Best Products of the Week | November 16th through November 22nd
Happy Saturday! I always enjoy seeing what makes up the week’s top ten highest-reviewed products, so I hope you find it somewhat interesting as well! 🙂
What was your week in review like?
- Your skin tone/coloring:
- Favorite look from the week:
- Your most used product this week:
- Any beauty discoveries (new or old):
Sydney Grace Sugar Plum Fairy Cream Shadow ($8.00 for 0.33 oz.) is a medium, rosy plum with subtle, warm undertones and a pearly sheen. It was richly...
Sydney Grace Sugar Plum Fairy Cream Shadow ($8.00 for 0.33 oz.) is a medium, rosy plum with subtle, warm undertones and a pearly sheen. It was richly...
Sonia G Jumbo Blender Brush is supposed to work as an "all-over base brush" that can work with sheerer eyeshadows but also works as a "fixer" to...
Sonia G Jumbo Blender Brush is supposed to work as an "all-over base brush" that can work with sheerer eyeshadows but also works as a "fixer" to...
Sonia G Classic Crease Brush is a medium-sized crease brush that tapers to a more rounded dome shape (rather than a more noticeable point), and it is...
Sonia G Classic Crease Brush is a medium-sized crease brush that tapers to a more rounded dome shape (rather than a more noticeable point), and it is...
Sonia G Mini Booster Brush is a small, subtly-rounded crease brush that tapered slightly along the edges. It is the smallest crease brush in the line,...
Sonia G Mini Booster Brush is a small, subtly-rounded crease brush that tapered slightly along the edges. It is the smallest crease brush in the line,...
Sonia G Soft Shader Brush is a medium-sized, thicker eyeshadow brush that can be used to apply product to the lid, though I felt it could work well...
Sonia G Soft Shader Brush is a medium-sized, thicker eyeshadow brush that can be used to apply product to the lid, though I felt it could work well...
Sonia G. Designer Pro Brush ($46.00) is a small-to-medium-sized cheek and face brush that's a bit flatter but still dense, plush, and rounded along...
Sonia G. Designer Pro Brush ($46.00) is a small-to-medium-sized cheek and face brush that's a bit flatter but still dense, plush, and rounded along...
Melt Cosmetics Cultura Gel Liner ($19.00 for 0.088 oz.) is a muted, light-medium orange with strong, yellow undertone and a matte finish. It was...
Melt Cosmetics Cultura Gel Liner ($19.00 for 0.088 oz.) is a muted, light-medium orange with strong, yellow undertone and a matte finish. It was...
Sydney Grace Master Plan Cream Shadow ($8.00 for 0.33 oz.) is a medium-dark pink base with warmer undertones and gold-to-green duochrome shift. It...
Sydney Grace Master Plan Cream Shadow ($8.00 for 0.33 oz.) is a medium-dark pink base with warmer undertones and gold-to-green duochrome shift. It...
Sydney Grace Starry Night Cream Shadow ($8.00 for 0.33 oz.) is a medium, reddish-brown base with warm undertones paired with blue-to-green shifting...
Sydney Grace Starry Night Cream Shadow ($8.00 for 0.33 oz.) is a medium, reddish-brown base with warm undertones paired with blue-to-green shifting...
NABLA Cosmetics Amensia Skin Glazing Highlighter Powder ($26.00 for 0.23 oz.) is a light-medium gold with stronger, warm undertones and a luminous...
NABLA Cosmetics Amensia Skin Glazing Highlighter Powder ($26.00 for 0.23 oz.) is a light-medium gold with stronger, warm undertones and a luminous...
Your skin tone/coloring: light, MAC NC 15-20
Favorite look from the week: Probably any look using my new Holiday Chanel quad!
Your most used product this week: Missha BB Cream. Fenty Pro Filter Powder in Butter. Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Concealer. Marc Jacobs Velvet Noir Major Volume mascara
Any beauty discoveries (new or old): Bought Chanel for the first time. Just over the typical hyped up makeup so it’s nice to go for something more classic!
Erica, is that the Lumiere et Opulence quad??? If so, I got it about 2 weeks ago and am so happy I did as (a) it totally is gorgeous and very much my sort of colours and (b) it seems to have sold out almost everywhere so I think I got it in the nick of time! I have a few Chanel quads, amassed over the years, and when Chanel gets it right (they don’t always, just like every other makeup company), they really knock it out of the park, as they did with this one!
I love the Missha BB cream. It’s so underrated.
Coloring: Under my name, green eyes, s&p hair
Favorite Look: EYES—Natasha Denona Mini Lila palette (Flint in crease, Raisin on outer V blended inward to deep crease, Linen on lid), Laura Mercier Caviar Stick in Amethyst under outer third of lower lash line, Benefit Goof Proof brow pencil in Cool Grey, Tarte Lights Camera Lashes Mascara. FACE—Estée Lauder Double Wear Makeup, Lancôme Effacernes Waterproof Concealer, RCMA No Color Powder, Clinique Cheek Pop in Heather. LIPS—Estée Lauder Knockout Nude lipstick.
Most Used Products: Estée Lauder Double Wear Makeup, Lancôme Effacernes Waterproof Concealer, RCMA No Color Powder, Tarte Lights Camera Lashes Mascara, Clinique Cheek Pop (various shades)
Beauty Discovery: Nothing this week.
Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name. (Blue-green eyes)
Favorite look from the week: Something simple (ish) but that lit up the green in my eyes!
Eyes: Huda Lace transition, Huda Tease crease and outer ⅔ lower lashline, Fenty Meteor Crush on inner ⅔ lid and inner lower lashline, Huda Fantasy outer lid, finished up using Sephora Sangria Contour Pencil on lower lashline, MAC Blacktrack Fluidline for upper lashline, usual black tightline and mascara.
Cheeks: Becca Malibu Soliel bronzer, UD Rapture blush, and ND Pink Champagne to bump that up a notch, ABH Amrezy highlighter.
Lips: Nyx Plum SLP, PMG Executive Realness MatteTrance Lipstick.
Your most used product this week: Fenty ProFilt’r Hydrating Longwear foundation, Maybelline Full & Soft waterproof mascara, Smashbox Fishnet Always On Eye Pencil.
Any beauty discoveries (new or old)? Not really, I don’t think?
Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name.
Favorite look from the week: I just have not been feeling the makeup lately and not sure why. In any event, I have worn minimal makeup this week and so just base products and mascara. Nothing new in any category. I continue to really like the Buxom Waterproof Mascara and have been able to wear it as my only mascara as opposed to the usual 2-3 mascara’s I usually use. I stopped using my eye lash growth serum, primarily because I used it up and just hadn’t replaced or found a new one. Seems like I am changing out the serum after finishing each product. I think I am always looking for something better! Anyway, with my base and mascara the same, it is only my lipstick that I have changed out everyday and for the last couple it has been Lisa Eldridge’s Skyscraper Rose. I love this shade.
Your most used product this week: Just the makeup listed above.
Any beauty discoveries (new or old) I had been using the MAC Fling Brow Pen but have gone back to using my Dior Brow palette. It just gives a softer, more wispy appearance to my brows rather than the harder image I was getting from the MAC. I do like the ease of the MAC but I am just into softer brows these days.
Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
Favourite look from the week: I have been using my new Pixi Beauty Reflex Light palette this week. My favourite look was with Nude Lustre on the lid, with Chestnut glimmer on the lower lid and Cocoa Glaze in the crease. I have also used a lot of Auburn Blaze with Gold Foil and Copper Penny with Vintage Gold. Sometimes I have added Eureka, an olive shade from bareMinerals Soft and Smokey. My favourite lipsticks this week have been Foolish by CP, Indian Summer by Art Deco.
Your most used product this week: Definitely the Pixi Reflex Light palette and lots of sunscreen.
Any beauty discoveries (new or old): None really.
Your skin tone/coloring: fair/cool skin (foundation matches: Fenty Pro Filt’r 110, Urban Decay All Nighter 2.5, NARS Natural Radiant Longwear 2.0 Mont Blanc, Kevyn Aucoin The Etherealist Light EF 02, L’Oreal True Match C3 Creamy Natural), gray eyes, brown hair with red highlights and scattered blonde/blue strands
Favorite look from the week: Either Tuesday or Wednesday.
In the pink on Tuesday: Fenty Pro Filt’r 110 Instant Retouch concealer and Soft Matte foundation and Amber Match Stix as cheek contour, L’Oreal True Match Spiced Plum blush (it looks pink on me), Huda Gemstone Obsessions 2 (icy pink shimmer) with Huda Amethyst Obsessions 3 (billed as light purple matte) layered on top, Tom Ford Extreme TX22 mascara, L’Oreal Colour Riche Collection Exclusive La Vie en Rose Doutzen Kroes’ Pink lipstick.
Wednesday: Fenty Pro Filt’r 110 Instant Retouch concealer and Soft Matte foundation and Amber Match Stix as cheek contour, Tarte Amazonian Clay Paaarty blush, Tarte Amazonian Clay Park Ave Princess bronzer, ColourPop x Disney Villains Jelly Much Not Today eyeshadow (as both shadow and mascara), Charlotte Tilbury Hot Lips 2 Viva la Vergara lipstick
Your most used product this week: Maybe Tarte Paaarty?
Any beauty discoveries (new or old): That Vergara is an MLBB shade for me! I can’t believe it!
Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral leaning cool w beige and slight cool olive undertones. I’m learning about brightness when it comes to overall colouring and skin tone and understand now I am very muted.
Favorite look from the week: Pat McG Divine Rose made it’s way to my doorstep. Velouria crease and transition, Xtreme Mahogany outer vee, Skinshow nude brow bone, Love lace mobile lid, Inner third layered VR Rose Venus and Astral Solstice.
Your most used product this week: I’ve been giving some love to Laura Mercier Flawless Lumiere Radiance foundation. I didn’t love it the first few times I tried it, but I tweak it with a small bit of L’oreal Infallible Fresh Wear to improve adherence and fix colour (Cashew is too dark and bright), L’oreal in True Beige tamps it down. I think it’s a beautiful medium coverage foundation for satin finish lovers. I do not find it dewy, but I do have dry skin.
Any beauty discoveries… Still impressed with Jackie Jackie Jackie Aina pro tip.. powder on damp sponge before foundation. Completely eliminates my need to powder anywhere following. Actually works well on dry skin.
Your skin tone/coloring: fair, cool (and getting more colourless by the year, it seems!)
Favorite look from the week: Eyes – MAC Groundwork paint pot as a base for Nars Kalahari 1 on my lid and 2 in my crease; Sephora Cappuccino liner on upper and lower lids, and Marc Jacobs skinny liner in Blacquer on upper waterline; Becca Foxglove Blush, Smashbox Legendary lipstick (with Elizabeth Arden lip primer under it), IT Pressed Powder foundation (it’s such a good product when I don’t want my skin obscured entirely but just want it looking a bit better) and Too Faced Peach Blur powder to set under-eye concealer
Your most used product this week: MAC Groundwork, Too Faced Peach Blur Powder, rms Beauty Champagne Rose Luminizer
Any beauty discoveries (new or old): Josie Maran Argan Milk “serum-y” stuff – I don’t much like it and was disappointed in it (one of the few Josie Maran products I haven’t liked) but I figure I can use it up in combination with other night time treatment/moisturizing stuff, just so it’s not a total waste of money. Also, the Nars Kalahari duo….I put it aside every few months for a few months and then, when I take it out to use again, the joy of using it that first time returns! As it’s no longer carried at Sephora, I’ve no idea what I’ll do when the left side (which I use more heavily) runs out!
Your skin tone/coloring: above with freckles, green/gray/blue eyes, warm brown hair.
Favorite look from the week: I used the PMGL MTHRSHP Subliminal Platinum Bronze palette on my eyes: Ritualistic all over my lids, Deep Velvet (there has never been a more accurate shade name) on my outer corner, and I pulled in my ND Safari palette and used Lotus in my crease. Ritualistic is such a unique taupe… it was part of the reason I got the palette in the first place. Such a lovely palette. I’ve really been attracted to cooler browns on my eyes lately and this palette scratches that itch for me. I paired that with mauvey blush, and Em Cosmetics True Gloss in Secret Flush. I really loved how it came out.
Your most used product this week: Em Cosmetics True Gloss in Secret Blush and PMGL MTHRSHP Subliminal Platinum Bronze, along with all of my other regulars.
Any beauty discoveries… None that I can think of! But I am at a really good place with makeup/skincare lately.