Robert Welsh, makeup artist: 503 skincare products reviewed

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All 503 products Robert Welsh has reviewed, grouped by product type. Click a product to see the full guru consensus.

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Eye Makeup76 reviews

NARS Alpine Rush Blush and Highlight Cheek Palette

"I love a Nars blush, but this looks incredibly boring. It's never any different from Nars, and we [...] get the same shades in the same kind of palette every single year at Christmas. Give us something a little bit different. Not [...] in love with it, and some of those shades look ashy and dusty too."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Maybelline Lash Sensational Mascara

"Is this a good mascara? Yes. Has it become drastically less affordable? Also, yes. Those both those things can be true. I don't think drugstore makeup becoming more expensive means it's suddenly bad. [...] If anything, the opposite has kind of happened. Drugstore formulas have become incredibly good. [...] But to be a good formula doesn't make a 40 percent price increase disappear. [...] I would definitely use this again."

~Mixed

86%Guru Score

NYX Blade and Shade Brow Pencil

"Speaking from experience with this product, it is a really beautiful pencil. The tip is really really fine so you can really get those hair strokes in. [...] It works really really well. [...] I do still think twelve dollars for a pencil, I would pay for it because I like the pencil. I think it's really nice. However, I do think it could be cheaper. I do think brow pencils could be cheaper than twelve dollars."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

e.l.f. Instant Lift Brow Pencil

"Today it is four dollars. That's a 100 percent increase. It literally doubled in price. Now obviously it's still four dollars, because I'm not going to sit here acting like a four dollar eyebrow pencil is suddenly a luxury purchase. But that percentage kind of tells us something interesting. The very bottom of the drugstore price range has moved upward. It does show that like two dollar makeup used to be a lot easier to find and those tiny little prices now are very quickly disappearing."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Master Mattes Longwear Cream Eyeshadow

"Is it just me, or none of these look matte? They look metallic, more like shimmer. [...] They do look beautiful though, and I like these kinds of products because they neutralize the lid and work as a great base. But I haven't been excited by anything from Makeup by Mario for a while, these look absolutely fine, [...] but I'm not overly jumping out my seat to buy or try, and I don't think you need to spend $25 to get a metallic long-lasting base on your eyelid."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Stretch Tubing Mascara

"Is this the most exciting mascara ever? No. But the wand is really good for tubing formulas where all you really want to do is coat your lashes, [...] it's easy for the lashes to pass through the teeth so more product gets on the lash which adds depth. It's just not very exciting, I'll forget this tomorrow, so I'm putting it at number nine."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Brow Harmony Flexible Lifting and Laminating Eyebrow Gel

"Incredible, insane, amazing. They are tinted slightly, but it's not so much where you get [...] the color on your skin or anything like that. [...] This is a black one, you'll see it's not black black. [...] It's just like a tinted gel. You can actually run your finger over this gel and it does not move. I've done an 18-hour flight wear test for this brow gel where I sleep in it, wear an eye mask, all this stuff, and it lasts throughout the whole thing. It is really really really strong."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Neutral Eye Collection Essential Nudes Eyeshadow Palette

"I like a beige. This is a beautiful color. The formula feels very different to what they did before with the eyeshadows, remember those colorful ones. This definitely feels a lot smoother and a lot more pigmented. This is beautiful and this gray is lovely. I love this gray, a gray like this. I really really like this eyeshadow palette. I've done something quite cold here, but you can look at the other shades, you can actually do some quite warm, a little bit deeper and smokier."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

NYX Fluff & Snatch Brow Powder Pen

"I think I'm going to use it more to fill in areas that are a little bit more gappy. It definitely has its uses, but I would recommend this perhaps for people who already have fuller, thicker brows, because if you have quite sparse brows, this might be a little bit too much, a little bit too dense. It is quite long-lasting though. Brow product, great, really, really liked it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

ColourPop Jelly Much Gel Eyeshadow Stick

"I love that. However, I am going to give it a fix. [...] When I come to take this off, it's going to have to be a very tactical removal. I'm not going to just melt it all down the face. I'm going to have to use like proper [...] makeup remover wipe. [...] Otherwise, I will have glitter all over my face for weeks. [...] That is actually stunning. Like I'm so impressed. [...] To me this makes sense for ColourPop because they're a color brand. [...] They do fun textures, fun formulas."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

ColourPop Super Shock Shadow

"They have some great formulas. They have some great textures. They're supershock. Some of my favorites."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dior Eyeshadow Palette

"It's not the best, put it lightly. The black is a waste of time and money. [...] It's so pigmented, you only need to use a little bit, which is great to have that option of controlling that pigment. But it can't sit on itself. It's really struggling [...] to grip to the texture underneath. [...] It's just constantly moving around. [...] I give it a little tap and the whole eye goes crazy. [...] I tried it. I gave it a second chance. I'm not even going to try this one."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Dior DiorShow High Color Eyeshadow Wardrobe palette

"This is the Dior Show High Color Eyeshadow Wardrobe. This is the formula I was extremely disappointed in. [...] The packaging is like joke packaging. This is the cheapest plastic money can buy. [...] It looks expensive because it says Dior. That's the only expensive thing about it. You have a little clasp that opens with a protective thing on top, and these disposables I find offensive and insulting to be quite frank with you."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible Faux Brow Tint Pen

"Loved it. Loved it. I put down a brow wax in my brow, and then I pen or pencil on top or powder on top. Sometimes pens can absorb or dry out as soon as it touches the wax. [...] So then I can't use it because some of the wax is on the pen. [...] This doesn't do that. This draws line by line. It's beautifully thin. There's just enough pressure, but I can do really delicate strokes, especially when it comes to the inside of the brow."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit Unlocked Palette

"Ashy, dusty, volcanic mess. I do not like it. I think these palettes are awful. Even the powders themselves. When I bought them and I was like, I'm not going to use these on people. I tried to use one on myself. Dry. The dryness of them. People love it, but I just think it looks ashy on people. It looks like powder, which I know is a crazy thing to say. You can almost see the powder particles on the skin. I do not like these."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Dior 5 Couleurs Eyeshadow Palette Limited Edition Golden Case

"$75. I will never use Dior eyeshadows again. Love their blush. I love their highlighters. I love some of their lip products, but their eyeshadows, some of the worst eyeshadows I have ever used. $75, when you can get a whole palette from a brand like Blend Bunny, which is like $30 something, $40 something with multiple shades, good texture, soft creamy mattes, incredible shimmers, multi-chromes, and you're selling this for $75."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Blend Bunny Rotten Palette

"Another beautiful palette from Blend Bunny. [...] I've used this collection and I loved it. There's two shades in there which are stunning. The black is so dark. It is so pitch black. It's beautiful. And then there's this red shade, which I believe May liked from a different brand and wanted to bring it back because it was discontinued, in her palette."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Clio Kill Waterproof Brown Curling Mascara

"The Cleo mascara really good. Really difficult to remove. But it is really good."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Micro Stroke Detailing Brow Pen

"I'm so over Anastasia Beverly Hills. They are so boring. [...] New and improved Micro Stroke Detailing Brow Pen with 24 hour wear a long wearing micro fine detailing pen to create realistic hair-like strokes for full defined brows with a natural finish that lasts up to 24 hours. At this point I'm like, so? So? You and everyone else. [...] Not interested in the slightest. They're known for their brow products, right? Yes, we get it. Keep doing your brow thing. Keep doing what made you famous."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked Shaped Eyeshadow Palette

"They have four creams in the middle, love that they tried to add new formulas, but also love that they don't work. The [...] color is non-existent on the eye. I [...] think we need to talk about this Urban Decay rebrand, or lack thereof. [...] Basically, it's just like a revamped version of a Naked palette. [...] You're going to tease stuff like this to make us think we're going back to like '90s or whatever grunge, colorful, fun makeup, and you give us these. What the hell is going on?"

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Passionate Purple Eyeshadow Palette

"There's a mirror on the inside and eight colours inside. I have to admit, these purples are a lot more muted than I expected from looking at some of the pictures. The blues are very, very vibrant, crazy vibrant. One of the deeper blues reminds me of Electric Eel from MAC in terms of that vibrancy [...] and pigmentation, so that's a good one. There are [...] different textures in here: you have a 3D matte, which is an innovative cream to powder..."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Glossier Brow Flick in Brown

"Whereas I found this one is very, very smooth. The reason I'm not going to be buying it again isn't because I don't like it. It's because I found something that I actually think performs better, that is of a drugstore price. I use my Glossier pen and I just found it slightly too thick to really give me that real, sharp lines, sharp brow hairs in a bald area."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

ColourPop Eyeliner

"I'm going to go in with a Colourpop gel pencil because these always have... I can always guarantee if I'm doing a really bright eye look, one of the Colourpop gel pencils is going to match the look. This one's like slightly metallic."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Risky Pigment Eyeshadow Palette

"Yes, Risky. It's one of my favorite brands. This is one of their lighter palettes. I have a deeper brown, deeper blues, and everything. This form is beautiful. If you use a lot of Korean eyeshadows and you find they come out quite chalky, Risky is a brand to go for."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked Palette

"That whole time period, right? It was an era of, let's be real, beauty YouTube, a time when the Urban Decay Naked Palette, for example, was like practically a rite of passage."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara

"Too Faced, the brand that brought us the Better Than Sex Mascara, once a cult favorite, hasn't had a product catch fire in years."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

L'Oreal Brow Stylist Definer

"I don't understand why you would put castor oil in a long wearing product. Honestly, this doesn't interest me at all. I've tried a few pens like this from different brands with their three brush or two, and I just don't like the precision it gives. I prefer to do stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke than have two at a time and coming around the corner. It's a nice idea. I don't necessarily think it makes anything any quicker."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

Glossier Pomade Brow Pencils

"This is from Glossier, this is their brow pencil. Here's how I think brows should be right, they should be measured out in some way. It doesn't always have to be this way but they should be measured out in some way. They don't have to be the same as each other. Remember, sisters not twins, cousins is fine. But what they do have to be is slightly more realistic. This is for everyday makeup and they should be well thought out before you do it."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz

"Anastasia Brow Wiz retails for $40 for 0.08 grams."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Natasha Denona Mini Eye Sculpt Eyeshadow Palette

"I haven't been a fan of Natasha Denona but if [...] this is the same silky matte formula, I will get this because it is a beautiful formula, beautiful textures. [...] I would have to look a little bit more into it and see if it's a similar formula to the mattes from other palettes and maybe swatch it a few times but I'm leaning more towards liking Natasha Denona than I did. [...] I'm such a sucker for beige nude neutral multi-purpose palettes, and this on fair skin as a contour is stunning."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

"I personally don't [...] like the silicone eye primers. The Urban Decay Priming Potion for example is one of those silicone ones. [...] I like something tacky, I like something a little bit dryer. I [...] prefer the Sigma eye primers."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

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

"I'm not like, oh my God, go out and buy this. It seems just regular. There's nothing overwhelmingly $42 about it. I know it's because of the way it was made, but if the way it was made prices it up more and it just gives you a regular result, I don't care how it was made. If I go to a restaurant and there's a steak that's a hundred dollars or one that's $10 and they both taste the same, I don't care how it's prepared if I'm gonna get the same result. And that's kind of how I feel about this."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Patrick Ta Major Dimension Eyeshadow Palette

"However, I do actually prefer the smoothness of the MUA side. [...] This looks a bit chunky and actually gross on my eyelids, a little [...] bit patchy, because it is chunkier in terms of the [...] formula. It does give more of a textured look on the lid. So if you do have an eyelid that is a little bit more naturally textured and you're not into that, it might not be the best for you, might not be the best formula."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Fawn Palette

"The eyeshadow palette is such an everyday go to. [...] I like that it's neutral. I like that there's something in there for everyone."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Light Work Volume 6 Freedom Palette

"I think it's incredible. And people who love multichromes are gonna love these."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Glossier Boy Brow Arch Pencils

"I love Glossier's brow products. They do last really well on the skin. They look really good. They do last for a long time in the brows. I think they're great products. I love all their brow products, and I actually use their Brow Flick all the time. This does look like the Dominique Cosmetics pencils when they came out, so I'm not overly excited by the shape and the premise of this. You can get a lot of pencils with these shapes in Korean beauty brands and Asian beauty brands."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Glossier Boy Brow

"I love them for their eyebrow product. Their brow flick pen is [...] one of the best ones that goes over like brow waxes and brow gels and things like that, really really nice."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Cream Glide Eyeliner

"Darker lip pencil. This is one from e.l.f. It's one of their cream glides."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hourglass Eyeshadow Palette

"I really like Hourglass Eyeshadow and I would do something here maybe warm this up a little bit because now we have all this warmth here. [...] I would warm this up somehow because I feel like it kind of marries together the blush into the eyelids so nice."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

e.l.f. Laminating Brow Gel

"But I used it for a whole day. It holds. It is really, really tough. It's a really good one. So it's a clear, drying brow gel with e.l.f.'s strongest hold yet. Perfect for creating the look of laminated brows. Lightweight feel without any stiffness. Dual end, 3-in-1 applicator applies product and combs and sculpts the brows. Water resistant, flake resistant. I agree with that. It's flake resistant. And also, it doesn't look white through dark eyebrows, which I really, really, really like."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Lancôme Hypnôse Drama Extreme Volume Mascara

"But when brushes have this depth and wave to them or slopes, [...] the way it pulls your lashes through the brush completely changes. It's really, really good to see this kind of curve and this shape. Especially if you imagine this being pulled through the lashes, capturing every single lash, one by one at a different angle, at a different depth. It's a really, really nice brush, as opposed to one that's just straight. [...] If you want that volume, this is a really good option to go for."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Essence Lash Without Limits Mascara in Brown

"Have you ever tried Essence mascara makeup sorry I don't I red mascara you know why cuz I've used their mascara yes um yeah it was fine wasn't like overly like you know"

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Clio Brow Pencil

"Clio do a really good one as well because that's what I would find with me sometimes some brands when they do [...] a black brow pencil but they do pure black and it looks really fake on my skin tone and my brows so I need like that brown gray black and they do the perfect ones"

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

NARS Clouded Eyeshadow Palette

"I do find the formulas are quite nice. I don't know if there's been some kind of change in the formula, but they're not what they used to be. I feel like the eyeshadows are quite, you have to work to build them, whereas before they were quite pigmented."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Refy Lash Sculpt Mascara

"I love the shape of this brush. I think this is really, really cool. Having the longer part on the outside and the shorter on the inside is going to ensure that in the inside area here, it's not over clumping. Not too much product has been applied in that area. But also, you're going to get this almost 3D-esque lash. You're going to get more application to the outside corner. So it's going to lift, curve."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Dolce & Gabbana I Dare You Eye Palette

"I hate the packaging. I think the packaging's crap, but it actually looks like it could be nice. [...] Look at these swatches. I think they're really, really stunning. Being a fan of purple and blue tones that go with it, I really like the look of this. I think it's really, really beautiful. [...] The eye palette is called I Dare You. It's $89, which is a lot. [...] I feel like these places, their makeup can't be justified to that price, because it's not that great."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Maybelline Express Brow Ultra Slim Pencil

"Okay, let's talk about those eyebrows. Terrible idea. Really, really bad idea. [...] You don't want heavy moisturizer on an eyebrow, especially because it will start to eat away at the brow pencil. Brow pencils and brow products aren't made to be on a heavily moisturized part of the face. If you put brow pencil on your nose, for example, or on your forehead, the oil will eat away at it, and you get that feathery brow. Have you ever drawn in the curve of your brow and it starts to feather away?"

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Melt Cosmetics Fatally Yours Eyeshadow Palette

"This is the Fatally Yours Eyeshadow Palette. These colors look absolutely amazing. This green here, I'm definitely going to be using today. And this purple. This whole collection, the names are kind of like poisons, so I want to do, like, a poisoned look. Almost like I've been poisoned. So, yeah, beautiful. It's been a long time since I've used Melt eyeshadows."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dior Highlighter Palette

"I love their highlighter palettes you can get. Dior do some beautiful, beautiful products."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tower 28 Make Waves Lengthening and Volumizing Mascara

"This is the Tower 28 Make Waves Mascara. I do have a lash lift, so my lashes were already curled. So what you see me applying right now is kind of the level of makeup that I am comfortable with when it comes to doing a really kind of natural, fresh look for every day without using the Demi Method. So this is kind of my everyday, just getting out the door and looking my best."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Haus Labs Optic Intensity Eye Liner in Deep Cocoa Matte

"That kind of brown, that warm brown on a blue eye, a green eye, a gray eye, is stunning. It just brings out the color. The redness in the brown brings out just light colors. It always looks so good. If I'm in a rush doing someone's makeup or they're in a rush, or say you're doing a wedding, [...] if they have blue or green eyes or gray eyes, brown eye pencil all around, smudge it out, little bit of champagne on the lid, some mascara, done. Easy."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Iced Mocha

"I'm glad they're kind of redoing these and making these a thing again, because they were really good back in the day. They've made these really smooth and really soft. So if you used the white one back in the day and you're like, oh, they were too dry for me. Changed. Completely different."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Viseart Koi Duochromatic Palette

"I like Viseart. They're the one I use in my kit. When you open it, it's actually a bit more exciting. [...] Look at that green. I didn't realize there was all these shimmers. These shift colors. That's beautiful. Yeah, okay, I'm into that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette

"And it was my prized possession. When I was doing bridal makeup, I would take it out my kit and sit there like it was some kind of, like, golden egg. Yes, I have a Naked palette. And I still have it today. Not in my kit, but I keep it for sentimental value. These palettes, as the name suggests, naked, featured, like, a selection of neutral shades. And they all had a kind of, like, rough theme around them in terms of the main color."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Mascara

"There's a nice mascara, but it has weighed down my lashes a little bit. [...] It's a nice mascara, it hasn't done anything extra, and I wish the formula was a little bit different. It's almost too creamy. I don't know, I needed it to be more fluid for that movement, a little bit more."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Dip Brow Pomade

"Their iconic Dip Brow Pomade was like the thing to have. It started a whole trend of how we do our brows back then."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance Eyeshadow Palette

"The Modern Renaissance Eyeshadow Palette, which was honestly, people were feral, feral for that palette. They lost their shit about this palette. [...] Back then, the packaging was incredible. This velvety felt and then these shades, these beautiful pinky nudey shades. Oh my God."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Universal Volumizing Mascara

"I'm using the Rare Beauty mascara and you want to do a motion exactly like in that video of rolling through, starting right at the base of your lashes."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Blend Bunny Robert Welsh x Blend Bunny Divination Collection Palette

"I have my Divination palette with Blend Bunny, which will be back in stock in August. Much, much better in quality, in pigmentation than Charlotte Tilbury eyeshadows."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Blend Bunny Divination Stackable Lashes

"These are the only lashes I ever wear now, by the way. These are my Divination Stackable Lashes."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Romand Juicy Better Eyeshadow Palette Mahogany Garden

"You know I love Romand, the Korean brand for all their lip products and their cushion, their mesh cushion foundations. These are a whole bunch of their eyeshadows. Look how cute. And they go into this little custom palette, and you have like, you know, like an iPhone SIM card remover. You have three different drawers. You have matte finishes. Matte, shimmers, glitters."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

L'Oreal Voluminous Panorama Mascara

"I'm then going to go in with the Panorama mascara to add more volume. This mascara gives me so much volume without being clumpy. I'm obsessed with this trend and these mascaras."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara

"The first layer I'm using is the Telescopic, the most lengthening mascara I've ever tried. It separates my lashes perfectly."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Liquid Silk Eyeshadow

"These are from Lisa Eldridge. These are the liquid silk liquid eyeshadows. These come in some stunning nude tones. These are like the ultimate no makeup makeup eyeshadows. There are some deeper browns and stuff like that that you can build up to give yourself that smokier eye. I want you to take this dusky purple, Ione, I believe I'm pronouncing that right, which is like this mauvy gray tone, cold lilac almost. [...] And Gaia, which is like a brown that has some bronzy warmth to it."

✓Yay

Notverified

r.e.m. beauty Starlet Liquid Eyeshadow

"My original idea I was doing one side Glinda, one side Elphaba. On the Glinda side, I used the pink liquid eyeshadow. It went on stunning. Like the shade looked beautiful. Five seconds later, all creased, all moved, all terrible. It was really, really bad. And that's the issue I had originally when I first used the brand, I was hoping maybe the formula had changed a little bit. Maybe they had like had some feedback. But it really, it really wasn't good. But I loved the shade."

✕Nay

84%Guru Score

Flower Knows Midsummer Fairy Tales Eyeshadow Palette

"It looks almost velvety. [...] One issue I've had with Flower Knows previously is that I found some of their products weren't very well pigmented. So I'm kind of happy with how these are, considering their pastel shades. They are coming out with a good amount of pigment. The [...] middle shade is very, very soft. [...] There's a little bit of fallout in terms of the shimmer and the color, but I did go on with big, fluffy brushes, and obviously they don't hold on to product as well."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Merit Brow 1980 Pomade

"This is the Merit volumizing Pomade. Any brow gel you need to get in there, you need to get to the root, you need to be digging down. Get to the root of that brow and brush it up. See how much bigger and fluffier my brows look? And that's going to give you a better hold over time. It's really filled in my brows. You don't just do the tips and think I want it to hold here. You try and get to the root, right to the base. You want to grip it right at the root."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Neutral Brown Creamy Obsessions Palette

"We're going in with the Huda Beauty Creamy Palette. These are new. I have had a little dig around in there, so do excuse, but, yeah, we'll just create something gray tone with a little bit of definition on the outside corner."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Unleashia Glitterpedia Eyeshadow Palette

"You can do a whole look by itself or just use them sporadically. I'm just going to use the shades to define the socket, add a little bit of a shine and glow to the lid. The formula is so smooth, there's no going wrong. You can do like one or two passes with this, or you can go extra and do loads and loads of glitter. Notice how none of it's falling on my face. It's not flying around everywhere in the air. It's just this really beautiful, controlled formula."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Heimish Dasom Smudge Stop Mascara

"We're going to take this mascara from Heimish. This is really beautiful. The brush on this is just the most perfect shape to cup your lashes and zigzag and wind through. It's going to get every single lash. This is a curling mascara as well, so it really helps to hold the shape. [...] You can literally cup your bottom lashes in that dip and just give them a little..."

✓Yay

Notverified

Huda Beauty Pretty Grunge Eyeshadow Palette

"I love palettes with creams in, like the Patrick Ta ones that have these creams in. The shimmer shades feel really soft, like buttery almost. This feels really soft. Really, really nice. There's a really creamy black here called Grunge that I want to use on my lid. If this is a sign that grungy looks are coming back, then listen, I'm all good for that. My inner old emo is very happy."

✓Yay

Notverified

Sigma Beauty and the Beast Collection Eyeshadow Palette

"I really want to use this pink shade here. [...] It has a pink, like a pink gold shift. [...] Let's start with this deep blue in Beast, the Beast shade. [...] Honestly, Sigma eyeshadow palettes are so slept on. They are so, so good. The pigmentation is always beautiful. You always get, like, a really good mix of colors in there too. And when they theme them, it's a good theme."

✓Yay

Notverified

Kosas Air Brow Tinted Brow Gel

"Kosas Air Brow is [...] one of the best brow gels ever. It is so beautiful. It just holds. It's not sticky, it's not crumbly. It doesn't look like little white dots. It's just incredible."

✓Yay

Notverified

L'Oreal Telescopic Lift Lengthening Mascara

"Look how long and lengthened my lashes. [...] This looks like false lashes. The wand is basically a two-step brush. I'm taking the curved side and I'm going root to tip and coating the lashes, and then once you've done that you flip the brush to the side and you use the hook comb to basically separate. [...] I'm gonna add a second coat, look at the length. [...] I am speechless and I'm not sure anyone's gonna ever be able to compete with this mascara."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

e.l.f. Bite-Size Eyeshadow Palettes

"I absolutely love, love, love these. [...] These are really, really super, super affordable, but have amazing pigment. You see? Just with one little swoop. Look how incredible that is. [...] They're so easy to blend as well. You don't need to be like an expert blendstress. I love these shadows so much. [...] The pigmentation is just like, you can buy a little collection of these and have like a whole palette for less than what you can buy a whole palette for with a very similar quality finish."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Eyeshadow Palettes

"These eyeshadows are absolutely stunning. The textures blend so incredibly well—they're super blendable, and if you're terrible at blending eyeshadow, I really don't think you're going to have an issue with this. The shade range reaches everybody. There's thought behind it, reasoning for the textures and their benefits, and even the compact itself with interchangeable colors has good reasoning. When I love an eyeshadow palette, it's because I've loved using it and it's giving me no grief."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Lip76 reviews

Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick

"I actually do really like Maybelline Lip products. I actually like her face products too. They're really good. It is super pigmented. You need almost nothing on this. The pigmentation in this product is actually a really good example of a drugstore products becoming better. I do really like the pigmentation. It definitely has really good pigmentation."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

VT Lip Plumper

"The VT Lip Plumper is the only one I use and the only one where it's been like light to beginner level with just a little bit of tingle. It's the only one I've used [...] where it hasn't really turned my lips red. I like it."

✓Yay

58%Guru Score

Maybelline Superstay Peel-Off Lip Liner

"I think it's great to have these as an affordable dupe, and I love that the packaging isn't copying another brand. The applicator could have been worked on a little [...] better though, I don't love that tip for a product where you need this much precision. I'd like to try it, especially the Aura shade, but I'm not overly overwhelmed by all of these lip stain liners we've been getting recently."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Liquid Matte Mousse Soft Blur Lip Cream

"But it's not the most forgiving to a drier lip, and trying to layer it with itself is quite difficult, it gets a little patchy in some areas. When I used a [...] darker shade that really stands out on the skin, there seemed to be a little bit of trouble with it either sitting down on the lip or gripping to the lip. I'm not a fan. That's going to be a dump for me, I'm afraid."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

ColourPop Fresh Kiss Glossy Lip Balm in Caramel Latte

"The Espeon taro milk tea one is okay, but it tastes burnt, I love the taste of taro milk tea and this isn't that, though the color is nice. The Umbreon brown sugar boba one tastes very tapioca heavy, which is usually a taste I like, but not the way ColourPop has done it. These are just lip balms so we're not going to get full color, which is a little bit disappointing because on their website the shades look incredible."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask

"I made my own with blue cream soda and sweet [...] candy and it's just so amazing. [...] It's such a cool opportunity to be able to mix your own and make your own, and they last a really really long time and they really help hydrate your lips. These are absolutely beautiful, [...] it's a really fun experience and the balms themselves are stunning."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Stick in Blazed Donut

"That looks really good, that's the kind of shade I would get, this is something I would like to own. I do feel like I've seen other swatches for it and it hasn't been that dense in color, it's just a little bit sheer, but I do like their gloss balm products, I think they're really really nice. Fenty lip products in general are so, so stunning, especially their neutrals, if you get something neutral to your skin tone they always look really stunning."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Saie Double Down Lip Definer

"Last time I used it the intended way, but this time I used it more in an ombre style, darker in the middle fading to lighter, the way [...] I like to do my lips. [...] My issue is that it's all the same texture, the darker shade is too balmy [...] and glossy when it's meant to define the lip almost like a liner, and a lip liner shouldn't be glossy or glowy, [...] it needs to be matte or at least semi-matte. It's okay, it's personal taste, and I do like the dark-into-light look."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Half Magic Magic Drip Lip Gloss - VHS Vixen

"It's quite a sheer veil, but it's so lightweight, I thought it was going to be really sticky or tacky given the visual effect, but it's not. That's such a stunning color, I feel like it would look good on so many skin tones, on a deeper skin tone that green chameleon shine would look so beautiful, and on super fair skin it has a colder brownie tone that would look beautiful too. First time ever using a Half Magic product, it's a win for me, this is so, so beautiful."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

ColourPop Lippy Stick & Lip Liner Duo

"In the other lip kit you have Rock Sensation, [...] more of a brownie tone nude kind of set, with the lippy stick Smooth Talking [...] and the pencil Rock Out the Show. [...] I do like their lip liners, by the way, and the formulas of the lippy sticks, I'm just bored of them being in every collection. [...] This is a bit too orangey for me, I'd really like a colder shade. [...] Are the formulas of the lips good and innovative? Yes, they're nice."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Milani Keep It Full Plumping Lip Liner + Lipstick

"It's definitely tingling, really spicy, almost too spicy. I don't get products that only plump in one area if you're just using it as a liner, you can feel it doing something but my lips don't look bigger, just overlined, they don't look big and juicy. The color itself is really beautiful, but I don't think it's worth the severe pain, that tingle is quite spicy, I'd compare it to more intense lip plumpers. I just don't think it's worth it."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

NYX M&M's Smushy Surprise Matte Lip Balm

"But here's the thing, though. I would like to be able to just buy these as is, and if I wanted to buy the mystery shade or whatever it is, then I would buy [...] that. Because if you're buying mystery boxes online, [...] you could easily sell on the ones that you don't want. [...] I'm not sure how easy it would be [...] to sell on makeup that's been opened. [...] But if I was a consumer who doesn't have business expense makeup, this would be too much of a risk for me."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment

"I know people were [...] really overhyping this, but [...] the smell is like this banana, desserty smell on the lips. I put this on overnight and when I wake up in the morning, it's still on my lips. I can feel this hydrated region in my mouth. Usually I'm putting on a night mask hoping that I wake up in the morning with the most plump, smooth lips, but this has been incredible. [...] I think it's a new formulation, which I kind of want to explore a little bit more."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Velura Balm Dewy Lip and Cheek Stick

"Something like this, which is a lip and cheek stick, is great because when we're kind of tinting the skin, trying to get that natural look, we're trying to think about where you naturally flush. Lips become fuller. Blood can be plumped to the lips, you get that natural flush. Same with the cheeks. You get that natural kind of flush."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Fwee Glowy Smoothie Tinted Lip Balm

"Fwee's Glowy Smoothie Lip Balm is a hydrating lip balm that delivers instant moisture with a sheer tint, offering a luminous, glowy shine. [...] It provides long lasting comfort in shades for all skin tones. Comfortable, non sticky texture, and lightweight. I love these. I love the lip balms. [...] The shade, the blurry smoothie, looks stunning. [...] I love this pink. I love this brown. I love that deep berry. [...] These look really, really, really nice."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sacheu Beauty Longwear Peel-Off Lip Liner Stain

"I think this is such a beautiful shade. I do wish, however, my one qualm with this product, I wish it had an applicator as thin as the NYX Lip Lingerie ones because you can get so precise with that. With these I do struggle a little bit. I don't think you can get it as clean as this. But I do love these products. I really, really like them. And that cold nude is perfect. That pink is beautiful too. It stains quite well. If that's the stain that it leaves, that's a really beautiful stain."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Bobbi Brown Extra Lip Tint

"Where's an orange? Where's a peach? [...] I mean, these nude shades. [...] This deep. I'm so bored of this foursome. [...] It's something so specific about these shades that we are seeing everywhere. Change up the red. Can we get a bluey red? Make the peach more orange. Just add some saturation back into these dyes. These rose colors. Boring as f*ck. They all look the same. Because pH goes the same color. Hate it. [...] Because Estee Lauder took them over and made them sh*t."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Fwee 3D Volumizing Gloss in Vanilla 70%

"This is super high shine, long lasting with this spatula-like applicator. [...] The dense and thick high molecular gel creates a coating layer for long lasting color. This gloss actually did incredibly [...] well over on TikTok. People loved the applicator, they loved the gloss. It really gives that gel-like, full bodied gloss, no stickiness. It's just that high shine. [...] You have made a product that is the same kind of base, that gel base so you get that shine."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

The Ordinary Squalane + Amino Acids Lip Balm

"The Squalane + Amino Acids Lip Balm though, is incredible. I love this product. Like, I would re-buy that again."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

The Ordinary PHA 5% Exfoliating Lip Serum

"I used it for a while every other day and it didn't do anything to my lips. Nothing changed at all. In fact my lips are drier. [...] It didn't even keep them to their normal level of crustiness or non-crustiness. Also the directions weren't so clear. The How To Use on their website says to apply a thin layer onto clean dry lips on alternate evenings, allow the product to dry, apply lip balm as needed throughout the day. But I was confused. Do I use a lip balm afterwards?"

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Tatcha Kissu Lip Mask

"I do like Tatcha's lip mask. Their regular one, the pink one. The gold thing I find a bit gimmicky. Do you remember when everyone was selling those, like, gold under eye patches? It was like four karat gold under eye patch, and it's like, okay, so? It's cute. It's cute. And I think it's good for Christmas. Is it interesting to me? Actually, no, not at all. [...] I like the product, but if we're talking about the new release in general, this isn't very interesting to me."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Find Comfort Lip Butter in Loved

"Rare Beauty I like. Of course, I think it's great. But I'm not really interested in another lip balm. Nothing about this makes me very excited. I wonder if it's going to come in different shades, then I'll be a little bit more excited. But if it's just a roll up regular old lip balm, then I'm a little bit like, it's okay."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

NYX Duck Plump Plumping Lip Liner

"It doesn't feel spicy to me. I'm a little bit of a wimp. I can feel a slight tingle. But my lip primer also does have a slight tingle to it. [...] It's a little bit sticky. But the trick with these is to not tap your lips and just let them sit, let them completely dry and then go in with another coat."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

NYX Lip IV Hydrating Gloss Serum Stain Bubble Gum Burst

"I have to be honest with you, the Lip Lingerie feels a little bit outdated in terms of texture. It's a nice product, but I do think you can get better."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Gisou Honey Infused Hydrating Lip Oil

"Lip oil powered by bee garden oil to intensely hydrate lips and lock in moisture with a high shine and non sticky finish. I'm never gonna buy one of these again. I used mine that I opened once, used it and put it away. When I went to use it the other day, it tasted like cooking oil. It's within the expiry date that they give. [...] It tasted like, oh, I'm frying something up. It was disgusting. The shades, however, are beautiful. And in that formula, these are going to look really nice."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Creamy Matte Lipstick in Shade 88

"Feels really lightweight. And it is matte, but because it's that creamier matte, it's very comfortable to wear and does just move with the lip."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Lip Oil

"That's a lot of oil you're gonna have to put on your lips to get that level of color. I'm gonna pop them in at number nine, because I'm over it. I'm bored of lip oils."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

MAC Whirl Lip Liner

"Beautiful color. Love that. So smooth. Really smooth application. [...] Love that shade. [...] Beautiful, weightless. It doesn't feel like some lip liners where you can get this kind of plasticky feel, especially the wind up ones. [...] This feels great."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Totally Juicy Lip Tint

"This, the lip thing is beautiful. I don't really have any complaints."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

MAC Glossy Lip Liner

"I like this. [...] MAC are really stepping up again. They're getting back to their, like, we can lead the way in terms of products. I've really noticed a focus on their lip products recently, which I think is a really good thing for them to do. [...] Nightmoth is like, one of the most classic lip colors from MAC, and they're bringing it in this really nice, smooth, different formula with a shine to it. Look just how great that looks. I like what they're doing. [...] The swatches are real."

✓Yay

91%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Lip Contour Stain in Soft Nude

"I love the form of a stained product around the mouth because lip product comes off so easily. You can see that they have quite a pink shade, quite a midtone, a deeper red, like this nice deeper nude. I'm interested in this shade here that would look really great. This looks beautiful and I love how deep the shade goes. It'll be interesting to see how they are. I'm going to put that in at number seven because it's all we have available. I'm happy with that order."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Sculpt and Shade Lip Pencil

"Something I've been using so much that makes just a huge difference is the Lisa Eldridge Sculpt and Shade Lip Pencil. It's a lip liner that contours your lip rather than overlining it. Just that tiny little definition around the lip really makes a huge difference, and then really blend it out with a little bit of lip balm. It can just add a tiny bit of definition and make everything look a little bit more together without looking like makeup, so it doesn't look like a massive line on the lip."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dior Addict Lip Glow Oil

"In my opinion, overpriced lip oil."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Lip Oil

"These look great they look really beautiful and actually the swatches on the different arms the per they don't look as intense as I thought they would be"

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Rhode Peptide Lip Shape

"The issue with this is the pigment. It's too pigmented. This is how it applies. I look at the color under the lip and it is incredibly patchy. It has been every time I've used it. You then go to use this smudger, which is this quite hard siliconey smudger that has a very slight angle on it and it actually doesn't do anything. If anything, it makes it worse. If I want to blend this out, which should even out the color, it just doesn't. It just doesn't do anything. It's pretty terrible."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Naturium Phyto-Glow Lip Balm

"I love the original formula anyway, so if it's the same deal, [...] I'm going to really like these. And I do like it has a bit of a shine to it. Not everyday wear for me, but for other people it is. I love this applicator. I love that little [...] dip in the applicator, means that it's going to pick up a little bit more product. Some product is going to sit within that dip and you're not going to have to go backwards and forwards, [...] reapplying it. It's kind of like a standby."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

MAC Stone Lipstick

"My ideal Brown it is Stone by Mac. I actually got this because Lonel Re has similar skin tone to me she wears this a lot of the time, and so I got it and it actually really works. So you can see on my skin it is a true Brown, um without the light true Brown it's not too orange and it's not too like black espresso. Stone on me is gray, it's a contour, so just bear that in mind as well when applying it. A more natural color on your lips, it's important to not overline too much."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Dr. Jart+ Vital Hydra Solution Hydrating Lip Mask

"This is my go to at night. I'll literally just pop this on my lips, sleep with it on, and it's great. My lips are feeling a little bit dry, I pop this on and just leave it be. It doesn't make my lips feel weird. It doesn't get me, like, what I call schmoo mouth, where you get all funny in the corners and all. You just want to be like, why did I bother putting lip balm on? It's really, really, really good. I'm very, very impressed with this. I don't think I've tried much from that brand."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Dream Lip Oil

"I'm so sick of lip oils. Lip oils never look this pigmented for that long. You pop them on a lip and they're on your lips for how long before they're gone? I want some glosses. I want some intense gloss. Not a gloss oil hybrid. I don't care if it's moisturizing my lips, as long as it stays on. I can moisturize my lips some other times. I'm not interested in this at all."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Maybelline Lifter Lip Liner

"That Glides smoothly like I hardly even felt that on my lip. That is a really beautiful pencil that Glides on so smoothly so gently. [...] I'm very very impressed. I have quite a few shades of these. Do I think this is overhyped? I do not. I actually think that's really beautiful. That's really nice."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

NYX Fat Oil Lip Drip

"I saw just absolutely everyone using these, there are a lot of influencers doing beautiful ads for these, but I have also seen those influencers use them all the time, so it is clearly like a truly loved product. It feels really really nice. It doesn't go with a lip liner. [...] I really like that. [...] They feel really really nice on the lip, they feel hydrated, they don't feel claggy."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

MAC Ruby Woo Lipstick

"This is Ruby Woo from Mac, and this works on literally every single skin tone. I've tried it. This has a blue undertone to it, and it's an opaque full coverage lipstick."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Rouge Experience Refillable Lipstick

"It's described as a luxurious refillable next generation lipstick. The packaging is made from aluminium, is refillable and can be engraved. There are eight different shades in this. I love Lisa Eldridge products. I love the formula. I love the texture. This shade really excites me. I love the packaging. I love that it's a refill. With Lisa Eldridge, the formula is going to be beautiful. It's going to be comfortable to wear. There's going to be reasoning behind every single ingredient."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Plumping Gloss

"I do like that high shine, high color."

~Mixed

58%Guru Score

Tarte Maracuja Juicy Lip Balm

"I do find it weird that it's round. I'm not against it. I'm up for trying new things. Tarte isn't my favorite brand. I don't like them for a number of reasons, but if we're ranking these fairly, I do like that high shine, high color. I think sometimes when we use glossy products that aren't meant to be a tint, we do lose a lot of that high shine. So I do like that powerful shine."

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

Romand Glass Tint Color Gloss

"This is genuinely one of my favorite formulas, brands, and textures. This is the Glass Tint Color Gloss from Romand. Romand make the most incredible lip products in general. This is the shade Peony Ballet. [...] I really like this. The applicator kind of has that bend to it, so when you apply it, you're kind of just really pushing it to your cheek. [...] Imagine a gloss with this high shine and color that isn't sticky, that doesn't feel tacky on the lip, in the most beautiful, subtle pink."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Flower Knows Mermaid Lip Gloss

"Next, we have Flower Knows. I love the glossy lip tints from this mermaid collection, and this shade is just a tiny bit deeper than what I want the final color to be, because I want to give it a slight gradient effect and a little more dimension. So to get more of a pink gradient..."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Lip Gloss in Pink Pout

"So apparently everyone on Chinese social media has been trying to shade match this bunny's tongue because it's supposed to be the perfect pink gloss shade. And the closest we found is this Sephora Collection lip gloss in the shade Pink Pout. Of course, I bought it immediately. This is what it looks like. Look at how pretty the color is. Love it. Love it."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dr. Dennis Gross DermInfusions Plump + Repair Lip Treatment

"Really nice. Now, here's why I should have patch tested. [...] I used it all on my lips, and then it kind of like, it wasn't smudged everywhere. I didn't touch the rest of my face, nothing like that. I know better than to put on a plumping product with the applicator. I didn't use any on my finger, and I just left it there and let it do its thing. It got all itchy down here, all red and raised. It looked horrendous. [...] It got worse than this. It got redder and redder and redder."

✕Nay

72%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Lip Oils

"The Milk Makeup lip oils, they're really cute."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Rhode Phone Case with Lip Balm Holder

"I don't think this is good. [...] I actually think it's pretty ugly, but I do think it's a good sales marketing thing. You have that phone case. The only lip balm that can fit into there is that Rhode one. [...] I think it's really, really good marketing. [...] They only have iPhone 14 or 15 Pro Max. Like, make a few different ones. [...] It says it has a cushiony back, so I guess it's kind of soft."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Aquaphor Lip Repair Stick

"Aquaphor for the lips, because it's literally the best and rehydrates everything."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Lancôme Juicy Tubes

"I'm going in with some Juicy Tubes. Lancôme Juicy Tubes. Purchased myself. These are an icon. Look at that just shine. I really like this one in particular because it is just a glow."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Gloss

"I went and bought the Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Gloss because everybody hypes on about it, saying it gives you that lip injection effect without the obviously injection part. I can't afford lip injections and I was never going to just jump into it and just expect that it would suit me because sometimes it doesn't suit people. I did heaps of research. Even some friends, like old friends of mine used to use it and it was such a pretty gloss and it gave them such a nice plump look."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

Florasis Floral Care Hydrating Dual Lip Oil

"This is the Floral Care Hydrating Dual Lip Oil. You can see it definitely has two parts to it, and there's two little balls there, so you have to shake it up. There's no taste to it. There's no smell to it. [...] It feels wetter than an oil usually would."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

Kylie Cosmetics Kylie Lip Kits

"It was fine. However, they did kind of make out that the concept of having a lipstick and a matching liner was this brand new concept that they had come up with. Like, there's a gap in the market. People need this. Nobody provides this for us. It's so hard to find a matching lipstick and a matching lip liner. It's really not that hard. [...] There was no gap in the market. [...] You don't have to pretend that you've come up with something revolutionary."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Lime Crime Velvetine Lipsticks

"One of their standout products was the Velvetine Lipsticks. They were basically a liquid lipstick, really comfortable on the lip, really soft and smooth and really long lasting and in crazy colors back then. I got a set and it had this pumpkin yellowy shade. I literally never used it. I just opened it and sniffed it occasionally."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer

"I really like these Fenty Beauty lip glosses. It's like this peachy color."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Dior Addict Lip Maximizer

"I love this Dior Lip Maximizer, the little lip plumper, as a base on my lip. [...] It stays on me all day."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Laneige Lip Glowy Balm

"We love it, we like these balms, they're great moisturizing lip balms. This one's the acai mango smoothie in the marbled formula, the lip care you love in a marbled formula. I could eat this with a spoon, it looks like dessert, my mouth is watering. It's really summery, a bit citrusy, a little bit sour, like passion fruit. It's limited edition so I better get it soon. The glowy lip balm is a little bit heavier weight compared to their serum."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

NYX Lip Lingerie Lip Liner Stain

"I love the NYX Lip Lingerie Lip Liner Stain. I love the applicator. I love how small it is and how like defined you can get with the tip."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

e.l.f. Glow Reviver Melting Lip Balm

"Listen. Foul. Absolutely foul."

✕Nay

79%Guru Score

Alternative Stereo Lip Potion Steaming Milk

"This is their Steaming Milk. And it's really, really great if your lips feel really dry, really tight, you put this on and it's kind of like a heating sensation, but not burning or anything like that. If you've ever worn one of those eye masks that gently, like, warm up and kind of like make it feel like a steaming mask. It's like that for your lips. And they also do a version in a pot as well. I do like this version a lot more."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

COSRX AHA BHA Vitamin C Lip Plumper

"This is the lip plump from COSRX. AHA BHA Vitamin C Lip Plumper. [...] I love this because it doesn't sting my lips. Like, it doesn't hurt. I am a wimp when it comes to lip plumping products that sting, [...] but this one, to me, doesn't sting. [...] There's a very slight tingle. But it's not like [...] that lip venom one. It's nothing like that. It's very, very copable and manageable. You'll see my lips don't even get bright red."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

ColourPop So Juicy Plumping Gloss Balm

"Oh, what a beautiful texture. They're like, melty. Oh, they call melting balms so juicy. Yeah, they are juicy. Love that. Oh, my gosh. Slightly plumping, but not irritating. That's stunning. Really, really like that."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

fwee Blurry Lip and Cheek Pudding Pot

"I really want you to see the texture of this and how unique it is and how kind of bouncy they are and how soft they come out. It's almost mousy and that's kind of what gives it that really beautiful sheared out blur and the smoothing effect it has on the lips as well. It's really great on the lips because it really helps to smooth out finer lines and just give that velvety soft finish. I truly have never seen a product with a formula and a finish quite like this one."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

e.l.f. Glow Reviver Lip Oil

"I love the formula of their lip oils already. If you haven't tried them, they're a bargain. Try one of the nude ones. Like, not the clear ones because the clear ones are very similar in shade actually. I'm not a big fan of glitter, but I do like a shimmer in a lip product. They just look so beautiful. These are really nice."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Merit Signature Lip Lightweight Lipstick

"This is the shade Ginger, which [...] is just a really natural lip shade. You can make any lipstick natural as well just by tapping it on your lip like this. It looks like my lip color but better, more even. It's almost like foundation for my lips. [...] It's a color of my lip and it's evening out the tone. It's gonna be super easy to top up as well because it's just a little bit on my lips."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

ColourPop So Juicy Lip Plump Liner Pencil

"Usually I don't like plumping on the lip because I just find it uncomfortable. But this is actually that cooling menthol kind of plumping. It's not like that horrible, like, oh my God, this really hurts plumping. So they feel really comfortable. These are really nice once you let them sit on the lip for a good amount of time, I'm talking like 30 seconds, but they look, they really smooth out, so I really, really like that."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

MUA Makeup Academy Hydrogeus Peptide Lip Balm

"I just carry lip balms around with me. I'm that person now. And yes, I also own a Stanley cup and they seem to go together for some reason. But I'm just going to let this sit, smooth out my lips, hydrate them. So thank you to Mua Makeup Academy for sponsoring this video. Love you guys. Love you as a brand and love you in general, your inclusivity. The products you release at a beautiful price range. These are two pounds for lip balms. Again, like I say, incredible."

✓Yay

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Dasique Juicy Dewy Lip Tint

"They're just so comfortable on the lip. You hardly know they're there. And they blend so well with your other makeup. Number 15 is a [...] coral, but not too, like, over the top coral or orange. Beautiful. I love this."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sigma Hydro Melt Lip Mask

"These are beautiful. The texture is like this smooth, almost like gel jelly. It's a balm. It's that lip mask texture without being heavy. I don't like heavy lip balms that feel like you got something on your lip and you're just like, all the time. I'm wearing it now and it kind of just looks like a lip gloss. And I'm going to keep it on because my lips are extremely dry. So I chose the shade Tint because it's very universal in terms of its shade. Looks beautiful on all skin tones."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Cream Glide Lip Liner

"This is Bad As Beige. I'm thinking, like, a neutral kind of beige for this hack. So, only overdrawing the cupid's bow first. I'm going to stop at the point of my cupid's bow. I think I need to go darker. Let's go back in with Spill The Tea. Yeah, that's better. On the inside of the lip now. And then only overdrawing the middle of the bottom lip. And then going back inside the lip. And connecting that to the corner. Let's go back in with Honey Talks."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

e.l.f. Squeeze Me Lip Balm

"I have super dry crusty lips at the moment. So I'm going to use one of the Squeeze Me Lip Balms. This is in Honeydew, like the melon."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

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

"This is the O FACE Satin Lipstick, and this is a shade Effortless. I've kind of gone for that, like, raspberry, kind of, like, muted raspberry. I like it. Mine's a little bit more glossy because of the lip balm, but I think it looks really cute. I do prefer a glossier lip to a matte."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Huda Beauty GloWish Super Jelly Lip Balm in Matcha

"I love a green balm and gloss. [...] I'm going to put on Matcha and just leave it on while I do my eyes."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Blush & Bronzer60 reviews

BK Beauty Skin Perfecting Blush

"I do have to say, I don't know why you would choose to launch with a packaging like this that is very similar to another brand already, because people are going to think you're trying to dupe the product, trying to dupe the brand. [...] I do like the shade range though. We have this kind of like cooler tones to a lot of stuff."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Milani Baked Blush

"This is actually beautiful. This blush actually looks stunning. It has a really nice glow to it and it does feel a lot softer, a lot more blendable than the bronzer was before. [...] It is sparkling. It does roséish. It's quite nice. That's beautiful. That's kind of like your highlight and your blush in one. I love the way it moves around with the cheek and catches the light. That is quite nice. That's what I would expect from a baked product. [...] It doesn't feel cheap in quotes."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Milani Baked Bronzer in Amalfi Glow

"I don't think this is a very good bronzer. I don't like the way that's sitting on my skin at all. [...] I have definitely used drugstore bronzers that are much much nicer than this. [...] The color is fine but it's just a little bit dry. Although it's baked and baked products are meant to be that really super soft blendable texture, whereas this feels dry for a mineral product. That doesn't feel good on skin at all."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Blush

"Love their blush, their cream blush, not their powder blush."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Rhode Pocket Blush

"I did try their Pocket Blush. Was not a fan."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Rhode Pocket Bronzer

"Would I run out and abandon all my other bronzers to hunt down this one? Absolutely not. It's a nice bronzer, but is it wildly different to other cream bronzers I've used? Not really. [...] I'm going to get a lot of use out of it though. When I mix Pebble and Sip together it [...] looks a little bit bruised, [...] perhaps it's a bit too yellow for my neutral skin tone, but Pebble by itself is much better on my skin. Am I going to replace my current bronzers with this?"

~Mixed

74%Guru Score

Dior Forever Couture Luminizer Highlighter

"There's nothing about this that's purple one bit actually at all. When I build it up you can see it's a little bit purple, but you [...] can't build it up much because it's so balmy that when you put it on your face it's just going to start to melt off, so unless you want to build excessively on top of it, you're never going to get that rich purple. Sometimes you don't get what you pay for."

✕Nay

77%Guru Score

Rhode Highlight Milk Multi-Purpose Illuminizer

"Would I buy this again? I don't think I would, only because there is the tiniest amount of glitter in it, I'm just not a glittery person. However, the positives, it's not too heavy on my skin, it's not over hydrating, and I feel like the glow is going to be there without being greasy. If you don't mind a little bit of shimmer, this might be okay for you. It's a bit glittery for me, but I'll use it up, it'll be fine."

~Mixed

77%Guru Score

L'Oreal Multi-Use Tinted Balm Blush and Highlighter

"This looks awful on the skin. [...] If you put a balmy shimmer product over texture, the texture looks worse, and the texture is clearer here. That red is awful, it looks like a rash. [...] I don't like the look of them on the skin, I think they look really horrible, and it's not great even on a deeper skin tone. The cool shades are way too coppery and metallicky, almost like copper face paint. I really don't like this balm at all."

✕Nay

82%Guru Score

Patrick Ta Double-Take Creme and Powder Blush Duo

"What I was originally going to say about these products are they are not worth it. They're pretty useless for the price. I've never tried them. I've seen people try them online on their hands swatching them and it basically looks like dust. [...] Makeup is meant to have pigment. It is a lightweight blush. However, here's what gets me about these products. The pigmentation, the depth, and the heaviness of your blend depends on you."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

ColourPop Blush Sticks

"When they release things like these Blush Sticks, [...] I get really really happy [...] because I know that it's going to be part of their regular range, which are always really impressive products. Look at that pigmentation. Beautiful. It's very rich in color, very pigmented, very smooth going on."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Pixi On-the-Glow Blush

"My foundation still looks nice and intact underneath. It's very glowy, but it doesn't feel greasy. It has a bit of a thickness to it in terms of texture, [...] almost like creamy. It is cream. [...] This is beautiful. It has such a nice glow to it. [...] Without looking greasy. That [...] catches the light really beautifully. I really really like that. [...] These are quite good for like a makeup kit, imagine just stocking them up in your kit. How great is that?"

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Sun Stalker Souffle Bronzer

"I do like that putty formula. That creamy, powdery, velvety, smooth formula I think works really well on high textured areas. They look beautiful on the skin. Bronzer never felt like this. I'm just not overwhelmed by it. I'd say six. I'm not 100% into this."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Lily by Red Love Beam Cheek Balm

"I love these blushes with my whole heart. [...] Don't let the heart packaging fool you. These are stunning. I love the formula. It's like a creamy, I don't describe it as a dry cream, but it sits beautifully on skin texture. [...] It's a moisturizing blush, easy to build without caking, and it's encased in a heart shaped container. I really love them. [...] I think they're really beautiful. I think they make great shades. Very inclusive shades."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Maybelline Cloud Topia Blush in Coral Illusion

"I'm going to say no. Is it a nice cream blush? Yes. The main differences being Fe is more matte. I like that you can build up gradually, and I just feel like it's going to last a lot longer on the skin than this. [...] This still isn't matte. This is quite creamy. So, I get what they've gone for. I get it. But even on the lip here, you can still see this has a bit of a glow to it. And I just, that's not what I would want from this kind of product. [...] But is it a nice cream blush? Yeah, sure."

✕Nay

67%Guru Score

NYX Fat Cheeks Juicy Plump Blush

"Very easy to blend as well. I don't feel like I'm struggling to blend. I really like that. I like the smell as well. I am very tempted to try this bright, bright pink, because that does look beautiful."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Hung Vanngo Velvet Blush in Single Mother

"I am very much in a cream blush era right now, because a lot of powder blushes tend to be really tightly pressed in the palette, which means they're kind of blocky. When you put them on, they're not [...] velvety, and they don't look smooth on the skin. Whereas this one is very soft, and it really is like cashmere. I love that. I absolutely love that. That's beautiful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Youthforia BYO Blush

"Originally they gained popularity in 2021 with the BYO Blush that was pH reactive. Listen, me and pH, so over it. Can't deal with it anymore. Stop with a pH. Just release a pink colour that looks the same. [...] But I have to admit the packaging of Youthforia, [...] the way they have these Lego-esque stands, caught my eye and I did purchase a few products from them."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

House of Hur Every Cheek Blush

"I love House of Hur. If you haven't tried their serum blushes already, they are so beautiful. These are their Every Cheek Blush. So it looks like we have five different shades here. Quite a deep red and more apple red, a fuchsia pink, a nudie pink, and then a brown tone. Comes in a stick. Look how beautiful that bright pink looks on this deeper skin tone."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Romand Juicy Roll Cheek Blushes

"These are from one of my favorite brands, Romand, [...] and these are their Juicy Roll Cheek Blushes. They come in a few different shades. [...] They come in neutrals, reds and pinks. [...] It's subtle in a way that isn't harsh. It looked for a second like it was going on [...] quite intense, but it really blends out really nicely. It has a glow to it, but it's not greasy or claggy feeling on the skin. Smells good too."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Natasha Denona High Sculpt Liquid Bronzer

"I love the idea of a serum bronzer like that, isn't just a liquid bronzer but serum-esque. I think liquids can be a little bit heavier than a serum, especially if it's like water serums feel more watery, lighter weight on the skin. These look beautiful. I appreciate the deepness of these. They look really, really beautiful."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Dior Forever Blush Soft Filter

"I actually prefer this lineup of shades. [...] I've been into the Dior blushes recently, I think they are really really stunning and really beautiful. I'm happy to see this kind of deeper pink shade and this deeper brownie nude as well alongside the light pink and the orangey shade. It's a nice selection for neutrals. I do like the moussey kind of airy finish, it very much reminds me of the Fard à Poudre pudding pots, which are my absolute favorite things ever. The shades look good."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Benefit Benetint Liquid Lip & Cheek Stain

"I really like those. This is a classic product that works really well."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Covergirl True Blend Skin Enhancer Contour Balm Stick

"It's very balmy. Like, it's almost wetter than a lot of balms you would use. Almost more serumy than a lot of these contour balms are. It blends really nicely though. It's sitting really nicely with my foundation. [...] This is what color your contour should be. Well done, Covergirl. That's great for a drugstore contour. It's a beautiful shade. A lot of drugstore contours you just get [...] bronzer. But these are actually that nice grayish dusky shadow like shades that a contour should be."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Matte Liquid Blush

"Rare Beauty's Soft Pinch Blush, sold out, again, locked up like they're diamonds."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

NARS Orgasm Blush

"Nars was always one of those brands you really aspired to own or use, with its now iconic Orgasm Blush. Listen, you had Orgasm Blush."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Givenchy Prisme Libre Mousseline Bronze Bronzer Powder

"These three shades, Mousseline Bronze, Poplin Bronze, Oranza Bronze, that's it? Three shades? I don't understand. One of the biggest fashion houses in the whole world who constantly uses deep, deep skin tone models on their runways, and this is what you give us for your beauty part: three shades of bronzer. These brands with all this money, you could do anything. You have all the money and yet you choose to bring out three shades of bronzer. I don't understand."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Polite Society Polite Pops Powder Blush Stick - London

"I don't find this exciting in any way to be honest with you. Polite Society is a brand I'm not going to use anyway. It's by the owner of Too Faced, I want to say, and I don't like it. [...] Some of these shades look nice, Miami, Los Angeles, Sydney stand out to me as nice shades, but I just don't find it exciting in any way. [...] The packaging looks cheap, the font actually looks pretty cheap too. Yeah, I'm not into it. It's like powder blush in a stick. We've all seen a stick before."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

NYX Butter Melt Bronzer

"It's really really nice for a drugstore price bronzer. I think it's beautiful, and [...] the packaging is really beautiful packaging for a drugstore bronzer product. It feels a bit heavier, it's a nicer plastic, and it does give like a medium end kind of brand feel. I think it's actually really nice. I don't think it's overhyped. I think if you find the right shade for you in the bronzer, this is a beautiful product. I [...] actually quite like it."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Cream Contour

"I love their own brand stuff. Their [...] Contour is really beautiful, their powders as well."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Hindash Luna Gradient Highlighter

"That gel hybrid formula, I think, makes for a beautiful highlighter texture because it is natural and it looks natural on the skin. And I hate unnatural looking highlights. So these look really, really stunning. I'm just gonna go ahead straight away and pop them in at number one because I love highlighters, and I just think that's gonna look amazing."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

MAC Glow Play Cushiony Blush

"The new MAC Glow Play collection. These Cushiony Blushes have that bouncy blush texture again. The blushes are quite nice. They're fine. What I do like is that they are everyday colors, so somebody could get through them."

~Mixed

84%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Positive Light Silky Touch Highlighter

"I have the Rare Beauty highlighter in the shade Exhilarate. [...] I'm gonna tap it into here. [...] Oh, yeah, that's nice. That's nice. [...] That was so quick and easy. [...] It's very quick, very easy. If you're a bit curious of where to put your highlight, that's a really good technique. I really, really like that."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Haus Labs Pomelo Peach Blush

"You know it's good when you want to eat it. They look so good. The texture looks beautiful, the creaminess, the packaging. Everything about these products just looks right. I do really, really like Haus Labs. There's some things I can give or take, but their products do work, and that's what I really, really like about them. [...] Some of these look stunning. The nudes look beautiful to me, and those deeper, richer shades are going to be so, so beautiful."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Blush (reformulated)

"It was one of the worst blushes I've ever tried in my life. Pigmentless, terrible texture. And I've also used it after the reformulation of the product, and it still wasn't great. I have to be honest, I do like Dior products, don't get me wrong, I love their face and body powder and their highlighters, but this blush is or was just shit. And it's $34 for a blush that's pretty small and actually pretty shallow as well. [...] It's so fine and lightweight that you hardly see it on the skin."

✕Nay

54%Guru Score

Benefit Hoola Bronzer

"I do like hoola Omar I do um I'm not the biggest fan of benefit but that's a classic product"

~Mixed

69%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Liquid Bronzer

"Some bronzers have a really nice shine or [...] glow to them, and some look quite matte. [...] Depending on what I want that day, if I want to glow or if I want it to be matte, I change it up a little bit. I love the e.l.f."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly Tint

"I think it's a really, really nice product. I think it's really fun. If you have any kind of dry texture in the area you want to apply the blush tint, it will cling to dry areas and show up patchy. So maybe consider what your skin is like on that day. For oilier skins, it'll be quite nice and should last a lot longer. [...] It stains quite well. [...] It applies well in certain ways. Some people who consider themselves maybe not good at makeup might have a little bit of a learning curve with it."

~Mixed

53%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Fluid Sheer Liquid Highlighter

"I'm using the Armani Fluid Sheer Liquid Highlighter in shade two. [...] With the Halo glow, I do kind of a halo around the eye so there's multiple points that catch the light. Anytime your face is moving, this enhances your bone structure and really gives you an all over gorgeous glow. You absolutely can use a small brush for this, but I'm just going to use my finger to pick up a little bit of the highlighter."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Saie Dew Blush

"I'm adding a little bit of Saie Dew Blush."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush

"Taking this Too Faced blush, I love starting this at the outer corner of my undereye and then pulling up right under that line of contour to really lift my face. And then if I really want that sunburned look, I'll even take a tiny bit and just apply it right above my brow bone. [...] Focusing on the blush above the brow bone, it's so effective, but so subtle. And this side is so blurred and so balanced."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Gucci Bronzer

"Gucci's bronzers. The worst bronzer I think I've ever used in my life. Horrendous. It was muddy. It didn't blend. It was awful. It was just such a horrible, horrible formula. I'm like, I spent money on that, and then I end up using my Colourpop one. You know what I mean? What's the point in investing in something really, really super high end like that?"

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Laura Geller Serum Blush Cheek Tint

"This is the Laura Geller Serum Blush. The shade is Beautiful Blossom. And you can see how thin it is. So to me, even though I am getting that really nice sheer wash of color, I can still see my skin through, which is a big tenet of the Demi Method. They really want your natural skin to show and to have your natural texture and everything like that. But I find that I can still get that by using a little more product."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Haus Labs Power Sculpt Velvet Bronzer

"What's so nice about this powder is it doesn't even go on like a powder. It's extremely smooth and extremely easy to blend. [...] This bronzer is velvety. It is extremely smooth. It's a gel powder, and it's beautiful to wear."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Seeker Highlighter in Sun Idle

"They are bringing out this Glow Seeker Highlighter, and I have to admit it looks really nice. I'm a fan of highlighters, and a lot of the time they end up being my new favorite. This one is described as "for a multidimensional glow with a feel of a second skin." So I'm guessing it's going to be lightweight. It's a "baked powder gel hybrid formula," which sounds really good, and it should be a little smoother on the skin. If it's baked, that makes it smooth anyway, and it's a gel hybrid."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Powder Highlighter in Champagne Pop

"This is the highlighter that I collaborated with Becca Cosmetics to create, and it is called Champagne Pop. [...] It comes in the exact same packaging as all other Becca highlights, and it is also the same formulation as all other Becca highlights. I only created the color and the concept behind Champagne Pop, not the actual formulation. It's staying true to the Becca formula that we all know and love."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Ofra Rodeo Drive Highlighter

"Ofra used to be a favorite brand of mine, right? Their highlighters, Rodeo Drive. My absolute favorite. I thought it was incredible. They did amazing collaborations. The brand was one of my absolute favorites. I had a bit of everything from them. So imagine my disappointment when I had to give away all the products I had because of this image."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Contour

"I do really really like this product. And this shade still has a little bit of warmth to me on my skin, but it's nice and subtle and natural. That's what we like."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Warm Wishes Soft Matte Powder Bronzer

"I think the formula is beautiful. I think that's really really nice. My only concern is imagine that on a [...] super fair skin. I think we need to rethink this. The other shades, the deeper shades look beautiful. I think they look stunning. But if this is looking orangey on me, imagine on somebody else, imagine someone who's even lighter than me, maybe even a little bit pinker than me. [...] This is quite orange on my skin."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Matte Bouncy Blush in Happy

"This is a stunning formula. A cushiony cream to powder blush that gives the dreamiest flush of color with a lasting blurred matte finish. [...] I just love the way it is on the skin. I think it's just one of the best blushes. [...] I know these come out slightly deeper than they look in the pan. Some of them. It does have a bit more of that warmth to it. I do like that they tried it on a model with a deeper skin tone. [...] I love this formula. So I'm going to pop them in at number three."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Blush Filters in Ube Cream

"That is a very lovely looking powder. [...] From one application, just the right amount of blush. [...] I'm going to go into this mid tone shade, Spiced Tangerine, and put that underneath the cheekbones and then like half up on the cheekbone too. I really like that. I'm a subtle blush kind of person so this isn't like overkill for me in any way. I [...] like that highlight shade which is called Peach Fizz. [...] I don't get everyone's issue with the pigmentation."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Clio Prism Highlighter

"These look stunning. I love Clio, Clio is a very affordable brand. [...] I have some of their mascaras, they're just a really really great brand. If you're ever shopping [...] and come across Clio, they're a good brand to go for. These look stunning, I like how they have some other shades here that can be used on deeper skin tones. I like their highlighters, they do some of the best highlighters, so I really like them."

✓Yay

Notverified

Merit Bronze Balm Sheer Bronzer Stick

"This is a bronze balm in CN from Merit. [...] I like to look in the mirror, and I like to look down and concentrate and focus on those areas where naturally my shadow occurs and just fill in those little bits. I like to fill in my nose here. I don't take it down because I don't need it there. [...] This product blends in beautifully anyway."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Merit Daylow Highlighting Balm

"This is a shade kava, which is stunning. It's not. I wouldn't even say this is a color. It's more like a finish. [...] It just has this luminous glow to it. [...] I just love this highlighter so much. [...] When a highlight is really, really nice and it's not glittery and it's not overly shimmery, and it just looks like my skin is really, really glowing, I just love it. [...] The formula and the texture, that's what I want from the highlight. I like to keep it just how it is on the skin."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

ColourPop Weightless Liquid Blush

"It's a nice texture. I like it. [...] I actually really, really like them. For the price point for what it is with the pigmentation. Looks really nice. You can kind of see that glow of the hyaluronic acid. There is hyaluronic acid."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Merit Flush Balm Cheek Color in Beverly Hills

"I'm going to use the flush balm in the shade Beverly Hills. Your blush is going to go down like this, which is going to add length. If you want to make your face look wider, imagine an invisible line from your nostrils to the bottom of your ear or to midway off your ear. We're going to do a little bit more color here going across this way and we can take it right in."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Liquid Blush

"I really like that color. That is nice. That's bronze bronze. Beautiful. [...] I could use that as bronzer. If I just used the tiniest amount, that'll be really beautiful. The Coral Crush [...] fades in so nicely. [...] It actually looks really nice on the skin because it does have that slight shine, that nice glow to it. It doesn't look too matte on my skin, so it's making my skin look nice and glowy. Nice and healthy. [...] This bronze would be beautiful round the whole face."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

e.l.f. Putty Blush

"They sit great on me. I love the Putty Blush. [...] If you're looking for maybe something a little bit more natural that you don't want to have to work too much with, the Putty would be a good one. You have to build it up a little bit more to get the pigment, so it's not quite as quick as some alternatives, but I do like e.l.f.'s cheek products. [...] And for the price, it's a bargain."

✓Yay

Notverified

e.l.f. Halo Glow Highlighter Beauty Wand

"For the more affordable side, we have the e.l.f. Halo Glow Highlighter in the Champagne Campaign shade, and I have used this before, so I know I like it. [...] I see so many mixed reviews when it comes to these wand things from e.l.f. A lot of people love them and a lot of people weren't so sure."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Putty Bronzer

"The e.l.f Putty Bronzer is one of my absolute favorite, favorite bronzers. It sits incredibly well on the skin, no matter what kind of skin type. For something that's full coverage, this does have a really kind of natural finish. It doesn't look crazy, crazy full. It doesn't look cakey on the skin. I [...] love the way it just looks fully blended with a foundation. Melts in with it beautifully."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Foundation51 reviews

Vieve Skin Nova Complexion Foundation

"It feels really beautiful on the skin. It smells really really good, with a beautiful smell that isn't overly fragrant. My skin does feel really hydrated and really smooth. The golden tint fades as you blend it in, so it isn't overwhelming, though I [...] think I use a little too much and would use less and blend it round."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Milani Conceal and Perfect Blur Out Skin Tint Sticks

"It's really easy to blend, gives even coverage and that soft matte look. It's not overly hydrating despite the hydration hype in the description, it definitely isn't dry or gripping to dry skin, but it's not the super hydrated finish either, more of a semi matte finish that doesn't feel like a BB cream. I think it's worth it so far for the coverage and the texture on the skin, it blends really really nice. After it sat for a while I did notice it got a little bit greasy."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Missha M Perfect Cover BB Cream

"I love [...] this BB cream, I think it's beautiful. [...] The one in the red tube is one of my absolute favorites because I just love the way it sits on the skin. It looks so natural, any kind of texture on the skin is just completely evened out, smoothed out. It wears nicely, it wears well. [...] I do think the red one has quite a bit more coverage. [...] My oily people, if you do want one of the Missha BB creams, go for the red one."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Missha Perfect Cover Serum BB Cream

"People on TikTok shop sell this because it has SPF 50 saying it's your foundation and your sunscreen, but it is not, this is a BB cream, its main focus is coverage, not sunscreen, and it doesn't give you enough product to count as proper sun protection. If you don't mind something that is very, very hydrating, like insane hydration moisture, then absolutely go and get it. If you are a little bit more dehydrated, a little bit drier, this might be quite nice, if not, stick to the red one."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Clarins Double Serum Foundation

"And no, foundation shouldn't do that. You should be blending your foundation so much that it's just pushed into the skin. [...] Initially when I put it on, I really really like the formula. I love the finish. It feels really kind of like weightless on the skin. And I was actually kind of surprised at the coverage you get from it. I think it's a really beautiful coverage. I really do. And it looks better when you put it on versus literally about 20 seconds later."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

NARS Natural Matte Longwear Foundation

"I like some Nars products, I like a lot of Nars products, but the foundation... let's not judge the foundation, let's not talk about it, let's ignore that product."

✕Nay

69%Guru Score

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

"This foundation has a solid shade range for deeper skin with good undertone options. The coverage is full and it truly lasts all day without breaking down or oxidizing. It handles hyperpigmentation really well and doesn't budge through heat or humidity. The formula is buildable without getting cakey. It does have a more matte finish, so if you want something ultra dewy, this isn't it. But for long lasting, reliable coverage, this delivers."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

NARS Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation

"NARS is a big disappointment for me. It has a very limited shade range, personally I'd need something in between two shades. Also, instead of smoothing the skin, it sits on top, oxidizes, and makes the complexion look tired and older."

✕Nay

76%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Luminous Matte Foundation

"This one looks flawless when you first apply it, but it doesn't wear well on deeper skin. The formula is heavy and as the day goes on, it starts to oxidize and can turn orange. It also emphasizes texture and sits on top of the skin instead of blending in. By midday, it looks obvious and makeup."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish Foundation

"That foundation is one of the best foundations I think I have ever used in my life. Once you get the shade right, I actually went into the counter at Selfridges and had a shade match because I kept buying the shade that wasn't mine. And oh, my God, it was so stunning. One of the best foundations for me. Definitely worth a price tag. I think if there's something worth investing in, it is your complexion products."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Revlon PhotoReady Lift & Fill Skin Tint

"Packed with glitter. That looks like glitter liquid. I'm on edge."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit All Cover Cushion Foundation

"It really helps keep oil in check. So if you do have an oilier skin, this is going to be a great option for you. The finish is matte, full coverage, great for anyone with oily skin or combination skin or anybody who just wants shine control throughout the day. And I have to say, all the cushions do a really good job at sitting on top of texture. So if you do have textured skin, things like larger pores, perhaps fine lines, all these foundations do sit beautifully on top of them."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation

"This is a beautiful foundation. I love it. But I did not want that on my wedding day. [...] It's very sheer. It literally just takes out redness. It's basically like your skin, but better without redness because I have rosacea. [...] Obviously, it needs to be blended out with a Beauty Blender, but that is like, that's full coverage."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Erborian CC Red Correct

"The perfect Korean hybrid product for skin prone to redness. [...] It can be worn as your foundation. [...] But they don't claim anywhere on the website that it does reduce redness. It's also not that deep. [...] It has coverage and it can be used as a foundation. There's encapsulated pigment in it."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

bareMinerals Original Loose Powder Foundation

"You're going to have to go for something mineral based. So, if there's a powder foundation, probably like Bare Minerals cuz mineral powder is really good at smoothing over texture."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

IL Makiage Woke Up Like This Flawless Base Foundation

"IL Makiage are pretty scammy anyway. All their videos have, like, really heavy filters on. And it's always like some celebrity putting on the foundation and then being like, oh, wow. Look how incredible I look. And it's like, their face is so smooth, you can barely see their nose."

✕Nay

52%Guru Score

Youthforia Date Night Skin Tint Serum Foundation

"This is the darkest shade of the Youthforia Date Night [...] Foundation. This is black face paint. Sometimes it's okay to say, hey, maybe my brand is not made for complexion. [...] When we say that we want you guys to make shades for us, we don't mean to go to the lab and ask for minstrel show black. What we mean is to take the browns that you have made, create undertones and do what you need to do in the lab. So it's a darker shade of brown."

✕Nay

51%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Longwear and Care Skin Tint

"I think I'm interested. That glow looks really, really good. But I just haven't been... I'm just not into Armani. You know, like the... I just don't know. I'm just not into them."

~Mixed

72%Guru Score

Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation

"I'm gonna buy two foundations, Haus Labs and Makeup by Mario. We're gonna go into Sephora and get matched. The first person popped in and was like, oh, your foundation is a little orange. Trying to find neutral undertone, but otherwise it's close. Definitely a warm tone."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Gel Tint

"The milk one is stunning. The one from Milk is so beautiful and it's truly a skin tint. Like it's not crazy crazy coverage, you know? It really does just tints the skin."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Maybelline Super Stay 24-Hour Skin Tint

"This is probably our fullest coverage in terms of skin tint. [...] What I love about this one is there's no texture here, it's just my nose texture. Usually if I put foundation on top of my nose texture, I get this really dried out kind of texture around here. It looks like dry skin, it physically looks like dry skin. Whereas this glides over really nicely. I [...] have worn it for two or three hours and it still looks stunning on the skin. This I would say is for you more oily people out there."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

e.l.f. Foundation

"There are people out there who have acne that are using e.l.f."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Clio Kill Cover Foundation Cushion

"I do have some of their cushion foundations, which obviously I can just fit. The shades just suit me. They're just always going to be slightly just too light. But I can get away with it. You know what I mean? I can always warm it up with a bronzer. I can always add contour, whatever."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Blur Foundation

"This foundation is a beautiful foundation and I have been using it every time I film. [...] I like the way it sits on my skin after it's been on for a few minutes. What was overhyped about this foundation is the blurring aspect, it does not blur on me. I [...] did look at some other people's reviews and I feel like a lot of people agree that it is a really really nice foundation, however blurring it is not."

~Mixed

82%Guru Score

Maybelline SuperStay Lumi Matte 30-Hour Foundation

"I really like the Maybelline Super Stay. It's called Super Stay. If you're using a lightweight product, make sure that it is a long lasting product. [...] For a reason, because it stays. Gives me the coverage I want. But it's super lightweight. I don't feel suffocated in the heat. It goes a long way."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Jones Road What the Foundation

"The only way I know how to describe this foundation is it's kind of one you had to tiptoe around when it comes to application method, right? So I was trying to tap with fingers very delicately. I was trying to think, you know, it's a makeup artist brand, what would a makeup artist do to make this work. Then I was using brushes, and I was using all this other stuff. A few things didn't work in this right. The finish, in general, really gripped to the texture on my skin."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless Foundation

"This Maybelline Fit Me one can be used by itself, and then a translucent powder would be better. The Maybelline Fit Me isn't a powder foundation, but it does have coverage. [...] Our powders, if we have a foundation like the Maybelline Fit Me foundation, the fluid, which has enough coverage already, you can build it up. You then don't need to go in with a powder with coverage."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Kosas BB Burst Tinted Moisturizer Gel Cream

"The texture is the killer for me. This wet cream, it was really strange. It's just a big not for me. I do know a lot of people like this and I do want to say I do like Kosa products. Their Cloud set is one of my absolute favorite powders, for example, and I also like their sunscreens as well and their concealer and their other foundation and their bronzers I like a lot from this brand. However, this was a miss."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Hourglass Veil Hydrating Skin Tint Foundation

"I love the skin tint when I don't want to use foundation because usually even when I'm using foundation I kind of dilute it, I always mix it with my peptide glazing fluid, but I find with a skin tint because of how light it is I don't need to do that. I love that it's really hydrating, really glowy, the perfect thing for summertime skin."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation

"Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation is still an OG iconic foundation. [...] It gives you levels of coverage. You can brush it on and get it sheer and veil-like, but then you can take the sponge and really build it up. In the late nineties, early two thousands, Studio Fix was really popular. Still is, but it was super popular then because everyone wanted to look matte."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Soft Matte Longwear Foundation

"The Pro Filt'r Soft Matte Longwear Foundation launched with 40 shades, which was one of the defining features of Fenty Beauty's commitment to inclusivity. [...] By having all those shades and then launching products like bronzers and contours that were workable with these shades, they really set a high standard in the beauty industry and actually a kind of benchmark goal for a lot of brands as well."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Skin Tint

"Let's look at e.l.f.'s version of the glowy base. Doesn't look like it. But you know what it does. We all know what it does. It's clearly its own version, right?"

✓Yay

59%Guru Score

Rimmel Lasting Finish 25 Hour Foundation

"Oh no that's Rimmel lasting finish do this one and then the Maybelline"

~Mixed

73%Guru Score

Rose Inc Soft Light Skin Smoothing Liquid Foundation

"I'm going to go in with my Rose Inc Soft Light Foundation because this is beautiful. And I'm only going to do a very, very light layer."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 24-Hour Fresh Wear Foundation

"I think drugstores are doing some really, really good foundations recently. It's very rarely I use one that I absolutely despise. [...] I think L'Oreal have done a really good job recently with their products. [...] It's meant to be up to 32 hours long wear with Vitamin C. No fading, no shifting, and it's a full coverage. First impressions are good. It's sitting quite well on my skin. Usually in this area here I get a lot of texture, but this is sitting really nicely in my problem areas."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Beautyblender Bounce Foundation

"I think it's really messy. The shade range just wasn't great on the deeper end, which I think we've seen over and over again with so many brands that release a foundation. But I do find it contradictory to her beliefs [...] about being [...] inclusive and wanting to provide for everyone. If you have that experience and that knowledge that the industry isn't doing great at that and it needs to be improved on, why do we then have this shade range? It's a bit contradictory in my eyes."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

KVD Good Apple Foundation

"So despite the love for it by content creators and people who felt they had to buy it and pretend to be shocked by it to also go a little bit viral, it actually received pretty bad reviews online. It's not the best loved foundation. And I actually kept some aside because it looked good on camera, but in real life it's not that great. And I probably couldn't wear it for more than an hour, being oily, but it really wasn't that good."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Nude Hyaluronic Tinted Serum Foundation

"True Match, the serum, because it is just beautiful. I've got a really good match. [...] I love the bounce on this. You [...] can go over one area multiple times and there's no added texture or anything like that. That looks really nice. It blends so naturally."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Tarte Shape Tape Foundation

"That's red. To me, this says you do not want people of color using your product. You don't want black people using your product. Because if the intention was there, it would be there. And it's not. Straight up. Even in the back of your mind, it should be there. It's not. [...] You would have done some research. You would have tested these shades on actual people and see that this shade range is actually inadequate and shouldn't even be... I mean, it's laughable, to be honest with you."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Rimmel Kind & Free Foundation

"The texture is really nice. If you haven't tried this already, the Kind & Free from Rimmel is really, really nice. Really beautiful foundation. I have oily skin, quite dehydrated in some areas, and it just sits really nicely and it just blends so beautifully with the skin."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Smashbox Studio Skin 15 Hour Wear Foundation

"I understand brands have a budget, but a few changes here could have been a lot better. There's like five or six shades along the way, 7, 8, 10 even, where you can change them. There's just something really off. A lot of people pointed out also that none of the tones on these swatches even match with the arm in the swatch, which is a really, really good point. There's just something not quite right."

✕Nay

54%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Foundation

"If you haven't tried the brand already, everything released from Lisa Eldridge brand is perfect, absolute perfection. It's kind of expected coming from a makeup artist but there are some brands out there from professional makeup artists where everything isn't like the best. With Lisa Eldridge as a brand, everything seems maybe a little bit gimmicky or like they've tried to release something and be on trend with current releases."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion Foundation

"They changed the formula because people were finding it oxidized on their skin, though I never personally had that issue. I'm not noticing too much of a difference in the coverage, but one thing I am noticing is you have the opportunity [...] to build it up a little bit more, it goes on a little more relaxed while still giving coverage, so you don't have to be as wary of using too much. The texture doesn't look different, doesn't smell different, still smells like Tirtir."

✓Yay

55%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Super Blendable Foundation

"I love this foundation. It's one of the only foundation ranges, drugstore I mean, that has a really great range of shades that include olive undertone. They have truly made this foundation good for everyone. You have so many shades that vary in neutral, warm, cool. I just think that it is an absolutely beautiful foundation in general. It has worked on everyone I have used it on."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Parnell Cicamanu Serum Cushion Foundation

"One cushion foundation has a whole bottle of serum in this foundation. It is stunning. I wore this [...] for the whole day and it looked so great on my skin all day. It's [...] that semi-matte finish, so if you don't want to be over the top glowy, this is going to be a great one. They actually claim that this is the number one cushion foundation people use in South Korea. [...] The benefits you get from the serum in the foundation is it reduces redness, it soothes the skin, it's nourishing."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Yepoda Dewy Day Cushion Foundation

"Going in with the Yepoda Dewy Day Foundation. This is a cushion foundation. [...] The cushion foundation itself actually contains niacinamide. So it's that ingredient that helps, like, smooth out the skin, the texture of the skin, the surface of the skin. And this is kind of, again, like a skincare foundation hybrid. So it's going to give you coverage, very natural coverage. It's beautiful. It's a really beautiful cushion foundation."

✓Yay

Notverified

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Foundation

"I love the Haus Labs Triclone. That is a beautiful foundation for majority of textures of skin."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

Typology Tinted Serum Number One

"I'm actually using a tinted serum, so not even a foundation, not even a skin tint. It's just a serum that has some color. This is a one from Typology, my favorite one to use."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

e.l.f. Soft Glam Satin Foundation

"The color changed quite drastically throughout the day. It got yellower and yellower, and by the end of the day, it looked very, very yellow on my skin. I would say this does not sit well on oily skin. You can see it's kind of gone a bit patchy, some bits are missing. I can imagine this will be beautiful for drier skins, maybe some more combination skins. But on oily skin, I would definitely be wary that you may have to touch it up a few times or even reapply."

~Mixed

91%Guru Score

U Beauty Super Tinted Hydrator

"I think that looks really, really nice. Apart from the skin on my nose, that's a little bit dehydrated, and it is kind of gathering up in this corner here. I think it's good. You can still see my blemishes, I don't mind that. I don't think skin is always going to look perfect, and this is nice for when you want something kind of lightweight. [...] I'm going to say keep to this. This is a really, really nice foundation. It's not a foundation, it's a tinted hydrator."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo CC Cream

"I really like this foundation. For something that's full coverage this does have a really kind of natural finish. It doesn't look crazy, crazy full. It doesn't look like cakey on the skin, or anything like that."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Powder & Setting43 reviews

Kosas Cloud Set Baked Setting Powder

"One of my favorite powders ever. I do not think I have hit pan like this on a powder in a very long time. This must be my second or third one. [...] It goes on so soft, so smooth. [...] If you have dry skin but you really feel you need powder, this is the kind of one you want to go for. Whether you use it with a brush or a sponge, whatever, it is stunning. It is so beautiful."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Covergirl True Blend Skin Enhancer Baked Luminous Finishing Powder

"I'm a big fan of Covergirl, I really like them and I actually want to try their new blush, but this shade range is somewhat questionable, I wonder how sheer these products really are [...] on different skin tones. It does look beautiful, but on my oily skin these kinds of powders don't work too well, I [...] find I have to keep reapplying the powder more often than not."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray

"The All Nighter Setting Spray was the classic, the icon, using Scandinavia's cooling technology under license, but I personally never really liked it."

✕Nay

86%Guru Score

Too Faced Peach Mist Hydrating Setting Spray

"I do not know why it has become the trend to pop face mist products in hand sanitizer packaging. Those spitty little ones. No, I don't like it. I don't like Too Faced anyway. I think this looks cheap. I think it looks tacky. This gives Revolution vibes. This is giving me Revolution."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

ONE/SIZE On Till Dawn Bronze Veil Setting Spray

"I think this is very risky because no matter how carefully you use it, [...] it is a bronze spray, it'll get on your clothing, your hair, your area. [...] I think it's a great idea, a nice touch to add to your face, shoulders, and neck for a bronzed finish, but I don't know how practical this is. It looks beautiful, it does look stunning on people, [...] and I think it's a great innovation off a product, I just don't know how practical that is."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

One/Size Oil Sucker Liquid Blotting Powder Spray

"It creates a flawless matte finish without disturbing makeup or drying the skin. Sweatproof and humidity proof with an ultra blurred finish. [...] I'm very excited about this. I really think this is going to be really good. [...] Super fine cooling and refreshing, wet to dry. I think [...] that's going to be my number one. I love One/Size skin prep. It's so good."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Face Glow Powder

"I love their backstage range. I have some of their face powders and these do look a little bit more promising in terms of richness in the product."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder Ultra Blur

"This is a really beautiful powder. This is a powder I use in my makeup kit, not my work kit because it works for everyone of all skin types. Beautiful, stunning. Love it. Some people think it's overhyped. I think it's regular hyped. I think it's worth the hype. It is quite a pricey powder to be honest with you. It's available in two sizes. I like that. A mini and a full size. It instantly corrects redness, hydrates, and improves the skin barrier. I wouldn't describe it as ultra blurring though."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

One/Size Celebration Until Dawn Waterproof Glitter Setting Spray in Brown Sugar

"I love this setting spray. This is an incredible, incredible setting spray. I use it underneath [...] my foundation and on top again. Adore it. It really does work. [...] I know I like this setting spray, so I'm going to put it in at number one. I [...] know looks good."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

MAC Fix+ Setting Spray

"So, it it's a great staple because it makes foundation, it's so difficult to describe. It makes look complete, right? So, say you've done loads of powder and it looks too cakey. Fix Plus fixes. And not fix as in set down. [...] Fix means as to repair, as to like to solve your problems. It is more of a finishing touch and it just makes foundation look like skin."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Liquid Blurring Balm Mattifying Setting Spray

"A weightless blurring setting spray that sets makeup and refines texture. It contains niacinamide, which is soothing, smoothing and texture reducing. Upselite readies the skin to absorb sweat and oil and to blur and mattify. Hyaluronic acid, of course, plumps and hydrates. I would buy this. I love [...] a blurring spray. I love a mattifying spray."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray (reformulated)

"And they might have changed over to using freeze-dried aloe vera instead of liquid for a better shelf life. So all things considered, them dropping Scandinavia for the sake of swapping out a couple ingredients definitely seems a little bit unethical because they've taken the formula but changed a few things. [...] I'm a little bit like I can't tell if I'm mad at them or not. I'm mad at them for not doing well, for not doing their best. It's [...] kind of [...] shitty to do something like that."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish: Sublime Perfection Blurring Under Eye Powder

"I've used this blurring under eye powder and again I don't rate it. I like the Kosas powder under my eyes to give like a smoother finish. I don't rate it and it's quite an expensive brand. Pat McGrath Labs. Right. You need to bring your prices down down because it's not all that worth it."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Pressed Powder

"Pick up one of these mini Charlotte Tilbury airbrush setting powders and pack this in your bridal purse along with a clean powder puff so you can easily touch up your makeup throughout the day."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Legendary Glow Setting Spray

"If this is just a mist that gives you a nice glow, beautiful. However, if it's a mist that gives you that instant shine and you can't really control the level of shine, the level of glow, then I'm a little bit suspicious. Being a makeup artist, this is something I would be drawn to. Being an everyday consumer, not so much. And also, $38, almost $40 for a mist. One layer is still quite intense. I wonder how it looks with a powder on top."

~Mixed

Notverified

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Setting Spray

"A good option is to take some setting spray like the Milk Hydro Grip. It hydrates but locks in makeup and put that over your concealer to lock it in."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Powder in Ube Birthday Cake

"It's just a deeper pink. It's called Ube powder, ube is a deep purple, it's really not that shade. It's more like a candy floss pink powder, which is still cute, but it's not purple. It was kind of shown as purple so I was a little bit disappointed by the original teasing because it looks like some trickery is going on with lighting and saturating the final video to make it look strangely purple. Because no one would question like a deeper pink powder."

✕Nay

62%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Baking and Setting Powder

"This is the Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Baking and Setting Powder. It retails for $66, and it [...] has 20 grams in it. [...] I don't like the Huda Beauty powder."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

One-Size Powder Melt Glass Setting Spray

"I do really love the One/Size Powder Melt Glass Setting Spray. I use that one in this step when I'm going to events. It's [...] more of an alcohol spray, so I would just do enough that my face feels covered. I don't want to wet my face completely, because then you can run into some texture, like some dry texture. The product might sit in your brows, it might sit in your lashes, facial hair, you know, so."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder

"For priming, I like to use a mattifying primer such as the Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Maybelline Fit Me Loose Finishing Powder

"If you have any areas you know get especially oily, you can also go in with a thin layer of a loose translucent powder such as Maybelline Fit Me. I usually like to apply the powder step with either a damp sponge or a small setting brush."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray

"I love that people are using setting sprays before their makeup, it makes such a huge difference."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

One/Size On Til Dawn Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray

"One Size, On Til' Dawn. This is my favorite setting spray. It's the only one I found actually works for me."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Too Faced Born This Way Soft Blur Flexible Finish Setting Powder

"These two could be the same. There needs to be more here. I don't like that shade range really. And these other shades that says it fits on, I'm looking at this bottom one here and then looking at the model on the end here with the deeper skin tone. I just can't imagine that looking any way good on her. And then same with this here, this shade with this person on the end. Not really a fan of that."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 36-Hour Defy Transfer Setting Spray

"This horrible, horrendous hairspray in a can. It is just leftover hairspray. I'm convinced, allegedly in my opinion. Love L'Oreal products, right? Great True Match, beautiful. Love, love, love, love. This is just okay. I'm going to start by saying this: people love it out there, they love it, and it truly does hold. My one concern is the texture and the smell. You better hold your breath and leave the room after you finish spraying it because it is hairspray. It smells just like L'Oreal's Elnet."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder

"I'm just going to put a little bit of powder in a couple places while I do my cheeks and my eyes [...] to seal in those couple places that I like to not be as glowy because then it kind of comes across as greasy. There's a difference between glowing, sweating, and looking greasy. So [...] you don't always have to mattify the whole of your face, it's when and where you need it."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Milani Make It Last Matte Setting Spray

"I'm going to finish off with a setting spray this will help melt all those powders and creams together. By the way, don't sleep on the Milani Make It Last, it's so good."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

L'Oreal Infallible 3-Second Setting Mist

"The smell of this first up [...] is like hairspray. It smells just like Elnett. You know when a really, like, classy person walks past and they just reek of Elnett, you're like, yeah, that's what that smells like. Not only that, it's not the best, really, at holding on your foundation. [...] The way this sits on the skin is exactly how I would imagine a layer of hairspray to sit on the skin. Like, you can't breathe. You can't breathe."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

Iconic London Prep Set Glow Setting Spray

"I wasn't a fan of this. It was quite glittery. There was glitter on my hand. I spray up my hand and I tried to show you but you can't really see it but there was a lot of glitter and it was also on my clothes."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake and Snatch Pressed Brightening and Setting Powder

"It just looks like another powder. [...] I really admire how Huda Beauty, Huda Kattan herself, actually goes on these videos and does a lot of stuff unfiltered. The lighting is obviously set up nicely, but you can see texture and you can see the natural skin texture. [...] She's actually shown how very minimally a powder can give the appearance of smoother skin without overdoing it on a TikTok quality, kind of like low-quality camera."

~Mixed

62%Guru Score

Real Techniques Miracle 2-in-1 Powder Puff

"This might be the best makeup tool ever invented. It's called the Real Techniques Miracle 2-in-1 Powder Puff. I love how this side just really packs everything in. There's more space. The reason why this side works better for powders than this side is because the little fuzzy fibers picks up the powders better and it sets it better as well. So instead of juggling back and forth between the liquid foundation with this sponge and then the powder with this sponge, you just need one."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder

"This is the Rimmel London Stay Matte Powder. [...] I've seen a lot of people use this and really, really like it. It smells like makeup."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Vieve Modern Powder Perfector

"The Vieve one is so much nicer. [...] Although it isn't translucent, it almost has a translucence to it where you can see my skin a little bit more underneath, whereas on the Rimmel side, it looks a little bit more like makeup. It looks like powdery makeup. And considering it has kind of less coverage, I believe it's meant to have less coverage in that Vieve one. It doesn't seem as like that. It looks like it definitely has some kind of coverage going on."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Setting Spray

"I also love the one from Rare Beauty. I love it as a primer."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder

"I absolutely love this stuff. I can rely on this powder. [...] It's just the right level of matte for me, and it still looks like skin. It doesn't look cakey or overcompensating. I [...] think it's one of the best powders in existence."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

NYX Wonder Snatch Lifting Setting Powder

"As a powder, this is a beautiful powder. It's lightweight. It sits really, really well. It doesn't feel as heavy and as dense as a lot of baking powders or setting powders. [...] The smoothness it leaves on the skin, that silky like gentleness in application I'm a huge, huge fan of. It's so soft, so smooth and lightweight. Blends so well into the skin. [...] This is very much a go to powder for me now. I just got rid a lot of my other powders just to use this one."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

ColourPop Pretty Fresh Peptides Niacinamide Lock It In Setting Spray

"This is the Pretty Fresh Peptides Niacinamide Lock It In Setting Spray from Colourpop. I don't believe this is a setting spray. It's a hydrating mist. Okay, so we're not looking for a setting spray. We're not looking for anything that's going to dry our face. We're looking for hydration."

✓Yay

Notverified

e.l.f. Power Grip Dewy Setting Spray

"Two of my favorites are the e.l.f. Power Grip Dewy Setting Spray. The reason I really like these is because they are like setting sprays, but they're more a hydrating mist. They are more skin care-like. So it's not a setting spray like a full, intense theatrical setting spray where your face is going to feel like it has a layer or something solid on it. They are more hydrating to the skin."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

WAKEMAKE Stay Fixer Pact Powder Vegan

"I'm going to finish off with a Wake Make Stay Fixer Pact. This is beautiful, again another product I take around with me. They come with a sponge which is almost like a very light foam, very airy, that doesn't apply the powder in a way that's cakey. [...] I literally take this one to events with me. I'm going to go into the powder like this and literally press it onto wherever I need it, and just look, it's just so lightweight, it's so beautiful. This is one of my absolute favorite powders."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Bake Pressed Powder in Cherry Blossom Cake

"I'm going to use a little bit of the Huda Beauty Cherry Blossom Cake Easy Bake powder. It says easy bake, but you know me, we're not baking. This is one thing that I think is going to go out of style is baking. I think that over excess powder situation is like overdue leaving this world. I'm tapping excess off on the back of my hand because I can come back and get the excess. And I'm not leaving powder on my face. I'm not letting it sit."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Givenchy Prisme Libre Loose Powder

"I love this Givenchy powder. I remember actually watching my last Vogue video. The amount of powder that I used is just unreal. It's so nice to see people using less powder. [...] You don't need that much powder."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Skin Food Peach Cotton Multi Finish Powder

"The powder we're going to use to finish up is the Skin Food Peach Cotton Multi Finish Powder. It's a loose powder. It does smell slightly like peach, and it does come with a pad in if you want to touch up and things like that. This powder, it helps to set, it helps to mattify, but it contains micro silica. If you're not familiar with what that is, you'll find it a lot in, like, jet-milled powders and things like that, where it has this really super soft, slightly blurring look to it."

✓Yay

Notverified

Haus Labs Bio-Blurring Loose Setting Powder

"Going to tap in those areas where we are slightly oily. Oooooh, smooth. Wow, that is really smooth. Oh, I love it. I love it. [...] Oh, I love that. That's really nice. Yes."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Other40 reviews

Kylie Cosmetics Kylie Cosmetics

"I'm just not a fan of this brand. [...] When I tried the lip kits the first time they were released, I thought they were dry. I thought they were crunchy. I just did not like them. I thought they're overhyped. It's not the best thing ever. I know some people have staples from this brand, things that they would hate to see go, but I do get very confused because it's a very Kylie Jenner focused brand and to me it's for fans of Kylie Jenner or fans of her makeup artist or something like that."

✕Nay

57%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Enhancing Tint

"The Lisa Eldridge skin tint is beautiful. I love that on my skin, literally paired with this powder. [...] That combination sits on my skin for hours and hours and hours and looks beautiful."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Makeup Eraser Original MakeUp Eraser Cloth

"I personally do find them quite tough on the skin and I find they don't remove makeup [...] well. I don't think this is a brand that can give us anything else impressive, [...] I think they missed their calling to make proper makeup remover [...] products to pair with the cloth instead of telling people they don't need a makeup remover at all."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Dior Forever Skin Perfect

"I can't remember the last time I've seen people overhype a foundation like this. It's also full of skincare and gives a glow, which doesn't match the blurring, matte claim, and it's so wet that there's no way it would hold up 24 hours in heat and humidity. I can get use out of it when I'm filming, but I don't feel like it's complimentary to my skin and I couldn't wear it out to an event."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Katy Jane Hughes Precision Sculpture Stilo in Etch

"Get yourself a contour pencil. Katy Jane Hughes, for example, I really need to use these at some point. These contour pencils, which are the same shade that kind of like still have that ability to add structure. You can still blend with your finger. [...] A creamy pencil that is made to contour because contour is meant to mimic shadow. [...] You can still get that structure with the right shade."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Shiseido Eyelash Curler

"My only tip for mascara is the Shiseido Eyelash Curler. This is my ride or die. [...] Everyone says that about that particular curler. My super straight lashes stay up all day."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Dose of Colors It's Literally Magic Multi-Use Shimmer

"The glitter looks bitty. I also don't like how glitter photographs a lot of the time because you can see you need to blur the images for it to have any kind of like beautiful effect. This to me looks like craft glitter. I think it needs some density to it. I'm not impressed by that. [...] I'm kind of outraged by the price because it's not like this incredibly complex product and it's not like you have to be charging that kind of price for this product. I think that's a little bit outrageous."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Fwee Blur Pudding Pot

"These are really super unique. I've never seen a brand do a formula like this. [...] The texture, it's like got a very unique bounce to it. It's like another gloss gel hybrid, but more jelly-like and firmer. It is really, really stunning. [...] That's a formula I have truly never seen anywhere but with Fwee."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre

"I'm going with soft ochre Paint Pot from Mac. The thing I would always use under eye makeup, depending on skin tone, it'll be constructivist. Paint Pot, Paint Pot, soft ochre, painterly, whatever the skin tone was. Now I do a thin layer and then buff that out, overlapping the concealer. Because I don't want eyeshadow to sit on that concealer at all. Make sure I'm covering like the outside corner of the eye, not [...] under the eye. And then tapping that into the lid."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Haus Labs Precision Sculpting Shape Balms

"The shade range is great. That deeper tone, beautiful. [...] The shades look beautiful. This on fairer skin. Amazing. And this on the deeper tones. I just... I think that's going to be absolutely beautiful. I'm actually really, really excited about these. [...] Haus Labs do incredible products. I really, really like their products. [...] Really, really beautiful. I'm excited about those, actually."

✓Yay

71%Guru Score

Make Up For Ever Artist Color Pencil in Endless Cacao

"This perfect brown shade from Makeup Forever is called Endless Cacao."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Dior Backstage Rosy Glow Sticks

"I also like their lip glosses, their new, their new blushes"

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Danessa Myricks Color Fix Sticks

"These are beautiful. I love that there's two different sides. I love that they are magnetic. So you can take this off and take this off and you can switch out if you like wearing a bright purple but you want a nude like metallic with it or you want to take two foils with you. I think that's a really good call. [...] They grip, grip, grip like I'm pretty positive you can use the metallics as a base for eyeshadow. The choice is stunning. Really, really beautiful."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Elemis Dynamic Resurfacing Facial Pads

"Those exfoliating pads have come in so, so handy. I use the Elemis ones. They're incredible."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Elmus Dynamic Resurfacing Facial Pads

"Elmus Dynamic Resurfacing Facial Pads, these are really beautiful. I'm just going to circle around my nose just to get rid of any kind of dead skin right underneath, because where I'm seeing sebaceous filaments that you can kind of see it coming off your nose when you put makeup on, that's what I'm seeing. The rest of my nose is just terrible in texture. [...] That already feels a million times better."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

MAC Paint Pot in Painterly

"If you have drier eyelids, some people may find that a little bit too tacky, a little bit too hard. So I would go for something like a MAC Paint Pot. This is the shade Painterly. And both these options, you'll be able to find one in your skin tone in a finish that's matte, a finish that has a bit of shimmer. Whatever you want to do."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Maybelline Lifter Stix

"It looks quite nice to have a multi-use thing. It looks new. It looks quite innovative."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Urban Decay Face Bond Luminizer Waterproof Glow Drops

"They're $34. This is the kind of stuff I love seeing from a brand like Urban Decay. I always have a soft spot for Urban Decay. I [...] really like them, and I feel like they've picked themselves up over the past year and released some really great stuff. This one I'm excited about. There are a few different shades. Silver Lake is a Y2K frosted glaze. Shimmer Mirror is an iridescent duo chrome with a shimmer. Space Cowboy is a [...] champagne with silver sparkle. Golden Hour is a warm champagne."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Sephora Collection Beauty Insider Advent Calendar

"This Advent calendar was full of what I am describing as cheap Teemu. One thing I hate that Beauty Advent calendars do [...] is they'll give you like one day a lipstick holder and the next day the lipstick that goes with it. That's two days. Just give us a lipstick and a holder together. Most Beauty Advent calendars do more than one thing in a drawer or compartment. If it's a smaller or a sample or a travel size they will put two things in that day so it's not like really disappointing you."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Eaze Drop Blur + Smooth Tint Stick

"When it was, like, instantly blurring, it was not. Actual lie. It went on my skin, kind of like, shiny, like a glowy foundation. The thing is, when you have a product that has a glow to it on the skin, it isn't blurring. You have to kind of like, it has to be smooth and matte to look blurred, right. I was obviously like, okay, that's not blurring my skin in any way at all. It's actually, if anything, it's making me look sweaty."

✕Nay

74%Guru Score

Jung Saem Mool Essential Skin Nuder Cushion

"This foundation's beautiful."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Peace Out Instant Pore Perfector

"It says instant benefit but I don't actually see the instant benefit of that at all. If anything my nose looks more porous than it was a minute ago. [...] There's no ingredients on this and I don't actually know where the box is but there's not like it doesn't say silicone or dimethicone, there's no ingredients on the actual product itself. [...] It's just really not going to [...] do anything, there's no instant result. It smells funny, the smell is quite strong."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

L'Oreal True Match Lumi Glotion

"This Glowtion from L'Oreal, that was quite popular. Causes acne and brain fog."

✕Nay

81%Guru Score

The Balm Mary Luminizer

"I have used their highlighter and [...] it was nice. My issue really is with this brand is the way they just haven't evolved at all in any way. Like pretty much from way back then, they are still very much doing the same thing. [...] Their brand is expensive. It is overpriced, in my opinion, especially with what we have. [...] The theming of the packaging is quite severely outdated. I think we're over that whole kitsch, like, 50s housewife situation."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Amuse Jewel Jelly Vegan Cushion

"A lot of people are using the pads like this, and then they're tapping with this really loose pad and the tips of their fingers here. You go into the compact once, like this on any of them, and then straight onto the skin. [...] Sometimes you can't even see the product on the sponge. But there's loads on it. You start around this area first for the most untextured part of the face, and then go into the middle here. And when you're tapping, it needs to be direct, like a beauty blender."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Crest Whitening Strips

"I literally have it on my desk because I need to start again. Crest Whitening Strips are the best, but I have to get them shipped from the US because you don't sell them here. [...] It doesn't taste that bad actually."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Maybelline Tattoo Studio Liquid Liner

"I'm going to use the Maybelline Tattoo Studio. This is a drugstore liquid eyeliner pen. It is so precise, so good, and it's $10."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Inglot Duraline

"You can mix it in with foundation if you wanted to. There are different bases, water based, alcohol based, airbrushing ones. These are products that do absolutely work. Yes, it does everything that people say it does. I have backstock of it because it's in my kit, it's in my regular makeup. It's everywhere because it is a must for professional makeup kits. [...] I just love the Duraline one. I think it just works for everything."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

NYX Bare With Me Blur Tint

"The texture is really nice, but I can't look, like even my camera can't focus on my face. The shade might be too yellow. It's too light and too yellow. Ghostly. Casper. It looks very yellow in this."

✕Nay

63%Guru Score

Q-tips Q-tips

"We have to ban Q-tips. Like, why are Q-tips... they're not even healthy for your ears. Why do they still exist? Let's just invent something instead of Q-tips, like, that's actually healthy, please. So with a Q-tip, it's a solid, really firm tip, as gentle as they claim they're going to be. Like Judy said, you can't use them in your ears."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Caudalie Beauty Elixir

"I also adore sprays. I have this one here from Caudalie, which I absolutely love."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Tirtir Tinted Glow Cushion

"It is very much tinted moisturizer level coverage. TIRTIR have most definitely got their complexion products down. If you have wanted to try a TIRTIR cushion but maybe you found the past ones too heavy for you or you wanted something a lot more lightweight, [...] TIRTIR is probably the most accessible for everyone in terms of where they are available worldwide. This is going to be a great one for you. I just love it. I just think it's so natural."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Dermatica Personalized Skincare Formula

"I have been using Dermatica for years now and years and years. [...] I feel like Dermatica was made for me because [...] the dermatology team takes a look at my skin and tells me what is best and makes a personalized formula made for my skin. [...] They use evidence-based ingredients, not just stuff you can get over the counter. It is definitely made my skincare routine a lot more simple and easy to do. I just wash my face, use this in my evening skincare routine, and that is it."

✓Yay

Notverified

Yepoda Pore Fix Stick

"I've been using the new pore stick from Yepoda to kind of help out with the porous areas of my skin. So that does look a lot smoother than on the day of a makeover."

✓Yay

Notverified

Romand Juicy Lasting Tint in Bear Grape

"This is one of my favorite shades, and I think probably one of the most popular shades in the Romand range. These are absolutely incredible. Like it suggests, it's a lip tint, so it does tint the lip. But what's great about these ones [...] is the gloss and the tint stay together. And it's almost like the tint is separate from the gloss. So you still get that beautiful color from the tint, that beautiful shine from the gloss. And the tint actually kind of deepens as you wear it."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Ritual HyaCera Daily Skin Hydration

"The first one is their HyaCera Daily Skin Hydration. This is a once daily supplement. This is clinically proven [...] to reduce wrinkles and fine lines and improve the skin's smoothness. [...] I love about Ritual is you can go to their website and you can see all these claims, you can see all these studies, you can see everything. The information is right there for you and very easy to understand as well. If you are an ingredients person, every ingredient within Ritual supplements are traceable."

✓Yay

Notverified

Typology Glow Drops

"The Glow Drops are a favorite of mine. These contain 5% vitamin C and aloe vera and it gives the skin just this most incredible natural luminous glow. It's 98% naturally derived and these are really really universal. You can mix these in with your moisturizer, your foundation, or how I like to use them as a highlighter as your main highlighter."

✓Yay

Notverified

Romand Bare Water Cushion

"This has become one of my absolute favorite foundations. [...] This is like a perfect match foundation match for me, but you'll see the glow on this. As an oily person, I like to have a glow to my skin but I don't want to be greasy. I've worn this on a whole day. I wore this to an event recently and it really lasted amazingly on my oily oily skin. [...] It's just the most beautiful foundation."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Minimalist Perfecting Complexion Stick

"We have a minimalist, this is a complexion stick so it makes an absolutely incredible concealer but it also sits beautifully everywhere else on the face, on your whole face. I sometimes use it on my sun damage, which is actually looking pretty good, the occasional blemish, under the eyes I can use it on my neck if I get a little bit of a shaving cut, you know those kind of things. It's this really nice creamy ultra blendable texture that just kind of melts into the skin."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Too Cool For School Art Class Shading Compact

"This is one of my favorite products of all time. This is a Too Cool For School Art Class Shading Compact. This is one of the most popular products in South Korea. And you can see why, it's like everything you need in one. So you have something that's a bit more bronzy here, a bit more contour in this area. And you can use this kind of as a matte highlight if you wanted to. And you can use all the colors together, separate, just to find your perfect shade."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Concealer26 reviews

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Gel Concealer

"It sits really nicely on top of texture on my face, especially around my nose. On my skin it's beautiful and [...] really, really nice. It's [...] very very easy to blend, and it just has this really beautiful finish. It claims to be 12-hour wearing, [...] but to be honest with you, I think I can kind of see it lasting longer. It's not overly creamy and not overly liquidy. [...] This is a 100% keep, and I might even get a shade a few shades darker for my actual face as well."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Tarte Shape Tape Concealer

"This is the Tarte Shape Tape Concealer. Yes, of course you still get that brush for free with it and it's just going to offset the darkness under your eye. [...] This might be a good example of showing how much this product covers."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

About Face Illusionist Skin Focused Concealers

"I'm not impressed with the shade range. There needs to be lighter, and we do need some darker ones here. [...] Something's off with the shade range. These five shades, I'm gonna group them together. Something's off. I can't quite put my finger on it, but [...] these aren't correct. I don't know how else to describe it. [...] From first glance it looks inclusive to everyone, but as I'm looking through the shades and thinking about people and humans, this doesn't, this isn't quite right."

✕Nay

60%Guru Score

NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum

"Concealer, I really, really like this. This is something I would consider putting into my everyday makeup because it has that skin-like texture. It looks like skin. It has this shine to it. It doesn't look cakey on the skin, which some concealers can cake up and look a bit like old school [...] makeup. But this is really, really nice."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

NYX HD Studio Photogenic Concealer

"I like NYX a lot. I really like them. I like their products, and I believe that this concealer will be a good concealer. So I'm gonna put them in at number five, because I'll buy it if I'm out, I'll definitely be interested in it. The whole snatched thing, I'm like, what do you mean? Because snatched to me is like lifted, sculpted. But in order to sculpt the face, you have to comparison. So what I'm saying is snatched depends on, not one product, not one concealer."

~Mixed

71%Guru Score

Westman Atelier Vital Skincare Brightening Concealer

"When it comes to using it under the eyes, it feels like it's set already. There's no playtime. You can see my fingernails going red where I'm really pushing down to get that formula to blend. That's not what I want to be doing under my eyes. I don't want to be pushing and trying to move this product around. And I also don't want it to just sit on top of my under eyes looking textured and cakey and claggy. It almost dries down instantly."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

Too Faced Born This Way Concealer

"It's too light. Because you put something too light on top of something too dark, it's going to turn gray. So now we have a grayness around the eye and the grayness around the lip. What I would do in this situation is use the color corrector also, but just get a concealer that is your skin tone or even a tiny bit of foundation. And then that lightening concealer. Tap a tiny bit here and a tiny bit here. Not over the whole face because you're going to get ashy."

✕Nay

75%Guru Score

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Concealer

"I'm carving up my brows with the Armani concealer. I love carving out brows. The biggest tip I have is to not press down when you're doing this because it just pushes the concealer in your brow hairs, and then it ruins the whole crispiness we have going on. Just go over top of it to soften it the tiniest bit."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

YSL Touche Éclat Concealer

"I use some of the YSL Touche Éclat. I'm doing all the classic brands today just because I don't want to put concealer on top of a powder just because I don't want that texture."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Yummy Skin Lift and Flex Concealer for Eyes and Face

"But if I was going to make this work I would have to use even more hydration under my eyes than what I would usually use. But if I was to use any more hydration the concealer isn't going to sit very well. You need to hydrate under your eyes to make sure you don't get creases, [...] there's enough moisture there to hold onto the product, but not too much that the product starts to slip around. But it just immediately feels dry."

✕Nay

68%Guru Score

IT Cosmetics Do It All Radiant Concealer

"I do like the applicator, it promotes control, right? It promotes like only use this bit, only use a tiny tiny amount. And I do like the sound of it, the formula, and I like the packaging. I like that angled to the eye area angle. It looks really good. Some people say it might be a little bit unhygienic, but you can wash a spongy tip like that easy with warm water and soap, just hold it upside down and let it air dry, or spray it with a sanitizing brush cleaner."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Concealer in 100W

"I really really like those I find they blend really seamlessly into any other product I choose to wear. I have a few different foundations I use so depending on which one I'm going to use that day I find the Rare Beauty concealer just sits really nicely with all of them."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil

"These are from Lisa Eldridge. And these are the pinpoint concealer pencils. [...] Pinpoint concealer, micro correcting pencil. [...] In Lisa's technique, she does talk about how it should be a scribble and not like a perfectly blended out circle because it'll be more obvious that way. [...] I'm scribbling and I'm blending with my finger."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer

"I don't think it was really a standout concealer to me. It is very creamy and blends actually really beautifully into the skin. [...] It's a little bit drier than I thought it would have been. And it says radiant, right? In terms of it being radiant, I am a little bit like, where? Where's that radiance? Radiance is lacking. [...] It's almost like matte in my eyes. Does that look radiant to you? That doesn't look radiant to me."

✕Nay

83%Guru Score

Maybelline Fit Me Concealer

"I'm getting more coverage from the Maybelline one. It [...] looks really, really nice. [...] It has a kind of glow to it when I move my head, whereas the other side is not majorly different, to be honest with you. But if I wanted something that was gonna give me more of a glow, [...] this is what I would expect. So far, drugstore's winning by a long shot actually."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Hourglass Vanish Airbrush Concealer

"This is the Hourglass concealer, I love this concealer. It's so creamy and beautiful and it has just stayed a staple in my makeup routine. [...] The other thing I love about this concealer is that it blends so well. You can actually just see how it's kind of just melted in."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Pat McGrath Labs Sublime Perfection Concealer

"The concealer is one of my absolute favorite concealers for when I want something full coverage that I know is going to look, not cakey on the skin in any way, but still give me that really, really good coverage. A little bit goes a long way. I probably had that concealer a year. It really is one of my go to products. I do think the price for the quality of product is fair. It's definitely a higher end brand, and the quality performs really, really well."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Lancôme Teint Idôle Ultra Wear All Over Concealer

"Lancôme does some beautiful products. Their concealer, serum concealer, beautiful."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer

"We're going in with the Maybelline Eraser Concealer. I've used this before, but never really given it any thought. I purchased this one myself from Superdrug. And I do quite like it. You actually don't need that much. I used so much, but a little bit goes a really, really long way. It sat beautifully on the skin. Almost hydrating-ish, I guess, because it's anti-aging. It's a really beautiful concealer. I wish I grabbed one sooner and used it more."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Future Fluid All-Over Cream Concealer

"It has quite a smell. That's really cold. It's a really cold feeling, you know, when something comes with a metal applicator, it's kind of like that. [...] You do not need that much. This is insane. That's a lot, a lot, a lot. [...] That's actually a really nice texture. It's very foundation-esque in terms of its texture. It feels like, I guess, the name says, more fluid-like. It's blending more like a fluid."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Tirtir Glide & Hide Blurring Concealer

"I use the concealer and foundation from Tirtir. You know I love these. I will purchase them over and over again. This is actually the second bottle I am on."

✓Yay

Notverified

Huda Beauty Faux Filter Color Corrector - Peach

"This is a Huda Beauty Faux Filter Color Corrector in Peach. These are really nice to gently color correct the eye area. They're not like crazy thick, heavy color correctors. After it's blended in, it's not crazy orange, it's not crazy dark in any way. It actually just levels out the tone under my eye rather than over-brightening or making it too orange. We just want it to let level itself out with the rest of my skin."

✓Yay

Notverified

Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Concealer

"My concealer of choice is my favorite at the moment or one of my favorites, the Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech. This has an incredible medium to full coverage and is a very creamy and rich formula."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Merit Minimalist Concealer

"The reason I love this concealer is it's very buttery on the skin. The way it melts into the skin, it's [...] really, really easy to blend, really easy to use. You don't have to spend loads and loads of time blending it. [...] It just melts into any formula as well. I use many foundations under this. I've used powders. The way it just effortlessly melts into the skin is absolute perfection."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Concealer

"I'm going to use the Camo Concealer, but with the lip stain, we might get like a glossy satin, because I don't want it to be too glossy, and I don't want it to be too matte as well. It's very sheer, which is nice. That's a perfect amount of shine and not shine. My one critique would be that you don't even have to mix it with concealer. Just go straight on with your product. Much better. Much more pigmentation."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

e.l.f. Camo Color Corrector

"That's such an incredible example of color correction at its finest. Done correctly with a really great amount of product, not too much. Color correctors should be tinting the skin, a veil of product on the skin. You change the tone of the corrector depending on the depth of the correction you need to do, not the amount of product."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Sunscreen20 reviews

Beauty of Joseon Dayscreen Lightweight Tinted SPF 30 Mineral Sunscreen

"A skin tint sunscreen and moisturizer all in one, delivering hydration, tone correction, and SPF 30 protection in 15 natural shades. [...] I think I need this, I love their tinted sunscreen. [...] Their other sunscreen is SPF 50, [...] this one is SPF 30, it's not a BB cream with SPF, it's an SPF with a tint to it, so it's an effective sunscreen. I love these, I love their formula, I love their skincare in general, I think they are stunning."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

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

"The deep shade range is extremely limited and there's no real undertone variation in the darker shade. The formula is thick and sits on top of the skin rather than blending in naturally. It doesn't actually cover hyperpigmentation or texture. It just sits there and it tends to look flat and gray on deeper skin tone."

✕Nay

66%Guru Score

MAC Studio Fix Fluid SPF 15

"I have a studio fix in NC27. I'm not sure if this will be my shade. Everyone wore Studio Fix at the time. Studio Fix fluid. I never really used the powder unless somebody requested it. This would have been my studio fix was in the old packaging when the pump was separate."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

NYX Blur Screen Sunscreen SPF 30 Primer

"So if you are looking for a good drugstore primer, this is definitely one I would recommend. I have oily dehydrated skin, and I really like this on me. In terms of longevity of wear or foundation, I personally am not somebody who relies on primers to keep my foundation on for a really long time. I rely on setting sprays as primers. I rely on mattifying primers as my primers for longevity, and I actually rely on my whole skincare routine to do that. But yes, I really, really do like this primer."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Fenty Beauty Hydris Moisturizer with SPF

"Something like the Fenty SPF, beautiful. That'll be beautiful on dry skin."

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Beauty of Joan Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50

"The one I currently have open is Beauty of Joan. Any of their sunscreens are stunning under makeup. You can literally use that as your moisturizer and your sunscreen."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Vacation Crystal SPF 50 Invisible Face Gel

"I got some of the Vacation Crystal SPF 50 Invisible Face Gel because I love Vacation SPFs."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Bloom Effects Tulip Dew Sunscreen Serum SPF 50

"The highest protection is from Bloom Effects. This is a Tulip Dew sunscreen serum, [...] SPF 50. [...] It's the most beautiful serum-esque, non-invasive sunscreen, and it just has a stunning glow to it. Blends incredibly well on the skin. [...] It's very much a veil-off product, so we're getting all that sunscreen protection, but we're not choosing a sunscreen that's like old-fashioned, on-the-beach, sand-sticking-to-you kind of sunscreen."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Vacation Chardonnay Glow Oil SPF 30

"I absolutely love the Vacation products, and I'm a packaging person and a theming person. Their whole deal is this vintage, nostalgic era, seventies, eighties, nineties, and you can kind of put it in your own time zone, really. [...] It gives you this memory of being on vacation when you were younger. For me, it's being in the US in the nineties when I was about three years old, in 1992."

✓Yay

65%Guru Score

Vacation Orange Galet Spray SPF 30

"They do this orange jelly one, which I think, if I'm not wrong, is inspired by an old product that was very much loved. And people want it again. This one [...] reminds me [...] of vacation in the nineties. The stick version, so a little travel stick that you can retouch up with. They're just amazing. [...] I bought three of each of these. [...] I've used up two of them already on vacation in Greece. I'm going to Florida in October. I'll be touching up every 2 hours."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Naturium Dew Glow Tinted Moisturizer SPF 50

"It comes in light, medium, and deep. It goes on kind of light, but then it blends in seamlessly into their skin. I really needed something like this because I've tried a few different things, and some things are good, some things are all right. That is a high SPF that tints the skin. I want this. It does look great on everyone who's tried it."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Supergoop Protect Tint Daily SPF 50

"With tinted SPF, will you have to keep reapplying it? Is it long wearing? For me, that's a high price for a small tub of SPF. And I love Supergoop. I like their SPFs. Not all of them. A lot of them."

~Mixed

78%Guru Score

Fwee Spa Glowing UV Tone-Up Prep

"Fwee have never let me down once in terms of their products. I love the brand. [...] They sent me their newest product and it is made to give you that post spa visit glow. How strong do you want that glow? Well Fwee have given us two different options. This is [...] their Spa Glowing SPF 30 PA++ Tone-Up Prep. So we've got semi dewy or wet dewy. [...] This seems to be a very light weight skin prep product with that SPF. It evened out my skin tone and definitely toned down any redness in my skin."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Airy Fit Daily Sunscreen SPF 50

"Why I love this one in particular to pair with makeup is because it's not greasy at all. The texture kind of gives you this velvety finish on the skin. It's not that shine that you can get from some sunscreens, especially SPF 50s. Even though it is great for oily people, it is truly a sunscreen that works for all skin types. It has so many great skincare ingredients that if you want to use this as your moisturizer, as your primer, you can absolutely do that and you're good to go."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

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

"Beauty of Joseon [...] Relief Sun: Rice + Probiotics SPF 50+ PA++++ is something I want to talk about [...] because of the way it sits under makeup and the way it goes on the skin. [...] It almost disappears on application. [...] It's not sticky or tacky. There's no white cast from it at all. This makes it the perfect prep for makeup. You can literally just use this as your moisturizer and go on top with your foundation. It works on oily skin, dry skin, dehydrated skin."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Ultra Violette Queen Screen Super Glow Bronzing Drops SPF 50

"It does have the SPF 50, so that's always good. I do like this. I like Ultra Violette in terms of their SPF's and everything like that. I would use this. It sits really beautifully on the skin. It's not the color or any of the formula isn't sitting in any of my textured areas. And actually, in real life, it actually looks a lot better than it does on camera. It does have a nice glow to it."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Naked Sundays Collagen Glow 100% Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50+

"I also really like just any thin one that sits really well under foundation. This one recently, the Naked Sundays one, I've been trying. They sent me this and it's really really nice."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Bamboo Daily Soothing Sunshield SPF50+ PA++++

"It's perfect to carry around with me. It fits in my car, it fits in my coat pocket. It fits in my trouser pocket. It's suggested that you reapply sunscreen every 2 hours. Yes, even over makeup. And there's a way to do it, and that's extremely easy to do with this stick kind of form. There's no stickiness, there's no tackiness. There's no getting it all over your hands. The Black Bamboo Daily Soothing Sunshield in particular is a really beautiful, soft, powdery balm."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

Round Lab Birch Juice Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 50 PA++++ (Korean formula)

"For those of you who don't like too much moisture, this can actually double up as a sunscreen and a moisturizer, too, because it has hydrating ingredients that include 74, that's a lot. Naturally derived minerals from deep sea water. And that's going to keep your skin nourished, healthy, moisturized. Again, not greasy, just glowing. It's the number one sunscreen in the Olive Young Awards. So it's award winning, and it's the number one award winner. So you know it's good."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Heimish Artless Glow Base SPF 50 PA++

"This is the Heimish Artless Glow Base SPF 50 PA++. If you want that glass skin look, really glowy, healthy looking skin, this is the one. It helps to even out pores and texture while also giving you a glow and protection with the SPF. You can use it under your makeup, of course, but you can absolutely use it alone if you just want your skin to have a really beautiful glow with that added SPF, with that added protection. My skin is just glowing."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Primer15 reviews

Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base

"I saw Bobbi Brown's Vitamin Enriched Face Base, which I hate on my skin. It makes me feel like I'm sweating. It's far too rich. It's way too much for my oily skin. Even in the dehydrated areas, it just sits on top of my skin. It never absorbs or anything like that, which kind of tells me that it's way too much for my skin. [...] It's just way too much for my skin. [...] You put it on, it's like why does it feel like I'm sweating? Like you actually come out in a sweat."

✕Nay

71%Guru Score

Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Eye Base

"It's absorbed already. That's gone. That's not what I want. [...] It feels dry on my skin. It has shea butter, squalene, vitamin E. You're telling me it's going to plump and smooth? It doesn't have time to because it's absorbed straight into my skin. I'm so disappointed in this product. I really, really wanted something as it is described, as that richness, that smoothness. [...] I could use any other eye cream and it will give me more hydration and more moisture than this."

✕Nay

64%Guru Score

Benefit POREfessional Primer

"I don't like POREfessional Primer on oily skin. I just think it's like quite slippery."

✕Nay

70%Guru Score

NYX Face Glue Gripping Primer

"NYX Base Glue is the tackiest primer I've ever tried."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter

"Someone who's tried this Hollywood Flawless Filter product numerous times, I think it's one of their worst products. The idea is good."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Pore Eclipse Primer

"Milk's Pore Eclipse Primer is great if you are super, super oily, not just a little bit oily. This might dry you out a little bit. But the formula is more creamy and it's not like that siliconey clear liquid. It feels like skincare. You can feel your skin and it doesn't feel like there's a layer of something on top."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Iconic London Velvet Smooth Pore Refining Primer

"The Iconic London Velvet Smooth Pore Refining Primer is really great. It's more like a white cream. It's not like that clear, kind of gimmicky, siliconey liquid silicone. It's a little bit more of a face cream. Very thin on the skin. It doesn't feel powdery, it doesn't feel strange. You can just see it mattified and it feels more like skincare. It just feels like it becomes part of the skin, over something like Porefessional which kind of just feels like it sits on top."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Hourglass Veil Primer

"I love the Hourglass Veil Primer. I would suggest using a mattifying primer to lock that hydration in, but minimize the amount of oil that is being secreted from the face."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

e.l.f. Matte Putty Primer

"My first go to product is the Elf Matte Putty Primer. It's super affordable and perfect for controlling oil and creating a smooth matte base. Trust me, it keeps your makeup locked in all day long without breaking the bank."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Easy Blur Silicone Free Smoothing Pore Minimizing Primer

"It retails for around £30, $30 depending where you are. [...] I really have to give them credit for this texture. It is that mattifying visual, instant visual effect without being that horrible, slippery siliconey texture that you get from a product like Porefessional, for example. [...] I really do think it looks nice alone on the face. Do I think my skin looks overwhelmingly smooth, pore free? Not really. I don't think it does. I think my skin looks fine."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer

"Hydro Grip really love as well. So hydro grip is going to be the opposite from the pore eclipse. It's got dewy finish with hyaluronic acid. [...] Hydro Grip [...] Primer is a hydrating primer that boosts hydration with hyaluronic acid and niacinamide. Both help your makeup go on smoother, look better, and last up to 12 hours. [...] As an oily person, I don't want my skin to be greasy or shiny, but I do like to have a glow."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

e.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter

"The e.l.f one is beautiful, Halo Glow"

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Iconic London Underglow Blurring Primer

"This was beautiful, this is my first time using it. [...] It has a serum texture, almost like a bit thicker though, like a thick serum and a tiny bit of stickiness to it, but it just looked like pure radiance on my skin. It looked like my skin was glowing. I have oily skin, so I just wanted to make sure I was pushing this into my skin so it sat nicely under my makeup."

✓Yay

90%Guru Score

e.l.f. Power Grip Primer

"I absolutely despise e.l.f. as a brand, but what e.l.f. did do is make something their own. They took the Gripy primer concept and made it their own, and now everyone knows that the e.l.f. Gripy primer exists and it's a great alternative for whatever."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

One/Size Secure The Sweat Dry Til Dawn Primer

"I think it's done really, really, really well. I would rely on this product to take me through a workday, an evening event, something like that if I didn't want to be shiny and sweaty. I think it's done incredibly well. And I'm excessively oily, so if you're just slightly a bit oily, I would recommend this. I [...] was very pleasantly surprised. [...] If you have areas that are slightly dehydrated, maybe you won't be using this product if you're dehydrated or dry."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Moisturizers14 reviews

Laneige Balance Mode Shine Control Pore Minimizing Lightweight Moisturizer

"This moisturizer is from Laneige, from their shine control range, it's called the Balance Mode Shine Control Weightless Moisturizer. It's a very lightweight [...] fluid moisturizer, that fluid texture being just above a serum in terms of how much moisture it has, but it completely disappears and gets absorbed by the skin. If you're someone who loves to use a range of products, this one from Laneige is beautiful."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Hourglass Phantom Volumizing Glossy Balm

"$38 each is wild. They do look nice though, [...] all these look good. But I don't like Hourglass, I just don't like them, I find a lot of their products to be fakely inclusive, like when they released those highlighter palettes claiming deeper shades, they just always look dusty on people. So I'm putting them in at number three for now."

~Mixed

79%Guru Score

Red Chamber Multi-Purpose Cream

"I'm using a lot of products from a brand Red Chamber today, which is a Chinese beauty brand. They sent me some of their stuff, and I'm a huge fan of them anyway. I've bought loads and loads and loads of their things in the past. I get it all from YesStyle. I adore them."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Face Cream

"The e.l.f. Holy Hydration! Face Cream is beautiful because it's not too heavy."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream

"Don't even get me started on the Magic Cream. Magic Vaseline. It's not Vaseline, it's the texture."

✕Nay

61%Guru Score

MAC Pinklite Strobe Cream

"I'm going to [...] take a Strobe Cream. This is MAC Pinklite, but you could take L'Oreal Lumi. Same thing, much cheaper. Remember when I applied white paint on my face and I said it peeks through? Well, apparently, this is exactly what that does. So we're going to apply this only on our cheeks and on our middle of our nose. Look at [...] that white reflects. No white paint needed."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Skin Rocks Rich Moisturizer Face Cream

"If you have oily skin, this is stunning. [...] When it goes on the skin you rub it in like a moisturizer but then it almost feels like it turns into this watery kind of feel, really lightweight, quickly absorbed into the skin so you can go ahead and put your makeup right on top. [...] I've been using this on days where I'm not wearing makeup and just been wearing this and an SPF. It hasn't felt too heavy, it hasn't felt too thick. It's been absolutely stunning."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

CeraVe Moisturizing Cream

"There was a product that fixed it from CeraVe, it's a great barrier relief, which I use. I don't use anything else. I'll wash my face and then I'll just pop that on top and it fixes it."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

Then I Met You Bong Bong Bounce Cream

"This is so, so cute. The smell is incredible. I love this cream. I've actually been using this for a while because it's that perfect balance between a moisturizer and a gel texture. So it's really, really lightweight. So again, if you're oily, you still need that moisture before your makeup, but it's not over moisturized, so it's not going to sit on top of your skin. It has Squalene and Ceramides and it's also infused with Vitamin C rich Hallabong Extract, which helps brighten the skin."

✓Yay

Notverified

Romand Glasting Melting Balm

"These are just a beautiful tinted product. This is one of the best tinted lip balms I've used. It actually has a colour. It isn't glossy or like sloppy on the lip. It's like a hybrid. Imagine if like a lipstick and a lip balm had a baby. You get that colour of the lipstick, but you get the texture of the balm. So you can just let that sit for a while. You can use it by itself. You can use it after a pencil."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Merit Great Skin Priming Moisturizer

"I used the Merit Great Skin Priming Moisturizer. This is on the newer end from Merit, but I don't like to overload my skin with products. Right. This is a thing with no makeup makeup. I don't want to have to use serum, moisturizer, primer, sunscreen, all this stuff. The most you can like lessen the amount of products you're using, the better. So when you have like a moisturizer that's also priming perfect."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Typology D41 Nine Ingredient Face Moisturizer

"This is the Typology Nine Ingredient Face Moisturizer. Small amount, I was about to say pea size but I use too much. This is for everyone, oily skin, dry skin, whatever. [...] I always say this: let your skin do what it needs to do with that moisturizer. Never drip it on your face because you're overkill, you're giving your face too much hydration. That tiny little finger dot gave me the full T-Zone."

✓Yay

Notverified

Educated Mess Sake Bomb Targeted Peptide Hydra Burst Moisturizer

"Educated Mess do an incredible moisturizer, which is perfect for oily people under your foundation, especially in hot weather. It's like this gel cream. It's stunning. It's beautiful. The Sake Bomb."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Etude House SoonJung 2X Barrier Intensive Cream

"This is perfect for sensitive skins. It's perfect for acne-prone skin as well. Even if you are a little bit oily, you can use something like this in areas where you're a little bit more dehydrated. If I'm prepping a client's skin for makeup, I will use a gel or fluid on areas that are a little bit more oily. And if there's somewhere that needs a little bit more help, it tends to be like the cheeks here, round the nose, sometimes around the hairline. Then I'll use a cream."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Eye Care13 reviews

Abib Collagen Eye Patch Jericho Rose Jelly

"These are from a brand called Abib, their collagen eye patch jelly, Jericho rose jelly, sixty patches in the tub. These are really, really good eye patches. [...] There are some eye patches where I don't really see a difference under my eyes, I think I've just done like a glorified eye cream routine. [...] These claim to brighten and depuff and I really do see it with these, [...] I actually often don't see the point in a lot of eye patches."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Resist 24 Pure Retinol Express Soothing Eye Masks

"But I do have to say I love the feeling of not only my skin under my eyes, but this whole area does seem brighter, it does seem smoother. It's really great for me as someone with oily skin, I can kind of skip a little bit of skincare before my makeup because it has that milkier substance on it."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Revive Eye Serum: Ginseng + Retinal

"I'm still on this eye cream. It is one of the best eye creams ever. This has to be my sixth or seventh. I kind of lost track now. I use a few different eye creams, but this is always like, a go to. I just love that one."

✓Yay

93%Guru Score

Lumify Redness Reliever Eye Drops

"If you're a crier or not, these are going to whiten the whites of your eyes and make you look much more alive and much more awake."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Thrive Causemetics Brilliant Under Eye Brightener Illuminating Corrector

"I'm very happy that we're past the point of those intensely orange color correctors that nobody really needs unless you have a very deep discoloration under the eye, but a lot of people do only need this level of color correction. It looks like it's brightening under the eyes giving like a smoothness that looks really really stunning. It looks really beautiful and it's going to blend with the skin. I really like that because it makes a lot of sense."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Ole Henriksen Banana Bright Vitamin C Eye Cream

"This is a Ole Henriksel Banana Bright eye cream. It's a really, really great eye cream. I really, really liked this, and I constantly try to speak about it on camera because it does have this brightening effect to the eye. It has this glow to it, even if you keep tapping, tapping, tapping. If you're not someone who has super dry eyelids and you just want to have very balanced hydration under eyes, this is great."

✓Yay

74%Guru Score

Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream

"The Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream is rich. If you do have really dry under eyes, perhaps they kind of crease when you're not even wearing makeup, or perhaps they look dry and textured, something like this kind of holds this moisture, this shine, and this glow on the skin majority of the day. It really held this wetish glow to the skin even when blended in."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Skin Rocks Eye Cream

"The best one I have used for under makeup specifically is the Eye Cream from Skin Rocks. This has only come out recently, but I've been using it on my eyes because I get really dry on this inside corner. And it is the perfect, perfect formula and texture for under eye makeup. It's not greasy, it's not slippery, it isn't instantly absorbed into your lids, and everything's gone. It's perfection."

✓Yay

88%Guru Score

Summer Fridays Jet Lag Overnight Eye Serum

"I don't know where it came from, but I was just crossing off the inside corner of my eyes. This was a lifesaver because it smoothed it out. And listen, I had to get that stuff fixed within a week, within a few days because I need to wear makeup to film, right? [...] With that night mask, with having that kind of skin smoothed and evened out in texture, the next morning when you wash your face, when you go to apply your makeup, you're going to have a really beautiful texture."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Huda Beauty Pink Under Eye Setting Powder

"If you do want a nice one, it is Huda Beauty. The pressed ones are beautiful. I'm not a fan of loose powder in general, but the pressed ones are stuns."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Positive Light Under Eye Brightener

"I absolutely love this product. This is the Rare Beauty Under Eye Brightener. It's quite unique in that it's not really concealer. [...] It's meant to go either just under your eyes when you're not wearing makeup to add a little bit of brightness, a little bit of light, but without having to use layers and layers of concealer that can sometimes start to look a little bit cakey and a little bit heavy. This just adds a touch of brightness, a touch of light to those areas."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Becca Under Eye Brightening Corrector

"Their Under Eye Brightening Corrector is a really beautiful product. [...] This was a brand that had products that did what it said on the tin, worked incredibly well, looked incredible on everyone, of all skin tones. [...] These products were loved by consumers, influencers, makeup artists. You can't leave the beauty industry without these products."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

The Saem Under Eye 2 in 1 Dual Ended Pen

"I'm taking this concealer from The Saem. [...] This is double sided. So we have a creamier concealer one side, a little bit more lightweight, and then we have this more of a concealer concealer this side. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to use this kind of stick bit so I can show you exactly how I create a light trap."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Serums12 reviews

The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5

"I've been loving this one from The Ordinary. [...] I love just straight up hyaluronic acid as a primer, and it's skincare, so you can incorporate that into your skincare routine. Morning, evening, and you can incorporate into your pre makeup skincare routine if you want. For me that's a good enough primer. It makes the skin feel even the whole way around. Those areas are a bit more oily, perhaps bit more dehydrated, and it gives you the most incredible texture to your skin."

✓Yay

75%Guru Score

Merit Great Skin Instant Glow Serum

"Then this Merit Great Skin Instant Glow Serum. It really does give you, like, glass skin."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Glossier Future Dew Solid Oil Serum Illuminator

"But this is from Glossier. I am not excited about this, to be honest with you. It's been done. It's been done. And I just feel like it's a product that not everyone needs to do. [...] I do like these kind of products and I do appreciate the different almost like this peachy undertone. The one from the Ciate was more golden and I actually think it looked better on all different skin tones."

✕Nay

56%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dewy Flush

"These are beautiful texture. I love Glow Recipe. I'm not a skincare channel, so I don't really talk about them. So now they're stepping into color. I [...] love, love, love, love this idea. [...] They are great at their skincare formulas, so I'm really looking forward to them stepping into color."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Beauty of Joseon Calming Serum: Green Tea + Panthenol

"This is the Beauty of Joseon Calming Serum. I've actually used one of their serums already. You can see I've used quite a bit of this one because it's beautiful under makeup. [...] Serums are packed with things that really benefit your skin, hydrating ingredients. [...] Unlike some thicker moisturizers, it is absorbed completely into the skin. We get all that goodness, the hydration goodness of the ingredients we choose to have in our serum, but it doesn't hang around on the skin."

✓Yay

79%Guru Score

Clarins Double Serum Complete Age-Defying Concentrate

"This is my Double Serum Spray."

~Mixed

64%Guru Score

Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops

"This is inspired by dewdrops, but the exact same clinically effective niacinamide and hyaluronic acid base that makes skin glow instantly and brightens over time. The difference? It gives skin a warmer, radiant glow. [...] I was taken aback by the color at first, but it shears out, blending in seamlessly, giving my skin just a subtle wash of healthy looking color with a warm, natural glow. It still feels like it's giving skincare. It's not too makeup y."

~Mixed

68%Guru Score

Parnell Sea Manuka 92 Serum

"It's soothing, it's nourishing, it's got that Manuka honey in, it's eco friendly and it's proven to be effective on the skin as well. It's been clinically tested and it's shown notable improvements in the skin's redness and hydration as well. The serum itself is actually packaged in a really sustainable way, making it both skin and planet friendly. [...] You can apply it in the morning for the daytime for a stronger, more moisturizing effect, or at night you can almost like mask it."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

d'Alba White Truffle First Spray Serum

"The d'Alba First Spray Serum, spray, done. Great primer. [...] Primers, for me, do something to the skin tone and the skin texture, and those things help even it all out."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

d'Alba White Truffle Double Serum & Cream

"d'Alba is one of my absolute favorite brands. This is my third one of these. I adore these products. I just love, love, love this brand. They have white truffle which is such a luxury skincare ingredient. White truffles are a natural antioxidant, and white truffles also contain vitamin C, vitamin B12, minerals and amino acids that help improve fine lines, wrinkles, hyperpigmentation and just give an overall healthier, brighter looking appearance to the skin."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

AXIS-Y Dark Spot Correcting Glow Serum

"This has been a cult favorite for some time now. It fades dark spots and hyperpigmentation, and I've done a little bit of snooping myself, and this product has incredible reviews. Serums like this that are really kind of lightweight and just that gel kind of texture sit incredibly well underneath makeup, because they get that kind of plump the skin, very, very slightly tacky texture to them, which makes for a great priming solution or alternative to a primer."

✓Yay

64%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Hyaluronic Anti-Wrinkle Serum

"This is the Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Hyaluronic Anti-Wrinkle Serum. It is an anti-aging serum, but it also doubles as a spot treatment for wrinkles. It has Fermented Black Rice Extract and Vitamin E, which is great for the skin, of course. And over time, it will help even out texture and fine lines and make your skin nice and bright. I like to just kind of tap it into the skin and take my time applying this and really push it in. It is so super lightweight."

✓Yay

66%Guru Score

Tools11 reviews

Live Tinted Hue Stick Click CC Brightening Wand

"I'm actually happy with that price point, [...] I think it's nice. Could we have another shade in there? Yes, we could, [...] a brighter pink and a deeper orange, I don't think this quite reaches all the way for deep deep skin tones, [...] but this is nice. I would actually be interested in this, especially for treating and hydrating under my eyes day to day."

✓Yay

78%Guru Score

BK Beauty Nikki LaRose Pro Artist Series Volume 2 Brush Set

"I [...] have volume one of these and [...] they are beautiful. [...] They are so, so nice. Would I spend $200 on brushes? Honestly, yes. Just because I value a good brush because of my profession. For the everyday consumer, maybe not. But if you are into luxury brands, higher end brands, [...] this is a great brand and a great artist who knows what they're talking about. I love these. I love the look of this one in particular."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Cinema Secrets Brush Bath

"The smell makes me feel travel sick. It reminds me of vanilla car, you know, the trees, the car air freshener trees? And it reminds me of travel sickness. So I personally can't use it. The thing about this brush cleaner is it does not sanitize your brushes, right? It's designed to clean them. Which it does. It removes the makeup. And you can use it. It's great between clients and stuff. But it's just [...] a brush cleaner. It's just [...] a fast drying brush cleaner. That's all it is."

✕Nay

78%Guru Score

Beautyblender Original

"When Beauty Blender came out with their Beauty Blender, the beauty sponge, it changed the game. It changed the makeup game for everyone. People went wild for it. Professionals, non professionals, everyday consumers, everyday makeup wearers."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge

"Real Techniques came in with a Miracle Complexion Sponge and proved for $5 that you actually don't need to spend $20 on a sponge. That's good quality. That will get the job done and do it like any other sponge, and if not better, in my opinion. So not only is it a great product, and you can buy it in multi packs, but Real Techniques also has pinned to their Instagram page their range of sponges and what they're for and the benefits of them."

✓Yay

83%Guru Score

BK Beauty 101/A101 Foundation Brush

"This amazing perfect foundation brush is from BK Beauty, it's the 101. Look how flawless my face looks already, so good. As a pro makeup artist, my number one tip is always light layers because that equals longevity. A lot of people go in with way too much makeup from the get-go, right, and it's like oh it's not lasting on my skin, it's like because nothing can grip to your skin."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Angled Powder Brush

"I really like Rare Beauty's brushes. I actually don't like brushes this slim for bronzer. You could use it that way to be fair, but I just I prefer more of a rounder top, something I can really buff outwards and circle outwards. I don't like to drag my bronzer, but we are going to use that and see how it goes. I can see this would be useful in some way."

~Mixed

66%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Blush Brush

"Absolutely get this brush. This is for foundation, bronzer, even powder bronzer, any cream product you're using as well. It's got this what I would call like a stipple brush finish where it's denser here but thinner on top. You get really good, light but even application. So even like powder contour, it's really nice because it applies it really naturally and gently. Foundation is really nice to kind of stipple it on as well. A really, really beautiful brush. I really like this brush."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Flower Knows Midsummer Fairy Tales Blush Brush

"They do come with two little brushes here. Last time I used one of these brushes for cream blush, hated it. It was so bad. The brush was awful. My issue with the brushes is the hairs are kind of just sporadic, and they don't really look like they've been organized in any kind of way. I think it'll be a good travel brush, like to take in your bag somewhere or something like that, but I'm not a huge fan of those brushes at all."

✕Nay

73%Guru Score

Sigma E54 Medium Sweeper Brush

"The E54 Medium Sweeper. Now, this is a flat brush, which is great for packing product onto the lid just for eye makeup. But again, it also has that fluffier top, so we can use it to smudge things out. I love this kind of brush for concealer, for example, because it's flat, because you get that coverage, but you can also blend it out with the edge and get fine cuts."

✓Yay

Notverified

Sigma E21 Smudge Brush

"This is a smudge brush, but it's great for details. This is what we're going to use to make this cut crease today. It's what we're going to use to do the finer details under the eyes. It's great for blending out fine lines into something smokier. This is a really good brush for finer details."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Cleansers9 reviews

Beauty of Joseon Radiance Cleansing Balm

"This is my Beauty of Joseon Radiance Cleansing Balm. [...] I just feel like it's gonna be this super powerful combination of just stripping off that makeup. I'm not even rubbing hard. [...] Look how quickly that came off. That is stunning. Stunning, stunning. [...] I'm just using my cleansing balm to melt down the eyeshadow, and then we'll use a bit more of a water cleansing [...] to take it off properly."

✓Yay

80%Guru Score

Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water

"I'm just removing the oil, the oil makeup remover from my face with the Bioderma Sensibio H2O Micellar Water."

✓Yay

96%Guru Score

Tirtir Hydroboost Enzyme Cleansing Balm

"I'm gonna use the TIRTIR Hydro Boost Enzyme Cleansing Balm. I just give myself a little face massage and get all this product off. And you feel like you're using a product for adults, not for kids."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Enhancing Treatment Cleanser

"It melts away makeup effortlessly. I mean effortlessly, my lash glue, my waterproof mascara, everything. This is a luxuriously gentle cleansing and exfoliating cleanser. It removes 100 percent of your makeup from my face completely. I didn't go in with another cleanse after this, as was mentioned in her preview, that you don't have to double cleanse us. This removes 100 percent of your makeup."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Garnier Oil-Infused Cleansing Water

"It did break down my makeup really well, to be fair, but after using it for about a day to a week I realized that my skin was becoming incredibly dry. [...] It was the only thing I changed, and as soon as I cut it out my skin went back to normal. Everywhere was drying, my eyelids were dry, under eyes are dry, and you know when you get dry under eyes and it starts to get a bit red. [...] These lids were dry because they just love to be dry, it was horrendous, it was so crusty and dry."

✕Nay

55%Guru Score

House of Hur Purifying Cleansing Balm

"Their original Purifying Cleansing Balm is made for all skin types, no matter what your situation is, and has some beautiful ingredients, fruity ingredients, cranberry powder, wild strawberry and cherry fruit. So this is a great go to. What I love about their balms, especially the packaging, is it has this like grind to it. So you grind up just the amount you need. That way you're just using what you need. It's a really great way to control how much you're using."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

House of Hur Midnight Soothing Cleansing Balm

"I feel like a lot of you are going to join me in the love for their Midnight Soothing Cleansing Balm. This is for sensitive skin. I consider my skin quite sensitive. If I overuse actives in skincare, if I overuse exfoliators, if I have to remove my makeup once or twice a day, my skin gets really, really sensitive. And it is just sensitive in general, especially after shaving or something like that. This has one of my favorite ingredients in it."

✓Yay

81%Guru Score

Anua Heartleaf Plus Vitamin E Pore Control Cleansing Oil

"So this is actually a product that, of course, will remove your makeup, dissolve the makeup, but also helps to remove blackheads and sebaceous filaments effortlessly. Sebaceous filaments are those little dots in your nose that aren't necessarily full on blackheads, but they look like blackheads. Like the name suggests, it contains Heartleaf, which is anti-inflammatory and antibacterial, it has antibacterial properties."

✓Yay

62%Guru Score

Haruharu Wonder Black Rice Moisture Deep Cleansing Oil

"I absolutely love oil cleansers. Oil cleansers literally melt away and dissolve your makeup, completely removed from the skin, leaving no traces behind. What I love about this one is it's very lightweight, feels very smooth and silky on the skin. And when you wash it away just with water, it completely comes off the skin. It doesn't leave any trace of oil behind. It leaves the skin feeling really smooth and soft."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

Toners9 reviews

Equalberry Swimming Pool Daily Facial Toner

"This is a toner that's deeply hydrating but also gently exfoliating. [...] It's not a harsh exfoliation, you can use it daily, it's safe to use before you go out in the sun. It's very, very mild. I love building up layers of toner, and [...] what you're doing is hydrating that skin without using something too thick or too heavy underneath your foundation, but you're giving yourselves excessive layers of moisture. [...] One of my favorite toners ever."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Glow Recipe PDRN Repair and Soothe Korean Prickly Pear Toner Pads

"It looks a bit dehydrated. It's looking a bit dull. There's a toner pad for everything, and you just rest them on your face like they're a face mask. Go about doing something else, do your hair, do whatever, and then just take them off and tap that toner into the skin, or the essence, and whatever's left on your skin. It's like a skin care cheat code for makeup. I think they are absolutely beautiful. I love that."

✓Yay

76%Guru Score

First Aid Beauty Facial Radiance Pads

"I always use these First Aid Beauty Radiance Pads. I'm addicted to them, and I use them on all my clients, no matter what skin type they have."

✓Yay

70%Guru Score

Tear Tier Milk Skin Toner

"I use the Tear Tier Milk Skin Toner because I love it. [...] If I'm having a bad skin day, I know I can use that."

✓Yay

67%Guru Score

e.l.f. Thirst Burst Pore Perfecting Toner

"I did use the e.l.f First Burst Drops, these, which are really nice as well"

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

COSRX Centella Toning Mist

"I found that oily skin responds best to layers of lightweight hydrating products such as milky toners, serums, essences and gel based moisturizers. What I use in my kit is the Cosrx Centella Toning Mist."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Skin1004 Probio-Cica Essence Toner

"This is an essence toner that strengthens the skin, it helps retain the moisture levels, and it's suitable for all skin types. After using this, my skin feels so incredibly soft. Like even putting on a moisturizer or a serum felt like a really soft experience."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tirtir Milk Skin Toner

"I'm wearing the Tirtir Milk Skin Toner. I just love this formula. That liquid, that like liquid concealer formula. I'm just such a huge fan of. Like, don't get me wrong, I do like a heavy thick cream when necessary. But a lot of the time it's like just not necessary."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Anua Heartleaf 77% Soothing Toner

"This toner has won the top-ranking toner and it won first place in the Olive Young Awards. Olive Young is a huge beauty retailer out there in South Korea. So for them to win number one place is a big deal. It's a huge deal. It's also perfect for sensitive and acne-prone skin. And that's because of the Heartleaf Extract and the Sugar Cane Extract. They act as natural AHAs, Alpha Hydroxy Acids, which gently, very gently, mildly almost, exfoliate the skin."

✓Yay

87%Guru Score

Masks & Peels8 reviews

Tirtir Mask Fit Aura Cushion

"And this is going to be great for dry or dehydrated skin. Again, oily people can use it. Just keep on top of it. And this is really, really great if you want that really classic K-beauty glow to the skin. It has ingredients in, Hyaluronic Acid that keeps the skin looking plump and juicy. So this is a really great option to go for. I actually really love this one. I think it's really beautiful. So this is great for natural makeup, everyday, anyone who wants hydration."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit Cool Blue Sun Cushion

"This isn't really foundation in any way. This is an SPF tone up cushion. So it's very sheer, very minimal. Think about this as SPF because it's going to give you hardly anything on the skin. It isn't a foundation. Again, it's SPF 50 PA++++. Great for all skin types, including sensitive skins, which some heavy SPFs can be quite stingy on sensitive skin. But it also gives a cooling effect which I love during the summer months. They also do the cooling skincare range as well as the cooling mist."

~Mixed

75%Guru Score

Medicube Collagen Night Wrapping Mask

"It's very lightweight. It doesn't make your face feel tight or anything like that. But what I found it did for me was provide this locked in barrier. Right? So nothing, no skincare was going to absorb, no moisture from my skin was going to be lost. My skincare was being kept locked in, secured in, and my skin was actually going to take in that moisture, which I really, really, really liked. So this one is literally made to wear overnight."

✓Yay

61%Guru Score

Abib Rice Probiotics Overnight Mask Barrier Jelly

"But I really do feel like that's another option to lock in all that moisture, all that stuff that you're applying on your skin overnight, maybe it transfers onto your pillow, maybe you have air conditioning and it dries out your skin, heating, you know, that kind of thing. [...] These kind of options, this overnight locking moisture into the skin, keeping moisture in the skin is going to be a great option, especially for you oily people out there."

✓Yay

85%Guru Score

Sunday Riley Good Genes All-In-One AHA Lactic Acid Treatment

"If your skin is sensitive, do not use it daily. It's a glycolic acid treatment, an AHA, alpha hydroxy acid, and it says you can use it daily, so I did. My skin hurt, it was sensitive, it was dry, it was the most horrendous experience I've had with a product. [...] When I use it [...] three to four times a week, it's absolutely fine. Daily, absolutely not. My skin just really, really hurt. Some people might have built up less sensitivity to it, [...] but oh my god, it just really really hurt."

✕Nay

65%Guru Score

Medipill Collagen Wrapping Mask

"Peel off mask, halfway successful. I'm giving that a five out of 10."

~Mixed

70%Guru Score

Tirtir Mask Fit Pink All Cover Cushion

"We are doing a matte full coverage foundation, this is the Tirtir Mask Fit Pink All Cover Cushion. When we think of full coverage, when we think of matte texture, it can potentially show up a little bit more if you have textured skin. And here's what everyone is going to do: you are all going to use a toner, no matter what your skin type is, as part of your makeup prep."

✓Yay

Notverified

Etude House Mask Proof Fixing Tint

"This is from Etude House. If you're familiar with K-beauty, you know Etude House. This is the Fixing Tint. This is a kind of a matte finish lip tint. It's known as being, like, mask proof. So if you are still in a position where you need to wear masks, this is a great one to go for. Super lightweight and super hydrating. It goes on so smooth. Feels like water. That feels beautiful."

✓Yay

Notverified

Body & Tan4 reviews

Fenty Beauty Skin Butter Drop Shimmering Whipped Oil Body Cream

"You have a butter drop mini shimmering whipped body oil which looks good. That looks nice. The butter drop mini shimmering whipped oil body cream with tropical oils and shea butter. Beautiful. Love it."

✓Yay

77%Guru Score

Beekman 1802 Milkshake Body Collection Moisture Mist

"I adore this brand. Their skincare is beautiful. [...] I will give these a go because they are just so beautiful and they do make your skin look beautifully glowy as well. After one application, stunning. And it's so easy. I'm so lazy with moisturizing my body when I'm out of the shower, [...] so to have it in a spray is just so easy, and you just rub that in. So beautiful. [...] It feels like a higher end luxury to me, so I'm good with that price."

✓Yay

73%Guru Score

Wild Natural Deodorant

"I love the wild deant wild theant are beautiful"

✓Yay

69%Guru Score

Naturium Biolipid Restoring Body Lotion

"But this actually has no residue, there's no greasy feeling, there's no sticky feeling. It has a formulation with omega fatty acids, shea butter, and B vitamins. When I put this on my elbows, which are [...] always a little bit dry, and [...] left it on for a few minutes, I could just [...] touch my elbow and think, oh my god, my elbow feels really soft and smooth. [...] It doesn't feel greasy or slippy, it just feels like I have really nice skin."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Acne3 reviews

Starface Hydro-Star Microdots Plus Salicylic Acid Patches

"I do like Starface as a brand, [...] they always do fun licenses. [...] I'm not excited about these, but it's nice to know they're an option when I'm shopping for pimple patches in future, I think they'll be a good go-to, though I think I'd still choose ZitSticka over them, it depends on the price since ZitSticka is quite expensive."

~Mixed

60%Guru Score

Starface Hydrocolloid Pimple Patches

"Don't get me wrong, these aren't the worst. I don't find they have the same impact as a lot of pimple patches I have used. And I think that they aren't as intense, you know? You know when you have a pimple, you want to put a pimple patch on, you want to see all that stuff in the pimple patch and peel it off and look at it and be like, oh my God, my pimple's flat. I don't find these do that. The Star Face ones, I think they are very... it's almost like a more gentler version, if that makes sense."

✕Nay

58%Guru Score

Peace Out Acne Dots

"Peace Out is an incredible one also. They're the original I used to use when I lived in Florida, and they weren't available in the UK. I'll go to Sephora and stack up on those. The nose ones, the forehead ones, and the pimple ones."

✓Yay

92%Guru Score

Fragrance3 reviews

Phlur Cherry Stem

"New from Phlur, we have a fragrance. A cherry fragrance, is in a floral... It's called Cherry Stems. It's floral, and it's a fruity floral. So the keynotes are black cherry, red freesia, and ebony woods. [...] I love their fragrances. I have every single one, and I think they are just absolutely stunning. Cherry isn't a fragrance I would run out and buy. Because they're kind of, like, spicy sweet. And I'm more of a [...] musk. And I'm not a fruity fragrance person."

~Mixed

76%Guru Score

Ariana Grande Cloud Eau de Parfum

"One bottle of this fragrance sells every 11 seconds. That's how popular her fragrances are. And that along with all her other fragrances, I think there are 25 fragrances within her brand altogether, selling all the time. It is a very, very successful venture for her. And even the perfumers and fragrance experts that have worked on her brand work for [...] super high end fragrance companies, fragrance brands and celebrity brands."

✓Yay

68%Guru Score

Phlur Heavy Cream Fragrance

"I love Phlur fragrances. I have every single one, and every single one is amazing. Some were gifted to me. Most of them I purchased myself because, again, a lot of them are only available in the US, or were only available in the US, and I have no patience to get them. I think this is going to be beautiful. I can't wait to try it. But like I said, I love every single one of their fragrances. And what they do with their sweet, sweeter fragrances. They're not too sweet."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Haircare3 reviews

Gisou Honey Milk Active Repair Leave-In Conditioner Mist

"I hate that kind of spray bottle. [...] The ones that are like a continuous spray get a bit spitty after a while."

✕Nay

58%Guru Score

K18 Peptide Prep pH Maintenance Shampoo

"I use K18."

✓Yay

86%Guru Score

Rare Beauty Find Comfort Body and Hair Fragrance Mist

"I prefer this Rare Beauty mist to the Milk one because I use this to hydrate my skin because I'm super oily. This is just enough hydration for my skin before I put on foundation, and as an oily person I don't want to over prep. The Milk one is really good, it's mattifying, so on those days when I want my makeup to last a really really long time, perhaps it's not the best for my skin. I use the Milk one because I know it's going to grip and last forever."

✓Yay

72%Guru Score

Tech3 reviews

CurrentBody LED Neck and Décolletage Perfector

"It's great. Straps on nicely. It has a little cord, and you just tap it on. You can do your skincare, whatever, just not your neck yet. And it's an investment, right? £269 is no joke. It's no laughing matter. That is an investment piece. I keep it in its protection bag [...] and I keep them nice and safe, away from direct sunlight. [...] I probably wouldn't buy it again. But I just [...] can't remember [...] to use it. I never remember to use it."

~Mixed

80%Guru Score

CurrentBody Skin LED Light Therapy Mask Series 2

"The mask comes with a remote that has a clip so it can actually clip onto you. I [...] added on the eye guards to my mask which I think is a really nice touch. [...] You have a choice of straps. [...] It's incredibly easy to use. [...] You just strap on the mask, hold down the power button, and your red LED lights will come on. It will time itself for 10 minutes and then turn itself off. Current body hasn't just placed those wavelengths randomly throughout the mask."

✓Yay

89%Guru Score

Ulike ReGlow LED Mask

"It just means I can get on with work while doing this, and it doesn't interfere with my life in any way or my routine. It fits perfectly into what I'm doing. It's the kind of thing that subtly improves everything, even how your makeup feels when you put it on. The Ulike ReGlow LED Mask makes a lot of sense, especially if you're into makeup but want your skin to do more of the work for you. It's beautifully designed, it's comfortable, and backed by real science, not trends."

✓Yay

Notverified

Mists & Essences2 reviews

Pixi Hydrating Milky Mist

"It smells really good. It's not overly fragranced to a point where you'll be like, oh, perfume, but it does have a very small fragrance to it. It's very light and not floral. It's very clean and fresh. With some hydrating mists or skin prep mist, I consider my skin to be sensitive, not like crazy sensitive. I can use ahas and stuff like that and it might sting a little bit around my nose. So when I'm trying a new product, I can get a little bit stingy, but this does not sting at all."

✓Yay

84%Guru Score

Yepoda Mist Have Facial Mist

"She first started with The Mist Have Facial Mist. This contains hyaluronic acid and lavender. And again, if you're not into fragrance, the fragrance isn't lavender. It doesn't smell like that. It smells very clean, very fresh. Hyaluronic acid, aloe vera, ginseng, and some calming ingredients like green tea, lavender."

✓Yay

Notverified

Balms & Ointments1 review

Vaseline Original Healing Jelly

"Vaseline has no staying power. It's not a product that's made to hold anything, keep anything. It's slippery. It slips. You put Vaseline on your lips and it ends up down here eventually. Especially under mascara, this is a recipe for disaster. It is going to be so messy. [...] Vaseline doesn't act differently on your lashes than it does your skin. It isn't a different formula. It just [...] sits on top of stuff."

✕Nay

85%Guru Score

Retinoids1 review

Dermatica Custom Blended Prescription Retinoid

"I cannot stress enough how much Dermatica has changed my skin noticeably over the years I've been using them. The changes I want to see in my skin were achievable and realistic. I want to see a more even skin tone, a more even texture. I want to fade dark spots that hang around my skin after I have like a blemish or something like that. And then I also want some preventative measures in there as well too, reducing the appearance of fine lines also. I am not a skincare expert by any means."

✓Yay

82%Guru Score

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