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Sunscreen97 reviews

DRMTLGY Physical Tinted Moisturizer SPF 44

"The Dermatology Physical Tinted Moisturizer SPF 44 is a fantastic facial sunscreen for people with dry skin especially. It's tinted, so you can just put it on and go. You can use it as your everyday makeup base. You don't have to put on foundation with it. [...] It will just even out your skin tone, but it's so hydrating and so soothing."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

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

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Kopari Bright As Day Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 Zero Feel SPF 50 Day Cream

"It has a PA++++ rating, which means it's the highest UVA protection. This is the first sunscreen I've ever tried that I could put on my face and not have to do anything else, [...] just go about my day without looking weird. With every other sunscreen I've tried it's either a white cast, the tint doesn't match me, it's super shiny, it makes my pores look huge, it feels super greasy, I need to powder it or put makeup over it."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Supergoop Glow Screen Sunscreen SPF 40

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

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Neutrogena Purescreen+ Mineral UV Tint Face Liquid SPF 30

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

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Actinica SPF 50

"The ISDIN Eryfotona, beautiful sunscreen."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

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

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

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Hawaiian Tropic Sheer Touch Sunscreen

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

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

CeraVe Invisible Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit The Uniform Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50

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

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Tower 28 SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation

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

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Skin Recovery SPF 50

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

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

Avène Mineral Multi-Defense Sunscreen Fluid SPF 50

"This is a tinted runny liquid that feels like a lightweight lotion. It rubs in easily, but it only comes in one shade, which is way too warm and too dark for me. And it goes on very splotchy and very unevenly. [...] But aside from the color, the other reason that I can't recommend this one is because it never dries back after 20 minutes. It is just coming off on everything. So, this one got a zero out of five for me as a standalone sunscreen."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

AXIS-Y Complete No Stress Physical Sunscreen SPF 50+

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

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Kiehl's Beyond Screen Mineral All UV Serum

"So I didn't think it looked terrible, but I did notice that it had been coming off under my nails all day long. And it was getting a little bit shiny, but also felt so very drying throughout the day that I really couldn't wait to wash my face. I really can't fully recommend it to people with dry skin. I'm going to give it three out of five for a standalone sunscreen and two out of five for how it did with makeup."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Freaks of Nature Peak Performance Sunscreen SPF 50

"By the time I got the second layer on, very strong white cast, clings to hair, is not good around the hairline, gets all tangled up in your eyebrows, and it just doesn't rub in very well. With all the sunscreens, I do give them 20 minutes to dry back and set to see if the white cast will settle in or if the greasy feeling will go away. This one, after 20 minutes, it didn't change at all. So, as a standalone sunscreen, I gave this zero out of five stars."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Supergoop Mineral Glow Screen Soft Radiance Drops SPF 40

"It's their mineral glow screen. It's a little bit paler than the Kopari and it gives more of a kind of a highlighter look. Once this is dry and set, it really feels great on the skin. It reflects light in such a beautiful way, but it almost acts like makeup primer. This is so good under makeup. And if you want your makeup to be extra glowy and just have that extra lit from within glow look to it, this is a really great sunscreen to try."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

ISDIN Eryfotona Ageless Tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Abib Airy SunStick Smoothing Bar SPF 50+

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

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Elements Tinted Sunscreen SPF 44

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

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50

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

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Brush-On Shield SPF 50

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

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

MERIT Uniform Tinted Mineral Sunscreen Broadspectrum SPF 45

"Putting this on at an eighth of a teaspoon, I really thought it looked great. There weren't any problems with rubbing it in anywhere. It covered my entire face. And it feels really, really nice. It doesn't feel heavy. It doesn't feel greasy. The pigments don't look heavy. It doesn't look like a mask of makeup, and it looks still very sheer, but yet it evens out my skin tone, covers up my redness, makes my skin look better than it is, and I like the finish on it as well. It's not super shiny."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Glow Screen SPF 50

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

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Daily Tinted Fluid Sunscreen SPF 40

"It really burned my face, which I wasn't happy about because I was so psyched about it. And it's also not water resistant. So this is a runny tinted liquid. [...] It feels lovely going on like a lightweight oil or serum. It has a wet yet powdery feel to it. It blends well around hair and eyebrows. The finish is softly dewy but not shiny. The tint is a good match for me and it evens out my skin tone and looks really natural. I did put makeup on over this one."

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

iNNBEAUTY PROJECT Mineral Sunlow Broadspectrum SPF 43 PA+++

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

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Blue Lizard Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Alastin HydraTint Pro Mineral Sunscreen SPF 36

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

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Future Screen SPF 50 Modern Mineral Sunscreen

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

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Velvet Screen SPF 50 Blurring Mineral Sunscreen

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

✕Nay

50%Guru Score

Ciele Prime and Protect SPF 30 Primer

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

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Live Tinted Hue Guard Tint SPF 50

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

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

OneSkin OS-01 Tinted Sunscreen SPF 50

"Where the makeup hadn't worn off is where my face looked lighter in patches. So it didn't look great. At the 8-hour check-in, I felt like it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great either. It wasn't drying, but it wasn't particularly hydrating either, and it wasn't overly shiny. So I thought it was okay, but not fantastic. I gave it a three out of five as a sunscreen and a three out of five under makeup."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Sarah Creal Brilliant Repair Shield Illuminating SPF 50

"It feels wet and oily going on. It rubs in easily, but the pigments don't spread that evenly, leaving tiny like specks all over my face. You can only see them if you're looking at me super up close, [...] but I'm looking at it in my 10x mirror, and I don't want speckles all over my face. So I was hoping that this would be better, especially for the price. And it has a very very shiny finish. After 20 minutes of dryback, it looked and felt the same. I gave it a zero out of five as a sunscreen."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Sun Coverup Super Tint SPF 50

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

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Live Tinted Skin Tint SPF 50

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

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Matte Universal Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46

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

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

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

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

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

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

"What I like about this one is that it's not shiny. It goes on feeling really, really nice. It just feels like a lightweight skin lotion. It doesn't feel greasy, and look at that nice finish. It does have a little bit of a soft luminosity, but nothing like super duper shiny. It blends in really, really nicely. I'm not sure that the green tint really did anything as far as reducing the redness like I feel like you still see the redness here."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

C Tint and Protect SPF50 Tinted Serum

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Supergoop Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40

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

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

EltaMD UV AOX Elements SPF 50

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

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow Color Correcting Medium Coverage Skin Tint SPF 40

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

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Make P:rem UV Defense Me Calming Stick SPF 50 PA++++++

"I use the Make P:rem UV Defense Me Calming Stick SPF 50 PA++++++. I love this stick sunscreen. It's the driest-feeling stick sunscreen I've ever tried, and I keep another stick by the door so that I can reapply when I'm going out later in the day or if I'm getting in my car and driving somewhere and my hands are going to be exposed."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical Tinted Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is a fantastic all-around sunscreen, one of the very few that you can wear to the beach, to the pool, doing your sports, and also every day with your makeup on over the top. [...] It is a beautiful sunscreen that acts primer-like under makeup."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Dr G Green Mild Up Sun Plus SPF 50 Sunscreen

"It is enough that I do have to wear makeup over it or I have to layer another sunscreen on top of it, but if you're paler than me or you don't mind a white cast or you don't mind mixing your sunscreens or layering your sunscreens then it's a really great option because it's very lightweight, it doesn't feel greasy at all, it doesn't leave you super shiny, it doesn't make your makeup settle into your pores or your wrinkles."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Prequel Sun Barrier Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 50

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

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Bloom Effects Tulip Dew Sunscreen Serum SPF 50

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

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

Colorescience No-Show Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

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

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

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Bubble Plus One Tinted Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 40

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

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

Supergoop Mineral Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40

"It's streaky, it balls and pills, it gathers in your hair and around the edges, and it has a strong white cast. The one thing that I do like about it is that it has a lovely satin matte finish, it's not super shiny. I give this one a two out of five."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

RMS Beauty SuperNatural Radiance Tinted Serum SPF 30

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

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Neutrogena Mineral Invisible Daily Sunscreen SPF 30

"This retails for twenty dollars for 1.7 ounces. It feels like an emollient lotion and it's only slightly oily feeling. It does give a slight white cast and it has a medium level of shine."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

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

"So this is a really lovely sunscreen you could wear this on its own. It comes in four different shades. This is the second shade, the light medium shade, and on me this is actually a tiny bit dark. I love using this just as almost like a tinted moisturizer just to color correct, even out my skin tone, get rid of the redness on my nose."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Undefined Beauty RNR Sun Serum SPF 50

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

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Undefined Beauty RNR Mineral Sunscreen

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

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

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

"I do still use these, I love these. These are botanical face BB SPF 50 and they're great."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Neutrogena Retinol Moisturizer with SPF

"Neutrogena makes a retinol with sunscreen in it and those are great products if you're just starting off on a retinol"

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Australian Gold Botanical Mineral Sunscreen

"This one is a little bit drying on me, so I would say it's more for people with oily skin, maybe combo skin, possibly normal skin. If you have super dry skin, I might not use this. This is a lot thicker, but it makes a really good primer for makeup or it can just be your makeup. It's 3 ounces for about $15, so $5 an ounce is an amazing price for a really solid mineral sunscreen."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Luminous

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

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Fenty Skin Hydra Vizor Invisible Moisturizer Broad Spectrum SPF 30

"I tried this one twice and I didn't 100 love it either time but I don't think it's terrible either, it would have been kind of in the middle for me. First time I tried it I was in Charleston South Carolina and it was humid and this didn't dry or set, it stayed really really wet feeling, it had a really super strong shine and a little bit of a white cast. I did put makeup on over it but it made my makeup like slide around, made my mascara smudge under my eyes and I didn't love that."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Good Molecules Sheer Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"The finish is nice, mildly glowy but not shiny, and my face didn't feel greasy or oily. However, I did have some pilling on my eyelids and to the sides of my eyes, and it peels up a little bit in the eyebrows. Under makeup it [...] wasn't wearing great after four hours, and after eight hours it was very worn off. [...] It also started feeling drying after about six and a half hours."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Eucerin Sensitive Tinted Mineral Face Sunscreen SPF 35

"However, the finish is very very shiny and my face felt really oily and really greasy. The tint is slightly dark for me and it's too shiny for me to wear it on its own, but for people with super dry skin I think you might like this, because drier people tend to like things that I find to be too shiny and too greasy feeling. Under makeup, it was actually pretty nice—the makeup didn't settle in my wrinkles and the shine came through the foundation looking luminous."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Skin1004 Air Fit Suncream Light SPF 30

"It doesn't feel greasy but does leave the slightest tacky feeling on the skin. The finish is a really nice soft satin matte with just the slightest white cast. There is a little bit of clumping in the hairline and eyebrows, but if you just rub it out you can get that to disappear. Foundation goes over it really nicely and looks good. [...] Under makeup [...] there was no settling into wrinkles all day, and it didn't get shiny."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Daydream Broadspectrum SPF 40 Moisturizer/Sunscreen

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

✕Nay

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Beauty of Joseon Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++ (Korean formula)

"It does have a pretty luminous finish for me, so I would have to put on something to kind of take down the shine. I wore this for a few days just to test it and see if it would irritate my skin. I didn't have a ton of irritation from it. I can't say if that would be the case if I used it long term, but I put it on for like three or four days straight and I thought that it was fine. It's a really nice sunscreen. It works really well under makeup."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

CeraVe AM Facial Moisturizing Lotion SPF 30

"This isn't like a dedicated sunscreen, but it's a moisturizer with sunscreen in it, and this is a really great way to save steps in your morning skincare routine. If you're already using a bunch of serums and stuff and you just want to mash two steps together, which would be your moisturizer and your sunscreen, you can do that with this. This is [...] a mix of chemical sunscreen agents and mineral sunscreen so it has zinc oxide and then it has a bunch of your standard U.S."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Dr.G R.E.D Blemish Clear Soothing Cream Sunscreen SPF 50 PA+++

"This is a really nice sunscreen. Of course it comes out of the tube white, but when you put it on it rubs in so beautifully and so easily. It's really lightweight and fluid. It doesn't feel greasy on the skin. It does leave the slightest white cast on me. This will be perfect for people who have much paler skin or if you just always wear makeup over your sunscreen. It also has like a bit of a shiny dewy kind of finish."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Restore Tinted Sunscreen

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

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Alastin Mineral Tinted Sunscreen SPF 36

"This doesn't feel completely dry—it does feel a little bit tacky. [...] The color is a little bit too orange for me, a little bit too warm, and it is a little bit too luminous. If I was going to wear it on its own, I would probably put a little bit of powder on over it. [...] Of course, it is an SPF of 36, which for me is a little on the low side. But you know, as long as you use the full quarter teaspoon of it, then you're getting that 36."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

L'Oreal Skin Paradise Water Infused Tinted Moisturizer SPF 19

"This one I didn't like at all. It didn't give any coverage. It was so shiny it made my face look wet. It didn't last at all and it just didn't look great. The other problem that I had with it is that I had to buy so many of them and I still didn't get a shade match. They just all lean so orangey and so dark that it just didn't work for me."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Tatcha Silk Sunscreen SPF 50 Weightless Mineral Sunscreen

"It looked patchy by the end of the day and crusty by the sides of my nose. It's extremely shiny, and for 60 bucks, it really needs to make my makeup look perfect. The hype I heard was, oh my God, it's like a primer for your makeup, it'll make your makeup go on so perfectly, and for me it just didn't do any of that. It wasn't really wearable on its own; it was too shiny and it didn't do anything for my makeup."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Bliss Block Star Daily Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

"It was majorly worn off on my nose after just four hours, [...] looked patchy on the rest of my face, and was still settled in all my wrinkles. Unfortunately, this was so not good under makeup that I can't really recommend it wholeheartedly for people who wear makeup and want just one sunscreen that's going to work on its own as well as under makeup, but it could be very wearable on its own."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

ILIA C Beyond Triple Serum SPF 40

"It made my eyelids start itching right away with little itchy pin pricks all over my face and neck. By the end of 20 minutes, my eyelids were burning and red. It still felt wet and oily after 20 minutes and was really, really shiny. Because of the itching and stinging, I had to wash this one off. This one was just too shiny and too itchy for me to even wear for more than 20 minutes. [...] Other people may not have that itching, tingling, burning sensation with their skin."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Tinted Mineral Light Sunscreen Fluid SPF 50

"It's leaving out 90 percent of the UVA spectrum and leaving you completely unprotected against it. And that is a problem. And the kicker is that it says broad spectrum right on the front of the label. [...] You really have to be careful what is in your sunscreen and make sure that it's giving you that full UVA protection because [...] UVA is for aging. So [...] I would urge you to reconsider and try something else."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Supergoop Play Everyday Lotion SPF 50

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

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

EltaMD UV Stick

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

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

NYX Blur Screen Sunscreen SPF 30 Primer

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

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Cetaphil Sheer Mineral Face Liquid Sunscreen SPF 50

"This is a lightweight liquid that feels really greasy and leaves a strong white cast. It doesn't blend well, it gives you polka dot pores, and settles into your wrinkles."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Eucerin Sensitive Mineral Face Sunscreen SPF 35

"This is a white sunscreen with a thick cream texture. It's difficult to spread the quarter teaspoon around my face and neck. It is very, very greasy feeling, gives a very strong white cast, it's very shiny, and it gathered up in my eyebrows and my hairline. It's just not wearable for me."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Pipette Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Anthelios XL Wet Skin Sunscreen SPF 50+

"This is a very thick white cream much like diaper paste. Not shockingly it goes on white, it doesn't blend well, and it leaves a strong white cast."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Paula's Choice Super Light Daily Wrinkle Defense SPF 30

"I use the Paula's Choice super light SPF 30 mixed with the Elta MD as part of my daily sunscreen routine."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40

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

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Dr.G Green Mild Up Sunscreen

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

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Universal Tinted Moisturizer SPF 46

"It leaves no white cast and was really easy to apply, rubbing around really smoothly. After it sets, it feels a little bit tacky [...] and has a pretty luminous finish, so I'd probably have to powder it down a little bit if I wanted to wear it on its own. There are no issues with rubbing around the hairline, and it looks like a good one, so I'm really happy with that."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry Touch Sunscreen SPF 70

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

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50

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

✕Nay
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83%Guru Score

Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation

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

✓Yay
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81%Guru Score

Banana Boat Light as Air SPF 50 Body Sunscreen

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

✓Yay
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95%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Every Sunday Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+

"This is one of my favorite sunscreens of all time. [...] It's an SPF 50 plus and it's a plain white sunscreen, not tinted. It does leave the slightest paler cast on me but it pretty much rubs in and is almost invisible. [...] The things that really make me love this sunscreen so much is that it dries down, it's really lightweight, it doesn't feel greasy, it sets and it's not super shiny. It actually has a nice matte finish so it doesn't accentuate my pores and texture."

✓Yay
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63%Guru Score

Omnilux Mineral Sunscreen

"It's not a tint that is going to be like makeup or try to match your skin tone, kind of like a pale off white color just to hide the white cast. I didn't find that it was 100% successful at hiding the white cast. It did give me slight white cast on my skin. It looked pretty nice. I could wear it. The formula is definitely very lightweight and very nice. It's fragrance free. It's got 12% zinc oxide. I like the finish on it. It doesn't feel heavy. It doesn't feel greasy."

~Mixed
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63%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Weightless Liquid Mineral Sunscreen SPF 30

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

✓Yay
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58%Guru Score

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

"This is one that I have really enjoyed for years. This is another Korean sunscreen that uses a mix of sunscreen ingredients that we have approved here in the U.S. as well as some that are not approved here in the U.S. that are approved on the rest of the planet. This is another one that's so lightweight. It just rubs into the skin so beautifully. When you give it 20 minutes to set up, it's not greasy on the skin. It's not heavy. It's not going to make you feel hot."

✓Yay
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80%Guru Score

CeraVe Tinted Mineral Sunscreen

"For beginners or people with sensitive skin or people with really dry skin, I recommend the CeraVe Hydrating Sunscreen SPF 30. This is a tinted mineral sunscreen. It's good for people with sensitive skin because the mineral sunscreens don't irritate your skin. You can use it right around your eyes and there's generally no irritation from mineral sunscreens. This one is also very hydrating."

✓Yay
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78%Guru Score

Eye Makeup76 reviews

Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Flexible Lifting and Laminating Eyebrow Gel

"This is a new product I discovered a couple weeks ago, the Rare Beauty brow gel. It's a beautiful brow gel, and it's so easy to use because it's not clumpy, it's not goopy. It [...] stays where you want it to go and subtly glues your brows into place all day, beefs them up a little bit. [...] I was really impressed with this. It was love at first use. Highly recommend."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Natasha Denona I Need a Nude Palette

"I find the Natasha Denona eyeshadows to be the best quality at Sephora. They don't kick up any dust, they don't give you any fallout ever. They are hands-down the best eyeshadow palettes. This one is a big palette and might be overwhelming to some people, but the colors are so subtle that it's hard to get it looking too dark and too smoky."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked Shaped Eyeshadow Palette

"The Urban Decay Naked Shaped palette is the eyeshadow palette that I used today. [...] This is really great palette because in this center ring, it's got creams and I use these as my eyelid primer. Then the other 10 pans are all powders and it's a mix of mattes and shimmers and it's just a beautiful palette."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High Mascara

"I will definitely use mascara. I'm going to use my new favorite Maybelline Sky Tubes."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Wet N Wild Chameleon Chrome Eyeliner

"This is the Wet N Wild Chameleon liner, it's a multichrome and the color shifts, I thought it was really pretty and it's supposed to be fairly long lasting and waterproof. I used it on my lower waterline, but [...] it's mainly sticking at the base of the lashes, it doesn't seem to really go into the waterline very well, so I'm not sure this is a great waterline liner. It's still in place at ten hours though, it's a pretty eyeliner."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Maybelline Super Lock Brow Glue

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette

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

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Maybelline Sky High Tubes Tubing Mascara

"I really, really love this Maybelline Sky High Tubes Tubing Mascara. I've been looking for a tubing mascara. The brush is nice and small. It puts on just the right amount of mascara. It gives your lashes that nice silky, separated, curled look. It adds length. It adds volume. And being a tubing mascara, hopefully it is also going to be easy to remove. If it's not, I'll come back and let you know or leave a note. This is awesome. It stayed in place all day. There isn't a flake."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

ColourPop That's Taupe Pressed Eyeshadow Palette

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

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Mature Beauty Velvet Eyeliners

"A great new find in makeup this month is the new release from a brand new brand, Mature Beauty. This is my friend Gabby at Glamgirl. Gabby's new brand. She started her makeup brand with eyeliners and I bought three of them. I got the black, the champagne bronze, and the steel gray. These are very creamy, very easy to apply. And the awesome thing about these is that each eyeliner comes with an angled thin brush on the other end. So it makes it really easy to pull out a little wing there."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Mini Eye Sculpt Eyeshadow Palette

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

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

L'Oreal Extensionist Mascara

"They always chip, flake, smudge. And guess what? This one actually delivers. The marketing on this is that it makes your lashes 5 mm closer to your eyebrows. [...] I put it on one eye and then compared, and [...] my eyelashes sure were closer to my eyebrows because it made them look much, much longer. So I really like this and it stays put all day and it's not hard to take off at night."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Thrive Causemetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Lash Paradise Big Deal Waterproof Mascara

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

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

NYX Blade and Shade Brow Pencil

"The shades in this are so good. It also has a spoolie on this end. So once you do draw on your brow, you can use the spoolie to feather it out a little bit, make it look a little bit more natural. And this stays all day long. It doesn't budge. It's a really creamy formula, so it's not difficult to get it to go on."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Shadow Stick Twinkling Rose

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

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Essence Stay and Play Gel Eyeliner

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Highlights Cream Eyeshadow Moondust

"I have tried so many of these kind of cream eyeshadows and they all gather up in my crease by the end of the day. And these are the first ones that I've tried that actually do stay in place."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Master Mattes Longwear Cream Eyeshadow

"I really wanted to love these. They made my eyelids look extra chunky and extra crinkly and extra wrinkled. And you know what, no mature person wants to put on a makeup that makes their eyelids look extra wrinkled."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Eyelights Cream Eyeshadow

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

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

ColourPop Stone Cold Fox Palette

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

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

SWEED Cloud Mascara

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

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Maybelline Colossal Bubble Mascara

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

✕Nay

54%Guru Score

e.l.f. Lash 'N Roll Mascara

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

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Faux Brow Tint Pen

"This has these two little prongers that you are supposed to be able to draw on your brow hairs with. This says it's supposed to stay on for two days. It looks really nice and it's really in place. Brows look really perfected and it's really easy to get those hairlike strokes, get the shape just right. Really great product. I love it. So two winners from L'Oreal right there."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Perfect 10 Eyeshadow Palette

"For probably a fraction of the price, it looks like some of the shades are pretty similar to higher-end palettes. I really enjoyed the E.L.F. palette. If you're looking for a really easy to work with palette that doesn't get too dark, the shades aren't super pigmented. They're nice and translucent, so you don't build up too much eyeshadow too fast. It's really pretty. All the shades in this are really pretty, really wearable. I really like it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Straightup Volumizing Peptide Mascara

"I got the RMS mascara, I just got the mini figured if I love it I can always buy the big one. That's pretty, giving the lashes a really good amount of curl. Yes, love the mascara."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Liquid Eyeshadow

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

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Merit The Minimalist Mascara

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

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Benefit Precisely My Brow Pencil

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

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Shape & Set Clear Eyebrow Gel

"I really like the brow product too"

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Merit Eyeshadow Cream Pots

"It had moved and settled into my eye crease within a couple of hours of putting it on and it really didn't last throughout the day. I loved the color of this though, it is beautiful, but I think with this you do need to lay down a primer first, which I don't think you should have to do since it is minimalist makeup."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

About Face Eyeshadow Stick in Pearly

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Solo Shadow Matte Eye Color in Studio

"Looking at the eyeshadow, that's probably the thing that I am the most disappointed in. It does probably need a primer to work. It's all worn off, it's gathered in the crease, it doesn't look good. I would like it if it would have done its job without potentially needing a primer or anything else to help it. I think it looked bad at 4 hours. So the eyeshadow is definitely going to be probably the fail of this video for me."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Super Skinny Brow Pencil

"I wear this Super Skinny Brow Pencil in taupe, so I just fill in my brows."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Jones Road Mascara Pitch Black

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

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

L'Oreal Telescopic Waterproof Mascara

"For a bottom mascara I like to do a little bit of a brown mascara. This one's from L'Oreal, it's a waterproof mascara, crucial if you're going to apply mascara on the bottom lash line. Don't put a regular formula on the bottom lash line on a special occasion. [...] This is 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, concealer hits it and they end up looking kind of dusty."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Velour Brush On Lash Glue

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

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Rare Beauty It's Always an Optimist Weightless Eye Primer

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

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

NYX Epic Wear Retractable Eyeliner

"I love these so much. They've become like the replacement for that Marc Jacobs eyeliner that was discontinued that I loved so much. These are truly waterproof, you can line your waterline, they're nice and creamy, and so they're easy to draw your line either on your eyelid or on your waterline. They stay put, they don't run, they don't smudge, they don't chip. They're just like perfect, perfect eyeliners."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NYX Fluff & Snatch Brow Powder Pen

"The other one that I love so much is the thicket sticket. This one's more like a brow mascara but it has fibers in it, so if you're missing some brow hairs you just run this through your brows. I usually run it through backwards first to fluff everything up. [...] This is a really great product because it does have those fibers and then it's like a brow mascara. It colors the hairs that you have and it holds them in place."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Iced Mocha

"I use this for my lower waterline liner because [...] as I've gotten older, black or dark colors down there just don't look as good as they used to. [...] I think less is more, so a shade like this that's just a little bit darker than my skin tone but has a little bit of a shimmer to it just makes that lower waterline have so much more definition, but not in a heavy dark raccoon eye kind of way. It's just so flattering."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NYX Primer

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

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

e.l.f. Bite-Size Eyeshadow Palettes

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

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Tarte Tarteist XL Tubing Mascara

"Problem was at the end of the day it had left me like a little dribble over here by the corner of my eye. I have one eye that's always like a little dribbly, and when I wear my Clinique tubing mascara I never end up with the little dribble at the corner of my eye. With this one I had it. So not in love with this, even though it was pretty. [...] I think that the Clinique is far superior because it stays put until I take it off."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Tarte Tartelette In Bloom Amazonian Clay Palette

"If you're looking for a less expensive dupe then I would recommend something like the Tartelette In Bloom. This is just a classic Tarte palette, it's been around for years. It's kind of similar to Natasha Denona in that it doesn't go super dark, it's very muted, it's got some warm neutrals, it's got some cooler neutrals."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Superhero No-Tug Shadow Sticks

"Of the eyeshadow crayons, I like the IT Cosmetics ones the best. [...] Their No-Tug eyeshadows, the matte one is this beautiful mauvey pink and then the shimmer one is more of a taupey shimmer."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

NYX Eyeshadow Palette

"I thought it would be perfect for summer into fall. Look at all those pretty colors, and they're not too dark. I've been really into more subtle eyeshadow looks lately. The shades I'm wearing today are this one here, which is just a nude color, and then this shade right here, which is actually light enough for a change. For the outer corner I went with this one down in the corner, a kind of gray smokiness, and then I went in with a little bit of this pinkish shimmer right here."

✓Yay

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Bobbi Brown Dual-Ended Long-Wear Cream Shadow Stick

"All the colors in those looked so pretty"

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maybelline Lash Sensational Mascara

"It took a little bit more building with the Maybelline to get the same amount of lash volume as I get with the Caliray with one coat; it took like two coats of this to get up to the same. But it's giving me almost the identical look of the lashes and I love that because I like my lashes to look very sleek and very silky, and that's what I'm getting over on the dupe side. At the eight-hour check-in the mascaras both look identical, I cannot tell a difference between them."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

L'Oreal Telescopic Lift Lengthening Mascara

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

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78%Guru Score

e.l.f. No Budge Eyeshadow Sticks

"I've been telling you about these for a couple of months, but I used them in the video on Tuesday [...] and got a really pretty look out of them. I just really love these. I used them that time with no eyelid primer just to see how they would wear. I feel like they wear slightly better with primer than without, but you don't 100 percent need primer for them to wear. They didn't clump up in my crease or anything."

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84%Guru Score

Lancôme Hypnôse Doll Eyes Mascara

"This is Holy Grail mascara. I do still love this so much. Used up one of these, have repurchased, and am still using [...] this. This has really become my most reached for best love mascara."

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82%Guru Score

Natasha Denona My Dream Palette

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

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81%Guru Score

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

"My favorite and best eyeshadow primer is the Urban Decay Primer Potion. This is the anti-aging version and I like both this one and the original. I just bought this one [...] because I needed a new one for a refresh."

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85%Guru Score

ILIA Limitless Lash Mascara

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

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99%Guru Score

NYX Brow Glue Crazy Lift

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

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78%Guru Score

NYX Lift & Snatch Brow Tint Pen

"It's got a really super pointy little felt tip pen there that is really nice. I love how that goes on."

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78%Guru Score

Urban Decay Tube Job Mascara

"I tried a tube mascara from Urban Decay, Tube Job, in the brown, and it won me over by the end of the day because it wore perfectly throughout the day, no flaking, no smudging, and it was easy to remove. It's giving me that drama, that length, volume, and everything that I wanted. I did go back and buy it in the black a full size."

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86%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Universal Volumizing Mascara

"This is a real winner. It feels so nice and was so easy to use. It doesn't deposit clumpy color, and it comes in clear and six other shades, so you can [...] match your eyebrows."

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76%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes Moonlight Palette

"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."

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72%Guru Score

Sephora Collection 24-Hour Contour Eyeliner / Retractable Liner

"I use them every single day in the waterline. You put them on, they don't budge, they don't come off until you take them off, but they're so creamy and they're easy to apply, and they come in such great colors. The main difference between them is that with the colorful eyeliners you have to sharpen them, and with the retractable there's no sharpening. Now that I'm older, I'm not a big fan of black eyeliner all the way around on me personally. I just don't think it looks so good anymore."

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81%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Precision Pencil

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

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82%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Master Mattes The Neutrals Eyeshadow Palette

"This is really like the best eyeshadow palette for people who go for a nice natural look because look at all those different shades of just natural muted skin tones that are going to look great on your eyes. And the nice part about it is that you know how I complain about the palettes that none has that perfect mid-tone matte? Well this has quite a few of them. It's perfect for making anything from a basic eye look all the way up to a really smoked out look."

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88%Guru Score

Essence Lash Without Limits Mascara in Brown

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

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68%Guru Score

Glossier Monochromes Eyeshadow Palette in Jute

"This is their Glossier Monochromes palette in the shade Jute. This only has three pans in it and it's almost a perfect palette. [...] These are really pretty eyeshadows, very unusual colors just because they are so neutral, and it's a great palette for like an everyday look. So if you just want to disguise your hoods you just pop this neutral matte color in the crease and you're good to go."

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82%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Icy Nude Eyeshadow Palette

"I noticed the Huda Icy Nudes palette and I threw this in my shopping cart. Since then I've kind of been using it non-stop. Between the two, I am kind of leaning more towards the Huda palette than the Mario. They're both gorgeous, it's just that with the Icy Nudes I feel like I can get more use out of this, more wear out of this, and I actually like using these a little bit better. [...] This is definitely a cool icy palette."

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84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze

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

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61%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Bomb Brows Micro Shade Brow Pencil

"I like this one because it has fibers in it so if you [...] have some sparse spots or gray hairs, this will help to fill in those sparse spots or to bulk up the hairs that you do have. I really like this one because the brush is so fine. A lot of the other brow mascara brushes are really chunky and if you don't have as much hair that you're working with it's hard to get the product on the hairs without getting it all over your skin, and so that's why I love this one the best."

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Cali Ray Come Hell or High Water Mascara

"This is like the perfect mascara for me. It makes my lashes look long and silky. It's easy to apply and it's also easy to remove. This is a tubing mascara and so it never has clumps. This does go on a little bit wet but once it dries it is in place. If you have leaky eyes every time you go out in the cold and you always have that little mascara dribble down there, then this is going to be the mascara for you to replace whatever you're using because this one stays in place."

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76%Guru Score

Dior 5 Couleurs Eyeshadow Palette Limited Edition Golden Case

"A high-end favorite in the soft cashmere colorway, good for travel if you do not want to bring a big palette. [...] The colors are gorgeous, the shimmers are beautiful, and it gives a soft, muted but sophisticated look. She absolutely loves it."

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65%Guru Score

Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara

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

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74%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Long-Wear Gel Eyeliner

"This is the Perfect Strokes long wear gel eyeliner from Rare Beauty in the brown. It's a mechanical pencil liner. [...] I really like this shade of brown, it's almost like a grayish brown. It's not super warm. I don't tend to like really warm reddish browns on my eyes."

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77%Guru Score

Benefit POWmade Brow Pomade

"For that, I love Benefit Brow Oomph Pow Made [...] in neutral blonde. I use this with this Anastasia brow brush because it gives me a little spoolie and the tiniest little angled brush on this end. I just dip it in and then it has this nice scraper thing so you don't end up with too much on your brush. You can create hair-like strokes with it and you can also color in your brows. It's waterproof and it is not going anywhere until you take it off with your oil-based makeup remover."

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84%Guru Score

Persona Eyeliner

"This brand Persona sent these to me in PR and they have an eyeliner that I really really like. I've been reaching for this so much. It works really well in the waterline, it doesn't transfer, it's very creamy so you barely touch it to your eyelid or your water line and it is solid line. You know how some eyeliners they're so dry and you have to be like rub rub rub rub scrape scrape scrape until you finally get a little color? Not this one. This is so creamy and so pigmented."

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84%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Glam Palette

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

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85%Guru Score

Lip61 reviews

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Stick in Blazed Donut

"I've been using these for a couple of years. They're one of my OG holy grail lipsticks, and I love these because they are so hydrating. It does go on and feel more like a traditional lipstick, giving you that more opaque coverage, but again, so super hydrating. These smell so good, [...] like cooking and baking smells."

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83%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick in Taupe Beige

"This is like one of my holy grails. It's from Anastasia, it's their satin lipstick. I love a pinky nude. They don't run up into your lip wrinkles, and they're fairly long wearing, not going to be drying on the lips, but not super hydrating or super juicy either."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Plumping Gloss

"The Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Plumping Gloss is another more lippy thing. It's kind of like a hybrid balm lipstick."

✓Yay

58%Guru Score

Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Gloss

"The Too Faced Lip Injection is spicy. If you love a good lip tingle, if that's really your jam, it's mine. I love it. This [...] one will actually give you a little bit of a plump. It's one of my all-time favorite lip plumpers."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Prequel Lip Visor Sunscreen SPF 30

"Look at that pretty color."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

MAC Glossy Lip Liner

"For a lip liner, the best one that I tried over the last couple of months was this Glossy Lip Liner from MAC. It's [...] so creamy, with a very fine point. This shade is Velvet Teddy, it's just a beautiful neutral. I [...] really, really love this lip liner."

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91%Guru Score

Maybelline Cloud Topia Cheek and Lip Mousse Blush in Coral Illusion

"This is Maybelline Cloud Topia blush in Coral Illusion, [...] I've been using it for a couple weeks now. I really like it, I think it's really pretty, easy to work with, gives a nice lit from within glow. You can blend it in with your fingers or [...] use a blush brush. I think it's probably worth a try as well."

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65%Guru Score

Ravie Beauty Lip Renewal Treatment Oil

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

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Maybelline Serum Lipstick

"I put on this Maybelline lipstick, color 101 Upstate. That's more like what I wanted this look to be, just more like an everyday nude, that is so pretty. It [...] lasted for a couple hours on my lips, felt nice and creamy, and didn't run up into my lip wrinkles, which is great, especially considering I didn't put on a lip liner with it. It was looking really dark on camera when I was filming some outfit videos, so I switched to a different lippy."

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80%Guru Score

YSL Loveshine Plumping Lip Oil Gloss

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

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87%Guru Score

ColourPop Fresh Kiss Glossy Lip Balm in Caramel Latte

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

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72%Guru Score

Supergoop Glow Gloss SPF 40 Lip Balm

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

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73%Guru Score

Milani Keep It Full Plumping Lip Liner + Lipstick

"This is comfortable to wear. It feels very hydrating and I like that about it."

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67%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross DermInfusions Plump + Repair Lip Treatment

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

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72%Guru Score

Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Shaper

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

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84%Guru Score

NYX Lip Lingerie Lip Liner Stain

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

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61%Guru Score

NYX Duck Plump Plumping Lip Liner

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

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82%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Legendary Serum Lipstick

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

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69%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pout Clout Lip Plumping Pen

"This one is from E.L.F. It's called Pout Clout. [...] These are more of like a grab-and-go kind of lippy where you're not going to put on a lip liner and you just want to hydrate your lips but with a little bit of color. These are perfect for that. [...] These have a pump at the bottom to get the product up and it doesn't retract when you go to put it on. At first, a lot can come off, so I wouldn't pump it up every time you use it. But these are beautiful. They're very hydrating."

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65%Guru Score

ColourPop So Juicy Plumping Gloss Balm

"And I really love both of these. These are more of like a grab-and-go kind of lippy where you're not going to put on a lip liner and you just want to hydrate your lips but with a little bit of color. These are perfect for that. They have the same kind of packaging. You pump the bottom to get the product up and it doesn't retract when you go to put them on. At first, a lot can come off. So, I wouldn't pump it up every time you use it. But these are beautiful. They're very hydrating."

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84%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Lip Balm

"I don't want to have to have a mirror to see what I'm doing and where I'm putting it, and some of the lip balms I tried this year were just a little bit too pigmented, so I had to be really careful while I was putting it on. I love this shade, it's called Fussy. This also has a really great fragrance to it, it's fruity but like a sophisticated fruity. I absolutely love these. They do have the tiniest bit of a sparkly fleck in it, but it's so, so tiny that you really don't see it on the lips."

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84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Squalane + Amino Acids Lip Balm

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

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Dior Rouge Dior Satin Lipstick

"The last makeup fail for today was the Dior OnStage lipsticks. These weren't an epic fail, but for the price and the hype that they were getting, I just felt like they weren't great. The one thing that I really liked about them is that they're really transferproof. It left almost nothing on my cup, which was great. The problem is it wasn't that longwearing on my lips, and it also ran up into my lip wrinkles."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Maybelline SuperStay Vinyl Ink Lipstick

"One of my favorites is their vinyl ink lip color. I'm wearing this one today. This one is called Charmed. It's a beautiful lip color. It's really longwearing. It's not drying."

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89%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer

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

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74%Guru Score

Dior Addict Lip Maximizer

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

~Mixed

61%Guru Score

Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Balm

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

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69%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Lip Silk SPF 40

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

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84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Plump Ambition Hyaluronic Lip Oil

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

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Merit Signature Lip Lightweight Lipstick

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

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

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

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

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84%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Legendary Lip Oil in Chameleon

"I got to say I'm not finding the lip oil to be super oily or super hydrating feeling. It just feels so dry. Not loving the lip oil."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

NYX Lip IV Hydrating Gloss Serum Stain Bubble Gum Burst

"The NYX Lip IV Hydrating Gloss Serum Stain is really nice. It really stains your lips and it's really really hydrating. My only complaint about it is that it did run up into my lip wrinkles a little bit, so if you're going to use this and you have upper lip wrinkles, I would get a clear lip liner pencil and just line the outside of your lips so that that doesn't happen. With this, you might need to wear a lip liner even though it's a lip gloss and you shouldn't have to."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil

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

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70%Guru Score

Merit Slick Tinted Lip Oil

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

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85%Guru Score

NYX Lip Liners

"The Nyx Lip Liners are so comfortable on the lips, they never dry out your skin, and they really keep your lipstick in place and keep it from running up into your lip wrinkles, so those are awesome."

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81%Guru Score

Maybelline Color Sensational Shaping Lip Liner

"I love these, I love them as a combo together with the lip vinyl, and this has become my favorite lip liner of all the lip liners this year."

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84%Guru Score

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick

"I don't like anything going on on this side of my face. [...] I have combo skin so I am oily through the T-Zone but not super oily, just a little bit through the T-Zone. I have some dry patches around my mouth and my temples and the rest of my face is fairly normal. I [...] tried the Aquaphor concealer hack three days in a row just wanting to make this work, but for me I could just never get it to work no matter what I tried. I don't love it [...] by itself with my regular stuff."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner in Deep Taupe

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

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93%Guru Score

Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream

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

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80%Guru Score

Lawless Forget the Filler Lip Plumping Gloss

"I felt like they were super sticky. I didn't love the colors. They didn't give me a nice minty tingle. They didn't seem to do any plumping. There's nothing special about them."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

NYX Line Loud Lip Liner

"The NYX Line Loud lip liners are equally good. They're both hydrating, they don't make my lips feel dry, they're really creamy, really easy to work with."

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84%Guru Score

Lineage Lip Glowy Balm

"My Lineage Lip Glowy Balm, that's my overnight lip moisturizer."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Glowy Balm

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

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76%Guru Score

Supergoop Lip Shade 100% Mineral Lip Color SPF 30

"The Supergoop sunscreen lipstick is an SPF 30 with a PA plus plus rating and it's got an all mineral sunscreen in it. The shade I showed you was high five, which is a beautiful kind of terracotta color. [...] It is so gorgeous. With an all mineral SPF 30 it was pretty comfortable to wear. I did find it to be the slightest bit drying by the end of the day, but the color really lasted on my lips and it didn't run up into my lip wrinkles. This comes in three or four shades, really awesome product."

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84%Guru Score

e.l.f. O FACE Satin Lipstick in Effortless

"The e.l.f O Face Satin Lipstick in Dirty Talk is $9. It feels like a little bit of a drier formula, it's not really super creamy. It feels creamy on the lips but felt a little drier going on than the lipsticks that I usually like, but it looks nice. It's not making my lips look super wrinkly or anything, but it's not making them look super plump either. I like the color, it's really pretty."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Lineage Lip Sleeping Mask

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

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90%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Rouge Gel Lip Liner

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

~Mixed

83%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Pillow Talk

"Aside from that not being the color I wanted, [...] when I went to apply this [...] like a regular lipstick, oh my gosh it's so loose and not formed that it just smears all over the place and you end up with big chunks of color unevenly blended on your lips. When I complained to my friend about it, [...] she told me you can't put it on like that—you have to basically tap it onto your lip."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Maybelline Lifter Gloss

"My favorite lip glosses for this year are same old same old. Nothing new in lip glosses. I love the Maybelline Lifter Glosses in Moon."

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74%Guru Score

NYX Butter Gloss

"That's pretty. It's definitely like a super shiny wet look gloss, but I feel like it's going to make your lips look less dry and younger looking. I feel like the lip liner will keep it from sliding up there. [...] I really like that lippy the combination, it's not drying at all, my lips actually still feel really like creamy and like they have the coating of this on them and the color actually stayed after eating and wearing a mask and everything."

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73%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask

"I love the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask. It just keeps my lips really comfortable and really hydrated overnight while I'm sleeping."

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73%Guru Score

Saie Slip Tint Dewy Tinted Moisturizer

"For people who [...] just want a beautiful skin tint, I always recommend the Saie Slip Tint. This is the most beautiful, glowy, luminous finish, sheer, easy to work with. [...] When I wear this I just feel like a million bucks all the time. I wear it in the shade 3 and 1/2."

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82%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Gloss Balm High Shine Lipstick in Hibiscus

"That just shows you how much I love something when I keep going back and getting it in more and more colors. This is the Fenty Beauty Gloss Balm lipstick, and it is hands down my favorite lipstick right now, because it's so lightweight and balmy. It just makes your lips look so plump, juicy, and hydrated, and it makes them feel so good. They never feel dry after this wears off. The new shade I picked up that I'm wearing today is called Hibiscus. Here's the swatch of Hibiscus."

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84%Guru Score

Lancôme Lip Sleeping Mask Grapefruit

"The exciting news about it this year is that they're now carrying my favorite flavor of it at Sephora. Sephora never had the grapefruit before, I could only get it on Amazon, but now I can get the grapefruit at Sephora, which is my favorite. [...] I use this every night, I just butter my lips up with it, and in the morning my lips are not dry. They still feel nice and moist and hydrated. A pot like this will last me the better part of a year, so I only have to buy these like once a year."

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66%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Shiny Non-Sticky Lip Gloss

"Well, oh my gosh, I wore it in the I'm retiring from YouTube video, and by the end of the video I was talking and it had all these little strings connecting my upper lip to my lower lip, which is one of my pet peeves. When I saw it in the mirror finally after talking with the strings for ten minutes or so, I was like, ah, oh God. So this was definitely a fail. It was just so gross. I'm like, wait, you're supposed to be non-sticky lip gloss, and here you were making those like connective strings."

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58%Guru Score

Tower 28 Beach Please Lip and Cheek Cream Blush

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

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85%Guru Score

Lancôme Lip Glowy Balm

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

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81%Guru Score

Jones Road Lip and Cheek Tint in Rosy Brown

"This Jones Road blush is actually really a surprise to me because I put it on I felt like it did remove the powder foundation a little bit but look at that talk about staying power that you can still see it it's still right in place."

~Mixed
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79%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Tinted Lip Oil in Happy

"I'm going to use the Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Tinted Lip Oil in Happy. They're really nice feeling on the lips, and they have a good amount of color, but it's a little bit sheer. So it's perfect for summer when you want to throw on something like a lip gloss. It has a little bit of color to it. These are really nice. They have a lot of oils in them, and they feel great on the lips. They actually make your lips look really nice, but it doesn't feel sticky."

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68%Guru Score

CurrentBody LED lip perfector

"This one I am 50/50 on, but I know some people want just LED for around their mouth, and that's what this provides. So, it definitely gives you that red light therapy right around the mouth, where it can help to reduce your wrinkles from smoker lines."

~Mixed
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70%Guru Score

Foundation42 reviews

IT Cosmetics CC Cream Original

"The IT CC Cream Original is something I used to love so much, but it has been replaced in my repertoire by other things that I love more. [...] This is an SPF 50 like full coverage makeup, but with a really beautiful like luminous skin-like glow."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Maybelline SuperStay Lumi Matte 30-Hour Foundation

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

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85%Guru Score

Maybelline Lifter Plump and Glow Foundation

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

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63%Guru Score

Revlon PhotoReady Lift & Fill Skin Tint

"First impression was not loving it much: it had a metallic sheen from the mica, went on streaky, and didn't blend well, looking modeled and broken up especially on the forehead. But worn through a full day and checked in natural light, direct sunlight, and at 5 and 10 hour check-ins, it held up well, stayed in place, looked smoothing on pores and texture, and didn't feel drying. It's a sheer, skin-like tint good for summer or casual wear, and once powdered the metallic shine wasn't too bad."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Dior Forever Skin Glow Foundation

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

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72%Guru Score

NYX Bare With Me Hydrating Jelly Skin Tint Foundation

"I picked this up, tried it on in a video, wore it for a 10-hour wear test, and oh my gosh, this was beautiful the entire day, and at 10 hours, it barely showed any signs of wear. It had also only settled into wrinkles the tiniest, tiniest bit. This is medium to full buildable coverage. So, if you like that kind of coverage or need that kind of coverage, this is an excellent foundation. [...] The 16 neutral beige was a little bit too warm and slightly dark for me."

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90%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation

"I really liked the Mario and I felt like this actually did blur my pores a little bit. It wasn't as longwearing as I would like it to be, but it didn't really settle in wrinkles too much and it looked nice all day. So, this is a good foundation."

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72%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Hy-Glam Foundation

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

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Skin Tint

"This is the third time I've had this on. [...] This was showing a lot of signs of wear. It definitely is not a long-wearing skin tint or foundation for me. [...] There are definitely foundations that stay on my nose longer than this. It was looking really thin on the rest of my face. So it wasn't really giving me any coverage. It didn't really fade away in a bad way. It wasn't like sliding around or looking weird anywhere or gathering in pores or gathering in wrinkles too much."

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57%Guru Score

e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation

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

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84%Guru Score

Covergirl Simply Ageless Skin Perfecting Essence Foundation

"I like it a lot. I think it looks very natural, very skin-like. It looks like nothing on your skin but it does give you some coverage and it stays in place really well. So that's a really great one for like the natural look girlies out there who really just don't want to look like they're wearing any makeup but you have some things on your skin that you want to improve the look of or you just want a dewier, more glowy look to your skin."

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69%Guru Score

Jane Iredale Pure Pressed Base Mineral Foundation

"Another foundation that I tried over the last few months and liked pretty well was the Jane Iredale powder foundation. This is another like minimalist brand and I got to say like between this and the Merit I would go with the Merit stick over this but if you're a powder foundation girl this wasn't bad."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion Foundation

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

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56%Guru Score

Trinny London BFF Serum D-Stress Tinted Moisturizer

"I thought it looked really nice and thought it wore really, really well throughout the day. The color was a great match for me. [...] I would definitely recommend this BFF D-Stress over the Jones Road foundation. This was just all around a nicer product, wore longer, didn't dry back my face, didn't feel greasy all day, and it looked nice on my skin. If I'm remembering, I think it might have settled in my wrinkles a little bit, but not in a dry-looking, cracked sort of way."

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65%Guru Score

Revlon Illuminance Skin Caring Foundation

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

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71%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Face & Body Foundation

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

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85%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Super Blendable Foundation

"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."

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82%Guru Score

Maybelline Super Stay 24-Hour Skin Tint

"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."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Smashbox Always On Skin Balancing Foundation

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

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70%Guru Score

Tarte Amazonian Clay 16-Hour Full Coverage Foundation

"I love this Tarte Amazonian clay blurring powder foundation with it. This is a really super beautiful combo. If I want to put on a little extra makeup I'll put this on over my primer and it just looked beautiful on my skin and lasted all day. It comes in lots of colors, it's not drying for a powder, and it's almost like a powder to cream kind of thing where you put it on and it just feels very creamy and lightweight on your skin. It doesn't feel heavy, it didn't settle in my wrinkles."

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67%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Sheer Skin Tint

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

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64%Guru Score

L'Oreal Age Perfect 4 in 1 Tinted Balm Foundation

"I wear this on days when I'm doing a more no makeup look on the skin. This looks very natural, very skin-like, never heavy or cakey. It wore really well throughout an eight hour day. It only wore off a little bit on my nose. It did get a little shiny in my T-Zone later in the day so it could use a touch-up of powder if you have slightly oily skin like me, but if you have dry skin I feel like this is a really hydrating formula that really looks great and really wears well."

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83%Guru Score

Jones Road What the Foundation

"I have combo skin so anything that feels greasy makes me look greasy and it's not going to be a fave for me. This felt greasy and oily looking all day. The wear was very very short. It gave very little coverage. It is very very fragranced. It contains like four different oils and at least two maybe three different waxes, so for me that's just not the kind of stuff that I would make a foundation out of. Unfortunately, this just was a no for me."

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62%Guru Score

Hourglass Ambient Soft Glow Foundation

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

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Foundation

"It didn't look like natural skin sitting on my skin, it definitely looked like makeup sitting on my skin. At the five hour check-in [...] it was majorly worn off on my nose, very worn off on the side of my face, and on my forehead it was basically gone. [...] The side I set with powder wore better than the unset side, which slid around and melted off my face getting really patchy within about three hours. I had trouble blending my bronzer over it, [...] and it balled and pilled a little bit."

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77%Guru Score

IL Makiage Woke Up Like This Flawless Base Foundation

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

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52%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 24-Hour Fresh Wear Foundation

"This foundation is waterproof, heat proof, and sweat proof, and so if you're suffering from hot flashes or you're just a very hot person then this is going to be the foundation for you. It's also very mattifying and very smoothing and blurring on the pores, so if you have texture on your skin and large pores then this is going to be your best friend. I really loved how this looked on my skin, I felt like it was very smoothing on my pores."

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83%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo CC Cream

"I like this better than the IT CC cream which was a favorite of mine for a long time. People were comparing it directly to the IT CC cream and when I tried this I was like I like this better. It's not as heavy looking on the skin as that CC cream. [...] This retails for about fourteen dollars and offers medium to full coverage. [...] This has an SPF 30, it's a hybrid mineral chemical SPF, and having sunscreen in here is fine."

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69%Guru Score

NARS Light Reflecting Advanced Skincare Foundation

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

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Foundation

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

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64%Guru Score

Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20

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

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64%Guru Score

KVD Good Apple Foundation

"I did a foundation friday on this. This was another viral crazy product and I liked it but I didn't love it. But there was one aspect that it was really great for and that was for your nose. It was really long-wearing on the whole face, but it was really long-wearing on my nose especially when wearing a mask. I felt like this was a little bit heavy to wear on my whole face all day and I didn't love it for my whole face."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Foundation

"I don't hate it, I don't love it though, and I'm so disappointed. I really wanted to love it. It's not going to replace any of my holy grails, and it's probably not going into my top five. The foundation looks beautiful and skin-like when I first apply it, and it's easy to apply with your fingers, brush, or sponge. I love the natural skin-like finish and the sheer to medium coverage."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Estée Lauder Futurist Hydro Rescue Foundation

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

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear Foundation

"I like this a lot, especially that it really smoothed my skin. In the sunshine test [...] and the flash photo in a darkened room test, my skin looks so smooth and so perfected. I really was like wow I love it. However, I don't love the shade I bought it in. I think I need to go back and get a different shade. The other thing that I didn't love about it is that you kind of had to throw a lot of helpers at it to get it to work right, to get it to really last."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Dior Forever Skin Perfect Foundation

"They reformulated my holy grail, the Dior Forever Matte, and now the matte one has become Dior Forever Skin Wear Foundation, and this is my favorite of these. [...] It does give me 95% of what the Forever Matte gave me, [...] and it does last all day. But it does get a little bit shiny later on in the day, which I didn't love about it. It's really good, but at $69 versus $46 it doesn't look as good at the end of the day as the other one."

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78%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Red Carpet Skin Luminous Foundation

"I think it's a super pretty foundation. It's really smoothing on pores and texture, and I don't feel like it accentuates wrinkles anywhere. The wear on it is amazing. Of the other high-end foundations I've tried this year, this is definitely the best one, with the best color match and the most blurring, and it wore the best throughout the day. It doesn't have all the fragrance that the new Dior and Armani foundations have, and the price point is lower, high 40s compared to around $70."

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85%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation

"This is fantastic. If you loved L'Oreal True Match but it was just a little bit too makeupy for you, definitely give this a try. I think it held up really well all day considering I had a mask on for like an hour and it didn't really rub off that badly. [...] I thought this one really looked great on my pores. I thought it really smoothed out my texture. [...] It's a perfect shade match for me. I loved it then and I wear it a lot."

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74%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation

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

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67%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better Foundation

"The IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better Foundation is the one I like the best out of all the IT foundations."

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63%Guru Score

Tarte Amazonian Clay BB Tinted Moisturizer

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

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81%Guru Score

Smashbox Halo Healthy Glow All-In-One Tinted Moisturizer

"It gives pretty good coverage, actually more like a medium coverage, not your standard tinted moisturizer. But the greatest thing about it was that it didn't settle into any wrinkles all day long and it stayed put pretty well. The only place that it wore off was right on the end of my nose, but everywhere else it stayed in place really really well."

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84%Guru Score

Other40 reviews

RevitaLash RevitaBrow

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

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82%Guru Score

About Face Matte Fluid Eye Paints

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

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82%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game range

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

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX Temporary Eye Tightener

"Instantly looked so much better. So, this really works. I've got it on my neck today because I always feel like my neck is looking really crepey and really crinkly, especially when I look down like this. Like, there they are. But compared to what my neck normally looks like without this on, that is a far improvement. The reason I didn't put it with makeup is because it doesn't work well with makeup. Like you put makeup on over it and it reduces the effect by about 50%."

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68%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Flash Cat Eye Liquid Liner

"This is their Flash Cat Eye. It has a template right here in the cap that you can use to make your little wing, and it was so easy to get the wing on in exactly the right place. Because the brush is so fine, it makes it really easy to work with and really easy to draw a wing. It was also so longwearing. Once it dried and set, it was in place, waterproof, not moving, and not budging for the entire day."

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88%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Lumi Glotion

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

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX Temporary Eye Tightener (EasyWear formula)

"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."

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84%Guru Score

Ravie Beauty Effortless Lips

"This one is from Ravie Beauty and this is their shade Dalia. It's just so lightweight and creamy. Like you can put it on without a mirror. They smell really great. The colors are so beautiful and they're just really nice for summer."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Shark Beauty FlexStyle

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

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

L'Oreal Lumi Glass Stick

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

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86%Guru Score

Maybelline Lifter Stix

"This came in lots of shades and I picked a cool tone. It blends in really nicely and the color is really good. [...] You can really control where you're putting this. It's really pretty and I love how it's blending. I'm really loving this Maybelline Lifter Stick. It blended in beautifully and it stayed all day."

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77%Guru Score

Rogaine Women's Rogaine 5% Foam

"So I decided this year that I was really going to up my Rogaine use and I really feel like it's paid off. I still don't use it every night because of course the drawback with Rogaine is that it makes your hair look really dirty really fast."

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76%Guru Score

Merit Minimalist Perfecting Complexion Stick

"The stick foundation of the year for this year is the Merit Foundation stick. This is fantastic. I love this. [...] It's just so easy to use. I use this a lot over the summer like if I was traveling and taking my travel brush set [...] I could just take this throw it in here with like a mascara and a couple other things zip it up and be good to go. [...] The finish on this is going to be more similar to a soft glam, it gives this soft satin finish and I love that about it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Jane Iredale PureMist Hydration Spray

"I'm going to go in with the Jane Iredale setting spray on top of this, the PureMist Hydration Spray. [...] It smells like Smarties."

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

The Ordinary Argireline Solution 10%

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

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever Aqua Resist Pencil in Ebony

"This is the shade ebony from Make Up For Ever, it's the Aqua Resist pencils. These are amazing, they're very long wearing."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Color Fix Nudes Waterproof Matte Liquid Pigment

"I love using this just as almost like a tinted moisturizer just to color correct even out my skin tone get rid of the redness on my nose."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Sports Research Vegan Vitamin D3 with K2

"I take the Sports Research phytoceramide supplement and I have for about seven, eight, nine, ten years now and I love that supplement. [...] I just started taking more vitamin D and I also added vitamin K2 because the combination of those two in addition to calcium is supposed to be really good for your bones and helping your bones remineralize. For post-menopausal women it's really important to take as many supplements as you need to keep your bones healthy."

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84%Guru Score

Jones Road Face Pencil Shade Eight

"I'm so not used to using like a pencil to put something under my eye. I really prefer things with like a doe foot applicator, just seems more gentle. Like, this just seems to be tugging a little bit at the skin and it's sitting on my skin pretty badly. I can't say I love it. [...] As far as concealer goes, that is not how I really like my concealer looking. That is sitting weirdly on my nose. It's like going into my pores and looking molted. It's definitely not blending well."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Revlon One Step Volumizer

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

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Color Wow Root Cover Up

"The powder falls out of my hair and it ends up on my forehead and I forget that it's going to do that, go about my day, and then someone inevitably is like you have dirt on your forehead. I go in the bathroom to look at it and it's this. It has come somehow sprinkling out of my hair, even though I use the brush to rub it in, make sure it's in there good, and then rub it in with my fingers. It's still, it just doesn't stay put on me."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Philips Sonicare Sonicare Toothbrush

"I was so amazed by this toothbrush because I thought my Sonicare Toothbrush that I had was like really making my teeth super duper clean but then when I got this one I was like oh my gosh I literally felt like I had been to the dentist my teeth felt so clean so it was such a big step up from my old Sonicare."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity Pro

"This one you don't have to press a button it fires by itself and I'm using it at the highest level level five and then it just fires when it in contact with skin. [...] This one is so much faster to use because it covers an area that's so much larger."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Retin-A Micro

"It really takes nine months to a year before you start seeing any major anti-aging differences using Retin-A. The most important anti-aging skincare that we have is Retin-A, and it's the one that is proven to work with like 40 years of research that shows that it works so well for reducing wrinkles, for firming up your skin, for reducing discolorations, and for building new collagen in your skin."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Maybelline Tattoo Studio Liquid Liner

"The Maybelline Tattoo Studio Gel Liner in Rose Quartz is such a pretty color. I thought it would go with the whole sweater situation going on and used it on the lower waterline."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Droplette Droplette

"The other thing I didn't like about it was the price. The price of the capsules [...] is just whoa out there like it costs hundreds of dollars a month to use this and over the course of a year it's going to cost you thousands of dollars a year if you want to use all their capsules and do your whole skin care with this."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

NeoFace NeoFace

"NeoFace is a microcurrent device you give yourself like a between six and twenty minute facial massage using this and the microcurrent stimulates ATP and it helps your skin to look younger and have more energy. Basically what it does is it just gives a subtle lifting to your face. It helps to lift my eyebrow helps to lift my cheek my jaw a little bit it's great."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Redken Acidic Bond Repair Concentrate

"It actually worked. It did make my hair less frizzy, but it only lasted for like a day. The way you use this is you first wet your hair, then you put it on, then you leave it on for 10 minutes, then you wash your hair after. So it just added this extra time where you had to get in the shower, wet your hair, then either stand in the shower for a full 10 minutes with this on there, which is a lot of wasted water and a lot of standing around shivering for me. So I didn't like that."

~Mixed

67%Guru Score

NYX Wonder Stick

"I have loved this product for years—it's really creamy, it blends really easily, and it doesn't make you look dirty or muddy. It comes in like two or three different shades, and it's really convenient to travel with."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Wet n Wild Bare Focus Tinted Hydrator

"But it's making my lip wrinkles look bigger, all my little wrinkles down here look worse, settled in my wrinkles on my forehead. [...] I can see why people do love this, it's definitely the most coverage and probably one of the longer wearing ones, [...] but because it did settle in my wrinkles and it did look a little drier with the setting powder, it's not ideal for mature skin."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Grande Cosmetics GrandeLASH-MD

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

✕Nay

49%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever Aqua Resist Color Pencil

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

FOREO BEAR

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

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Orb Dry Texturizing Spray

"The Dry Texturizing Spray is also fantastic. This one is actually empty, I need to put one of these in my cart because I need a new full-size one of these, and I love this. This is my favorite hairspray."

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84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Color Fix Liquid Pigment

"I used it so much in so many tutorials. This is just a fantastic product. It's the Color Fix eye, lip, cheek colors and you can use these on all those places. So they come in so many colors. It comes in like 10 or 15 different matte shades, there are shimmer shades. The first one I bought was in the shade Nude 3 and it is so beautiful. It's just the perfect color that goes with my skin tone, and that's the thing about these is you can find a shade that'll go with your skin tone."

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73%Guru Score

ZIIP Halo 2.0

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

✕Nay
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81%Guru Score

Agency Custom Dark Spot Formula

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

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Agency Dark Spot Formula with Hydroquinone

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

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NIRA NIRA

"I took those after pictures like a couple days before I posted it they looked really good to me I gave it the Angie seal of approval. I was so thrilled that so many of you guys were gonna be able to purchase this get it for Christmas start using it and see a reduction in your like under eye wrinkles and nasolabial folds and all this other stuff. [...] When I first started using it I started using it just under my eyes and now I'm actually expanding it to more parts of my face."

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84%Guru Score

Oral-B Round Electric Toothbrush

"I bought this toothbrush in the July Prime Days and [...] I can't even tell you how much I love this guy, how excited I am about it. The first time I used it, I felt like my teeth hadn't been brushed in like five years and then suddenly I went to the dentist, and it felt like a dentist clean with this toothbrush. This is normally $99, so it's going to be discounted way lower than that. [...] It comes with a travel case, some extra heads. It takes up very little room on your counter."

✓Yay
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78%Guru Score

Serums38 reviews

Anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid 100 Moisturizing Cream

"The other one is more of a standard moisturizer cream kind of vehicle and this one is actually a really nice feeling moisturizer. [...] If you want to try it this is a good time to try it."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous Power Peptides Pro Collagen Multi Peptide Serum

"This one from Geek and Gorgeous is a really good one. This is their power peptides. This contains four different peptides. It's got 3% Matrixel 3000. It's got 2% Matrixel Synth 6. Then it's also got a peptide in there that I hadn't heard of before, but it's called Tego Pep 417. They use 4% and then they also have an encapsulated copper peptide in there as well. I know copper peptides are big."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Neck Contouring Serum

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

✕Nay

Notverified

COSRX 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum

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

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

DRMTLGY Needleless Growth Factor Serum

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

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Timeless Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum

"I love their Matrixyl Synthe'6 Serum."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

COSRX 23% Ascorbic Acid Pure Vitamin C Serum

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

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

CeraVe Skin Renewing Gel Oil

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous C-Glow 15% Vitamin C Serum

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

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

KRX Six Peptide Skin Booster Serum

"I'm using this KrX Six Peptide Skin Booster and this contains six different peptides, it's got a copper peptide, it's got Argireline, it's got Matrixyl. It's a really nice serum but the consistency of it is more like a toner, so I just put it on like a toner to rewet my skin. I put it all over my face, my eyelids, my neck, my chest, and the backs of my hands. [...] Some of these ingredients can be irritating to the skin, so you should really ease in with them slowly."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Maylove Hydro Relief Amino Acid and Peptide Cream

"It's a really great cream that has a lot of the things that I love in it in a night cream and it feels so emollient and so occlusive but not in like a greasy heavy way. I really like this for winter. I really didn't use it over the summer when my skin is much less dry, but once it gets drier I really like this cream as my last step. It is just so so creamy, so good, and I just love how it feels on my skin. I love how it hydrates my skin, especially in these dry winter months."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

SkinMedica TNS Essential Serum

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

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Copper Peptides 1% Serum

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

✕Nay

84%Guru Score

Poems from the Lab Future Focus Vitamin C Serum

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

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Prequel Lucent-C Brightening Vitamin C Serum

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

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

CeraVe Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Water Gel

"If my skin's feeling a little on the dry side then I use the CeraVe Hydrating Hyaluronic Acid Water Gel in the summer because this is a more lightweight night cream than my usual night cream. It's got peptides, niacinamide, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, but it's more like a gel cream consistency so it's very lightweight and it doesn't add a lot of heaviness. It doesn't make my face hot or anything in the summer, so I use that as the last step at night [...] in my skincare routine."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Maelove Hydrator Serum

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maelove Peptide Squad Collagen Renewal Serum

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

~Mixed

81%Guru Score

The Ordinary Multi-Peptide + Hyaluronic Acid Serum

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

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Naturium Multi-Peptide Advanced Serum

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

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Cocokind Ceramide Barrier Serum

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

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Vichy LiftActiv Vitamin C Brightening Skin Corrector Serum (15% formula)

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

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Naturium Glycolic Acid Resurfacing Gel 10%

"A really great glycolic acid product at a great price point is from Naturium. This is their Glycolic Acid Resurfacing Gel 10%. I tested the pH on this one and it came in right at about 3.5 to 4, which is proper. This is a really good product because it does have that 10% glycolic acid in here. [...] It's kind of like a gel serum, it's really lightweight, it's really nice, and it's $23 for 3 ounces, so a really great price point."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dr. Brenner Vitamin C Serum

"The third vitamin C, one of the least expensive vitamin C serums that is well formulated, [...] is the Dr. Brenner Vitamin C Serum. This one is formulated at the right pH, it has everything you need in there, it's a very simple solution, and it's going to be probably the closest to skincare Vitamin C Serum. For $19.99, it is a really great buy."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL 0.05% Serum

"I love the event retinol 0.1 percent serum those are great."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Olay Super Serum

"All of the Olay Regenerist line is on sale for Black Friday."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 5% + Hyaluronic Acid 2%

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

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Maelove Glow Maker Vitamin C Serum

"My second favorite is Maëlove The Glow Maker at one ounce for $29.95. It's oil free, gluten free, fragrance free, cruelty free, and vegan, and they also offer free shipping both ways and a 100 percent money back guarantee if you don't like it. Maëlove is a really great company I've been working with them for years and I love their products and formulations."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

L'Oreal Revitalift Pure Vitamin C 12%

"But with 10 percent vitamin C you don't really know how much of that is going to be dissolved by the water in your skin. Hopefully you'll get that 8 percent which is the minimum effective level, but with 10 in here there are no studies on how much [...] actually gets dissolved, [...] so it's hard to say. I kind of wish they had put in a higher percentage of ascorbic acid to make sure you were getting above that 8 percent threshold."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

The Ordinary Vitamin C Suspension 23% + HA Spheres 2%

"I didn't find any white crystals on my skin with this so I hope that much more of it was dissolved, and with 23 percent that gives you a chance of [...] getting an effective level even if some doesn't dissolve. But I didn't love this one. The rubbing on this one I felt like it was very gritty and very scratchy. It kind of burned and irritated and stung a lot when I used it, so I haven't really continued to use this one. It's not my favorite."

✕Nay

51%Guru Score

Mad Hippie Vitamin C Serum

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

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

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

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

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Timeless Coenzyme Q10 Serum

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

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88%Guru Score

Timeless 20% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

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

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70%Guru Score

The Ordinary Lactic Acid 10% + Hyaluronic Acid

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

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95%Guru Score

Timeless 10% Vitamin C + E Ferulic Acid Serum

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

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83%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel with Hyaluronic Acid

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

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82%Guru Score

The Ordinary Mandelic Acid 10% + HA

"I feel like using an alpha hydroxy acid is super important and agency doesn't offer alpha hydroxy acid so I continue to use my Ordinary alpha hydroxy acid, you know my lactic acid."

✓Yay
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83%Guru Score

Blush & Bronzer37 reviews

Laura Geller Serum Blush Cheek Tint

"The other blush I'm going to recommend is the Laura Geller serum blush. These are stunning on mature skin. Because it's a serum blush, it's not thick, it's not heavy, you can't make a mistake with it, you'll never have clown cheeks."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

e.l.f. Putty Blush

"The E.L.F. Putty Blush I thought was really pretty when first applied. [...] It is very, very sheer. If you're looking for a very, very natural looking blush, I would recommend this one. It's easy to work with. It's nice and creamy. Makes my skin feel nice and hydrated."

✓Yay

Notverified

e.l.f. Soft Glam Cream Bronzer

"Soft Glam Cream Bronzer in fair, [...] so hopefully this will show up on my skin and not just be too light. I also don't like it when they're too warm. This one is definitely not too warm. It's almost giving me gray, but maybe it'll look okay. It's nice and creamy, and it seems to be going on well, but yes, it's definitely very gray looking. I don't really know if I want to use this. I just picked the wrong shade in this. Sorry. I'm not going to use this to blend in my contour."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

L'Oreal Multi-Use Tinted Balm Blush and Highlighter

"When I first looked at it, it looked really heavy and waxy, and I was like, 'No, this is terrible.' But it has really settled in nicely and the coverage is great. [...] It is looking fairly smoothing on the pores and the texture. [...] It feels so lightweight on the skin. It isn't coming off under my fingernails all day, which I love. It's not transferring all over the place. It feels dry, it feels set. I feel like it looks like my skin, but it's giving me that nice radiant lit from within glow."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush

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

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

NYX Fat Cheeks Juicy Plump 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, you know, 10 hours, usually my blush is going to be worn off. And this just looks terrific still."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Milani Baked Bronzer in Amalfi Glow

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

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Liquid Blush

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

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

RMS Beauty ReDimension Hydra Bronzer

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

✓Yay

Notverified

L'Oreal Liquid Blush

"The one I'm wearing today is the L'Oreal Lumi Blush, and it is just gorgeous. I love how it blends. I'm wearing that in the shade dewy bright pink."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Liquid Bronzer

"The drugstore bronzer that I like the most this year is also from e.l.f., e.l.f. Camo. This is a nice bronzer. I have it on this side of my face, and it's very heavily pigmented, so I recommend putting a little bit out on your hand to start. Then you can pick it up with your finger and dot it around your face, wherever you want. Then grab a brush and blend it in, and it blends like a dream."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly Tint

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

✕Nay

53%Guru Score

ColourPop Blush Sticks

"ColourPop makes so many good products. Here is one of their Blush Sticks. This is also beautiful. Much more pigmented than the Laura Geller. It's just more like a traditional stick. Easy to blend, really nice blush."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour

"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."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

SE Liquid Blush Cutie

"This one is called Cutie, this is a really pretty like warm peachy rusty color. I'm going to use my A507 to just show you how beautifully this blends and all I do is just press it and make circles like that and look how that blends, I mean that is just so beautiful. If I had put that Rare Beauty blush there and tried to blend it it would be all over the place because it's so pigmented but this just is so sheer and so beautiful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Physicians Formula Mineral Wear Diamond Bronzer

"The Physicians Formula Mineral Wear Diamond Bronzer is [...] a cream to powder bronzer. When you pick it up it's very creamy, it feels almost oily. [...] I love the shade in this because it's not too dark, it's not too warm. And then because it is so creamy it's very hydrating, but it just blends out so beautifully. [...] It just blends like a dream. This is going to make your skin feel nice and hydrated but it's not going to look greasy on the surface."

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81%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 24-Hour Fresh Wear Bronzer

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

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88%Guru Score

Merit Flush Balm Cheek Color in Beverly Hills

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

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85%Guru Score

Merit Daylow Highlighting Balm

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

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Milani Cheek Kiss Cream Blush in Nude Kiss

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

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84%Guru Score

Jones Road Miracle Balm

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

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Dior Forever Bronzing Powder

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

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84%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Starlow Highlighter

"I like this even better than the Charlotte Tilbury or the e.l.f. It doesn't accentuate your pores and texture for some reason, it's just beautiful. It doesn't add a color to your skin, it doesn't add like a gold or a silver or a bling to it, it doesn't have any glitter in it. It is just the most beautiful highlighter. It just gives you that subtle highlight that just makes your skin come alive and reflect light in such a beautiful way."

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84%Guru Score

Laura Geller Baked Blush-n-Brighten

"I thought it was going to be a little bit lighter and less pigmented. It's a pretty color, but it seems like it's maybe a little bit dark for me, a little bit ruddy. I feel like I went a little too heavy-handed with the blush. It definitely has a bit of a sheen to it. You can see it doesn't really need highlighter or anything. Where my crow's foot is, it kind of skipped over that. I guess I was smiling when I put it on and so there's like a little break in it there. So it's okay."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

e.l.f. Putty Bronzer

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

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Contour Wand

"I love the size of it. I love that it's not messy to use. You just squeeze a little bit up in there and then because of the size of this applicator you can get the bronzer exactly where you want it. This gives me so much precision and so much control over where I'm putting my bronzer and it blends out so beautifully. I'm wearing this one today up here on cheekbones, nose, jawbone. I mean it is just so user friendly is what I love most about it, and the color is great as well."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Highlighter Beauty Wand

"I really love the e.l.f. Halo Glow Highlighter Beauty Wand, this is in the shade candle. This is such a pretty blush and it's like a one and one, you don't need any highlighter with this. [...] It's got the little puffy applicator here and the color is just so pretty, [...] a peachy russet tone, so perfect for this time of year. But it has a lot of sheen to it, so it'll really give you that lit from within glow look."

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82%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Blush

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

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Essence Pure Nude Highlighter

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

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85%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Cream Contour

"I also tried this Sephora Contour lip liner. I really like the color on this and I really liked how it's a gel formula. It just glides on the lips and it felt great to start, but after five hours my lips felt really dry and really parched. I actually bought two of these, kind of a bum that I did."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer

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

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Merit Bronze Balm Sheer Bronzer Stick

"My favorite bronzer from Sephora is the Merit bronzer stick in the shade clay. [...] I use it to contour my nose, my cheeks, my jawline. It's so creamy and such a nice formulation, especially if you have dry skin."

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85%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Matte Liquid Blush

"I really like the blush. Wow, that's probably the longest lasting staying power blush."

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84%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Blush

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

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77%Guru Score

Saie Sun Melt Natural Cream Bronzer

"One of my other favorite bronzers this year was also from Saie, it's their Sun Melt bronzer, and this is like a whopper of a package of bronzer. This is more of a matte bronzer and I love this shade. It's not too cool, it's not too warm."

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81%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Contour Wand

"It's cream but it's lighter weight than a cream. This goes on so dark that you're like oh gosh oh no but then it blends out so beautifully and it looks so subtle and gorgeous on the skin. I have it on up here at my hairline, on my cheeks, down here on my nose. It's there but it's not there. It's so subtle. It's so beautiful. I just love that one because it blends away to almost nothing but yet it's still there giving you that little bit of contour that you want."

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82%Guru Score

NARS Orgasm Blush

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

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65%Guru Score

Moisturizers27 reviews

Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream

"One of my favorite creams of all time is the Olay Regenerist Microsculpting Cream. [...] It's something that I had used for like the last 14 years until I launched my own skincare. And now I don't really use it anymore, but there are some times like in the dead of winter when I just need like a little extra hydration, I'll put this on over my moisturizer and it works really nicely and it's a really nice product. It's got great ingredients."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturizer

"The Vanicream Daily Facial Moisturizer is a moisturizer for people who really want something really basic but really nice. It's got ceramides in it. It's got glycerin in it, hyaluronic acid, but it doesn't have niacinamide. And if you're sensitive to niacinamide, you might be looking for something that just doesn't have it."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Do It All Sheer Tinted Face Balm

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

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Naturium Plant Ceramide Rich Moisture Cream

"This cream is going to be a little bit thicker than the Move, a little bit more emollient. This is definitely something that you want to use if you have super dry skin, if you're flaking. It's going to really help your moisture barrier as well."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NYX Slide On Glide On Gel Liner Pencil in Alluring

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

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84%Guru Score

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

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

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream Fragrance Free

"My night cream is usually either the Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream Fragrance Free or my E.L.F. Holy Hydration Face Cream, fragrance free. These have very similar ingredients. They both have glycerin, niacinamide, a peptide and hyaluronic acid. They're both nice creams. This one is like creamier and more elegant feeling."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Cream

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

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

NuFACE Hydrating Aqua Gel

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

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

COSRX Advanced Snail 92 All in One Cream (Sensitive Skin)

"They have the snail mucin 92% for sensitive skin"

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant Protini Polypeptide Cream

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

~Mixed

65%Guru Score

CeraVe Daily Moisturizing Lotion

"A little lightweight moisturizer, it's usually the CeraVe lotion, that's got great ingredients, niacinamide, good stuff."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream Ultra Rich

"One of them is the Olay Micro-Sculpting Cream Ultra Rich. This is one of the nighttime winter moisturizers that I use. When it's winter, the heat's on, the air is so dry, and our skin gets so dry, and I love this Ultra Rich cream for the winter. Of course, I've used it all up, all gone. This one has niacinamide, it also contains peptides, it has hyaluronic acid, and it has glycerin, so that is a really good one."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Pacifica Vegan Ceramide Barrier Repair Lotion

"I really do love both of these, but I was disappointed that this one doesn't contain niacinamide. What it does have is ceramides and lipids, hyaluronic acid, and glycerin, so it's a really good day lotion, and that's what I've been using. That's fine for me because I do have niacinamide in my night cream. Niacinamide is in everything these days, and you don't really need that much of it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Face Cream

"There's also this E.L.F holy hydration cream which contains niacinamide, glycerin and hyaluronic acid as well. These are three great things to add to your skin care."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Tula Protecting Plump Firming and Hydrating Face Cream

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

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

e.l.f. Pure Skin Moisturizer

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

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Grip 36-Hour Gel Mechanical Liner

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

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Double Repair Matte Moisturizer

"It does have a little bit more of a matte finish. [...] While this doesn't completely mattify, it does leave a little bit less of a hard shine and my skin looks a little bit less texturey with this. I can't say that I was like blown away by how matte my skin looked or anything. [...] The finish of my face that day is going to be the finish of my sunscreen, not my moisturizer. For me, it was a little bit more of a fail than a fave."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Tower 28 Beach Please Luminous Tinted Balm

"I got the Tower 28 Beach Please Luminous Tinted Balm in the shade Magic Hour. It definitely has a creamy feel and the finish is luminous but it didn't remove the foundation when putting it on, so it looks really nice. This blush is really pretty and is majorly in place. I really enjoyed this blush. It's so pretty and so still in place, and I didn't even need highlighter with it."

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85%Guru Score

Augustinus Bader Rich Cream

"I'm gonna say I actually did enjoy using it. It's a nice feeling moisturizer. I looked up the ingredients, it's got a nice ingredient list. There are a couple of peptides but they're way at the bottom end of the list. [...] It has basically a lot of oils in it. It's got shea butter, it's got avocado oil, it's got primrose oil, so it is gonna be hydrating. My skin wasn't any different using this, but it also wasn't any worse. [...] I'm not really tempted to buy the full size of it."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel (reformulated)

"I also use the Neutrogena Hydro Boost for sensitive skin as the second step in my double cleanse routine."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Selfless by Hyram Niacinamide and Maracuja Daily Barrier Support Moisturizer

"I have used this a couple of nights and I feel like it definitely gives that kind of hydrated feeling and it definitely feels a little bit occlusive on the skin. However, I do like my Olay Regenerist Night Recovery Cream, which is my favorite night cream because it has niacinamide as well and it also has peptides, hyaluronic acid, and glycerin and green tea. That one for me packs much more into the cream than this does as far as active ingredients."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Versed Out of Sight Dark Spot Gel

"I got a Dark Spot Gel with kojic and tranexamic acid. It's interesting because you can get tranexamic acid in the Curology formula, so this is competing with that. I'm interested in trying it for getting rid of spots."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Alloy M4 Estriol Cream

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

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73%Guru Score

CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion

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

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88%Guru Score

Avène RetrinAL 0.1% Intensive Cream (reformulated)

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

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84%Guru Score

Concealer20 reviews

e.l.f. Soft Glam Concealer

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

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

NYX Can't Stop Won't Stop Concealer

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

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer

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

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Concealer

"On the concealer, oh my goodness, this is so settled in my wrinkles, so accentuating my wrinkles, so cracked and cakey looking. I've never met a Charlotte Tilbury foundation or concealer that I liked. I don't know why [...] I thought this one would be different, but I did. I'm always hopeful. I always want it to be the next best thing. I always want it to be the one that knocks my socks off and then when it's not, I am so disappointed."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

About Face Illusionist Skin Focused Concealers

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

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Concealer

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

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Natasha Denona High Glam Concealer

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

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer

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

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Do It All Radiant Concealer

"The under eye concealer is already wearing off a little bit in the inner corners after four and a half hours. I definitely have creasing under my eyes. I have creasing at the inner corners. They look a little dry, they look a little crusty, they definitely look creased underneath. This is supposed to be a creaseless concealer and it's definitely creasier than my regular concealer, which is the Lancôme Teinte Idole. It is worn off a little bit at the inner corners."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Uncover Up Concealer

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

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Concealer

"The L'Oreal True Match is really, really good. It didn't wear as well as I would like it to in the video, because I was also trying a setting powder with it, and the setting powder made it not look so great. But when I use it with my regular setting powders, it's a really great concealer, and it comes in so many shades."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Hourglass Vanish Airbrush Concealer

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

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Best Skin Ever Concealer

"I've been trying these out over the last week and I really like this concealer. I like it as a face concealer and I like it as an under eye concealer. So far so good, it's pigmented, it's very hydrating feeling, and it lasts all day. It is very luminous. It does need a little setting powder for me but everything does. I'm not giving this the 100% run out and buy it yet, but I do really like it."

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Covergirl TruBlend Undercover Concealer

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

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum

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

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Dark Spot Concealer and Serum

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

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Tarte Shape Tape Concealer

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

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Concealer

"I think it doesn't look bad from a distance, and it blends really beautifully. It lays down so beautifully to start, and this concealer is still super beautiful not creased after eight hours. The coverage is still in place after eight hours, it's not very worn off. This is a real winner."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Tarte Creaseless Creamy Concealer

"Then a couple other concealers that I really enjoyed this year were the Tarte Creaseless Concealer. This is great if you have really really dry skin. If you have super dry skin, I really wouldn't recommend the Lancôme or the Dior, but this Tart is awesome for people with drier skin. It's super emollient. A little bit goes a long way."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

Lancôme Teint Idôle Ultra Wear All Over Concealer

"For concealer, my holy grail is still my Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear concealer. It's concealer that creases the least. The shades are so normal. [...] It lasts all day, and it wears off the least."

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83%Guru Score

Tech20 reviews

CurrentBody LED Light Therapy Mask Series 1

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

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross DRx SpectraLite FaceWare Pro

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

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Qure Micro Infusion System

"Having used the Qure Micro Infusion System three times, I'm not sure that I'm really seeing that big of a difference in my skin, and I know 100% for sure that I didn't enjoy using it. Did not enjoy the serum. There's so much left, I'm not sure you really get that much delivered into your skin. I think this set was something like $179 for the six treatments. As far as not being able to use your regular skin care for a few days before, a few days after, didn't really love that."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

CurrentBody Skin LED Hair Growth Helmet

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

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

HigherDose Red Light Therapy Mask

"This one is actually a little bit more powerful than a couple of the masks that I like and so I don't recommend this one for people who have any problems with discolorations or light sensitive skin or heat sensitive skin or melasma because a stronger mask might aggravate those things. So you want a weaker mask but this is one of the stronger ones on the market and it is a really good mask because it has the right wavelength."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Qure Q-Rejuvalight LED Mask

"It's got 880, which is 50 nanometers off from the 830 that I'm looking for, and 50 is too big of a swing. It's never going to get close to being 830. This one does contain three other colors of light in it: it's got the 415 blue light which is for acne, it's got 630 amber light which is one of those shallower ones with much less study on it, and it also has 660 deep red light. This has 160 bulbs total, but it's not 160 of each color."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Maysama Prana LED Light Therapy Mask

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

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

JOVS 4D Laser Light Therapy Mask

"It's not on the top of my list as something to buy. For $750 you could get a face mask and a neck and chest bib of a mask that gives you more precise wavelengths and is much easier to operate, that you don't get all sweaty in and you don't look like Hannibal Lecter either."

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Kenzie IPL Atome Laser Hair Removal Device

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

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78%Guru Score

Kenzzi IPL Hair Removal Device

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

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77%Guru Score

NuFACE Mini Plus

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

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80%Guru Score

Omnilux Face Contour Red Light Therapy Mask

"I love and swear by my Omnilux red light therapy mask. [...] Omnilux is a brand that makes the in-office red light devices that dermatologists use, so their red light mask is one of the best. It always comes out in the top of my ratings."

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79%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device

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

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62%Guru Score

CurrentBody Skin LED Light Therapy Mask Series 2

"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."

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89%Guru Score

NIRA Precision Laser

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

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56%Guru Score

NIRA Pro Laser

"The Pro Laser, this is really the one that I love using the most because I get in the most coverage. I can do my whole neck in 10 minutes with this and it really gave me good results on my neck. I can do my whole face with it in 10 minutes and it really has given me good results on my face."

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69%Guru Score

Omnilux Men's Mask

"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."

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79%Guru Score

Omnilux Neck and Chest Mask

"The best part was that using this the results on my neck and chest were amazing because I hadn't used any red light there and also because my neck is sensitive so I can't use my tretinoin in there and so my neck is like lagging behind my face in the anti-aging department. [...] When I'm looking at the before and after pictures [...] I was so thrilled, I was like jumping out of my skin that I could actually see a huge difference. [...] It was so obvious in the pictures that it was so worth it."

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85%Guru Score

NuFACE Mini Microcurrent Device

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

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71%Guru Score

ZIIP Golden Gel

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

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75%Guru Score

Powder & Setting18 reviews

Tarte Creaseless Brightening and Setting Powder

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

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70%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Blur It Loose Setting Powder

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

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82%Guru Score

Too Faced Born This Way Soft Blur Flexible Finish Setting Powder

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

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68%Guru Score

NYX Wonder Snatch Lifting Setting Powder

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

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83%Guru Score

RMS Beauty Hydra Setting Powder

"They have a really good setting powder. This is their Hydra Setting Powder. This is great. Also makes a"

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74%Guru Score

NYX Mineral Matte Finishing Powder

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

✕Nay

87%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Blur Perfection Powder

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

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

About Face Curtain Call Set and Smooth Loose Powder

"This powder has one of those nets which I really like because then I don't have to dump it into the cap and make a big mess. [...] A good setting powder will blur, and it looks like this is doing that. The eye definitely looks much more puffy on one side than the other after using this. [...] It works like a charm. It isn't a flat matte powder."

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84%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Pressed Powder

"This is the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Pressed Powder. I'm going to use it to lock in that concealer and get a nice, really smooth matte base for when I blend on my matte powder eyeshadows. [...] They'll go on with ease. Locking the concealer in that way doesn't create any patchiness with the eyeshadow application, since it's going on a nice smooth matte base, so the blend is going to be really quick and easy. I like to take extra powder and push it into the brows."

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86%Guru Score

Patrick Ta She's Statuesque Cream to Powder Duo

"For sculpting, I'm using the She Sculpted, it's a duo from Patrick Ta. I'm going to use the cream and I'm going to bust out one of my favorite Angie brushes."

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84%Guru Score

Jones Road Tinted Face Powder in Light

"I'm going to powder my under eyes and the fronts of my cheeks to have less of that kind of oily look. I really like that it has a little twisty thing here so you can close it for travel. This is a really finely milled powder, it feels really nice. I'm just going to press it right in the areas that I want to mattify a little bit. [...] From a distance this is looking okay as far as having part of my face be glowy and the middle part be a little bit more matte. I think that is working out."

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84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Loose Setting Powder in Vanilla

"Now I really liked the foundation and I thought it actually looked fairly natural when I first put it on but you know I always set my makeup so the second I put this on the whole thing went like cakey and heavy and just looked bad. So I only put this on one side and throughout the day it just failed like the makeup was more creased on that side of my face. I got shiny looking on that side of my face throughout the day."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Cosis Cloud Set Powder

"If I use this just as a powder I find it a little bit too matte and a little bit too drying. But I have been testing a ton of sunscreens [...] and when I put on a sunscreen that is just so shiny and so greasy feeling but I don't want to have to wash my face and start over that day, this is the powder to use. It really turns it into like a nice makeup day. I've been just using this with my BK 106 brush and then just buffing it around my face."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

MAC Fix+ Setting Spray

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

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68%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray

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

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80%Guru Score

Maybelline Fit Me Powder in 10

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

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79%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Setting Powder in Banana Bread

"The first one is from Huda Beauty, this is their Easy Bake setting powder and I have it in the shade Banana Bread. One of the things that I like most about this setting powder is that it does come in shades. So often times a white setting powder if you use it and then you go to like say a party and someone takes your picture with a flash it'll give white flashback and look terrible. So a setting powder with a little bit of color in it pretty much solves that problem."

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70%Guru Score

NYX HD Studio Powder

"For setting powder, I'm using the NYX Matte Mineral Powder in Light Medium. [...] I find that setting my under-eye concealer is so important as it really helps it to stay crease-free much, much longer."

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81%Guru Score

Tools17 reviews

BK Beauty Nikki LaRose N19 Brush

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

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Beachwaver Curling Iron

"The second hot tool I use is the Beachwaver Curling Iron. [...] I got to say, this is the best Curling Iron because it's so easy for a hair challenge person like me. [...] I could never use a Curling Iron or a flat iron, but this makes it so easy because it's got a mini clamp, you put your hair in, clamp the end, press a button and it automatically wraps the hair."

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81%Guru Score

BK Beauty Nikki LaRose Pro Artist Series Volume 2 Brush Set

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

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85%Guru Score

BK Beauty 109 Foundation Brush

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

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77%Guru Score

Sigma Switch Brush Cleaning Mat

"I love this little sink mat. It's got suction cups on the back side, it's got all these different textures, so you basically just rub your brushes into the soap and then into these, and it really helps to get the makeup out of your brushes."

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84%Guru Score

BK Beauty N16 Brush

"This is my concealer brush. I designed this [...] with nose contour in mind. It's great for sculpting and shading the nose. I like to take the longer fibers of the brush and just sculpt into where the beginning of the brow is to connect it so it's not so disconnected. You can do a little scoop underneath on the very tip of the nose, which gives a little subtle lift. [...] Less is more with contour as well, you do not want to see visible [...] contour on your nose."

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85%Guru Score

Tweezerman Tweezers

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

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85%Guru Score

BK Beauty 112 Blush Brush

"My favorite [...] is the 112 brush, which is a small angled brush and a mini version of my A507 blush brush. While the A507 is perfect for doing your blush and getting that nice big rosy cheek, the 112 [...] is perfect for doing your contour or your highlighting. I used it for contour today and I could really just place my bronzer right there at the bottom of my cheekbone where I want it, and I'm not using a big fluffy brush so it's not going all over the place."

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86%Guru Score

BK Beauty 210 Brush

"This is like the tiny tiniest little smudger slash eyeshadow brush. It's kind of similar to my 504 brush which is my tiny crease brush, but it's a lot stiffer and a lot shorter. My 504 is great for really smoking out the outer corner and blending eyeshadow [...] while you apply it. The 210 is great for doing the tiniest little detail work at the outer corner, like if you just want to add the tiniest little bit of a dark color like black or really dark brown out there. This is perfect for that."

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84%Guru Score

BK Beauty A506 Travel Brush

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

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87%Guru Score

BK Beauty Holy Grail Trio Brush Set

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

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84%Guru Score

BK Beauty 101/A101 Foundation Brush

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

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85%Guru Score

BK Beauty Travel Brush Set

"Here's my Travel Brush Set, it's a very compact, sleek little silver pouch. Inside there are five brushes curated from my original set so you get the KPAW concealer brush, you get two of the eyeshadow brushes, you get the blush brush and you also get the BK 101 which is their foundation brush and this is the brush that started my love of BK brushes in the first place."

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BK Beauty A507 Angled Blush Brush

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

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BK Beauty Angie Hot and Flashy Brush Collection

"This is the pouch it comes in. It's in this beautiful silver faux leather look, and it says Angie Hot and Flashy right here on the bottom of the bag, and on the zipper pull it has a little BK insignia. [...] I just love how the outside looks. It's so slim and easy to pack, and it won't take up a lot of room in your luggage. But the best part is what's inside. [...] You get five brushes with this set, and what we did is a curated selection of my brushes."

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84%Guru Score

BK Beauty 106 Brush

"The BK 106 is more of a multi-tasker. This is a foundation brush so you can put your foundation on with it, but what I like using this one for is either blending out cream bronzer or applying powder foundation. This is an awesome powder foundation brush, so if you're a powder foundation person, give the BK 106 a try."

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84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Total Face Sponge Duo

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

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84%Guru Score

Cleansers15 reviews

CeraVe Hydrating Facial Cleanser

"The CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser has been a mainstay in my skincare routine for 15 years. All three of these facial cleansers are very mild and gentle, very hydrating. They don't strip your skin. [...] I keep the CeraVe in my shower. [...] When I wash my face in the morning, I use the CeraVe."

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85%Guru Score

Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser

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

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90%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm

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

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95%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Radiance Cleansing Balm

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

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80%Guru Score

La Roche-Posay Toleriane Hydrating Gentle Cleanser

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

✕Nay

83%Guru Score

Naturium Purple Ginseng Cleansing Balm

"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."

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81%Guru Score

Naturium Fermented Chamelia Creamy Cleansing Oil

"I tried this as my first step to get the makeup off. It didn't do nearly as good a job as the cleansing balm, but what I do like it for is the days where I'm not wearing any makeup except for sunscreen. I don't even put on mascara, I just put on my tinted sunscreen and I go, but I do still need to remove my sunscreen at night. This was really nice for that. It's kind of a gel to oil cleanser, so when you first squirt it out it's just this really pretty clear pink gel."

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84%Guru Score

Round Lab 1025 Dokdo Cleanser

"Another cleanser that I tried and have really been enjoying and has worked itself into my regular skincare routine is this one from Round Lab, it's their 1025 Dokdo Cleanser and this is just really soothing, really calming, really hydrating, great little cleanser. It does foam up a little bit, which I normally don't like cleansers that foam at all, but this uses the mildest surfactant. It's actually got the same surfactant in it that my Orb shampoo uses."

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78%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture 5.5 Soft Cleansing Gel

"I tried this and I didn't like this at all unfortunately. [...] I was kind of psyched about this but I was also a little bit nervous about it because it does contain coconut derived surfactants and all the cleansers that have like the coconut derived surfactants don't agree with my skin they make my skin feel dry and tight. [...] My eyes stung which I wasn't happy with. I do like it that it is fragrance-free but then afterwards my skin felt so dry and tight."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Hada Labo Cleansing Oil

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

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84%Guru Score

Banila Co Clean It Zero Original Cleansing Balm

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

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

The INKEY List Oat Cleansing Balm

"It removed all of my face makeup. The only thing it didn't get off completely was my waterproof eyeliner and waterproof mascara, but with my double cleanse those came off with my second cleanse, so by the time I was done with my double cleanse I had almost as much makeup off my face as when I use Clinique. It was really soothing and really nice to use, so if the Clinique is just always out of range as far as price, this is a really good one to try."

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75%Guru Score

Good Molecules Instant Cleansing Balm

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

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80%Guru Score

Neutrogena Hydro Boost Hydrating Gel Cleanser with Hyaluronic Acid

"I use the Neutrogena Hydro Boost Gentle Cleanser in the morning. This is a non-detergent based cleanser. In the morning you don't really need to do a full scrub because presumably you've washed your face the night before, [...] and all you have to do is really get off the skincare or any dust mites or any oils that your skin produces during the night. This is a nice gentle cleanser that doesn't strip my skin and doesn't leave it feeling dry or tight."

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79%Guru Score

Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm

"My Clinique Take The Day Off Cleansing Balm will be in it. I actually have to pick one up, I've used up all of mine. This is my holy grail makeup remover, sunscreen remover. The oils in it break up all of the waterproof eyeliner, waterproof mascara, waterproof makeup, and all your sunscreen. When you splash it with water, it emulsifies and runs right down the drain. That is a fantastic cleanser."

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77%Guru Score

Haircare15 reviews

Oribe Gold Lust Repair & Restore Shampoo + Conditioner

"The shampoo and the conditioner that I use are from Oribe, the Gold Lust Repair and Restore line. [...] Yes, these are spendy, but I use far less of this than any other shampoo and conditioner in my life because these are so concentrated. [...] My hair never feels dried out, it's never static-y, and [...] my hair has just never been so shiny, so manageable, so frizz-free. I can't say enough good things about this. It's worth every penny."

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85%Guru Score

Rogaine Minoxidil 5% Foam

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

✕Nay

86%Guru Score

Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray

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

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87%Guru Score

RevitaLash Advanced Eyelash Conditioner

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

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68%Guru Score

Oribe Bay Laurel Super Fine Hairspray

"I also love the Oribe hairspray, this is their dry texturizing spray. This is so good. I just kind of spritz it in here, judge it up a little bit, and bam, hair looks great. Looks a little bit undone, a little bit slept in. So great hairspray to pick up in the sale."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Shark Beauty HyperAIR Hair Dryer

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

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo

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

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo

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

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

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

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89%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner

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

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Dyson Airwrap Long Complete Styler

"The Dyson Air Wrap has really transformed my hair for the better and it makes a great gift. [...] It is just the most amazing blow dryer, hair styler. It comes with three or four different attachments. So it's kind of an all-in-one type of thing. I'll never be without mine. I even take it when I travel is how much I love it."

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75%Guru Score

Oribe Gold Lust Shampoo

"It actually hydrates the hair, and I could feel the difference from the first use, switching from a different shampoo that dried out my hair. It keeps my hair so bouncy, gives it so much life, and such a beautiful shine. I just love this, and now that I have it, I'm not going to be without it. [...] They're super concentrated so I don't need to use a lot to get great results, my hair stays cleaner longer, and I use half as much shampoo and conditioner as I used to."

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Verb Ghost Shampoo and Conditioner

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

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78%Guru Score

K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask

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

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81%Guru Score

K18 Peptide Prep pH Maintenance Shampoo

"Then I was like well no wonder with these ingredients like this has very high SD alcohol so that is going to dry out my hair and sure enough it did. And [...] this one has the ingredient that I really don't like which is that sodium C1416 olefin sulfonate my hair does not like that that just dries my hair out like crazy."

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86%Guru Score

Retinoids13 reviews

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 10 Retinal Serum (0.1%)

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

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90%Guru Score

Naturium Retinaldehyde Cream Serum 0.10%

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

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84%Guru Score

Geek & Gorgeous A-Game 20 Retinal Serum (0.2%)

"I've only been using it for a couple of weeks, since I finished up the latest test I did on my neck. I wasn't using this when it first came in, but I am using it now and it's been great. No irritation from it at all. To show you, this is what all retinals will be, very, very bright yellow, so that's just the color, and I really love that. I really love the whole Geek & Gorgeous brand."

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83%Guru Score

Maelove Moonlight Retinaldehyde Serum 0.1%

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

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80%Guru Score

Naturium Retinaldehyde Cream Serum 0.5%

"Another company came out with a retinaldehyde serum and I thought I'd give it a try and I really like it. [...] The Naturium retinaldehyde cream serum is a 0.5% formulation. Using it on my neck daily, I don't have any irritation from it. It rubs in really quickly and easily. This one has been a great new addition to my skincare routine. I do love and recommend it."

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84%Guru Score

Olay Regenerist Retinol 24 Night Moisturizer

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

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74%Guru Score

Differin Adapalene Gel 0.1%

"You can just walk into any CVS or Walgreens or whatever drugstore you have and pick this up off the shelf. It's about $30 for a 1.6 ounce tube. You should use this just like you would tretinoin, just a pea-size amount at night. It can actually be irritating, even though it is much less irritating than tretinoin. Ease in slowly with it because it can still be irritating, even though it's less irritating."

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92%Guru Score

Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair Retinol Pro+ Regenerating Cream

"For those reasons, I feel like Neutrogena is definitely the best bet for retinol, and particularly this product because this product has 5% pure retinol. Even though it sounds like a small amount, it still is the clinically effective amount. [...] It costs about $45, but you're actually getting the real thing and you know how much is in there. This is a really nice lightweight serum, and it does have a couple of other ingredients to help it to stay stable in the bottle. It is fragranced."

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83%Guru Score

The Ordinary Retinol 0.2% in Squalane

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

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79%Guru Score

CeraVe Resurfacing Retinol Serum

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

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83%Guru Score

Agency Future Formula with Tretinoin

"For about the past 5 years I had been getting my tretinoin from Agency in their Future Formula and I love this product. The tretinoin is the key ingredient to use if you have a ton of sun damage. If you can keep that layer thin while thickening the deeper layers, then your skin looks plumper, it looks firmer, your wrinkles look reduced, and as an added bonus, it also helps a little bit with discoloration. Agency is more of a customized cream that's made with your skin in mind."

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Agency Tretinoin Eye Formula

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

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84%Guru Score

Curology Future Formula with Tretinoin

"So the two most important things in your anti-aging skincare routine are going to be your tretinoin and your sunscreen. The ingredients in this bottle were custom picked for me by my provider. I have tretinoin in here at 0.14, I have acetic acid in here at five percent, tranexamic acid at five percent, and niacinamide at four percent."

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Body & Tan11 reviews

Prequel Hand Wrap Shielding Lotion

"I ran out of the hand salve I'd used for years and wanted to try something else, so I gave this a try and so far so good. When I ran out of my old one, the edges of my nails were dry and I had a lot more hangnails, but since working this into my routine that dryness [...] has really cleared up. It's a nice feeling hand cream, it doesn't feel greasy, and [...] it just really keeps my hands nice and hydrated overnight."

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82%Guru Score

Tree Hut Watermelon Shave Oil

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

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83%Guru Score

Gold Bond Age Renew Retinol Overnight Body & Face Lotion

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

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

AmLactin Daily Moisturizing Lotion 12%

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

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77%Guru Score

Beauty by Earth Self-Tanner Tanning Lotion

"My favorite current self-tanner is [...] the Beauty by Earth Self-Tanner Tanning Lotion. This one's really nice because it is a lotion. It's not a foam. I find that I get better coverage with a lotion. I can rub it in better. I don't get streaks and hard edges like I do with some of the foams where you can't really see where you're putting them. [...] With the lotion, you really have to spend a little bit more time rubbing it and that just gives me a better, smoother application."

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87%Guru Score

Lumi Whole Body Deodorant

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

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74%Guru Score

Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protect Face and Body Lotion

"This has got five ceramides, it's got glycerin, it's got shea butter, it's got a denzine in it. It also contains colloidal oatmeal and so it has the same ingredient that my favorite anti-irritation cream has. This is a really nice feeling lotion, it's just like a standard white body cream. You can also use this on your face. It's not super heavy weight. [...] This is a new one in my body lotion arsenal with the ceramides in it."

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83%Guru Score

Versed Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion

"I brought it to show you, just in case it is the Versed Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion. I do like this one a lot too. If you want to use retinol all year round, I would recommend the Versed Firm Ground Retinol Body Lotion for the warmer months of the year or if you live in a hot place."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Loving Tan 8 Hour Express Tan

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

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66%Guru Score

Kiehl's Ultimate Strength Hand Salve

"I always buy the Kiehl's Ultimate Hand Salve. [...] I've been using it at night as my overnight hand moisturizer for years. I ran out about 6 months ago and [...] tried five different hand creams since then, and none of them are as good as the Kiehl's. [...] I really don't get hangnails and dry cuticles when I use the Kiehl's every night."

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85%Guru Score

Alpha Skin Care Renewal Body Lotion 12% Glycolic Acid

"The alpha skincare [...] glycolic acid lotion is something I use every other day. This is a truly fantastic lotion that will help to keep your skin from being crepey."

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73%Guru Score

Primer9 reviews

RMS Beauty ReEvolve Radiance Locking Primer

"You know, I'm not a huge fan of primers anymore. I find that when I first apply them they might do something to blur the look of my pores, but after I put makeup on over them I find that they really don't do much for me. I don't know if it's my skin or what, but they just don't work. [...] It's a nice looking primer, it's pink. Most primers are mainly silicone and I don't really love those, they don't really play well on my skin."

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56%Guru Score

NYX Face Glue Gripping Primer

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

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Smashbox Photo Finish Smooth and Blur Primer

"This is not for every day, this is not something necessary for every day by any means, but it is a great primer for when you're going to be taking a lot of photos or in video. I [...] focus this in the T-Zone on the areas that have larger pores. I'm not going to put this all over because it's not necessary."

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80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter

"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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86%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Instant FirmX No Filter Primer

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

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68%Guru Score

e.l.f. Power Grip Primer

"The primer itself feels dry and set after 30 seconds, but it's not doing anything for my pores although I don't think that it says it's pore minimizing. However, at the end of the day it failed because this side looks oilier and the foundation is all gathered up here by the side of my nose, so it's slid around more over here compared to the side without the primer, which means the foundation wore better without it."

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68%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter

"The Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter [...] is just like a beautiful kind of highlighter. You can use it as a primer under your makeup, or over your makeup just to give you that little bit of lit from within glow wherever you need it. It's very subtle, [...] it brightens up that area so nicely and makes the cheeks pop."

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65%Guru Score

e.l.f. Power Grip Matte Primer

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

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79%Guru Score

Hourglass Veil Primer

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

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85%Guru Score

Eye Care8 reviews

DRMTLGY Luminous Eye Corrector SPF 41

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

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87%Guru Score

Alloy M4 1% Estriol Eye Cream

"I've been using this for about 3 months now and I really love it. So I take a tiny dab of this and I just work it underneath my eyes and onto my eyelids. And [...] the one thing that I love about this is that it's so nonsensitizing. With tret, the gold standard, absolutely love my tret, will never stop using it, but it took a long time to work up to using it and it still can be a little irritating sometimes if I go in a little too hard with it."

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84%Guru Score

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

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

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

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

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

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81%Guru Score

Patchology Rosé Gel Eye Masks

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

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73%Guru Score

Skin Iceland Hydrocool Firming Eye Gels

"These are the Skin Iceland Hydrocool Firming Eye Gels. They don't slip on your face and they feel really nice. [...] The great thing about these is they're so wide and take up a really good amount of width. You can really use these also as a shadow shield, so it eliminates that fallout that way we don't have to go in and irritate the skin under the eyes and clean it up with a Q-tip. It really eliminates all that. They do feel great, and I like that they're big on both sides."

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83%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Positive Light Under Eye Brightener

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

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Peter Thomas Roth Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Hydrogel Eye Patches

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

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78%Guru Score

Masks & Peels5 reviews

iRestore Illumina Neck and Chest Mask

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

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84%Guru Score

iRestore Illumina Face Mask

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

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Olaplex No. 8 Bond Intense Moisture Repair Mask

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

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85%Guru Score

The Ordinary AHA 30% + BHA 2% Peeling Solution

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

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58%Guru Score

Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial

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

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73%Guru Score

Mists & Essences4 reviews

COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence

"The snail mucin, which I have never been into. I did try it once, didn't love it, but people seem to love it."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Anua PDRN Hyaluronic Acid Mist

"I saw that there are these Anua PDRN products in the sale and they seem like decent prices to try. [...] I did buy them and I have given them a try. [...] These get really great reviews on Amazon. This one is a hydrating mist. It's a really fine mist and so you could potentially spray it on your face if you like that glass skin kind of glowy look."

~Mixed

63%Guru Score

Prequel Universal Skin Solution Dermal Spray for Face and Body

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

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81%Guru Score

Tower 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray

"The Tower 28 hypochlorous acid spray is great to get on sale. If you have any kind of skin irritations, you just spritz it on, it soothes, it cools, it calms your skin."

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83%Guru Score

Toners3 reviews

Isntree Green Tea Fresh Toner

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

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73%Guru Score

NuFACE Trinity+ Advanced Facial Toning Kit

"You know how much I love my NuFACE. This is a microcurrent device. It's basically a face massage with electricity and so it gives your skin extra energy, extra ATP. So, this really helps to like lift your brows, lift your jawline. I mean, it's not like plastic surgery certainly, but it is a really great treatment. It's so relaxing to do. It's got the red light attachment. It's got the little gel attachment that really helps to lift the eyelids and the hooded eyes."

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69%Guru Score

Sukoyaka Suhada Urea Moisturizing Toner

"This other toner is Sukoyaka Suhada Urea Toner and this one is really great as well. Very lightweight, very watery. I apply it the same way, just pat it around my face while my face is still slightly damp from the toner."

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84%Guru Score

Acne2 reviews

Hero Cosmetics Mighty Patch Original

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

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87%Guru Score

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

"I'm really hopeful for this sunscreen because I've been looking for a non-tinted sunscreen that's lightweight and easy to use and looks good under makeup without leaving a white cast. [...] It's a nice looking sunscreen [...] and it feels really nice on the skin. It's not super duper shiny, but it is leaving a little bit of a white cast. After 20 minutes it did calm down a bit, and [...] the finish is [...] beautiful. [...] It feels so good on the skin."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

Balms & Ointments1 review

Prequel Barrier Therapy Skin Protectant Cream

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

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Fragrance1 review

Flur Vanilla Skin Body and Hair Fragrance Mist

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

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85%Guru Score

Supplements1 review

Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides with Amino Acids, Iron and Protein

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

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

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