Survey Says... February 13th, 2019

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  • Your skin tone/coloring:
  • Best foundation for perfected skin?
  • Best highlighter for glowing skin?
  • Best your-lips-but-better lip color?

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Poly Menelaou Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: light medium with warm undertones.

Best foundation for perfected skin?
I mix double wear with Armani luminous silk or I just use double wear

Best highlighter for glowing skin?
BECCA opal !! I have so many but always come back to this for an intense glow.

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? NARS audacious Barbara or MAC mehr

Seraphine Avatar

Barbara and Mehr…two lip shades I love! I thought about adding NARS Barbara to my MLBB list, but although I love it, I don’t think it qualifies as an MLBB shade for me. Mehr is also gorgeous, but too dark for me to consider as an MLBB. Great choices, though!

Seraphine Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral skin tone, green eyes, salt & pepper hair

Best foundation for perfected skin? Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place Makeup

Best highlighter for glowing skin? Diorskin Nude Luminizer in Pink Glow

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? I have so many MLBBs, but MAC Modesty, MAC Hug Me, and L’Oreal Colour Riche Shine in Varnished Rosewood are the three that immediately spring to mind.

Amy Avatar

NW20, neutral leaning cool, brown hair, blue eyes. Pigmented lips.
Foundation: The new Dior Forever Skin Glow did that for me (shade 1.5), but I had a bad reaction to it so my search continues. I like the finish and cover on Benefit’s Hello Flawless (Believe in Me Ivory) but it reads slightly too pink on me.
Yet to find a highlighter!
Lips: hands down Mac Modesty.

Deborah S. Avatar

Skin tone: Under my name.

Best foundation for perfect skin: Chosungah 22 Luminous LIght Foundation in Porcelain or 01. I am anxious to try out the new Guerlain foundation when it hits Sephora here in the U.S. I saw Alana use it in her “Date Night” look and it appears to be quite a glowy foundation which I like. Doesn’t have the best coverage which might make it a no go for me but would still like to get a tester and see what I think.

Best highlighter: Not sure if we are talking all over the face or just in highlighted areas but if we are talking over the face then MAC Strobe Cream or Charlotte Tilbury Flawless Filter. It works okay for me and I do like it but it doesn’t work as well as it does for others and not sure why. MAC Strobe Cream is an oldie but a goodie that coincidentally, I started using after seeing Alana use it on her channel several years ago.

MLBB: I don’t really have one. My lips are very pigmented and I just haven’t found one that I like the shade and formula so that it makes it worth wearing.

CeeBee Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Light medium, yellow undertones. Dark brown hair & eyes.

Best foundation for perfected skin? Guerlain Parure Gold mixed with a little bit of DB Velvet Matte.

Best highlighter for glowing skin? Natasha Denona All Over Glow or the Revolution liquid highlighters – Starlight is nice and neutral.

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Colourpop Cami or Lumiere lippie stix.

Celesta Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair with neutral undertones and freckles, green/gray/blue eyes, warm brown hair.

Best foundation for perfected skin? For me, the Physician’s Formula Healthy Foundation. That’s about as perfected as I get, lol.

Best highlighter for glowing skin? Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Finish for a Superstar Youth Glow / Hollywood Light Wand.

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? I’m always on the hunt for the my lips but better lip color, but right now it’s a combo of Clinique’s Almost Lipsticks in Black Honey and Pink Honey. My lips aren’t very pigmented at all, so pretty much any pinky nude is much better than my natural lip color, lol.

Ana Maria Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Light-medium with warm yellow undertone

Best foundation for perfected skin? For me MAC Prolongwear Nourishing Waterproof, Estee Lauder Double Wear and Becca Ultimate Coverage are too close to choose just one, but the order in which I listed them shows a slight preference

Best highlighter for glowing skin? I’m personally not into highlighting or glowing, I just prefer something very subtle, like MAC Emphasize

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? MAC Brave, since naturally my lips are slightly mauve

Ziwei Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NC15
Best foundation for perfected skin? ELDW, used sparingly. It looks like a mask
if applied too much.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Cle De Peau Pastel. It’s just glowy, not metallic.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Burberry English Rose is my exact lip color. A slight rosier version would be Tom Ford Collin.

Rosie Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Dark with golden undertone

Best foundation for perfected skin?
Now, Cover FX Power concealer in G Deep 3

Best highlighter for glowing skin?
Ben Nye Lumiere Grande Color in Aztec Gold or Bobbi Brown highlighting powder in Bronze Glow

Best your-lips-but-better lip color?
Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick in Mink

Mariella Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: fair, cool
Best foundation for perfected skin? it’s a toss-up between IT CC Cream and Diorskin Forever Perfect Foundation (if that’s the name – honestly, names are getting ridiculously complicated)
Best highlighter for glowing skin? UD Aura (DC’d) or Dior Glowing Pink (LE) and I also really like the Algenist drops, which I can use as a highlighter or mixed with foundation for a lovely, glow-from-within look
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? MAC Craving or Capricious.

Lesley Avatar

Skin tone/coloring: under my name

Best foundation for perfected skin: KGD Maifanshi Moisture foundation (in the tube) or Tarte Amazonian Clay

Best highlighter for glowing skin: I don’t use highlighter very often. Before I was too oily and now I have too much texture.

Best MLBB: Chanel Rouge Coco in Mademoiselle

Mary Avatar

Skin tone medium tan
Best foundation right now Emani Creme Deluxe foundation in Medium .
Best Highlighter , NARS “Love Child” , WetnnWild “Don’t Flutter Yourself “and Wetnwild “Under my Canopy “.
Best Your Lips But Better, (I have really pigmented lips )
so Guerlain Rouge G #3

Genevieve Avatar

Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones

Best foundation for perfected skin? At the moment I am loving L”oreal’s True Match in Ivory Rose. Easy to apply, a good working pump and it makes my skintone look even and light.

Best highlighter for glowing skin? I don’t do ‘glowing’ looks – I prefer a more mattish finish. But I am interested to read what others say here.

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? I don’t really do MLBB either, preferring more pigmented and bold shades. A lot of the MLBB are of a pinky nudey shade and I don’t do pinks at all.

Krista Sweetleaf Avatar

Skin NC20, cool blonde hair, light blue eyes.
Foundation: Usually my HG is BTW in Porcelain, but lately I’ve been loving CYO LifeProof in 103, along with CT Hollywood Flawless Filter or MAC Strobe Cream in Pinklite.
Highlighter: Anastasia Amrezy or Colourpop SS Highlighter in Lunch Money or Flexatarian, or Mary Lou Manizer(still!) In order of preference.
MLMB Lip: Bite Glace, Colourpop Brink, or MAC Mehr or MAC Velvet Teddy. Also I like Tarte’s Lippie Lingerie in Exposed.

AB Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: fair, warm, ~NC10; blue eyes, light brown hair with copper highlights

Best foundation for perfected skin? Guerlain Lingerie de Peau in N01 (discontinued)

Best highlighter for glowing skin? Becca Backlight Priming Filter (I use on cheekbones; subtle but effective on my tones)

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? UD Vice lipstick in Lovelight

Diane Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NW47 with neutral (peach) undertones

Best foundation for perfected skin? glowy (face and body from mac) matte (estee lauder double wear or colorstay from revlon)

Best highlighter for glowing skin? TBH ny highlighter with a fix + and the right bruh depending if this is a wet or metallic highlighter

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Teddy Bare from Milani or Touch from mac which is too slippery for me.

Erica Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: light, MAC NC 15-20, med brown hair and eyes

Best foundation for perfected skin? MAC Nourishing Waterproof Foundation

Best highlighter for glowing skin? Becca Moonstone

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? MAC Hug Me

Bibi Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Skin = fair/ warm with yellow undertone, Hair = pale gold/platinum, Eyes= green/brown/hazel

Best foundation for perfected skin: Cle de Peau Silky Cream or It CC Cream

Best highlighter for glowing skin: the Balm’s Mary Loumanizer or Catrice’s High Glow Mineral Highlighting Powder

Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Estee Lauder’s Pink Parfait or Lancome’s Vintage Rose

Brenda C Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/cool undertones

Best foundation for perfected skin? MUFE Ultra HD Foundation
Best highlighter for glowing skin? MJ Dew You? Dew Drops Coconut Gel Highlighter
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Clinique Black Honey

Nikki Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: fair/cool skin, gray eyes, brown hair with red highlights and scattered blonde/blue strands.
Best foundation for perfected skin? I don’t want to sound like I’m proselytizing, but Fenty Pro Filt’r.
Best highlighter for glowing skin? Either Fenty Killawatt or Becca Light Chaser-I stick to powder highlighter because I don’t like anything super-blindingly bright.
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? Either Maybelline ColorSensational Copper Rose (if I’m going for a pinky-neutral look)or L’Oreal Colour Riche Collection Exclusive Julianne’s Nude (if I’m going for peachy-neutral).

Monika Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: fair, neutral/warm undertone, redness on the cheeks, grey/blue/green eyes, mousy hair
Best foundation for perfected skin? Guerlain LDP Compact Mat Alive 01N and sometimes ELDW Powder Makeup 1N2
Best highlighter for glowing skin? I prefer natural matte finish
Best your-lips-but-better lip color? MUFE Ultra HD Lip Booster in Cinema and Nyx slim lip pencil 831 mauve

helen Avatar

Skin Colouring: NC-20-ish
Best Foundation for Perfected Skin: Gressa (with a drop of Kjaer Weis Beauty Oil)
Best Highlighter for Glowing Skin: Gressa Illuminating Serum along with a touch of Ilia’s Cosmic Dancer (stick) on top
Best YLBB lip colour – Not sure if this is YLBB but i’m loving the combo of my Jane Iredale lip pencil in Spice w/Bite Beauty’s Flat White gloss on top…

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