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- Your skin tone/coloring:
- All-time favorite makeup brand?
- All-time favorite skin care brand?
- All-time favorite nail polish brand?
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Your skin tone/coloring: NC20
All-time favorite makeup brand? Chanel, Guerlain, NARS, and Tom Ford
All-time favorite skin care brand? Lancome, Kiehl’s, and Malin+Goetz
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Chanel, China Glaze, Dior, and Zoya
◾Your skin tone/coloring: NC15
◾All-time favorite makeup brand? I’m reaaaally loving The Balm lately! What great products to come onto the scene (and with such cute packaging!). I can’t be without my NUDEtude palette and my Frat Boy blush!
◾All-time favorite skin care brand? I’m not too picky. I just use simple products to keep my face balanced and nice. BUT, I will say that I’ve gotten some samples that were miracle workers for me. StriVectin and Claire’s Botanicals being the best I’ve ever tried. I just can’t throw down that kind of money, though.
◾All-time favorite nail polish brand? Easily Zoya! <2
Your skin tone/coloring: warm, light/medium
All-time favorite makeup brand? Difficult to choose one 😛 So I write Inglot, Mac, Sugarpill and MUA
All-time favorite skin care brand? The Body Shop, Avon
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Isadora, Depend
◾Your skin tone/coloring: NW 20
◾All-time favorite makeup brand? Chanel, Nars, Dior
◾All-time favorite skin care brand? Liérac, Chanel, Shiseido
◾All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI, Essie, Dior
Your skin tone/coloring: NC25
All-time favorite makeup brand? Nars, Dior, Guerlain
All-time favorite skin care brand? Lancome, Clarins, Elizabeth Arden
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Zoya!
Fair with yellow undertones (Hourglass veil shade porcelain) (probably NC15)
My all-time favorite brand is Tarte, but Laura Mercier is creeping up there too.
My favorite skincare brand is Ole Henriksen. My skin just loves it! I also love the ingredients, no icky bad stuff!
I’m not really a nailpolish fan. I only paint my toes, and not often. I do like china glaze quite a bit, but any old polish will do.
Your skin tone/coloring: NC05
All-time favorite makeup brand: Really it is to difficult to choose one. Sugarpill, Urban Decay, Sleek, MUFE, Tarte.
All-time favorite skin care brand: H2O+
All-time favorite nail polish brand: Color Club
Your skin tone/coloring: warm, medium-tan, NC37-NC40
All-time favorite makeup brand? Nars
All-time favorite skin care brand? Clarins, Murad
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Essie, Zoya
Your skin tone/coloring: light / warm
All-time favorite makeup brand? Burberry
All-time favorite skin care brand? Origins
All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI
Your skin tone/coloring: medium warm
All-time favorite makeup brand? Smashbox
All-time favorite skin care brand? La Roche Posay
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Rimmel
■Your skin tone/coloring: Deep brown/ red undertone
■All-time favorite makeup brand? NYX
■All-time favorite skin care brand? SImple products / St-Ives
■All-time favorite nail polish brand? Sally Hansen
NC 43-45
NARS
Philosophy
Essie
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair-Light/Neutral
All-time favorite makeup brand? NARS and Illamasqua
All-time favorite skin care brand? Philosophy
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Zoya
■Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair with pink undertones
■All-time favorite makeup brand? MAC
■All-time favorite skin care brand? LUSH
■All-time favorite nail polish brand? hmm.. this one is tough for me. I would probably have to say Julep or China Glaze
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/medium – I have freckles and sun kissed coloring and I love it!
All-time favorite makeup brand? tie between Urban Decay and Wet n Wild. I love L’Oreal for their mascaras – no one does mascara as well, I own more Wet n Wild and Urban Decay than anything else. My newest UD is the Shattered Face case. My newest Wet n Wild is Spoiled Army Brat coloricon trio, and my newest L’Oreal is Voluminous Million Lashes Mascara.
All-time favorite skin care brand? Bath & Body Works. Drugstore brand is St Ives Swiss Formula.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI. I think I have 225-230 of just OPI. But I probably own an equal amount of China Glaze, Sinful Colors, Essie, Zoya, and Sally Hansen polishes. I only own 1 Layla polish and no Indies. My favorite Indie brand is Picture Polish.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, peachy
All-time favorite makeup brand? NARS, Urban Decay
All-time favorite skin care brand? Clarins, The Body Shop
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Not picky… L’Oreal
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair skin (NC15, Nars Mont Blanc), black hair and blue eyes
All-time favorite makeup brand? Guerlain, Armani
All-time favorite skin care brand? Korres, Nuxe, Skyn Iceland
All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI for the breadth of their range, A-England for originality and formula.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/warm.
All-time favorite makeup brand? Urban Decay.
All-time favorite skin care brand? Origins or The Body Shop
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Essie.
Your skin tone/coloring: nc/nw 10, very pale neutral
All-time favorite makeup brand? Giorgio Armani and Hourglass
All-time favorite skin care brand? Lancome
All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI
Your skin tone/coloring: NC30
All-time favorite makeup brand? I can’t pick one so I’m tops are Tarte and Chanel
All-time favorite skin care brand? Skincuticles. My skin has changed in such a positive way since using this brand.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Don’t have a favorite 🙁
Your skin tone/coloring: Very Fair/warm to medium/warm (depending on fake tan level).
All-time favorite makeup brand? Giorgio Armani, Dior, Urban Decay, and Le Metier de Beaute (eyeshadows)
All-time favorite skin care brand? Hada Labo (their hyaluronic line), Ole Henricksen
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Butter London
Coloring- light skin with yellow undertones- NC20-25
Favorite makeup brand- Revlon for drug store, Tart for higher end
Favorite Skincare Brand- Paula’s choice, totally changed my skin!
Favorite Nail polish brand- Essie-
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, warm-neutral undertones (not quite sure), NW 15
All-time favorite makeup brand? Nars and Tarte (Face Makeup) Maybelline, Urban Decay, MAC (Eyes)
All-time favorite skin care brand? Simple, Clean and Clear, Cetaphil
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Essie!
Your skin tone/coloring: Deep Dark (NW 50)
All-time favorite makeup brand? MAC, NARS, Urban Decay, NYX, and Revlon
All-time favorite skin care brand? Philosophy and Neutrogena
All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI and Essie
We are literally the same person LOL! All of the same faves 🙂
Skin: Probably NC35, Medium to Med-Tan with olive undertones
ATF Makeup Brand: NARS wins if I’m going by what I have the most of.
ATF Skincare Brand: REN – Recently discovered and it has changed my life! Well, my skin for sure, for the better.
ATF Nailpolish Brand: Chanel – I have more of other brands, but really just love the Chanel’s that I do have.
Skintone/coloring: Fairly light, very neutral; dark-featured.
Makeup: Eyeshadow, NARS & Urban Decay; lip products, Revlon, L’Oreal, & Rimmel; eyeliner/mascara, L’Oreal. However, if I had to pick only one brand to buy everything from, it’d be NARS.
Skincare: Natural products & oils, primarily Desert Essence.
Nail polish: Sinful Colos; great formulas, “on-trend” colors, easily accessible, & all for $2 USD.
Skin tone/coloring: NC20
All-time favorite makeup brand: MAC!!!
All-time favorite skin care brand: Don’t have any favorite brand, but I purchased some products of Biotherm. And I like that they give really often generous samples.
All-time favorite nail polish brand: Essie, OPI, Dior
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, cool-toned
All-time favorite makeup brand? Hmmm – this is tough but I think I’ll have to say MAC because in spite of some stinkers and the fact that their “LE frenzy” ticks me off, they still have the most of a whole range of products that I love
All-time favorite skin care brand? Again, hard to pick one but I guess what I use most consistently is Clarins
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Probably Zoya though I own more OPI
If I only can pick one:
■Your skin tone/coloring: NW-25
■All-time favorite makeup brand? Nars
■All-time favorite skin care brand? Paula’s Choice
■All-time favorite nail polish brand? Zoya
Your skin tone/coloring: NW10/15
All-time favorite makeup brand? Hmm, that’s a tough one…I guess I’d have to go with either NARS or Chanel.
All-time favorite skin care brand? Clinique. Come to me, beautiful moisture.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? I’m not a huge nail polish person, so I’m going to go with the cheapie Revlon. For their price, most of them are quite nice. 🙂
Your skin tone/coloring: Medium Tan (Olive)
All-time favorite makeup brand? MUFE
All-time favorite skin care brand? Murad
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Essie
– fairly light (nc15/20) with light hair
– that’s such a toughie! i would probably have to say e.l.f. overall, although i splurge often on good high-end brands like laura mercier, nars, and lancome.
– my skin has gone through a lot of changes in the past couple years and so i’m not sure i have a clear favorite. i am still very much impressed with clinique, but murad is a close second.
– i’ve just started getting back into nail polish recently so, again, i don’t really have a favorite. i have high hopes for sephora’s new line, formula x, though!
Your skin tone/coloring: NC20-NC25.
All-time favorite makeup brand? MAC, NARS, Tarte, Benefit.
All-time favorite skin care brand? Kiehl’s and St. Ives.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Orly and OPI.
■Your skin tone/coloring: warm/Fair
■All-time favorite makeup brand? Don’t really have one. I’m all over the place and have found real gems at high end and low.
■All-time favorite skin care brand? Alpha Hydrox. It’s high quality glycolic acid at the medically correct Ph for a low price.
■All-time favorite nail polish brand? I’m all over the place here too, high end and low.
Your skin tone/coloring: NC50
All-time favorite makeup brand? MUFE
All-time favorite skin care brand? acne.org products
All-time favorite nail polish brand? China Glaze
All-time favorite makeup brand? Dior
All-time favorite skin care brand? Don’t really have one….
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Chanel, Zoya, and Illamasqua
Your skin tone/coloring: NC42
All-time favorite makeup brand? Tarte / Loreal / Urban Decay
All-time favorite skin care brand? Philosophy
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Zoya
Your skin tone/coloring: Extremely fair, freckly, neutral undertones. Impossible to match with foundation!
All-time favorite makeup brand? I’m a Chanel girl lately, but I love LORAC too.
All-time favorite skin care brand? CeraVe and Paula’s Choice! I have horribly sensitive skin, and these products work for me.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? I rarely paint my nails, but I usually use Revlon. Anything with microglitter I’ll buy though!
Your skin tone/coloring:Very pale, cool
All-time favorite makeup brand?L’Oreal (everything), theBalm (eyeshadows, blush), Benefit (highlighters, primers, ‘Tints)
All-time favorite skin care brand?New favourite: Nuxe
All-time favorite nail polish brand?Julep, Sally Hansen
Your skin tone/coloring: Neutral/Beige
All-time favorite makeup brand? Tom Ford
All-time favorite skin care brand? Paula’s Choice
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Deborah Lippmann & Essie
Your skin tone/coloring: NC42
All-time favorite makeup brand? Not sure I have one anymore
All-time favorite skin care brand? Shisheido
All-time favorite nail polish brand? I’m nail polish impaired. No response.
◾Your skin tone/coloring: NW 45
◾All-time favorite makeup brand: NARS, Smashbox, Sleek
◾All-time favorite skin care brand: Clinique
◾All-time favorite nail polish brand: None
Skin coloring: NW10
All-time favorite makeup brand: YSL, Urban Decay (UD is killing it lately, I love their new lipstick formula), Bite Beauty (matte yet moisturizing Cashmere Lip Cremes … genius)
All-time favorite skincare brand: I don’t really have one because I use prescription medicines for acne, so I haven’t explored many …. do pharmaceutical companies count? 😛
All-time favorite nail polish brand: OPI GelColor!! Regular nail polish always chips so easily on me, regardless of brand, base coat, top coat, strengthening treatment …. But GelColor lasts 2 weeks without any trouble!
Your skin tone/coloring: MUFE 130
All-time favorite makeup brand? Nars, Armani, UD (in order)
All-time favorite skin care brand? Korres, Clinique and Peter Thomas Roth
All-time favorite nail polish brand? China Glaze, OPI and Nails INC
Your skin tone/coloring: NARS Siberia
All-time favorite makeup brand? I’m not loyal, I have HG products from several.
All-time favorite skin care brand? I didn’t used to be loyal to a brand, I’d cherry-pick for function but Sephora gals gave me quite a few Korres product samples and I’m absolutely loving everything I’ve tried so far. I’m going to purchase. If not a system, then a few key items. Impressive visible improvement on several concerns in a week flat.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? CHANEL Vernis. Yes there are often color dupes. They are never as good.
Your skin tone/coloring: light with warm to neutral undertones (Sephora 2Y06, probably MAC NC20)
All-time favorite makeup brand? NARS and Almay mascara
All-time favorite skin care brand? Paula’s Choice, Cetaphil moisturizer, and Purpose facial cleanser
All-time favorite nail polish brand? I don’t really have one because I usually get pedicures. I like Chanel Vamp a lot!
Your skin tone/coloring: NC40
All-time favorite makeup brand? MAC & Urban Decay
All-time favorite skin care brand? Mary Kay
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Essie, China Glaze & OPI
<3 🙂
Your skin tone/coloring: NC40
All-time favorite makeup brand? MAC & Urban Decay
All-time favorite skin care brand? Mary Kay
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Essie, China Glaze & OPI
Your skin tone/coloring: NC20
All-time favorite makeup brand? Chanel, Dior and MAC
All-time favorite skin care brand? Estee Lauder and Philosophy
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Zoya and Essie
Skintone: NW 25
Fav Make Up Brand: This is hard for me to decide….MAC, Nars, Urban Decay (for eyeshadows&Pencils), Giorgio Armani, Chanel, YSL, Dior, Guirlain, Bobbi Brown…pew, I could Name more that I like for different things, but I guess most products I own are MAC.
Fav Skincare Brand: La Roche Posay, Clarins, Dr. Schrammek, Kiehl’s
Fav Nail Polish Brand: Essie
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair-Light, Neutral
All-time favorite makeup brand? Uhh, I’m just going to say Urban Decay because I don’t know if I can pick a favorite, but UD is definitely one of my favorites.
All-time favorite skin care brand? Paula’s Choice
All-time favorite nail polish brand? ORLY. I haven’t really experimented with nail polishes yet and I probably won’t until I move back to the states in 2 more years.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, cool-tined (MAC NW15-ish), red hair, green eyes.
All-time favorite makeup brand? I used to be a total MAC addict and have about a million times more MAC than any other brand, but I have gone off them a bit in the last year or so. Now I think I prefer Illamasqua (or Urban Decay just for their palettes).
All-time favorite skin care brand? Clarins for sure.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Hmm, probably China Glaze because they are affordable and put out such a variety of colours and finishes.
Your skin tone/coloring: warn/ deep NW45 (mac shade)
All-time favorite makeup brand? Mac and Nars
All-time favorite skin care brand? Lush
All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI
Your skin tone/coloring: medium olive
All-time favorite makeup brand? MAC
All-time favorite skin care brand? Chanel
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Sally Hansen
Your skin tone/coloring: NC15
All-time favorite makeup brand? Urban Decay, MAC, NARS, Tarte, Lancome.
All-time favorite skin care brand? Clinique, Neutrogena
All-time favorite nail polish brand? OPI, but when I do my nails I just throw on some imPress fakers. I’m too lazy for manicures.
Skin tone: light olive-I’ve never found a great match-maybe EL DW 1w1, guerlain 31 (why won’t they make this in every formulation????)
Favorite makeup brand-Guerlain, Armani, Dior….I almost forgot Kevyn aucoin is great too
Favorite skin care brand-cerave, Dior, shiseido
Favorite nail polish-I bite my nails so I don’t use it unless I get a pedicure. Then I use opi because that is what the nail salon has.
Oh, this is going to be difficult…:-)
Your skin tone/coloring: Light/medium, with warm yellow undertones
All-time favorite makeup brand? I want to say Guerlain but at the moment I am totally loving the new Jordana lipstain balms, chunky eyeshadow pencils and mascara. So one from each end of the price spectrum!
All-time favorite skin care brand? Toss up between Shiseido and Olay – both seriously good.
All-time favorite nail polish brand? No contest – LA Girl – incredibly cheap and such a great range. I have to order them from the uS but so worth the horrendous shipping costs!
Skin tone/coloring: fair/olive
Favorite makeup brand: Urban Decay
All time skin care brand: Origins
All time nail polish brand: OPI
nc42/medium dark
nars/chanel/dior – having a love affair with dior at the moment
no fave skin care brand but I really like Astara for their scrubs/toners and the Borghese clay mask
no HG nail polish brand – the all chip on me in 1 -2 days (except Essie)
Your skin tone/coloring: Light NW20
All-time favorite makeup brand? M.A.C.
All-time favorite skin care brand? Clinique
All-time favorite nail polish brand? Zoya
◾Your skin tone/coloring: yellow,warm
◾All-time favorite makeup brand? Nars
◾All-time favorite skin care brand? Pai,la roche-posay,elemis
◾All-time favorite nail polish brand? Essie, Debroah lippmann,butter london