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Your skin tone/coloring: Porcelain
Current go-to cheek products? NARS Albatross, ColourPop Spoon.
Current go-to lip products? MAC Sin, various liquid lipsticks.
Current go-to eye products? KvD Innerstellar palette, ColourPop Effect.
Medium-light/warm
Cheek: Nars Madly alone or layered with Becca’s opal (liquid)
Lip: Mac Chili or Nyx High Voltage in Rockstar patted on.
Eyes: Nars Persia paired with Naked basics. Also pulled out the Sleek Sunset palette and it’s working great for summer!
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, neutral.
Current go-to cheek products: Rituel de Fille cream blush in Desire, Kryolan illusion palette (highlighter)
Current go-to lip products: MAC Velvet Teddy, MAC Staunchly Stylish, Nars Barbara
Current go-to eye products: Rituel de Fille eye soots in Sigil and Half Light, MAC paint pot in Tailor Grey
-Medium neutral to warm, oily with fading acne hyperpigmentation
-Indecent by UD or Clinique Pansy Pop, topped with Gilded Honey
-Any nude gloss or balm
-UD Perversion mascara, all-over lid color in peach, gold, bronze, or taupe for simple summery looks
Your skin tone/coloring: Deep/Dark NW50
Current go-to cheek products? Blush – Toasted Almond by Black Radiance…Highlighter – MAC Melon Pigment
Current go-to lip products? Colour Pop Liquid lipstick in Tulle with Bumble in the middle with Jordana lip liner in Coco Loco or Gerard Cosmetics Berry Smoothie with Jordana lip liner in Coco Loco
Current go-to eye products? NYX Micro Brow in Espresso and Brunette, Inglot 335 as a transition, Coastal Scents Deep Roast and Maroon Berry in the crease/outer v, Coastal Scents Bronze Peach on the lid, and Coastal Scents Flesh Tone on the inner tear duct and brow bone.
I love the toasted almond blush by Black Radiance. People are sleeping on their products. I love their lipsticks too.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/Light with pink undertones
Current go-to cheek products? Charlotte Tilbury’s Blushers (Ecstasy, Love Glow or First Love)
Current go-to lip products? Charlotte Tilbury’s K.I.S.S.I.N.G lipsticks (I own almost all of them)
Current go-to eye products? eyeshadows: Charlotte Tilbury’s palette’s (I own almost all of them) or her Eyes to Mesmerize (own 4 colors). Liners: Charlotte Tilbury’s Rock n Kohl Liner or Classic Pencils. Mascara: trying different mascaras right now so it varies between a Wet n Wild one, Tarte’s Lights, Camera, Lashes, Charlotte Tilbury’s or Too Faced Better than Sex.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, neutral.
CHEEK:
Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush palette–all three shades
Rouge Bunny Rouge Florita and Orpheline
Hourglass Ambient Lighting palette for highlight, bronzer, setting, powder
LIP: Rouge Bunny Rouge Murmerings (007), Word of Mouth (013), Raw Silences (018)
EYE:
NYX doefoot primer
KissMe Heroine Make black liquid eyeliner
Make Up For Ever: pink granite, grey taupe, a shimmery plum; golds/coppers/bronzes; milk tea
Rouge Bunny Rouge Bohemian Waxwing, Delicate Hummingbird, Unforgettable Oriole
Your skin tone/coloring: the most pale of most brands
Current go-to cheek products? Benefit majorette, maybelline dream bouncy blush in Rose petal
Current go-to lip products? Buxom lip polish in Dominique
Current go-to eye products? MAC paint pot in Let’s Skate with urban decay fireball
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/Light
Current go-to cheek products? Benefit Majorette, Clinique Fig Pop, ColourPop Lunch Money
Current go-to lip products? Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask, YSL Tint-in-Oil Drive Me Copper, Buxom Full On Lip Cream White Russian, and NARS Audacious Raquel
Current go-to eye products? Givenchy Phenomen’Eyes Mascara, Tarte Tartelette Palette, MAC Layin Low Paint Pot, Too Faced Semi Sweet Palette
NC37
Cheeks: Clinique cheek pops in Fig, Rosy, and Cola. These look divine on my skin tone!
Lips: Nars Audacious Silvia topped with YSL gloss volulupt #49 or Urban Decay Revolution gloss in Quiver, Bite Palomino, and MAC Barbeque topped with Urban Decay Revolution gloss in Punch Drunk. I am also really liking Urban Decays Revolution glosses in Failbait and Kinky for my more neutral days.
Eye: currently fixated on Urban Decays new spring shadows (Dive Bar et all–I bought all 8 colors) and Tom Ford’s Spice.
Your skin tone/coloring: light to medium with yellow undertones, dark brown eyes, black hair
Current go-to cheek products?
– Blush: Tarte Exposed, TheBalm Hot Mama, Bobbi Brown Nectar
– Bronzer/Contour: N.Y.C. Sunny
– Highlighter: Becca Moonstone, Wet n Wild Reserve Your Cabana
Current go-to lip products? Revlon Peach Parfait lip butter with Revlon Snow Pink lipgloss
Current go-to eye products?
– Eyeshadow: Urban Decay Naked 1, specifically Sin and Buck; L’Oreal Amber Rush
– Eyeliner: Tarte Espresso
– Mascara: CoverGirl LashBlast Volume Waterproof
Your skin tone/coloring: light/medium
Current go-to cheek products? TT Feather, Benefit Rockateur
Current go-to lip products? Mac Lavender Whip, Capricious, Fyrinnae Pigmy Hippo
Current go-to eye products? Maybelline Bad To The Bronze color tattoo, UD Naked3 palette, Mac Teddy eyeliner
Your skin tone/coloring: paler than commercially available foundation, but NARS Siberia is close
Current go-to cheek products? Too Faced — I Will Always Love You, Too Faced — Baby Love, Wet n Wild — Reserve Your Cabana
Current go-to lip products? Dior Addict — Garconne, Guerlain — Air Kiss, Urban Decay — F-Bomb
Current go-to eye products? Stila shadow in Wheat, Laura Mercier shadow stick in Sand Glow, Diorshow Blackout mascara (waterproof)
Your skin tone/coloring: light and warm
Current go-to cheek products? Stila Watercolor blush in Water Lily, Smashbox LA Lights in Silver Lake Sunset, Lancome Blush Subtil Creme in Corail Alizee, Josie Maran Coconut Water Cheek Gelee (can’t remember the name of my shade!)
Current go-to lip products? Lancome Lip Lover in Orange Manege, Bobbi Brown Rich lipstick in Guava, YSL Pop Water Glossy Stain in Eau de Corail
Current go-to eye products? bareMinerals BB Cream eyeshadows
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair-Neutral (Cover Fx in N20)
Current go-to cheek products? ColourPop Fruit Stand
Current go-to lip products? MAC See Sheer
Current go-to eye products? elf Cream Eyeliner in Coffee
Your skintone/coloring: Medium w/ olive undertones MAC C4.5 Studio Fix Liquid foundation, deep brunette, teal green w/gold flecks eyes.
Current go-to cheek products: Clinique Cola Pop, UD Rapture blush or ColourPop Quarters for blushes, ColourPop Butterfly Beach or MAC Summer Wind as highlight.
Current go-to lip products: MAC Marque or UD Liar for nudes, ColourPop Grind, MAC Diva-ish or UD After Dark for cools, MAC Morange, Ravishing or Maria Moretti for warms.
Current go-to eye products: L’Oreal Infallible Continuous Cocoa Eyeshadow for brows, WnW Fergie Take On The Day eyeshadow primer,Maybelline Lash Sensational Waterproof Mascara, Nyx Slide-on eye pencil for tightlining and sometimes lower liner too, MAC Orb browbone, Soft Brown or Kid to blend out, everything else changes just about daily!
BTW: thank you, Christine, for turning me on to Sephora Contour pencil in My Boyfriend’s Jeans! I NEVER thought I could wear such a cool-toned blue, but it looked great yesterday with a warm peachy-brown eye look! I love it! ?
Oooh I’ve had a deluxe sample size of that liner for like 6 months but haven’t thought of a way to use it yet..now it seems like a completely obvious choice to pair it with a warm peach/brown eye..whoops! Thanks for the idea:)
Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair w/neutral undertones; magenta-red hair; hazel/green eyes
Current go-to cheek products? Milani Rose Blush in Coral Cove; Sleek Blush in Life’s a Peach; Urban Decay Afterglow Blush in Quiver; Tarte Exposed and Adored; MAC Taupe (for contouring). For highlighting: e.l.f. Blush in Gotta Glow; Notoriously Morbid Osteomancy; City Color Cosmetics Intense Exposure Highlighting Powder.
Current go-to lip products? e.l.f. Studio Lip Scrub; bhcosmetics Waterproof Lip Liners; eos Lip Balms; Too Faced Melted Rainbow; Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in A Go-Go; Lip Bar in Kiss Me; MAC La Vie En Rouge; Sephora Cougar; Nyx Butter Lipstick in Pops; JCat Pout-holic Lipstick in Candy Man; Nyx Suede Cream in Stone Fox.
Current go-to eye products? Too Faced Shadow Insurance; UD Electric Palette; ColourPop eyeshadows; MUFE eyeshadows; LORAC Unzipped Gold palette; UD Naked Basics; Physician’s Formula Sexy Booster Va-Va-Va Voom Volume Mascara; UD 24/7 Glide-on eyeliner pencils; NuSkin Tru Face Line Corrector; e.l.f. Studio HDLifting Concealer in Brightening (if needed for dark undereye circles).
Yellow olive medium
Makeup Geek blush in Summer Fling
Korres lip butter in pomegranate
Maybelline color tattoo in Bronze
Your skin tone/coloring: light medium, yellow/olive
Current go-to cheek products? NYX Tango With Bronzing Powder in Leopard Gets a Tan
Current go-to lip products? Nivea lip butter, NYX Round Lipstick in Frappuccino
Current go-to eye products? A Sephora eyeliner plus some NYX mascara I’m just trying to use up
Your skin tone/coloring: NC15/20
Current go-to cheek products? CT Highlighter from the Norman Parkinson Collection, Tarte Exposed blush or Benefit Coralista Blush
Current go-to lip products? MAC Crosswires, Marc Jacobs Je T’aime, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang & Goddess (I’m on a bit of a Marc Jacobs kick right now), CT 1975, YSL Ultimate Beige #13
Current go-to eye products? I’ve been wearing the crap out of ColourPop’s “Kindness”, “Bae” and “Coconut” when I am doing a more vibrant look, and when I’m more mellow and every day I tend to use some form of MAC’s Satin Taupe, Naked Lunch, Wedge, and/or Patina with some more neutral mattes in the mix.
Skin tone: very fair/light porcelain
Cheek: An Elizabeth Arden blush in a light peach shade that I received in a GWP – it’s actually quite good
Lip: Black Portland’s Bad Penny – gorgeous copper colour (it’s winter over here in Aus)
Eye: Loving Derailed from Vice 2 at the moment with Stash and half baked.
Your skin tone/coloring: dark neutral
Current go-to cheek products? Nothing for now but I love all Black Radiance blushes
Current go-to lip products? MAC heaux and Clarin’s natural lip perfector in rosewood
Current go-to eye products? Clarin’s eye quartet mineral palette in rose gold
Your skin tone/coloring: fair/light warm (NC15)
Current go-to cheek products? MAC Peaches, Clinique Nude Pop, and I just bought NARS Madly but I know it’ll be an autumn staple! As far as bronzer goes I use Too Faced Endless Summer bronzer pretty much every day. For highlighter I’ve been sticking to ColourPop Smokin’ Whistles and/or Wet n Wild Reserve Your Cabana.
Current go-to lip products? Bite Agave Lip Mask, MAC Relentlessly Red, MAC Kinda Sexy, KVD Beloved, KVD Double Dare, Fresh Sugar Honey.
Current go-to eye products? MAC Painterly Paint Pot, MUG Cocoa Bear, MUG Cosmopolitan, MUG Crème Brulee, UD Perversion mascara (deluxe sample, am torn about paying for a higher end mascara), ABH Brow Powder duo in Auburn, and the ABH Clear Brow gel.
Your skin tone/coloring: deep with neutral to yellow undertones
Current go-to cheek products? Mac breezy and colour pop monster and toasty
Current go-to lip products? Nyx Copenhagen and nyx cannes
Current go-to eye products?colourpop animal ud last call ud baked cowboy mufe dark brown satin (I’ve had it so long the number is no longer on the back.)
Your current skin tone/ coloring: Right now I’m going between wearing Too Faced Born this Way in Light Beige and Bobbi Brown Skin in Beige
Current go-to cheek products? Tarte Exposed, Nars Mata Hari, and Tarte Natural Beauty
Current go-to lip products? Bite Granache, Essence Natural Beauty, Essence Wear Berries, and Clarins Instant Light Natural Lip Perfector
Current go-to eye products? Laura Mercier Caviar Sticks in Moonlight & Cocoa, Lorac Pro Palette, and Urban Decay Venus (inner corner)
Your skin tone/coloring: Light-Medium/Warm
Current go-to cheek products? NYX Blush Dusty Rose, The Body Shop Honey Bronzer 05
Current go-to lip products? Jack Black Lip Balm, MAC Lip Liner
Current go-to eye products? LORAC The Skinny Eye Shadow Palette in Nude
Your skin tone/coloring:
Medium – Mac NW30 or Nars Barcelona
Current go-to cheek products?
Nars Exhibit A
Current go-to lip products?
Mac Lady Danger
Current go-to eye products?
Mac Fluidline Gel Eyeliner Blacktrack
Your skin tone/coloring: N20
Current go-to cheek products? Houglass Abient Light Bronzer, NARS Luster
Current go-to lip products? YSL Volupte Shine #15 Coral Intuitive
Current go-to eye products? My Mac palette, All That Glitters, Sable, Era
Your skin tone/coloring: Light
Current go-to cheek products? NARS “Blame It On Nars” cheek palette, Becca Skin Perfector Poured in Opal, Smashbox Bronze Lights
Current go-to lip products? Kat Von D liquid lips Mother or Lime Crime Pink Velvetine
Current go-to eye products? Urban Decay (been rotating Naked, Naked 3, Vice 3 Ltd, and the Electric palette). I’m a UD junkie
Skin tone/color: medium tan and yellow. Estée lauder double Wear in rattan for medium to full coverage and makeup forever face and body in 32 for sheer to medium coverage. I mix them both with Revlon’s skinlight illuminator in Bronze light to deepen the shade because both are a tad too light right now.
Cheeks: tarte’s exposed to slightly carve the cheeks out and the light pink blush for Lorac’s Resort palette for the tops of the cheek bones. Also theBalms bahama bronzer or Lorac’s baked matte tantalized when if I bronze the cheeks.
Lips: too Faced’s melted liquid lipstick in nude, Marc’s mocha, NYXs Stockhold–sometimes all three layered together!
Eyes: Mac’s Saddle, Lorac’s Mauve from pro palette, Lorac’s bronze shimmery shade from Resort Palette.
The LResort Palette has been so good to me! And the white pearly highlighter in there is my go to highlighter.
Your skin tone/coloring: nc35; medium with olive undertones
Current go-to cheek products? nyx blush in terra cotta and colourpop highlighter in wisp
Current go-to lip products? nyx lip liner in ever (waiting for fall to break out my mac liners in chestnut and half red!)
Current go-to eye products? clinique sahara sun! i love every color in that palette but this one especially is such a nice neutral and it catches the light perfectly
Current skin tone/coloring- medium/med-tan
Current go to cheek products- Laura Gellar Ballerina for highlighter and many blushes but MAC Prism, Laura Mercier Ritual, Becca Wild Honey among them.
Current go to Lip products- Laura Mercier Healthy Lips and Sexy Lips. Rimmel Kate Moss in 08.
Current go to eye products- Mally Evercolor Shadowsticks, Laura Mercier Cavier Eye Sticks, MAC’S Groundwork, Charlotte Tilbury Eyes to Mesmerize in Marie Antoinette.
Your skin tone/coloring: Medium warm
Current go-to cheek products? Clinique CP in Nude Pop and Melon Pop; Elf Pressed Mineral Blush in Sweet Retreat; Chanel JC in Innocence; Chanel Creme Blush in Cheeky; Becca in Opal (Liquid)
Current go-to lip products? Chanel RCS in Mélancolie, Liberté, and Biarritz; Marc Jacobs Lip Vinyl in Kissability; Marc Jacobs New Nudes Sheer Lip Gel in Role Play
Current go-to eye products? Elf Smudge Pot in Cruisin’ Chic; Chanel IDO in New Moon; Laura Mercier Caviar Stick in Rose Gold
Your skin tone/coloring: Medium/Warm/Olive
Current go-to cheek products? Makeup Forever HD Cream Blush in #410, a rich orangey coral that creates a nice glow when used lightly or builds up
Current go-to lip products? Lipstick Queen Endless Summer SPF15 lipstick in Stoked, or MAC So Chaud.
Current go-to eye products? Urban Decay eyeliner in Scorched, and Tonymoly mascara (doesn’t flake a bit, but washes off so easily)
Your skin tone/coloring: light medium/warm
Current go-to cheek products?: Bobbi Brown Blush Nude Peach, Kevyn Aucion Candlelight ,Kevyn Aucoin Sculpting powder
Current go-to lip products?: Nars Audacious lipstick in Kelly , MUFE Rouge Intense lipstick#30
Current go-to eye products?: Kat Von D Tattoo liner, Covergirl LastBlast Volume Mazcara , Makeup Geek Creme Brulee , MUFE Shadow Artist in I628,S632,ME612
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, with cooler undertones. NARS Gobi in Sheer Glow and MAC N1 in Face and Body.
Current go-to cheek products? MAC blushes Melba or Crisp Whites, theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer and MAC Baby Don’t Go for contour.
Current go-to lip products? Trying to finish Chanel Rouge Allure Extrait de Gloss in Caprice (sooo posh!), MAC Honey Love or Japanese Maple lipsticks and Oh My Darling gloss (by itself, not over any lipstick).
Current go-to eye products? Shadows: MAC Gleam, Naked Lunch, Patina, UD Beware, theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer over MAC Brule. Eyeliners: MAC Prunella or Teddy, UD Smoky. MAC Studio Sculpt Lash mascara.
– pasty
– Bella bamba from benefit
– any too faced melted with a bite radiance lipstick over it. ITS LIKE BUTTAHHHHH
– Lorac light brown in the crease
Fair with yellow undertones (NC15)
Blush: NARS Sex Appeal
Highlighter: MAC Soft and Gentle
Lipstick: MAC Japanese Maple
(a creemesheen nude shade)
Eyeshadow: NARS Portobello duo
(both matte browns)
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/neutral
Current go-to cheek products? Sephora Secretive layered with Tom Ford Love Lust or Armani Fluid Sheer in #6.
Current go-to lip products? Nivea Lemon and Olive Oil lip balm
Current go-to eye products? Givenchy Ondulations d’Or eye palette, Chanel Rouge-Gorge and elf Ain’t That Sweet, or Tom Ford Spice, and LashFood mascara.
Skin tone: Fair to Medium Tan Rosy Cool tone, Mac NW25-35
Cheeks: Bobbi Brown Sand Pink, Chanel Luna
Lips: L’oreal Collection Privee The Perfect Nudes: J Lo’s Nude(my current favorite nude), Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet: La Precieuse(for a great pop of color)
Eyes: Mac Phloof, Mac Print, Mac Scene, Nars Black Valley, YSL Volume Effet Faux Cils Black
Your skin tone/coloring: Light/medium
Current go-to cheek products? Hourglass Electra, Clinique Cherk pops faves Berry, Cola, Heather
Current go-to lip products? Charlotte Tillbury’s Bitch Perfect with Lip Cheat Pillow Talk.
Current go-to eye products? Urban Decay’s Smokey Palette, Anastasia Of Beverely Hills Shadow Couture Palette with Dior’s Addict it Lash Mascara.
Your skin tone/coloring: Medium Tan Neutral MAC NC40-42
Current go-to cheek products? Clinique Peach Pop, the Balm Betty Lou-manizer
Current go-to lip products? Maybelline Color Whispers in Pin up Peach and Pop of Poppy
Current go-to eye products? MAC Layin Low and Indian Wood PP
Skin tone/coloring: **summer shade**-light, warm (NC23ish–if they made that shade!), light blue eyes, dark blonde
Current cheek products: Milani Luminoso blush, MAC CCB in Virgin Isle, MAC blushes in Warm Soul or Pinch ‘o Peach, NARS Laguna bronzer, BECCA Moonstone or Champagne Pop
Current lip products: usually just a tinted BabyLips (Maybelline) or something else sheer, like Clinique Black Honey. P.S., I am getting really bored with the same lip products so I am currently stalking this page and temptalia in general for some new ideas for work-appropriate but still fun lip colors…suggestions very much welcome!! 😀
Current eye products: SO MANY!!! Morphe 35 Taupe palette, MUG Peach Smoothie & Creme Brulee, MAC Dazzlelight, Blanc Type, Nylon, Mylar, Colourpop shadows (esp. LaLa, Girly, Game Face, Amaze), Morphe singles (Mysterious, Dazzling, Spice)…and the list goes on. Eek! (Mascara is always Benefit’s They’re Real; primer is MAC Painterly)
Your skin tone/coloring: nw20
Current go-to cheek products? Urban decay obsessed blush and MAC lightscapade highlighter
Current go-to lip products? MAC snob and up the amp
Current go-to eye products? Meet matt(e) nude, desert flower eye pencil by makeup store and full fat lash by sleek
Skintone: NC35 golden w/olive undertones
Go-to cheek products: TheBalm Hot Mama, MAC Trace Gold, BB Antigua, Becca Opal, BB Bronze Glow, MAC Soft&Gentle
Go-to Lip products: Melt Cosmetics BangBang, Urban Decay Naked2, MAC Mehr
Go-to eye products: Urban Decay Smoky Palette, Melt Cosmetics Dark Matter and Love Sick stacks
Your skin tone/coloring: light-medium with slightly pink and warm undertone
Current go-to cheek products: theBalm Instain in Argyle for blush and NYX Mosaic Powder in Highlighter for highlighter
Current go-to lip products: MAC Faux
Current go-to eye products: Maybelline Color Tattoo in Barely Branded, Maybelline Lasting Drama Gel Liner in Black and Shiseido Majolica Majorca Lash Expander Edge Meister Mascara in Black
Your skin tone/coloring: light-medium with yellow undertones
Current go-to cheek products? Anything glowy, I’m absolutely loving the Becca x Jaclyn Hill ChampagnePop highlighter & the Hourglass Ambient Lighting powder in Radiant!
Current go-to lip products? Jack Black lip balm & I’m trying to finish up a Dior Crème de Rose!
Current go-to eye products? Eyelash curler & Clinique high impact mascara