lip gloss you know where like your hair is going to get stuck to it or anything. It just feels lightweight but it does deposit a nice amount of pigment."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick

"The non-Aquaphor side just looks so much better overall, less heavy, less cakey, less settled in wrinkles. So for me the Aquaphor lip balm experiment today was an epic fail. I don't like anything going on on this side of my face. I have combo skin so I am oily through the T-Zone but not super oily, just a little bit through the T-Zone. I have some dry patches around my mouth and my temples and the rest of my face is fairly normal. I tried the Aquaphor concealer hack three days in a row just wanting to make this work, but for me I could just never get it to work no matter what I tried. I don't love it by itself with my regular stuff. I don't love it with this. I just don't love the whole thing. My normal concealer setup is much, much better, looks nicer and smoother."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner in Deep Taupe

"For lip liner I've used Anastasia Beverly Hills Deep Taupe, this is one of my favorite lip liners. It's a holy grail for me. I've used it for what feels like decades and decades."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick in Taupe Beige

"Then for the lipstick I'm going to put on the Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick in Taupe Beige. This is my favorite lipstick right now. I love this, I love the color, I love how creamy it is, I love how lux the bullet is, it's really beautiful. But look at that color, it's so pretty. And it doesn't dry out your lips and it doesn't settle into your lip crinkles, it doesn't settle into your upper lip lines. The lipstick has a lovely sheen to it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream

"I use the Buxom Full-On Lip Cream in the shade Dolly, blending it together to make the center look a little bit more juicy."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Glowy Balm

"I bought this one during Prime Day last year so exactly a year ago I'm not even finished yet I haven't even hit the bottom yet. It's about two-thirds of the way used so I still have like another third of the year to go with that."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Lineage Lip Sleeping Mask

"I use every single night of my life and that is my Lineage Lip Sleeping Mask this is the best overnight lip moisturizer. I just butter up my lips with this at night and when I wake up in the morning it's still there. This really keeps my lips hydrated and feeling comfortable especially this time of year but I do use it all year round."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Rouge Gel Lip Liner in Sink or Suede

"The lip liner, while I do like the color and I like how it goes on, did make my lips dry by the five-hour check-in."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Pillow Talk

"I grabbed the Charlotte Tilbury lipstick balm hybrid in Pillow Talk, but I should have looked more carefully at the colors because I thought Pillow Talk was a nude but it's more of a raspberry color. Aside from that not being the color I wanted, when I went to apply this like a regular lipstick, oh my gosh it's so loose and not formed that it just smears all over the place and you end up with big chunks of color unevenly blended on your lips. When I complained to my friend about it, she told me you can't put it on like that—you have to basically tap it onto your lip. Maybe I'll try it that way, but in the meantime I haven't tried it because it's just not how I love to put on lipstick. If you don't like things that are super greasy and you can't just smear it right on your lips and have it come out right, then these are definitely not going to be for you, and I'm not sure it's for me either."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Saie Slip Tint Dewy Tinted Moisturizer

"One that is more of a skin tint is the Saie Slip Tint, this is just beautiful, I wear it whenever I want to feel perfect. It has a really luminous finish which is weird for me because I usually don't like a luminous finish since it makes me feel oily, but the luminosity with the Saie is so beautiful, it's blurring and reflects light in such a beautiful way. This is gorgeous, I love it."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask

"I always use the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask. I do so love that Lip Sleeping Mask. It [...] is about $25 for a pot."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Lancôme Lip Sleeping Mask Grapefruit

"I use this every night i just butter my lips up with it and in the morning my lips are not dry they still feel nice and moist and hydrated"

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Shiny Non-Sticky Lip Gloss

"This is really pretty, it's a really pretty nude. I thought I would really like this. I liked how it went on, the color is really like baby nude, very pretty lip gloss. It's supposed to be non-sticky lip gloss, so it's not supposed to have your hair stick to it, it's not supposed to stick together. Well, oh my gosh, I wore it in the I'm retiring from YouTube video, and by the end of the video I was talking and it had all these little strings connecting my upper lip to my lower lip, which is one of my pet peeves. When I saw it in the mirror finally after talking with the strings for ten minutes or so, I was like, ah, oh God. So this was definitely a fail. It was just so gross. I'm like, wait, you're supposed to be non-sticky lip gloss, and here you were making those like connective strings. So that was a fail. I did not love that."

✕Nay

Notverified

Tower 28 Beach Please Lip and Cheek Cream Blush

"The Tower 28 is going to be easier to use because it's not as pigmented. Just pick this up with your fingers, dab it around, blend it, and it gives you the most beautiful sheen, beautiful lip from within glow, very natural looking."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Lancôme Lip Glowy Balm

"I also love the glowy balm. I keep it in my handbag, I keep it up here in the office, so that when my lips are feeling a little dry, just pop on a little bit of this and my lips are nice and moisturized and ready to go."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Blush & Bronzer33 reviews

Laura Geller Serum Blush Cheek Tint

"The blush I'm wearing today, oh my gosh, this blush was love at very first use, the Laura Geller Serum Blush. It's got a little foamy tip applicator, so you twist it up and it's such a lightweight serum. It goes on so sheer, but yet it's so beautiful. It really gives you that lit from within glow. It's so easy to blend, it's not super pigmented, so you'll never end up wearing way too much and looking like a silly clown."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush

"The Too Faced Cloud Crush Blush in the shade Velvet Crush is really pretty. I'm going to say it is looking a little bit patchy right now. It's not really looking even. I can see that it's still in place, but it looks like it's worn off fairly unevenly. Was it blurring? Can't really say it was blurring, but it does have a nice finish that reflects some light, but isn't blingy or highlightery."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

NYX Buttermilk Blush

"Also from NYX, the Buttermilk Blush. This is so pretty. I'd say this is a dupe for Nars Orgasm because it's that same peachy color with the kind of gold overlay except the gold is a little more subtle in this than in the Nars. So, I kind of like this one better. And what's staying power? Like, 10 hours, usually my blush is going to be worn off. And this just looks terrific still. So, that's a really good one."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Milani Baked Bronzer in Amalfi Glow

"The Milani Baked Bronzer in Amalfi Glow. Very pretty bronzer. Really pretty color. I don't really like a bronzer that makes me look orange. And so, the shade on this Amalfi Glow was really perfect."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Liquid Blush

"The E.L.F. Camo Liquid Blush is a beautiful blush. It's very, very pigmented, so you got to be careful when applying it. You have to always apply to the back of your hand first and just pick up a little bit from there and then apply it to your skin. You don't want to ever go in right with the doe foot, but it looks gorgeous on the skin. [...] I would say that this is fairly similar to the Rare Beauty blushes."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

RMS Beauty ReDimension Hydra Bronzer

"The bronzer that I use most this year, which means that I loved it the most this year, is from RMS Beauty. It's their ReDimension Hydra Bronzer in the shade Tan Lines. It's just so beautiful. It's not too dark. It's not too cool. It's not too warm. This shade is just perfect for me. And it blends beautifully. I have this bronzer on this half of my face and I just put it on with a brush. [...] It just gives your face a little more dimension. [...] If you're looking for a really great bronzer that's really easy to blend, give the RMS bronzer a try."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

L'Oreal Lumi Liquid Blush

"The one I'm wearing today is the L'Oreal Lumi Blush, and it is just gorgeous. I love how it blends. I'm wearing that in the shade dewy bright pink. They're very, very pigmented, so you have to be careful when applying these. You have to always apply to the back of your hand first and just pick up a little bit from there and then apply it to your skin. You don't want to ever go in right with the doe foot, but they look gorgeous on the skin."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly Tint

"The biggest makeup fail was this little Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly Tint blush. It's like a jelly. The thing is that it stains whatever it touches exactly where it touches it. And there's no spreading it. There's no blending it. Let's say I put like just a little bit on the back of my hand here and then really quickly try to blend it out. There is no blending. It just dries so fast."

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

ColourPop Blush Sticks

"This is also beautiful. Much more pigmented than the Laura Geller. It's just more like a traditional stick. Easy to blend, really nice blush"

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour

"One last thing in makeup is the Rare Beauty Liquid Contour. I have tried a lot of different contours, bronzers. This one has got me right now. I just love it. I love the shades that this comes in. And this shade is perfect. So many of them are so warm that they kind of look orange or they're so cool that they look gray. And this one is just the perfect shade. This shade is called Mellow. And it's not too dark, not too light. What I love about this is how easy it blends. You can't make a mistake with this. It's not like most things where you can put on too much and then you're like, "Oh, where am I blending this to?" This just blends out so beautifully and it looks so great on the skin and it's very subtle. So you can do your contouring but it doesn't look like you're contoured. You don't want to have these muddy looking, dirty looking stripes all over your face to do your contouring. You just want it to look natural. And this is such a beautiful product for that. Absolutely love it."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

L'Oreal Lumi Le Glass Highlighter Stick

"L'Oreal Lumi is 32% off and it is a really pretty highlighter. I wear it in shade 902 light glow for a quick highlighter on the cheeks. It gives you that lit from within glow and makes the fronts of your cheeks pop and look juicy and full. It is one of my favorite drugstore highlighters."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Physicians Formula Mineral Wear Diamond Bronzer

"The Physicians Formula Mineral Wear Diamond Bronzer is a cream to powder bronzer. When you pick it up it's very creamy, it feels almost oily. I love the shade in this because it's not too dark, it's not too warm. And then because it is so creamy it's very hydrating, but it just blends out so beautifully. It just blends like a dream. This is going to make your skin feel nice and hydrated but it's not going to look greasy on the surface. It doesn't have a super matte finish; it's got just the slightest bit of light reflectiveness to it but not too much, so it is gorgeous on the skin. Absolutely love it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 24 Fresh Wear Bronzer

"The L'Oreal Infallible bronzer is a standard issue powder bronzer. This is great for makeup minimalists. You can use it as your bronzer, you can use it as your contour, you can even use it as eyeshadow. I love the shade that this comes in because it's not too warm. They do have a really big shade range."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Flush Balm Cheek Color in Beverly Hills

"The color is really really nice, it's just kind of a nice natural flush of pink. Blends beautifully either way, fingers or brush. So pretty. These products definitely all have a glow to them, they make your skin look luminous and lit from within, makes it look very youthful. And because they are so luminous, I feel like you don't even need highlighter."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Daylow Highlighting Balm

"I'm just going to pop it here at the tops of my cheekbones. I don't really feel like I need it anywhere else because I feel like everything is so glowy and is so dewy."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Milani Cheek Kiss Cream Blush in Nude Kiss

"I just bought this last week. I love this, this is amazing. It's so easy to apply, not overly pigmented, really really good stuff."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Contour Wand

"E.l.f Halo Beauty wand contour for my bronzing nose"

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Jones Road Miracle Balm

"I like the Miracle Balm simply as a highlighter. Using this as that I think it's fine, but of the highlighters that I own it's never going to be the first highlighter that I reach for. There are highlighters that I like much much better than this because they actually dry down and they look better on my skin. This also is very heavily fragranced and I don't really like things with a strong fragrance."

~Mixed

59%Guru Score

Dior Forever Bronzing Powder

"This is from Dior, this has a really beautiful smoothing effect to it. It's expensive, there's other ones you can get, but this one is really quite beautiful. I'm going to apply it with the same brush, I just lightly dust it off any excess makeup, so I'm going to tap this along top of the hairline and we're just going to do a little bit along the side of the cheeks, a tiny bit on the bottom of the nose, very small amounts. I don't want this to look heavy on your skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Laura Geller Baked Blush-n-Brighten

"It's a pretty color it seems like it's maybe a little bit dark for me a little bit Ruddy I feel like I went a little too heavy-handed with the blush"

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

e.l.f. Putty Bronzer

"Another one of my favorite bronzers this year is the e.l.f Putty Bronzer. [...] It's much smaller than the other one, but it does the same job, blends beautifully, and looks great on the skin."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Highlighter Beauty Wand

"I got the elf Halo Glow Beauty Wand in Candlelit. This is going to be like a blush and a highlighter in one and I love blush highlighter combo products because they save some money, you don't have to buy two. It's a really pretty color."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Blush

"I wanted to revisit this milk blush this I thought was so pretty but people said that you know it didn't even show up in the previous video that I used it in so I wanted to give it a try again today see if we can get more color. Yeah I guess it doesn't have a ton of color in it. Very subtle blush. It's very heavy and greasy feeling. Not enough color in this."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Essence Pure Nude Highlighter

"The Essence Pure Nude Highlighter is hands down my drugstore favorite highlighter of all time. Great one to try if you're looking for a very subtle highlight. It just makes your cheeks pop a little bit without looking icy or like an obvious highlight."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

BK Beauty 112 Blush Brush

"BK Beauty launched an extension to their original brush line with new Precision brushes, including five face brushes and four eyeshadow brushes. My favorite is the 112 brush, which is a small angled brush and a mini version of my A507 blush brush. While the A507 is perfect for doing your blush and getting that nice big rosy cheek, the 112 is perfect for doing your contour or your highlighting. I used it for contour today and I could really just place my bronzer right there at the bottom of my cheekbone where I want it, and I'm not using a big fluffy brush so it's not going all over the place. I can just really carve out that cheekbone and put a little bit on the saggy gel leaves and do a little nose contouring. It just keeps your bronzer very tight and very close to where you want it so you don't end up with bronzer all over the place. I really love that one."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer

"It came in two different shades, the other shade was much more orangey, this one was a little bit cooler. I don't like the smell of it. So this is a pretty warm shade. I'm not loving this shade, I like the color on the original Butter Bronzer a lot better than this."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Merit Bronze Balm Sheer Bronzer Stick

"The Merit is a stick bronzer and this one I wear in the color clay. I actually thought I was running out of this and I was going to need another one, but no. This is actually huge and will last forever. This is a really nice bronzer. You just scribble it around and then blend it in. It's very natural looking, easy to work with."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Blush

"That blush has probably the longest lasting staying power. For nine hours, this actually looks pretty good."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Omnilux Contour Face and Neck Chest Mask

"I think it's doing about the same job as my Omnilux mask. The Omnilux with my discount code comes in a little bit cheaper. And then the other red light mask that I use is my Omnilux neck and chest bib."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

BK Beauty A507 Angled Blush Brush

"Bust out one of my favorite Angie brushes, see A507. If you don't have this brush you were really missing out on an easy way to apply a lot of cream products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Blush

"I'm going to use my Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Blush. This is such a beautiful blush, so easy to apply. You'd think that because it's so hot bubblegum pink in here that it would look really too much on the skin, but it doesn't. It really just goes on so perfectly. It does have the slightest bit of a sheen to it, so you don't 100% have to use a highlighter with it."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Saie Sun Melt Natural Cream Bronzer

"Bronzer and I love this shade it's not"

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

NARS Orgasm Blush

"I did have a rekindling of a love affair with an old favorite this year. That's the NARS Blush in Orgasm. I love it. I use this all the time. I find that powder blush, when you're in a hurry, it's so much easier than cream blush. Cream blush, you like have to concentrate on what you're doing to make it blend out right. Powder blush, it's like you go and you are out the door. So I did have a little rekindling of my love for this, and I've been using this quite a lot lately."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Other32 reviews

RevitaLash RevitaBrow

"My favorite brow growth serum, RevitaBrow, is also in the sale this year as a buy-one-get-one, a two-pack for $100, normally $200. This stuff is expensive, but it works so so well. I've been using it for years and don't think I'll ever be without it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

About Face Matte Fluid Eye Paints

"I really like these eyeshadows. They're easy to work with. They make my eyelids actually look better than they are. They haven't made them look really dry or crusty throughout the day. It hasn't creased. It hasn't moved around. It hasn't really faded. I can still see both shades on there."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX Temporary Eye Tightener

"I used it on her 11s and on her forehead wrinkles. Bamp gone. She has a scar on her eyebrow, both eyebrows that really bug her. She has under eye wrinkles and a little bit of an eye bag under both eyes. Used it on both those things. Instantly looked so much better. So, this really works. I've got it on my neck today because I always feel like my neck is looking really crepey and really crinkly, especially when I look down like this. Like, there they are. But compared to what my neck normally looks like without this on, that is a far improvement. The reason I didn't put it with makeup is because it doesn't work well with makeup. Like you put makeup on over it and it reduces the effect by about 50%. You might need to play with it a little bit, but once you get the hang of it, it can really look great."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Lumi Glotion

"The L'Oreal Lumi Glotion is in it as well. This is a really nice highlighter. One of my favorites for a long time."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity Pro

"This is the Nero Pro Plus. This is their newest model, and it is awesome. I love it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Shark Beauty FlexStyle

"If you are into the Dyson [...] knockoff, the Shark FlexStyle is 28% off. I reviewed that one and I did not love it, but I know a lot of people love it."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Merit Minimalist Perfecting Complexion Stick

"The stick foundation of the year for this year is the Merit Foundation stick. This is fantastic. I love this. It's just so easy to use. I use this a lot over the summer like if I was traveling and taking my travel brush set I could just take this throw it in here with like a mascara and a couple other things zip it up and be good to go. The finish on this is going to be more similar to a soft glam, it gives this soft satin finish and I love that about it. I had a bridal shower to go to when I was leaving Cape Cod after a couple of days on the beach and this is what I had packed and I used this for my foundation for the shower and when I look at the pictures I'm like you can't tell that I'm wearing a stick foundation. I don't know, for me I think of stick foundations as you use it in a pinch or you use it when you're traveling, it's not like your main foundation, but this is so pretty it could be your main foundation especially if you like the ease of a stick. You basically just scribble it around your face."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary Argireline Solution 10%

"I'm using it on my leavens and around my crow's feet. The instructions on this are to use it twice a day. I've only been using it once a day so I think I'm going to bump it up to twice a day. I'm going to use it morning and evening with my serums. I am going to continue with this and we'll see if it does help my Botox last a little bit longer and maybe soften some of my wrinkles like my crow's feet and my leavens."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever Aqua Resist Pencil in Ebony

"This is the shade ebony from Makeup Forever it's the aqua resist pencils these are amazing they're very long wearing"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Color Fix Nudes Waterproof Matte Liquid Pigment

"I love using this just as almost like a tinted moisturizer just to color correct even out my skin tone get rid of the redness on my nose. I love this for spot concealing around my face this is waterproof and so it will cover whatever you need to cover then you can put makeup on top of it and it'll last all day as an eye shadow it is waterproof and so it will stay in place all day this doesn't settle in my crease I just take a tiny bit of it onto the back of my hand pat it on the movable part of my lid and then bring it up into the crease and a little bit above the crease it evens out the skin tone of my eyelids because my eyelids have some veins some discolorations on them and so it just makes my lids look better than they are I love the shade Nude 3 on me but this comes in so many colors it comes in mattes it comes in shimmers"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter

"The e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter is a really great product. This is awesome, this is a dupe for a much much more expensive highlighter and I love this highlighter. I wear it anytime that I want my cheeks to really pop. It doesn't have any glitter in it. It gives your skin like a glow from within and it's so pretty. If you just put a little bit like on the fronts of your cheeks and up here on your cheekbones it just makes your skin come alive. It just makes your cheeks look really plump and juicy. I wear this in shade two."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Trinny London Miracle Blur

"I have tried things like this in the past and they don't tend to stay with me because they just don't sit right on my skin. For most of the time, while they may decrease the look of my pores or my wrinkles for a bit, they don't keep everything invisible for the whole day."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

NYX Epic Wear Liner Stick

"I'm going to use the NYX Epic Wear Liner Stick in Gunmetal. I'm just going to tight line my upper waterline. I just bring this all the way in at the inner corner."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection

"I love the Colorescience Flex sunscreen, I love the Total Eye care sunscreen, and their powder sunscreen is excellent too."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Revlon One Step Volumizer

"The Revlon One-Step is the inexpensive OG version of the hot air brush. I tried it and didn't love it, I ended up giving mine away, but the people I gave them to absolutely love them and use them all the time, and for people with frizzier hair it really helps control their frizz."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Color Wow Root Cover Up

"I know so many of you guys love this product and I don't get it. It has never worked for me. I tried it years ago, but so many people tell me that they love it that I was like I gotta try it again, maybe it was user error, maybe I did something wrong. The powder falls out of my hair and it ends up on my forehead and I forget that it's going to do that, go about my day, and then someone inevitably is like you have dirt on your forehead. I go in the bathroom to look at it and it's this. It has come somehow sprinkling out of my hair, even though I use the brush to rub it in, make sure it's in there good, and then rub it in with my fingers. It's still, it just doesn't stay put on me. Plus I find that it fades away over a couple of days, whereas with the sprays they really stay in there like they stay in until you wash it out."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Retin-A Micro

"I've been using Retin-A for 10 years now. When I first started, I didn't put it around my mouth or around the sides of my nose, but after acclimating to it really slowly over the course of a year, I did start putting it under my eyes, by the sides of my nose, around my mouth, and I haven't had a problem with it. It really takes nine months to a year before you start seeing any major anti-aging differences using Retin-A. The most important anti-aging skincare that we have is Retin-A, and it's the one that is proven to work with like 40 years of research that shows that it works so well for reducing wrinkles, for firming up your skin, for reducing discolorations, and for building new collagen in your skin."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Hero Cosmetics Mighty Patch Original

"These are Hero Mighty Patch pimple patches. Basically what they are is just sheets of little stickers. You peel off one of these tiny little stickers and place it on your pimple. You wear it there for eight hours. I slept in it and the next day I woke up, peeled the thing off, and that sucker was gone. I'm like where were you when I was 20, 30, 35, 40? Well, at least they have them now. So if you do have the occasional pimple, these things are amazing."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Redken Acidic Bond Repair Concentrate

"This is the Redken Acidic Bonding Concentrate. It's got 14% citric acid, sort of a wash-out intense conditioning thing that is supposed to sleekify and de-frizz your hair. It comes with a whole system of shampoo and conditioner, but this guy alone was $30 and then the shampoo and conditioner were each another $30, so it's like $90 for the whole outlay which I didn't want to do. So I thought I'd just try it by itself. It actually worked. It did make my hair less frizzy, but it only lasted for like a day. The way you use this is you first wet your hair, then you put it on, then you leave it on for 10 minutes, then you wash your hair after. So it just added this extra time where you had to get in the shower, wet your hair, then either stand in the shower for a full 10 minutes with this on there, which is a lot of wasted water and a lot of standing around shivering for me. So I didn't like that. I wet my hair in the sink instead, but I didn't enjoy how you use it. It did seem to work though, so I didn't mind it. But if you have super frizzy hair and you're looking to fight that, this line could be something you might want to give a try."

~Mixed

59%Guru Score

Wet n Wild Bare Focus Tinted Hydrator

"This goes on really nicely with both the fingers and the brush. The coverage is medium. This is probably the least natural looking of the products that I have to show you here today. It definitely gives the fullest coverage and definitely looks the most like makeup sitting on the surface of the skin. I wouldn't consider the finish on this to be a semi matte either - on me it seemed to be a little bit more like a satin to a luminous finish. I did feel like it accentuated all my pores, all of my texture. When I added the setting powder I felt like it made this look heavier, the bottom portion of my face was really like dry looking and it was making it look older because of the settling in the wrinkles. It did settle in my wrinkles pretty quickly and it also had skipped over some of my wrinkles on my chin - those wrinkles were accentuated, my texture was accentuated. At the 4-hour check-in the powdery dry look had worn off on my lower face. At the 8-hour check-in it looked fine from a distance, it was mainly still in place, and this is definitely a long-wearing tinted moisturizer. But it's making my lip wrinkles look bigger, all my little wrinkles down here look worse, settled in my wrinkles on my forehead. I can see why people do love this, it's definitely the most coverage and probably one of the longer wearing ones, but because it did settle in my wrinkles and it did look a little drier with the setting powder, it's not ideal for mature skin."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Grande Cosmetics GrandeLASH-MD

"I finished up a tube of Grande Lash. This was sent in PR from Amazon, so I thought I'd give it a try. This does have a prostaglandin analog in it, but I gotta say this didn't work for me as well as my RevitaLash does. I've probably been using this for about six months, that's how long it takes to go through one of these. I use it on my brows and my lashes. It did really well on my brows. My brows seem to be holding in more, but they didn't lose any ground. But I feel like using this for the last six months, my lashes are so stumpy now and I'm kind of bummed about it, so I'm back to using my RevitaLash."

✕Nay

47%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever Aqua Resist Color Pencil

"The Makeup Forever Aqua Resist Liners are really great eyeliners. I have this one in bronze and iron, which are gorgeous colors. They look so beautiful and they last in the waterline until you take it off. Those are awesome."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

FOREO BEAR

"The bear is really good. I really have been enjoying it lately when I've been pressed for time. It's a good product. The cycle is three minutes and it doesn't have a beeping. It's less of a controlled slow glide than more just kind of rub it around your face, so you get a really nice massage with this. It also has sonic vibration."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve

"I've been using the Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve at night for years. I love that."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Dior Forever Skin Perfect

"The original Dior Forever Matte Foundation was my absolute holy grail. In my humble opinion, it was the absolute best foundation on more mature, less than perfect skin. It lasted a solid 10 hours. It was sweat proof. It was hot flash proof. It didn't settle into wrinkles. It didn't accentuate enlarged pores. It was just everything that I wanted in a foundation all in one little bottle."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Orb Dry Texturizing Spray

"I love this this is my favorite like Hairspray"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Color Fix Liquid Pigment

"I found a couple of really beautiful cream eyeshadows this year, the one that I'm most excited about is the one from Danessa Myricks. I talked to you guys about this one a lot this year. I used it so much in so many tutorials. This is just a fantastic product. It's the Color Fix eye, lip, cheek colors and you can use these on all those places. So they come in so many colors. It comes in like 10 or 15 different matte shades, there are shimmer shades. The first one I bought was in the shade Nude 3 and it is so beautiful. It's just the perfect color that goes with my skin tone, and that's the thing about these is you can find a shade that'll go with your skin tone. You can use this as an eyelid primer or you can use it as primer and shadow combined because these are waterproof and once you put it in place on your eyelid it is not going anywhere. And it's so smoothing. Like I put it on my eyelids and it just smooths everything out so beautifully and I love this so much. I bought this shimmer called Ballerina that is also beautiful, and just using these two, Nude 3 and Ballerina, that could be a quick and easy eyeshadow look. It's just so pretty and it goes so well with Nude 3."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

ZIIP Halo 2.0

"They did send me the ZIIP Halo. I know everyone's like, oh, is the ZIIP Halo better? It's the same. The difference between the original ZIIP and the ZIIP Halo is that with the original ZIIP you had to download the app in order to use it. With the ZIIP Halo you don't need the app to use it, it has a little light ring around it that tells you when you're making good contact with your skin, but other than that it's the exact same. They didn't increase the strength, they didn't redesign it at all."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

Agency Custom Dark Spot Formula

"When you put the Future Formula with the Dark Spot Formula, you're getting eight ingredients that are hand-picked by your provider just for your skin to tackle all your skin care concerns so they can help with your dark spots, with your wrinkles, with your brightness, with your firmness. It really is like a turnkey one-stop shopping for all your anti-aging skin care needs."

✓Yay

Notverified

Agency Dark Spot Formula with Hydroquinone

"If you have stubborn dark spots that aren't helped by tretinoin, you can also add on the dark spot formula which contains hydroquinone. Hydroquinone is the prescription ingredient that is the best studied for reducing dark spots, and the combination of them together has been shown to really budge the dark spots on your skin."

✓Yay

Notverified

Oral-B Round Electric Toothbrush

"I bought this toothbrush in the July Prime Days and I can't even tell you how much I love this guy, how excited I am about it. The first time I used it, I felt like my teeth hadn't been brushed in like five years and then suddenly I went to the dentist, and it felt like a dentist clean with this toothbrush. This is normally $99, so it's going to be discounted way lower than that. It comes with a travel case, some extra heads. It takes up very little room on your counter. I had a Sonicare toothbrush before, the older model, and this one doesn't get as cruddy as the older model did, which is something I hated about it. This one is so much neater to use. It doesn't get all messy like the old one."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

e.l.f. Total Face Sponge Duo

"I picked up this ELF sponge a couple of weeks ago and I love this guy. You just wet it, it gets nice and big and puffy, and it's so great for putting on your makeup but keeping it nice and sheer and skin-like looking."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Serums32 reviews

Geek & Gorgeous Power Peptides Pro Collagen Multi Peptide Serum

"This one from Geek and Gorgeous is a really good one. This is their power peptides. This contains four different peptides. It's got 3% Matrixel 3000. It's got 2% Matrixel Synth 6. Then it's also got a peptide in there that I hadn't heard of before, but it's called Tego Pep 417. They use 4% and then they also have an encapsulated copper peptide in there as well. I know copper peptides are big. I don't use a copper peptide because I tried one for a while and it didn't seem to do anything, but anyway this does have those four different peptides in it and it's a really nice serum."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Neck Contouring Serum

"I am very sad about this one because it's from one of my favorite brands, and it is from Dermatology. This is their neck contour serum. It's supposed to visibly lift, tighten, and firm the neck. This has this roller applicator. I put this on my neck. It didn't do anything. There was no difference. Within like 5 minutes, my neck just felt so dry. So, didn't love that."

✕Nay

Notverified

COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"The COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum, that's a really nice serum."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Needleless Growth Factor Serum

"My favorite skin care item from Dermatology is the Needleless Growth Factor Serum. It's a really nice peptide serum."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Timeless Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum

"I love their Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

COSRX 23% Ascorbic Acid Pure Vitamin C Serum

"If you're looking for just a straight ascorbic acid based vitamin C serum, the one from COSRX is pretty good. It's 23% that's going to be marked down."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Gel Oil

"It's their Skin Renewing Gel Oil. And I used to love this product. I stopped buying it the last couple years, but it's so good for like skin slugging, you guys. You know, winter's coming and if you're going to be slugging your skin, which is putting on a really heavy occlusive layer of something at night to keep all the hydration in, this is a really great product to do that with and it's going to be on sale."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous C-Glow 15% Vitamin C Serum

"Geek and Gorgeous makes a really great vitamin C serum, and it is 20% off this week on Amazon."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

KRX Six Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"I'm using this KrX Six Peptide Skin Booster and this contains six different peptides, it's got a copper peptide, it's got Argireline, it's got Matrixyl. It's a really nice serum but the consistency of it is more like a toner, so I just put it on like a toner to rewet my skin. I put it all over my face, my eyelids, my neck, my chest, and the backs of my hands. Some of these ingredients can be irritating to the skin, so you should really ease in with them slowly. You shouldn't start slapping them on in large quantities every day. The research shows that skin will generally acclimate as long as you introduce things slowly enough so that it has time to adjust."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

SkinMedica TNS Essential Serum

"I did try SkinMedica TNS years ago in 2017. I did a two-month trial on it and I used it once a day for 2 months. I took before and after pictures and there was no difference in my skin from the before to the after after 2 months. I wasn't willing to plunk down another $295 for another bottle of it. Plus, can I tell you the stuff stinks? It smells like death and putting that on my face every day I was like no thank you. Plus it didn't do anything for the price that they're asking for."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum

"This was just not great for me. I don't enjoy using it. It did give me a little bit of the tingles on my neck and I didn't love that about it. I don't think it looked worse, I just don't think it looked any better after using, you know, two-thirds of a bottle and using it for six months. I'm not saying it's a bad product, I'm not saying that it can't be showing results for you. You may have used it and have great results. On me, I just thought it was just okay."

✕Nay

89%Guru Score

Poems from the Lab Future Focus Vitamin C Serum

"The Poems from the Lab, because of the way it's packaged, it's really a clever package and it really keeps it stable inside the tube. After 7 months, it still isn't turning yellow at all, it's really crystal clear. That one is much more expensive, $80 price point, $89 something like that, but it should stay clear and effective for at least eight months in the tube, so that one is only $10 a month to use it if it will stay clear for 8 months."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Prequel Lucent-C Brightening Vitamin C Serum

"The first one is from Prequel and this is a 15% ascorbic acid vitamin C serum. This is really nice and lightweight. The price point is pretty comparable to the Timeless. The main difference is that the Prequel is a 15% vitamin C and the Timeless is 20% vitamin C but they're both formulated at the right pH and they're very, very nice products, very lightweight and watery."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"This is a more lightweight night cream than my usual night cream it's got peptides niacinamide glycerin hyaluronic acid"

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Maelove Hydrator Serum

"The Maelove Hydrator contains vitamin B5, panthenol, and also resveratrol. It's a very lightweight serum, it's very nice. I use five or six drops of this for my face, my neck, backs of hands, and my chest."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maelove Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum

"I'm not 100% convinced that copper peptides are something that I need in my skincare routine. I feel like they're very unproven. I looked at all the research on using copper peptides topically and it's very sparse, very sparse. So [...] if you want to try it, fine, but I wouldn't spend a ton of money on it. I would go with something like the Maelove Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum, which is a really good formulation because it's got four peptides in there, so even if the copper peptide isn't necessarily doing something, maybe one of the other peptides will be."

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Hyaluronic Acid Serum

"I used up one bottle of it. I didn't get any more and I'm currently not using copper peptides in my skincare routine. I don't have anything against copper peptides, I'm just not 100% convinced that the research is there, that the evidence is there, showing me that it's more worth it to use than anything else that I already use."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Naturium Multi-Peptide Advanced Serum

"It's an encapsulated copper peptide so it is also supposed to be stable and is also clear and has no use restrictions. It's [...] clear there are no use restrictions and you can use it anywhere if you wanted to try a copper peptide but you don't want to deal with the blue color or the potential for interactions with other things, I would say that something like the [...] Naturium would be a good way to go."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Cocokind Ceramide Barrier Serum

"This is their Ceramide Barrier Serum and this is so lightweight. If you're in a heat wave and you just don't even want to put on moisturizer but you still want to get your ceramides, your hyaluronic acid, your glycerin, your niacinamide in, this is packed with all those things. I think this has like five ceramides in it. It just feels really fantastic. If you kept it in your mini fridge or in your fridge and then put it on, it would be so nice and cooling for these hot summer days."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Vichy LiftActiv Vitamin C Brightening Skin Corrector Serum

"I did find one at the drugstore that is formulated at the right pH, and that is the Vichy Liftactiv Vitamin C Serum. However, as you can see, this is already brown, it has oxidized a bit already, probably because it's been sitting on the shelf in that CVS for a long time. So is this my top choice? Absolutely not."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Olay Super Serum

"This little Super Serum contains niacinamide, vitamin C, collagen peptide, vitamin E, and lactic acid. For me, the vitamin C in here is kind of a waste because they used a vitamin C ester instead of ascorbic acid, even though it is at a lower pH where ascorbic acid would be possible. But for me, the lactic acid is definitely the hero ingredient in here. If it's 5%, then it could be within the effective range and could be a nice starter lactic acid."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 C Glow Serum

"This has 15% ascorbic acid and contains vitamin E and ferulic acid. It comes in at the perfect pH and is cruelty-free, vegan, fragrance-free, essential oil-free, and gluten-free. This is a really good product for those in Europe who have trouble finding a really good vitamin C product. It retails for 12 pounds 50 for 30 ml."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 5%

"You could bring in something like The Ordinary's Lactic Acid, and this is my preferred alpha hydroxy acid because I like to be able to use it every day. I like to keep my skin in a constant state of mild exfoliation, not like super harsh exfoliation, and this is really mild. This comes in a five percent or a ten percent version. You can start with the five percent then bump up to the ten percent after a while. I use this in the morning."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Maelove Glow Maker Vitamin C Serum

"My second favorite is Maëlove The Glow Maker at one ounce for $29.95. It's oil free, gluten free, fragrance free, cruelty free, and vegan, and they also offer free shipping both ways and a 100 percent money back guarantee if you don't like it. Maëlove is a really great company I've been working with them for years and I love their products and formulations. This one contains 15 percent ascorbic acid, so if the 20 percent of the Timeless is just a little bit too much for you, you could drop down to 15 percent like this one. It also contains vitamin E and ferulic acid and it's formulated at the correct pH. It contains grape seed extract, aloe juice, hyaluronic acid, and citrus extract. This is a slightly thicker formula than the Timeless, a little bit less watery, but it absorbs really quickly. It's slightly less of a dewy finish than the Timeless and gives you more of a satin matte kind of finish. It's really beautiful on the skin and I love this one too."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary Vitamin C 23% Suspension

"This is The Ordinary's Vitamin C Suspension 23 percent plus HA Spheres 2 percent at $7 for one ounce. It's fragrance free, cruelty free, vegan, and silicone free. The ascorbic acid is suspended in squalane, which is a dry oil, and it has thickeners to keep the oil evenly suspended. It's a pretty sophisticated formula and contains hyaluronic acid. This is more like a thicker white lotion that feels dry and gives a matte finish on the skin. I didn't find any white crystals on my skin with this so I hope that much more of it was dissolved, and with 23 percent that gives you a chance of getting an effective level even if some doesn't dissolve. But I didn't love this one. The rubbing on this one I felt like it was very gritty and very scratchy. It kind of burned and irritated and stung a lot when I used it, so I haven't really continued to use this one. It's not my favorite."

✕Nay

51%Guru Score

Mad Hippie Vitamin C Serum

"The other Vitamin C Serum that I love is MAD Hippie, the glow maker. I love these both so much. I kind of use them interchangeably. You could choose one or the other. They're about the same price point."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Paula's Choice 10% Niacinamide Booster with 2% Mandelic Acid and Lactic Acid

"There are some dedicated niacinamide serums that you can buy if you just want to add in that ingredient to your skin care. Paula's Choice makes a niacinamide booster. I would not go for the ten or twenty percent boosters, I would go for something around five percent. Studies have shown that anything above five percent can actually be irritating to the skin."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Timeless Coenzyme Q10 Serum

"Timeless Skincare is now available at Nordstrom, and they have the CoQ10 serum that I love so much."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

"Then my other longtime favorite is from Timeless. Theirs is 20% ascorbic acid and it contains the ferulic acid, the vitamin E, and hyaluronic acid. And this is generally around $26.95."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid

"And two of my favorite lactic acid products are Angie's Active All-In Vitamin C plus Lactic Loaded Serum for beautifully aging skin and the Ordinary lactic acid 10% plus HA."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Timeless 10% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

"The other thing that they came out with this year is the same vitamin C serum but in a 10% strength, because a lot of people can't use the 20%, it's just a little bit too strong. This is all the same great helper ingredients and the same formula as the 20%."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel with Hyaluronic Acid

"Face washing, I used up two of my Neutrogena Hydro Boost. These are the sensitive skin fragrance-free version. This is such a mild, gentle cleanser. You know, I really don't recommend using anything harsh on your skin. I don't use wipes. I don't use a foaming cleanser. I love these because they never irritate my skin. They never dry my skin. They never strip my skin. They are the second step in my double-step cleanse, so they pretty much get off the residue or the last of anything that's left on my skin after I do my first oil-based cleanse. So, those are great. Have repurchased."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Powder & Setting24 reviews

Tarte Creaseless Brightening and Setting Powder

"Another one that I really like is the Tarte Creaseless Powder. This one comes in shades as well. And this one comes in shades from like pink and banana and translucent to really really dark. So if you have really dark complexion, they have a setting powder that you can use that won't look white on your skin or give you flashback in photos. I'm wearing this one today and this is the pink version."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Blur It Loose Setting Powder

"I also really like their setting powder. This is a new one that they came out with last year. It's called Blur It. And this is a really good setting powder. It comes in different shades. And I have it in the shade brightening pink. There's like a clear translucent. There's more of like a banana powder. There are some that are more tan and a little bit darker. It's very fine, very soft, and it works really well to blur and mattify the skin."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Too Faced Born This Way Soft Blur Flexible Finish Setting Powder

"Another face product that I love is this finishing powder from Too Faced. This is their Born This Way Soft Blur Flexible Finish Setting Powder and I have it in the shade medium. I just bought a new one of these because I had a hit pan and used up my old one. This is just a great little tinted powder and I just dust it on over any shiny sunscreen and it just takes down the shine, mattifies."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

NYX Wonder Snatch Lifting Setting Powder

"The NYX Wonder Snatch Lifting Setting Powder is a very nice setting powder. I really enjoyed it. I felt like it really mattified under my eyes. It really helped to disguise my pores and texture and it kept everything hidden for most of the day. It's not a super flat matte, so it doesn't make your makeup look cakey. It doesn't look drying on the skin."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NYX Mineral Matte Finishing Powder

"I used the wrong setting powder. The NYX Mineral Matte really didn't play with it very well."

✕Nay

87%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Blur Perfection Powder 20 Translucent Light

"I got to say, I kind of like the look of this one better. It's a little more brightening because it's more of a translucent powder, but it's definitely giving me a little bit of luminosity."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Maybelline Fit Me Loose Finishing Powder

"This is a new one to me, but I've been actually really enjoying it and using it a lot. It's the Maybelline Fit Me Loose Finishing Powder."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

About Face Curtain Call Set and Smooth Loose Powder

"This powder has one of those nets which I really like because then I don't have to dump it into the cap and make a big mess. A good setting powder will blur, and it looks like this is doing that. The eye definitely looks much more puffy on one side than the other after using this. It works like a charm. It isn't a flat matte powder. It still has a little bit of luminosity to it, so it's not completely making everything disappear and blurring, but it is blurring it out pretty decently. The makeup looks great for nine and a half hours and the powder definitely keeps everything looking good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Hydra Setting Powder

"With the Hydra Setting Powder everything is still looking really nice, really mattified, pores aren't extra enlarged, and it seems to be keeping the concealer from settling [...] better than the tinted powder. It looks pretty dang good even after four hours with eating and drinking throughout the day."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

NYX Face Glue Gripping Primer

"I just thought this was adorable little Elmer's Glue kind of looking thing. It is a primer that is supposed to grip your makeup and make it last longer and sadly what I found was putting the makeup on over this it made it look worse and it made it last less long so this was kind of an epic fail for me."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Setting Powder in Banana Bread

"The first one is from Huda Beauty, this is their Easy Bake setting powder and I have it in the shade Banana Bread. One of the things that I like most about this setting powder is that it does come in shades. So often times a white setting powder if you use it and then you go to like say a party and someone takes your picture with a flash it'll give white flashback and look terrible. So a setting powder with a little bit of color in it pretty much solves that problem. The shade of this is really nice and it's a really nice mattifying powder. It's going to help to like blur your pores and mattify your under eyes. I don't 100% love that it is very fragrant where I'm putting it like under my eyes and you know on my upper lip then I can smell it."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Smashbox Photo Finish Smooth and Blur Primer

"It is a great primer for when you're going to be taking a lot of photos or in video so it's the Smashbox it's the original Photo Finish Smooth and Blur Primer"

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Rare Beauty It's Always an Optimist Weightless Eye Primer

"The one that I'm loving for that lately is the Rare Beauty It's Always an Optimist Weightless Eye Primer. This is a great primer, it's kind of a cream color so it will start to color correct your eyelids, but it's very lightweight. It's not sticky but it's not super grippy, so you can actually blend your eyeshadow out with it. I just apply a little bit of it to my eyelids and spread it around with my fingers."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX No Filter Primer

"I finally found a great primer to recommend to you guys it is the Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX No Filter Primer. I can use it under makeup I can use it over makeup it's very lightweight and comfortable to wear. I apply it to this side of my face today and I can see the difference just putting it on top of my foundation it really helps to mattify just the front of my cheek and make those pores not completely disappear but a little bit less noticeable because they're reflecting less light. It's not going to work with every foundation on everybody's skin but it is great if you are looking for something to help to disguise your pores."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Loose Setting Powder in Vanilla

"The product that I really really did not like at all from that video was also from Anastasia and it is their loose setting powder and I got it in the shade vanilla. Now I really liked the foundation and I thought it actually looked fairly natural when I first put it on but you know I always set my makeup so the second I put this on the whole thing went like cakey and heavy and just looked bad. So I only put this on one side and throughout the day it just failed like the makeup was more creased on that side of my face. I got shiny looking on that side of my face throughout the day."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

e.l.f. Power Grip Primer

"I was really looking for a new primer because my enlarged pores drive me crazy and I'm always looking for a pore filling primer but something that will make my makeup last longer. The primer itself feels dry and set after 30 seconds, but it's not doing anything for my pores although I don't think that it says it's pore minimizing. However, at the end of the day it failed because this side looks oilier and the foundation is all gathered up here by the side of my nose, so it's slid around more over here compared to the side without the primer, which means the foundation wore better without it."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

e.l.f. Poreless Putty Primer

"The e.l.f Poreless Putty Primer makes a really good eye primer for the eyeshadow."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

NYX Marshmallow Primer

"The Marshmallow Primer has marshmallow root extract and is supposed to smooth lines, blur lines, minimize texture, hydrate, and provide a soft focus finish. It smells like marshmallows with a very sweet, candyish smell. It kept the makeup in place better on this side of my face than the milk did on the other side. Between the two primers, I like the Marshmallow Primer better."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

MAC Fix+ Setting Spray

"These are my favorite little blotting papers—the Boscia ones work really well for me."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray

"There's a Charlotte Tilbury setting spray two pack. I love that setting spray. It is absolutely the best."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter

"This is my favorite highlighter. It's the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter. But the fullsize tube of this is just so big. I think I've had mine for maybe four years. [...] The mini is so perfect. It's also great for travel. But it's just a great size if you don't wear a ton of makeup."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Baking and Setting Powder in Cupcake

"I tried a new powder a couple weeks ago and I really really like this one and it is from Huda Beauty, this is their Easy Bake powder and this is so good. It comes in so many shades. I have this one in banana bread and it's just a very light tan color, so it's the perfect shade. It really blurs my pores, blurs imperfections. The lid is so clever, this part opens up and then you twist it and it's got a powder puff in there. When you travel, the powder usually just comes out of the sifter and is all in the lid, but you just snap it in and then close this and it's perfect for travel."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Pores HD Powder

"This is one of my all-time favorite setting powders. I use it under my eyes as my under eye concealer, it doesn't add any heaviness, it doesn't make it wrinkle up, in fact it keeps it from settling in my wrinkles, which is awesome. I also use it on the fronts of my cheeks to disguise my enlarged pores."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Hourglass Veil Primer

"The Hourglass Veil Primer is my current fave. Eyelid primer will help your eyeshadow to stay in place better and will help it to not crease."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Moisturizers21 reviews

Prequel Hand Wrap Shielding Lotion

"I tried a new hand cream, the Prequel Hand Wrap hand shielding lotion. It's a water resistant film former with lipids, so it helps prevent moisture loss from your skin even when you're washing your hands. I ran out of the hand salve I'd used for years and wanted to try something else, so I gave this a try and so far so good. When I ran out of my old one, the edges of my nails were dry and I had a lot more hangnails, but since working this into my routine that dryness has really cleared up. It's a nice feeling hand cream, it doesn't feel greasy, and it just really keeps my hands nice and hydrated overnight."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturizer

"The Vanicream face moisturizer is a super basic moisturizer. It doesn't contain niacinamide, but it does have ceramides and hyaluronic acid. So, that's a really nice basic moisturizer for you."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream

"So some of my favorite peptide things are in here. The Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream is in here and it has Matrixyl 3000 in it."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Do It All Sheer Tinted Face Balm

"I just don't think they're very good. [...] I'm not a fan of this. I think the L'Oreal version of this was better for half less than half the price."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

AmLactin Daily Moisturizing Lotion 12%

"The AmLactin is a lactic acid lotion to try that is very similar to the Alpha glycolic lotion. It has 12% lactic acid and does just about the same thing. It is 48% off, almost 50%, down to $12.98 from $24.99, a great deal."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Face Cream Fragrance Free

"My night cream is usually either the Olay Regenerous microsculpting cream fragrance free or my e.l.f. Holy Hydration Face Cream fragrance free. These have very similar ingredients. They both have glycerin, niacinamide, a peptide and hyaluronic acid. They're both nice creams. This one is more like a gel cream."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream

"In the winter I switch it up to the Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream. I love this cream, it's got so many great ingredients. It's got glycerin, niacinamide, it's got ceramides, it's got a peptide, it has hyaluronic acid, so there's a lot of good things packed in here and it's at a great price point. Super thick, it's super creamy but it almost has like a whipped up texture and it just melts into my skin. I apply this all over my face, lips and eyelids included, my neck, my chest and the backs of my hands."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

NuFACE Hydrating Aqua Gel

"I like the NuFACE Hydrating Aqua Gel, this is my favorite gel. It comes in this nice big box bottle and it's just very soothing to the skin. I do wash this off afterwards when I do the NuFACE routine. I get up, I wash my face, I pat it dry a little bit but I leave some water on the surface, I put the gel on my face and then I do my NuFACE routine, then I wash the gel off and then I go in with all my skincare."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream

"The Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream is $69 for 1.7 oz and I believe it has all the exact same peptides in it as the comparable peptide cream at a lower price point."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

CeraVe Daily Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"A little lightweight moisturizer, it's usually the CeraVe lotion. That's got great ingredients, niacinamide, good stuff. And then I always follow up with sunscreen."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Face Cream

"The other night cream I use is the elf holy hydration fragrance-free face cream"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Face Lotion

"I do really love both of these, but I was just disappointed that this didn't contain the niacinamide. But what it does have is ceramides and lipids and it has hyaluronic acid and it has glycerin, so it is a really good day lotion. I've been using it, which is fine because I do have niacinamide in my night cream."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tula Protecting Plump Firming and Hydrating Face Cream

"It's in the nerum multipeptide advanced serum it's in Tula firming and hydrating facial moisturizer and in lots and lots of other products"

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pure Skin Moisturizer

"The E.L.F Pure Skin Moisturizer also contains ceramides, niacinamide, glycerin, and hyaluronic acid. I've used most of this up, but I've kind of stopped using this because I went back to my CeraVe."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Matte Moisturizer

"This is made for oily or combination skin and it's supposed to leave more of a matte finish. It does contain some of the same ingredients as CeraVe PM lotion, which is what I like about it—it has niacinamide, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, and it also has one ceramide, though it doesn't have all three ceramides that CeraVe has. It does have a little bit more of a matte finish. While this doesn't completely mattify, it does leave a little bit less of a hard shine and my skin looks a little bit less texturey with this. I can't say that I was like blown away by how matte my skin looked or anything. The finish of my face that day is going to be the finish of my sunscreen, not my moisturizer. For me, it was a little bit more of a fail than a fave."

~Mixed

87%Guru Score

Naturium Plant Ceramide Rich Moisture Cream

"To me this is very comparable to the Olay cream. They have like the same feel and the same texture. They're both extra, extra, extra thick. And again, if you're looking for something for your super dry winter skin, give this a try as well as the other one. I like this one a little bit better. This one has niacinamide, it's got peptides, hyaluronic acid, and glycerin. This one has plant ceramides, but that's the same thing that's found in these, so these are both about ceramides in your skin, which is the most abundant fat in your skin, so really good for you. I really did enjoy this. It's a really good product. The price point on the Naturium products is great. It's like 18 dollars, so you can go either way with these."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Rich Cream

"I'm gonna say I actually did enjoy using it. It's a nice feeling moisturizer. I looked up the ingredients, it's got a nice ingredient list. There are a couple of peptides but they're way at the bottom end of the list. It has basically a lot of oils in it. It's got shea butter, it's got avocado oil, it's got primrose oil, so it is gonna be hydrating. My skin wasn't any different using this, but it also wasn't any worse. I'm not really tempted to buy the full size of it. I much prefer my Olay Regenerist night creams or even CeraVe better than this, it's so much more in it that's good for your skin."

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Selfless by Hyram Niacinamide and Maracuja Daily Barrier Support Moisturizer

"I tried the Niacinamide Maracuja Daily Barrier Support Moisturizer from Selfless by Hiram. What I like about this is that niacinamide is the second ingredient on the label. It's got a gel lotion consistency, kind of white, and it's a very lightweight feeling to rub in, so if you don't like a heavyweight cream at night, this definitely has kind of a lighter-weight feel. As far as other helpful ingredients, it doesn't really have anything except a couple of oils, which if you're someone who likes a skincare oil but doesn't like that oily feeling, this is a nice way to get oils into your skincare. I have used this a couple of nights and I feel like it definitely gives that kind of hydrated feeling and it definitely feels a little bit occlusive on the skin. However, I do like my Olay Regenerist Night Recovery Cream, which is my favorite night cream because it has niacinamide as well and it also has peptides, hyaluronic acid, and glycerin and green tea. That one for me packs much more into the cream than this does as far as active ingredients. It's not going to replace my Olay Regenerist Night Recovery Cream because I think that brings so much more to the table in the jar for about the same price and about the same amount."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Alloy M4 Estriol Cream

"I'm using the Alloy M4 face cream, which is a 0.3% estriol cream. It made such a difference in my pores, and now that I've been using it for a while, my skin barrier just feels so much stronger."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

"But another product to get niacinamide in is of course CeraVe PM lotion. Just a good basic workhorse moisturizing lotion. Unfortunately, you don't get to know how much of each thing is in there, but the niacinamide is listed fairly high on the ingredient list. This also contains ceramides, which are fatty lipids that are great for your skin. They really help to protect the skin barrier. They help to make your skin look bouncy and more full."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL 0.1% Intensive Cream

"I used up an Avene Retinal. This is the retinoid that I use on my neck. Unfortunately, I'm unable to use my prescription retinoid on my neck. This is retinaldehyde it's so much better than using retinol because retinol is two steps removed from your skin being able to use it. So, your skin only has to do one conversion with this, so it's much more likely that you'll be getting more retinoid to your skin cells that need it and can use it by using this than by using a standard over-the-counter retinol."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Concealer18 reviews

e.l.f. Soft Glam Concealer

"The other makeup fail was the E.L.F. Soft Glam Concealer. If you have dry skin, please don't try this, it made my under eyes look like the desert by the end of the day and gave me extra wrinkles that I usually don't see using my normal concealer. Epic fail on this. Maybe if you have super oily skin, super oily under eyes, this would work for you, because the coverage was there and the coverage did stay, but it just accentuated every wrinkle and really dried out my skin."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

NYX Wonder Snatch Concealer

"I put on the NYX Wonder Snatch Concealer, shade 12 natural, underneath each eye and blended it out. It blended out really nicely, nice and smooth, a little bit brightening, definitely covered up my bluey pinky under eyes. But the under eye concealer I'm not in love with either. For most of the day I thought it looked okay, it was still in place, but I did feel like the skin under my eyes looked extra dry and extra wrinkly, and now it is very worn off at the inner corners. It does look very dry, very crepey. Can save your money on that one as well."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer

"I tried the new concealer from Charlotte Tilbury. This was a real fail. This just magnified my eye creases, made my under eyes feel so dry. Did not like this one bit."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Concealer

"On the concealer, oh my goodness, this is so settled in my wrinkles, so accentuating my wrinkles, so cracked and cakey looking. I've never met a Charlotte Tilbury foundation or concealer that I liked. I don't know why I thought this one would be different, but I did. I'm always hopeful. I always want it to be the next best thing. I always want it to be the one that knocks my socks off and then when it's not, I am so disappointed. But I'm always happy if I can save you guys some money on something that isn't going to work on our mature skin."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

About Face Illusionist Skin Focused Concealers

"I loved it when I first put it on. It went on so smoothly, but by the time I came back for the 5-hour check-in, it was super creased at the inner corner and also in all the smaller wrinkles below my eyes. The coverage is still in place. It hasn't worn off at all, but it definitely settles in wrinkles. So if you have wrinkling under your eyes, this is going to accentuate it. So from that standpoint, I probably won't be reaching for this one again."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Concealer

"Concealer, not so happy with it. 4 hours. I feel like my under eyes just look really cakey, really heavy, really creased. Not the greatest looking concealer. I don't love the concealer."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Natasha Denona High Glam Concealer

"Since I didn't really enjoy the concealer yesterday, I used my Lancome Tint Eole concealer today because I was going to the shower. Didn't want to try some new concealer that was going to look bad."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer

"Maybelline Instant Age Rewind is in the sale around 22 to 25% off. It is just a classic that really performs well. It is a great concealer."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Uncover Up Concealer

"The concealer for this brand is in a little pot called their Uncover Up Concealer. [...] It's kind of a little bit chunky where I put it on with my fingers and it's looking a little thick, but the coverage is really nice and it seems very, very creamy and very hydrating."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Radiant Serum Concealer

"The L'Oreal True Match is really really good. It didn't wear as well as I would like it to in the video because I was also trying a setting powder with it, but when I use it with my regular setting powders it's a really great concealer and it comes in so many shades. It has great coverage, doesn't settle in your wrinkles, and it'll definitely keep your skin hydrated all day."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hourglass Vanish Airbrush Concealer

"I have pre-applied some of my favorite concealers on this painter palette these are both from hourglass they're two different shades"

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Covergirl TruBlend Undercover Concealer

"The first one is the Covergirl TruBlend Undercover Concealer and this one I'd say is the closest to my Lancôme Teint Idole concealer as far as consistency and everything. It's a little bit thicker and a little bit more pigmented than my Lancôme, so if you have really dark under eye circles that you're trying to cover this could work for you. It lasted all day and it didn't settle in my wrinkles."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum

"It's giving pretty good coverage. I feel like it's going to be really hydrating, it's lightweight, it's not super heavy feeling. It definitely is covering like if you look at the difference from this side of this eye you can definitely see all the purplish discolorations under this eye and this eye it's definitely covered and concealed. [...] It never tugs at the skin of my under eye."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Dark Spot Concealer and Serum

"I just use this as an under eye concealer and I gotta say it didn't really cover under my eyes very well. I have very minimal under eye darkness and it didn't even cover my little tiny bit of under eye darkness. It just was kind of a fail for me."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Tarte Shape Tape Concealer

"I reviewed this Tarte Shape Tape Concealer. It was really nice at first, really smooth, really great coverage, but unfortunately it just didn't wear well. By the end of the day it was just really worn off and kind of settled in all my wrinkles."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Best Skin Ever Concealer

"The Best Skin Ever Foundation is one of my holy grail foundations, but when they came out with a concealer I was so psyched because I thought it was going to be like perfection with no settling into your wrinkles. It does give really great coverage. It does look so smooth and beautiful when you first put it on and for like the first four hours that you wear it. But by the five hour check-in and the ten hour check-in it was completely caked up in my wrinkles, really cracked looking, had worn off at the inner corners, and just didn't wear well. So I was really sad about that. That was a bummer."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Lancôme Teint Idôle Ultra Wear All Over Concealer

"The concealer I used is my usual holy grail, the Lancome Teint Idole."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

BK Beauty Angie Hot and Flashy A506 Concealer Brush

"The brush I'm most proud of in this set is my A506 kitten paw concealer brush. This is amazing and it's a total gamechanger for women of any age. You don't have to be mature to use it, it works really fantastically on younger people as well. That is the standout brush in this kit."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Tech18 reviews

CurrentBody LED Light Therapy Mask Series 1

"The one that I'm using right now is the CurrentBody mask. It's a shaped mask with the right specs, very accurate light bulbs, and the right amount of intensity, but not too much so it doesn't damage your skin. It's got a chin strap, with light bulbs under the chin and on the upper lip."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross DRx SpectraLite FaceWare Pro

"They have the Dr. Dennis Gross red light therapy mask, which is an okay mask, but for the price, even in the sale, I think there are way better masks out there that are in roughly the same price range."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Qure Micro Infusion System

"Having used the Qure Micro Infusion System three times, I'm not sure that I'm really seeing that big of a difference in my skin, and I know 100% for sure that I didn't enjoy using it. Did not enjoy the serum. There's so much left, I'm not sure you really get that much delivered into your skin. I think this set was something like $179 for the six treatments. As far as not being able to use your regular skin care for a few days before, a few days after, didn't really love that. Don't love the feel of their serum. I definitely recommend if you're going to do this, do it at night, put the serum on, go to bed. I don't enjoy poking my face with the holes, micro needling. It does hurt a bit, it hurts the most on the forehead and around the eyes."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

CurrentBody Skin LED Hair Growth Helmet

"The third one's a whopper. This thing is heavy. This is the CurrentBody Skin LED Hair Growth Helmet. If you are hair challenged, if you're post-menopausal and you're having issues with thinning hair, then this would be a great one for you."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Maysama Prana LED Light Therapy Mask

"It's not a bad mask, it's just not one of my favorites because the wavelengths are just a little bit too far off. I don't want the blue and I'm not sold on the pulsing, so not a great mask for me, but could be for someone."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

JOVS 4D Laser Light Therapy Mask

"The thing had settled on my skin because my skin was actually damp, like those little holes are not letting out enough air. I want to think that it's not that my skin got so hot that I was sweating, but as we know a caution with these is if they get too hot and you have melasma that's caused by heat or something else, pigmentation caused by heat, then that can be a problem. It's not on the top of my list as something to buy. For $750 you could get a face mask and a neck and chest bib of a mask that gives you more precise wavelengths and is much easier to operate, that you don't get all sweaty in and you don't look like Hannibal Lecter either."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Kenzie IPL Atome Laser Hair Removal Device

"I was testing the Kenzie at home hair removal device and I used it for 12 weeks and I noticed at the end of it that it not only removed my hair it also removed my age spots and I was like wait what is happening here this is amazing. A lot of my viewers bought this had great results with it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Kenzzi IPL Hair Removal Device

"I love IPL for hair removal because it does a great job, but I love it even more for a secret discovery I made, that IPL also fades your age spots and sun spots all over your body. [...] I had really great before and after pictures with the Kenzzi, and this newer model is so much faster than the original, you can whip through your arms, legs, face, underarms or bikini area."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

NuFACE Mini Plus

"It is the NuFACE Mini Plus, and it is one of my all-time favorite anti-aging at-home devices because it really works and I see the results right away. The results are more temporary than other things, but the immediate difference that I see in the tightness and the firmness of my skin, and also the little lift that I get for my hooded eyes and for my cheeks, it is always amazing to me when I see it right in front of my eyes in the mirror. It comes with a small bottle of the conducting gel, a small bottle of the conducting serum, and a brush to put it on with, and it retails for 165."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Foreo Bear Microcurrent Device

"I have the Foreo Bear and I have the new Face Trinity. I have been using the new Face Trinity way way longer than the bear but the bear is kind of growing on me. The main difference between them is the amount of time that it takes to do a treatment. With the bear there is no five second timer, it just has a three minute timer per treatment so if you want to do your whole face in three minutes you just shoot around your face and you're done."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Omnilux Face Contour Red Light Therapy Mask

"There are a lot of other red light masks I love as well at different price points. The Omnilux, of course, is a great one."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device

"The NuFACE Trinity is such a nice treatment. It's relaxing, it's soothing, and it really helps to lift the cheeks, lift the jowls, lift the sagging hooded lids. You can also get the eye attachment which really helps to lift the hooded eyes."

✓Yay

60%Guru Score

CurrentBody Skin LED Light Therapy Mask Series 2

"It's got 110 of the 633 wavelength, 110 of the 830 wavelength, and 16 of the deep near infrared at 1072. The difference between this mask and other masks is that it's a shaped mask and it has an underneath the chin strap. Most of the other masks are just flat and they don't have anything under here. This is by far my favorite mask and this is the one that I'm using currently. [...] I'm continuing to use it every other day. [...] It's got really great bulb coverage with 115 bulbs. The wavelengths are 633 nm red light and 830 nm near infrared light. It's bigger than most neck and chest masks, so it covers more area. It goes deeper and gives me more bulbs around the sides of my neck. [...] I just started using this one maybe around Black Friday, [...] so I've only had it for about a month, but this is the one that I'm going forward with this year."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

NIRA Precision Laser

"If you are mainly just concerned with wrinkles and sagging around your eyes, I'd recommend the NIRA Precision Laser. It definitely reduced my eye wrinkles when I tested it. [...] The lasers work by heating your skin just below the level of heat shock. That is where collagen production is increased. And so they help to increase collagen production in your skin."

✓Yay

56%Guru Score

NIRA Pro Laser

"The Pro Laser, this is really the one that I love using the most because I get in the most coverage. I can do my whole neck in 10 minutes with this and it really gave me good results on my neck. I can do my whole face with it in 10 minutes and it really has given me good results on my face. The way the NIRA lasers work is they heat the skin but they heat it just below the level of heat shock, and that is where collagen production happens, which helps to plump out and smooth out those wrinkles on the surface. You'll feel this treatment more because it is a heat treatment. When the laser fires, you do feel it on your skin, you feel like a hot sensation, but it's only for a second, then you move on to the next area and then it's over. And they each have five different temperature settings, so if the highest setting is too hot for you, you can turn it down. The NIRA Pro Laser is normally $649, at 20% off that's $130 savings, bringing it down to $519. And they offer it in a new champagne color."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Omnilux Men's Mask

"If you have the original Contour mask, I don't think you're missing out on anything by not having the Omnilux Men's Mask. They have the same intensity, which is 30, same number of jewels, which is 18, the session time is 10 minutes, they both sit really close to the skin, and they both retail for 3.95, and I have a 10% off discount code, HF10, you can apply that. They come with a 2 year warranty. These are very comfortable to wear, they're really easy to use. I like that I can keep the straps attached like this and I just slide it over my head and then I just tighten up this bottom strap and I keep this one where it is, and it's the exact fit that I need for my head, so that makes it really easy and convenient for me. And I love how they fit because of the two strap design, so I can get a nice close fit and get the bulbs right next to my skin. The controller is very simple, it's just one button on it, has a 10 minute timer, it shuts off at the end."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

NuFACE Mini Microcurrent Device

"They also have the mini for $165 which is about $100 off so that is a really great deal as well."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

ZIIP Gold Gel

"One thing that was a big fail was the gel that they sent with it, the golden gel. For me the fragrance on here was just way too strong."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Haircare15 reviews

Rogaine Minoxidil 5% Foam

"I was using Rogaine, also known as minoxidil, a topical hair growth serum, [...] in combination with the laser band, because research showed the combination worked better than either one alone. I never really loved using it, and I never really used it consistently because it makes your hair look and feel so dirty, and anything that makes my hair look and feel dirty, I'm just not into it. [...] So I actually stopped using it over the last year."

✕Nay

86%Guru Score

Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray

"The first hairspray I use is the Oribe texturizing spray. It's more about creating texture and volume in the hair, that kind of lived in hair look. I spray it underneath and my hair flies all over the place, and I like that, that's what creates the beachy, lived in texture. This offers light hold, but it doesn't really offer all day hold, so I follow it with another spray for that."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

RevitaLash Advanced Eyelash Conditioner

"My favorite lash growth serum, RevitaLash, is in the sale this year as a buy-one-get-one, a two-pack for $100, normally $200. This stuff is expensive, but it works so so well. I've been using it for years, I don't think I'll ever be without it. One package of two will last an entire year."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Shark Beauty HyperAIR Hair Dryer

"I have the shark and I just really don't love the thing. It does have kind of the same attachments and everything but for me the Dyson is better."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo

"I tried it and it really didn't work better than any other dry shampoo. As a matter of fact, I liked it much less than most other dry shampoos I've tried. This one felt really wet going on, but it's almost like they just went overboard with the masking fragrance. The fragrance was just too much for me. [...] I didn't like how it made my hair look. I didn't like how it made my hair feel. And I really couldn't stand the smell of it. The smell is so strong and it was with me all day long."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo

"I never take anything out of it I keep everything in it that I'm going to take on my trip there's my Olaplex shampoo."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

"I blow my hair out with my Dyson and today I'm trying a new hair curling device straightener from launch it blows cool air out of the back side and has heated plates so it's supposed to keep your waves and curls in longer."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Oribe Shampoo

"I love the Oribe Shampoo as well. The thing I love about the shampoo is most shampoos feel like they really dry and strip my hair, and they even feel dry in the shower, but with this my hair feels so creamy. I was washing my hair this morning and I was thinking about what is it about the feel when it's wet and I've just rinsed out the shampoo but I haven't put on the conditioner yet, and I was like my hair feels creamy. It doesn't feel dry, it doesn't feel coarse, it doesn't feel roughed up. It just feels smooth and hydrated and really creamy. I love the shampoo and the conditioner."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Batiste Dry Shampoo

"This is my favorite Dry Shampoo, but there's something about it. When I have it on my hair, I don't love how it smells, and it does make your hair a little bit white at the roots, so I was looking for something that I don't have to rub it in as much to get rid of the white. I received a Joyco Dry Shampoo that I'm kind of liking a little bit better than this one. This one is definitely cheaper though and it's very good, and this one has been my favorite for a while, just not sure I'm repurchasing it at this point. It might be switching."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner

"I did buy a little sampler pack that had a little mini shampoo and a mini conditioner and I've really been liking them, but I gotta say when I use them three or four washes in a row it starts to weigh my hair down and make it really flat. I need to shampoo with something else in the meantime."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Dyson Airwrap Long Complete Styler

"The hot tool I use for blow drying is the Dyson Airwrap. I use the rough blow attachment first, aiming the air down the hair shaft so it doesn't frizz, until my hair is about 80 to 85 percent dry. Then I switch to the paddle brush attachment to smooth and sleek my hair and get the cowlicks to lay flat, and finish with the round brush attachment for a little root lift and bend in my bangs. If I'm doing a basic blowout with just 10 or 15 minutes, this is what my hair comes out looking like, and I think it's great, so much better than it ever would have looked me trying to just blow it with a round brush."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Oribe Gold Lust Shampoo and Conditioner

"On the days I wash my hair, [...] I use the Oribe Gold Lust Shampoo and Conditioner. These are amazing, I've been using them for years now, and they're definitely worth the money. They smell fantastic and use really mild surfactants, so it never strips your hair while it's cleaning it. It actually hydrates the hair, and I could feel the difference from the first use, switching from a different shampoo that dried out my hair. It keeps my hair so bouncy, gives it so much life, and such a beautiful shine. I just love this, and now that I have it, I'm not going to be without it. [...] They're super concentrated so I don't need to use a lot to get great results, my hair stays cleaner longer, and I use half as much shampoo and conditioner as I used to."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Verb Ghost Shampoo and Conditioner

"The Verb Ghost Shampoo and Conditioner are 35% off and they are my dupe for my Oribe. The Verb is really good and uses a lot of the same really mild ingredients, so it is a great option for people who will never spend that much on shampoo and conditioner."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask

"I did look at the ingredients before I used it and I wasn't thrilled with the ingredients but I liked how my hair came out at first when I first styled it but the way it frizzed up I was like absolutely not. Then I was like well no wonder with these ingredients like this has very high SD alcohol so that is going to dry out my hair and sure enough it did."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

K18 Peptide Prep pH Maintenance Shampoo

"I gotta say I did look at the ingredients before I used it and I wasn't thrilled with the ingredients but I liked how my hair came out at first when I first styled it but the way it frizzed up I was like absolutely not. Then I was like well no wonder with these ingredients like this has very high SD alcohol so that is going to dry out my hair and sure enough it did. And this one has the ingredient that I really don't like which is that sodium C1416 olefin sulfonate my hair does not like that that just dries my hair out like crazy."

✕Nay

84%Guru Score

Retinoids15 reviews

Geek & Gorgeous 101 A-Game Retinal Serum

"The retinaldehyde serum I talked about from Geek and Gorgeous is their A-Game 101. It comes in a lot of different strengths, the strongest at 0.2%, and they also have a 0.05, a 1%, and a 2%. And so those are great."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game Retinol 10

"Then this one is the Geek and Gorgeous Agame 101 retinaldehyde cream. This is a 0.1% retinaldehyde. This one also does come in a couple of different strengths as well. So you can start with a lower strength of this and work your way up. Geek and Gorgeous is a great resource for my European viewers. You can get their vitamin C serum, you can get their retinaldehyde serum, you can get their cleansers, their peptide serums. They make all really well-formulated products. You can get them in Europe. They also do have an American store now, so you can get them here in the US. Their prices are great, and I love just about everything of theirs that I've tried."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Nurium Retinaldehyde Cream Serum 0.10%

"These are two of my favorite retinaldehyde serums, and these come in a few different strengths. This one is from Nurium. It's their retinaldehyde cream serum, 0.10%. There's also a 0.05% in this."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

The Geek and Gorgeous A-Game Retinal

"I use a retin aldide serum The Geek and gorgeous 101 aame retin aldhy serum this contains 0.2% retin aldhy this is the highest level of retin alahh that I've seen anywhere I've been using it on my neck for about 2 months now I've had no irritation with it"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 20 Retinol

"You can bump up just like you can with your retinol, and as your skin acclimates, this gives you just one extra strength, double stronger strength to bump up to, so if you're not ready to transition from your retinol to a tret and yet, there's a new strength in this. I've only been using it for a couple of weeks since I finished up the latest test that I did on my neck, and it's been great, no irritation from it at all. It's very bright yellow, which is just the color of all retinol products. I really really love the whole Geek and Gorgeous brand. I first started talking about them because my viewers in Europe couldn't get a lot of the same brands that we can get over here, and Geek and Gorgeous originated in Europe, so people over on that side of the world could get their things. Well, now they have their website for there and also have a website here in the US, so you can get their products no matter where you live."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Naturium Retinaldehyde Cream Serum 0.5%

"I think they're doing as much as tretinoin would have done for my neck over the last six years since I haven't been able to use it. I think they definitely are doing something and so I do continue to use them. I don't really see a difference in my mind between these two because these are products that tell me the percentage of the active ingredient in there and that's what's important to me. This is the Naturium Retinaldehyde Cream Serum, it's 0.5% retinaldehyde."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maelove Moonlight Retinaldehyde Serum 0.1%

"Moonlight Retinaldehyde Serum, it is 0.1% retinaldehyde. So these for me, I know they have the same amount of retinaldehyde in them. I like them both. If money's tight and you're trying to decide between these two, I would definitely go with the Naturium because this one is 1.7 oz, the Maelove is 1 oz, and they're about the same price, they're both about $30, so you get almost 3/4 an ounce more in the Naturium. But as I said, I do love both and will continue to use both."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Olay Regenerist Retinol 24 Night Moisturizer

"Olay makes one in their retinol 24 line, [...] and those are great products if you're just starting off on a retinol and you're going to be using it during the day."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Differin Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"If a retinaldehyde isn't going to be for you, my second choice from the drugstore is going to be Differin Gel. This is a third generation retinoid called adapalene. Adapalene at a stronger strength is actually a prescription acne medicine, and they released it over the counter in this lower strength. This does hit two retinoid receptors and it binds to them, and so it works sort of like tretinoin in that it's already in its active form. So when you put it on your skin, it doesn't have to convert it at all. There are a couple of very small studies that show that it could have some anti-aging effects like increasing collagen production and reducing fine lines and wrinkles and thickening the deeper layers of the skin. It's also especially been shown to be able to remove hyperpigmentation marks, especially from acne or pimples, so it's really good at that. You can just walk into any CVS or Walgreens or whatever drugstore you have and pick this up off the shelf. It's about $30 for a 1.6 ounce tube. You should use this just like you would tretinoin, just a pea-size amount at night. It can actually be irritating, even though it is much less irritating than tretinoin. Ease in slowly with it because it can still be irritating, even though it's less irritating."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Retinol Pro+ Regenerating Cream

"My third choice at the drugstore is going to be the Neutrogena Retinol Pro Plus. Neutrogena is owned by Johnson and Johnson, the company that did all of the original research on tretinoin and retinol, so Neutrogena knows how to formulate retinol correctly. Retinol is equally unstable as vitamin C, so it really needs to be handled right in the formula. Most of the retinols on the market don't tell you how much is in there. It's always really important for me to know how much of the active ingredient is in the product. 99% of the retinols at the drugstore do not tell you how much is in there, or if they put a number on the label, it's a complex, so it's like a mixture of retinol with some other stuff, but it's not the pure retinol. For those reasons, I feel like Neutrogena is definitely the best bet for retinol, and particularly this product because this product has 5% pure retinol. Even though it sounds like a small amount, it still is the clinically effective amount. It costs about $45, but you're actually getting the real thing and you know how much is in there. This is a really nice lightweight serum, and it does have a couple of other ingredients to help it to stay stable in the bottle. It is fragranced."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinol 0.2% in Squalane

"The Ordinary retinol is probably the least expensive one you can get, retailing for about six or seven dollars for a one ounce container. They have a few different retinols, I don't really see a huge difference between them, but they're good."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Retinol Serum

"Another company I really love is CeraVe, their Resurfacing Retinol Serum. This is a really good one and contains encapsulated retinol. If you're really concerned about irritation, I would go with this one because it's encapsulated, so it's going to do more of a timed release and release the retinol slower so you would have less of a reaction to it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin

"For about the past 5 years I had been getting my tretinoin from Agency in their Future Formula and I love this product. The tretinoin is the key ingredient to use if you have a ton of sun damage. If you can keep that layer thin while thickening the deeper layers, then your skin looks plumper, it looks firmer, your wrinkles look reduced, and as an added bonus, it also helps a little bit with discoloration. Agency is more of a customized cream that's made with your skin in mind. So they'll put in three other active ingredients besides your tretinoin. If you've been using Agency for a long time and you love Agency and you don't want to switch, then there is absolutely no reason for you to switch from Agency."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Agency Tretinoin Eye Formula

"They came out with this eye cream this year and it's so nice. If you have never been able to use your full strength tretinoin around your eyes because your eye skin can be just a little bit more sensitive, it uses a very, very, very small amount of tretinoin and you can use this to use tretinoin around your eyes, which can be so helpful. The percent of tretinoin in here is 0.002%, so very mild, very gentle. It's really thick and it's really emollient, and that's really the feel of something that I love for around my eyes."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Agency Custom Tretinoin Formula

"If you have a lifetime of accumulated sun damage and you want to go for the big guns, the heavy hitters, I definitely recommend that you go for a prescription tretinoin. The way I get my tretinoin is from a service called Agency. I love this service. It is an online service that you can get your prescription tretinoin without having to go see a doctor in person and then have it filled at a pharmacy. The way this works is that you upload a few pictures to their website, then you're set up one-on-one with a consultation with a skincare provider who recommends the mix of ingredients that go into your custom formula. They actually offer two different formulas with the service. You can get the custom formula which would contain your tretinoin plus three other active ingredients. They also offer a dark spot formula which, if you're noticing increased dark spots after the summertime, is a great product to add on because this will contain four more active ingredients that are specifically targeting dark spots in your skin. My custom formula contains tretinoin at 0.14%, azelaic acid at 5%, tranexamic acid at 5%, and niacinamide at 4%."

✓Yay

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Cleansers14 reviews

CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser

"I'm looking for a face wash that's nice and soothing, nice and gentle that is just going to do the job without stripping my skin and making it feel dry and tight. So I want to wash my face and have it feel moisturized and that's what these both do. So this one is the CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser

"This one is from Prequil. This is their cleanser. This is made with mainly glycerin which is a humectant and so it's very hydrating. So in the evening when I have on makeup or tinted sunscreen and I want to get my makeup off, I do a double cleanse."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm

"The most cost effective of the balm cleansers that I like is going to be the Geek and Gorgeous Mighty Melt. It's very effective at breaking up like waterproof mascara, waterproof eyeliner, sunscreen that just won't budge. Give this a try. It will take it all off."

✓Yay

94%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Radiance Cleansing Balm

"This one is my all-time favorite. When I'm washing my face, I don't like a lot of tugging and pulling to get like my waterproof eye makeup, mascara, and eyeliner off. And with an oil-based balm, you can rub it in and it has so much slip to it that it doesn't yank your skin around. You do have to do a double cleanse with it because then you need to wash the oil off."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser

"I switched right before the holidays to La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser, and I actually talked about this in my best skincare of 2024 video. I was so high on it the first month that I used it. But one month into using this it started stinging and burning my face, and every time I wash my face, morning or night, it would start to sting and burn. So this is out."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

Naturium Purple Ginseng Cleansing Balm

"I like it a lot. I'm always looking for something that's just a little bit less expensive. It's not quite half the price of the Clinique, but substantially less, and I got to say this works just as well. This is really nice, it's a really pretty purple color, it's a really thick oil based cleansing balm, and it really does break up all of your makeup, all of your sunscreen, all of your waterproof mascara and eyeliner and everything else. I've been using this and the Clinique interchangeably right now. This is definitely moving in."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Cleanser

"Another cleanser that I tried and have really been enjoying and has worked itself into my regular skincare routine is this one from Round Lab, it's their 1025 Dokdo Cleanser and this is just really soothing, really calming, really hydrating, great little cleanser. It does foam up a little bit, which I normally don't like cleansers that foam at all, but this uses the mildest surfactant. It's actually got the same surfactant in it that my Orb shampoo uses. And look at the size of this tube, this is roughly 5 oz and I think it's like under $20, so this is a really good value. I always do the opening my eyes test with any cleanser and I can open my eyes with this while I'm using it and there's no stinging, there's no burning in the eyes."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture 5.5 Soft Cleansing Gel

"I tried this and I didn't like this at all unfortunately. I was kind of psyched about this but I was also a little bit nervous about it because it does contain coconut derived surfactants and all the cleansers that have like the coconut derived surfactants don't agree with my skin they make my skin feel dry and tight. My eyes stung which I wasn't happy with. I do like it that it is fragrance-free but then afterwards my skin felt so dry and tight. You know that dry and tight feeling, I hate that feeling. So I'm just not used to washing my face with anything that has any kind of surfactant in it in general. Did not love this."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Hada Labo Cleansing Oil

"Another oil-based cleanser that I love is the Hada Labo Gokujyun Cleansing Oil. I use this when I don't have so much makeup on, just to get my sunscreen off. Because oil will break up sunscreen so you don't need a harsh detergent to get your sunscreen off, you just need a Cleansing Oil."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Banila Co Clean It Zero Original Cleansing Balm

"I tried the Clean It Zero cleansing balm, which is the original. I didn't love it to start with. I was surprised at how much fragrance is in here, like it is really very very fragrant. It didn't really remove makeup better than my Clinique Take the Day Off cleansing balm, which I compare everything to because that is the best, so it wasn't as good as the Clinique, so for me it wasn't great."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm

"The Inky List Oat Cleansing Balm is much less expensive than Clinique at five ounces for $10.99 compared to Clinique's $36 for 3.8 ounces. It removed all of my face makeup. The only thing it didn't get off completely was my waterproof eyeliner and waterproof mascara, but with my double cleanse those came off with my second cleanse, so by the time I was done with my double cleanse I had almost as much makeup off my face as when I use Clinique. It was really soothing and really nice to use, so if the Clinique is just always out of range as far as price, this is a really good one to try."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gentle Cleanser

"I wash my face with Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gentle Cleanser for sensitive skin. This is a fragrance-free version."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Good Molecules Instant Cleansing Balm

"This is one that I like almost as much as the Clinique. I'd say this would be like the less expensive dupe for the Clinique. This one's really good, but the Clinique just eeks it out for me every time because it just removes all the makeup, whereas with this one I always have a little smear of eyeliner or mascara under my eyes when I'm done."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm

"I've been using the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for years. I did a video years ago comparing all the different cleansers for removing makeup, sunscreen and waterproof mascara, and Clinique cleansing balm was the best as far as getting all those things off, and it doesn't irritate your skin. It's so gentle, there's no pulling or tugging at your skin like you get with wipes. It comes in a nice big jumbo tub, which is what they have in the Nordstrom sale."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Tools12 reviews

BK Beauty Nikki LaRose N19 Brush

"Lately, I've been loving the Nikki LaRose N19 Brush from BK Beauty. I love it that it's got like this kind of hard edge here. For me, this is a little bit too stiff to do my concealer with. It just was a little bit too stiff in here for my older under eyes. But I do love it for blending and contour, especially like on the side of my nose where I want a really sharp line. I can get that nice sharp line. I especially love this brush for doing the jawline contour. I can get really sharp and straight."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Beachwaver Curling Iron

"The second hot tool I use is the Beachwaver Curling Iron. [...] I got to say, this is the best Curling Iron because it's so easy for a hair challenge person like me. [...] I could never use a Curling Iron or a flat iron, but this makes it so easy because it's got a mini clamp, you put your hair in, clamp the end, press a button and it automatically wraps the hair. [...] Your hands stay down, it's easy to work, and the hair comes out great, [...] nice and kind of relaxed beachy curls, not super tight. [...] I absolutely love that."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

BK Beauty Nikki LaRose Pro Artist Series Volume 2 Brush Set

"I love the fan brush. One of my all-time favorite shapes for brushes. These two big fluffy ones I would use for highlighter, just to apply a nice diffused highlighter with those, but I really like these tiny tiny eyeshadow brushes. They're really great if you want to do some detailed work, and so this set is great."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Sigma Switch Brush Cleaning Mat

"I love this little sink mat it's got suction cups on the back side it's got all these different textures so you basically just rub your brushes into the soap and then into these"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

BK Beauty N16 Brush

"This is my concealer brush. I designed this with nose contour in mind. It's great for sculpting and shading the nose. I like to take the longer fibers of the brush and just sculpt into where the beginning of the brow is to connect it so it's not so disconnected. You can do a little scoop underneath on the very tip of the nose, which gives a little subtle lift. Less is more with contour as well, you do not want to see visible contour on your nose. There's nothing less flattering than that. But it's so surprising what a difference nose contour can make in the pictures."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Tweezerman Tweezers

"I'm using tweezers from Tweezerman. These feel so lightweight like I can't really feel them on my eye. I've had false lashes before with on the strip and it's so heavy even the lightest ones, so they do feel heavy. These feel really lightweight and not irritating."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

BK Beauty Nikki La Rose Pro Artist Series Brush Set

"Of course I love all the BK Beauty brushes you know everything they make is such good quality the fibers are so soft so luxurious so nice"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

BK Beauty 210 Brush

"Of the eyeshadow brushes I really like the 210 Brush. This is like the tiny tiniest little smudger slash eyeshadow brush. It's kind of similar to my 504 brush which is my tiny crease brush, but it's a lot stiffer and a lot shorter. My 504 is great for really smoking out the outer corner and blending eyeshadow while you apply it. The 210 is great for doing the tiniest little detail work at the outer corner, like if you just want to add the tiniest little bit of a dark color like black or really dark brown out there. This is perfect for that. Also for eyeshadow under your eyes, it's so nice and stiff and pointy that you can really get pencil point precision with this brush. I really really love this one."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

BK Beauty Holy Grail Trio Brush Set

"There's another BK Beauty brush set that I also love because it contains three of my absolute favorite BK brushes. This is called the Holy Grail Trio Brush Set. It comes with a little pouch and contains the A506 kitten paw concealer brush in a different handle color, with the same softness and the same perfect concealer layout every time, plus my favorite foundation brush, the BK 101, and the BK 109, which is perfect for blending out your contour. These three brushes are normally $120 and will be $79.99 in the Nordstrom sale."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

BK Beauty Travel Brush Set

"Here's my Travel Brush Set, it's a very compact, sleek little silver pouch. Inside there are five brushes curated from my original set so you get the KPAW concealer brush, you get two of the eyeshadow brushes, you get the blush brush and you also get the BK 101 which is their foundation brush and this is the brush that started my love of BK brushes in the first place. And the added bonus with it is that the back of this folds down so when you get to your destination it just sits upright so you can use this to hold your brushes at home, you can travel with it, and there's enough room in here that you can fit in like a mascara, a blush, a couple other things of makeup if you're really doing minimal makeup. This can be your entire makeup bag for your trip."

✓Yay

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BK Beauty Angie Hot and Flashy Brush Collection

"I launched my brush set two years ago that hopefully changed your makeup game as a mature woman. I thought it could really help us and fill a void in our makeup game and enable us to put on our makeup with more confidence and make it go on smoother and better. I just can't believe what a success it's been and how many of you guys have bought it and told me how much you loved it."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

BK Beauty 106 Brush

"I apply this foundation with my BK Beauty 106 Brush. This brush has really been growing on me over the last couple of months. I just love it. I've been using it mostly to blend out my contour because I use that liquid contour, the KVD Mod Con one. I just felt like this was a better brush for it than the BK101, which is my favorite foundation brush, but it's a little big to get in here, so this one just fits in here more perfectly."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Body & Tan9 reviews

Bondi Sands Self-Tanner

"The self-tanner I use is the Bondi Sands self-tanner, a little set that comes with a mitt. What I love most about the Bondi Sands is it's a foam, and when you put it on, it actually colors your skin right then and there, so you don't have to wait like six hours for the tan to develop. [...] You can see where you're putting it, and that really helps you to not end up streaky."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Tree Hut Watermelon Shave Oil

"Shaving my legs, it helps the hairs to stand up, helps to give you a closer shave, but also helps to condition your skin so that it doesn't hurt and it doesn't burn afterwards. And these products are so well priced. To buy two of them is under $25."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body & Face Lotion

"I really love the Gold Bond Age Renew Overnight Retinol Lotion for my body. That stuff is great."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

Beauty by Earth Self-Tanner Tanning Lotion

"My favorite current self-tanner is the Beauty by Earth Self-Tanner Tanning Lotion. This one's really nice because it is a lotion. It's not a foam. I find that I get better coverage with a lotion. I can rub it in better. I don't get streaks and hard edges like I do with some of the foams where you can't really see where you're putting them. With the lotion, you really have to spend a little bit more time rubbing it and that just gives me a better, smoother application. I wear the medium to deep shade and it gives me the most beautiful tan and I find that this lasts a little bit longer than the foams because it is in a moisturizing base and so it's moisturizing your skin which is what does make your self-tanner last longer whereas most of the foams are in like an alcohol and water base and so they can dry your skin a little bit. This one just lasts on my skin longer. It transfers to my clothes less. That's why it's my favorite. I've been loving this for a few years now."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Lumi Whole Body Deodorant

"I love the Lumi solid, I love the Lumi cream, they both just work so well for me. If you're looking for something that can keep you not smelly, then I highly recommend the Lumi."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Versed Press Restart Gentle Retinol Body Lotion

"I do like this one a lot too if you want to use retinol all year round I would recommend the Versed for the warmer months of the year or if you live in a hot place."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Loving Tan 8 Hour Express Tan

"I usually use this guy here, Loving Tan 8 Hour Express Tan, and I love that one. I always use the applicator mitt with it."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Versed Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion

"I tried the Versed Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion and I like using it. This one is a little bit more lightweight although it does take a little bit longer to rub in. It's 17.99 for this which is a really good price for a retinol cream. I've been looking for a retinol body lotion to alternate with my Alpha Skin Care body lotion and I think I found it. This one is definitely a super fave because of the price point."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Alpha Skin Care Renewal Body Lotion 12% Glycolic Acid

"My favorite body lotion of all time is in it, the Alpha Skin Care glycolic acid lotion. It's 12% glycolic acid, it will really exfoliate your skin and help your skin look its absolute best. It really helps with crepey skin, helps lighten up sunspots, and helps to firm your skin. It's just a fabulous product."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Eye Care6 reviews

Alloy M4 1% Estriol Eye Cream

"With other products, I've been saying for 13 years, there's no reason to get a dedicated eye cream because there's nothing special in it that isn't already in face cream. But this one, where the percentage is so much higher, it's really going to help the eye area so much more. This is so creamy and emollient, you only need the tiniest, tiniest little dab of this. I've been using this for about 3 months now and I really love it. So I take a tiny dab of this and I just work it underneath my eyes and onto my eyelids. And the one thing that I love about this is that it's so nonsensitizing. With tret, the gold standard, absolutely love my tret, will never stop using it, but it took a long time to work up to using it and it still can be a little irritating sometimes if I go in a little too hard with it. With this, I started using it right off the bat every single day. No irritation. Use it right along with my tret. Also, no irritation, really easy to use."

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84%Guru Score

Shark Beauty Cryo Glow Under Eye Cooling LED Anti-Aging and Blemish Repair Mask

"I do not love this mask. The main thing that I don't like about it is these cryoglow pads right here underneath the eyes. As I said, under my eyes is an area that I really want to anti-age. It's an area that really shows all that fine lines, crepiness, wrinkles. And instead of giving you bulbs there, this gives you these cryotherapy patches. It's just so clunky and so heavy with so much wasted space inside. It's very uncomfortable. What I do like about this mask is it's got 160 bulbs of the red, the near infrared, and the blue light. Not my favorite. Kind of a fail for me."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Patchology Rosé Gel Eye Masks

"At Nordstrom they have deals on the Patchology eye patches these little Rosé gel patches that I talked about in my holiday gift guide they're on sale at both Nordstrom and Amazon so good deal on those"

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73%Guru Score

Skin Iceland Hydrocool Firming Eye Gels

"I always like to include some form of an eye patch and these are my favorites for many reasons. These are the Skin Iceland Hydrocool Firming Eye Gels. They don't slip on your face and they feel really nice. The great thing about these is they're so wide and take up a really good amount of width. You can really use these also as a shadow shield, so it eliminates that fallout that way we don't have to go in and irritate the skin under the eyes and clean it up with a Q-tip. It really eliminates all that. They do feel great, and I like that they're big on both sides. Most masks are tiny on one end and then big on the other, but these are substantial all around."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Positive Light Under Eye Brightener

"This is really pretty, it's a nice looking concealer, very smooth. I think it's really pretty, really smooth, I hope it lasts a day. The concealer looks okay but it's also looking more luminous and getting into wrinkles a little bit. The concealer is all settled in all my wrinkles including my crow's feet, I never really get settling in my crow's feet and this is a big settler."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Hydrogel Eye Patches

"The Peter Thomas Roth Eye Patches come in three types, one is for firming, one is for brightening, one is for de-puffing. My girls and I are getting these in our stockings this year and we're going to have a little eye patch party."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Masks & Peels6 reviews

iRestore Illumina Neck and Chest Mask

"The neck and chest bib that I'm using currently is the iRestore neck and chest bib. It's got a lot of light bulbs, it's bigger than your average neck and chest bib mask, and I love this one."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

iRestore Illumina Face Mask

"The red light therapy mask I like is the iRestore mask. I ended up giving that one to my daughter because it does have blue light in it, and it's better for young people who have acne, whereas I prefer a red light mask that just has the red and the near infrared since I don't have acne anymore. But, uh, it's a good mask either way. If that's your price point, it's very comfortable, very lightweight, very easy to use, nice mask."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Qure Q Rejuvalight Mask

"This has the right color of red light for me but for me it doesn't have the right color of near infrared. It's got 880 which is 50 nanometers off from the 830 that I'm looking for and 50 is too big of a swing. It's never going to get close to being 830. This one does contain three other colors of light in it. It's got the 415 blue light which is for acne, it's got 605 amber light which is one of those shallower ones with much less study on it, and it also has 660 deep red light. This has 160 bulbs total but of course it's not 160 of each color. So when companies give you a high number of bulbs they're usually adding all the bulbs together, they're not telling you how many of each individual bulb you get. This mask contains 160 bulbs total but there's only 30 of the 415 blue wavelength, 55 of the 630 red light nanometer wavelength, and 25 each of the 605, 660, and 880 wavelengths. So for me that is too few bulbs of each color."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 8 Bond Intense Moisture Repair Mask

"It's so good remember when that was out of stock during pandemic and you couldn't get it we thought it was never coming back well it came back and now it's been in stock so it's great stuff"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution

"I also use the Ordinary AHA 30 Plus BHA 2 as an alternative for my weekly Sunday peel. These are both alpha hydroxy acid-based chemical peels and work very well. The Ordinary is an inexpensive dupe for the Drunk Elephant. This one is a little bit more of an aggressive peel with more skin sloughing and peeling off the next day, which can get in the way of how my makeup looks, but it works very well."

✓Yay

58%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial

"On Sunday nights, I do an alpha hydroxy acid peel instead of using my tretinoin. I do either the Drunk Elephant TLC Sukari Baby Facial or the Ordinary AHA 30 Plus BHA 2. These are both alpha hydroxy acid-based chemical peels and are very similar. The Ordinary is an inexpensive dupe for the Drunk Elephant, and they both work very well. I do prefer the Drunk Elephant because it's just a little bit gentler on my skin. The Ordinary one is a little bit more of an aggressive peel with more skin sloughing and peeling off the next day."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Mists & Essences2 reviews

Prequel Universal Skin Solution Dermal Spray for Face and Body

"The Prequel hypochlorous acid spray is in it. Hypochlorous acid is wonderful if you have any kind of skin irritations. Calms and soothes your skin very nicely."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray

"One thing I do get at Sephora that I love is the Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray. It's a hypochlorous acid spray, soothing and calming for the skin. If your skin is irritated, you just give it a little spritz and it takes away the irritation really, really quickly. It's instantly cooling and takes away that sting, and I love it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Toners2 reviews

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Toner

"The first thing is the Isntree green tea toner. Longtime love. Have used that for years."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity+ Advanced Facial Toning Kit

"You guys know it's not Nordstrom sale without a deal on NuFACE. You know how much I love my NuFACE. This is a microcurrent device. It's basically a face massage with electricity and so it gives your skin extra energy, extra ATP. So, this really helps to like lift your brows, lift your jawline. I mean, it's not like plastic surgery certainly, but it is a really great treatment. It's so relaxing to do. It's got the red light attachment. It's got the little gel attachment that really helps to lift the eyelids and the hooded eyes. And it's got the NuFACE Trinity Plus and those heads pop off and you can pop them on. The kit comes with a bottle of conducting gel and a bottle of their serum. It's a $785 value for $389."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Acne1 review

Dr.G R.E.D Blemish Clear Soothing Cream

"I found another sunscreen that I like mixing with the LTMD better than the Paula's Choice, and that's Dr. G mild up green sunscreen. I love that where the Paula's Choice has a shinier finish, the Dr. G doesn't have a shiny finish. I mix them together and get a finish that doesn't accentuate my pores, is much more smoothing on my skin, and is not shiny or greasy. It doesn't slide around, and I just love it."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Balms & Ointments1 review

Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream

"It's their Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream. This is an awesome face and body lotion. It's a really nice cream that does contain ceramides. It's also got urea. Comes in a 10 oz tube and it's a great price point."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Fragrance1 review

Flur Vanilla Skin Body and Hair Fragrance Mist

"The Flur Mini Vanilla Skin Body and Hair Fragrance Mist, I had wanted to get this in the last Sephora event but it was sold out so I want to get it this time. I had bought the Citrus one and I really like that one but I really like the vanilla one so I want to try to get that. Those are really nice fragrances and they're not expensive like perfumes and things that cost $200 an ounce. It's just a body mist and they're very nice."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Supplements1 review

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides with Amino Acids, Iron and Protein

"I put in a scoop of Vital Proteins collagen supplement into my tea and I count that as 11 g of protein. Now, a lot of people don't want me to count that as a protein because it is an incomplete protein. The only one that's missing is tryptophan. I figure that I probably get the tryptophan from somewhere else during the day. So, I don't see any reason not to count it."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

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