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Alexandra Anele
Makeup Artist

Alexandra Anele.

Alexandra Anele runs a 1.4-million-subscriber channel built around thorough makeup and beauty tutorials, covering everything from foundation and eye looks to sunscreen, haircare, and setting products. Her fine-art background shapes how she approaches colour, application, and finish in ways most beauty creators don't.

Why Is She A Guru?
A BFA in painting combined with a famously strict approval rate gives her product verdicts a level of considered rigour that sets her apart.
522Products
423 yay89% approval rate
51 nayDoesn't pull punches
48 hot takesWhere she breaks from the pack

Alexandra Anele's top picks.

The products Alexandra Anele has crowned best in their category, and brings up again and again.

★ Best dry shampoo
Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo
Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo
Brought up 5 times
My living proof has been getting clogged. This is actually the second time that I've been using the Living Proof dry shampoo and after a few days the nozzle won't go anymore. This is a second bottle where it's been like a full bottle and I've just been like so sucks.
★ Best daytime moisturizer
Ultra Facial Cream
Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream
Brought up 4 times
I usually use Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream for my moisturizer. I love it, it's my favorite daytime moisturizer. It's perfect, it's simple, there's nothing in it. It's moisturizing without being too heavy. It doesn't leave me looking oily or too shiny or anything.

Alexandra Anele, in short.

What does Alexandra Anele recommend?

Alexandra Anele has reviewed 522 products. Of the ones she gives a clear yes or no to,she approves 89%. The products she rates highest and brings up most are Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo and Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream.

Which eye makeup does Alexandra Anele recommend?

She has reviewed 91 eye makeup and approved 78 of them. The ones she rates highest are Lisa Eldridge Liquid Silk Eyeshadow, Clio Kill Lash Super Proof Long Curling Mascara and Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion. The full picture is in Alexandra Anele on Eye Makeup.

Which lip products does Alexandra Anele recommend?

She has reviewed 53 lip products and approved 46 of them. The ones she rates highest are Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner in Deep Taupe, e.l.f. Cream Glide Lip Liner and Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil.

Which blushes and bronzers does Alexandra Anele recommend?

She has reviewed 48 blushes and bronzers and approved 44 of them. The ones she rates highest are Anastasia Beverly Hills Contour Powder in Fawn, Merit Bronze Balm Sheer Bronzer Stick and Covergirl True Blend Skin Enhancer Contour Balm Stick.

Which foundations does Alexandra Anele recommend?

She has reviewed 39 foundations and approved 26 of them. The ones she rates highest are Too Faced Born This Way Foundation, Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Foundation and Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation.

What does Alexandra Anele say no to?

She has skipped 51 of the 522 products she has reviewed. The ones she is clearest about are Tatcha Water Cream Oil-Free Pore Minimizing Moisturizer, MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation, Living Proof Perfect Hair Day Dry Shampoo, Olaplex No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner and Rare Beauty Angled Powder Brush.

What does Alexandra Anele recommend for each skin type?

There is a guide to her picks for each skin type she covers most: Alexandra Anele on sensitive skin and Alexandra Anele on dry skin.

What they review most.

Alexandra Anele's hot takes.

Products where their take diverges from the rest of the gurus.

Alexandra Anele: Nay vs gurus 62% Yay
It's the Limp Ambition Hyalonic Lip Oil from L'Oreal in the shade Nude Lights. [...] It's doing that minty plump thing. I hate that. I'm gonna suffer through it though because I just like we're we're doing a different thing. But yeah, damn. I hate that. I bought that too.
Alexandra Anele: Nay vs gurus 66% Yay
This is a brush from Rare Beauty. It's not a bad brush. I think it's the powder brush. It doesn't have a name on it. And it has synthetic fibers. So, you might think like, oh, this would be good for applying creams.
Alexandra Anele: Nay vs gurus 76% Yay
They didn't hold my lashes and I didn't really like the applicator. [...] I was initially like, 'Oh, I might like this,' but it just didn't work for me. [...] I tried giving it another shot, letting it dry out for a few weeks, [...] but my lashes just don't trust it. I have [...] extremely straight, flat lashes that don't want to hold a curl, [...] so if a mascara can't work on me, it's not going to work on most people. Not a fan of these, unfortunately.
Alexandra Anele: Nay vs gurus 63% Yay
I understand that basically [...] one of the ingredients that Prequel revolves around is glycerin and I love that idea. [...] I want to love it. It doesn't work for me. This is the Multi-Quench Plumping Hydration Serum. It doesn't matter what I do, doesn't matter how little I use, doesn't matter what layering, if I use it on its own, it doesn't matter. It pills on me no matter what. And that seems to be the case with glycerin products. [...] In leave on products, it just doesn't work for me.

Every review.

All 522 products Alexandra Anele has reviewed, grouped by product type. Click a product to see the full guru consensus.

All takes Yay takes Nay takes Against the gurus
Eye Makeup91 reviews
"I'm going to use the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Ash Brown. [...] This is a really great way to fill your brows naturally. I don't know what it is about going against the hairs, but it just [...] works so much better than trying to go with them."
✓Yay
67%Guru Score
"I'm starting with the Lisa Eldridge black trile eyeliner. This is my favorite because it's extremely creamy, so it's very, very blendable. [...] The Lisa Eldridge liners really give you like work work time, so you don't need to panic."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"The Makeup by Mario Ethereal Eyes palette is a favorite amongst so many makeup artists, especially for bridal, and it also has some really beautiful deeper taupe shades with good options to choose from."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"I'm liking this Lancome [...] Flutter Extension Mascara. I'm keeping it relatively close to the base of the lashes because it's not about length, it's really more about density."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"This is Robert Welsh's palette with Blend Bunny, the Divination palette. You have two really beautiful options here, one is more of a duo chrome, [...] but this shade right here [...] is really, really beautiful and would look really stunning on deeper skin tones."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This is the Patrick Ta Major Dimension Eye Illusion Eyeshadow Duo in In Your Dreams, which has these really beautiful champagne colors. [...] The finish of this product is just absolutely incredible and it really creates that glittery finish to the eyes."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"It's much more gentle on your lashes. It feels incredibly lightweight. It kind of has like a little bit of a latex sort of feel to it, so it's a little bit more like flexible, like with your lashes. It doesn't feel crunchy like a waterproof mascara might feel. I'm just over the moon about the way that my lashes look. I can't get over it. I'm probably going to be talking about it for years to come."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"The Swede Lash serum has my lashes so long that they actually get in the way. Now I know the struggle of all the people I envied for many, many years."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I would highly recommend it, I don't know if Blend Bunny still has this palette available, but it is perfection. You're surprised at how much you need it because it has neutrals in here, it's got a lot of really beautiful warm tones, but those pops of color are perfect. [...] I don't ever need to create a palette because this is the one I feel like I would want, [...] this has everything that I need, I love it so much."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I feel like this is a really nice neutrals palette. I just like it. I think it's actually quite nice and we have like a good range. I like the colors she chose. I actually do. This palette has really grown on me. When I first tried it, I was like, yeah, it's really nice, but like it's not like necessary. But now I'm like that's all I'm grabbing."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"Like so gorgeous, lots of taupes, lots of earthy, it's slightly more like on the cool-toned side in general, more like muted and less traditional kind of like nude tones. So we have lots of different variations you can see in this palette. You have the bluest-toned gray that exists in this palette, which is more blue-toned, [...] but it's not too cool-toned in my opinion. It's not like too too blue, and I like that it is involved with all of these kind of like taupey shades."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"First of all, beautiful color. [...] Have you ever seen anything blend out so beautifully? Like a cream eyeshadow blend out into like the most beautiful like sheer wash of even stunning gunmetal. [...] You can also build on top of it. It's not like those [...] cream eyeshadows or eye paints that just thicken up and then you can't build on top of it. This [...] color really spoke to me when I first tried it because it's just like not your typical shade."
✓Yay
Notverified
"Literally any any eyeshadow palette. [...] They blend forever. They're so forgiving. And there's there are formulas for everyone."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I currently use Benefit Precisely My Brow, Benefit Gimme Brow, Benefit Brow Setter, and Anastasia Brow Freeze. Nothing keeps them in place, girl."
✕Nay
64%Guru Score
"I did start using the NYX Micro Brow when I dyed my hair red. And I did think that it was kind of like a wet formula. I didn't notice it like it wasn't something that was like a bad thing for me necessarily."
~Mixed
79%Guru Score
"I've been using this and I actually really like it. It's super tiny, like real nice."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"I've been actually really liking the ColourPop Brow Boss Brow Pencil. [...] I've been using the one that is light brown. It's actually a little bit warm, warmer than I've been used to."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The passionate purple palette is one I haven't really given any love to, because typically these sorts of purples -- with the exception of these two, which are really, really beautiful -- these cooler-toned, sort of grayish purples just don't speak to me. They're not particularly flattering on my warmer, paler skin tone."
✕Nay
62%Guru Score
"I'm using the Huda Beauty Longwear Eye Pencil in very brown. This doesn't have a sharpener, so I'm just [...] rubbing it on the side of a paper towel to sharpen it up. [...] This is a nice creamy coal, so if you mess up, you can sort of like blend it out."
✓Yay
Notverified
"I do like this mascara though. I think this is like brownish black, but that's fine because we have brown eyeshadow on. I like it."
✓Yay
57%Guru Score
"It's the Essence Stay and Play gel liner in the shade Black Raven. [...] It's quite creamy and easy to blend. Because it's waterproof, I can use a blending brush to [...] press it into the lash line to soften that liner. I'm using it as a base for the eyeshadow so I can build on top of it, and because it is waterproof, you can use a brush if you want to move this around a little."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using this Wet N Wild Chameleon Chrome Eyeliner, which I've been wanting to use for a really long time. Wet N Wild, which is awesome, so it's like super affordable. This is in the shade Superstar Suit and it's this really cool chrome liner. It's obviously green, but like it shifts kind of to like a deep blue, like cool toned bluish, like purple, like almost a deep periwinkle, but it has this like really cool green reflect on the top."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the Buxom [...] Lash Extension Lift Mascara and [...] coat all the lashes. As I get to the outer part, I'm going to pull them to the side to make them kind of spiky and angled, which just looks [...] pretty cool with this more angled look."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"I'm probably going to use Lisa Eldridge. This is Night Forest from Lisa Eldridge. It's like a really, really dark green."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I remember loading my eyelashes with as much black mascara as I could possibly fit. Covergirl Lash Blast. I remember the idea that [...] when I did my lower lash line, I liked getting the mascara on my lower lash line because it made the eyeliner look blacker."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It just holds that curl really, really nicely. And [...] I'm also going to be using the Clio Kill Lash Super Proof Long Curling Mascara in the brown one on my lower lashes just because it [...] looks so natural. Since the rest of my face like my base is very natural and the eye is kind of like statement but also soft, [...] I want to use brown just to keep this like a little bit softer on the bottom so that it doesn't bring the eye down."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"Now I'm going into this palette from Dior which is this gorge and picking up this really beautiful kind of like peachy [...] color. Building it up a little bit on the outer part of the lid. And then sort of building up the V shape on the outer part of the eye just to give like a little bit of a wash."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"I'm going in with a little bit of my NARS eye primer on my eyes. I did take a teeny bit of foundation onto my eyelids, so there was like already a little bit of color there. And now I'm just applying this to be a really beautiful like velvety base for my eyeshadow. And then making sure to pat it out and then setting a little bit with some powder."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to grab the Hung Vanngo New Neutral palette, which is the slightly more like neutral of the browns in his collection. And I'm going to pick up this shade right here, which is number one. [...] These are, especially with this brush, pretty pigmented shadows."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I have this palette from Sigma, the Spectrum palette, which is like my favorite nude palette. I use this basically [...] every single time I do my makeup. I love this shade right here, which is called Mohare, and I also really love this shade for beach grass. So I'm going to kind of go between this more like slightly khaki shade, and something a little bit more warm, with like a little bit more orange in it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"For glue, I'm going to be using the Duo brush on [...] lash glue. I feel like this is one of the most accessible lash glues out there. The brush really allows you to be a little bit more precise. So, I like this. It's probably my favorite."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"This is the e.l.f. No Budge cream eyeshadow in sand dune. It's a really, really nice neutral color. It's not too cool toned for my coloring, which is nice. [...] I'm going to use this to create some definition in the eye look, starting in the outer corner, placing it in the outer V. You can do this before your eyeliner or after your eyeliner, it's up to you. I'm going to slowly build up the crease to make it look really natural, just patting it out using the lightest hand possible."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using L'Oreal Telescopic Waterproof. This is in the shade black. And I'm going to really focus this at the base of the lashes and then gently fade it upwards."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This pencil is a little more waxy. It sets relatively quickly. It says it's a gel mechanical liner."
~Mixed
72%Guru Score
"This is my first time trying this brow pencil. It's pretty good. It's not like too too red, but it's a nice tone."
✓Yay
69%Guru Score
"This is the e.l.f. Perfect 10 eyeshadow in Summer Breeze. [...] We have a nice range of warm tones in here. Since I like my highlights to look a little bit more golden and I want to bring out more gold in my look overall because I have a pale warm olive skin tone, I'm going to start off with this color right here, which is like quite ochre."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to use my Charlotte Tilbury [...] Exaggerize Volumizing Mascara, focusing it mostly on the outer corner of the lashes. [...] It's really just to kind of blend the lash into that eyeliner. If you're really trying to go for this, you don't even necessarily need to curl your lashes."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"The formula is stunning, so beautiful, so easy to use, user friendly, and it really packs an impact without being like this insane foil. It's really gorgeous."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It seems like a nice formula. I haven't used it yet but it seems like not too wet, which I always appreciate. [...] I like the split design, it's [...] literally one half of the wand is a comb and one half is a brush, which is intriguing to me. [...] I'm always skeptical of mascaras because of my lashes, but I've been embracing the fact that my lashes just don't hold a curl."
~Mixed
70%Guru Score
"I like it a lot. I like this concept so I'm excited to try these. It looks pretty close to my eye color right now. The neutral deep brown is the one that I liked and they're so nice. [...] The spacing is good. [...] I really appreciate the [...] 4.5 natural deep brown [...] because [...] they've been sending me the wrong brow pencil color for like years now and I just don't use it, but this is a little closer and I think it's going to be nice."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I think it might be my most used eyeshadow palette ever. Just mixing between that brown and that gray, [...] I'm going in and setting and just kind of smudging, adding a little bit more depth, a little bit more [...] softness. The tiniest amounts you can hardly see that I'm even putting anything up there, but I am just the teeniest teeniest amounts slowly building and then buffing into that winged liner, which is just going to soften it a little bit and make it not look too grungy."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm actually really like it. It gave my lashes like length, not like a ton of volume, but I would say mostly length and it lifted them. [...] I'm super surprised by this, very excited about it, and I am hands down purchasing it in black brown. [...] Very impressed by that."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I'm going to use a brown this is Bad Gal Bang from benefit which is in brown again chaos I think the lashes are a little long but I do like them."
~Mixed
73%Guru Score
"I'm going in with L'Oreal Telescopic. Now this is a waterproof mascara, which isn't necessary for this look. I could use a regular mascara, but to be honest all of my drugstore mascaras are waterproof for some reason, so use what works for you."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to go in with the Milani Anti-Gravity Waterproof Mascara. This is a waterproof mascara. I pretty much only use waterproof mascaras that are drugstore. [...] So I'm going to focus at the base of the lashes so that I am not coating the falsies in a bunch of black mascara because I want them to maintain their fluttery tips."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm a fan of putting my falsies on before mascara because once I've curled my lashes and put on mascara it's just like so much harder to see where you're placing things. [...] They give a nice little flutter flare to the eyes without being too much."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going in with this Makeup by Mario palette, I believe this is the Neutrals Mattes palette with my tiny little rougher brush, which is so good for this, and just going over that eyeliner to make sure that it's set and a little bit softened. I don't want anything to look hard or harsh or just like too heavy, which is why I'm working with the browns right now."
✓Yay
91%Guru Score
"I know there's a lot of controversy around the Patrick Ta eyeshadows, I love them. This one in particular, I don't remember the name, but it's just, oh, I can't live without it. It's like the staple of this look."
✓Yay
70%Guru Score
"This is what I wore when I was in London, it is so stunning, this beautiful light caramelly kind of shade. The blendability of these is amazing, it gives you so much blending time which I really appreciate. You can see I'm going back and forth between the eyes, I don't have to rush. I picked up a little too much on this side, I can kind of adjust my brush, bring it over to the other side, blend it out a little bit. These are so blendable, you definitely don't need to do your eyes first."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I just love it so much. I think it's so beautiful. [...] Hat off to you, you know what I mean? Like, Danessa Myricks, her shadows are just gorgeous."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"For lids I'm using this ColourPop eyeliner, [...] gorgeous red, because I knew everything else I was using was going to be very gray toned, [...] so I wanted to include a pop of color that was really going to make my eyes pop. That's why I went in with that kind of burgundy red."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"For my eyeshadow I'm going to be trying once again from L'Oreal the Shadow Sticks, this one is in the shade Twinkling Rose. They're kind of like rounded like this and I'm hoping that they're easy to blend. [...] It feels kind of cooling and then I'm just going to pat it out. [...] I'm just going to be interested to see how it wears."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"I tried this the other day just on its own with no makeup on, and [...] whenever I get a brow setting gel I'm always super skeptical and assume they're not going to work. [...] I tested it on a day when I wasn't wearing any makeup, and this was pretty legit like it glued my hairs. It has a pretty nice and precise little spoolie that is slightly tilted. The [...] formula seems really nice and sticky. [...] I love a super precise spoolie on both sides so that I'm coating every inch of the hair."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I used one of the Hourglass mascaras, the Unlocked Instant Extensions. I think it's a tubing mascara and it really holds. I love it. I got a sample but it's actually pretty good."
✓Yay
66%Guru Score
"Iris and Romeo Lash Up mascara has a thick wand, but it is the most lifting and holding mascara. I love how long it wears."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I want to try the new Glossier Pomade Brow Pencils. I saw someone using them on social. What I like about it is the cap has a sharpener to make the pencil really sharp, which seems helpful. It's a pomade pencil so I feel like it will apply densely which is nice."
~Mixed
78%Guru Score
"For my extra little lift I'm using the little trios from Ardell. I'm using the long and the medium, so I think [...] it's one long and two medium. [...] I'm just focusing it on the very very outer corner to create that kitten lash lift."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"I usually use Urban Decay something sheer close to your skin tone so that the color does not pop too much and you only need a little bit you don't need to build it up a ton."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I'm using the Lisa Eldridge Kitten Flick Liquid Eyeliner, which is really great because it's super tiny. [...] If you hate tight lining but you feel like you need to do it because your lashes end up looking really obvious, this is a really good option because you don't have to completely tight line. You can still see the skin under there."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The formula of this palette is so beautiful. It's kind of like somewhere between a cream and a powder, which is really nice. When I look at it in the pan it looks like slightly more [...] of a neutral, ever so slightly more cool-toned color, but when I start to put it down on my skin it starts to look a little bit more warm."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I just recently received this Dolce & Gabbana palette in the mail and it's perfect. I opened it yesterday and I was like, this is perfection, this is exactly what I need. I'm going to be using this beautiful blue tone. I'm going to probably be mixing in with these pinks to create a custom color. [...] This is the I Dare You palette, multi-finish eye and cheek palette."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I personally over the spoolies of like Brands like Tower 28 and also the give Beauty mascara um I prefer the wand for this mascara"
✕Nay
91%Guru Score
"It is very thickening but it's extremely heavy and wet so if you are like me and you have a problem with your lashes falling flat um not holding a curl or just like you know being weighed down you're not going to like this at all"
✕Nay
64%Guru Score
"Cleo, has Cleo ever done us wrong? No. This mascara absolutely not. It's super proof, long curling. So good. It holds the curl, it defines your lashes. This is always, if I do go in with a second mascara, which I'm going to in this video, this is always my base mascara. Always. So waterproof. [...] I'm going in like quite a bit, I'm not dipping it back into the tube though."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm going to go back against the hairs to make sure that I'm coating everything. I'm going to go up, [...] down, back again, and now that I'm building it up I can feel that it's really starting to get tacky. Now I'm going to start brushing up and out."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"The Velour Brush On, I always put like a little bit of glue on, let it get tacky, let it sit, put a little bit more glue on, let it get tacky. This is like a pretty good one though."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"I have the new Melt Cosmetics palette look at these colors fabulous fantastic stunning gorgeous I love, and [...] these are some pigmented shadows you guys pigmented shadows"
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I recently picked this up because I got to have all of them. [...] These are like [...] really soft powders, and the larger pan is a Pomade. It's weightless velvet Pomade that works for eyes, brows, face, lips, everything."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"I doubt it'll hold my lashes up but I like the wand. [...] The wand for this mascara is very similar to the Benefit one, they even have like the colors, you know what I mean. [...] The Benefit one has like a lot more flexibility in the wand, like there's like a little bit of a give to it which just makes it [...] feel a little bit nicer. This wand is just like a little bit more stiff. It's really good for my lower lashes too. I think I like this mascara."
✓Yay
70%Guru Score
"I'm going to go in with this new NYX Epic Wear liner stick in the shade Frosted Lilac. [...] I'm going to place it in my inner waterline and then drag it onto the lash line a little bit and then just blend it into that brown. It's very convenient when all of my new makeup has the same tones."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This is like a really beautiful, warm, caramelly kind of brown. I'm going to place this all in my waterline and then [...] angle the pencil and kind of go from my waterline, put it against my lash line so that a little bit is getting onto my lash line, and that just kind of closes that gap so that it's not like [...] this weird white stripe in between my waterline and then what I put on my lower lash line."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"For my shadows I'm going to be using the Vieve Essentials palette. [...] This was the first palette that they launched and it's perfect. It's just the most gorgeous warm tones. [...] I opened it and I was like yes, this little section right here is exactly what I want for this look. It's perfect."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I've got this NYX ultimat wait is it ultimate or ultimat I whatever I also talked about that in my Halloween video just any colorful palette is like so it's just so necessary"
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"These little lash segments have a clear band, and they don't have the little knots, which I really hate. I'm just going to use [...] the tens -- just a little something something, nothing crazy -- and then finish with one of the eights on each side."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I went in with one of the Merit cream eyeshadow bases, Ventura, and that's kind of what ended up making me hate the look and stop filming. I like the product, it blends nicely, it's cool and everything, but it just didn't work super well as a base underneath what I was doing."
~Mixed
66%Guru Score
"I'm going to grab the Viseart palette and I'm going to pick up this shade with my finger. I don't know how well you can see, but yeah, can you see the shift in that? It's kind of like a pretty lilac but it has like slightly gold or greenish reflects. I'm just going to pick this up with my finger and [...] pat this from my inner corner of my lid. I want the majority of it there."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Any nude eyeliner is fine but I really have been liking this one. [...] I'm going to place this not in the whole water line but just here, just on the outer corner of the water line and then I'm going to extend it a little bit and I'm just going to use a little tiny brush, kind of like press that into the skin and just fade it so it doesn't look weird. It's such a nice little detail, it just like helps to kind of open up the eyes in a sultry way."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This is my first time trying this new Kosas brow pencil and I really love it. I [...] used the taupe shade to draw in and structure my brow. [...] It's like perfect for the go, the kind of thing that you can just throw in your bag and have for touch-ups or if you're someone who doesn't do their makeup until they get to work or school. [...] It's really really nice. I like it. The color was very very good."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the brown eyeliner from Makeup by Mario, just going to dot it on the outer part. [...] I'm creating a line going straight out rather than it dipping down. I'm going to use a little brush that's in here and pat that into the lash line so I'm not creating a wing, I'm not making it super smoky. I'm literally just kind of defining and deepening that outer part of that lash line and then I'm just going to pat and fade."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the Maybelline Lash Sensational Sky High Mascara, the waterproof one, whatever it's in the shade. It's like brownish black, or something. You can just use black mascara, but I don't know, with bronzy tones I think it's kind of nice."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Iced Mocha, which is kind of the perfect tone especially for someone who's very pale because you can kind of see it actually has a little bit of silver in it. This is like a really nice natural bronzy tone. See how nice that color is."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Since using my Sweed Lash Serum, my lashes are so incredibly long. [...] It's not cheap, but god damn does it work."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I just recently started using the NYX brow tint pen again. I feel like the colors are just so perfect. I used ash brown today, damn good."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using the Lisa Eldridge Fawn Palette. [...] The outside is gorgeous as well. [...] What's so incredible about the Lisa Eldridge palettes is their formulas are so soft that you can really sheer them out. [...] It's like a really beautiful [...] satin like melt into the skin look. And Lisa's formulas are perfect for that."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"For my lower lashes I'm using my Lisa Eldridge mascara. [...] I want definition, I don't want them to be so crazy. This is a very natural mascara."
✓Yay
Notverified
"They didn't hold my lashes and I didn't really like the applicator. [...] I was initially like, 'Oh, I might like this,' but it just didn't work for me. [...] I tried giving it another shot, letting it dry out for a few weeks, [...] but my lashes just don't trust it. I have [...] extremely straight, flat lashes that don't want to hold a curl, [...] so if a mascara can't work on me, it's not going to work on most people. Not a fan of these, unfortunately."
✕Nay
76%Guru Score
"I didn't like how thick it was. It just did not work for me. I really really didn't like it. I found it to be incredibly grippy in a bad way. Like I had a hard time drawing it. And it does have [...] these little bristles that come together, which I usually like, but the problem is there isn't enough, there's like a little too much give to them and so they sort of will form into like a downward shape or an upward shape and then you have to reform them and it can just be really messy."
✕Nay
77%Guru Score
"I received this in PR and these could not be [...] worse colors for my skin tone. [...] I think I've used Buxom shadows in the past and I liked them, they're soft enough, decent, but in terms of my coloring, and I know a lot of people who follow my channel are pale warm olive or at least have some kind of warm olive undertone, this just could not be worse. These colors wash me out completely. I didn't try it, terrible colors, I just wanted to talk about the colors."
✕Nay
75%Guru Score
"This mascara is also waterproof, clump and smudge proof, which is perfect for glowy makeup because I feel like I get a lot of comments from people saying that they're afraid of glowy makeup because their makeup transfers or their mascara will transfer. I've never had that problem with my Clio, and you guys know I love these formulas because my lashes are so straight and they do not hold a curl. Clio is the only one that will hold my lashes up."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I have the new Beauty and the Beast palette. I think I'm going to use some of the mattes from this palette."
✓Yay
Notverified
"A colorful palette, anything any kind of like a colorful Eyeshadow Palette, I think is so important to have because again it's one of those things where you're like, you're doing something and you're like, I never know what I'm gonna need, that's super neon yellow shade, you know what I mean? Or this like atomic orangey red, I don't know, like you just never know. So any colorful palette whether it's matte or shimmer, I like a combo, is I think a must-have, an absolute must-have."
✓Yay
Notverified
Lip53 reviews
"I'm going in with the Huda Beauty Faux Filter, the clear one, just for a simple gloss, since she doesn't seem to have any shimmer on her lips."
✓Yay
Notverified
"I've been obsessed with these juicy balms from Dominique Cosmetics. They are gorgeous. This one is in the shade Kristen, Sparkling Watermelon."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"This is the Buxom Powerline plumping lip liner in Dolly Light. I don't know why it's called plumping, [...] it doesn't [...] spice your lips or anything like that. [...] I'm not the biggest fan of these thicker angled lip liners, but this color is really beautiful."
~Mixed
73%Guru Score
"It's the Limp Ambition Hyalonic Lip Oil from L'Oreal in the shade Nude Lights. [...] It's doing that minty plump thing. I hate that. I'm gonna suffer through it though because I just like we're we're doing a different thing. But yeah, damn. I hate that. I bought that too."
✕Nay
62%Guru Score
"I use it every single day. It's SPF 50. It's amazing. And the best thing is that it doesn't smell or taste like ass. Cuz most SPF lip products smell and taste like ass. This does not. [...] It smells [...] like a funfetti birthday cake. So good. And like we need to take our suncare seriously, so make sure you're using an SPF lip balm. And the fact that it's SPF 50, like are you kidding me? Gorgeous. And it works so nicely with my lipstains."
✓Yay
69%Guru Score
"I'm so obsessed with it. It's my go-to. [...] To be able to have a lip stain that's basically the exact same color as my lips and not too pink and not too red and not too orange is just magic. [...] This shade in particular sells out pretty quickly. [...] The formula is really beautiful and I do like the applicator. Highly recommend it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"So you have the opportunity to be able to like blend it out. Like, if you have ever used the Fenty lip liners once you draw a line, girl, that's not moving. Like, you can't really blend them. At least in my experience, I've struggled with them. Um, so like it's great if that's what you're looking for, but these I feel like have the same amount of like wear time. Like they last as long, but they give you a little bit more like room to work with."
~Mixed
75%Guru Score
"The velvet lipsticks are probably the best velvet matte lipsticks ever. The pigment is unreal. It [...] applies so evenly [...] and it still has this lightweight feeling. It's very difficult to create something [...] that's incredibly pigmented that's also got this beautiful lightweight feeling on the lips. It's not going to overpower the lips or make them feel incredibly dried out. My only criticism is I would like some lighter shades."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"For my lip color, I'm using the Hung Vanngo Creamy Matte Lipstick [...] in Shade 88, just patting it on the lips. It's a matte, which she didn't typically use, but I am going to layer it. I really just wanted this for the tone, so just a little bit of that."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using the Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Liner in Muted Mauve. I think this is going to give like a nice sort of like definition to the lips and be like a good tone for the rest of the lip look."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"The lip lingerie lip liner stains, they're just fantastic. In particular, this color, [...] Barely There. This is actually the second one that I bought. [...] They are so freaking tiny. [...] The precision is insane. When I was a red head, [...] I actually used some of the warmer ones as like fake freckles, like a fake freckle stain. So they're a versatile product. They are obviously meant to be a lip liner, so you can really get that precision. I like using them for that precision."
✓Yay
66%Guru Score
"This is the L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick in Worth It. I'm going to apply it with a brush. [...] This has a little bit more warmth. The stains that we used were a little bit more cool toned, so a little bit more warmth to it, which will be a little more flattering on my skin. [...] Stunning, velvety, beautiful, gonna last."
✓Yay
65%Guru Score
"My two favorites are this and soft nude. I love using soft nude. [...] Soft nude, you can see, is a little bit more, it's a little darker and it's a little more on the brown side. If you don't blend it immediately, like I said, it's a lip [...] stain. It's going to start staining, right? So when I use this, I will do a line and then I will immediately take my fingers and kind of like push it down. My favorite way, however, is to use a tiny little brush. [...] It makes the biggest difference."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"Huda Beauty came out with these lip contouring stains. [...] They are a lip liner stain, similar actually to the Kulfi applicator. You can see it comes to a point, so it gives you a lot more precision when applying. You can kind of trace your cupid's bow as if it were a lip liner and then take your finger and blend it out if you need. This is the lightest one, [...] baby pink, which is obviously pretty sheer, so it's going to be good for lighter skin."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm just going to use a little bit of my Lancôme Lip Glowy Balm. I'm going to apply it with a little brush, [...] focusing in the center and then just patting out. You just want to be careful not to mattify the outer part of the lip. [...] It's going to undo everything that we did. So just be precise about your application. I think focusing it a little bit lower than you would think is helpful."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I love the Rimmel has some of my favorite lip liners. This is in 705 Cappuccino. It's a dark darker kind of like contoury color, but it has a little bit more warmth. It's more cool toned than like my typical lip liner, but it's not like a [...] MAC Stone. MAC is like very very like gray. It's not grayge. It's a little bit more of like a neutraly brown kind of color, with like a little bit of red in there. It's like a little bit reddish purpley toned."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to switch up. I'm going to go into E.L.F. baddest beige. Once again, this is my new favorite lip liner to do the outer perimeter. [...] I'm going to [...] blend that lip liner around the edges to soften it."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I'm going to go over top of that with the Milani [...] Keep It Full Plumping Gloss. This is in the shade Champagne. It's a little caramelly and juicy. It's like a little pink, but once I added this, I feel like it got a little closer. It's pretty."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to try the Millennial lipstick from Merit just because I feel like it will really work for this look. Look at that color. I was a little like, am I going to like this? And then I tried it on and I was like, this is fabulous. This is the shade Millennial. Just focusing it in the center. I don't even really want to blend it into the lip liner as much."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"This blush is gorgeous from Tower 28, so pretty. I'm really really loving these blushes. [...] This one's in the shade Samo Spritz, so pretty, like absolutely just really complimented the ube powder. I [...] wanted to kind of build it up and play with dusting it a little bit on my nose, [...] and then I just wanted to kind of bring that into my crease. It's pretty."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"The Dior one, it's really pretty. This was the shade 220 Beige Couture and I remember seeing some comments from people being like, oh my God, the Dior one was the winner, and it is beautiful. I loved the color, I love the formula. It's pretty matte, it's their velvet formula which is like more on the matte side, but when my lips are not like dead from trying 18 different lipsticks, it's very comfortable. It is comfortable. And it's such a pretty color, [...] just like a beautiful nude."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I loved the color, I love the formula. It's [...] their velvet formula which is like more on the matte side, but when my lips are not dead from trying 18 different lipsticks, it's very comfortable. It is comfortable. And it's such a pretty color, [...] just like a beautiful nude."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"It's nice because it contains some peach, contains some mauve, it contains a little bit of brown but not too much of any of those. It's somewhere in between all of those colors and I like it for my skin tone. [...] I feel like it would make the best impact with a lip liner. I feel like it's a satin and a little lighter. Big fan of this combo."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"Pillow Talk Fair is [...] a little more pink and slightly more saturated. The formula feels a little too light and too pink for me, but it's very pretty when I shear it out. It's nice, and I like it better than I thought. [...] It's actually pretty. I feel [...] like it would be a little bit better for a slightly more cool-toned fair."
~Mixed
84%Guru Score
"It's a pretty color, I don't know if I could. I definitely don't feel like I can wear it without a lip liner. [...] It's a little too matte feeling for my lips. It's a little too opaque in color. I feel like I want something that has like ever so slightly a little bit more luminosity, but it's not bad. I actually think it's kind of pretty if I'm going for like a more warm peachy kind of look, but I might end up just putting a gloss on top."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"For my lips I'm using this liner from Tower 28. [...] This liner was really beautiful but it was a little bit more saturated than what I wanted so I'm really really softening it."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"The formula is so nice. I can't believe how much I was like I'm going to hate this product and it was the complete opposite. I absolutely ended up loving it. [...] There is like a slight tingle, like the slightest tingle, but it's not irritating like a plumping gloss at all. It doesn't hurt, it just feels like a little bit minty."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"I like it a lot. It is very thick. It's pretty sticky, like not so sticky that it's annoying but it's going to stick to the lips. [...] It's very [...] moisturizing. One of my favorite ways to use this is I'll apply a light amount of hyaluronic acid on my lips and then go in with this to kind of trap it, and my lips feel so moisturized afterwards. [...] If you're looking for something that's really thick that's going to stick and stay in place throughout the night, it's nice."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I love this Tower 28 lip gloss as well. I just love those like warm kind of shimmery glosses so I'm just patting that to make sure that everything is hydrated."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"I'm going to take a little bit of Half Magic [...] Magic Drip in VHS Vixen lip gloss [...] and place it in the inner part of my lip because that area just tends to get a little dry, and I want to keep the outer part matte. It just kind of looks like I bit into a juicy fruit. Gorgeous, obsessed."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"NYX Nude Beige lip liner. There are a lot of options but NYX Nude Beige is kind of light, not super dark. Most of the other options are just darker with more opacity and contrast. But this shade works well for me when I apply it with a light hand and blur it out."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"The new Milk Makeup Lip Oils are beautiful. I love layering them on top of bolder pink lipstick."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I don't like the lip liners. I don't like a creamy lip liner. I don't like the tingly feeling. I'm not a fan of that."
✕Nay
66%Guru Score
"This is my Anastasia Beverly Hills one, and it's been my go-to lip liner recently. I used it to shape my lips, and then I rounded them out a little at the top, blending out that lip liner so it's nice and sheer."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I've been using the Dior Addict Lip Maximizer which is a plumping gloss which I didn't know when I got it. I hate the Dior foot, it's awful, [...] they're just like hard and stupid. But [...] I like the color, the color is really nice. I pick up a little bit on the brush and start with the center of the lip where it tends to get drier, then blend it into the lip liner. That's been my go-to lip combo recently."
~Mixed
61%Guru Score
"I don't have allegiance to lip liners, but one day I just [...] reached into my lip liner bucket and pulled this out [...] and it's now my obsession. It's the only lip liner that I've been using. [...] The first time I used it I thought it was too warm or maybe too brown, but it's so good. [...] It works so well with my blush."
✓Yay
93%Guru Score
"Sometimes I'll go in with Mac Stone and just do like just under the lower lip"
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"It's actually a really good lip balm. [...] It stays put, it's not sticky, it smells nice, and I like the little applicator. For the most part it mostly stays on my lips. When I wear it overnight it's not quite as long lasting as Oric in my opinion, but I do wake up in the morning and my lips are not dry, which is what I'm looking for. If [...] you have more access to Sephora, the Tower 28 lip balm is so good. I'm really loving it."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"This is the Lip Treatment, it's the same formula but instead of being in their little pot, it's in a stick form which I love. It's unscented and untinted, so it's just got a little applicator that pops out and then you can just put it on your lips and [...] use the cooling metal applicator to smooth it on. [...] I love it so much. I was really hoping they would do this."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"I'm going to go in with MAC Whirl first to line, line and define."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to [...] line my lips [...] with this ColourPop [...] lip liner in BFF 2, which is a little bit more on the red side than a contour color I would typically use, but it's basically going to be covered up by the liquid lipstick."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I ran out of my Lush Lip Scrub that I always use, my like holiday one that I love. I really need to reup cuz I don't know what to do without a Lip Scrub."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"For my lips I use Aquaphor with SPF, is it like 25 or 30 I can't remember, but you gotta reapply."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"I'm gonna use nude truffle from NYX which is a little bit warm but why not. I feel like it'll complement this lip stain. It just kind of [...] adds that to the lip."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm just gonna go in with Peripera Milky Brown Lip Liner around the edges. That's really pretty. It looks so natural. It's like super comfortable. You can leave it like thicker as like more of a gloss or you can just kind of blot it out and it leaves this really pretty tint on your lips. I love it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I just love this tone so much. It's really beautiful, [...] a more mauvy shade, and if you're looking for something that's really comfy, this is such a beautiful formula. It gives a similar vibe to Merit Baby, though I think it's maybe a little more brown. [...] On my skin tone it gives a '90s vibe to the lips. It's extremely comfortable, but I don't really like it to be so opaque, and [...] you can build the opacity up or dab it on."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I would probably start off with Wherever Walnut from Makeup Forever because it's my go-to fall lip liner. It's a little deeper than my typical spring and summer everyday nude lip liners."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I used MAC Stone to do a little bit of contouring. I'd lost it for about six months because I put it away with my eyebrow pencils."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"The Velura Balm Dewy Lip and Cheek Stick in Cinnamon is a lip and cheek product that [...] gives such a beautiful glow and color. [...] It's not too wet and creates a beautiful glow to the skin. [...] It does not turn orangey on olive skin, which is like a blessing. The texture is not too wet and the formula allows you to hold something to apply it with your fingers or a brush and control the amount. It's a really pretty product that creates a beautiful glow and color."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It's a very pretty color. It looks a little bit like [...] Dancing Rose from Lisa Eldridge, which I love. It's very sheer pearls."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"For lips I use the Hello Sunday [...] Broadspectrum SPF 50. This is a lip balm that is SPF 50 and it is a chemical SPF. [...] It's flavored with strawberry so it doesn't smell horribly like sunscreen, but this is the best one that I've been able to find that is SPF 50. Usually you can only get 35 tops."
✓Yay
Notverified
"I have this super hot orangey Lisa Eldridge liquid lipstick in the shade Dragon."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I've really been loving the Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment. They're just really nice, very very very hydrating. I was super surprised because as you guys know I pretty much only [...] ever wear the Auric lip treatment. [...] This was probably the first time that I used a lip treatment, lip balm, anything like that that didn't dry out my lips and actually hydrated them. I love this and I will not stop using it."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
Blush & Bronzer48 reviews
"I'm using this blush from Patrick Ta, the cream blush, which I think is going to give the same effect but work for my paler skin tone."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"I'm using one of my favorite golden bronzers, Quint from Merit, which is really great for pale people who still want a bit of that warmth [...] and need a slightly more yellow, not orange toned bronzer."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"One of my favorite bronzers is the [...] baked bronzer from Milani, that would really be [...] great for this look. I just wanted this exact color combination so that's what I used instead."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"I want to use the Armani Doulce Blush in shade five. I really like it. [...] This is expensive, but some people [...] pointed out that other popular blushes have more grams in them for the price."
~Mixed
77%Guru Score
"I'm using an expired Etude contour stick, [...] the Reborn Maker in warm shading. [...] The smell is suspect. I'm going to buy a new one at some point, so it's just fine for now."
~Mixed
72%Guru Score
"It blends really nicely and gives a soft matte glow without being too dewy, which I appreciate since a lot of the blushes I've loved recently get oily on my cheeks. Beautiful color, stunning, obsessed, I do like it. I do think $40 for this tiny little product is crazy, but it is Armani so what do you expect. I don't think I'll go through it that quickly, and the packaging is travel friendly, which is nice."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I've been really liking this blush. I think it's really really pretty. [...] The actual blush itself, like the way that it's made, the component really does allow for you to just sort of dab it on, which is nice. So if you're one of those dab it on and go kind of people, it's really good for that."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"In terms of creams, if you're looking for a more olive contour shade, Covergirl Skin Enhancer Balm in the shade Defined is incredible. Like, look at that. It's amazing. If you just hold it next to like where my skin naturally shows shadows, it's like the same color. It's so incredible."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I have recently gone back to this. And this is a really cool toned contour. The thing about it is that it's incredibly pigmented, like real pigmented. So, especially if you are pale, you need a tiny little bit. So, you're it's going to last forever, basically. Like, it truly will last forever. [...] You can see that there's actually a little bit more of like almost a purpley gray to it, which is really nice if you're someone who contour tends to look really orange or red on."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"The OG Luminoso. God, what a throwback. Then they reformulated and it's never been the same. It's still pretty, but it's just not what it was. It's not what it was. So this is just bringing a little bit more of that peach and gold to the cheek, plus that beautiful luminescence. Isn't that so pretty? It's gorgeous. It does have slightly larger golden flecks in it than it used to, but it's still pretty. Oh, that was way too much [...] on my nose. That was a lot."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I'm going to use a cream blush and then reinforce it with a powder. [...] I'm going to use the Milani Cheek Kiss Nude Kiss 110. I think it's better to go in with something a little bit more nude because I'm going to reinforce it with another Milani blush. [...] I want like a cream base. It's a pretty color."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the Physicians Formula Diamond Bronzer. I love this bronzer so much. This is in the shade Bronze Gem. It's really beautiful. It's dirty, so you can tell I like it. There's definitely cat hair in here, so you can really tell I like it. [...] It's a really nice blendy formula."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I just love it. It's so beautiful. This has recently kind of replaced all of my powder highlights. Like, it's the only highlight that I've been using, which is insane. But yeah, it's expensive. Victoria Beckham products are really expensive. I don't feel like I dabble in them very often, but this is a really good, if you've been thinking about it, it is as beautiful as you think it's going to be."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm also using Haus Labs for my bronzer. Nothing new. If you watch my videos, there's nothing new. I've been using all of this stuff recently."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I have the Pomelo Peach. I'm going to use the teeniest amount of peach. [...] This is a really great trick. When I look at her face, it looks like she has maybe like the teeny teeniest bit right here that just sort of blends into her bronzer. Just like that much. Like hardly at all. Just like the slightest color to the face. And that is one of my favorite tricks to muting a blush. Don't forget that you can mix your powder products, too. [...] It's just like little teeny bit of a hue."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the Milani Sunlight Silky Matte Bronzer 01, which is a nice light bronzer, so it's not going to be too much on my skin. [...] I'm doing kind of like a bouncing motion where I'm bouncing this gently against the skin. [...] Just because it's a powder, you can absolutely apply it like this, maintaining that coverage, not dusting anything away and reinforcing that definition and color."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"I really like this as a drugstore option. [...] I really like these formulas, they're very creamy and blendable but they have a little bit more of a matte finish, so if you are a little bit more oily, they're easy to work with, they're easy to blend and they just [...] blend forever, so they're really really soft. It's like this beautiful soft matte. [...] It's a little bit more tan than some of these others."
✓Yay
92%Guru Score
"If you're looking for a matte bronzer that's like similar to Quint but you like you want a powder then this is such a beautiful such a beautiful option i love this is one of my absolute favorites i just think the formula is really gorgeous it has like a luminosity to it without being shiny it's not a shiny bronzer it's definitely a matte finish but it kind of creates a little bit more of a satin look to the skin so if you're oily and you need a powder gorgeous formula it is like it has good pigment so unlike the E.L.F one or the Benefit one you want to just be a little bit careful it can build up quickly if you are very very pale but yeah it's beautiful beautiful i love it"
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"It's very light. [...] This is really really great if you're even more white than me. [...] I would say that I am like pale light pale to light [...] depending on what how brands are categorizing us, but there are definitely people who have pale warm olive skin tones that are even lighter than me and this is going to be a great option for you. [...] It's so soft. [...] It has that really beautiful golden color to it."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"My favorite bronzer recently if you're close to my skin tone is this one from Milani in the shade Sunlight. Gorgeous bronzer. It's a matte, [...] but it's very very silky. It blends beautifully and it creates a really beautiful natural bronzy color on pale skin. [...] It's slightly more on the yellowy side than orange or red, so it's going to work better for someone who has [...] a warm or olive warm olive undertone, which is what I have. So yeah, gorgeous and beautiful formula."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Maybe a dewy balm, like a highlighter kind of situation if you want to add a little bit of something to your skin. Today I'm wearing Haus Labs Balm Highlighter. This is in the shade Glassy Opal. I think it's gorgeous. Like I absolutely love it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Switching over to Anastasia Beverly Hills to do my cheekbones. [...] Somebody told me they're discontinuing Fawn, so if you need to pick it up, pick it up. I don't know if they're just discontinuing the stick in general or if they're coming out with new shades, but I just went and bought two. They're discounted, so get them while you can."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I really love the formula and I hate the color. It's so damn red. I [...] don't know if you're more neutral it'll work for you but I just, I can't use it. I think I'm just too green to be able to get away with it. [...] I want like a real contour because this is supposed to be a liquid contour. The packaging is [...] cute, I always love her packaging."
~Mixed
75%Guru Score
"I like that color, [...] especially for my skin tone being someone who is a yellow olive. [...] It's not too blue toned of a purple. If a purple is too blue toned it looks so bad on me. It needs to be saturated enough and have enough warmth in it, needs to go a little bit closer to a pink, and this has that where it's like [...] a cotton candy when it comes to the purple side. [...] That is really nice. I like that a lot."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I used to use Fenty Amber which is pretty similar"
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I'm going to use a Hindash Luna Gradient Highlighter. It looks so white on camera. I'm going to use the tiniest little amount. One side is like slightly more icy and one side's a little more yellow, but I never remember which side is which and I like them both, so I'm probably just going to mix it together. Just going to dust this on the very top of the cheekbone."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm using the Rare Beauty bronzer stick, which I don't believe is the exact [...] warmest bronzer but it's slightly more neutral for my skin. Looking at her makeup look, [...] it's not like so bronzy because it's just a little softer, everything is a little bit more soft, a little bit more natural, a little bit more like on the neutral side."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I'm going in with this L'Oreal blush. I love these blushes, they're so beautiful, really easy to work with, but I wanted to tone it down a little bit and I started to notice that this was a little too pink."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"The mini Rare Beauty blushes are so cute, like this is a really really cute one. They're so cute, I love them."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"L'Oreal came out with these Lumi liquid blushes that are very very pretty."
✓Yay
69%Guru Score
"I'm wearing their Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly Tint in the shade Burst. [...] It's such a beautiful formula and I love the color. It's really really light so it's perfect for my skin."
✓Yay
53%Guru Score
"A lot of it comes up when you pick it up but it's just so soft and blendy. It just sets that cream so nicely. The powder has a little bit of [...] sheer pearl to it so it just adds a really beautiful reflect. I'm just obsessed with that color. I [...] feel like it's going to be something that I'm using a lot for spring to layer with something a little bit more peachy to give it a little bit more dimension, a little bit more life. I'm [...] really liking the formula, the cream powder combo."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I'm going to use Katie Jane Hughes's KJH Brand Hey Shine Highlight in light gold. She has [...] cream highlights that also come with a gloss, and you can kind of customize the formula. So I'm going to put a little bit of this on the back of my hand, scooping it out with my nail, [...] and then going to put a teeny bit of gloss out. [...] It's somewhere [...] between a serum and a gloss, it's definitely glossy."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I really like these formulas"
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"For my blush, I've just, I can't stop talking about this, it's the Makeup by Mario Soft Pop Plumping Blush Veil in the shade Barely Blushing, just like a nice natural color. I love it. And I just put the butt of my sponge and then I just pop it and since I haven't done my concealer, I'm going to kind of like build it up a little bit extra because that concealer is probably going to go over a bit of it."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"These are some of the most incredible highlighter formulas that have ever existed. They have stood the test of time, they have lasted long past the brand itself. The brand doesn't even exist anymore, but Smashbox thankfully acquired these. [...] If you have been looking for a highlighter that is just perfect, [...] I would recommend Champagne Pop because I just love this color so much. It's amazing. I'm not wearing it today but I wear it in like almost all of my makeup looks."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"I love this blush from Makeup by Mario, absolutely loved it. Just aside, stunning gorgeous color."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm gonna go in with the e.l.f. Halo Glow Contour Wand in Light Medium, which is just like a little bit warmer if you compare to Fair. You want to make sure that your bronzer is going to be like way too orange otherwise this look is just not going to look right. You also want to make sure that you're warming up your skin enough otherwise it will also not look great. I'm going to bring my bronzer up a little higher than where my contour was and I'm going to warm up just this area."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"I'm going to start off with the Halo Glow Beauty Wand from e.l.f. this is in light medium. You can see the difference between Fair light and light medium is much warmer. These are pretty pigmented so don't like apply too much. You really just need some little dabs basically, a little bit goes a long way. So I'm just going to do a little to my forehead, a little up on the top of my cheekbone, do a little bit on my nose. I'm going to blend that out first."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm going to mix Rare Beauty Worth and Virtue. I'll put a little bit of each of those on the back of my hand [...] with just a little pump of my foundation to lighten it a little bit so it's not as intense on my skin tone, and then using my sponge I'm just gonna pick that up, focus that up high on the cheekbone. I want to bring that into my under eye a little bit. [...] I think it complements well. I'm gonna build it up a little bit more using the sponge, blending around the edges. Love it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to use Bespoke from Merit, which is just such a beautiful fall color in general. I like [...] a slightly more balmy blush for the skin because the eye is so matte and heavy, and [...] I want to bring a little hydration to the skin."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"If you don't like the idea of a balmy highlighter, this is probably your best bet because it's a little bit more serummy. It's got less of that like intense glow. I prefer this because of how it looks. I have been loving this ever since I received it. If you have dry skin, I can't imagine you don't absolutely love this product."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I grabbed my Rare Beauty Enlighten Luminizer because I feel like this is a beautiful formula. It's not super wet, it's not particularly heavy, and the pearl in it is definitely glowy, though I mixed it in with a color corrector. It does contain SPF. Used underneath concealer with the color corrector, it makes a beautiful finish and I'm loving it."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"So soft. So soft. So soft. Perfect. Perfect. You barely see anything. So soft."
✓Yay
65%Guru Score
"For blush, I'm going to mix these two colors. I have these little cream putty blushes from e.l.f. I have [...] Bora Bora and Bahamas. [...] I'm going to mix these two together because this is a little too orange and this is a little too pink. One part Bora Bora, two parts Bahamas."
✓Yay
Notverified
"This is the Makeup by Mario Soft Sculpt Bronzer in the shade Fair. It's [...] a more neutrally cool-toned color, beautiful formula. It's really great for people who like a more minimal makeup look, and it's also pretty versatile. They have the pump, which I don't really use often, and they also have the do foot, so it's pretty versatile. I love that kind of thing. Great color for light to pale skin."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
"This right here is one of my favorite powder highlighters. This is the Clio Prism Highlighter in 01 Gold Sheer. The tones are very different, and [...] the Clio highlighter is lighter, I would say. It's not the biggest difference in formula, but there's a huge difference in price point. When it comes to the difference between cheap products and luxury products, there's kind of a curve that happens. Typically with powders and drugstore products, like I said, there's going to be more filler."
✓Yay
Notverified
"This blush color right here is is just like a little too close to a burnt orange to be complimentary on my skin"
✕Nay
75%Guru Score
Other45 reviews
"It's this Pepto pink lipstick, [Rabanne], I just keep coming back to it. This is the famous lip color in the shade Ghosted 310, which is a little too cool toned for this particular look though."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"This is Duraline from Inglot, a great mixing medium for your makeup. It helps things last longer, you can create eyeliner out of powders and such, it has so many different uses."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"I used MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre, which has been my fave."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"Sometimes I forget to use my Sigma Switch and I like reach for a paper towel. I always have a paper towel in case I like spill stuff, [...] but it just doesn't work. It doesn't work as well. This is so good. It's just like this rubber, if you didn't know, it's just this little rubber pad. This [...] just pulls off all that product so you can switch between shades without changing your brush, which is the point of this."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"Curling my lashes with my Shiseido lash curler. I've been loving this lash curler. I start with the middle, then I go into the inner corner of the eye, and then I go to the outer corner of the eye."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"The Oral B brush heads, first of all, they're plastic, wasteful. Second, there are so many components because it is one of those twisting ones for moisture to get into, for water to get into, and no matter how much I dry it pointing down so that water doesn't get up in there, and then I shake out the stupid brush head, it just feels like there's moisture getting caught everywhere. It's like so gross to me. I don't like that."
✕Nay
78%Guru Score
"I like that it's recyclable. I like the idea of that. And it's also quite sleek. I think it's going to be really good for travel. [...] I've been using it every day, twice a day. [...] I like it a lot."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I'm obsessed with this product [...] on the nights when I use a pre-wash bond repair and then I shampoo my hair. I like to use this as my conditioner. [...] It has hyaluronic acid and glycol in it. It's been put on the [...] higher end of deeper conditioning. What I like about this is it's literally called the 8-second Wonder Water, and what you're supposed to do is just put it in your ends and sort of massage it into your hair and then rinse it out after 8 seconds. I'm obsessed with it."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"For the shimmer, I'm so excited about this product. [...] This is the glitter puck from Half Magic. It's so incredible. [...] This is why I didn't want to do like a super opaque base on my lids because this is going to act as like a really gorgeous topper that's going to make the makeup look very lived in. [...] We're not going for precision. This is just going to get sparkle everywhere. We're going for sparkle."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using the cloud paints. I'm going to mix [...] the shade [...] Beam and Wisp because we have like a slightly more peachy and then a slightly more like sort of fuchsia. [...] But I don't want either of these to be like the colors that they are alone. So I just want to mix them together because that's too orange in my opinion."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I'm obsess. I love this so much. It's like I was expecting it to be similar to the Refi ones, but there's actually way more pigment, but it is super blendy. Like it blends really really nicely. So I'll go in with something like this after doing just like a very basic layer of like any of these colors just to do a little bit of definition. [...] You have the option to do this and create a really beautiful finished structured lip that isn't going to go anywhere."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I actually picked up these contour sticks from Haus Labs. I picked up two of them. [...] One's a little more cool toned and one's a little bit more warm. [...] They're pretty pigmented, so just be careful. They're very blendable. This is actually kind of my first time using them. I'm going to focus this up by my hairline to do a little bit of sculpting, and I'm going to utilize the point of the brush to go around my hairline so I'm not getting it all up in my hair."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"This is such a good texture spray. It's really fantastic for just creating like a nice body. You don't need like a ton of it either. You can kind of just like mist it throughout and just kind of like mess it up. And it smells so good. [...] It's kind of like a berry scent, [...] fruity, [...] but not like too sweet."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"This is the Sparkle Stick Eye Crayon in [...] Cloud Skin. I love this so much. This is something you can literally just draw all over your lids and it stays put. It's absolutely stunning. [...] The payoff is incredible and they're so easy to use. The size is so easy to use, I can really get in here into those tricky little areas."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the Tower 28 Multi-Liner Pencil. This is a work of art because it's like it's warmer but it's not too orangey, which is what I want. You can use it [...] to overline your lips, [...] and you can also use it to shade the lip. [...] As I'm lining I'm kind of holding it against my skin flat against the skin so that it's sort of blending into that lip stain. It adds a little bit more dimension."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I have these Impress falsies from Kiss. These are prelued, basically they're for under lash application. And these are the style natural, I believe. The only hesitation I have is I've picked up some other ones of Kiss that are like this, the prestick for under lashes, and they were so bad. Like so bad. They were flaking. Like the glue stuff was flaking off. So we'll see what happens with these if they are any different."
~Mixed
79%Guru Score
"The About Face eye paints are amazing because they're literally [...] meant to be waterproof. So using that and then you can set it with an eyeshadow like you can go in with an eyeshadow on top, but utilizing that for your eyes rather than just using like a powder eyeshadow or your regular old cream eyeshadow."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"That being said, I haven't tried all of the shades. Shades are different, pearl is different, and pearl translates differently, so some of the shades might be a little bit more fine, or some might be a little bit more glittery. So that's something to keep in mind. Personally, I just kind of feel like I could do without it, that's me. After using it once, [...] I don't know if I would reach for this again."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"For my highlights I'm going to be using this Rare Beauty Liquid Luminizer. I love the liquid. [...] I'm going to be placing this in my inner corner and I'm going to be using this kind of like all over the face because especially in this image she has this really beautiful like natural looking glow, it almost looks like sweat you know what I mean, but like in the best way possible it looks like a natural glow."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I didn't have anything for my sink where I wash my face a lot of the time so I like to pat off the nasty LA water and then rehydrate with something that's [...] cleaner. Avène in general is expensive and in comparison to the Bioma, I think I would probably go with my Bioma Mist to be honest with you. [...] I'm just going to kind of hold off and maybe finish it before I decide."
~Mixed
65%Guru Score
"It would have been so much easier to just like pick it up out of a big tub"
✕Nay
66%Guru Score
"The Armani eye tints are really nice, but honestly I don't think that they're worth it compared to the Alisa Eldridge eye, the liquid silks. I just think that like"
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"I believe that is just Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao, just a contour shade. Really really contouring the lips, sticking with those cool tones, you know, fading in a little bit. My typical contour situation, blending blending with a little brush."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I took out a lot of my Danessa Myricks Color Fixes from my kit recently except for very specific shades. They're just real thick. They are very thick."
✕Nay
73%Guru Score
"I use this every single day it's one of my favorite Mists in the entire world"
✓Yay
64%Guru Score
"I have it when I need it."
~Mixed
69%Guru Score
"I have some Curology Emergency spot patch things, hydrocolloid patch patches. I have a bunch of these."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I have some lubby eye drops these are from Sustain Ultra PF because I got laser eye surgery like a year and a half ago or something, so I have some lubby eye drops if I ever get dryness which I really don't but like sometimes I do so just in case."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I have some Floss Picks Scope Floss Picks because I hate traditional floss and it's just easier when you're on the go."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I have good molecules Hydrocolloid Patches. Whichever one I just throw it in here because you always need them. [...] You have the option to just take a single one with you if you're just on the go, so that is nice. It gives you the option."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I happen to have very nice white teeth I'm just trying to maintain so I basically just use them for maintenance. I use them essentially once a month for like 20 minutes just to keep it up, remove stains and stuff. It's just something that I feel like I always need because sometimes there are those days, especially if you're a coffee or tea drinker, you just look in the mirror and you're like, how did it catch up with me. So pick up your Crest Whitening Strips."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm going to buff on top of that this Dior gloss which has been another one that I've been absolutely loving"
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"This is just such a beautiful highlight. I was on Sephora and Sephora Collection is something that I'm always intrigued by because they have some really good products."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I took this pretty much everywhere to be honest because I want a matte base but I also want my face to look healthy and glowing, so we're not trying to look like completely dead. I'm hitting the tip of the chin, Cupid's bow, [...] the tip of the nose, a little bit down the bridge of my nose. I want to make sure that I'm bringing a little bit of life back to the face. [...] It's powder so it's going to be sitting on the face."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I've been using Sensodyne, and it's very very good. It's not just like the regular Sensodyne, it's like something a little bit more specialized because I have sensitivity from clenching."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"It's hypoallergenic, it's clear, it's one of those clear gel type things. It prevents you're not going to sweat, you're not going to smell. The only problem for me is if I use this without using the other one, then I get that waxy feeling and I feel like I cannot remove it. So what I do is I toggle between these two things. If I use this for more than like two nights in a row, it just starts to feel like too thick."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I love the combination of powder on top of the paint, you can do so much more blending. It's one of the reasons that I love using the About Face Fluid Eye Paints as a base for my eyeshadow and then going in with powder because it just creates such gorgeous depth, and the wearability is insane when you do that. [...] They are water-based so they're very lightweight on the skin, and then going in with just some light amounts of powder, they're really comfortable."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"This is one of the Nyx Wonder Sticks, they have dual ended blushes. It was my first time using it but this color was kind of perfect for it. [...] I'm using this stick to just intensify my dark circles, that's one of my favorite things about it. [...] If you're a dark circle girl like me, use them to your advantage. Build on top of that."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I use a little bit of a hyaluronic acid serum from Vichy underneath my eyes"
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"They're felt tipped liners so you guys know but look at that color payoff I thought it was really good. [...] They're not like the most opaque but it's decent pigment and you can like layer them, they draw over each other pretty nicely. [...] It's a nice formula, they're like pretty liquidy but the felt tip is pretty firm so you have a lot of control over it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Something that I've really been struggling with recently is oiliness in my T-zone. I recently used another skin tint that otherwise should be pretty nice, but it just ends up always making my T-zone a little too oily. Luckily, Lisa Eldridge doesn't really do that."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"The Omnia Pillow was specifically designed to prevent sleep wrinkles. It was designed by orthopedists to make sure that you have proper posture while you're sleeping. What's really nice is it has these tiny little grooves in here, so your face just sort of nestles in here while you're sleeping and it just protects the delicate center of your face, especially those under eyes, whereas a typical pillow doesn't have those grooves."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"The L'Oreal True Match Lumi Glotion is [...] a beautiful formula. It's a little bit less thick, a little bit more lotiony feeling, [...] thinner and a little bit more hydrating feeling, and the effect is a lot more natural. It's [...] a very pretty kind of natural sheen. [...] The L'Oreal Glotion is really beautiful. It's lightweight and it's a great first step before foundation. You can mix it in with foundation. I wouldn't recommend putting it on top if you're looking for a highlighter on top."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"These are nice they blend well nothing to really write home about"
~Mixed
74%Guru Score
"It's made with a natural blend of peppermint, lavender, and tonka bean aromatherapy oils to help de-stress and decompress. It's a leak-proof pen. [...] When I would use this is probably like on my way to an event when I'm going by myself and I'm afraid that I'm not going to know anyone and I'm just going to be standing there by myself alone feeling awkward. This would be really good for that."
✓Yay
Notverified
Foundation39 reviews
"I like this foundation for this finish because it has a more medium coverage. It's not too full coverage, and I find it to be relatively responsive to the skin care, like your skin prep. It can be a little bit more luminous or you can satinify it, so I find it to be really beautiful when you want to create a more dimensional makeup look."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I'm using shade number two, which is [...] a little dark and a little orangey for my skin tone, but it works. [...] This foundation really [...] fills the pores, it creates this soft blur effect to the skin, it's pretty incredible. [...] Typically when a foundation claims that I don't believe it, [...] but this one really does. Despite the texture I have [...] going on with my skin right now, [...] it looks so beautiful, so beautifully hydrated."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"The coverage is really nice and seems relatively buildable. I really really love the finish, I'm very happy with my base, it looks beautiful and feels really comfy. But it's the age-old struggle of getting a foundation light enough that's actually my undertone. This one is definitely not light enough and reads orangey yellowy on my skin, so the neutral shade is a bit better than the others but I still don't have a color match for this beautiful finish."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I loved the finish. Problem is my skin congestion prone, acne prone. Heavier matte foundations like this tend to make me break out. And guess what? This one did exactly that. Loved the finish. I loved it. But like at the end of the day, I ended up with two big breakouts that weren't there in the morning. I tested it a couple times and the same thing happened."
~Mixed
69%Guru Score
"I've always kind of struggled with Bare Minerals for their powder foundations, finding a correct color. I feel like it tends to be like too yellow or too orange."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"I thought it was beautiful. It's like a satin matte full coverage, gorgeous. I don't have the proper colors, but it makes me break out. Not horribly, not like with rashes or anything like that, but it just suffocates my skin, and any tiny little breakout I might have is going to be ten times as big when I wash this off at the end of the day. [...] So I avoid the heavier coverage foundations, unfortunately."
~Mixed
76%Guru Score
"I have found that to be the case with a lot of Nars foundations. There are other brands that have also had this problem. I do feel like MAC tends to like lean that way. Even their olive tones tend to be like a little bit too yellow and orange."
✕Nay
75%Guru Score
"This is such a beautiful foundation. It has really really nice coverage and a beautiful finish, but it doesn't feel heavy on the skin. It's the best when you find a full coverage foundation that doesn't feel like it's suffocating your skin. I tend to prefer a more full coverage foundation, especially when I'm breaking out around my temples and my forehead. [...] If I can get a good amount of coverage with the foundation, it makes spot concealing a lot easier. Gorgeous formula."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"Just wanted something light and luminescent. [...] Is this expired? You know when you have a bad pistachio? That's what this smells like. You know how [...] the Revlon foundations and then also like the MAC foundations, they usually smell like paint, like fresh paint. This doesn't smell like that. It smells like a bad pistachio. I think we're going to pivot because I don't want to [...] ruin my face."
✕Nay
71%Guru Score
"I tried with Estee Lauder, L'Oreal Accord Parfait, Missha BB cream. Love Missha BB cream."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"Mineral powders are going to be really good. So, for example, uh I feel like Bare Minerals is kind of like the one that everybody knows about"
✓Yay
69%Guru Score
"MAC Face and Body I think is water-based."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"For my foundation, I'm going to be using the L'Oreal True Match. This was [...] actually a foundation that Nenah called out in a drugstore video where she was shopping for drugstore products. So, this is in the shade W1. I'm putting one pump of this on the back of my hand, and she applied it with her fingers, which I just don't ever do, but I'm going to try."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"Several years ago, I got Too Faced Born This Way Foundation. I got shade matched at the counter. It's my perfect shade and I love the foundation for my combination. I would probably say it's my holy grail foundation. So, one day I just basically started to use it as a concealer instead and I've been doing it ever since as I don't mind my natural skin being shown either."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"Foundation Tarte Face Tape"
~Mixed
55%Guru Score
"I'm not super familiar with the Estée Lauder Futurist Hydro Rescue. So that would be interesting to look into as well."
~Mixed
63%Guru Score
"This is an OG for many people for a reason. It's a beautiful formula. Now if you're someone who's ridiculously oily you probably aren't going to like it. But I will say that it's gorgeous. This is a gorgeous like I would say medium coverage foundation. It is extremely hydrating without being like oily for me at least. As someone who does tend to lean a little bit more oily, I love this foundation for so many reasons. It has like a serum feel and kind of a satiny feel."
✓Yay
67%Guru Score
"The shade warm silk is too dark for me and it's a little bit too orange. That's one of my problems with powder foundations, we have even fewer shades that actually work, especially in studio lighting. [...] The product feels kind of heavy when I first put my finger into it. When I swatched it on my hand, [...] it has a nice satiny finish to it, but it does feel a little heavy. In the area where I swatched it, I feel like it accentuates the lines in my hands."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"I'm intrigued by them. I will say they're okay. [...] O3 is actually like a really decent match, [...] it's just like a little bit on the orange side of yellow. [...] I'm intrigued and I like the idea of a stick tint because so many tints are just like so liquidy and they end up making your skin feel a little too dewy sometimes if you're like more on the oily side, so the idea of having a stick is kind of intriguing to me."
~Mixed
74%Guru Score
"Lisa Eldridge 2.5 is what I have been using from her foundation, which is probably one of my best matches in terms of foundations because it does have a little bit more of that yellow."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I have been mixing the Lisa Eldridge skin tint in the shade T3 with the Sephora Collection Reveal the Real Skin Tint in the shade 120 White Fair."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"How is that supposed to be a tint for pale skin? That's one. How am I, what am I supposed to do with that color? I don't get it. I don't understand it, doesn't make any sense. [...] To be fair, the Summer Fridays one is way closer to my skin tone than this one, but still I just don't understand why we want a skin tint to tint our skin the wrong undertone or the wrong color. I know how that's faster, I don't know how that's better. Doesn't make any sense. I don't get it."
✕Nay
64%Guru Score
"I decided to mix these two foundations, the e.l.f. Foundation and one from Rimmel, to get the correct shade for me. The way I'm going to apply that is with a damp sponge."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It took forever before I replaced the rare Beauty Foundation"
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"If I didn't already have this Foundation I would absolutely be adding this Foundation because I have this Foundation is so good. If you haven't tried it, everything they say about it, the fact that it blurs and provides this incredible coverage, highly recommend. I like the packaging, it's nice and travel friendly, it's nice and lightweight."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"It provides such a really beautiful amount of coverage. [...] It just kind of melts into the skin, it literally just melts into the skin. The coverage is [...] so impressive, I was so impressed when I used it. I [...] used just that little pump that I put out, I haven't picked up any more than that. I'm not layering a ton of product on my face, I'm just making sure that it's well blended and pounced in. [...] It looks so beautiful and it creates such a smooth effect to my skin."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I did really love the Tarte Maracuja Moisturizing Clay BB cream. I stopped using it because the color is not like a fantastic match for me, but the formula is really beautiful for oily skin."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"Estée Lauder Double Wear is actually quite a bit orange. It's not like so orange, it's not as bad as the Makeup Forever one. It's a little bit more of a yellowy orange. It's not completely terrible when you look it next to About Face, but you can definitely see that that orange is really standing out, especially next to the olive foundation."
~Mixed
75%Guru Score
"This Makeup Forever Foundation, I mean are you freaking kidding me, listen [...] I got a lot of problems with makeup forever. This is so incredibly orange, like so incredibly orange. It doesn't have any gold in it, it's just orange, you know, like straight up."
✕Nay
70%Guru Score
"The tone is actually quite nice, it's kind of like a pale yellow. And then we have number 12, which is slightly more on the olive side. I would say maybe ever so slightly too cool toned. [...] This is more neutral and not so orange. When we compare it to Makeup Forever and also the Smashbox, it definitely has [...] way less of that orange in it. So if you are a maybe slightly more cool toned olive that's like fair to light, that would actually be like a pretty decent shade for you."
~Mixed
57%Guru Score
"I've been using the Dior [...] Backstage Foundation, I can't remember the shade I'll link it down below, it's like a pretty yellow one, it's a little bit dark for my skin but it's nice. [...] I like to take my time building up my foundation. I'm not applying too much, you can see there's still like little freckles, I've got little bits, you know, little breakouts here and there. I'm not worried about completely concealing. I would say it's a matte formula."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"For my base, I'm going to start off with the About Face foundation. I've been loving this in general for these kinds of looks where skin really looks like skin. It provides a really good amount of coverage, but it also is very skin-like. It's not like a full coverage foundation, and it doesn't feel heavy on the skin. The [...] only thing that bothers me about this, I wish I had a pump and not a doe foot."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation [...] because [...] it's a soft satin foundation. So it'll maintain flawlessness in the center of the face, but it'll go over that glow, that glowy primer really nicely. The shade 12 Fair Warm is just a little bit on the yellow side, but I'd rather that because I am quite yellow than like orange. This foundation's a little bit light for me. It's pretty light. [...] I usually mix it with other foundations."
✓Yay
91%Guru Score
"It was the only foundation I was wearing for such a long time. This is the skin balancing foundation with hyaluronic acid and adaptogens. It's kind of like a medium full coverage to be completely honest with you. It is really soft, really smoothing. It's meant to like really melt into the skin and mimic skin. It's literally called the skin balancing foundation, so it's supposed to work with your skin with your skin type."
✓Yay
70%Guru Score
"It's definitely full coverage but it's not ridiculously matte. It's a very moisturizing foundation. When they say it has a hydration boost it absolutely does. It feels like a skin care cream when you're blending it out. The finish is a satin hydrating finish. It has a little bit of a scent, just keep that in mind. The formula feels slightly thicker than some other foundations, but the finish is very similar to more expensive options. You can see that hydration in the wear."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"The classic mask fit red cushion is more of a satin formula it provides like a really beautiful amount of coverage and I would say that this is probably the most universal in texture if you're someone like me who tends to be like I would say normal to combination sometimes I have dryness sometimes I have a little bit of oiliness this is one of my favorite formulas because it really adapts to like whatever my skin is going through at the time"
✓Yay
55%Guru Score
"You're not adding moisture with like a damp sponge. [...] It just provides so much beautiful coverage without looking heavy on the skin. My skin still just looks like skin. It feels incredibly lightweight, [...] which is really really nice. It just doesn't feel like you're wearing a ton of makeup when you apply it. [...] 17W French vanilla is like half a shade light for my skin tone, which I kind of love because it means I have to do less highlighting. I can focus more on just concealing."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The Charlotte Tilbury Unreal Skin Foundation Stick is a beautiful highlighter. I don't know how anyone could use it as a foundation. It's labeled as a foundation stick but it's actually a beautiful highlighter. It's like a filter in a stick."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"This foundation is really nice because it has a very natural but buildable finish so if there are certain areas that need more coverage you can focus more coverage in those areas without it feeling heavy. Using the puff [...] allows the formula to do exactly what it's doing without mixing it or manipulating it in any way, so you get a beautiful natural sort of glass skin finish with the foundation."
✓Yay
66%Guru Score
Powder & Setting36 reviews
"I'm using All Nighter Setting Spray real quick, the original. Just buy the original."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"I'm honestly not the biggest fan of finishing powders, I typically feel like I achieve a smooth glowy look without one, but baked finishing powders have a fine amount of pearl that's supposed to create a soft matte glow that blurs the skin. Applying it definitely softened things without making them look mattified, my face looked more smoothed out, and it brought some of the orange down ever so slightly. It does create a pretty finish and skin looks good overall, I'm happy with it."
~Mixed
66%Guru Score
"And by interesting I literally just mean the fact that it's flexible. That is the only thing that's different about it. So I really just kind of am like not impressed. [...] The marketing around it is a little strange too. The idea of having people try things early is cool, [...] but this is not like oh I'm already buying something and I have this add-on. It's pay us $34 to basically make us money so that you can tell us what we should do with this thing."
✕Nay
54%Guru Score
"I have these new Huda Beauty Easy Bake pressed powders. I'm gonna grab the shade cherry blossom cake, this like super pink, light pink shade, and I'm going to just dust it on with like a big blending brush. [...] I'm just [...] going to place this directly underneath my eye to do a little bit of brightening and also just like blending it into that blush. And it's just going to add like a little extra coverage."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"I'm just going to take a little bit of the NYX Mineral Matte Finishing Powder in the shade light medium and [...] gently set above the crease since we went in with concealer, so that blends nice."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"Laura Mercier, the original powder is good for oily skin."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"Translucent setting powder is ultra fine silica based with a blurring finish. [...] If like me you've been using a cornstarch powder and you're like oh, maybe this is breaking me out, in place of cornstarch though, you could use rice based powders. They're typically gentle and they're less likely to feed on bacteria. So if that's something you want, if you love the idea of having a cornstarch powder but now you're worried about it, you could try a rice based powder."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"I like the Milani ones, Milani Make It Last. They have a regular one and then they have a mattifying one, which is just like really nice to have the options. And these are both water-based."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"The Haus Labs blurring powder contains fermented arnica and silica. So if you're going in that direction, like if you're down with silica, that's a really good option."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Cover FX has a talc and cornstarch free powder, the Perfect Setting Powder."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to use my L'Oreal Infallible Blur Perfection Powder in the shade 20 Translucent Light. [...] I'm going to start underneath my eyes and [...] focus this in all the areas where I tend to get a little oily, so just around my nose, basically the T-zone, making sure to set anything that might move. This is such a nice powder because it has kind of like a soft luminosity to it."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"I'm using the one from About Face because I basically just always get creasing in here, this little area of my eye. As I get older it just becomes heavier and it just creases, so this is going to set my lids."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I also do this with the MAC Fix+ Setting Spray. [...] This is also really great for this."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"I'm going to set it using the Easy Bake Setting Spray from Huda Beauty."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I'm going in and setting that a little bit with a powder, underneath the eyes. It's the same powder, Huda Beauty Easy Bake. Love it."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"I love this so much. This might actually be my favorite Fenty product that's launched in a long time, and I know it's just a makeup mist, but it's so good. First of all, [...] I like it. It goes with everything in the line. This is the makeup extending setting spray, you may have heard me talk about it."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"It's meant for deeper olive skin tones, it's not meant for pale olive people, but I still liked it. I still thought it was fun. It blended into the blush. [...] I used a little bit of this, like a little bit more in my contour, so I combined the two and I really love the way the colors look. They're really, really pretty."
~Mixed
62%Guru Score
"I'm skeptical although upon swatching they do appear pretty sheer and the formula seems nice. [...] The kimchi powder was pretty matte and I do like the fact that these have like a little bit of that Pearl. It feels very soft and satiny and I do appreciate that. I just [...] wish there was one more color that was lighter than these."
~Mixed
73%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using the d'Alba Setting Mist Spray Serum. [...] I really wanted the skin to look like skin, which is why I'm doing this. I put a little bit extra effort into making it look like skin today using this."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm personally not a finishing powder kind of person but what I like about it is I kind of feel like it helps to blend everything together, so like the color variations throughout the face. It's not [...] necessary but I do feel like it adds this really nice soft smooth transition between everything. The powder itself is supposed to be very light reflective but soft and blurring, so it just adds a little extra."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"I'm going in with the L'Oreal Infallible 3-Second Setting Mist to set my face, nice fixing spray to make sure everything stays in place."
✓Yay
60%Guru Score
"I'm adding a little bit of the e.l.f. setting spray to just kind of rehydrate, which really, it's one of my favorite tips for making your makeup like sink into the skin and stay put."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"The formula is so nice um the scrubby things were gentle enough not to hurt my scalp"
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The new Tower 28 powders really really nice. I've been it's been one of my go-to for like setting my face. In terms of like setting powders I really really like it for like the whole face. I have the shade Pink Palisades, they make it look way more pink online it's very neutral."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm going to go in with a teeny bit of the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Powder, this is the white one, just to do a little gentle brightening. I feel like I lost a little bit of the brightening when I applied that powder. I'm not placing it on my dark circles, I'm just placing it underneath, just right here, just to kind of brighten and bring focus back to around the eyes."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"I use the LH setting mist. I love that one, I need another one."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"I'm going to go in and set my face with my [Givenchy] powder which is my absolute favorite. It's just so good, so blurring around my nose."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"Next up, Milk, the setting spray. This is the Pore Eclipse setting spray. I'm obsessed with this setting spray. I got to a point in my makeup where I would do everything as usual, and when I went in with my setting sprays, any of them, which were usually All Nighter."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I have this little deep depotted thing from Danessa Myricks, it's the Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder. [...] I'm just mixing my own little concoction of brightening, just added a little bit of the balm, and I'm doing a little extra highlighting in certain areas, mostly just in the center of the face because I personally like the way that looks."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I really don't get the powder that I use. The easy bake setting powder is so drying, so drying. It's not a good look."
✕Nay
62%Guru Score
"I just never use it. It's just like a little bit too shimmery for me."
✕Nay
64%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using this powder from Huda Beauty, this is the Sugar Cookie Powder. [...] It's stark white and it's such a good setting powder. I always use it for Halloween looks. [...] I'm using this to essentially set my whole face. [...] It doesn't smell amazing, [...] but if you have a fresh one it's a good powder."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"Oh my god, I forgot how much I liked this powder. [...] It has such a nice luminosity to it. It's smoothing, but it has that fine pearl, so it doesn't look heavy on the skin. It gives this slight reflect."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"It keeps your skin looking pretty and it adds a little bit of hydration, but it's not going to make you look wet. [...] I'm going to use the e.l.f. one simply because my skin is pretty matte and it looks very flawless, but I do want to bring just a little bit of hydration back."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"Another thing that it's really great for is [...] if you're someone who happens to rest your hand on your chin when you're at work and it's like an absent-minded thing you can't get yourself to stop, hitting underneath or say you do it to your cheek, hitting your cheek with a little bit of fixing spray is really going to help keep that stuff right in place. You don't have to use it all the time, I don't use it all the time, but when I really need to I do and they are a game changer."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"I do really like the setting spray. It's definitely matte, like if you're looking for a nice setting spray that's affordable, you know, it's NYX. The only thing about it is that it's heavily scented, they smell like [...] marshmallow or kind of a cotton candy scent, they are very scented, so if you're super sensitive to that kind of thing you might not like it. But the sweet scent doesn't bother me."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
Concealer27 reviews
"I'm using my Rare Beauty Concealer in 100W, the lightest. It's this nice pale yellow shade, which I personally, for my skin tone, really love. A more yellow concealer for brightening, especially underneath my eyes."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"I want to use like a relatively full coverage concealer. This one got a little bit thick. I'm going to go in with my Haus Labs concealer [...] in the shade 01 Fair Neutral. I don't want to use like way too much of it, but I do want like a decent amount because I'm also going to use this to kind of help carve the brow."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"These are the Illusionist Skin Focused Concealers from About Face. I do really like their packaging. [...] About Face already proved to me that they were creating beautiful olive tones when they launched their initial foundation. They do have some really beautiful olive tones, like true olive tones. The one that I've been using is F2 Olive, which is quite nice. It's maybe like a shade half a shade dark for my skin, and it's ever so slightly more on the neutral olive side."
✓Yay
60%Guru Score
"This is the shade 21. It's like a little bit peachy but it's really [...] light. It's kind of replaced my [Haus Labs] concealer. [...] There's just a little bit more peach in the Live Tinted one. [...] The Live Tinted formula is a little bit more like lightweight feeling on the skin. I've been really loving it for like highlighting areas of the face, using it underneath my eyes, forehead, chin, a little bit around my nose. [...] It's not the most full coverage concealer in the entire world."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"You know what worked really nicely actually in my Anathaway tutorial was mixing my LA Girl concealer with my e.l.f. concealer."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I knew I was going to like it. Gabby was really talking it up and she knows how I am with concealer, she knows my dark circles, so I assumed I would like it. I really like that concealer formula. My complexion looks nice."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm trying this new, well not new, it's the Natasha Denona concealer and I haven't used this in a really really long time so I kind of wanted to give it a shot. It's a beautiful concealer, great coverage. I really liked this color."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"The elf camo concealers are very similar to the Tarte concealers however the shade range is very weird. [...] That's something to keep in mind if you are someone who has a niche that you're looking for that is very difficult to find, you may need to spend a little bit more to find the correct product."
✓Yay
66%Guru Score
"I'm using Merit concealer, the lightest shade. I have all of my base products on except for coverage and I've been using this as my spot conceal and I love it. My shade is 10. It took me several tries to get my correct shade, but I love it."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
"This is more of like an 'I'm not putting any other makeup on, I just woke up with under eye circles or I have a lot of redness or whatever and I just need to look a little less like dead' kind of product. This is what I use it for because it is like hydrating on its own. I don't feel like I need a whole lot of skin prep for it. And because it's a pen, I can just go under my eyes, around my nose, a little bit of my forehead, and then just blend it out with my fingers."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"This is one of my favorite concealers because it [...] works really nicely [...] with the yellow in my skin. [...] It has a decent yellowy tone, maybe a little bit more neutral with a teeny bit of peach in it that works nicely with my skin."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"Fenty, this is the shade 120N, okay lots of peach, okay nice, fair shade but very very very peach."
✕Nay
75%Guru Score
"It's described as a yellow concealer that's supposed to neutralize purpley under eye circles. [...] That's why I purchased it in the first place. [...] The sponge is disintegrating on my face. That's nasty."
✕Nay
70%Guru Score
"The formula is very lightweight and hydrating, so if that's something you're looking for, I like the formula personally. [...] It is a little dark for me personally, and it definitely looks like a slightly more cool-toned olive upon first swatch. [...] It almost disappeared into my face, which is definitely olive."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
"This one is in the shade Fair. It's very fair, definitely some yellow in it, [...] ever so slightly more neutral than the [Haus Labs] one that was super yellow. [...] It's definitely got quite a bit of yellow in it compared to Nick's Fair. Nick's Fair is looking much more neutral."
~Mixed
68%Guru Score
"I'm going in with the Huda Beauty peach color corrector, just like the teeniest little bit underneath her eye, just in this little section right here. You really don't [...] need a color corrector, but especially if you're going to be doing bridal makeup, you want everything to look as perfect as possible."
✓Yay
Notverified
"I'm going in with Armani Luminous Silk Concealer in 5.5 to conceal and brighten. [...] I'm basically just going in and doing like pretty light amounts, light layers, [...] because especially for bridal you want to make sure that your products are lasting. If you're using small amounts of everything it's just a lot easier to build up the look that you want without overwhelming the skin. [...] You really take your time blending, lots and lots of time. It's [...] all about the blending."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"One of my favorite absolute favorite everyday like no makeup makeup kind of concealers"
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"I'm using this concealer from Tower 28 that is a little bit lighter and I'm going over top of that and then I'm starting to blend that more into the rest of my skin. [...] You can definitely go back in to build up. [...] It works for what I was doing."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"I have the elf Camo Color Corrector, [...] the green one. [...] You really don't want to use too much of a color corrector down because if you put too much and then you try to go over with coverage on top they just kind of end up mixing together and it doesn't look very good. You want it to be right in the super red area. [...] I'm gently patting it to make sure I'm not removing that green too much where I want the majority of the coverage."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to do a little bit of spot concealing using the Bare With Me Serum Concealer from NYX. Light is a little closer to my skin tone. I'm just going to put this in areas where I have some redness, and I'll conceal underneath my eyes."
~Mixed
77%Guru Score
"For concealer, I'm starting off by color correcting with my Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in the shade Nougatine, which is this really beautiful yellowy peach shade."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"For my under eyes, I'm using Huda Beauty concealer in the shade marshmallow, which I believe is their lightest concealer shade. It's a nice full coverage concealer, and I just think it's going to look good with this overall tone."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I'm going to use Kosas Reveal [...] Concealer [...] in 0.5N, which is just like a nice close match to my skin tone. It's not exact, but it's very, very close."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"This is the CoverGirl TruBlend Undercover Concealer in the shade Fair Porcelain. [...] This is a beautiful dark circle concealer. Like, very full coverage. So I don't need a lot. [...] You're going to be amazed at how much product you save."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"The pinpoint pencils are fabulous. I love that they're very very creamy and soft and they give you the option to like [...] draw in a section, blend out with your finger, and then you can use the point to really really pinpoint. Isn't that so nice?"
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"One of the ones that I really like as in terms of green color corrector because I don't have a ton of redness in my skin is the Givenchy Prism Libre Skin Caring Concealer. This is really great, their color correctors are really nice because they're super hydrating and they're pretty lightweight. They're not a full coverage color corrector so if you're looking for something full coverage this isn't necessarily for you but if you're looking for something a little more sheer, it's perfect for that."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
Moisturizers20 reviews
"It's funny, I'll use it, finish it, and move on to something else, but I always end up repurchasing it because one use, like if my barrier is ever in a state of disrepair, then I use it one night, the next morning my skin is so supple and soft. It really is just one of those products that I'm like, I need to have this for those times. [...] I don't like using it many times in a row because I feel like it's a little too moisturizing. But when I really need it to come in clutch, it does."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"This is an oldie. This is a callback for OG makeup people. The Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. This is basically an ointment. But this has been used in the industry for years to create a glossy effect on every area of the face, body, whatever. I just wanted to use a throwback."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"It's fantastic. I love it. It is scented, which is so annoying. Avène, please, someday, will you please come out with a non-scented one. It doesn't bother me, but it's just so unnecessary. Avène's expensive, but it's really, really good. I don't really use it all the time anymore. I was using it way too often before and now I just save it for like those moments where I really, really need it. So, I feel like it's justified."
✓Yay
70%Guru Score
"I prepped my face with my Tatcha Water Cream and kind of regret that just so you know. I feel like it made my skin a little too dewy."
✕Nay
78%Guru Score
"The Outset Nourishing Squalane Daily Moisturizer is probably one of my new favorite really moisturizing moisturizers. It's very moisturizing because it's got the squalane oil but it is not greasy, it's not too heavy. A little bit goes a long way which is nice, but it doesn't make your skin look like it's dripping. [...] This is actually my favorite moisturizer to prep my skin for makeup. I like to use their collagen [...] serum and then this moisturizer and then I do my makeup."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I usually use Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream for my moisturizer. I love it, it's my favorite daytime moisturizer. It's perfect, it's simple, there's nothing in it. It's moisturizing without being too heavy. It doesn't leave me looking oily or too shiny or anything."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"From COSRX I really liked this, I liked it a lot. [...] It contains allantoin, probiotics, and a ceramides complex. It was very creamy. [...] I had been going through this long period of healing my dehydrated skin and this really really helped. I actually really liked this formula. [...] I felt like it lasted long enough and had a decent shelf life. [...] I just absolutely loved the formula."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"This has been my um skin care like prep this is what I used to prep earlier uh CA RX the outset I'm going to go in with a teeny bit more oh well teeny bit two more pumps of the outset moisturizer cuz my skin had been pretty dry"
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I have two of the First Aid Beauty [...] Ultra Repair Creams which I use as a body moisturizer because it's nice and hydrating but also lightweight. [...] I just always pack these for body moisturizer because it works for me."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"I got the 20 oz one in cream. I don't like plastic straws so I use my glass straws, but it comes with a straw anyway. I love it. It does keep your beverages very cold, which is fantastic. I like that I can fill it up with cold water at night when I go to bed, and in the middle of the night when I wake up and I'm thirsty, it's still cold. I love that. They're really durable, which is nice, and machine washable."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"I use both of them. I usually use the water cream all over my face as my moisturizer and then I'll use the Dewy Cream sometimes like as a second layer, depends on how dry my skin has been, but at the very least I will focus that in more dry areas. I also always super hydrate underneath my eyes because obviously you can see dark circles, that's where I need a lot of coverage. So all the areas I need a lot of coverage and dry areas I want to make sure that they are sufficiently moisturized."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I use the Summer Fridays Cloud Dew oil-free gel cream, this has been my kind of like daily moisturizer recently."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I just did my Bioma hydrating mist or balancing face mist and then my CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion. It's pretty much been what I do to prep my skin for everything."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
"If I have exfoliated I use something a little bit more moisturizing. That's what I use. And it's just really great. I love it. What I love about this in terms of barrier creams is most of the time they're very very heavy. And this isn't, it's not super heavy. It is very moisturizing but it has a more lightweight feel on the skin. So if you're someone who's congestion prone or if you just don't like to feel super oily, this is really, really, really good."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"So it's ceramides, it's hydrating, it brightens. But it also like I believe rice is also great for oil control, which sometimes I can tend to get a little bit oily. [...] So one of the reasons that I suggest a mist is because I've always found that going in with something like that, [...] something really lightweight and watery, helps all of the other products absorb. Because if you have product just sitting on the top of your skin, stuff's going to slide around."
✓Yay
Notverified
"This is a moisturizer that I really like. This is from The Inkey List. This is the Omega Water Cream. You want to look for ingredients that have water first. [...] A water cream is going to be really good."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"I've been using the nine ingredient face moisturizer. This is the D41 from Typology. I have a few different moisturizers that I'm going between right now, but I've really been liking this one. Very simple. I probably used somewhere between a [...] large pea and a dime sized amount for my whole face."
✓Yay
Notverified
"This is the Medik8 Advanced Night Ceramide Cream, which is what I'm using currently with my Tran fabulous. It's expensive, not a cheap brand, but it's really great."
✓Yay
65%Guru Score
"I had been using this as my moisturizer with my Tretinoin on the nights of my Tretinoin because I needed something that was going to be a little bit more thick, a little more moisturizing on those nights because I was dealing with dehydrated skin. [...] Since I've healed finally my dehydrated skin I kind of don't need it anymore regardless."
✓Yay
91%Guru Score
"I've been using this Verso Dew Point moisturizing gel as a primer. It's just a moisturizer, but I've really been liking it as a primer just because it's like a lightweight hydration and it gives me a kind of a nice grippy base."
✓Yay
69%Guru Score
Sunscreen20 reviews
"The formula is just a little too oily for my skin. [...] The color is not quite there either. If you are someone who is more dry, you're probably going to love it. But if you're like me and you tend to get very oily in your T-zone, I would skip it. I want to love it, but it's just not quite there. If CL extended their range [...] to include more olive tones, I think I might be obsessed with them because I love their whole ethos. But [...] personally I would skip it."
✕Nay
80%Guru Score
"Sunscreen, uh, E.L.F. sun-touchable invisible stick"
~Mixed
76%Guru Score
"This I would say is very similar. Has the same kind of tint. So, it has that dark tinge to it for my skin tone, but if you like this kind of formula, the tint would be great for you. It is a very liquidy formula. Uh so, it's a little bit difficult to control in my opinion. I'm not like wild about really watery formulas."
~Mixed
67%Guru Score
"I just again cannot tolerate the ingredients and um yeah, I just can't tolerate the ingredients. I can't. They just they sting my eyes like crazy."
✕Nay
65%Guru Score
"This is a foundation that will always be in my collection. It's very full coverage. It's described as a serum, but it's got a pretty mousse texture. The mousse is so lightweight. When I start to blend it out, it feels like a lightweight, creamy mousse. Sometimes with a full coverage foundation you have a heavy feel and it just sits on the skin. This one sinks into the skin and doesn't feel that way. This has a very lightweight feel. Again, the color is not completely perfect."
✓Yay
66%Guru Score
"It creates a flawless base for your makeup and it stays put all day. When they say 24-hour wear, they mean it. The main reason it's described as a matte foundation with oil control is that it absolutely just stays looking exactly the way you applied it all day long. This is the foundation that I brought with me when I went to London because I knew I was going to be having long days. When I know that I need something to last and perform, this is the foundation that I choose."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"That and Haru Haru black rice sunscreen are my faves"
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"The second it got near my eyes it stung like crazy. So if you're someone who's really really really sensitive to sunscreens and you've been curious I would not recommend it. It is extremely hydrating, like it gives a shine, like it really gives a shine, but the eye stinging is a dealbreaker for me. I would recommend the Sun Relief sunscreen over this any day."
✕Nay
66%Guru Score
"I bought one like a long time ago and it smelled rancid. I think I got [...] a bad batch or something. I heard from some other people who had that problem as well, and then I tried it later on and it didn't have that scent, so I'm pretty sure I got a really bad batch. But I [...] have a complicated relationship with skin tint to be honest with you."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"This is a great sunscreen, it's super lightweight, absorbs quickly. It's my go-to summer sunscreen because a sunscreen that is sitting on top of my skin, there is nothing worse than that, especially on my body. If I go to cross my legs and they are sticky, nah. So yeah, it's very good if that's the kind of thing that disgusts you like it does me."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"I picked this up because I was getting really low on those other ones. [...] It's water resistant, so when you first put it on you can feel it a little bit and it does kind of dry down, but it makes it dries out my skin like crazy, especially the SPF 70. And anywhere where your skin creases, like in your elbows, you'll see white start to build up. So if I had to choose between this and this, I wouldn't recommend this, but I have it now so [...] I'm going to use it."
✕Nay
67%Guru Score
"Nivea has a really great sunscreen as well, very similar formulas."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It's SPF 50 and it's such a nice lightweight sunscreen. It is a chemical sunscreen called the UV Moisture Gel and it's super lightweight, it absorbs quickly. There's nothing worse for me than putting sunscreen on my body and being able to feel it, [...] so this is one of my faves."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"It's Tower 28 sunscreen. I wanted to love it. They have like a bunch of different colors and [...] I just don't like it. It's really disappointing. Not to call them out directly, I love a lot of their products, but I just really wanted to love this and didn't."
✕Nay
64%Guru Score
"For concealer I've just really been liking this one from Luna. I got it when I was in Japan, it's a Korean concealer and I really like it and it's got SPF and that's like really exciting."
✓Yay
71%Guru Score
"This is a really good sunscreen. It's SPF 30, it's mineral, it's Neutrogena, it's tinted, and they have like various shades which is nice as well. I do like it as a foundation replacement. This is also a very moisturizing formula. It adds a little bit of a tint, nothing too crazy, but for summertime and like bronzy skin I really like that, just like a nice sheer coverage that's comfortable."
✓Yay
88%Guru Score
"I have four Haruharu Wonder Black Rice sunscreens. I've talked about this already. I like it. It's very good. It's my daytime sunscreen that I use like all the time. The only thing is that like one day it just started peeling on me when I do makeup. So I don't use it underneath makeup. I use something else. But [...] I use them like on my regular days when I'm not wearing makeup. So it is very good."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The Round Lab Birch Juice, the filters do not sting my eyes, which is fantastic. This is slightly more of a dry formula, [...] it's a little bit more [...] lightweight, like it has a little bit more of that sort of milky, whipped milk sort of texture to it. And this is what I like to use underneath my makeup. So, this does not peel on me, which is fantastic, and it doesn't sting my eyes."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"Marshmallow Primer. Love that primer."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"This is a very beautiful, like velvety matte finish. The only problem is that I recently have been dealing with pilling with it. And I don't know why, just like happened one day. Um, and it doesn't matter what I'm wearing under it. Doesn't matter if I'm wearing nothing underneath it, it peels. It's very frustrating, especially as a person who wears makeup."
~Mixed
82%Guru Score
Body & Tan18 reviews
"This smells really bad. It smells so bad. Like really bad. I mean, it's not like horrible, but it like it smells bad. Like lactic acid just doesn't smell good. [...] It has that like chemically like almost sulfuric like I just got some on my nose scent to it. [...] The formula is like nice enough. It's like it's kind of like a gel somewhere between like a gel and a cream moisturizer. So, it glides really nicely on the skin. [...] It's described as non-greasy and lightweight."
~Mixed
77%Guru Score
"This Skinfix eczema cream is just like a hand lotion, but it's specifically for eczema. It's a really good hand cream. It's very, very moisturizing. I keep it in [...] a little tray on our coffee table with all the random stuff that we use all the time. I keep this in there to moisturize my hands, which have been a lot better since I switched out my hand soap. This is fantastic if you have very very dry hands, especially in the winter time with cold and dry air."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It's so fragrant. [...] The fragrance is so heavy. [...] I think it's so unnecessary and it actually bothered me how fragrant it was. [...] If you feel like something cute like this would help you to actually apply retinol to your hands, then maybe it's worth it. That's what I thought. But it's just not."
✕Nay
65%Guru Score
"It's a very lightweight formula. It absorbs quickly. [...] It glides on the skin, so you don't have to apply a ton of it to make it move around the skin, which is really nice. [...] It does have kind of a medium strong scent, [...] so if you're very sensitive to scents, maybe you wouldn't like it, but I [...] would rather an unscented version. It's very moisturizing. [...] It's a dream. It's an absolute dream. [...] It was relatively affordable."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"It smells so good. I've talked about it a million times. It's one of my favorite shower gels. I typically just use the Bioderma one for daily, but I like to use this a couple times a week, especially if I am too lazy to moisturize my whole body because sometimes it happens. And this just leaves your skin feeling so soft and moisturized. It's really really great. And it has a really nice clean almondy scent."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"It contains dimethicone, 1.2%. I have a difficult time with any kind of skincare product that contains silicone or some kind of a cone in it. It can be really, really great, it's a great ingredient, it's great for skin, especially for people who tend to be a little bit more on the oily side but need that hydration. However, the combination of the cone in the Aveeno moisturizer and the E.L.F. Power Grip Primer to me sounds like a bad combo. It feels like that's where we're going wrong."
✕Nay
75%Guru Score
"I got this from Josie Maran, this is the Pink Algae Pro-Retinol Body Butter. [...] I do use retinol on my face so this is the kind of thing I'll use on my hands whenever a brand sends me like a retinol serum. [...] I just ran out of all of my retinol body cream so I was like oh this is perfect. It does have kind of a funky smell, it's a little bit of a pinkish color. I'm going to be trying this, I'm interested, I'll keep you posted."
~Mixed
69%Guru Score
"Anyway, it's nice, I like it. [...] It's expensive, definitely more expensive than the Gold Bond one. It is very moisturizing, so I don't know if it's my favorite because I liked the Gold Bond one, it absorbed nicely, it felt very buttery, it felt moisturizing without feeling heavy. This feels a little bit heavier, it kind of sits on the top layer of the skin."
~Mixed
74%Guru Score
"This one's a little bit more rich and I'm not as wild about the scent of it. [...] There's [...] like an old person baby powder kind of scent to it, but the formula is really nice. [...] I've gone through a few bottles of this and [...] I continue to purchase it because I like the formula, but the scent really really bothers me. It's a little bit weird. If you are very sensitive to scents you might want to skip it."
~Mixed
77%Guru Score
"It's kind of horrible, I kind of hate [...] this product. That being said, I do feel like it works, the glycolic acid definitely does exfoliate my skin nicely, but the formula is just so gross that I can't. [...] I have one more squeeze tube left of it, I'm going to finish it up, but I don't like it, it smells terrible and it pills, and I would not recommend it, to be honest with you."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"The scrubbies in it, [...] it's just a little too harsh for my skin. It's very easy to overdo it and end up actually scratching yourself, especially in more sensitive areas like around your underarms. And it's less of a cream sort of formula, so it balls up and falls off the skin pretty easily. It has 10% AHA, it's fine, but it's not my first choice. I much prefer the Narium one."
✕Nay
69%Guru Score
"It's also super gentle, very very gentle. I can use it on my neck which is a very sensitive area of the skin. It's also very lightweight, so there's nothing heavy about it. It absorbs nicely. You can apply it in the summertime and be wearing shorts and to bed or whatever and not feel like all sticky and gross. It's just overall a really great formula. I've been really enjoying it. For now this is my go-to. I also have this on a subscribe and save."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"I also really like the mist from Aesop. It honestly smells kind of milky, just a little something to rehydrate my skin because I live in LA and the water here sucks. That's basically the only reason that I use it."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I tried using Lumi, this is the Whole Body Deodorant for pits privates and beyond. It's majority mandelic acid, which basically gently exfoliates your skin and prevents bacteria from growing that causes odor. Why I love this is it helps to neutralize odors and exfoliate that area, which makes your underarms look so nice and smooth. But it will not prevent you from sweating. It just helps to kind of neutralize odors and exfoliate that area. The only problem is it doesn't prevent sweating."
~Mixed
74%Guru Score
"I'm so obsessed with it. I love the packaging. These are refillable, and [...] in particular, the Vanilla Vibes scent. I'm so obsessed with it. [...] It's just vanilla, but it's so nice and it's so moisturizing. You don't need to use a lot because there is that argan oil. [...] I love it and it's such a comforting scent. It's exactly the scent that I want, especially in the winter time. [...] Also, the original signature scent of Josie Maran is delicious. So delicious."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
"Musky vanilla Play-Doh. But it's nice. I like it a lot. And I like that it's a stick. It's creamy enough, but like the other ones were squeeze tubes and you had to rub them in. And I just like so much more convenient to just like roll on a stick. [...] I use this most often and it's so good. Like it's so good. [...] The Play-Doh maybe doesn't sound so great but it does have a really nice scent and the scent overall it just like works with all my perfumes which I really appreciate."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I just stopped completely. It has to be the lotion because I had these patches all over me, on my hand, my wrist, my arm, my chest, my back, the back of my right leg, all around my ankle, the back of my calf, on the back of my shoulder, a little bit on the top of my knee. It was so bad on my leg. It was so bad. So I stopped completely, went back to my regular routine, nothing else had changed, and the patches went away."
✕Nay
57%Guru Score
"I stopped using the hand lotion and the body lotion because I was having this really itchy reaction to them. The itchiness went away kind of instantly when I stopped. I've never had a reaction [...] to anything in the last six or seven years, so this was really unusual for me. [...] I use a lot of scented products, but maybe the Rare Beauty products were just more heavily scented, or maybe [...] they're using essential oils more heavily."
✕Nay
Notverified
Serums18 reviews
"I went in with my Anua azelaic acid 10 drops as part of my skin prep. This is pretty much what I've been using to prep my skin recently, it's been my basically go-to daytime skin care."
✓Yay
67%Guru Score
"I understand that basically [...] one of the ingredients that Prequel revolves around is glycerin and I love that idea. [...] I want to love it. It doesn't work for me. This is the Multi-Quench Plumping Hydration Serum. It doesn't matter what I do, doesn't matter how little I use, doesn't matter what layering, if I use it on its own, it doesn't matter. It pills on me no matter what. And that seems to be the case with glycerin products. [...] In leave on products, it just doesn't work for me."
✕Nay
63%Guru Score
"I use the hyaluronic acid [...] on my hands before I moisturize. The hyaluronic acid really helped with the really dry hands and itchy eczema I would get [...] in between my fingers from washing my hands all the time. [...] Applying the hyaluronic acid first and then sealing it in with a moisturizer made the biggest difference. When I used to just use a moisturizer, it kind of felt like it was just sitting on top of my hands and it wasn't penetrating the deep layers of the skin."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"I'm going to go in with a tiny bit of the Aveeno Calm + Restore serum. This is great for helping with redness. [...] I like when I do skin care, I like to work it into the fingertips and then kind of dot it around the face. I feel like it's the easiest way to apply it evenly without having to apply a ton."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"I've been using this quite a bit when I feel like I just need a little bit more moisture. This has made a really really big difference. This is a really nice like hydrating calming serum. I use this first on my skin which makes the [tretinoin] a little bit easier to spread a smaller amount on the skin. I'll usually do like however many drops of this, maybe I probably overdo it because I overdo everything, which you don't want to do, learn from my mistake don't do that."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"Serum serum camid Skin Barrier moisturizing I see moisturizing I buy it"
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I tried so hard, [...] I probably bought like three or four bottles [...] and they just broke me out no matter what I did. [...] So this is incredibly gentle, which I really really love. My experience with Korean [...] vitamin C serums has been very positive. They're very very gentle, they don't break me out, they don't pill with anything. I've really been loving this one, so if you're looking for something and you've had that problem, highly recommend."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"Then I will go in with my Kiehl's Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado, which is super nice and creamy and rich. You don't need to use a lot, a little bit goes a really long way. I really like using it on the days when I'm filming or doing really glam makeup, because [...] I tend to get dryness around my eyes, and [...] I need that extra moisture because I like coverage there. It helps to counterbalance the powders or coverage that I'm applying in the delicate eye area."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"This is the BYOMA Barrier Repair Treatment with avocado oil, urea, and squalene. This is a very, very heavy moisturizer, also very, very heavy, great for dry, very dry skin or a compromised skin barrier. But I don't think that I would use this underneath my foundation because I think that it would end up just being like too much hydration. I've used this at night."
~Mixed
80%Guru Score
"I'm using the collagen peptide one from The INKEY List. I like [...] to put the serum on my eyelids to help expel [...] that fluid [...] that has built up. [...] You can literally feel the fluid in [...] your eyelids moving. I [...] don't want to be tugging on my skin too hard, which is why I want the serum so I can just go back and forth really slowly."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"Including azelaic acid in my skincare routine has been like a game changer for me in every aspect. It's such a gentle exfoliant but it also helps to reduce redness. If you are experiencing big painful breakouts or rosacea, azelaic acid is a pretty popular ingredient for that. This is 10%, so it's low and it's not prescription, you can just get it [...] over the counter. The 15 and 20% you have to get a dermatologist's prescription, but [...] I didn't really need anything higher than that."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I [...] love it. I really do. I like it a lot. [...] I did experience a purge with this when I first used it, [...] but if you just stick with it, you get through to the other side and you look fabulous. I'm back on it and things have been going well. [...] I like that it's nice and lightweight, but there's still like a little bit of a silk to it, so it adds like a little bit of moisture. Today I'm not really wearing a ton of makeup, but all I'm wearing for my base is this and some sunscreen."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"These are pads basically just with the serum on them. It's very very lightweight. Azelaic acid is an extremely gentle exfoliant and it also helps to treat and reduce redness and inflammation. [...] I decided to pick up these pads and I saw an immediate [...] response in my skin overnight. Redness was reduced and overall just the tone looked so much healthier, more even, less inflamed, less irritated, and hydrated. Hydrated without looking wet or oily."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The d'Alba White Truffle First Spray Serum is a spray serum. It [...] has kind of like an oil and a mist in one. This is a really beautiful skin care product in general. [...] It provides hydration without being oily, which is really important because you don't want too much hydration under your eyes. I really love this. I truly use these interchangeably. If you want to use something that's more of a skin care kind of ingredient or product, this is really great."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"I'm using the Super Peptide Serum from Good Molecules, formulated with tripeptides to target fine lines, wrinkles, and dullness. [...] Good Molecules is a great brand, it's very affordable. I've been using this and I like the serum, it's a good serum."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I've been using every day, every morning, a pump or two of the Beauty of Joseon vitamin C serum. This is a very basic vitamin C serum. It's not the intense, collagen-producing vitamin C, but it's just a calming, brightening vitamin C, and I'm happy with that. I really like it for brightening and I like it for daytime. It's nice and lightweight. If you've been looking for a vitamin C serum and you want something brightening that's going to help dark spots fade, this is fantastic and super gentle."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"This is a lovely serum. It has like this beautiful pearl in it. It's great for underneath makeup and it's a really great step for like after a mist and before moisturizer, especially if you have very very dry skin or you have dehydrated skin. [...] I was using it when my skin was really really dehydrated, especially when I had to do makeup, and I would do a mist, I would do the serum, and then I would do some kind of a moisturizer and it was just like such a nice combination."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"This is so good. [...] I used this whole thing up, and I actually repurchased it myself, which I got on Amazon. [...] I usually use this at night like it says. [...] It'll be the last step of my nighttime skincare routine. I put it all over my lips and it's just so good. It's very [...] lightweight but super hydrating. The only thing is I hate the scent. [...] It smells like lemon cello and I hate that, I hate it so much. But I really like the formula."
~Mixed
Notverified
Haircare17 reviews
"I find it to be very, very cleansing, not in a drying way, which is fantastic. I don't overdo it. I don't use it every single time I wash my hair, but there are times I use it two washes in a row because I have a lot of product in my hair, and even then I don't find it particularly drying in any way. [...] It does contain salicylic acid, so that's nice. It also has benzoic acid. I really like it. I think it's nice, and I like the scent of it."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"I find neither of them to be particularly stripping. They're meant to volumize the scalp. They're not necessarily clarifying shampoos, but [...] they get my scalp nice and clean, and I don't feel like I have to go in twice. I don't have a lot of hair, so mostly I don't have to do that anyway, but I don't feel like I have to do a double cleanse. [...] A lot of the time, these contain salicylic acid, which is nice for clarifying. I don't think this one does, but I'm not entirely sure."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This is just a very very gentle lift, it's not heavy, it doesn't weigh the hair down like a lot of mousses can, especially if you have very very short hair. When my hair is real short, I just don't need to be using [...] a mousse or anything like that. It's really good. So if you have really fine hair and you're looking for something that's going to help protect your hair from heat and humidity and also give it that lift."
✓Yay
70%Guru Score
"So I like to use things like clarifying shampoos. I was just like, 'Oh, this sounds like a really good thing where I could use this on my scalp to exfoliate and then it would allow me when I was growing out my hair to use a moisturizing shampoo for my actual hair, but like I've taken care of my scalp.' The problem with this is it gunks up real fast. Like so fast."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"I really like it. It really gets down to the scalp and I feel like it fluffs everything up. So if you are someone who uses a lot of product and you tend to get buildup, using a clarifying shampoo occasionally, so good. So good. Or even if you're just someone who has an oily scalp, you know, your hair is fine, you have an oily scalp, using a clarifying shampoo occasionally, it just makes such a difference. You'll notice so much more volume in your hair. And I've really been liking this one."
✓Yay
86%Guru Score
"What I love about this so much is it's not aerosol. It's a little mister. [...] It's probably the best dry shampoo that I've ever used if I had to pick one. It's literally just like a little mist. If you're not careful and you don't mix it up well enough, sometimes you can get little white spots on your forehead. But [...] you basically just mist it and leave it for like a minute or something and then you can just brush it through. It just makes your hair look so clean."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"I think it's a really good basic go-to shampoo, pretty much my go-to shampoo if I'm not using my K18 one. [...] Bond repair is really great in general if you're dying your hair. I don't have a ton to say about it because [...] a shampoo isn't one of those things where you use it and you're like oh my god, but I trust them mostly because Sarah, who does my hair color, always uses Olaplex, and bonds are important for your hair."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"Try to run it under some warm water, the nozzle nope, nothing worked, nothing at all. This is a full full dry shampoo, can't use it, completely unusable. [...] I switched to another brand because that was just happening way too often and I was over it. [...] A lot of you have been having that same struggle with Living Proof. It's really disappointing. Hopefully it's just a manufacturing error, [...] but until I can be sure that I will not be receiving a dud, I am not buying it anymore."
✕Nay
82%Guru Score
"I might pick up another one of these. It makes my hair a little bit more silky. It's slightly more heavy than the hair mask. It's good for when my roots have grown out because I have no volume. My natural hair just has no volume, the bleach gives it some volume, so when my hair is bleached I can get away with using something a little bit more moisturizing. The scent is kind of floral, it's kind of clean and floral but not in an annoying way and it doesn't linger too long."
~Mixed
75%Guru Score
"K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask, so good. I honestly I just recently started using it, like actually using it, and it is really really good."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"The hair oil is something that I never used and then now that my hair is getting longer I'm realizing how important it is. Don't skip out on a hair oil. That's a really good one, you guys."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"It's a Dyson, I've never used that before. I actually think I kind of like it."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"I will use a Clarifying Shampoo this one like twice a month probably. I try not to use it too much because I don't want to strip my hair because it is an intense one, it's a good one. Your hair is going to feel squeaky clean and then I'll do like a hair mask afterwards, but it's so good. If you need a really good Clarifying Shampoo, this is the one. [...] I love all of Olaplex, they're just so good. [...] All my shampoos are Olaplex, so good."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"It's the first time I've ever used a dry shampoo that actually felt like it was doing something. It actually makes my hair feel clean, it doesn't leave a residue, it feels nice and lightweight, it adds a little bit of body to my hair without making it look crazy. I know that this one sprays white so if you have darker hair I don't know what the review would be. I don't know if they have tinted ones."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"I'm going to pick up another Olaplex purple shampoo. This is hands down the best one. [...] Hands down best purple shampoo in the entire world. [...] You don't need to sit around and wait for it to tone the hair. [...] You just wash it and rinse it out and you're good. It's amazing. I love this purple shampoo. The girl who does my hair color put me on to it years ago and it's what I've been using since I have been platinum this whole time."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"I have the Olaplex No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner, and [...] I really like it. [...] If you are a fan of Olaplex, like the Bond repair mist, which is a pre-shower or pre-wash treatment, you'll probably like this too. Plus, I like the scent."
✕Nay
76%Guru Score
"It's the only thing I use. [...] It's kind of got like a sharp wine scent at first but then there's like this soft honey, it's so beautiful. [...] One mist of this lasts all day for sure, like you do not need to spray it a lot. [...] It's like a long mister, [...] very luxurious, [...] you don't have to spray it a million times. A decent amount comes out and it has an open back so you can see how much you've used, which I also appreciate."
✓Yay
72%Guru Score
Primer16 reviews
"This is a beautiful [...] luminizer. [...] Very, very, very, very, very pretty. Just sort of softens everything, you know, very nice and sheer."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"Another primer that I actually really like is the Pore Eclipse from Milk. If you're looking for something that's going to do a little bit of mattifying, this is really nice because it is water-based, but it is also mattifying, but it's also hydrating enough. There's a lot of mattifying products out there that are just like they just feel like heavy and dry on the skin. I don't like that. I like my skin to feel hydrated."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"For luminizer, a really OG one is Milk Makeup, the Hydro Grip Glow Primer. [...] It looks like a really dark, bronzy shade but it's pretty universal. It's really nice on the very tops of your cheeks. [...] I'm actually going to mix a little bit of this with another water-based luminizer. [...] If you like die for a highlight and you want to use something a little bit thicker and you don't tend to get breakouts on the tops of your cheeks, then go for it."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"The Pixi Flawless Beauty Primer, I kept in all those videos I kept saying like you could use this as an illuminator. [...] It's like a really beautiful nude champagne kind of shade for my skin tone. Love, love it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I personally really like this Milani Conceal and Perfect Blur Out Smoothing Primer. The reason that I like it so much is because it's very moisturizing, but it does do a good job blurring. [...] I think it's worth a shot. [...] It's kind of cool to the touch. [...] This is like particularly good if you have combination skin because typically those blurring primers just they'll tend to like cling or make your skin like a little too dry."
✓Yay
72%Guru Score
"The combination of one of the cones and the e.l.f. Power Grip Primer to me sounds like a bad combo. It feels like that's where we're going wrong. [...] I would suggest is trying to skip the e.l.f. Power Grip Primer in this situation and see if that does something. [...] The combination of the e.l.f. Power Grip Primer and the dimethicone in the moisturizer to me it just feels like those might be clashing. They might not be working together very easily."
✕Nay
67%Guru Score
"I've been loving this Iconic London primer, have to say it is so incredibly smoothing and it does contain a pearl so it creates like a really beautiful luminescence to the skin without making the skin look at all oily, like not at all. So if you're someone like me who can be oily, highly recommend checking it out. It really does give such a flawless finish to the skin, especially if you're going to be going in with like a skin tint or foundation or something along those lines."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"This is described as a natural airbrush foundation and when I tell you it legitimately blurs the skin I was shocked by this. It's very similar to me to the MAC foundation but there's a little bit more moisture in it in my opinion. It's a little darker and a little bit more on the orangey side."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I'm going in with Charlotte Tilbury [...] Flawless Filter just to kind of prep. I want glow in the outer perimeter of my face around my cheekbones."
✓Yay
65%Guru Score
"I'll go in with a more hydrating primer today. I use the Milk Hydro Grip, something that's like grippy that gives me a little bit extra moisture depending on how my skin is feeling."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
"It's meant to be like a very grippy base for your makeup. So if you have a difficult time with oiliness in your T-Zone but you feel like you want a little bit more grip to the skin, this is a really great option because it's like relatively moisturizing but it's not too dewy. So you can see that it adds like a nice hydration to the skin but really what this is for is just kind of like creating more of a grip so that my makeup is going to last. [...] It's not like a particularly wet primer."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I'm going in with the smooth and blur primer from Smashbox which I really love to smooth out the center of my face where I have larger pores and a little bit more oil production. I've been loving it."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"Smashbox Photo Finish in the very center of my T-Zone, this has been like a go-to primer for me recently. I've been really just enjoying it in general for like really creating that grip."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"One/Size Secure the Glow has been like a go-to primer for me recently. I've been really just enjoying it in general for like really creating that grip."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I've just been kind of loving this little Smashbox combo so I'm mixing the Smashbox Primerizer with the Photo Finish. I literally just mix them together and I really like it. [...] I find that a lot of smoothing primers can sometimes just make my skin feel a little bit dry, so mixing in the Primerizer kind of like evens that out a little bit."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I just washed my face with a cream cleanser this morning and applied my oven moisturizer like I typically do. My skin is well hydrated. The only thing I'm going to do is use a little bit of the elf Liquid Poreless Putty Primer in the center of my face. [...] I'm gonna swipe it on and then press it once it's like evenly distributed."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
Cleansers14 reviews
"One of my favorite makeup removers is the Lancôme Bi-Facil. This is so good. Take a little Q-tip, kind of loosen up the glue."
✓Yay
69%Guru Score
"They're using a salicylic acid cleanser for prep for their skin."
~Mixed
75%Guru Score
"Also by Inkey List their cleansing balm that's like my typical cleansing balm that I use every single day to just like remove my sunscreen and then I'll cleanse with a gentle cleanser. I'll probably pick that up because I don't think I have a backup and I'm usually stocked."
✓Yay
75%Guru Score
"I decided to buy the salicylic acid cleanser because I was getting low. [...] It's also glycerin based and has salicylic acid. I think it only has 1%, so it's a percentage down, which is nice, so I think it'll be a little bit more gentle on my skin overall while continuing to take care of my skin barrier. I finished this and it is great. The INKEY List is tried and true. They have really great products. They're relatively affordable, and you can get them at Sephora."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"The 5% was a little bit too much for me so I decided to pick up PanOxyl which is 4%, so just bringing it down that 1% made a big difference."
✓Yay
89%Guru Score
"I typically use the one from La Roche-Posay, but to be honest with you it's not my favorite cream cleanser."
~Mixed
75%Guru Score
"It's fine for breaking down sunscreen, but waterproof mascara, absolutely not. [...] It took ages for me to work this into my lashes to be able to break down my waterproof mascara, and even then I had flakes left over and I just couldn't rub my eyes anymore. So I personally would not recommend this product. [...] I used it to remove sunscreen and stuff and then do my regular cleansing, but it definitely doesn't remove waterproof mascara, so I wasn't really a fan of this."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"This is the cream cleanser hydrating cream cleanser so this is what I keep in here obviously to cleanse my face especially on the nights when I'm using my tretinoin"
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"Pharmacy is pretty pretty good in terms of [...] removing my waterproof makeup."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"The Purple Ginseng Cleansing Balm might be the best cleansing balm. This removes my waterproof mascara so easily. That's how I test a cleansing balm, I use my Clio mascara as the test, and if I have to sit there forever working it in then it's a fail. This I just do gentle circular motions on my lashes and it's not irritating, my eyes don't hurt afterwards, my lashes are intact."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"She just makes the process of washing your face a luxury moment. It's this honey kind of consistency and then it breaks down all of your makeup and then when you add water, it turns into this milky consistency and it just washes all of your makeup off. It does a great job cleaning your face. You don't have to go in with a cleanser afterwards [...] unless you're wearing like a waterproof sunscreen or something like that. I will say it doesn't do the best job of getting my Cleo mascara off."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"I was very impressed with it. [...] Sometimes I'll use a cleansing balm or oil and feel like I need to go in with at least a gentle cleanser after that. I did not feel that way with this. [...] It got everything out of the way, removed everything. It was really good. I was super impressed. I wasn't expecting to finish it, to be honest. It was great. [...] This brand I'm kind of obsessed with. I've been using [...] their eye cream, their brightening eye cream, and I really like it."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"The Prequel Non-Drying Glycerin Cleanser is something that is so fabulous. [...] I started using this every day, using a few pumps on face and neck before all the other stuff. [...] I did experience breakouts and [...] flakiness [...] around my nose, [...] upper eyelid, and sensitive areas like around my eyes and mouth for about three weeks, but after that, things started to calm down and go away. Now I'm using this every single day in the morning and I'm not breaking out like that."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"In terms of removing my waterproof mascara, which is like always the test that I put my cleansing balms and oils to, it's fine but I have to work it in for a really long time so I don't know if it's necessarily worth it. It's Tatcha so it's expensive, and there are so many more affordable options out there for a cleansing balm or oil. I personally prefer a balm because an oil just kind of goes everywhere. [...] I wouldn't recommend it really. I just kind of think it's not worth it."
✕Nay
70%Guru Score
Tools13 reviews
"This is a brush from Rare Beauty. It's not a bad brush. I think it's the powder brush. It doesn't have a name on it. And it has synthetic fibers. So, you might think like, oh, this would be good for applying creams."
✕Nay
66%Guru Score
"It's double-sided, so if you dirty up one side, you can use the other side. I [...] just clean it with a little bit of dish soap to break down all the buildup, lather it up. [...] It's nice because it prevents you from wasting things like paper towels. [...] It works really nicely, especially to remove powders and stuff. [...] It is a game changer if you need something like this."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I love this brush from BK Beauty. This is the 210 brush, which is this really beautiful soft duo brush. [...] It's a little bit more round. This is also a synthetic brush. It does a lot of the blending for you, which is so fabulous. That's something that I love about it. You can kind of just focus the product right on the tip and then pat pat pat and it just does so much blending. So, I love that one."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using for underneath my eyes the E.L.F. sponge. I hope this is still available because this is so great."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm actually going to use a damp sponge to apply this, this is a new one from Beautyblender. I just thought, you know what I mean, like it just works."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"I'm going to use Nikki's highlighting brush, this is the N14 BK Beauty, just a very pretty like neutral and it's got a little color since I'm not wearing blush yet it'll add a little color to the cheeks."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
"I'm really loving this blending brush from [...] BK Beauty, [...] the N13 brush. Just a good one."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to use [...] a super tiny Angled Brush from BK Beauty and I'm going to pick up Moonbeam, the purpley periwinkle, and place this in the gap. [...] I ran this along my lash line and then placed it in this gap between these two shadows, and I kind of faded it in that gap [...] so that you had this nice reflective look in that area."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm gonna go in with this little Sigma smudge brush, pat that so I'm just kind of like thickening along the lash line. I'm not, I'm kind of tight lining but only on the outer corner."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm using a very small amount and I'm applying that with the Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Blush Brush."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm going to grab my Sigma E54, my fave, [...] to start blending the shadow from the inner part of the eye toward the outer part of the lid."
✓Yay
Notverified
"I have been loving recently Nikki La Rose her collab with BK Beauty, the number 16 brush. Let me tell you why. So she has this beautiful [...] bristle variation all up here, which just really helps with that blending. You have like much more density in the center of the brush and then as you get out to the outer edges you have this nice bristle variation."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
"Copper actually helps to heal the skin, reduces skin inflammation and rashes by preventing harmful bacteria from building up and other organisms from spreading. It provides an anti-acne effect. Copper prevents acne by killing propionibacterium acnes, an acne-causing bacteria that lives on the face. Copper can also help to stimulate collagen, which [...] promotes elastin, which is going to help keep the skin looking young. I [...] highly recommend it. I love it so much."
✓Yay
Notverified
Eye Care11 reviews
"I'm prepping my under eyes with these [...] hydro cool eye gels, which help pick up fallout. Nothing wrong with giving the under eyes a little extra love, [...] especially while you're doing other areas of the face."
✓Yay
83%Guru Score
"One of the things that I really like about it, caffeine is supposed to help promote blood flow. The hyaluronic acid is very hydrating. I like this because it has a really nice lightweight hydration and it creates a little bit of a grip if you struggle with your concealer staying in place. And it has these little [...] metal balls, like ball bearings, [...] that glide over the under eye."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"I got to say the Summer Fridays ones that I've been using, I kind of want to stop because they just kind of slip around."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"I use my Huda for underneath my eyes."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"For me, typically I use a brightening concealer like the Rare Beauty one [...] underneath my eyes."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"I'm going to prep underneath my eyes with my Summer Fridays under eye patch gel patch situations. I love these. I do this anytime I do my eyeshadow first."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"That eye cream kept my under eyes too wet despite me letting it really set in, and I'm just getting creasing up in here. [...] I don't like it."
✕Nay
59%Guru Score
"I will apply the teeny tiniest little bit of the Olay Retinol 24 Eye Cream, okay teeny tiniest little bit. What I mean is this: I do this amount and I split that between my fingers so I'll split it, just the teeny tiniest little amount, literally just like here underneath my eyes from like here, just like that. If I take it up any higher my eyelids will get irritated, so I'm not trying to dehydrate my eyelids."
✓Yay
66%Guru Score
"I'm going to throw down the Rare Beauty Eye Patches because I've just been really liking them and these are they're so good they just like stick and they hold in all the moisture they're so they don't slide around I love them."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"I picked up the La Roche-Posay Toleriane eye cream. This is mostly like one of those things where I just want to hydrate my eyes before I go in with any of my other products and then I use it. That's it. It's really not super necessary. You could just use your moisturizer, but I do like it. It works fine for me."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"They just sent this in like a little PR box not that long ago, this is the Jet Lag Overnight Eye Serum, and I was like that's going in my little travel bag."
✓Yay
73%Guru Score
Mists & Essences9 reviews
"Do I know if it's really like repairing and protecting? No. But my skin has looked really beautiful since I've started using it. So I'm like kind of sold on it, which sucks because it's $85. But yeah, I really really like it. [...] I've had it for a while. It's been lasting really nicely. Really, really nicely. So, I appreciate that. Like, if you're going to spend a lot of money on something, it better go a long way. Yeah, I'm sold. [...] I'm going to buy another one."
✓Yay
79%Guru Score
"I don't know if I like that ILIA Base Face Milk Essence + Lightweight Moisturizer just saying I think it's kind of unnecessary and I think it's like adding a little too much underneath my eyes."
~Mixed
70%Guru Score
"The reason that it is a nope for me is I got bleached hair. [...] When I would mist it on my face, the perimeter of my hairline was turning orange. [...] I thought maybe it was from washing my face, like I was going too close to my hairline, and then I realized that it was this. There's just no way for me to use it without that happening, even when I would wear headbands, somehow it would get underneath it. So I have had to say farewell to the Cally Grape Water Mist."
~Mixed
74%Guru Score
"I like to go in with a little bit of the Snail Mucin 96, the power essence. I've gone through all of the snail mucin from COSRX, and I kind of like them all honestly. I'm using this one right now. It's fantastic for kind of like trapping in that moisture, so if you're trying to heal dehydrated skin, it's really, really great for that. I find it to be much more effective for my skin than hyaluronic acid, but it might be something good to use on top of hyaluronic acid."
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
"If you're interested in this and you want snail mucin and niacinamide just in one go, it's a really good product. I feel like it lasts relatively long, I'd usually just use a pump or two. It's more so a daytime thing, though sometimes I use it at night."
✓Yay
76%Guru Score
"I'm going to use the Lisa Eldridge Mist. [...] You want your skin to be really well hydrated, and then if you have something with a good grip to it, like a little bit of a stick, that's what's really going to hold all of the makeup so it doesn't go anywhere."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm going to be using my [...] Tower 28 mist. I need like mist, I just it's been sitting for a minute and I want to rehydrate it so it's not too dry. It [...] has like a very lightweight feel which is really nice, doesn't feel heavy at all."
✓Yay
82%Guru Score
"Tatcha Dewy Skin Mist is probably like the most popular one. I feel like the most iconic one. It is super hydrating. So, if you're like really dry and you need to like rehydrate throughout the day, that's a great thing. Like, just buy the mini one, keep it in your bag, and just a quick mist to just sort of like bring the skin back to life. That's a great supplement."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I love it. I love it. It's my favorite face mist. I've always been a fan of some kind of a face mist. [...] This has a tri-ceramide complex, probiotics, and allantoin. Basically it helps to repair your skin barrier, which if you've followed me at all, I have a horrible habit of overdoing my exfoliation and ruining my skin barrier. So this is something that has absolutely just come in handy for me. I really like it a lot. It lasts pretty well. I'll be honest with you, I hate BYOMA's packaging."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
Masks & Peels8 reviews
"I love this. This is a game changer. This is fantastic. Basically, I use this as like my conditioner almost every single time I wash my hair. This is a postwash product, [...] not a leave-in product. [...] I really like to use this on the days when I have freshly bleached hair. I'll take it down to the scalp almost to make sure that I am treating every strand."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"So I was like, 'Oh, I might as well just like try this slightly more gentle liquid exfoliant.' I just put it out on a cotton pad and wipe it on my face. [...] It's quite nice. It's gentle enough. [...] I've seen definitely like [...] an increase in positivity in my skin. It does a really good job of like just managing breakouts. And because it's nice and gentle, it's been like a very good counterpoint to my increase in tretinoin."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"This one is the Ceramide one, big fan of ceramides. They've just been very very helpful with my skin barrier, especially since I started Tretinoin again. I had to take a little break and use a retinol that was like a little less effective, so I experienced a little bit of purge, some flaking, some dryness. Ceramides are so helpful if you are experiencing that or if you're starting Tretinoin or if you're starting a retinol. I always pick up like at least one of their packs."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"Those Dr. Dennis Gross, the orange ones where it's like an exfoliant and a retinol, I actually just got my boyfriend to start using them and those are really great. They're just like a pad, you do this, wait 2 minutes, do the next one, apply your moisturizer. It's a great way to start."
✓Yay
70%Guru Score
"I have the Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask which I just always have as like an in case, you know, like if maybe I'm on a really long flight and my skin is just drying out like crazy I might go to the bathroom and like rinse my face [...] and then maybe I'll drench my face in this."
✓Yay
68%Guru Score
"I did use one of these when I was there and I absolutely loved it like I just loved it so much it was so nice. [...] This formula I really really liked. It smells like strawberry."
✓Yay
Notverified
"The silver one which is called the aura cushion is much more lightweight, it's a little bit more glowy, it kind of gives you that like a glass skin effect. The coverage is more light, so if you are someone who is very very dry and you're looking for something that's going to give you a nice glow and you want like a light amount of coverage, this is going to be perfect for you."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"The pink mask fit, which is the all cover cushion, is definitely more matte, it's more full coverage, perfect for glam. If you want full full coverage, right, you're trying to cover everything up and you just want to look completely flawless, this is fantastic. If you're someone who is oily and maybe you have acne, maybe you have redness that you're trying to cover up, this is going to be the best bet for you."
✓Yay
Notverified
Fragrance6 reviews
"But since it's an eau de toilette and not a perfume, it really doesn't last that long, which is disappointing. It lasts a bit longer sprayed directly on clothes, but needs about four sprays, and it doesn't work as something you can put on your wrists and be set for the day. It's very expensive. Even so, she calls it the most perfect scent she's ever smelled in her entire life."
~Mixed
77%Guru Score
"Brush your hair. Nothing keeps your brow hairs in place like soap. Nothing. If you are looking for something because you have very very stubborn hairs, I'm telling you, give up on all the brow products and just buy this. Like I got it on Amazon. It's so cheap. Usually I think I get like a two pack. I [...] just have them. [...] And look, I cut off a chunk and I put it in my like travel makeup bag for when I travel. So like you don't need anything. It lasts forever. It's so cheap. It's so good."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I really appreciate that it's not too sweet, and [...] I really just do not like a fragrance where you put it on and it just feels like sickly sweet. It's still sophisticated and mature feeling. It doesn't feel like sometimes sweet fragrances just feel like they're so immature. I do like it. I was surprised by how much I like it."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"I'm really interested in this scent to be honest with you. This is Replica Afternoon Delight, warm and spicy, that is literally speaking to my soul. Madagascar vanilla, meline accord, and sandalwood. I'm going to add a mini size to my cart because I don't buy full-size perfumes anymore. I like to switch it up so much, so I'm only going to buy minis from now on."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score
"It is so delicious, it smells exactly like a ginger biscuit. [...] I love it so much. [...] With this one, Jo Malone is giving Maison Margiela a run for their money, because they really nailed the replica. This should be a replica, because it smells exactly like a ginger biscuit, 100%. It's got that sweet, it's got that ginger, which I love. I love a gingery, spicy scent: slightly sweet, slightly spicy, a little bit of grounding, which it needs so that it's not too much."
✓Yay
Notverified
"Like I would absolutely wear this on a plane. [...] This has absolutely become my go-to everyday fragrance. I love it so much. It works perfectly and what I love about it is that it feels like it'll work for every season. It's not too like sometimes there are certain fragrances that feel very much like a fall winter fragrance, and wearing that in the summertime it just doesn't really work. This feels like it'll translate into spring and summer which I love."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
Tech4 reviews
"Current Body reached out to me and sent me their mask, which I like a lot better. [...] It just contours to the face more. [...] When it comes to the red light therapy, it's impossible to know that anything is happening because [...] you need to be so consistent. [...] I would say I use it like at least three times a week, so I have been consistent with it."
✓Yay
90%Guru Score
"I purchased the Omnilux mask, the chest one, and the hand one. I went a little crazy. [...] The Omnilux mask is very flat and it just kind of wraps around your face. It was fine for a while."
~Mixed
79%Guru Score
"The one from Current Body is very bulky. So, I'm not saying that that one isn't going to be effective. It is more affordable, but it is very very bulky. So, just keep that in mind. Like, it's quite large."
~Mixed
84%Guru Score
"I definitely saw results within three. What I noticed was that the hair was growing back so slowly, I mean essentially it had essentially stopped growing, and the hair itself was getting way way thinner and it grows back way slower, which is the best part. You can start to see results within like two to three sessions and full results within like twelve. You typically want to use it like once a week, which is what I was doing. It has their little quick start guide which was super easy to follow."
✓Yay
78%Guru Score
Toners4 reviews
"I went in with [...] the Innisfree ceramide milky toner. This is pretty much what I've been using to prep my skin recently, it's been my basically go-to daytime skin care. If you're wearing this during the daytime you might want to [...] skip something like this and go in with a sunscreen instead, or use a little less of it so you can wear sunscreen on top without getting too oily."
✓Yay
80%Guru Score
"I'm using the centella one from COSRX which is fine, it's just like not really doing that much for me. I don't think I would repurchase it."
✕Nay
68%Guru Score
"I use the Anua rice toner and then also [...] a liquidy kind of moisturizer. The rice 70 by Anua is great for acne prone skin. [...] The toner is a little bit more watery and then you go with something slightly more milky. Neither of them are heavy, but they provide a really perfect amount of moisture for my skin."
✓Yay
74%Guru Score
"This is the um entry uh green tea extract which is just supposed to help control oil. Okay. It's just supposed to help control oil. It's hydrating. It's a lightweight. Um, I really like it. Super simple."
✓Yay
87%Guru Score
Acne2 reviews
"I decided to explore benzoyl peroxide cleansers, which brought me to the INKEY List one, which is about 5% benzoyl peroxide. I continued to use that and started to recognize that I loved using a cleanser so much more. I was making tiny little steps to get to where I am now, but the 5% was a little bit too much for me."
~Mixed
82%Guru Score
"You always need them"
✓Yay
77%Guru Score
Retinoids2 reviews
"I also really like the Paula's Choice Barrier Repair Advanced Moisturizer which is with tripeptides and ceramides, really great and just like a little bit more accessible."
✓Yay
81%Guru Score
"They're expensive but most of the products that I've used from them I've really loved. [...] This is the Medik8 Crystal Retinal 20, which is much higher. They have [...] a series of retinals and you can start with the lowest percentage and kind of work your way up, which is really great. It's a stable retinol retinal night serum. [...] It's not quite as strong as my [tretinoin], and so I've seen quite the reduction in irritation, which has been fantastic."
✓Yay
85%Guru Score
Balms & Ointments1 review
"I've been using the Lano Lips 101. This is just like the clear one. And I apply it with a brush because I'm extra. [...] This way you can wear a glossy lip. You don't have to worry about it. It's amazing."
✓Yay
84%Guru Score

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