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Survey Says... January 31st, 2018

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  • Your skin tone/coloring:
  • Favorite product this month?
  • Most used face/cheek product this month?
  • Most used eye product this month?

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Tammy B Avatar

MAC NC30 (Medium warm)

Sisley Phyto Cernes Eclat Eye Concealer and Natasha Denona 28 Pan Palette in blue/purple

Most used cheek product: MAC Cheeky Bugger blush from the Kelly Osbourne collection (I bought this by accident and have since fallen madly in love, but it only shows up on my skin tone during winter when I have lost some of my color) and Tom Ford Love Lust (the original version, and again, it only shows up on my skin tone this time of year, but it’s stunning when I can see it).

I have been in a steady relationship for the past three months with Kat Von D’s Saint & Sinner, Anastasia’s Prism and Subculture, and Huda Beauty Rose Gold Palette. I use some mixture of these palettes almost daily.

Mariella Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: fair, cool
Favorite product this month? MAC Party Line lipstick – love how it looks even after it has worn away – it leaves a nice stain that keeps me from looking too pale
Most used face/cheek product this month? IT CC cream and Dior Rosy Glow Awakening blush (again!)
Most used eye product this month? ABH Vermeer and MAC Cork e/s; Sephora Capuccino pencil liner.

Joan Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring:
Fair with a cool undertone.

Favorite product this month?
I have been really liking my Lila palette lately and combining super shock shadows with Natasha Denona shadows.

Most used face/cheek product this month?
I have rotating a ton of my stuff, but I used the Anastasia NG Glow Kit and Becca Backlight Primer quite a bit.

Most used eye product this month?
Either my Dose Quints or any of my Natasha Denona Shadows- I went ham with my favorite formulas this month.

Celesta Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair with neutral undertones and freckles

Favorite product this month? Pat McGrath Mothership Sublime Palette

Most used face/cheek product this month? Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer, Tarte Amazonian Clay blush in Paaarty

Most used eye product this month? Viseart Petit Pro palette, Viseart Neutral Matte palette, Natasha Denona Lila Palette

Jen Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: fair with yellow undertones and surface redness.
Favorite product this month? Tatcha The Deep Cleanse
Most used face/cheek product this month? Besame Snow White translucent pearl powder and Delicate Rouge blushes
Most used eye product this month? ColourPop Super shock shadow in Wattles and Essence Lash Princess false lash mascara

Jen Avatar

It’s been my only truly neutral eyeshadow until I ran out to Ulta this afternoon and grabbed the UD X Kristen Leanne Daydream palette ? and I just ordered the CP give it to me straight palette despite the lack of community enthusiasm. I watched so many YouTube gurus pick through it, and the general consensus I’m seeing is that it’s a great palette with the best selection of shades, even though it may be redundant for people that have the previous neutral offerings.

Kate Tolkach Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair / Neutral

Favorite product this month? Maybelline Fit Me loose translucent powder. It’s completely replaced my LM powder

Most used face/cheek product this month? Tarte Shape Tape for face and Sephora Bronzer in Los Cabos for cheek. It’s the perfect color for my winter skin since I don’t want to be too warm.

Most used eye product this month? I don’t think I have a specific product, but I’ve been getting more comfortable with shimmer/glitter eyeshadow, since I tend to stick to matte eyeshadow and do very minimal eyeshadow looks.

Joyce Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: light to medium with yellow undertones, dark brown eyes, black hair
Favorite product this month? Smashbox Primerizer
Most used face/cheek product this month? Wet n Wild Ticket to Brazil bronzer
Most used eye product this month? ColourPop You Had Me at Hello palette

Ashleigh Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: fair redhead
Favorite product this month? The Ordinary Skincare!
Most used face/cheek product this month? Cover Fx perfect setting power (finished up the product, gotta repurchase!)
Most used eye product this month? Buxom mascara

Nancy T Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Medium w/ olive undertones MAC NC37, Lancôme Teint Idole 24H Foundation N360, Fenty ProFilt’r 260 or 290, deep brunette, blue-green eyes w/ gold flecks.

Favorite product this month? Those Supershock Shadows that ColourPop brought back, like; Daddy, Dare, etc. That are actually *colorful*, thereby, living up to the company’s Name!

Most used face/cheek product this month? All my favorite cool season blushes! UD Rapture and Bittersweet, MAC Burnt Pepper blushes. My usual foundation for wintertime, Lancôme Teint Idole 24H Foundation N360, usually mixed with either Marc Jacobs Dew You Coconut Highlighter or some BB cream.

Most used eye product this month? ColourPop purple SSS’s, and also their All I See Is Magic palette. ND Lila, ABH Subculture, and UD Heavy Metal Palettes. Hard to pick anything, because I have been all over the place within my stash this month!

AB Avatar

– Your skin tone/coloring: fair, warm; blue eyes, brown hair w/copper highlights
– Favorite product this month? Cover Girl Lash Blast mascara — selected after a several week project to find a new mascara
– Most used face/cheek product this month? Smashbox Camera Ready BB foundation in Fair Light, which is my every day foundation — relatively sheer coverage, shade, and finish works well for me.
– Most used eye product this month? see above, CG Lash Blast mascara is my new every day mascara.

Rachel R. Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair with neutral undertones; magenta/red hair; hazel/green eyes.

Favorite product this month? UD x Kristen Leanne Kaleidoscope Palette, Living Dead Beauty Bold Eyes Palette, ABH Matte Lipstick in Dead Roses, LunatiCK Cometics Labs Pro Contour Book Volume 1, and Violet Voss Hashtag Palette.

Most used face/cheek product this month? Aside from my dailies, MAC Blush in Pink Cult and LORAC Color Source Buildable Blush in Ultra Violet.

Most used eye product this month? UD Primer Potion in Enigma; Physician’s Formula Sexy Booster Va Va Voom Mascara; UD 24/7 Eye Pencil in Perversion.

Genevieve Avatar

Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain with pink undertones

Favourite product this month? Apart from sunscreen, Elizabeth Arden’s Ceramide lipsticks in Cocoa Bronze and Flame.

Most used face/cheek product this month? Elf Flawless foundation in Porcelain and the Clarins Prodige Illuminating blush in Soft Peach

Most used eye product this month? Naked 2, Guerlain Les Gris and Lorac Pro Metals palette.

Michelle Garrett Avatar

Skin tone: warm , light to medium . I usually wear nw25 in Mac.
Favorite product this month is Vintners Daughter Serum.
Most used face/cheek is Nars blush.
Most used eye product is Albeit concealer.

Mariela Benitez Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring:
Favorite product this month? Too faced peachy mattes palette.
Most used face/cheek product this month? Nars casino bronzer (sun wash diffusing)
Most used eye product this month? Marc Jacobs coconut eye primer

Deborah S. Avatar

Skin tone: Very pale with cool undertones, MAC NW5-10

Favorite product this month: Nivea Skin Firming Serum. It is meant for use on the body to “break up cellulite” but I have been using the tiniest amount on my under eye bags in conjunction with my Dr. Dennis Gross Ferulic and Retinol and my under eye bags are getting less prominent. Now the dark circles are still there but the bags themselves seem less to my eye.

Most used face and cheek product: Chanel Holiday 2017 Camelia Peche Rouge Contraste.

Most used eye product: Jill Stuart Holiday quint palette and ColourPop All I See Is Magic palette, (thanks to Kendrick for encouraging me to pick it up!),

Robin Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: med warm nc35
Favorite product this month? Mac studio fix foundation
Most used face/cheek product this month? LM loose setting powder, use it for every look
Most used eye product this month? Stila eye glitters. I’m addicted

Dee Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Dark, Dry Skin

Favorite product this month? Nars Radiant Longwear Foundation (Macao), I’ve been using Nars All Day Luminious, which is full coverage, but this is new foundation is medium buildable coverage. I love it. I have dry skin and it gives me a slight glow without looking greasy or oily.

Most used face/cheek product this month? Colourpop Super Shock Blush – Flush’d, This gives me a flushed natural look without being too heavy. Sometimes I add a small drop CoverFX Candlelight drops to my NARS all day luminious foundation (Macao) and it gives me a great glow. I have dry skin and would not recommend this for oily skin.

Most used eye product this month? Too Faced Better than Sex Mascara (black) & Benefit They’re Real Mascara (black), I put on the Benefit mascara to separate my lashes and then Too Faced to increase volume. I love the combination.

Ana Maria Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Light-Medium with yellow undertones (NC20/25 depending on foundation or season)
Favorite product this month? Drunk Elephant Shaba Complex Eye Serum does wonders for how my concealer looks in my under eye area
Most used face/cheek product this month? MAC Next to Nothing Powder (since I used it every time to set my foundation/concealer) and MAC Sculpting Powder in Sculpt (my contouring/neutral blush shade)
Most used eye product this month? The Balm Put a Lid on It eye primer, since I used it every time I wore eye make-up

Jeannie Avatar

Skin Tone: NC15/NC20

Favorite Product: Son and Park Beauty Water. This is gentle and I use it in the PM after cleansing and in the AM as my only cleanser. It’s gentle, soothing, and does a great job of getting my skin ready for moisturization.

Blushes: Nars Exhibit A and UD Crush

Eyes: TF Just Peachy Mattes with Tarte Exposed Highlighter as a lid shade for this week.

This year I have been participating in Palette of the Week, along with Blush of the Week and this gives me the opportunity to know my palettes and blushes better. I have destashed some palettes/blushes to family and friends that I used to like. This has really helped me refine my collection. By using the Vanity here on Temptalia I learned that I have a type when it comes to lipsticks, blushes, and eyeshadow palettes. Can we just say DUPE CITY 😀

Val Martin Avatar

Colouring : I wear KVD Lock it Foundation in Medium N2

I had a sample of Bare Minerals Intense Power Serum and it blew me away. Have bought a bigger sample size.

Finished my Benefit Dallas blush this month and now working on Easy by UD.

Again I panned a Smashbox shadow from the Full Exposure palette and now working on MAC Whenever You Call.

Erica Avatar

Skintone / coloring : light, MAC NC 20, med brown hair and eyes

Favorite product this month : ABH Prism Palette. Too Faced Just Peachy Mattes. MAC Pressed Pigment in Day Gleam. Clinique High Impact Black Mascara. Laura Geller French Vanilla Highlighter. Cover Girl Tru Blend Blush in Medium Rose

Most used cheek product : Cover Girl Tru Blend Blush in Medium Rose. Laura Geller French Vanilla Highlighter

Most used eye product: ABH Prism Palette. Too Faced Just Peachy Mattes. Day Gleam Pressed Pigment

MacKenzie G. Avatar

Coloring: Fair/light with cool to neutral undertones.

Warning, I haven’t worn makeup much this month.

Favorite product this month: I recent picked the UD green color correcter back up and I have used it every single time I’ve done my makeup. I forgot how much easier it made concealing the overall redness on my cheeks!

Most used face/cheek product this month: Fenty Matchstix in Amber to contour or Glossier Cloud Paints in general (no specific shade).

Most used eye product this month: For non-color cosmetics, its still the UD Primer Potion and Tarte Lash Paint Mascara. For color cosmetics, I’ve been maintaining the same mixture of ABH, MUG, CP, UD, Kylie, and a few miscellaneous singles, and I haven’t really been sticking with any one eyeliner.

Diane Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: NW45-47

Favorite product this month? Ben nye coco tan powder

Most used face/cheek product this month? Tonic blush from Colourpop

Most used eye product this month? Essence Lash Princess Mascara

jel888 Avatar

Skin tone/coloring: neutral warm (really liking Estée Lauder’s Double Wear water-based formula in 4N1 (Shell Beige) even though it’s a tiny tad bit more neutral than warm. Looks so good on me (at least I think so. 😉 )

Fav product of January 2018: Still Too Faced’s “Boss Lady” palette from before Christmas. I’ve been using lots of new palettes and singles, but somehow my feel good thoughts often go to “Boss Lady”. Had to force myself not to take it to Glasgow with me so as to try something else.

Most used face/cheek product this month? Hmmm, I do my cheeks as a sort of afterthought (just to balance things out), but there’s no question that this indie highlighter/blush is the bomb, and a staple for me. (I’m away, so I can’t confirm, but I think it’s Kaylux’s “Most Nominated”. Just a great copper-rose, duo chrome type bronzer/highlighter/blush. I can get away with just using it and nothing else on the cheeks and look really nice.

Most used eye product this month? Other than eyeshadow from any of five new palettes or singles (please pray for me!), Zoeva’s eyelid primer. A tad spicy, but once I let it set, it works.

Kat Avatar

Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, neutral-to-olive, hazel eyes, very dark auburn hair
Favorite product this month? My single powder eyeshadows! I’m falling back in love with them. Most of mine are MAC, ABH, and Makeup Geek. I’ve especially been loving ABH Stone and Ash Brown in a look with MUG Homecoming and MAC Mylar and Handwritten, or MUG Creme Brulee and MAC Mylar as a simple look.
Most used face/cheek product this month? Physician’s Formula Butter Bronzer in Light Bronzer. I’ve decided it’s a little too yellow for me, although I love how light it is. I have a feeling I’ll hit pan soon-ish, so I’ve probably got about a year’s worth left. I hope get a good way through it in 2018 and then pick up the Bronzer shade.
Most used eye product this month? L’Oreal Extra Volume Collagen mascara. It’s a new one to me (I usually use Voluminous Carbon Black) and I quite like it!

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