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Patsy Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: 2Y06 according to Sephora
Best beauty gift you’ve received? Don’t think I’ve received one 🙁
Current top three products on your wish list? Naked 1 and Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar palettes, Guerlain Perles d’Etoiles Meteorites Illuminating Pearls, Tarte Kiss & Belle Lipsurgence Lip Set

Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? avoid the single black line on the lower lid. I see way too many 40+ woman still wearing makeup like they are 20 and its aging them. I just want to help!!!

lara Avatar

1. none/I get my own; 2. none/have all I need 3. take good care of your skin and everything else will look better (glycolic acid !), 3a a little blush will perk up your whole face. Sorry all boring answers I know

Katherine T. Avatar

*Fair with some yellow undertones
*Clarisonic -gift from me to me!
*Clinique 8 Pan Eyeshadow Palettes in several colors -still waiting for more swatches and reviews before buying
*Paula’s Choice Retinol products – a total gamechanger

Alice Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Porcelain
Best beauty gift you’ve received? This year for my b-day one of my friends got me 2 UD lipsticks (Jilted & Anarchy).
Current top three products on your wish list? MAC Viva Glam Rihanna 2 lipstick. MUFE artist shadows. Atelier Cedrat Enivrant rollerball.
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Don’t listen when people trash non-traditional colors. Rock that neon eye shadow and powder blue lipstick.

Nancy T Avatar

Skintone/coloring: MAC C4.5, olive toned, medium depth
Best Beauty Gift Received: That’s easy! When I was 20 yrs. old my Mom gave me the largest bottle of Karl Lagerfeld Chloe there was to be had, and it lasted me for quite a few years. Loved it! More recently those once yearly $20 Sephora coupons.
Current Top Three Beauty Items On My Wish List: 1. Another bottle of Chloe, any size! 2. MUFE Artist eyeshadow palette 8 pan 3. One very lovely plum-rose lipstick by either Estee Lauder (my best-friend Suzanne’s favorite) or Tom Ford ( one of your faves) in Guillermo.
Best Beauty Tip: Make sure that your brows and lashes are done! This defines ones eyes. Also, never underestimate the power of contouring and highlighting your features in order to sculpt, refine or emphasize them.

tima Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: MEDIUM BLACK – yellow undertones
Best beauty gift you’ve received? limited edition j’adore by dior perfume as a teen
Current top three products on your wish list? bold lipstick, perfect contour powder and a brightening cleanser
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? when your skin is really bad do a skin care mask routine

Kelly Avatar

Your skin tone/colouring: Mac NW30
Best beauty gift you’ve received?: Ive never received a beauty gift, I buy everything I want/need
Current top three products on your wish list? UD Vice 3, Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette, KVD Monarch palette
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Wear sunscreen year-round

Gaiya Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: light with pink undertones
Best beauty gift you’ve received: Sugarpill eyeshadows
Current top three products on your wish list? MUFE 50 shades of Grey Blush Set, Sugarpill or Bdellium brush set, Guerlain meteorite in Medium
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Spend a good amount of effort on skin care. The best makeup won’t look good if you’re neglecting skin care.

Amy Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Deep
Best beauty gift you’ve received?: My boyfriend just bought me a gift card to Sephora for $100 bucks. so sweet of him
Current top three products on your wish list? Too Faced Glitter Glue, Anastasia Beverly Hills Individual Eyeshadows, and Too Faced Semi Sweet Chocolate bar palette
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? always exfoliate your skin at least 3 times a week and always use primer before foundation

Rachel R. Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: very fair neutral; auburn hair, hazel/green eyes

Best beauty gift you’ve received? I haven’t yet gotten any for this holiday season. Tomorrow, though, should be a different story.

Current top three products on your wish list? Christmas wish list: Tarte Pin-up blush palette; MUFE studio case; Guerlain Meterorites.

Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Wear what makes you feel/look good to YOU. Experiment. There are no rules.

Pteetsa Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair with neutral undertones

Best beauty gift you’ve received? I usually buy my own stuff, but I did get a foot spa from my husband a few years ago. I asked for a beauty box subscription this year, so fingers crossed. 🙂

Current top three products on your wish list? Pretty much the entire Sephora + Pantone Marsala collection (I’m going to count that as one), Lashfood Mascara, and Charlotte Tilbury Sex on Fire blush.

Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? The eyeshadow colors that will bring out their eye color, how to make a eyeliner template.

beka Avatar

skintone: fair light-yellow/olive undertones
best beauty gift: my husband likes to pick lipsticks for me when we go shopping-he picked my first rouge d’armani (400) and tom ford (crimson noir). i love them both-the shades and the formulas…now i have lots more of each:)
current wish list: i have bought WAY too much lately…still on the search for the ever elusive foundation in the correct shade and formula, so if i had to make a wish list i would say cle de peau foundation and eyeshadows, and some chikohodo or hakuhodo brushes, but honestly, i need neither and will probably be on a very low to no-buy for awhile.
advice: wear whatever you like, what every makes you feel happy-don’t worry about what other people say or what you are “supposed” to wear. also, wear sunscreen every day!!!!!!

Mariella Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, cool
Best beauty gift you’ve received? Sephora gift cards – I don’t think anyone would presume to buy me beauty products although a dear friend did get me this amazing hand cream for my birthday…
Current top three products on your wish list? That Nars Dual Intensity eyeshadow palette, perhaps some “online only” MUFE eyeshadows (though I’m sort of talking myself out of them!) and AG Hair Products CC Cream for hair
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Wear what you like and watch youtube videos to learn new techniques/how to apply products.

Rose Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC10
Best beauty gift you’ve received: This December I bought myself the Urban Decay 24/7 Ten set (for 40% off, before it totally went OOS!) and Too Faced Sweethearts Flush Blush in Something About Berry, and I’m very pleased with both.
Current top three products on your wish list? Coastal Scents Revealed palette, Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder in Diffused Light, and Nyx Illuminator in Ritualistic (or another inexpensive dupe of NARS Albatross, to see how the look suits me), along with a couple other Nyx lip products. I think the last is tied with additional Real Techniques and Eco Tools brushes.
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? I’m not at all a beauty maven, so I will just write: Sunscreen. Sunscreen a thousand times. I would venture far more people ultimately regret not wearing sunscreen than the other way around.

Emme Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC37, medium yellow/olive undertone
Best beauty gift you’ve received? tickets to IMATS LA 2015!
Current top three products on your wish list? Hakuhodo brushes! Morphe brushes and ALLTHEMAKEUPGEEKEYESHADOWS.
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Blend! And, its just makeup, have fun and don’t take it too seriously.

pePear Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: light med/yellow
Best beauty gift you’ve received?: Charlotte Tilbury The Dolce Vita set!
Current top three products on your wish list?: Tarte Tartelette matte eyeshadow palette, SKII mask in lotion, Make Up For Ever brush #156
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend?: do what you want if that make you happy

Lotus Avatar

Merry Whatever! 😛

– Your skin tone/coloring: Extremely Pale, more cool toned in some areas, more neutral in others, changes throughout year. As far as a color to compare: Like Um.. MAC NW 15 would be me w/tan.

– Best beauty gift you’ve received?: Shit. I’ve been so surprised by many unexpected beauty gifts throughout my life! Perhaps the ones I never ever dreamed I’d see.. ? Memorable moments.. Yeah, I can’t answer with specifics. BUT, this year I’m favoriting the gift of a Foreo Luna and the Shu a Uemura Shupette Ultim8 oil! 😀

– Current top three products on your wish list? Top 3? What is this? Top THREE? Top 3 skincare, makeup, lusts, what is this THREE nonsense? Sad wishlist. 🙁 Ok! I will play along. *Rolls eyes* NUDE Skincare products, Charlotte Tilbury Filmstar Glow, Um yeah, way too difficult, I pass! A generous gift card for beauty products? How about that for a third? 😀 *pats self on back*

– Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend?: Depends on the friend. I’m More inclined to pass messages along to the youth. But to a friend I’d recommend not watching YouTube and believing that there’s a specific method to apply things. Find how your face responds where you put things, but overall, take extensive care of the skin first and foremost and only if you had to choose. A flawless face is more beautiful than a face with flawless makeup. HYDRATE. Don’t be swayed by propaganda, go with what your instincts feel, and create your own masterpiece. Never make excuses for it, like if you’ve already been wearing something that becomes trendy, big deal!? No need to make an excuse for what you like! Everything recycles and is all interconnected to ever revolution within beauty. Also: Don’t go fake baking to make your skin look flawless, you’ll pay for it later! Just keep it simple. Silence the mind, let your heart teach your hands to follow your gut and go! Anything goes!
And that’s about all I have to say about that.

sophia Avatar

Skin coloring: nw15
*I have never recieved make up as a gift*
Wish list: lipstick queen bete noir in sheer, Charlotte tilbury filmstar bronze and glow, pixi cheek gel in flushed
beauty advice: a lot of people have already commented on skincare so i’ll say remember to be kind to yourself and remember that make up is supposed to be fun. Don’t spend too much time squinting into a mirror and looking for perfection.

Nikki Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC50
Best beauty gift you’ve received? Sephora Giftcards
Current top three products on your wish list? MUFE Pro Finish Foundation, MUFE Rouge Artist Natural Lipstick N50, a new China Glaze nail polish
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Take care of your skin! You’ll feel more confident using make up to enhance your natural features versus using it to hide what you don’t like about yourself.

Gillian Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fairest neutral. Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Moisture Foundation in 001.

Best beauty gift you’ve received? It would have to be a little Clarins skincare set. My brother got me it for Christmas some years ago and I liked some if the products so much that I purchased full sizes of them and even now the lip balm is still my favourite one. They’ve discontinued it though so I bought back ups off eBay.

Current top three products on your wish list? That’s a hard one! I’m forever updating the list of stuff I would like to get. The main one at the moment is the limited edition eyeshadow quad from Suqqu in EX-22 Yukiichigo. It’s just gorgeous! I’d have to pay a good £95 or so to get my hands on it at the moment so for now I can only admire from afar. As for the other two, I’d have to go with a new tube of the Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Moisture Foundation in 001 because my current one is nearly done and the limited edition MAC Smoke and Diamonds eyeshadow from years back because I have mine to my Mum since she liked it and she dropped it, broke it and binned it! Again, I could pay £30 to get it but I think that’s just a tad much. Anyone out there got a spare I could buy? 😛

Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Experiment and have fun with makeup. So many people I know stick to the same look day in day out. It washes off so why not try something different? I push my Mum to try out new things and more often than not she loves the outcome. Although, can I also add ‘less is more’ to my answer?

So those are my answers. I feel pretty greedy admitting to wanting so many things when I should be happy with what I already have but there you go. :/

Tania Avatar

Fair with yellow undertones
Limecrime velvetines
Makeup forever hd foundation, bliss fatgirl slim cream, and too faced semi sweet chocolate palette
Stay clear of contacts too different from your natural eye color

fancie Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC50ish

Best beauty gift you’ve received?

I usually buy my own makeup lol. But my brother bought me a really cute leopard print makeup bag one year that I still use today every time I travel. I love that thing!

Current top three products on your wish list?

Like 3 of the Tom Ford Boys lipsticks, Too Faced Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar palette and the Sephora Color of the Year cheek trio

Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend?

Beauty oils are your friend. Even if you have oily skin. Once you find the right one it’ll change your life lol

Tigerlily Avatar

– Your skin tone/coloring: Light-medium with warm undertones (NC25)

– Best beauty gift you’ve received? It’s a tie between By Terry Rouge Terribly in Plumping Nude and a facial from which I walked out looking five years younger!

– Current top three products on your wish list? Tom Ford Casablanca lipstick, Sunday Riley Good Genes serum and Marc Jacobs Julia nail polish.

– Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Try to only spend your money on products that leave you thinking “woaw” when you put them on (whether that be makeup, skin or hair care products etc). They are out there, so pass on the mediocre ones!

Kiss & Make-up Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: light warm

Best beauty gift you’ve received? Errr… nothing comes to mind, people don’t often buy me beauty stuff because they worry I already have everything and/or won’t like the product they get me, lol.

Current top three products on your wish list? Guerlain Petrouchka palette, MAC x Prabal Gurung Cream Colour Base, Marc Jacobs 7-piece eyeliner set

Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Invest in good make-up brushes

Arianna Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Light olive
Best beauty gift you’ve received?: Bond No.9 perfume, West Side
Current top three products on your wish list?: MAC Fresh Brew, Bobbi Brown Nectar Shimmer Brick, Charlotte Tilbury The Sophisticate Palette – all things I’ve had, ran out of, and that I can’t afford to re-purchase yet!
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend?: Do what works for you. Forget the rules and work in an organic way with texture and colors that suit your skintone and type.

candleashes Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair cool
Best beauty gift you’ve received? Sephora gift card – I’m so picky! Jo Malone perfume comes to mind, but I specifically asked for it 😉
Current top three products on your wish list? Becca hilighters, MUFE 50SoG blush palette, more MUFE artist shadows
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Sleep

Jess Avatar

1. Mac NW20
2. My mom got me the urban decay naked 3 when it first came out. She stalked the website because it kept selling out. And she got it because she knewhow much I wanted it.
3. Lorac mega pro pallet, the Marc Jacobs bronzer brush, all the Dior rouge volupte lipsticks
4. If you like it wear it! Don’t worry about if other ppl will like it. Make up is about you.

Heather Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair, neutral
Best beauty gift you’ve received? Sounds silly, but a bottle of drugstore nail polish. I was down with, erm, “women’s troubles,” so my husband ran to the drugstore for a heating pad. While there he remembered that I’d once (once!) mentioned wanting to try a specific shade of polish, so he visited two more drugstores trying to find me a bottle. He returned triumphant and I was so touched by the sweet surprise!
Current top three products on your wish list? Ha–I’m actually fighting the devil on my shoulder urging me to buy it ALL (even though I have more than I could ever need). I guess I would really like the Hourglass blush palette, an Hourglass finishing powder OR Guerlain meteorites, and the current OCC Pro’s Pick set.
Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? I have two: 1. Wear what makes you happy–if you love your lime green shadow, rock it! (but look up application tips first) 2. Be nice to your skin! Protect it from the sun. Clean it. Moisturize it. Use gentle exfoliants. And in the long run, dermatologists are cheaper than gimmicky high-end skin products. 😉

Barbarybcia Avatar

Skin tone: pale, yellow undertones
Best beauty gift: Lorac Pro Palette 2
Top three products: hourglass blush, Anastasia Brow Pomade, Tweezerman tweezers
Beauty tip: always double cleanse!

Estefania Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Light/Medium with yellow undertones. MAC NC25, NARS Punjab
Best beauty gift you’ve received? My bff got me some Sephora matte lip lustres that are AMAZING. I haven’t stopped wearing them! My mom gifted me some Tom Ford Lips and Boys which I’m stoked about, and the boyfriend actually got me some of Melt’s lipsticks before they sold out! 😀

Current top three products on your wish list? Hmmmm…. I’m not sure. There’s always something. Bobbi Brown Foundation Stick, Guerlain Pressed Meteorites Powder, and some backup MAC holy grail brushes (239, 217).

Best beauty tip you’d pass on to a friend? Prep. Skin will only look as good as your prepping routine. Cleanse, exfoliate, moisturize, prime. It will make SUCH a huge difference in the way your makeup goes on and looks!

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