Angie tests foundations, sunscreens, cleansers, and eye and lip products exclusively on mature skin, reviewing what actually performs for women over 50 rather than a general audience. Her format is hands-on and practical, covering everything from blush and bronzer to anti-aging skincare with that specific skin type always as the lens.
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The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is my favorite and it is 30% off in both sizes. It is the best cleansing balm hands down for removing your makeup. I use it as the first cleanse of my double cleanse and have used it for years. Holy grail product, I love it.
My two favorite sunscreens of all time after testing 250 different sunscreens are the Healthy Skin Labs Protect SPF 50 and the DRMTLGY Physical Tinted Moisturizer SPF 44. They are tinted, truly all mineral sunscreens. They're thicker and a little bit heavier feeling going on and they do have a shinier finish, so they do need something over them. I either have to set them with powder or put foundation on over them. But when I want my foundation to look its best and when I'm really looking for a sunscreen to wear with foundation, this is one that I go to. I highly recommend it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Having used it 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. 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 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.
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.
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"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."
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All 3 takes on Brow Harmony Precision Pencil
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"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."
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"My new favorite brow pencil this year is the Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Precision Pencil in the shade Rich Taupe. It's so tiny but it's almost tear-shaped, so it's really easy to just make those little hairlike strokes. I like to define the upper edge of my brow first and make it a little straighter than it actually is, almost to a point. My brows are like a little toenail moon shape, so they're just very much curve, and I like them to have a little bit more definition and a little bit more shape, so I just kind of draw on the shape that I want and blend that all out."
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"This is a really nice eyebrow pencil. The taupe shade was a little dark for me, but it has a little bit of a reddish cast to it when I first put it on. This is such a super fine tipped eyebrow pencil that you can do hair-like strokes and then you can color it in. It's soft and creamy so it doesn't take a really hard stroke to get it on. Some of the pencils, the product is so hard that it's really hard to get it on. And of course it has a spoolie on the other end for blending it out. I really really really like this."
"This L'Oreal Extensionist mascara was my next favorite makeup find. I tried this one without very high hopes 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, and 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. I really like this and it stays put all day and it's not hard to take off at night."
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88%Guru Score
All 2 takes on Extensionist Mascara
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"This L'Oreal Extensionist mascara was my next favorite makeup find. I tried this one without very high hopes 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, and 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. I really like this and it stays put all day and it's not hard to take off at night."
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"L'Oreal Extensionist Mascara is a beautiful mascara and it wears so well. It's so easy to apply and I love it. It really gives me a lot of extra length."
"I've been talking about this, raving about this since the very first time I tried it. It is one of my favorite palettes of all time because it's got 10 pans of color, but the four in the center are cream eyeshadows. And so, I love to use them either as an eye shadow base, a primer. They help to make my crinkly, like discolored eyelids look smooth and beautiful, but they also help the powder shadows to stay in place and to blend out so beautifully. I get the smoothest blend with this palette."
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70%Guru Score
All 2 takes on Naked Shaped palette
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"I've been talking about this, raving about this since the very first time I tried it. It is one of my favorite palettes of all time because it's got 10 pans of color, but the four in the center are cream eyeshadows. And so, I love to use them either as an eye shadow base, a primer. They help to make my crinkly, like discolored eyelids look smooth and beautiful, but they also help the powder shadows to stay in place and to blend out so beautifully. I get the smoothest blend with this palette."
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"I'm really kind of digging this palette. I just think this is so good. I love that it gives you cream eyeshadows. It gives you powder eyeshadows. It gives you mattes and shimmers. It's very versatile and I think it'd be great for travel especially. You know, it's great that you can use these creams as eyeshadows, as an eyehadow base. You can also use them to contour your face and you can also use them as eyeliner."
"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."
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All 2 takes on Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara
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"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."
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"A lot of people had recommended the Thrive Causemetics mascara. It's called Liquid Lash Extensions and this is great, just about as good as my Cali Ray. When you pull the brush out, the squeegee, you can feel it squeegeeing. I really like the brush on this beautiful mascara. It really makes my lashes look long and sleek and just great. So loving this, and it is easy to remove as well with the double cleanse that I use."
"It only takes one coat to give me long, silky lashes that last all day. 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. This one wore pretty flawlessly all day long."
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All 2 takes on Paradise Big Deal Mascara
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"It only takes one coat to give me long, silky lashes that last all day. 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. This one wore pretty flawlessly all day long."
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"The mascara is beautiful, it went on really great with no clumps and made my lashes look really good. It does take two coats to build up some lash, but it just makes you look like you have a lot of lashes, gives you volume, gives you length, and it wore really really well for most of the day. My only problem with it is one eye got a little dribble under here and there are some flakes under that eye, but there are no flakes under the other eye. So it's interesting how one eye versus the other performed differently."
"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."
"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 a eyelid primer with it. You just put it on and it stays put all day long. They are just gorgeous."
"The brush is huge for this size cap. 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."
"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."
"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."
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All 2 takes on Colossal Bubble Mascara
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"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."
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"The mascara very disappointing. It's got these gray smears and very flaky. I much prefer a tubing mascara. This is not longwearing."
"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."
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81%Guru Score
All 2 takes on Liquid Eyeshadow
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"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."
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"The other liquid eyeshadows that I really like a lot are the Armani liquid eyeshadows, these are gorgeous and these come in so many beautiful shades as well. This is like a matte skin tone that I would use all over the lid, this one is like a taupe shimmer, this is the matte nude one. You can just put them on with your fingers and they stay all day and they look beautiful."
"They're 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 and they're all over my face, smudged by the end of the day, 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. These are creamy, they're easy to draw a line with, never tugging on your eyelids. They're like the perfect eyeliners."
"The Merit mascara 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."
"I do have a fair amount of brow hair mainly because I use a brow grow serum and I love my brow grow serum. The one that I use and swear by is RevitaLash Brow, which is awesome, and it's got more of a doe foot applicator so it gives you more of a thick application so it helps to grow the hairs back in a little bit of a thicker way."
"I 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, silky long lashes but also increased the volume."
"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."
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90%Guru Score
All 5 takes on I Need a Nude Palette
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"The big winner for the day is the Natasha Denona I Need a Nude Palette. This is beautiful, it's nice and cool palette but it does have some warms in it. It's got a lot of variety in there. The colors are gorgeous, they blend really well, they wear really well. The colors are all very wearable. There's nothing in here that makes it such a dark palette that you wouldn't use it. The only real criticism of the palette is that for me I don't need that many shimmers with glitter in them, but even though I ended up wearing one of the glitter ones, I don't think it looks bad. I do have a little bit of glitter fall out, but it's not everywhere. In general, these are really great quality. You cannot go wrong with this palette. If you were thinking of getting it, definitely get it. It is a beauty and definitely my favorite thing that I put on today."
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"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."
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"The Holy Grail eyeshadow palette for this year is the Natasha Denona I Need a Nude Palette, hands down favorite palette of not just this year, of like the last 5 years. I got to say with the exception of my Stone Cold Fox palette, this is I think the most beautiful palette, just right up my alley. The colors in here are just so subtle and so beautiful."
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"Natasha Denona came out with a new palette this year that is just such perfection. I love it. It is the I Need a Nude Palette, and if you're into nude eyeshadows, oh my gosh, this is the most beautiful palette because it's not just a cool palette or just a warm palette. It's a combination, but even the warm tones in here they're not super orange or super red. This shade right here, this rusty color, is the most magical color because even though it looks kind of a bricky color in the pan, it comes off more of a muted clay rust color rather than a super bright orange color. And even this peachy tone, they're very wearable. If you love a nice neutral palette, and they go with the cool shades in here because the cools aren't completely gray. The cools have a little bit of warmth to them, the warms have a little bit of cool to them, and so they just blend perfectly and make you these gorgeous eyeshadow looks. The shimmers in here are so beautiful. It's an expensive palette at $69, so getting it at 20% off is definitely the way to go."
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"Hands down my favorite eyeshadow palette of 2023 was the Natasha Denona I Need a Nude Palette. Look at her, she is a stunner, look at those shades. I am not one for heavy dark smoky eyeshadow, I'm more of a less is more where eyeshadow is concerned, I don't like a lot of color on my eyelids, but I like my eyeshadow to do its job, which is to make my eyes look uplifted, to make my hoods look like they're not laying on my eyelashes, and to give me a little bit of added sparkle, add some depth there. And this does that without making my eyeshadow look heavy and bad, kind of costume theatrical makeup. The shades in this are so muted and so beautiful that you just can't go wrong with it. There's only one dark shade in the whole palette and it isn't even that dark, but you can smoke it out if you want. There are a lot of shimmers, they're so pretty, look at the shimmer, look at the sheen on those, I just love them so much. And the mattes though is really where this palette shines, it's got the light matte, it's got the two light neutral mattes."
"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."
"For Lash Glue, I'm using the Velour Lash Glue. This is an all-hold. You can cry, you can sweat, you could probably jump in a pool and your lashes will not come off with this glue. This is an incredible glue that I love."
"The mascara, I can't really say that I'm loving it at this point. I do have a little bit of a smudge below each eye, so I like my mascara to stay put. It did take a little work to build it up, but I think the lashes are nice looking. I may give this another try, I'm not going to write this one off quite yet."
"The ColourPop That's Taupe Palette is one of my favorites of all time, it's like a smaller curated version of Stone Cold Fox with that same taupe color way, a little warm and a little cool, and a lot of nice shimmers in it."
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83%Guru Score
All 2 takes on That's Taupe Palette
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"The palette that I've really been loving this summer is the ColourPop That's Taupe Palette. This is not a new palette, but I've had it for years and I love it. It's like a smaller version of my Stone Cold Fox palette. This shade right here is just the perfect mid-tone matte to disguise your hood and make it look like you actually have a crease, and I love that shade. That can be just a one and done eyeshadow for summer, it's so perfect. You can put a little bit of shimmer on your lid, I love the shimmers that are in here, they're beautiful, they're not super glittery."
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"The ColourPop That's Taupe Palette is one of my favorites of all time, it's like a smaller curated version of Stone Cold Fox with that same taupe color way, a little warm and a little cool, and a lot of nice shimmers in it."
"I also tried the Tarte Tartlet XL 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 CI Ray tubing mascara I never end up with the little dribble at the corner of my eye, but with this one I had it. So not in love with this even though it was pretty. I know a lot of people do like it, but I think that the Kelly Ray is far superior because it stays put until I take it off."
"This one is the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. I don't really want to talk too much about these except to say that it is a gorgeous palette. I've used it in videos and I love it, but it's the kind of palette that I'm not really going to reach for every single day because of how the shimmers are in it. The Mario is more true neutral to gray and blue, but it has shimmers in it that are very chunky and very glittery. If you're not into chunky glittery shimmers then you really will have no use for at least three or four pans from this palette. It's a stunner, it's gorgeous. This is the glittery color that I have on my eyelids today and it's beautiful and I love it, but it really is for me I'll wear it like Christmas Eve and to make a video but not so much in real life. So if you're looking for something special for the holidays or for a gift I would recommend it, but for everyday use it's not what I'd pick."
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79%Guru Score
All 4 takes on Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette
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"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."
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"This one is the Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette. I don't really want to talk too much about these except to say that it is a gorgeous palette. I've used it in videos and I love it, but it's the kind of palette that I'm not really going to reach for every single day because of how the shimmers are in it. The Mario is more true neutral to gray and blue, but it has shimmers in it that are very chunky and very glittery. If you're not into chunky glittery shimmers then you really will have no use for at least three or four pans from this palette. It's a stunner, it's gorgeous. This is the glittery color that I have on my eyelids today and it's beautiful and I love it, but it really is for me I'll wear it like Christmas Eve and to make a video but not so much in real life. So if you're looking for something special for the holidays or for a gift I would recommend it, but for everyday use it's not what I'd pick."
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"If I ignore the shimmers I can do a beautiful everyday matte look with it. There's three silver shimmers in here, and I'm not sure that anyone needs three silver shimmers in one palette. There are three pans that I'm not going to use like on an everyday basis. I think they're both beautiful, it's just going to depend on what kind of colors you wear."
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"I did buy a new palette specifically for this video because it just dropped about a week ago and I was so excited for it. It's a Makeup by Mario palette, this new limited edition palette called the Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette, and it is so beautiful. The first time I saw it I was like, I definitely need that palette, I need to at least try it. This palette is just stunning, it is gorgeous, and it's just such a special palette for the holidays. If you like to receive makeup for the holidays, if you like to buy yourself makeup gifts and then give them to somebody to give to you, this is going to be a beautiful, perfect holiday palette. The colors in here are definitely not the average things that you see in the average palette, but this one really spoke to me because it's on the cool side, it has some blues, it has some really pretty shimmers. The shades that I'm wearing today to do this eyeshadow look were this lightest one on my movable lid at the inner corner, then this kind of dusty mauvey color in the crease, then I went with this gray to deepen up and smoke out the crease, and then I put on some of this really dark navy blue, so pretty. And then I topped that with this gorgeous peacock shimmer. Oh my goodness, is that not just stunning, I mean look at those shades, so gorgeous."
"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."
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All 6 takes on Brow Freeze
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"The Anastasia Brow Freeze, yeah I can still feel it, it's still in place and it's still holding my brows in place."
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"The other product I'm going to use in this video is the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze. This is just a clear brow glue, it really does work to glue your brows into place, but it doesn't make them feel super sticky or really crunchy, and it is perfectly clear so you're not going to see it. But the nice thing about it is because it does coat your brows, it does make them look a little bit darker, and most people can use that."
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"To hold my brows in place and give them a little extra fluffiness, I'm going to use the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze. This really holds my brows in place."
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"Then to keep my brows in place I use the Anastasia Brow Freeze. This is another favorite that I've discovered this year, this is really awesome. A lot of brow gels, you put them in, you can see them in your brow, they make it feel sticky, they make it feel heavy. This is the most lightweight product but it really holds your brows in place perfectly all night."
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"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."
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"This Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze is one of three Anastasia brow products in the kit, and it's become a huge love of mine this year. It's the best gel. It doesn't make your brows feel gluey or clumpy, and you don't see big clumps of stuff in there. It's just so great, and it really holds your brows in place all day."
"The first Mario palette I bought was the Master Mattes Neutrals, 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, the one I reach for, and it has just such a nice variety of colors but it doesn't go too dark too fast. That's my age-old problem with palettes, they just get too dark too fast. 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. This is the one I would recommend for the vast majority of people."
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"I'm using the new Makeup by Mario Master Mattes Neutrals Palette. You're going to love it. This is such a great essential palette. It's not overly warm, it's not warm at all. It's a nice neutral leaning cool. I mean, you can see it's like a beautiful palette filled with neutrals. These are all great tones."
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"As a matte palette this is perfection. These are the best blending eyeshadows I think I have ever used. You get such a beautiful blend with these. Just using this palette I feel like my eyeshadow skills are so much better, and they're really the same but it's this eyeshadow that makes me look like a pro makeup artist with my blending. The shades are gorgeous. There are enough pale midtone mats to do your crease, there's enough darker tones to smoke it out. It just gives you such a variety of warms and cools. There's even a true gray and a true black. It's really a special palette, and if you don't have this already I would highly recommend picking this up."
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"The first Mario palette I bought was the Master Mattes Neutrals, 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, the one I reach for, and it has just such a nice variety of colors but it doesn't go too dark too fast. That's my age-old problem with palettes, they just get too dark too fast. 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. This is the one I would recommend for the vast majority of people."
"First Essence mascara that I've ever really liked that has lasted throughout the day. The lashes are pretty and silky and long but there's no flaking and no chipping so no smudging either."
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"First Essence mascara that I've ever really liked that has lasted throughout the day. The lashes are pretty and silky and long but there's no flaking and no chipping so no smudging either."
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"Another one that I like a lot is the Neutrogena Pure Screen. This is also a tinted mineral."
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"This is an SPF 30 and this one I would compare to the SRA V sunscreen but the advantage to this one over say the SRA ve is that this one comes in four shades. It stayed pretty shiny on my skin, it stayed pretty oily feeling on my skin, pretty wet and damp, didn't really dry back 100% on me. But I think this is formulated more like the SRA with drier skin people in mind. This is going to be very hydrating if you have dry skin, it's going to sink right in and it's going to be perfect on you. Even though this is an SPF 30, I feel like it's giving such good sun protection and especially such good UVA protection because this one has 21.6% zinc oxide and then it's also got 3.2% titanium dioxide. This is 80 minutes water resistant. It's really easy to reapply. It didn't make the makeup settle into my wrinkles and it didn't make it slide around. It did shorten the wear of makeup on me by a couple of hours."
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"It's a tinted sunscreen that comes in four different shades. It does have a greasy feel on the skin and it doesn't really dry and set back, it has a really super shiny finish, which normally those two things combined would be the kiss of death for me with sunscreen. But I gotta say I love this one because of how makeup went on over it. It really was great under makeup. The shine did come through and I did look shinier and shinier throughout the day, but under normal circumstances where I can reduce the shine during the day, this is really great under makeup. It didn't settle in my wrinkles, it didn't wear off super fast, and it was a great one. It is an SPF 30, though, and you know I prefer an SPF 50."
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"Neutrogena Pure Screen Tinted is a great tinted mineral sunscreen and it won my sunscreen testing video a couple of years ago. It comes in three shades so you can get a shade match, and it is a really hydrating sunscreen, so great for people with dry skin. It is normally around $20 and is now $13.88."
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"One of my favorite tinted mineral sunscreens is from Neutrogena, it's an SPF 30 and it comes in four shades. Usually tinted mineral sunscreens come in one shade and you can't get a shade match, but with this one you can definitely find a shade match, and it's very very hydrating."
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"Another one that I like a lot is the Neutrogena Pure Screen. This is also a tinted mineral."
"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."
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"My favorite sunscreen is actually Supergoop Glow Screen. This is a chemical sunscreen, and if you are not very sensitive, this is a really great sunscreen because it's SPF of 40, which is awesome. But my favorite part about it is that it's a hybrid between skincare, makeup primer, and sunscreen. You're getting a three in one, so whenever I use the sunscreen I skip my moisturizer. I have combination oily skin so I don't need excessive amounts of moisture on the skin before I apply my makeup, but this is perfectly hydrating for me. It also gives a glow primer, so if you like using a glowy primer this is going to do it for you. It's going to make your skin look so radiant and beautiful."
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"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."
"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."
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"This one leaves that tiniest little bit of white cast. It's better for more normal to combo to oily skin people. If you're a dry skin person, I'm not sure that you will absolutely love this. I'm going to give it four out of five as a standalone sunscreen and for under foundation, a four out of five."
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"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."
"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."
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"This is also a tinted mineral, but it's substantially less expensive. I have a 20% ongoing code with DRMTLGY, it's Angie20 at checkout at DRMTLGY, and you can get this or anything at DRMTLGY for 20% off, it's an ongoing code forever. If you're looking for something that's like a one and done, you don't have to put makeup on over it because the tint is perfect, but it feels nice and dry and set. If you want to put makeup on over it, you can, and it will look great all day."
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"This is a tinted mineral sunscreen, and it doesn't contain butyl salicylate, which is a chemical sunscreen booster that can sometimes irritate your skin if you have super sensitive skin. It has a much more radiant finish, and it's definitely going to be more hydrating on the skin. If you have super dry skin, this is the one that I would recommend. The normal price is $29, and it's $20.30 with your 30% off."
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"This one is from DRMTLGY, their Physical Tinted Moisturizer SPF 44. It's about the same shade, looks about the same on my skin, and feels about the same, very hydrating as well. I get this one on Amazon, and I have a 20% code with DRMTLGY. It's pretty shiny, pretty dewy looking, and it accentuates my enlarged pores, so I definitely have to powder it over, which means it takes another step, for days when I don't want to mess around with other makeup I just want to throw on a sunscreen and go."
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"This is really great if you're trying to get a lower price sunscreen. I do have an ongoing 20% off discount code with DRMTLGY, I believe it's ANGIE2, you can apply that at checkout. This is also a tinted sunscreen. You might choose between this and the other one based on which shade is closest to your skin tone, or what you can afford better, but they're both great sunscreens. This one is an SPF 44."
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"It's a sunscreen. I liked the color of it, but I just felt like on my skin it didn't dry, it didn't set up, it was just too greasy. But that was a few years ago, and the older I get the drier my skin gets, especially this time of year, so I really appreciate a really hydrating sunscreen. I dug this one out and started using it again, and I really, really like this one now. It could just be the difference in my skin from then to now. I can put it on and it doesn't look super greasy, I do still have to powder it, it does have kind of a shiny finish to it, but I like it a lot more now than I did back then."
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"It's a tinted mineral sunscreen and it has almost the exact same ingredients as the Healthy Skin Labs, but it's much less expensive. This is about $45 for 1.8 oz, so around a $25 an ounce price point, so definitely like $10 less an ounce. And they're almost the same. Blends in easily. Wears great under makeup. Nice and hydrating. Doesn't feel heavy or greasy. It's just a great sunscreen."
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"My two favorite sunscreens of all time after testing 250 different sunscreens are the Healthy Skin Labs Protect SPF 50 and the DRMTLGY Physical Tinted Moisturizer SPF 44. They are tinted, truly all mineral sunscreens. They're thicker and a little bit heavier feeling going on and they do have a shinier finish, so they do need something over them. I either have to set them with powder or put foundation on over them. But when I want my foundation to look its best and when I'm really looking for a sunscreen to wear with foundation, this is one that I go to. I highly recommend it."
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"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."
"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."
"The concealer I'm wearing today is also a sunscreen. This one is from DRMTLGY. It's their Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41, and this is a dedicated sunscreen just for your eyes. It's got this nice cooling tip, so you press this, a little bit of sunscreen comes up, and you apply it. Under the eyes is a great place to use an all mineral sunscreen because chemical sunscreens really do irritate your skin a lot more than mineral sunscreens. So if you never put sunscreen up close to your eyes because it makes them water and it stings and burns, definitely try a mineral sunscreen. It's tinted, so it gives you some coverage under there. And this is 20% off in the big spring sale."
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"The concealer I'm wearing today is also a sunscreen. This one is from DRMTLGY. It's their Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41, and this is a dedicated sunscreen just for your eyes. It's got this nice cooling tip, so you press this, a little bit of sunscreen comes up, and you apply it. Under the eyes is a great place to use an all mineral sunscreen because chemical sunscreens really do irritate your skin a lot more than mineral sunscreens. So if you never put sunscreen up close to your eyes because it makes them water and it stings and burns, definitely try a mineral sunscreen. It's tinted, so it gives you some coverage under there. And this is 20% off in the big spring sale."
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"I've been using the DRMTLGY Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41 as my concealer on my no makeup makeup days and I love it. This is an all mineral sunscreen. I love it just as an under eye concealer. It has this metal tip that's cool and you just press it, get a little sunscreen up there, pat it under your eyes, and oh, it feels so good when I use this. I don't use any concealer with it, so it hydrates and it doesn't settle in my wrinkles. It is perfection under the eyes. If you're a no makeup person and you don't really want to wear any concealer, try wearing sunscreen under your eyes, because the under eyes is one of the first places that people start noticing their age showing, you get wrinkles, discolorations, you start getting a little puffy under there, and the best way to prevent that is to wear sunscreen directly under your eyes. But a lot of the chemical sunscreens will burn your eye skin, and that's where mineral sunscreen comes in, and that's why this product is so great, because you can wear sunscreen all around your eyes and it color corrects, it moisturizes, and it protects your skin. So it is a really, really great product."
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"The DRMTLGY Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41 is the one I'm loving the most right now. I got to say, since I got this I literally have not used concealer for my everyday makeup in months, that's how much I love this. I put on my regular sunscreen every morning and I do put it up under my eyes, but I want that extra protection under my eyes because that's really where the sun damage starts showing first, so I think this is just great. Plus it gives me that little bit of color correction that I need, because I don't have super dark circles under my eyes, I just have a little bit of color correction that I need, and this is perfect. It's lightweight, it's moisturizing, and it just looks so beautiful under there that I have pretty much stopped wearing concealer except for special occasions, but for an everyday this is what I use as my concealer now and I absolutely love it."
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"The last thing in skincare is the DRMTLGY Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41. This comes in four shades. I actually tried the lighter shade in the vlog video. I felt like this looked great just on top of my sunscreen. When I added my concealer on top of it, I felt like it did start to look a little bit heavy, so instead of putting my concealer on top, I've just been wearing this as my concealer, and I love it. I haven't worn concealer at all this week. I just put this on under my eyes and it's giving me that extra sunscreen protection where we really need it, because who doesn't see the signs of aging first under their eyes. Part of the reason we see the signs of aging first there is people neglect that area when they're putting on their sunscreen, and this is a dedicated sunscreen just for that area that doubles as your under eye concealer. I think it's just brilliant. This is 12% zinc oxide and 10% titanium dioxide, and this is in the shade medium. It does have a fairly luminous finish, so I just put my regular setting powder over it. It's not settling into my wrinkles, it's not accentuating anything, and it looks really smooth and really nice. I just love it as my under eye concealer."
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"This is a tinted mineral eye sunscreen, very similar to the Colorescience one, but I think it costs less. This is $44 for a quarter of an ounce, the Colorescience is $79 for a quarter of an ounce. They both come in different shades. I'm not sure this is the right shade for me, this is fair. I'm just going to pop that on under my eyes and blend that in with my fingers. Oh, that looks nice. I mean it's definitely luminous, for like half the price, higher SPF, really good product. I am definitely going to have to get the darker color in it though."
"The Abib Airy sunstick protection bar is 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."
"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."
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"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."
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"The Colorescience Flex is a tinted mineral sunscreen that I like a lot. It is the one that changes color but it also comes in shades, and it is 20% off."
"I put on my Haru Haru Wonder Black Rice Airy Fit Sunscreen. Love that sunscreen. Very nice and sheer and hydrating and gives a nice finish to the skin."
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"I put on my Haru Haru Wonder Black Rice Airy Fit Sunscreen. Love that sunscreen. Very nice and sheer and hydrating and gives a nice finish to the skin."
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"If you are looking for just a chemical sunscreen you don't have to deal with all the characteristics of mineral sunscreens like that they're heavy greasy shiny leave a white cast then this is a great one to try it doesn't leave a white cast it goes on perfectly clear and it works great under makeup."
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"I tried it once I didn't love it. I used it over my Haruharu Wonder and I felt like it made me look really textured. I felt like it was really drying and my skin was all flaky by the end of the day."
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"The Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen is a Korean chemical sunscreen with SPF 50 and PA+++ rating. I instantly fell in love with this one. It's not a mineral sunscreen, but the Asian chemical sunscreens have different sunscreen ingredients than what's allowed in the US, and using this kind of sunscreen I get no irritation at all. It isn't greasy, it's very lightweight. When they call it Airy Fit, that's how it feels, it feels very airy, doesn't feel heavy on your skin, doesn't make you hot. It is just so incredibly beautiful."
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"This is a completely chemical sunscreen from Haru Haru Wonder, their Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50. It's a PA++++ in which means that they have tested the UVB separately from the UVA. This is a standard white chemical sunscreen but it uses sunscreening ingredients that aren't available here in the US, they're available in most of the rest of the world, and for me they're much much less irritating on my skin than US chemical sunscreens. I love this. It's very lightweight, doesn't feel greasy. If you have never met a sunscreen that you liked because it felt greasy and disgusting and you just couldn't wear it, give this one a try. You will probably love it. It's not shiny, it's not white casty, it's just the most beautiful sunscreen."
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"I decided to use my Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50 with a PA+++ rating. It's very lightweight under makeup and works very well with most foundations that I've tried it with."
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"This is my Haru Haru Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airyfit daily sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++. This is a Korean sunscreen. So, it uses all chemical sunscreening filters, but not the ones that we have here in the US, which are so irritating to the skin. These use milder filters that are actually better at screening UVA, which is the aging rays of the sun, and you're also getting full UVB protection as well. So, this is a great sunscreen. It's a traditional white sunscreen, but it won't leave you a white cast. It's very lightweight. You can just put it on and go."
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"It's a chemical sunscreen from Korea that is so fantastic. I have sensitive skin and I have never been able to use a chemical sunscreen ever until this sunscreen. I've been using it every day since July. I started a one-week test with it because usually within 5 days sunscreen is really going to irritate my skin, but I love it so much."
"Because I always like to keep my lips sunscreened as well, I put on the DRMTLGY Lip Silk SPF 40. This is a really pretty lip gloss and it's not drying either, and it's got a mineral SPF 40 in it. So I want this. If you're looking for an SPF lip gloss, give this a try. I have a 20% off code with DRMTLGY that I can put in the info box."
"They have a two pack of the Kopari sunscreen. I discovered it last year in last year's Nordstrom sale. And this is a beautiful sunscreen. It's not like any other sunscreen you've ever used. It's almost a sunscreen oil with shimmer in it. And this year's version is a rose gold. It's two full-size sunscreens for $55. So about 27.50 a piece, which is a good deal for this sunscreen. It's a body sunscreen, but you put it on and it just makes your skin glimmer and not sparkle like glitter, but it just makes your skin look so healthy and so radiant. And the rose gold color looks really, really beautiful. So, I fell for this hard last year. I'm going to be picking this one up again this year."
"It made me look a little extra shiny and a little extra textury even after applying powder. At the 4 hour check in, the makeup was a little bit worn off, with foundation coming off underneath my fingernails all day. At 8 hours, the makeup was definitely not wearing very well. So it shortens the wear time of makeup by a few hours, but it didn't feel uncomfortable or drying to wear. I'm giving this one a three out of five for sunscreen and a three out of five for how it sits under makeup."
"At the four-hour check-in, it still looked fine from a distance, but up close it settled into wrinkles. It was being weird by my eyebrows, and my under eye concealer was much more worn off than normal. At the eight-hour check-in, the makeup was almost completely worn off, so it drastically shortened the wear time of the makeup. 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."
"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 dry back in air quotes because this never dries back. It stays greasy feeling. I gave it a zero out of five as a sunscreen."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"The tint sometimes, I really like that matte finish if I don't have time to put powder on over my sunscreen. This one is more of a matte finish, and I do find it a little bit drying by the end of the day, so I'm not really using this one now that it's winter. I'll probably start using it again in summer when my skin is a little bit more hydrated."
"I tried a new sunscreen that was this Numbuzin No.1 Clear Filter Sun Essence. It's an SPF 50 with a PA+++ rating, it's a Korean sunscreen and uses all the Asian European filters and it's got all the same sunscreen ingredients as my Haru Haru Airy Fit Black Rice that I love so much. But it does have like a slight minty green cast to it and it does have some skin soothing ingredients, so I think it's meant to be kind of like an anti-redness, skin soothing sunscreen. But it also includes niacinamide, which if you're also getting a lot of niacinamide in your skincare from other places, it might be over the top, too much niacinamide. I didn't find this irritating, I didn't find it particularly soothing, I didn't think that the green cast really did anything to hide any redness in my skin. For me it was just okay and I did find it slightly drying by the end of the day. I thought it was okay but have not been reaching for it on a regular basis."
"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."
"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."
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"This is the reformulated version of one of my all-time favorite sunscreens. It is still pretty good. I find that the color match on this is just not great for me anymore, so I don't use it as much as I used to. But this is an awesome sunscreen. This is a tinted mineral sunscreen. It just rubs in really easily. It's not heavy. It's not super greasy, feels really nice on the skin. It's got antioxidants in it, so it helps to fight those free radicals that are caused by sun exposure."
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"Second runner up in this year's video was a reformulation of one of my longtime favorites. This is EltaMD UV AOX Elements, so this is a reformulation from UV Elements, which was an SPF 44. This newer version with the reformulation is an SPF 50. The tint on this one is a little bit darker than it used to be and a little bit warmer, so if I put on a sunless tan it matches pretty well. This one is actually a little better than the old formula as far as how it wears under makeup. So if you are a little warmer skin tone, a little bit darker than me, this could be the perfect sunscreen for you and it could be like your Holy Grail, because it does work really well under makeup and better than the original."
"The new version does not mention being water resistant at all, so it's not a good choice to wear to the beach, where the old formula was always one of my go-tos. The good news is that it feels, looks, and acts very much like the original formula. It feels very lightweight on the skin, doesn't feel super greasy, and leaves a nice glowy, dewy finish. The new version actually wore under makeup better than the old version for me, because the old one always shortened the wear time of my foundation. With this one, my foundation lasted a good eight hours solid with no wearing off and no settling into wrinkles. I really like it a lot. The main reason I'm not super happy with it is that the butyloctyl salicylate tends to irritate my skin. I can't really use sunscreens with butyl salicylate on my neck, and depending on how much is in a formula, it sometimes irritates my eyelids and makes the rest of my skin sting. With this sunscreen, I don't think it's super high on the ingredient list (some sunscreens have it as the second ingredient after water), but this one hasn't irritated my eyelids or my face. I haven't used it on my neck yet. Overall, this is pretty good, and if you're switching over from the old version, you could be perfectly happy with the new one."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"Right after I put up my sunscreen video, Colorescience came out with a brand new mineral sunscreen, and so everyone was asking about the Colorescience No Show Mineral Sunscreen, so I ran out and got it. I tried it -- I'm not 100% in love with this. A lot of people wrote in and said it's a miracle, it really literally is a no-show mineral sunscreen, but it's not really no-show on me. It did leave me the slightest white cast, and even a slight white cast on me makes me look just a little bit washed out, so then I have to put on makeup with it, and I have to cover everything I've covered with this with makeup -- all down my neck, my ears -- because they all look whitish too. The finish was fine, it didn't feel super heavy or super greasy. This is a really nice sunscreen, but on me it wasn't like a hundred percent no-show -- though it's pretty darn close. If you have a skin tone that's a little bit lighter than mine, this could be a really great sunscreen for you."
"I love the banana boat sunscreen for my body. I like this because it goes on really really dry, it's not greasy at all, it doesn't stay greasy feeling, it doesn't make your clothes feel like they're sticking to you. It's really a great sunscreen. It's fragrance free and it's dry feeling."
"This is the CL Tint and Protect Tinted Serum, it's an SPF 50, but of course you're not using enough to get SPF 50 out of it, so always wear a sunscreen underneath. This is beautiful, I love this, this is what I'm wearing today, and I have been reaching for this so much more than any other foundation since I got it back in April. Every time I make a video and people are like, oh my God your skin looks so beautiful in today's video, what were you wearing, please link the makeup, it's usually this. So this is great, I love it. If you haven't tried this yet, give it a try."
"The next serum I always apply in the morning is my Timeless CoQ10 serum. This is another antioxidant, and this one helps to give your skin more energy. Energized skin can make more collagen, more elastin, more ceramides, more hyaluronic acid, more of everything that our skin produces less and less of as we get older, so that's a really great one to have in there. This one also contains Matrixyl 3000, so it's not just a one-trick pony, this one has two active ingredients in it."
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"The Timeless Coenzyme Q10 Serum is a yellow serum that's really nice and lightweight. CoQ10 is an antioxidant, but it works differently from vitamin C. CoQ10 actually gives your skin cells energy, and your skin cells need energy because they're really busy producing collagen and elastin. Just like everything else, as we age our skin cells get tired and they need more energy to do their work."
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"I put on my Timeless Coenzyme Q10 Serum. I love this serum, this is a hydrating serum. CoQ10 is an antioxidant, so again helps to fight those free radicals in your skin, but it also works to give your skin cells energy. So if your skin cells are more energized, they can make more collagen, they can make more elastin, they can do more repair work that they need to do. This serum also has Matrixyl 3000 in it, which is a peptide, and I love peptides in my skincare, but Matrixyl 3000 is supposed to help with collagen production and so it's supposed to help reduce your wrinkles as well."
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"The Timeless Coenzyme Q10 Serum has CoQ10 which is an antioxidant but it also contains Matrixyl 3000."
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"The Coenzyme Q10 Serum comes in either a 4 oz size or a 1 oz size. This contains CoQ10 which is another antioxidant so good for your skin, but it also contains Matrixyl 3000. I love their formulas because they have a very small ingredient deck, there's not a lot of fluff in here, there's not a lot of extra ingredients, you know like botanicals that are going to bother your skin. They're formulated properly which is very very important."
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"This is my Timeless CoQ10 serum. It's coenzyme Q10 and what I love about this serum is that it contains two, really three anti-aging ingredients. Coenzyme Q10 which is an antioxidant but it works differently from vitamin C. CoQ10 gives your skin energy so it helps to feed the mitochondria in your skin to have them produce more ATP so that your skin can do more. If your skin is more energized it can make more collagen, make more elastin, make more ceramides, make more hyaluronic acid, all the things that help to keep our skin looking great as we get older. This also contains Matrixyl 3000 which is the original peptide that has the most research behind it. This also contains hyaluronic acid, which is a humectant, a water binding molecule so it traps water onto the surface of the skin."
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"The third step in my morning routine is always my CoQ10 serum. This is from Timeless as well. So this one has coenzyme Q10. It also has Matrixyl 3000. CoQ10 is an antioxidant that helps fight free radicals and it also energizes your skin. It feeds your mitochondria and helps with ATP production so that your skin can do more. It can make more collagen, elastin, everything that your skin needs to make it look and be its healthiest and best. And the Matrixyl 3000 is a great ingredient. It was one of the more proven peptides that are out there."
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"I love this serum because it has two powerhouse active ingredients in it. It's got CoQ10 but it also sneakily has matrixyl 3000 in there, and matrixyl 3000 is a peptide. CoQ10 is also an antioxidant but it works differently from vitamin C. It's not a precursor for producing collagen. What it does is it gives your skin cells energy. If your skin has more energy then it can do more, it can repair itself more, it can make more new collagen, it can make more elastin, it can make more hyaluronic acid. But in addition this contains matrixyl 3000 and the matrixyl peptides are really good for your skin. They help to build collagen as well. So collagen being the name of the game, this has two ingredients in it that can help your collagen production. The Timeless products are just so well priced. A bottle of any Timeless product is about 26.95. They're a great price point because they're going to last you for a few months. I have repurchased and am using this every single day."
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"Two of my favorite peptide products are from Timeless. This is their CoQ10 serum. So this serum contains CoQ10 plus 8% Matrixel 3000 and this Matrixel Sin 6 serum contains 2% Matrixel Sin 6. And this one is also kind of a double duty product because you do get the CoQ10 in there."
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"Timeless Skincare is now available at Nordstrom, and they have the CoQ10 serum that I love so much."
"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."
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"I have used Timeless for years and years and years. I'd say about 12 years I've been using Timeless. I love their vitamin C serum."
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"This is a 20% L ascorbic acid based vitamin C serum. It's very watery liquid. Vitamin C is an antioxidant, it's one of the most potent antioxidants that we can use in skin care, and L ascorbic acid versions of it are the most effective in your skin. They are proven to help to brighten your skin, to fight free radicals that are produced by exposure to sun and pollution. Those are things that destroy our DNAs. It's doing wonders below the surface that you may not even be aware of, protecting your collagen, and that's the name of the game in anti-aging."
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"I would bring a mini size of my Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E + Ferulic Acid Serum. This is my go-to Holy Grail vitamin C serum so they make this little half ouncer which is great for travel."
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"This is at a much higher price point at $89 for 9 ounces, so does it top my Timeless vitamin C as my favorite that's staying in my skincare routine? It doesn't. But if you were looking for the vitamin C serum to be stable in your cabinet for a lot longer, this is a really great product."
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"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."
"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."
"My favorite is their 10% lactic acid serum. I used that for the last 12 years until I came out with my own skincare that combines a lot of these things in two little bottles."
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"My favorite is their 10% lactic acid serum. I used that for the last 12 years until I came out with my own skincare that combines a lot of these things in two little bottles."
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"I use The Ordinary 10% lactic acid serum and these are very lightweight and so they layer really well on top of each other."
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"I used up a bottle of my Ordinary 10% Lactic Acid serum. I love this serum, it's been a holy grail for me for years now and I apply this in the morning after my vitamin C serum. It just helps to exfoliate my skin, but the other thing I love about lactic acid is that it helps your skin to produce more ceramides and ceramides are those fatty lipids that make your skin look plump. So this is a great one, really love that. Have repurchased."
"This contains hyaluronic acid, ceramides, and niacinamide, but this also takes it a couple of steps further. This contains a couple of peptides and it also has a copper peptide in it. This is more spendy than most of the other things, at about $70. This is a really lightweight serum. I really love how it feels going on the skin, I love the finish on it, and it's just a great serum that is packed with really great anti-aging ingredients."
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"The last product of DRMTLGY that I really, really love is their needleless serum. This is a great serum that is so packed with so many great ingredients. This contains niacinamide, hyaluronic acid, a copper peptide material, it contains ceramides. It's normally $69 for an ounce, it's now $48.30 with your 30% off, and it also comes in a 2 ounce size."
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"Another product I talked about in my skincare video was the DRMTLGY Needleless Growth Factor Serum. This is a really great multitasking serum that I usually use in the summer when it's hot and humid and I don't feel like putting on a lot of heavy layers of moisturizer, and this has everything that is usually in two or three of my moisturizers all combined into one bottle, which is awesome. So it's got ceramides, it's got niacinamide, it's got a couple of peptides in it. This also contains a copper peptide, and a lot of people had written in and said you can't use copper peptides with vitamin C because I do put this on in my morning routine near my vitamin C. I don't think there's any problem with it, I don't think they're going to interact in a way that is problematic. I actually did a whole video on if you could use copper peptides with your vitamin C serum and I did a lot of research into it, and I don't think the conditions exist on our face for there to be a hugely bad reaction. This is not the kind of copper peptide that would interact with your vitamin C anyway, because this is not the blue kind of copper peptide, that's really the only one you need to worry about. This one is perfectly clear, as you can see, so no worries with this and your vitamin C serum."
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"This is the one copper peptide that I have ever used. It's not blue, it's a clear serum. Even though DRMTLGY says that their Needleless Serum can be used with anything, anywhere in your skincare routine, if you look at their product FAQs there's one about vitamin C and the Needleless Serum, and they say the one vitamin C serum that should be used at a separate time than the Needleless Serum is ascorbic acid, which is found in their Vitamin C E and F. So they don't recommend using it with ascorbic acid. I used it, it didn't seem to interact with anything in my skincare routine. I think I kept pushing it around, I used it sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the evening."
"I apply my Timeless Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum, this is a peptide serum. The matrixyls help with varying signs of aging so they'll help with wrinkles, they'll help with discoloration, so help with all kinds of things. They're very hydrating."
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"The Timeless Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum is a nice clear runny liquid. I just put on about a half a dropper of this, rub it along, rub it all over my face and all over my neck. Matrixyl Synthe'6 is another peptide that hits six different signs of aging and it helps your skin to produce more collagen and helps to reduce your wrinkles."
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"The second thing that I put on after that at night is my Timeless Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum. This is another matrixyl but this one helps with six different signs of aging. This one is supposed to help with synthesis of collagens types 1, 3, 4, fibronectin, lamins, and hyaluronic acid. So this is another great peptide that has been shown to work in the skin. Very lightweight, fluid serum that's easy to apply."
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"This Matrixel Sin 6 serum contains 2% Matrixel Sin 6. And this one is also kind of a double duty product because you do get the CoQ10 in there."
"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."
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"I really love the Tree Hut Watermelon Shave Oil. Both fragrances are heavenly. They really just keep my legs hydrated after I shave them and it just helps the razor to glide over a lot smoother. Haven't had any nicks or anything."
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"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."
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"Tree Hut makes a scented shave oil that is so good. I got the watermelon one last year and love it, and I love using the Tree Hut moisturizing shave oil. The fragrances are so good, and it is 27% off."
"CosRx always has things in the Prime Day sale, and the six peptide booster will be at a discount. I know a lot of us use that and love it."
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"CosRx always has things in the Prime Day sale, and the six peptide booster will be at a discount. I know a lot of us use that and love it."
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"The one I'm most psyched about is the six peptide booster. Skinceuticals has a new product out with a bunch of peptides in it, and this has all the same things but it doesn't cost like their product does. I bought this last week at full price."
"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."
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"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."
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"I actually kind of like this product. What I like about this product is that it does contain six peptides in a really big bottle of product for a very reasonable price point. The regular price on this is like $25 for 5 oz. There's a copper peptide in here, there's argireline, which is like the Botox in a jar peptide. It's also got one in here called KKPE, which is based on snake venom, also kind of a Botox in a jar kind of thing. It's got matrixyl. So this is loaded up with peptides. It's very watery, this is like a toner kind of consistency, and it's really nice to use. I would use this in like my first steps in an evening skincare routine, would be a great place to use this almost as a toner after you wash your face, either morning or evening. I would imagine you could use it either time. I don't think there's anything in here that is going to interact with any other products. It's fragrance-free."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"Research on using copper peptides topically is very sparse, very sparse. If you want to try it, fine, I wouldn't spend a ton of money on it. I would go with something like M love, 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. I purchased The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides for a video. I have both, and I think what I've decided to do is use them one on each hand and I'll use up the entire bottle of each and we'll see if my hands look any different."
"The prequel one turned brown really really fast so I was a little disappointed in that. Ascorbic acid based vitamin C serums have to be formulated right, they have to be in the right packaging in order for the vitamin C not to oxidize, but when it oxidizes it turns brown, and once your serum is brown it's really no good and you shouldn't use it."
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"The prequel one turned brown really really fast so I was a little disappointed in that. Ascorbic acid based vitamin C serums have to be formulated right, they have to be in the right packaging in order for the vitamin C not to oxidize, but when it oxidizes it turns brown, and once your serum is brown it's really no good and you shouldn't use it."
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"The Prequel Lucent-C Brightening Vitamin C Serum is derived mainly from mushrooms and on studies on skin cells in the lab it looks like it can do some of the same things that vitamin E can do such as regenerate vitamin C. This formula also contains niacinamide so you're definitely going to get a brightening of your skin with this. The Prequel vitamin C is much more of a watery liquid, will run through your fingers but you just squeeze them together tight. It does absorb really really quickly and this doesn't really leave any kind of a tack or stickiness on the surface of your skin so it rubs right in."
"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."
"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."
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"Another Maelove product that I use at night is the Hydrator and this is a panthenol serum and it also has Resveratrol in it, which is another antioxidant. So great serum, always a favorite, great thing to put into your skincare routine if you haven't yet."
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"A couple of things I recommend are adding in a lightweight serum like the Maelove Hydrator. This is a really lightweight, liquidy serum, so if you're not quite ready for a heavy duty moisturizer just yet, this is a really great thing to add. You can add it in your morning or your evening skincare routine. I use it at night just because I like it to help keep my skin more hydrated overnight while I'm sleeping. This is a really amazing serum because it's got three active ingredients in it. It's got vitamin B5, it's got resveratrol which is an antioxidant, and it's also got panthenol. Vitamin B5 is a humectant, so it binds water to your skin, and it's going to definitely keep your skin hydrated by keeping more water on the surface. But the antioxidants and the panthenol in here will help to moisturize your skin and help to keep it healthier."
"The Poems from the Lab Future Focus Vitamin C Serum is supposed to stay shelf stable for eight months. It's more of like an $80 price point, but if it does last the full eight months then it's only like $10 a month, so that's pretty good. I got this in February so now I've had it for like six months and this is still nice and clear."
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"This vitamin C serum does have 15% L-ascorbic acid at a pH of 3.2, so it's formulated pretty similar to the standard vitamin C serums that I love with the low pH. It also does contain ferulic acid which is one of the helper antioxidants. The look and feel and consistency of this vitamin C serum is really beautiful, it comes out crystal clear and all you need is a few drops to treat your whole face. The feel of it is slightly thicker than, say, the Timeless vitamin C serum. It's not going to run all over the place. This one does have a little bit longer of a rub-in and it does have a slightly grippy finish at the end, which I don't mind because once I've rubbed in my neck it kind of goes away. I like the finish on it, it's not overly shiny and overly dewy. What makes this product more stable than your standard vitamin C serum is really the packaging. It seems like there's something that is blocking air from getting into the tube, which is why they include this little part here called the beam, which is almost like a toothpaste tube squeezer to help you get the serum out. Poems from the Lab makes this in small batches, so you're getting a fresh product that will last for the full 8 months."
"The Poems from the Lab Future Focus Vitamin C Serum is supposed to stay shelf stable for eight months. It's more of like an $80 price point, but if it does last the full eight months then it's only like $10 a month, so that's pretty good. I got this in February so now I've had it for like six months and this is still nice and clear."
"This is the L'Oreal True Match Nude, it's a tinted serum. This is flawless, not sparkly, not glittery, glowy without looking oily. If I could only have one in my kit for the rest of my life and price was not an issue, I'm not going to lie, pick this one. I've used it on multiple clients over the age of 50, 60, 70, it wears and looks gorgeous on mature skin. It is absolutely beautiful."
"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."
"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."
"The vitamin C that I put on my neck is also from Timeless, it's their 10% vitamin C serum so this is going to be just a little bit gentler than the 20 version."
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"The vitamin C that I put on my neck is also from Timeless, it's their 10% vitamin C serum so this is going to be just a little bit gentler than the 20 version."
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"They put it in a glass airless pump bottle. A lot of people in years past had been having trouble with the old plastic packaging the pump leaking, this one doesn't leak at all. They used to only sell this in a 1 oz size, they started this year selling it in a 1.7 oz size. 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%."
"I always use the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask. I do so love that Lip Sleeping Mask. It is about $25 for a pot."
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"I always use the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask. I do so love that Lip Sleeping Mask. It is about $25 for a pot."
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"I really love the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask. I put that on my lips every night before bed, and when I wake up in the morning, my lips are so hydrated and so moisturized."
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"One of my favorites that I always recommend is the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, and it's going to be 30% off. I love it. It's what I put on my lips every single night before I go to bed, and my lips stay nice and hydrated and they feel great in the morning. If you have dry lips, especially in the winter or overnight, it's a great product to get."
"I put on my Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask, butter up my lips with that for the night and it keeps my lips nice and hydrated overnight."
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"You guys know how much I love this, have been a big fan of this for years. I finally emptied out this one and have a new one going. These last me a good 6 to 9 months and they're amazing. Put it on at night on my lips, keeps them hydrated and moisturized, and it's the one thing that when I wake up in the morning I can still feel it on there, which is what I like. I don't like my lips to be like dry as the desert in the morning when I wake up, and this keeps them from being that way."
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"This is the one thing that keeps my lips really hydrated overnight when I wake up in the morning I can still feel it on there and with anything else even just like Aquaphor it's gone by the morning so I love this."
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"The Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask has been a favorite of mine for years and years. I use it every single night when I go to bed as my overnight lip hydrating mask. I have tried lots of other things and there is nothing that beats this product. This is the only one where when I wake up in the morning my lips still feel hydrated and I can still feel the balm on there."
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"The Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask and lip glowy balm are 30% off, and on sale the Laneige is $16.80. It is a little bigger at 20 grams. But I tried a new Lip Sleeping Mask that I think I like better, and for the price difference I am going to recommend that cheaper one instead."
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"I love the Lip Sleeping Mask, it's what I put on my lips every single night of my life to keep them hydrated and moisturized during the night because your lips get so dry. I wake up in the morning and they feel really juicy and plump, they don't feel dry at all. For on the go they have the glowy balm version too, which is awesome."
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"This is the lip moisturizer that I use for overnight, I love this, I've been telling you about it for years. I put it on, my lips feel nice and hydrated still in the morning. It is a cult classic, it is a viral fave."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"This is just as hydrating and maybe prettier and a little bit nicer. I love the packaging on this, it's so pretty. This is a gorgeous berry pink color. I love love this shade. This is so hydrating, especially if you're looking for something for this time of year where the air is so dry and your lips are so dry. This is so creamy and it just feels so good on the lips. Absolutely love this one."
"My favorite for a long time has been the Saie Slip Tint. I love this one. It's an SPF 35. It is beautiful on the skin. It doesn't look like makeup. It looks really natural. It's what I'm wearing today because it is my favorite. I love this because it looks like my skin but better. It dries and sets. It's just gorgeous. The shade I wear it in is 3 plus half. This, I'd say, is currently my go-to foundation for everyday makeup, right? The thing I'm going to just reach for every day just to even out my skin tone and help me look a little bit better than I am while still looking really, really natural."
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"My favorite for a long time has been the Saie Slip Tint. I love this one. It's an SPF 35. It is beautiful on the skin. It doesn't look like makeup. It looks really natural. It's what I'm wearing today because it is my favorite. I love this because it looks like my skin but better. It dries and sets. It's just gorgeous. The shade I wear it in is 3 plus half. This, I'd say, is currently my go-to foundation for everyday makeup, right? The thing I'm going to just reach for every day just to even out my skin tone and help me look a little bit better than I am while still looking really, really natural."
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"The Saie Slip Tint is a tinted moisturizer that I love. I brought both a foundation and this, and I found that I wore this ninety percent of the time and really didn't need a full coverage foundation."
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"My favorite tinted moisturizer is still Saie Slip Tint. I wear this in shade 3 and a half. It's very luminous, very dewy looking, but I just powder down my T-zone and it looks perfect. It makes my skin look so natural and it photographs so beautifully, and every time I wear this in a video you guys always ask me what I have on because you tell me my skin looks so perfected and fabulous. So I always recommend this if you're more of a tinted moisturizer type person."
"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."
"The color is gorgeous. If you're looking for a really nice soft nude lip liner, that color is just beautiful. 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."
"There is a lip plumper that I discovered last year that I really really love and it is from Dr. Dennis Gross, it's the Plump and Repair Lip Treatment, and this is such a good lip plumper. I think it's probably the most effective lip plumper I've ever used that's also not super tingly. So there are some really effective lip plumpers out there, but they give you the burning lips, and this I feel like doesn't burn a lot, but yet it very effectively brings a lot of blood flow to the lips, brings a lot of color to the lips, and actually plumps them up a tiny bit. Lip plumpers aren't going to give you lips that look like you've had filler, but they do do a little something. It's just really pretty. It's not super glossy, it's not super sticky, beautiful on the lips."
"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 where your hair is going to get stuck to it or anything. It just feels lightweight but it does deposit a nice amount of pigment."
"This is the Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil in Blush Dreams and this is beautiful and it feels so lightweight on the lips. It doesn't feel oily, it's almost got like a whipped up gel texture, but it just makes the lips feel so hydrated and makes them look so moisturized and so plumped up that you don't see any of the lip creases."
"They have this NARS two-pack of lip glosses. I remember I had the Dolce Vita shade a couple of years ago and I loved it. These are two really great colors: one's a nude and one's more of a pinker nude, Devotion and Dolce Vita. I'm definitely going to get this. It's $45, down from $64."
"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. The non-Aquaphor side just looks so much better overall, less heavy, less cakey, less settled in wrinkles. I have combo skin so I am oily through the T-zone but not super oily, and I have some dry patches around my mouth and my temples. I tried the Aquaphor concealer hack three days in a row, and 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 think my normal concealer setup is much, much better, looks nicer and smoother."
"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."
"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."
"I also love the glowy balm this I keep 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 my lips are nice and moisturized and ready to go."
"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."
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"I looked at the specs on it and it looks really, really good. The red wavelength is 635. What we're looking for is 633. So that's only two off. So that puts it right in the very accurate range. The near infrared is 830 and it also contains blue light at 415. So this one, if you also have acne or you want to share it with a kid, this has all three in one mask and it's got the most bulbs. It has 120 of each color bulb. There are three modes. Mode one is red and near infrared light. Mode two is red, near infrared, and blue light all on at the same time. And mode three is blue light only. Most masks will have 50 or under. So that's a ton of bulbs in here. So a mask with more bulbs, they're closer together, so it treats more of your skin more evenly, and that's really important in a mask."
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"This mask is already shaped and has a built-in strap under here to treat this part, which you don't really get with the Omnilux mask. This mask definitely is a little bit big on me under here. I've been using it for about 6 months now. I can't say that I see a huge difference between using this one and using the Omnilux. Even though this one does have more light bulbs, I'm not sure that it's really giving me that much better of a treatment. I haven't really seen a quantitative difference. I think it's doing about the same job as my Omnilux mask. This one is more expensive than the Omnilux. This is in like an over $400 price point."
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"The CurrentBody mask doesn't have as many bulbs as either the HigherDose or the Omnilux, but it comes close in every other way, so it's a good mask that I always recommend."
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"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."
"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."
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"My favorite is the NuFACE Trinity. The way this works is that it increases ATP in the skin, which is your skin's energy currency. Skin that has more energy, that's more energized can do more. It can make more collagen. It can make more elastin. It can fight off the everyday stressors that our skin comes in contact with better. And it really helps to give me a temporary lifting and firming of my skin. I use the NuFACE Trinity every other morning and I alternate it with my red light mask."
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"The one that I use every day is the NuFace Trinity. I love this one because it has a little booster mode, so it gives you 25% more power. It also has the heads that pop off. So, you can get a red light device for this or you can get another head that has little prongs that really, really helps with the hooded eyes called the ELE attachment."
"My favorite is the NuFACE Trinity, and that helps the NuFACE glide along my face. It also keeps it from giving me any shocks or tingles, so it's a perfectly comfortable treatment. It is a little messy to do, and so there are times when I kind of get tired of doing it and take a week off here or there, but overall I've been using the NuFACE for years and years now, still do use it, and still love it."
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"With the extra 25 percent of power, the booster button activated, you can really feel a difference in the microcurrent. Look at the difference it makes, amazing, this is one of my all-time favorites. That's my basic routine, I would repeat that on the other side of my face."
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"I'm really into my skincare devices. There are three that I use regularly and I absolutely love them. The first one is the NuFACE, a microcurrent device that I've been using for about 10 or 12 years now. I did a test on this way back in the day and I really was amazed at how it just lifted my skin. It's very subtle, but it does do something for your skin. Basically you're giving your skin a 10-minute massage with microcurrent, which is electricity that runs between these two balls and shoots the electricity into your skin. It helps your skin produce more ATP, which is your skin's energy currency, and skin that has more energy can do more. The more tired your skin is, the more tired your skin looks, and it just looks better when I use this than when I don't. This is the NuFACE Trinity, the more expensive model, because the heads pop off and you can get different heads to put on it."
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"I highly recommend buying a NuFACE Trinity during the Nordstrom sale if you were going to buy one, because you can get the Trinity for $130 off, which is unheard of. You can never get a bargain on it like that anywhere else for the rest of the year, so this is the time to get it."
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"This is shooting microcurrent into your skin, and that current matches the electrical current that your skin uses, so it really helps your skin to produce more ATP, which then, if it has more energy, presumably it can then produce more collagen. This is a treatment that I do every other day, I love this, I love this new model CU, it has this 25% extra boost to it and I find that that really helps. What I like this best for is I find that it really helps to lift my face, it helps to sculpt my jaw, it helps to sculpt my cheeks, it helps to lift my eyebrows and just make everything look more lifted. You could do it at night if you have more time at night, it doesn't really matter."
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"The device I use is the NuFACE Trinity. This is a microcurrent device, so that's a completely different technology. The microcurrent matches the microcurrent electricity in your skin and helps your skin produce more ATP, that energy that feeds the mitochondria in your skin and helps your skin do more, so it can pump out more collagen, more elastin, more ceramides, more hyaluronic acid, more everything. But on the surface it also helps to lift and firm your skin, so if you have hooded eyes that are sagging, or sagging jowls, or sagging nasolabial folds, or you want to raise your cheeks, doing this treatment can definitely help with those things. Now that part of the treatment is much more of a temporary effect, it lasts anywhere from half a day to a couple of days depending on how often you do this. It does require conducting gel. I like the NuFACE gel, this is my favorite gel, it comes in a nice big 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 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."
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"This is the NuFACE Trinity Microcurrent Device. I love this Trinity. I do use the mini when I travel sometimes, but this is my at-home version and I love it. It has this booster button so you get 25% more power with the microcurrent, and this is the device that I've used the longest. I've been using this for about eight or nine years now and I love it. So the microcurrent that they use matches the energy currency of your skin, the ATP, and so it helps your skin to produce more energy, and skin that's more energized can generate more collagen, it can generate more elastin, it can generate more hyaluronic acid, all the things that you need in your skin to keep it younger looking. Plus the massage that you're giving your face really helps to uplift your skin. I've noticed the biggest difference in my cheeks and in my eyelids when I do it, it really helps with the hooded eyes. It also helps to bring more blood flow to the skin, and more blood flow brings more nutrients to the skin that can again help it to do all the things that it needs to do to look and act younger. So this is one of my favorites, I use it all the time. I think what I'm going to purchase this time is the eye attachment head for this one, because I did buy this last year and I didn't get the new head for it, so the eye attachment really does help with the hooded eyes, you can really direct the current exactly where you want it."
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"I've been using NuFACE for about 9 or 10 years now. It has stuck in my routine, I absolutely love it. It's so easy to use, it's so quick to use, it's 10 minutes a session, you do it three times a week. It gives me that little lift in my hoods, the little lift in my jawline, the little lift in my cheeks, and it is so worth it to do. The Trinity is called the Trinity because the heads pop off and there are two other heads you can pop on. One of which I really love, it's the ELE attachment, but I love the original head that comes with it."
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"I love the NuFace and it is the one device I have stuck with the longest. I have been using NuFace for about eight or nine years now. The Trinity starter kit includes the NuFace Trinity device and some microcurrent conducting gel. The models currently in the sale are the original models, not the new plus models NuFace recently released."
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"NuFACE is the device I've used the longest, eight or nine years, and almost 10 years on it is so worth it. If it didn't work I wouldn't keep using it, and anytime I don't use it I can see the difference in my skin. There's something about giving your face a massage a few days a week with its microcurrent that helps your skin produce more ATP, so it can produce more collagen and elastin and do all the good things it needs to do to stay looking its best."
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"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."
"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."
"Having used it 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. 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 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."
"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."
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"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."
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"I've compared all the deals on all the masks and I've got to say the best deal for the best mask is the one from Current Body. This is the Current Body Series 2 mask. There's a couple things that make this mask so special. Number one is the number of bulbs. The average red light mask will have between 50 and 65 bulbs of each color. This mask has 110 bulbs of each color of the red and the near infrared. That means that every inch of your face is getting bathed in that red light, that near infrared light that really is going to help. Those are the most proven wavelengths with the most study on them that they are actually going to help your skin. And they're also the most accurate bulbs on the market. So much so that it comes with a bulb accuracy certificate for you so that you know that these bulbs are accurate within 2 nanometers."
"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."
"My thoughts are 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."
"My current favorite red light therapy mask is this one from Current Body. It's one of the masks with the highest number of light bulbs. It's also the mask with the most accurate wavelengths in it. They've all been tested at the factory to be within two nanometers of the target correct wavelength. The Current Body has 112 each of the red and near infrared bulbs and it also has nine of the deep infrared bulbs. You really need to concentrate on the accuracy of the bulbs to start and then the number of bulbs. I like it that it's shaped. It's very comfortable to wear and it does come with the eye protection built in. And the other benefit that you get from this one is that it has this built-in under the chin strap. So, it treats you underneath there, which is awesome. This is a very, very bright mask. When you put it on, if you are sensitive to light, this probably won't be the mask for you because it is so very bright."
"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."
"I also grabbed the NuFACE mini for $165, which is about $100 off, so that is a really great deal as well."
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"You do it three times a week and it gives you that little lift in your hoods, the little lift in your jawline, the little lift in your cheeks, and it is so worth it. If that is just out of your price range, or you already have the Trinity and you're looking for one for on-the-go, or something that's just less expensive, they do have the NuFACE Mini in the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, this one is 165 down from 250, so not quite as great a deal as you get on the Trinity, but still a good deal. They have the exact same base current, but you don't get the 25% booster with the Mini. It does come with a bottle of the conducting gel."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"NuFace is one of my all-time favorite gadgets I've been using my new face for over eight years and I absolutely love what it does for my face for my skin. It delivers microcurrent into your skin and that helps your skin produce more ATP which energizes your skin and makes it look more youthful. I definitely noticed that I get a lift with my eyebrows when I use it."
"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."
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"The Omnilux mask is bright. It has 132 bulbs total, 66 of each color. The wavelengths are 633 for the red light, 830 for the near infrared. It retails for $395 and I have a 10% off code. It's the one that I tested years ago that gave me such great results on my skin. I felt like I was seeing the results in two weeks. I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I think my pores are looking smaller. I think my wrinkles are looking smaller. I think my skin's looking firmer.' And everyone else noticed it, too. People in my regular life were saying, 'Hey, what are you doing? Your skin looks so good.' If you want to get in more of a $350 range for a mask, then the Omnilux is still a great mask to go with."
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"If you're concerned about melasma, if you're concerned about too much light or if the lights are too bright for you, then I would definitely recommend the Omnilux Contour Face. This is an awesome mask. They make the professional arrays that they use in dermatologist offices. They did most of the research into red light therapy, so their bulbs are very accurate. There aren't as many bulbs in their mask as there are in the others. It's about half as many with about 66 of each bulb, but it's still a really good quality mask. I saw great results with this. This is the one that I've mainly used for the last 5 years."
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"This has been my favorite mask for about 5 years now. This is really the one that started my love of red light therapy. It's the one that I used and did a before and after video on and saw the changes in my skin and how fast they came in. I was just blown away by this technology. Omnilux is the company that makes the professional red light arrays that are used in dermatology offices. So, they really pioneered the use of red light therapy and especially at home masks for red light therapy. It is a great mask. You will see changes in your skin with this mask."
"Red light therapy has been shown to increase collagen production as well as collagen density in your skin and you need kind of both of those things. The whole anti-aging game is about collagen and increasing collagen production, so that's what this mask does and that's why I love it. I saw results with this really quickly and since it is so passive and easy to use, that's why I stuck with it. If you're interested in trying red light LED therapy, I highly recommend Omnilux."
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"This is my Omnilux mask, this is probably my number one device just because it's so easy and so passive to use. My Omnilux mask is red light and near infrared LED therapy and you can see all the little light bulbs here. This has two head straps so it gives you a nice close fit. I use this in the morning before I even get out of bed so I keep it on my bedside table, I put it on my face, my neck, my hand, I do my 10-minute treatment, I go back to sleep, I wake up, I take it off, end of treatment for the day, and I use this every other day."
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"I've been using this for a couple of years I swear by it and I don't think I'll ever not use this. The reason I love this so much is because what it does for my skin, it just makes my skin glow and be so much more even toned and firmer and it also reduced some of my wrinkles. The best thing about it was not only that I noticed the changes right away but other people started noticing right away and asking me like what I was doing. This uses both red and near infrared light to anti-age your skin and this is really like the gold standard of the masks. They make the big light arrays that they use at dermatologist's offices so you're getting clinically proven red light with this. I did a couple videos a couple years ago where I compared all the different masks as far as did they have the right wavelength did they have the right intensity and after seeing how few masks stacked up it just convinced me that this was the way to go with a red light mask. This is also the most comfortable one because these are soft, they're flexible, they don't hurt to use, and because of the way the straps are on this one you get more of a customizable fit."
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"This is the Omnilux mask, this is my favorite red light therapy device. This mask is flexible, so in addition to using it on your face you can also use it on say the backs of your hands, you can just lay it on your arm, you could wrap it around your leg. There are lots of different ways to use your red light therapy mask. Red light therapy increases collagen production in the skin and it's also been shown to increase collagen density in the skin. I haven't used this anywhere on my body except my face, my neck, and my chest, and I think that's why I mainly don't have a lot of crepey skin in these areas as well because I do use my red light therapy mask there."
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"Omnilux is one of my favorite anti-aging devices. It's one that I've used consistently and uninterrupted for the last three or four years, and I had such great results with it that I was an instant convert to red light therapy."
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"The Omnilux Contour Face is a red and near infrared LED mask you wear on your face for 10 minutes a session, 3 to 4 times a week. I just keep it next to my bed in a little basket, I wake up in the morning, slap it on my face, do my 10-minute treatment, put it away, and get up and go about my day. That just makes it so doable. This is definitely one of the most effective things that I've ever done for my skin, and I saw the results the fastest of anything that I've done for my skin. With this I saw changes in my skin in the first month, and so did everyone else in my life. Omnilux is the company that did most of the research into red light therapy. They're also the company that makes the professional light arrays that you get a treatment from at a dermatologist office. The studies on red light therapy show that it helps to increase collagen in your skin, it helps to increase collagen density in your skin so the collagen that you have is better formed, it's denser, closer packed together."
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"I love my Omnilux mask. I used it for about three years and it was the gold standard of red light masks. Red light therapy really does work and masks are a really great way to get an effective, dermatologist-grade treatment at home. I do still love the Omnilux mask and if you have it you certainly don't need to go out and get another one. For the price point, Omnilux is still great at about $350."
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"I've been using the Omnilux Contour Face for about three years now and I love that thing. I loved everything that it did for my skin and how fast it was. This was the one device I used that everyone in my life could tell I was using within a month of me starting to use it. People started asking me, what are you doing to your face? It looks so good, what are you doing for your skin? And I was like, it's got to be that red light mask. So I know it works. I could definitely see the difference in my skin in my before and after pictures. My wrinkles were reduced, my pores were reduced, my discolorations were reduced, my skin looked firmer and plumper and just clearer overall, so I didn't have as much redness in my skin, and my skin was looking just great. So I continued on using that mask for the next few years."
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"You guys know how much I love my Omnilux mask, and I've been using it for years and I do love it and I did see great results with it."
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"I had been using the Omnilux Contour mask for years and I absolutely love this mask. Red light is so good for your skin, red and near infrared. It's been shown to increase collagen production in your skin, which is what anti-aging skincare is all about. But in addition to that, it also increases collagen density, which means that your collagen fibers are closer together. If they're closer together, then there are like more tent poles holding up the surface of your skin, so your skin looks smoother. The other thing that I noticed is that this worked very fast. When I was using this, I could see the difference in my skin in two weeks to a month. People started noticing and asking me what I was doing. When people start telling you that they see the difference in your skin, that's when you know something works. It's a great mask, great company, love Omnilux. I really love the quality of this mask. The thing that I love most about this mask is that it gives me the best fit out of all the masks because it has two separate straps."
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"The Omnilux mask is by far my favorite red light mask, it definitely has the best specs in the marketplace, the most light bulbs, the most accurate wavelength, and it gives you the right amount of energy and joules. Red and near infrared LED has been shown to increase collagen production and density, so it makes skin more glowy, plump and firm and reduces wrinkles, and I found it also reduced my discolorations and my pores a little and firmed up my skin. It worked fast too, I started seeing results between two weeks and a month and other people noticed my skin. It comes as a face mask, a neck and chest bib, a hand mask and a men's mask, and I much prefer its two simple velcro head straps because a close fit really matters with LED."
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"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"The Precision Laser is really helpful for around the eye area. It really gave me great results, especially in the wrinkles under my eyes. It's made my wrinkles so much less deep, so much less visible that I love this guy. The way the neural 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."
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"This one does take the neural lasering to a whole new level of comfort and speed and the areas that you can treat, and there's no reduction in the power or the amount of energy that you're getting out of this one. You're just treating a bigger area in less time. It produces types one and type three collagen in your skin, so it doesn't destroy any skin and it's not looking for color in your skin so it's safe to use for people with darker skin tones. I was so psyched about the results that I got with the sister laser about 9 months ago, and now I'm using this one and I'm seeing great results around my eyes."
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"I used it for 150 days and it gave me great results around my eyes on my crow's feet with the wrinkles under my eyes and in my nasal labial folds. But this one is more time consuming to use and it also does hurt a bit on level four and level five."
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"I could not believe what it did for the wrinkles around my eyes. It even reduced my wrinkles that you can't get at with anything, even with Botox, even with in-office treatment, like the wrinkles directly under my eyes softened so much, minimized so much, so much less deep, so much less long, so much less everything using this. I really loved it. The only thing I didn't love about it is that it hurts."
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"The Precision model I feel is most effective for the wrinkles around the eyes, it is such a tiny little opening that it does take a lot longer to use, it's a lot hotter with this one, you have to do like 40 pulses around each eye. But then when I got the Pro, this one is so much faster, so much easier, so much more convenient to use. The Pro model actually delivers more energy per pulse than the Precision model, but because it delivers it over a longer pulse time you don't feel the heat as much and so it's a much more comfortable treatment. When I use this one around my eyes it's 10 pulses so I'm done really quickly. But then because this is so much bigger I can use it everywhere on my face, I can use it over here, I can use it on my upper lip, I can do my entire neck. I use this one probably every other night now."
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"I tried NIRA's original laser, the Precision model, about a year ago and posted my results, and oh my gosh they were so amazing."
"The Pro Laser is really the one that I love using the most because I get in the most coverage. Like 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 neural 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."
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"The Pro Laser is really the one that I love using the most because I get in the most coverage. Like 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 neural 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."
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"This is really cool. You guys know how much I love the regular NIRA, that thing is awesome and it did such great things for my under eyes, but it's got such a tiny little laser beam, you know, that you had to do like 40 pulses under your eyes. It didn't take long, it was like two minutes under each eye, but with this one because it's so much bigger you can do both eyes in two minutes. And then I also do like the rest of my face and I feel like it's making my pores smaller. When I see myself in the mirror it always used to be like my pores would just jump out at me and I'd be like, there they are. I feel like this is making my pores, my skin look so much smoother. I've been using it like on the front of my cheeks, down here in my chin, up here my upper lip, I've been doing like my under jaw. I've only been using it for maybe 20 days so far."
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"I'm really really happy with how much faster this is to use all over my whole face and all over my whole neck, that it doesn't hurt, it doesn't get super hot, and because it's more comfortable to use I am more likely to stick with it. You can use it down the center line of your neck because this only affects the skin on the surface and it doesn't go deeper than the skin, so you can use it over your thyroid. You can use this if you have a darker skin tone because this doesn't look for pigment in your skin; it's targeting water in your skin. Usually with lasers, people with a darker skin tone can't use a laser or have to be very careful with them, and with this one there isn't that precaution because it doesn't look for pigmentation in the skin. There's no contraindication to not use it with tretinoin, so this is safe to use with your tretinoin and your stronger anti-aging actives. It really makes it easy to work it into your skincare routine because you don't have to worry about interactions with your skincare and you don't have to worry about interactions with your other devices. It's really quick and painless to use."
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"With the NIRA Pro model you actually get more energy per pulse so this one is faster, less painful and easier to use. With the bigger aperture you can treat a much bigger area so where this little guy takes 40 pulses around your eye, this one takes 10 pulses around your eye. There is virtually no pain with this one even if I use it on level five, which I started right on level five and used it, no pain at all. So I ended up doing my whole face with this, I ended up doing my whole neck with this. This one definitely maintained the results that I had with the Precision and increased them a little bit, but what I was really really happy to see was a big change in the wrinkles and quality of my neck. It did maintain and improve the results around my eyes completely pain free, and with the results I saw on my neck, this is the one that I'm using."
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"I used it on my neck and my jawline because the most procedures that I've ever had done on my face are on my neck and my jaw and most of them I'm pretty disappointed in. But with this I was like okay I'm actually seeing some results. The before and after pictures I thought were really really great and I see a difference in my neck every single day. Obviously it didn't get rid of my wrinkles completely, it didn't get rid of my sagging completely. I don't think anything at home will. But it improved it enough that I don't mind as much what my neck looks like now than it did before I started using this."
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"The Pro Laser has a tiny little opening, it's a much smaller more targeted laser beam that's really great for using just around the eyes if you're maybe younger and you don't have big areas of wrinkles to treat. But if you are older and you have larger areas that you want to treat, I tested the Pro Laser all over my face and also on my neck and I had great results with this as well. The main differences are that the Pro Laser definitely has a shorter treatment time, or you can do more of your face in a shorter amount of time, and this one you don't feel the heat as much, you don't get as much of a zap. It's much much more comfortable to use."
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"I use the NIRA at home laser. I did a 3-month and a 5-month trial on the two NIRA devices. I love them, they really reduce my wrinkles by quite a lot. When I was doing the testing I used the NIRA every night. Now that I'm on maintenance mode with the NIRA I tend to use it every other night. Every night did get to be like kind of a lot for me. The NIRA is supposed to be used on clean dry skin."
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"NIRA makes nonablative non-fractional at-home lasers that are clinically shown to increase collagen production and reduce wrinkles. On the NIRA Pro the before and after pictures didn't show huge improvements around my eyes or my nasolabial folds, but I think that's because I'd already gotten those results from the Precision laser I used before. I had never used a laser on my neck before, and I was pretty darn impressed with what it did there, it really reduced a lot of the wrinkles in my neck, especially the big one, it looked like there was some collagen production, and it even tightened up my jowls a tiny bit. Nothing at home will make jowls go away, but if it lets me put off an in office procedure for a couple of extra years, I'm all for it."
"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."
"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."
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"This is the BK Beauty 101 Foundation Brush. This is such a great foundation brush because it's got this domed shape, and the length of the hairs are tapered, so they're longer here on this side and shorter here on this side. It's very dense, but the fibers are very, very soft on this, and that is what I think makes this a perfect foundation brush. Because it's kind of shaped like the sponge, and you use it in a stippling motion, it just lays the foundation down so beautifully, and you never get any streaks with your foundation. Unlike the sponge, this lays more of the foundation onto your face, and so using a lighter weight foundation, you do get a little bit more coverage out of it."
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"If you want just one brush, I recommend the BK Beauty 101, my favorite foundation brush. It is so soft and luxurious and puts your foundation on perfectly every time."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"On the cheeks, it is a blurring and smoothing foundation. I'm not feeling like my pores and texture are really accentuated, and that looks good. And on the forehead, I think it's really nice and smooth, and it looks great. So, overall, really happy with the foundation."
"The Maybelline Super Stay Lumi Matte foundation is so great. You can put on just the tiniest bit of it and really put a thin coating on just to even out the redness on your nose or your chin, or you can do a full face of it. Either way, it looks great. It is a beautiful looking foundation. When they say it's a 30 hour foundation, I don't know if it is because I haven't slept in it, but it is a minimum 10 to 12 hour foundation. I struggle with getting foundation to stay on my nose and this one stays. I put this on in the morning, we go touring around all day, we get back later in the evening, my face still looked good and I didn't have to worry about it. It doesn't get shiny. It doesn't settle in wrinkles and it works great on more mature skin as well."
"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."
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"The best foundation of 2024 in my humble opinion is the e.l.f. Soft Glam Foundation. I fell super hard for this. I absolutely love it. You cannot beat the price point. This is such a beautiful foundation. I'm wearing it today and I've actually had it on for 7 hours and this looks still just about perfect and I didn't touch it up. The thing is it looks so natural on the skin. It doesn't look like a heavy mask of makeup. It's just beautiful. The shades are really great, easy to find a shade match. I wear it in the shade 25 light neutral."
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"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."
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"The e.l.f. Soft Glam Foundation is so good and I love it so much. I've been wearing it literally nonstop. It won the video hands down against the Tear Tier foundation. I wore it to a black tie wedding in Boston last weekend and felt so confident. My skin just looks great but it doesn't look like a heavy coating of makeup. It's got such a lovely finish. It's not super super luminous, it's just soft. It softens my pores, it softens my texture, it just softens everything. I feel like my skin just looks younger when I have this on."
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"The e.l.f. Soft Glam is a medium coverage buildable foundation that looks very natural on the skin, feels very lightweight, feels very hydrating. It didn't settle in my wrinkles, didn't accentuate pores, didn't accentuate texture. It's fragrance-free, really easy to apply with a brush, and comes in great shade options. I got two and one of them is a really great shade match for me. I would say this one is a real winner, and if you're going to buy either of the foundations from today's video I would recommend the e.l.f. Soft Glam. I think this is just beautiful."
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"The foundation that I use this year because I again like to keep it all the same is the e.l.f. Soft Glam Foundation. This is a fabulous drugstore foundation. It lasts all day with that sunscreen. It doesn't wear off. It doesn't settle into wrinkles. It looks natural on my skin."
"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. I would say if you are a mature person you could definitely pass on this."
"This is a highlighter, one of the first highlighters I ever tried, and it's so beautiful. One of the things I love best about this is that it comes in different shades, I wear it in shade 9002."
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"I didn't mind how it looked most of the day but it's just not going to be a favorite of mine that I'm going to reach for again and again. It looks kind of cakey and very modeled on the surface, very cracked, sliding around. It's definitely settled in wrinkles. I don't love this. It's doing all the things that I really don't love in a foundation. There are better foundations from the drugstore that don't get shiny six or seven hours in. The primer sure didn't help it, everywhere that I put on the primer it looks twice as bad as it does on the non-primer side. I had powdered it with a powder that made everything look a little bit cakey and not great, and it didn't keep the shine from the makeup from coming through. For me, this is kind of a miss."
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"This is a highlighter, one of the first highlighters I ever tried, and it's so beautiful. One of the things I love best about this is that it comes in different shades, I wear it in shade 9002."
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"This is a highlighter and it's so pretty, I have it on today, I wear it in the shade 902 light glow, and it just gives the most beautiful subtle highlight."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"The old L'Oreal True Match has been one of my holy grails for years now, and I really like this new formulation even better than the old one. It's not as thick, it's not as heavy, and it looks just beautiful on the skin, much more natural looking. It's a great foundation. The only thing they kind of botched is that they didn't keep the colors the same, so I wore W3 in the old one and in this one I mix W3 and W4. But I love this foundation. I love how it wears, I love how it looks. It's just really great."
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"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."
"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."
"I've really been loving this Revlon Illuminance Skin Caring Foundation. It is so beautiful and I really thought was a really close dupe for my number one, Chanel, and this is a $75 foundation and it looks beautiful on the skin. It looks so natural and so skin-like and you can't even really tell that you're wearing makeup. This is like a perfect dupe for it. It wears the same, it's got skincare and skin-loving ingredients in it, but it's a fraction of the cost. I think this is like $17 and this is $75, so really a much, much better price point. It just looks so nice and natural and it doesn't look like heavy makeup sitting on the skin. It plays well with others, it wears all day long, it doesn't settle in wrinkles, so really a great new foundation."
"For special events, if I'm going to something fancy and I want the bulletproof foundation that's going to look fantastic all night, that's going to photograph really well, then I reach for my Dior Forever Matte Foundation. This is the top holy grail foundation. It doesn't settle in wrinkles. It minimizes the look of my pores. It lasts 10 hours without any primer, without any setting spray. It is just like a one and one beautiful, beautiful foundation. Of course, it is typical high-end foundation. It contains a lot of fragrance. It contains a bit of SD alcohol, so it's not the kind of thing that you're going to want to put on every single day."
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"For special events, if I'm going to something fancy and I want the bulletproof foundation that's going to look fantastic all night, that's going to photograph really well, then I reach for my Dior Forever Matte Foundation. This is the top holy grail foundation. It doesn't settle in wrinkles. It minimizes the look of my pores. It lasts 10 hours without any primer, without any setting spray. It is just like a one and one beautiful, beautiful foundation. Of course, it is typical high-end foundation. It contains a lot of fragrance. It contains a bit of SD alcohol, so it's not the kind of thing that you're going to want to put on every single day."
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"This is my Holy Grail Foundation. It's called a matte foundation but I don't really find it to be drying and I don't find it to be super matte so if you have drier skin I wouldn't be afraid of this one. It doesn't settle in your wrinkles, it gives you great coverage but it still looks skin-like and natural and it lasts all day. One of the best things about this foundation is that you don't need a primer, you don't need a setting spray because it just lasts and lasts."
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"This Foundation doesn't need a primer to last all day and it minimizes the look of my pores. It is my Holy Grail, absolute perfect foundation for me. I tested this on one of the hottest days of the summer when I was sweating and this didn't budge. I don't find this one drying at all. I have slightly oily skin around my T-Zone but normal skin the rest of my face, and I'm always a little bit dry around my mouth and my temples, and this doesn't dry out my skin in those areas. It's so lightweight yet so pigmented that it looks really natural on the skin and it doesn't take a lot of it to cover up your redness. The finish on it is so perfect because it makes my pores look smaller and it makes my wrinkles look smaller and it never settles in my wrinkles throughout the day. It wears for 10 hours straight, so if I'm going somewhere and I'm not going to be able to touch up my makeup, this is what I reach for."
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"The Dior Forever Matte is my number one top Holy Grail Foundation of all time, the best of the best. This is so good on mature skin, the heavens opened and the angels sang. If you're a drier skin person and you're afraid of a matte finish, don't be afraid of this because it's not really fully matte on me. What it does for your skin is just so good. If you have normal, combo, or oily skin and you have enlarged pores or a lot of texture, this minimizes those things all on its own. It doesn't really need a primer in order to perfect your skin, and it lasts all day. I tested this on one of the hottest days of the summer and it stayed put, so if you're dealing with hot flashes or you live in a hot climate, this is going to be the foundation for you."
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"I'm wearing the Dior Forever Matte and the Elf Soft Glam foundations both and I'm really liking this new setting powder I got from Sephora."
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"The foundation I'm going to use today is my Dior Forever Matte. This is like my perfect bulletproof foundation, and when I tested this Foundation a couple of summers ago it was super hot out and this lasted like 10 hours, didn't wear off. It was a hot, hot, hot sweaty day and it was amazing, and I didn't do anything special with it."
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"The foundation I reach for when I have a special occasion I really want my makeup to be longwearing bulletproof going to make me look perfect and flawless all day or all night long is the Dior Forever Matte Foundation. This is so fantastic especially in the summertime if you live somewhere where it's warmer and you have combo or oily skin this will stay put it won't budge all day and you will be perfected. It doesn't let any oil breakthrough it's really really fantastic it doesn't get super shiny during the day and it's actually smoothing on my pores without using anything else. It's a beautiful foundation, longwearing, doesn't settle in your wrinkles, great shade range. This is my number one top of the heap holy grail foundation that I wear when I want to just look absolutely perfect."
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"I tested this I think it was last year over the summer and it instantly became a Holy Grail foundation. This is like 100 percent my favorite summer, like heat wave foundation. If you're going to wear a foundation, let's say you have a wedding to go to or you have a party to go to, this is the foundation that is going to keep your skin looking perfected the entire time. I wore it on one of the hottest days of the summer last year, I sat outside, I was sweating in it, it didn't budge, it didn't get shiny, it didn't accentuate my pores. It really makes my pores disappear. I feel like my face looks so velvety perfection when I have this on. It is amazing on mature skin, doesn't settle any wrinkles, looks great. You don't even have to apply a lot of it to get really good coverage."
"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."
"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."
"The Colorescience Total Eye 3-in-1 is a great product. It was the first 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."
"This is really a breakthrough formula. It is so much better than the original. It works so much better. It really is easy wear. It's much easier to apply, much easier to work with. I think it works a little bit better and you don't end up with that crusty, scaly looking skin even after a few hours. You can also put makeup on over it, which makes it so much more wearable."
"I really wanted to do it because I wanted my lower teeth to be straighter and I also had a crossbite over here that my dentist wanted to fix. So I was psyched about the results. I just wasn't psyched about the actual process. But you guys had told me that the year would go by fast and I would be really happy. And the year did go by pretty fast and I am really happy with the results. My bottom teeth were getting increasingly crowded as the years went by, and they got to the point where my two center teeth were literally angled in and pressing against each other so hard and all the other teeth were very crowded. Everything kept pushing forward and so Invisalign seems like a good way to go. I talked to my dentist about it. She was like, 'No, you're a good candidate for it because you're not looking at doing anything super major and so it should take about a year.'"
"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."
"Argireline is supposed to be like Botox in a bottle. People ask me about argireline all the time and if it works, and my general feeling about it is that no, it's not going to be Botox in a bottle. But I've heard from a lot of you guys who say that you use it and you think it does help, and especially people who use Botox say that it helps it to last longer. So I've been trying this lately. I haven't been using it all over my face, I just kind of use it as a spot treatment around my crow's feet, under my eyes, and on my forehead. Can't say I'm seeing any huge difference because of course I do have some Botox in my face right now."
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"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."
"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."
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"The elf Halo Glow Liquid Filter, that is a dupe for the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter. This really is like a perfect dupe for this. I wear shade two in the elf, I wear shade four in the Charlotte Tilbury, but they both are so so so very beautiful."
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"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."
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"A dupe for the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter, which she also loves, but for the price and the amount of product you get, she calls the e.l.f. version a no-brainer. Comes with a giant doe foot applicator and a lot of product; she wears it in the shade Light."
"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. The tinted moisturizer is sitting better on the side of my face where I don't have the Miracle Blur than it is on the side where I do have it."
"The other microcurrent device I finally tried this year is the ZIIP. I tried the original ZIIP and I got to say I didn't love it. It's just not better than the NuFace for me. I end up getting the gel all over my hands, and I feel really goopy, like the gel gets all over the device because it's so close to your skin. Even though the balls are roughly spaced the same on both devices, I can't get it right in certain areas because there's this big hunk of plastic on the end that keeps it from getting close to my nose or the inner corner of my eye. This one I just can't fit on all the areas of my face that I want to use it on. They did send me the ZIIP Halo 2.0. I know everyone's like, is the ZIIP Halo 2.0 better? It's basically the same. The difference between the original ZIIP and the ZIIP Halo 2.0 is that with the original ZIIP you had to download the app in order to use it, and with the ZIIP Halo 2.0 you don't need the app. It has a little light ring 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."
"The Danessa Myricks Color Fix is a waterproof makeup you can use pretty much anywhere on your face. She buys it in Nude 3 because it matches her skin tone well. It is the perfect concealer for little burns or pimples; it covers them completely. You dab it on the area, put foundation over it, and it stays put all day. It also makes a really great eyelid primer because it is waterproof and stays in place all day. It comes in lots of different shades and colors, is only $18, and makes a great stocking stuffer."
"This is the IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow and I really like this a lot. I showed it out in the sunshine and it lasted all day. It's much more wearable than the original CC cream because it's not as heavy, it's not as pigmented, and it looked much more natural on skin. It's nice and sheer and buildable and looked pretty and natural on the skin. I wear it in the light medium shade. It wore all day and wore on my nose really well all day. I didn't struggle with it when I tried it this time, and it played really well with my chemical sunscreen."
"I also do use the Agency 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"One of my favorites is the RMS Beauty ReDimension Hydra Bronzer. I use that every day. This is a really great bronzer. Easy to work with, so pretty on the skin."
"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."
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"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."
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"This is more akin to the Rare Beauty liquid blush than most of the other drugstore liquid blushes I've tried. Most of them are not very pigmented. A very pretty blush, but use it very sparingly."
"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."
"That blush has probably the longest lasting staying power. For nine hours, this actually looks pretty good."
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"That blush has probably the longest lasting staying power. For nine hours, this actually looks pretty good."
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"I got this new blush in from Rare Beauty and I feel like it's hard to blend, but once I get it on, oh my gosh, it is so beautiful."
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"The Rare Beauty Soft Pinch blushes are fantastic. This was the first one that came out that was really super highly pigmented and these are so big they will last you forever. My favorite is Hope. I love this one, it's beautiful. It also gives you that lit from within glow with a little bit of a shimmer, but a little goes a long way with this."
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"The Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Blush in Hope is pigmented but not overly pigmented. It looks much more orange in the palette but it goes on the skin really like a beautiful pinky coral color, and it's so soft and subtle. It looks like the color is coming from the inside radiating out, it never looks like something that you've put on the surface of your skin, and I love that about it. It's so pretty."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"This is beautiful on the skin, it does have a little bit of a sheen to it, so this will give the skin a little bit more of that lit from within glow, but this is a beautiful product. Doesn't take much to get your contour going and your beautiful bronzing going. The Tower 28 Cream Blush in Magic Hour, that's what I'm wearing today, one of my most used blushes of the year, one of my all time favorite holy grails. Beautiful pinky coral color and it's so soft and subtle, it looks like the color is coming from the inside radiating out, it never looks like something that you've put on the surface of your skin, and I love that about it. It's so pretty."
"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."
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"This bottle may not look familiar to you because this is the bottle that they sell in the buy one get one at the Nordstrom sale. It usually takes me about a year to use up both of those, and I've just finished with the second one. I have repurchased because I love RevitaLash. I've used just about every other lash growth serum on the market and they all failed me. This is really the one that I always go back to. It's got this super tiny little brush and you just do one swipe at the base of each row of lashes, and then I also use this in my eyebrows, and that keeps my eyebrows and my lashes growing and looking good."
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"I've gone through one tube of RevitaLash Advanced Eyelash Conditioner and I really like this applicator. I love it because it's so thick and it really helps to press it in through the hairs, where just using a tiny, tiny brush doesn't necessarily get as much of it on there. I actually use my RevitaLash on my brows too since I have it on hand. If you're noticing your lashes are getting short and stumpy, this is the best way to keep them growing long and strong. I feel like it really does help my lashes stay looking lush and full."
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"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."
"Their Dry Texturizing Spray is a very light hold hairspray. The thing I love about it is it just makes your hair look a little bit messier and a little bit less done. I highly recommend this if you want your hair to not be quite so neat and tidy all the time. If you like a little bit more of a messy look, this is great for achieving that."
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"Their Dry Texturizing Spray is a very light hold hairspray. The thing I love about it is it just makes your hair look a little bit messier and a little bit less done. I highly recommend this if you want your hair to not be quite so neat and tidy all the time. If you like a little bit more of a messy look, this is great for achieving that."
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"I don't have to wash my hair as much, like this is 4-day hair, keeps my hair cleaner longer, I use less of it. I just, I can't even say enough about how it has transformed my hair from what it was a few years ago to now. I'm never turning back, I don't think I'm ever being without this."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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"It is my favorite hair styling tool. I so missed it while I was away because two weeks without it, you know, it doesn't work in Europe, but when I got home, I practically ran into my bathroom and like kissed my Dyson. I was so happy to be back with it. It makes my hair look really good and I highly recommend that."
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"I use the Dyson Airwrap with the round brush attachment. Those are hard for me because it's blowing from inside the brush, but air brushes like that are really good for the fact that they are one unit."
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"It gives me the kind of style that I want. It's never stiff or sticky, it doesn't make your hair feel like weirdly plasticky, just makes your hair feel like hair. And it just gives me so much shine. It is just the best hair dryer that you will ever use. I've had mine for a few years, this is my original one."
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"The Dyson Airwrap is really worth it to get it on sale. This is my original one I've had this for seven or eight years now, so even though it's a huge investment it lasts and it comes with all the attachments that you need to do your hair, so it's like a one-and-done. It has the blow dryer attachment which I use almost every day or every day that I dry my hair. Then I love this paddle brush, this is really what I use to smooth and sleekify my hair and make it super shiny and nice. And then lately I've been using the round brush attachment to do my bangs and to give me a little bit of curl on the end."
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"The Dyson Airwrap is the best blow dryer styler that I've ever used. I actually reviewed this when it first came out way back in 2019, so 5 years ago, and this is my original Dyson Airwrap. This thing is built like a tank. I've never had a problem with it. I don't love the Airwrap attachments on it, that's the one thing that I don't love, but I love it as my blow dryer. It cut my blow dry time down from about half an hour to 10 minutes because something about the Dyson air pushes it through with such velocity that it can use less heat and it dries your hair faster. Everything is magnetized so you just pop them on and off. I go in with the paddle brush attachment and I blow my hair nice and sleek, and then just to finish my bangs and the ends I put on the round brush attachment. Then I can style my bangs, get them to go the right way away from my face, I can curl the ends. They come in sets based on how your hair is, so if you have curly hair they'll give you the attachments to do your curly hair."
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"Switching from a regular blow dryer to my Dyson Airwrap has made a really huge difference in my hair. I really don't use the air wrap attachment that much, I generally use the paddle brush, the general blow dry attachment, and the round brush, but I love my Dyson. This is still my original one. You know it's expensive, but I've had this one for I don't know six or seven years now. It's so great. It's just the best hair dryer ever."
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"It is my favorite blow dryer and styling tool."
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"The first hot tool is the Dyson Airwrap. I love this. I've been using the Dyson for maybe eight or ten years. It's 25% off, so under $500 for something that's normally around $650. That is a great buy."
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"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."
"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."
"I used the detox shampoo 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."
"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."
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"My thicker night moisturizer is now elf holy hydration the fragrance-free version. This is very similar to the one that I've used for years and years, which is the Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream, the green tea version in the lavender jar. I do still love that one, but this one has just edged it out a little bit."
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"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."
"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."
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"I put on my day moisturizer which is the CeraVe PM. I notice that when I use the elf my sunscreen wasn't sitting as well over the moisturizer as it had when I used the CeraVe so I'm probably going to use up the end of this like in the evenings but when I'm wearing sunscreen I like the CeraVe better so I'm going back to the CeraVe."
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"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."
"My skin feels hydrated, but it doesn't feel like sticky, greasy, hydrated. It just feels comfortable, which is really, really nice. Usually hydrating things don't dry and set and they leave my skin feeling a little tacky and coming off on my fingers and on everything else all day. 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 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. It looks really nice, really natural on the skin. Zero wearing off on my nose. At the 10-hour check-in, from a distance, I still think it looks beautiful. I don't really think it looks very worn off at all. I am seeing a tiny bit of wear around each nostril and not so much really anywhere else. It really hasn't been doing anything like sliding around, especially on my forehead."
"If you guys like a niacinamide-free moisturizer, because I know like everything has niacinamide in it, the Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturizer doesn't have niacinamide. It's one of the few things that doesn't. It's a really nice moisturizer for day. It's very lightweight."
"I did a review on this after I had used it for 6 months, a before and after, and oh my gosh, was I amazed at the after pictures after just 6 months of this. I mean, when I started with Tretinoin, it took about a year to see a difference in my skin. And so, I really liked it that with the estriol, I could see the difference in 6 months. Estriol Cream is specifically made for estrogen deprived skin. So, it's really for people who are post-menopausal or perimenopausal. You wouldn't use it if you were younger and your body is still making enough estrogen. But once your body stops making estrogen, your skin really becomes estrogen deprived and you can replace it from the outside in by using a cream like this. So, I've been really, really happy with this."
"AmLactin is mainly used for that rough bumpy skin that you can get on the backs of your arms because it works as an exfoliant and so it helps to clear those bumps and the research into lactic acid also shows that it helps with ceramide production in the skin. When I first started using it I would get like a little bit tingly when I would put it on. If this is going to be a little too spicy for you and a little bit too tingly, you can get the AMAC instead which is a lactic acid, another alpha hydroxy acid that's going to do all the same things as this, it's just going to be a little bit milder and a little bit gentler on your skin."
"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."
"The elf Pure Skin Moisturizer has very similar ingredients to CeraVe PM - they both contain niacinamide, ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and glycerin, so they're both great products at about the same price point. I notice that when I use the elf my sunscreen wasn't sitting as well over the moisturizer as it had when I used the CeraVe, so I'm probably going to use up the end of this in the evenings, but when I'm wearing sunscreen I like the CeraVe better."
"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."
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"My favorite cleansing balm has been the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for years. This balm takes off my waterproof eyeliner, my tubing mascara, all my tenacious sunscreen and makeup in one step."
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"One thing that I love getting at Sephora always is my Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. This is by far the best cleansing balm ever, hands down. Removes all your makeup, no matter what it is. If it's tenacious waterproof sunscreen, if it's waterproof eyeliner, waterproof mascara."
"For that I'll usually use Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I just take a scoop of one of these and I rub it into my dry face then I give that a splash with water then I rub my Wonder cloth around my face that removes more of the makeup and more of the dirt and more of the sunscreen rinse this and everything rinses right off the Wonder cloth."
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"I usually use my Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I just rub it right into my dry skin, rub it right into the base of my lashes, go underneath. Everything comes out nice and clean. I love them."
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"Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is my favorite first-step cleanser. It's an oil-based balm that you just rub into your dry skin and it removes all your most stubborn makeup, your most stubborn skin care, your most stubborn tinted sunscreen. No matter what you want to get off, this will get it off quickly and easily."
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"I love this. I work it into my dry skin, I put it right on top of the makeup and this really breaks up all the makeup, it breaks up the sunscreen. Then I splash my face with water and that emulsifies the oil and most of the makeup runs down the drain."
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"Another great deal is the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. You guys know that has been my favorite for years. And they have the big tub for $36 in the sale. So, I'm going to be grabbing one of those."
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"This is the best cleansing balm for removing your makeup. There's no harsh rubbing or scrubbing or tugging at your skin because it's so slippery it just slips around, so you're actually doing your face a favor and you're helping your skin to look younger by not tugging at your skin. I definitely will be purchasing another one of these."
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"Fragrance free, it contains ceramides and niacinamide so it's got everything that I'm looking for in a facial cleanser. It's a little bit thicker than the Derma e that I was using before, so when I go to wash my face with it, it's not just like running through my fingers and disappearing. It's very soothing, it's very mild, it doesn't burn my eyes or anything. My favorite is still the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm for the first step in my double cleanse with the Wonder Cloth, but this for the second step I love, or on days where I'm just wearing sunscreen and I don't even put on mascara, this is getting off my sunscreen really really well with the Wonder Cloth."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm has been my ultimate favorite for a lot of years now. I really love this, I looked in my cabinet and I have two backups of this, that's how much I love it. I just take a scoop and I rub it onto my dry skin, I rub it into the base of my lashes to get my mascara off, my waterproof eyeliner. It never stings or burns my eyes. Then I splash that with water, the water emulsifies with the oil balm and then all my makeup, all my sunscreen runs right down the drain."
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"This one is my all-time favorite, the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. 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."
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"I use the Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm. I find that using an oil-based cleansing balm is really the gentlest way to get off all your makeup, all your tenacious sunscreen, even your waterproof mascara, eyeliner. It comes off so quickly and easily with this. I've tried a ton of them. There are some other ones that I do like almost as much as this, but this is one that I always go back to. So, I just take a glob of this and I rub it into my dry skin with all the makeup. It melts it right away."
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"This is my favorite way to remove my makeup. I do a double cleanse and this is the first step in it, and I love it that they sell it in this whopper of a jar because it means less repurchasing. With a smaller jar I find that I go through them fairly quickly and I have to be buying one every 3 months or so, whereas this guy will last me a good 6 months."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm, which is my favorite first cleanse to get rid of tenacious sunscreen and waterproof eye makeup."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is just so nice to use. It doesn't take a lot and you just rub it into your dry skin. Your makeup dries, it makes the makeup just melt right away. Then you just splash it with water, give it a little rub, and all the makeup just runs right down the drain. This is a really good one. I have repurchased this and bought the larger size tub."
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"The Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm is my favorite and it is 30% off in both sizes. It is the best cleansing balm hands down for removing your makeup. I use it as the first cleanse of my double cleanse and have used it for years. Holy grail product, I love it."
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"This is my favorite facial cleanser that removes all my makeup. It's an oil based balm, you rub it into your dry face and it dissolves waterproof eyeliner, waterproof mascara, all your foundation, even tenacious sunscreen that you can't get off."
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"I love this, and it's perfect timing too because I am almost out so I need one of these."
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"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."
"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."
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"I have gone back and forth to so many different cleansers over the years and I always come back to the CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser. There isn't anything that's as hydrating or as gentle on the skin as that CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser. So I love it. It's going to be about $4 off, down to $15 from $20, which is a great deal."
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"I've only been using this for a couple of weeks. For washing my face I don't want anything that's going to strip my skin, I don't want my skin to feel tight and dry afterwards. It's not the greatest at getting off like makeup but I do a double cleanse in the evening. This is just for my morning cleanse where really my skin is essentially still clean from the night before, so I rub that into my dry skin then I give it a little splash with water."
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"The CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser is an old longtime favorite. This one doesn't sting my skin, it doesn't have any surfactant, it's very hydrating, very moisturizing. It's not going to remove your waterproof makeup, sunscreen, and all those things, but as a second cleanse it's great. It takes a little bit longer to rinse away than some of the other cleansers that I'm used to for my second cleanse. I just wish that it rinsed a little bit quicker from the skin, but other than that, no complaints about it really. I like it."
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"I go in with my second cleanse which currently I'm using the CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser to make sure that my face is super clean and I've gotten all the sunscreen makeup off."
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"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."
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"CeraVe had quite a few things in the sale, including the Hydrating Facial Cleanser, which I use every day."
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"The CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser is in it. I use that almost every day, that's in my shower, I wash my face with that."
"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."
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"For my gentle cleanser for my second cleansing step, I've switched over to the Prequel cleanser this year. I love this as a second cleanse. It's so hydrating and so soothing. It doesn't have any hidden irritants in it like fragrance or acids."
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"Another thing of theirs that I love is the cleanser. And I'm so kicking myself cuz I just bought it last week full price and now here it is for 20% off."
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"I really really love this as a first step cleanser. It's really mild, it's really soothing. There are some surfactants in here which normally I like a face wash with no surfactants, I don't like anything that foams or strips my skin, but the idea behind this one is that they put in 50% glycerin and glycerin is one of the workhorses of our skincare routine. It's in everything, it's humectant, it keeps the surfactants that are in here from stripping your skin so it keeps your skin more hydrated while it does its work of cleaning your skin. My only complaint about this is that it takes a little bit longer to rinse this away than some of the other cleansers that I'm used to for my second cleanse. I just wish that it rinsed a little bit quicker from the skin, but other than that no complaints about it."
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"I've switched cleansers for my morning cleanse this year. Now I'm using the Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser as my morning cleanse. It's very mild, it's very soothing, it's made out of almost all glycerin, which is a really great hydrating ingredient in skincare."
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"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."
"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."
"Another one that I love is the Geek & Gorgeous Mighty Melt. I just take a scoop of one of these and I rub it into my dry face then I give that a splash with water then I rub my Wonder cloth around my face that removes more of the makeup and more of the dirt and more of the sunscreen and rinse this and everything rinses right off."
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"One of my favorite products is their Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm. This definitely gives my Clinique Take the Day Off cleansing balm a run for its money."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Over the past couple months I've been trying the Beauty of Joseon Radiance Cleansing Balm and I really like this. This is about on par with all the other cleansing balms that I've tried that are almost as good as the Clinique, but just not quite, but it is definitely a lot less money. I like the packaging on this too, it's got this little flip top so it's just easy to use and it comes with a little scooper which I really appreciate. I'm about 3/4 done with this and I have been using this consistently every night. I'm definitely going to use it all up, it's not the kind of thing where I try it and hate it and never use it again. I really like this one and I feel like this is probably the closest one to the Clinique that I've tried yet."
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"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."
"I was so high on it the first month that I used it and now it's out already. 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 with this."
"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."
"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."
"When I first put it on, I thought it looked really smooth and really nice. During the day, it has started looking more and more dry. Feel like my under eyes just look parched and dry. I got to say, the coverage is still in place, so I like it from that standpoint. So if you have super oily under eyes, you might like this. But if you're like most mature women and your skin is getting drier, I don't think you're going to like how this looks."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"The concealer I'm going to use today is the Haus Labs Triclone concealer. This is in the shade 23. What I usually do to make sure that I don't apply too much concealer is that I always wipe off any excess on the wand back into the bottle. And then I place my concealer just at the inner corner where I have that discoloration. And I just put on a little triangle of concealer like that. And that much I'm going to use to even out all underneath my eyes. It's going to color correct all underneath. You can always add more later, but it's hard to take it away."
"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."
"This has been hands down my favorite for years, I love this concealer. It doesn't settle in my wrinkles, it doesn't make my wrinkles look bigger than they are, it gives me really solid coverage, and it wears like iron all day long. I absolutely love it."
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"For the under eye concealer I'm not using the beauty counter concealer today I'm using my Holy Grail Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear and this is what I have on and oh my goodness don't my eyes look so much smoother and nicer than they did yesterday."
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"This has been hands down my favorite for years, I love this concealer. It doesn't settle in my wrinkles, it doesn't make my wrinkles look bigger than they are, it gives me really solid coverage, and it wears like iron all day long. I absolutely love it."
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"I didn't find anything that replaced my Holy Grail this year, so I'm still recommending as my number one concealer the Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear Concealer. This is the most beautiful concealer. It doesn't take a lot but it's very, very pigmented, so it will cover the discolorations you've got, but it's not drying, it doesn't cake up in your wrinkles, it doesn't settle in your wrinkles at all."
"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."
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"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."
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"Another one that I tried that I liked a lot was the NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum. This is a serum concealer, so it's going to be more hydrating. I didn't find this one to be drying at all, it didn't settle in my wrinkles. It didn't wear as long as I wanted it to, but it was a good concealer."
"I definitely recommend getting a really good quality concealer brush. This is my A506 brush with BK Beauty. And this is very similar to their foundation brush. I actually modeled it after that one. Using a blending sponge, it just removed too much of the concealer and I didn't get enough coverage. Once I created this brush, oh my gosh, it really changed my concealer game. You press it and stipple it rather than dragging. So basically, I start patting it into the concealer, working it into the brush. I just bring it across using those same patting motions. And you can see that even with just little patting motions, it spreads the concealer under my eyes, but it's leaving most of the concealer concentrated at the inner corner where I have my discolorations, and it's putting just the tiniest bit of concealer out here where most of my bigger wrinkles are. So when I smile, I have my crows feet, and I don't want my concealer settling in those wrinkles and making my skin look wrinklier than it is. So that's why it's best to keep it more at the inner corner. Just stipple it across and that way you get the least amount on here because definitely with older skin and makeup, less is more. But look how beautiful and smooth that looks."
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"I definitely recommend getting a really good quality concealer brush. This is my A506 brush with BK Beauty. And this is very similar to their foundation brush. I actually modeled it after that one. Using a blending sponge, it just removed too much of the concealer and I didn't get enough coverage. Once I created this brush, oh my gosh, it really changed my concealer game. You press it and stipple it rather than dragging. So basically, I start patting it into the concealer, working it into the brush. I just bring it across using those same patting motions. And you can see that even with just little patting motions, it spreads the concealer under my eyes, but it's leaving most of the concealer concentrated at the inner corner where I have my discolorations, and it's putting just the tiniest bit of concealer out here where most of my bigger wrinkles are. So when I smile, I have my crows feet, and I don't want my concealer settling in those wrinkles and making my skin look wrinklier than it is. So that's why it's best to keep it more at the inner corner. Just stipple it across and that way you get the least amount on here because definitely with older skin and makeup, less is more. But look how beautiful and smooth that looks."
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"This is an excellent concealer brush. It's a viral brush. It's so good for really detailed work. The right size and it actually curves to the shape of your nose, follows along it. It's excellent. The longer fibers of this brush I'm going to use to blend out the edges of the concealer so it really is seamless and it melts into the rest of the complexion."
"It is so soft and so lovely and it works great with the SE concealer, my Lancôme concealer, just about any concealer. It's really just like a combination of the softness and the fluffiness of this brush that just lays down concealer so seamlessly and so smoothly. It never leaves any streak marks, it never leaves it patchy or weird looking."
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"If you have never put on your under eye concealer and liked the way it looked, whether you use your finger or a sponge or some other brush, this is the brush to try. I had tried all the brushes out there, used my finger, used a sponge, until this. Now this is the only thing I use and I love it so much. It really does make my concealer go on so perfectly. It fits so perfectly right into that corner of my eye. It's just an amazing brush. The quality of these brushes is so good. The brush fibers are so soft. They never poke, they never prickle, they never make your skin feel bad, and they don't tug on your skin either, which is a problem that we have once we get more mature and our skin gets to be a little bit looser. I use them all the time. I use them every single day in tutorials, in videos, behind the scenes, and nothing has ever happened."
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"The number one brush that I would recommend is my A506, this is my concealer brush. I developed this to be kind of a mini version of the BK-101, which is another one of my all-time favorite brushes, and it was the exact shape of that that I wanted to translate into a mini one that would fit perfectly right into the inner corner of the eye. So this fits perfectly and it's so soft. There's never a brush mark, never a streak. It just shears it out so perfectly, but also lays down the right amount so that you do get the coverage you want, but you don't get any excess that is going to settle into your wrinkles. I just love it. I use it every single day."
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"The A506 Concealer Brush is like a mini cat's paw, the perfect shape to get right into the inner eye area. It makes it so easy to spread just the right amount of concealer, doesn't pick up any product, and lays it down without any marks, so you get nice full coverage with less product. It can be bought separately and makes a great stocking stuffer."
"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."
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"I like the Bondi Sands one. You put them on with a mitt. If you want to get it on your back and you don't have someone to help you, this is a great little tool for that. I've used it, it works great."
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"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."
"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."
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"The fragrance is super heavy, really coconutty, really Hawaii-ish, but it feels nice on the skin. It doesn't settle in my wrinkles. If I'm self-tanning because it's summer, this is one of my self-tanners that I like. I like the Beauty by Earth one. You put it on with a mitt, and if you want to get it on your back and you don't have someone to help you, this is a great little tool for that. I've used it and it works great."
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"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."
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"This is like a cream, you can't really see where you're putting it. I like the tan that it gave me. I feel like I got the same color in the same amount of time as the other one, and I feel like it lasted about the same amount of time. The main difference was that when I put it on at night and then put on white pants, this one didn't stain or transfer all over my clothes, whereas the other one did stain up the inside of my pants. So if you're someone who puts it on at night and then gets tanner all over your sheets or clothes, you might prefer this one. I didn't end up with any streaks. It went on really nice and I liked it a lot."
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"I discovered a new self tanner this year and I was so excited about this one, it's called Beauty by Earth Self-Tanner Tanning Lotion and I do get it in the medium to dark shade. This is a lotion, it's not a mousse, and it comes out white, you just rub it in like a regular old lotion. The thing I like the most about this is that the tan seems to last a lot longer with this because it is like moisturizing my skin, where a lot of the mousses will have some SD alcohol in them and they could be a little bit more drying. This really moisturizes my skin and I feel like that helps it to just stay longer in the skin. This also has really great ingredients: it's got aloe leaf juice, it's got shea butter, coconut oil, glycerin, green tea leaf extract. This is organic and cruelty-free and it's just been a really great change."
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"This is the Beauty by Earth self-tanning lotion, I buy it in the medium to dark shade. I got more color than I usually got with my old self-tanner and it lasted a little bit longer, and because it's a lotion it was more hydrating on my skin than a lot of the foams, which can be a little bit drying. I really really like this one."
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"One of my favorite self-tanners is the Beauty by Earth Self-Tanner Tanning Lotion, and I love that one."
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"This is my body self tanner, I use it in the medium to dark. What I like about it is that it's a lotion, not a foam, so it's a two in one, you don't have to figure out which one goes first. Once it's dry it doesn't come off on my clothes, it doesn't come off on my bedding."
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"My second favorite self-tanner is the one from Beauty by Earth, and that one is a lotion. It does take a while for that one to develop the tan, it usually takes about two applications. But being a lotion, it really hydrates your skin."
"I've been using this for 9 years. This is Alpha Skin Care's Renewal Body Lotion. This one has 12% glycolic acid and it's formulated at a pH of four. Glycolic acid helps your skin in three different ways: it helps with collagen production, it helps with skin cell turnover on the surface, it actually dissolves the glue that holds dead skin cells on the surface so it'll immediately make your skin look better, and third it's very hydrating to the skin, it helps to lock water into the skin. It's about $15 to $20 for this big tube. The best thing that happened to it in the last couple years is that they finally put a pump on it because this is so thick that it really was hard to get out of the bottle. This contains petrolatum, mineral oil, and dimethicone, so it's very thick, it's very occlusive, but it makes my skin feel so nourished and so hydrated. This one though is a little bit spicy. When I first started using it I would get a little bit tingly when I would put it on."
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"The glycolic acid is actually a low enough pH to exfoliate your skin, so if your skin looks a little bit dull and a little bit crepey and is showing a lot of fine lines and wrinkles, this is what will really help to get rid of that by turning over those dead skin cells faster. It helps your skin to be less itchy and less dry and just looks a lot better in general. This has been a holy grail for so many years I can't even tell you, and I of course have purchased a new one, have it in my bathroom, and am using it. I used it today after my shower. I love how it makes my skin look and feel."
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"I've been using this for 9 years. This is Alpha Skin Care's Renewal Body Lotion. This one has 12% glycolic acid and it's formulated at a pH of four. Glycolic acid helps your skin in three different ways: it helps with collagen production, it helps with skin cell turnover on the surface, it actually dissolves the glue that holds dead skin cells on the surface so it'll immediately make your skin look better, and third it's very hydrating to the skin, it helps to lock water into the skin. It's about $15 to $20 for this big tube. The best thing that happened to it in the last couple years is that they finally put a pump on it because this is so thick that it really was hard to get out of the bottle. This contains petrolatum, mineral oil, and dimethicone, so it's very thick, it's very occlusive, but it makes my skin feel so nourished and so hydrated. This one though is a little bit spicy. When I first started using it I would get a little bit tingly when I would put it on."
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"This is a glycolic acid Body Lotion that I absolutely love, swear by. I've been talking about it for years. It's such a great lotion, but it's so thick that you can barely get it out of the container. So the big news about it is that I ordered a new one and they included a pump. I didn't even realize it was coming. I was like I squealed when I opened the box."
"I found that this year in the Lumi deodorant I actually bought both types of it I bought the cream and the solid stick it was love at first use with this this actually keeps me smell free for 3 days like if I forget to put it on in the morning and then I go ride my bike I am not smelly afterwards. When I am nervous I nervous sweat, you know that's the sweat that really does tend to make you a little stinkier and when I work out I sweat, and being able to control what we smell like when we do those things is really great. This has really been another game changer for me this year. It's got aloe leaf juice, it's got shea butter, coconut oil, glycerin, green tea leaf extract. This is organic and cruelty free."
"The Versed Press Restart Gentle Retinol Body Lotion has retinol in about the same amount as Gold Bond based on where it is on the ingredient list, probably less than one percent. It has squalane and cocoa butter instead of shea butter, and vitamin E. I'd say it's a little bit heavier and more emollient compared to some others. I do like it, but I have not repurchased it."
"I like Loving Tan. It doesn't settle in my wrinkles. You put it on with a mitt, and if you want to get it on your back and you don't have someone to help you, this is a great little tool for that."
"There's a Charlotte Tilbury setting spray two pack. I love that setting spray. It is absolutely the best."
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"This is by far the best setting spray I've ever used. It doesn't dry out my skin, it's not full of SD alcohol, and it actually does make my makeup last longer. One of my favorite things that I ever bought in the Nordstrom sale. It is a big ticket item, but I was so happy to get it at a discount. I've never regretted this purchase."
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"There's a Charlotte Tilbury setting spray two pack. I love that setting spray. It is absolutely the best."
"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."
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"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."
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"My favorite highlighter to pick up in the sale is the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter, but this is so huge. If you're never going to use this all, get the mini. Do yourself a favor. The mini is great for travel, it's great for everyday. You will actually go through this. This is just so enormous. But I wear this in shade four and I love it. Have it on my cheeks today. Just love that extra pop. Just makes the cheeks look so full and so beautiful."
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"My tried and true one that I've loved for years is the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter. This comes in more shades so you can get a shade. I wear it in shade four and this is more of a golden glow. I feel like it has more pigment in it so it more like colors your skin a little bit. It's beautiful."
"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."
"This is their Born This Way soft blur flexible finish setting powder, a pressed powder that comes in a compact and in shades. I wear it in the shade medium and I've hit pan on it. I don't use this as my setting powder when I have on makeup because for me this is much heavier, but what I use this for is adding a little bit of extra coverage and mattifying down my sunscreen. I tend to use tinted mineral sunscreens and they tend to be a little bit heavier, a little bit shinier, and they definitely accentuate all my pores and texture. So I need a powder to put over them. It evens out my skin tone, it takes away my redness, it mattifies my skin, so it takes away my pores and texture. I've hit pan on it and I will definitely be buying a new one."
"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. This one is just kind of a universal shade, it's just a very light tan color so it's the perfect shade. It just really blurs my pores, blurs imperfections. It also comes in a mini. The lid is so clever, this part opens up and then you twist it and it's got a powder puff in there, you know how when you travel the powder just comes out of the sifter and is all in the lid. You just snap it in and then close this and it's perfect for travel."
"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."
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"The Beachwaver is the Curling Iron I use to get my beachy waves and it is 50% off, $49.50 down from $99. It has a rotating barrel and a tiny clip, so you clip the end of your hair in, it rotates up, you leave it a minute and it gives you perfect beachy waves. It is also dual voltage, which is great for travel since my Dyson is not. It is a Curling Iron you will never regret buying because it is just so good and so easy to use."
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"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."
"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."
"The 109 is like the in between version between my concealer brush and their 101 foundation brush which is the bigger one but this is perfect for just doing your nose or your chin or a little bit of concealer here and there."
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"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."
"I talk about Angie's Brush Set with BK Beauty all the time. This is the travel set, and you can also buy the whole other set that's not travel, or individual brushes. These brushes are phenomenal. My favorite brush is this foundation brush, the A101. I use it all the time and you will get a flawless, flawless base application. The concealer brush is the most amazing brush for under the eyes. I use this every single time. This is a brush like I've never seen before. It is the perfect amount of density. It's going to really pack that pigment on, it still shears it out, and the shape gets right into that tear duct area so you can pop it right into that tear duct, stipple, stipple, stipple, shear out the coverage, and you will get the most flawless, most beautiful application. This is the set if you are traveling or if you need brushes. You need this Brush Set."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
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"This is one of my launches from this year and it is my Travel Brush Set with BK Beauty. It came out in September and I'm really proud of this product. We were able to create this based on requests from you guys. I launched my original brush set a couple of years ago and almost from the moment I launched it, people were asking for shorter handles on my brushes and also to have the BK11 brush in my handle color, and we were able to accomplish both those things in this little travel set. It makes a great gift. The travel pouch is really slim, it's really compact, but yet it can hold all the brushes that you need when you travel. Inside the pouch you get five brushes: these are four brushes from my regular brush set and also the BK11 brush in a scaled down version in my handle color. The brushes that come with this are my A506 concealer brush, my A507 blush brush, my A501 all over lid shader, and my A502 medium crease shader, and also the BK101 brush. This is just perfect for any kind of trip whether it's long or short because if it's a short trip I can just take the original five brushes, but if it's going to be a longer trip where I need more makeup then I can add in a few of my other brushes."
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"The Travel Brush Set comes with this beautiful silver faux leather pouch. It is so compact I love that it's not going to take up a lot of space in my luggage or in my backpack. Inside I've got a collection of five brushes with shorter handles all in travel sizes. The five brushes that come with the set are the A506 concealer brush because concealer is the one thing that nobody goes without when traveling, the A507 angled blush brush which can do triple duty to apply your blush, your setting powder, and your highlighter. For the eyeshadow brushes we included the A501 allover shader to lay down the base and you can also use it for your shimmers or for blending out your crease, and the A502 which is my medium size crease brush perfect for doing your detail work and blending. And last but certainly not least is my holy grail foundation brush, the BK101 in a travel size, renamed the A101. The pouch does double duty as it converts into a cup that can stand by itself like on the vanity in your hotel room."
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"The BK Beauty Travel Brush Set comes in a beautiful, sophisticated, sleek, easy-to-pack brush holder that does double duty as a home organizer too. It has five brushes inside: two eyeshadow brushes, the BK11 foundation brush, the blush brush, and the concealer brush, which are scaled-down versions of the brushes from the original set. You unzip it, fold the back part down, and it becomes a cup to hold the brushes. It comes in a beautiful gift box and is included in the Black Friday 20% off sale."
"One of my favorite body lotions is the Gold Bond Retinol Overnight Lotion. It has retinol, niacinamide, and shea butter, and it is so creamy and so hydrating. I alternate it with the Alpha skincare lotion, and it is $2 off."
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"The newest body lotion to my body lotion arsenal is a retinol body lotion from Gold Bond, the age renew retinol overnight body and face lotion. You can use this on your face, though I don't because I use a prescription retinoid on my face. It is a really good body lotion and I like it a lot. The price point is really great. It's a really thick cream, really hydrating, really emollient. Comparing the ingredient lists, the retinol is probably in them in about the same amount based on where it is on the ingredient list, much less than one percent because that's just how it is with retinols. But I gotta say I like the ingredient list on the Gold Bond a little bit better because the Gold Bond has niacinamide, shea butter, and squalane. The Gold Bond also has urea and a peptide in it, so this one is just more packed full of skin loving goodness. This one I'd say is just a little bit heavier, a little bit more emollient."
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"I would recommend the Gold Bond if you live in a colder climate when your body skin gets really really dry. This is an awesome body lotion because not only does it contain retinol but it also contains so many of my other anti-aging ingredients. This has got urea, shea butter, niacinamide, jojoba oil, squalane, it's got a peptide in there. I mean they really threw everything into this formula. I feel like all the ingredients that we use on our face we should really be using on our body as well, but it's hard to get them in a big enough quantity in a body lotion, and I love that this comes in this huge 13-ounce size so this will last for a few months using it every other day. It's so hydrating. It really keeps my skin looking nice, it keeps it feeling nice, and it's just been a really great find for me."
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"This lotion is my Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body and Face Lotion. This has retinol in it. And retinol is much weaker than prescription options, but it's the over-the-counter cousin, and it's great to have it in a body lotion. Also really thick, really emollient. Love that it comes in this big tube."
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"I used up a tube of the Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body and Face Lotion, and I love this. I do like to buy the bigger bottle with the pump dispenser, and now that's more available. When it first came out you could only buy that, it was like a Walmart exclusive, now you can buy it everywhere, so that is awesome. I like to use the same ingredients on my body as I use on my face, but you can't use tretinoin all over your body, but you can use retinol, so this is my retinol lotion. This one is really, really thick and hydrating and has lots of really good moisturizing ingredients, and it's really great especially to use in the winter because it is so thick. It has shea butter and some oils in it. Great little lotion."
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"One of my favorite body lotions is the Gold Bond Retinol Overnight Lotion. It has retinol, niacinamide, and shea butter, and it is so creamy and so hydrating. I alternate it with the Alpha skincare lotion, and it is $2 off."
"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."
"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."
"I go in with my Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin. It's also got azelaic acid and tranexamic acid. I love this part of my skincare routine so much because I really feel like tretinoin is the most effective portion of my entire skincare routine. It's also available only by prescription here in the US, so in order to get tretinoin you have to see a doctor or dermatology provider, which Agency can provide you with as a telemedicine company. The way it works is you go on their website, answer a questionnaire, upload some pictures of yourself, describe what your concerns are whether it's just general aging, redness in your skin, sagging, wrinkles, rosacea, whatever it is you tell your provider what you're concerned about and then they pick the ingredients that will go into your Future Formula to address your concerns."
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"The product that contains the tretinoin is their Future Formula, but it also contains three other active ingredients that are selected by my skincare provider at Agency specifically for my skin concerns. I love that Agency sets me up one-on-one with a dermatology provider who looks at the pictures of my skin, looks at the answers to my quiz, and who then recommends the active ingredients, but not just the active ingredients, the amount of the active ingredient that is going to be the best for my skin. If you are a newcomer to tretinoin, they're going to recommend a much lower percentage of tretinoin in your Future Formula than they will in mine. Agency's dermatology providers can give you exactly what you need for your skin because all of our skin is different. What goes into my Future Formula doesn't need to be the same as what goes into yours. That is one of the best things about this service, it really is almost customized just for you. They choose from a limited ingredient deck, but what they're choosing from are the most effective, the most proven ingredients that you can get. They're not wasting your money on a bunch of ingredients that don't really do anything. For me, there's nothing better than looking at the back label on my Future Formula and seeing the exact amount, the exact percentage of each of my active ingredients that are inside my bottle, so I know I'm getting an effective dose."
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"I've actually been using this for almost two years now and I love it. Tretinoin is the gold standard, it is the way to go in anti-aging skincare. There's nothing else that is proven like tretinoin to work in your skin to produce more collagen, to reduce wrinkles, to brighten your skin by thinning the outer dead layer of skin while thickening the deeper layers of skin. The main ingredient that's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to do that safely is tretinoin. The way it works is you snap a couple of pictures of your skin, you upload them to their website, they set you up with a one-on-one consultation with a dermatology provider and they're there to look at your skin and to address your concerns by prescribing the right ingredients in your formula. These formulas have four active ingredients and they have a whole list of the best, the most proven anti-aging active ingredients to choose from."
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"The three active ingredients that I have in addition to my tretinoin are for redness in the skin and they have really helped to clear up the redness in my skin and to clear up the discolorations. I've seen the biggest improvements to date through my 10 years of tretinoin use just in the last couple of years since I switched to Agency. It's really powerful, the things that they combine in here."
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"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."
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"This is from Agency and this is my Future Formula and this is the one that has tretinoin in it. The cool thing about Agency is that they mix in other ingredients to address whatever is happening on your skin. So let's say you're aging and you want the tretinoin for wrinkles but you also have a lot of redness in your face or you have discolorations or you have a lack of firmness, they'll put four active ingredients into your formula that will address exactly what you want to address in your skin. They also set you up one-on-one with a dermatology provider who recommends the ingredients in yours and they're there for you to communicate with. They give you a whole sheet of information on how to use it and what your other skincare around it should be, and then if you have any problems you can write back to them and they'll help you right through the portal. You know exactly what you're getting in your bottle because on the back it shows the percentage of each ingredient. With tretinoin the standard percentages that you get from the pharmacy are 0.05% or 0.1%, but with this service they offer so many different percentages. I really like it because the other ingredients in mine are specifically for redness in the skin."
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"It can really help to protect and build new collagen which keeps your skin looking plump and firm and more youthful. It reduces wrinkles, it turns over the dead skin cells on the surface making your skin look glowier and brighter. My age spots are disappearing, my redness is practically gone, and my skin just looks so much better without makeup. I absolutely love my Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin."
"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. I take a tiny dab of this and I just work it underneath my eyes and onto my eyelids. The one thing that I love about this is that it's so nonsensitizing. You can start using it right off the bat every single day. No irritation."
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"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. I take a tiny dab of this and I just work it underneath my eyes and onto my eyelids. The one thing that I love about this is that it's so nonsensitizing. You can start using it right off the bat every single day. No irritation."
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"They recently came out with an eye version of it. And this is a smaller bottle. It's 30 grams versus the 45, but it's a higher strength of the estriol. It's 1%. And this is a very creamy, very hydrating cream. So, you just need the tiniest tiniest amount of this for your eye area. So, this will last a good long time. These tubes are supposed to last for about 3 months. and I find that they last 3 months if not longer."
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"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. It'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 gets kind of shiny and a little bit oily looking in the afternoon on me, 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."
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"I actually do like this Foundation a lot. I think for something that gives such light coverage, it's really beautiful for the first half the day. 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. But on me it definitely gets kind of shiny and a little bit oily looking in the afternoon. If you have super dry skin you may just love this as it is, but if you do have a little bit of an oily T-Zone like I do, you're definitely going to get some shine later in the day."
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"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. It'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 gets kind of shiny and a little bit oily looking in the afternoon on me, 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."
"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."
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"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."
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"The Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray is a hypochlorous acid spray. If you have any kind of skin irritation, it takes away the heat and the sting and the burn really quickly."
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"At home my neck is just constantly irritated by my hair, clothes, jewelry, you name it. My neck is just in a constant state of irritation, and so I thought well let me give this a try. It's so easy to use, it's almost like a setting spray. I can do my skincare and then just spritz it on or I can spritz it on and then do my skincare. It has really been helping my neck to be much less sensitive. This is a hit with me. I really love it."
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"I've got a new weapon in my skincare routine to fight that irritation this winter and I'm absolutely loving this. It's from Tower 28, it's their SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray. This is a hypochlorous acid spray, it's super gentle and super effective in calming and soothing the skin. It's antibacterial, it's antimicrobial, so it fights acne, it fights infections. After I wash my face I pat my skin dry, I don't get it super completely dry, I don't wait any amount of time, then I give myself a spritz with my hypochlorous acid spray. I spray my face and my neck and then I rub it around a little bit and then I just give it a couple of seconds to dry. I don't necessarily put this on every single day, mainly if I wake up and my skin is feeling just a little bit itchy, a little bit dry and irritated, I'll give it a spritz with this. Sometimes I use it at night."
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"I started using the Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray on my neck and oh my gosh, this is it. It gets rid of my irritation on my neck in a matter of minutes instead of hours or days. When I first feel my neck getting hot and tingly and itchy I can just give this a spray and it takes care of it, and it has kept all irritation away. I swear this is the most comfortable my neck has been in years. In the dead of winter, in January with heat on and no moisture in the air, my neck is not red, irritated or on fire, and it's because of hypochlorous acid. The main difference I noticed compared to another hypochlorous acid product is that this one has a bit of a fragrance to it, but this one is a little bit of a finer mist. Sometimes I do it before I put on my skincare and sometimes I put it on after I put on my skincare and I literally just mist and let it soak in, and I have had no irritation on my neck. I'm so thrilled."
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"The Tower 28 SOS hypochlorous acid spray is a new discovery for me this year that I am so psyched about. Hypochlorous acid is one of the workhorses of the dermatologist toolkit, they use it for everything. It can help to minimize your acne, it can help to minimize your skin irritation, and my neck is constantly irritated and I just give it a spritz with this and it takes away the irritation almost immediately. My neck has been so non-irritated this fall. I just love this. This is a really great product, and it also comes in a mini if you just want to try a mini or give one to someone who maybe has acne or irritated skin to try."
"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."
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"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."
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"This is their Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream, this is a really great body lotion to have in your arsenal because this contains serum eyes, it's got five ceramides plus the cholesterol that it needs to actually deliver the ceramides into your skin. This is a very soothing lotion that's going to help to repair your skin barrier. It's got colloidal oatmeal in it, it also has shea butter and glycerin. Of the three, this is going to be the more lightweight of the three lotions, easier to spread."
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"The Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream is calming and soothing for the skin, it's good for eczema skin or itchy skin, but what I love about this is that it has ceramides in it and it's so hard to find a body product that has ceramides. This contains five ceramides, so this has gotten into my rotation of body lotions that I use every time I get out of the shower. It comes in a nice big 10 oz tube and the Prequel pricing is very reasonable."
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"The third one that gives me my ceramides is this Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream. This is a really nice cream. I have used it all up. There was a recall on this, mine wasn't in the stock numbers of the ones that were recalled, so I was able to finish using it. I don't think that they've restocked this though. I don't know why it's been out of stock so long. The recall was a long time ago. Hopefully they'll get it sorted and figured out so we can have this back."
"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."
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"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."
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"Maelove Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum contains GHK-Cu. It just came out and sold out, but I believe it's coming back on Monday the 11th, so that's good news."
"I do like to kind of rewet the surface just so that my skincare absorbs more fully. I go ahead and rewet my skin with one of two toners I kind of use these interchangeably. This one is the Isntree Green Tea Toner. Green tea is an antioxidant and it's a really great ingredient to have in your skincare. It's very soothing. I just use it like an essence. I just put a little in the palm of my hand and pat it around my face."
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"I am still using the Isntree Green Tea Toner. I love this one, I kind of alternate these two."
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"The ISNTREE Green Tea Toner is my favorite toner and one I have been using for a long long time. I just splash it on my face at night. Green tea is an antioxidant, it is so good for your skin, and it is very soothing."
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"The first thing is the Isntree Green Tea Toner. Longtime love. Have used that for years."
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