Best Products of the Week | Vol. 361
Hope your weekend is starting off on the right note! Every Saturday, I like to share the top 10 products from the last week of reviews. It’s a nice way to highlight what reviews have been published recently. Similarly, I love reading–and I know others enjoy sharing!–their own “week in review” when it comes to what makeup/beauty products they may have used and/or enjoyed.
What was your week in review like? Copy and paste the lil’ survey below and share your answers in the comments 🙂
- Your skin tone/coloring:
- What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?:
- What was the hero product of the week for you?:
- Any products you want to use next week?:
Sephora Explosive Game (15) Satin Hydrating Lipstick ($15.00 for 0.12 oz.) is a bright, medium-dark fuchsia pink with subtle, cool undertones and a...
Sephora Explosive Game (15) Satin Hydrating Lipstick ($15.00 for 0.12 oz.) is a bright, medium-dark fuchsia pink with subtle, cool undertones and a...
NABLA Cosmetics Nude Cupid's Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a light-medium, rosy brown with warmer undertones and a matte finish. It...
NABLA Cosmetics Nude Cupid's Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a light-medium, rosy brown with warmer undertones and a matte finish. It...
Maybelline Restless Super Stay Vinyl Ink Liquid Lipcolor ($12.99 for 0.14 oz.) is a medium pinkish-coral that was ever-so-slightly pinker in its tone...
Maybelline Restless Super Stay Vinyl Ink Liquid Lipcolor ($12.99 for 0.14 oz.) is a medium pinkish-coral that was ever-so-slightly pinker in its tone...
Give Me Glow Queen of the Glammed Dream Blush ($14.00 for 0.34 oz.) is a muted, darker purple with subtle, neutral-to-cool undertones and a matte...
Give Me Glow Queen of the Glammed Dream Blush ($14.00 for 0.34 oz.) is a muted, darker purple with subtle, neutral-to-cool undertones and a matte...
NABLA Cosmetics Brown Cupid's Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a deep, chocolaty brown with subtle, warm undertones and a matte finish.
- Nearly...
NABLA Cosmetics Brown Cupid's Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a deep, chocolaty brown with subtle, warm undertones and a matte finish.
- Nearly...
Rose Inc Besotted Satin Lip Color ($28.00 for 0.14 oz.) is a soft, light-medium coral with slightly pinker undertones and a satin sheen.
- Opaque coverage
- Lightweight,...
Rose Inc Besotted Satin Lip Color ($28.00 for 0.14 oz.) is a soft, light-medium coral with slightly pinker undertones and a satin sheen.
- Opaque coverage
- Lightweight,...
Give Me Glow Halo Pressed Highlighter ($17.25 for 0.28 oz.) is a bright, white gold with subtle, yellowy gold shift paired with a shiny, metallic...
Give Me Glow Halo Pressed Highlighter ($17.25 for 0.28 oz.) is a bright, white gold with subtle, yellowy gold shift paired with a shiny, metallic...
NABLA Cosmetics Beige Cupid's Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a medium, reddish-brown with moderate, warm undertones and a matte finish.
- Nearly...
NABLA Cosmetics Beige Cupid's Arrow Longwear Stylo ($18.00 for 0.03 oz.) is a medium, reddish-brown with moderate, warm undertones and a matte finish.
- Nearly...
Kaleidos Astro Pink Futurism Eyeshadow Palette ($24.00 for 0.25 oz.) included six eyeshadows with four matte shades and two shimmer shades. The mattes...
Kaleidos Astro Pink Futurism Eyeshadow Palette ($24.00 for 0.25 oz.) included six eyeshadows with four matte shades and two shimmer shades. The mattes...
Rose Inc Hypnotic Satin Lip Color ($28.00 for 0.14 oz.) is a darker peach with strong, warm orange undertones and a satin finish.
- Opaque coverage
- Lightweight,...
Rose Inc Hypnotic Satin Lip Color ($28.00 for 0.14 oz.) is a darker peach with strong, warm orange undertones and a satin finish.
- Opaque coverage
- Lightweight,...
Your skin tone/coloring: light, MAC NC 20
What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?: I did a pretty pinky mauvey look using Sigma Enchanted!
What was the hero product of the week for you?: NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum. It covers but doesn’t crease or look dry under my eyes. Bareminerals Mineral Veil is the best for my oily skin. Takes away the shine without being drying
Any products you want to use next week?:
Now that’s it’s fall, I want to pull out my cooler grungy palettes/quads like Adept Amunet or Pat McGrath Interstellar Icon quad
Your skin tone/coloring: pale, cool
What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?: basic face stuff and on my eyes, the Smashbox Showmance trio which is just perfect for this time of year. I wore it pretty “traditionally” – lightest shade on inner corner, bronze-y shade on most of mobile lid and the deep green on outer corner and in crease; MUFE black liner smudged into upper lashes and Sephora Cappuccino under lower lashes
What was the hero product of the week for you?: That Smashbox Showmance trio – it works so well for me and it’s quick and easy to get a look I’m happy and comfortable with
Any products you want to use next week?: Anastasia eyeshadow primer (I just treated myself to a tube; it’s such a divisive product but I think I’m going to love it).
Your skin tone/coloring:
Light neutral skin tone, green eyes, almost-black hair with natural silver highlights
What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?
• EYES: I primed with NYX Proof It Waterproof Eyeshadow Primer. Then: Clinique Nude Rose as transition, Give Me Glow Grunge Lavender on lid, Give Me Glow Cruel Intentions on outer V, Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Pencil in Perversion dotted into the base of my upper lashes, Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Pencil in Mushroom on lower lash line, Cover Girl Clump Crusher Waterproof Mascara, Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara, and Haus Labs The Edge Precision Brow Pencil in Granite Grey.
• FACE: Estée Lauder Double Wear Makeup in Sand, Lancome Effacernes Waterproof Concealer in Light Buff, Revlon Colorstay Pressed Powder in Light, and MAC Mineralize Blush in Sweet Enough.
• LIPS: Huda lipstick in Girl’s Trip
What was the hero product of the week for you?
Haus Labs Optic Intensity Eco Eyeliner in Deep Bronze Shimmer did not budge all day long. Also Haus Labs The Edge Precision Brow Pencil in Granite Grey. It’s so hard to find true gray brow pencils, and this one is so easy to use and lasts all day.
Any products you want to use next week?Â
I use matte eyeshadow almost exclusively, so I want to go outside of my comfort zone and use some of my shimmery MAC eyeshadows—possibly Woodwinked, Satin Taupe, Sumptuous Olive, and/or Twinks.
Seraphine, I have decided that I should live next door to you – that way I can give you all the matte shades that I don’t use (and have never used) and you can give me all the shimmer shades that you don’t like!
I think Woodwinked, Satin Taupe, Sumptuous Olive and Twinks are just the most perfect kind of shimmer shades to use – and some of them are not so much shimmer but more of a satin finish.
Too funny!! Well, you definitely can’t have Satin Taupe, but I might be willing to part with the others!
Oooh, Sumptuous Olive is so pretty for autumn, and would look lovely with your eye color.
Your skin tone/coloring: Under my name (blue-green eyes, dark hair)
What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?: Oh boy! Well, it took me several days before I even let myself use it, but I will say that the look I got out of ABH Rose Metals palette was so beautiful and very autumn appropriate.
Eyes: Sunrose transition, Noble crease, outer V and outer lower lashline, Heavenly inner corner and tearducts, Haze mid-lid and inner half of lower lashline, Nocturne outer lid and lower outer lashline blended into Noble, then because Sunrose just looked too warm to look okay with everything else, I dusted a little bit of Ashes over it where it met with Noble. Perfect blend. Followed up using my usual black tightliner, winged liner, and waterproof mascara, plus a little bit of UD 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil in Stash.
Cheeks: Huda Beauty Glowing Bronzer in Tan Light, PML Desert Orchid blush, ABH Amrezy highlighter.
Lips:Nyx SLP in Earthtone and MAC Paramount lipstick.
Overall, a simply gorgeous fall look.
What was the hero product of the week for you?: All the waterproof EVERYTHING! Especially on I believe Monday when I had to take a bus to Walmart for household/personal care/pet products and some food, and the wind was insane out there! Skies looked like a tornado was going to hit because the sky was so very dark and had that odd greenish hue. As a result, my eyes began to water like rivers! Only my eyeshadow look suffered, though, because my foundation, eyeliners and mascara are all very waterproof, thank goodness.
Any products you want to use next week? Before it begins to get too wintery (for here, anyway), I’d like to create at least a few more looks using my Nomad Cosmetics Bosque Nuboso de Monteverde palette and some of my coordinating lipsticks and coral and orange blushes.
You got our wind and rain again! It’s been in the mid-70s to mid-80s here and sunny.
The weather in the west has been DRUNK! 🥴
Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?: When I was meeting up with my former colleagues last Friday, I was really happy with my makeup. I used Heart Dog over the top half of my eyelid, with Magellan’s Light on the lower half and Phoenix Awakens next to the lashline. I wore my Fenty’s foundation in porcelain, which initially looks too pale for me, but then warms up to your skintone. The Shiseido Inner Glow blush in coral pink and Fenty’s Freckle Fiesta lipstick.
What was the hero product of the week for you?: On the Horizons Light palette and Lorac’s Fairytale Forest.
Any products you want to use next week?: Lorac’s Noir palette.
🦇Your skin tone/coloring:
Under my name; dark plum hair; hazel/green eyes.
🦇What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?
EYES — TF Shadow Insurance. Nomad Cosmetics Haunted Europe Palette: Mary King’s Close (crease), Frankenstein (deep crease; lower lid), Frankenstein’s Castle (outer corner; outer â…“ of lower lash line), Boogeyman (outer ½ of lid), and Hoia-Baciu Forest (foiled on inner ½ if lid and wrapped around into the inner corner). Juvia’s Place Nubian Eyeliner Pencil in Midnight Blue (lower waterline). UD Perversion Mascara. BROWS: UD Naked Basics Palette: Faint mixed Crave. LIPS — Seraphine Botanicals Vegen Berry Tint in Cherry Cream. CHEEKS — Kaleidos Mono Blush in Sanguine. UD e/s in Venus. FACE — MILK Hydro Grip Primer, TF Shadow Insurance (over cystic acne and on oily nose to help products adhere), Natasha Denona Foundation X+ in Fair, Sephora Collection Bright Future Gel Serum Concealer in Bavarian, e. l. f. High Definition Powder in Sheer, L. A. Girl Just Blushing Blush in Just Because… (contour), and L. A. Girl PRO Setting Spray.
🦇What was the hero product of the week for you?:
Peach Slices Deep Blemish Microdarts. I’ve had cystic acne the last month, and these are really helping shrink the cysts.
🦇Any products you want to use next week?:
Nomad Cosmetics Hudson Valley Palette, Kaleidos Mono Blushes, and Unearthly Cosmetics Not Normal Palette.
Your skin tone/coloring: above with freckles, green eyes, warm brown hair.
What was your favorite makeup look you wore this past week?: I used my Gourmande Girls Spooked palette most of the week last week, but I can’t choose with look I liked best! That palette is so amazing.
What was the hero product of the week for you?: Probably the Gourmande Girls Spooked palette.
Any products you want to use next week?: It’s my favorite month and my favorite season, so I’ll definitely be using my fall and halloween themed palettes this month.