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Skin tone: Very pale with cool undertones.
Best brand for splurging: It kind of depends on product as I would go with Viseart for e/s, Guerlain for finishing powder and Givenchy for lipstick.
Best brand for cheap but great products: Overall, ColourPop and NYX. NYX has a huge range of products and most of them are pretty good. I use their eye liners, white foundation mixer, lippies, primer and eye shadows.
Best brand for pigmented eye shadows: Aforementioned Viseart and Coloured Raine.
I said Givenchy lipstick too. It’s ridiculous. The Rouge Interdit Vinyl formula kills me especially. I only have one, but it has me loving colors I hate on myself in any other finish.
Your skin tone/coloring: Light/ neutral olive
Best brand for splurging? Armani! If I could only use one brand from now on they would have me.
Best brand for cheap but great products? I’m not sure about for makeup, but for cheap but awesome skin products you can’t go wrong with South Korean brands – Missha, My Beauty Diary (I think they are a Vietnamese company though), TonyMoly, Mizon, Skinfood, and COSRX are all great places to start because they have well made products and are very reasonably priced.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Eh…overly pigmented shadow isn’t great for me so I try to avoid…I guess Urban Decay?
I’m just learning to love Armani!
In my most recent order from Sephora I got a sample size of Armani Lip Maestro in #400. It’s absolutely beautiful and the texture is so velvety. It is on my future splurge list for when my tiny sample runs out. Fortunately, I don’t wear bright red very often, so this might last awhile. Also on my future splurge list is Armani Sí perfume, which was another sample I received from Sephora in the same shipment., and I’m using it up fast!
Your skin tone/coloring: Porcelain
Best brand for splurging? BITE, Illamasqua, Farmacy.
Best brand for cheap but great products? NYX, Physician’s Formula, Burt’s Bees.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Urban Decay, Make Up For Ever.
Your skin tone/coloring: Pale; yellow undertones
Best brand for splurging? Yves Saint Laurent knocks it out of the park pretty well.
Best brand for cheap but great products? Physician’s Formula.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Kat Von D does pretty well.
Your skin tone/coloring: neutral fair with blue eyes
Best brand for splurging? Charlotte Tilbury
Best brand for cheap but great products? Colourpop for blush/eyeshadow, Wet’n’Wild for lipstick
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Inglot
Your skin tone/coloring: Neutral/Cool, Fair
Best brand for splurging? hmm I don’t usually splurge on one brand but if I had to pick, it would be NARS because I could get a range of products (face, lips, eyes, etc)
Best brand for cheap but great products? I always end up going for Loreal but ELF and WNW are great too
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Lorac, hands down
Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral, MAC NC20
Best brand for splurging? This is a really difficult question. Right now there are three products by three different brands that I really, really want to splurge on, but I’m controlling myself (Pat McGrath LuxeTrance lipstick, Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet lipstick, and KVD Saint & Sinner Eyeshadow Palette). But if I had to pick an overall brand to splurge on, I think it would be Urban Decay because they make so many different products that I love. I might change my mind in five minutes, but as of this moment, that’s my answer.
Best brand for cheap but great products? Colourpop
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? I haven’t tried many of the high-end brands that are mentioned so often on Temptalia, such as Viseart and Huda, so I can only judge the ones I’ve used. I would have to go with Kat Von D, because the Shade & Light palette is so wonderful to work with, and also because the Saint & Sinner palette seems so amazing (I swatched it in the store this weekend. I would have given in to temptation, but it was sold out).
Your skin tone/coloring: fair warm ~NC10, blue eyes, light brown hair w/copper highlights
Best brand for splurging? Viseart as a whole brand. By product type — SK-II for select skincare items; Cle de Peau for concealer; Chanel for lips; NARS for blush.
Best brand for cheap but great products? Colourpop.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Viseart.
Your skin tone/coloring: Light neutral leaning cool olive beige – silver with smoky purple hair
Best brand for splurging? I’m not much into splurge lately, but Pat McGrath is a recent guilty plasure for makeup. May Lindstrom for skincare
Best brand for cheap but great products? NYX – latest find courtesy of feedback from T subscribers: eye primer.. the bomb! ColourPop rocks too
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? I like ABH, and ColouredRaine.. both I find very easy to work with
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair/light with neutral undertones.
Best brand for splurging? I like to splurge on Becca! I know there are much pricier brands, but I tend to stick to more drugstore brands, so Becca is a splurge ffor me.
Best brand for cheap but great products? Wet N Wild is probably my favorite brand. I always get excited for their launches.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? I love Kat Von D for pigmented eyeshsadow! Colourpop is also really good.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair & Cool
Best brand for splurging? For me Natasha Denona is my favorite splurge brand!
Best brand for cheap but great products? I like a lot of wet n’ wild products!
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Kat Von D, Juvia’s or ND come to mind.
Skin tone: Fair/light with cool-to-neutral undertones
Best brand for splurging: Urban Decay and Bite
Best brand for cheap but great products: Colourpop, Nyx, and Wet N’ Wild
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow: Makeup Geek, Colourpop, and Strobe Cosmetics (they make GREAT shimmers/metallics)
Your skin tone/coloring: Light-to-medium olive
Best brand for splurging: Guerlain lipsticks, Hourglass, Marc Jacobs
Best brand for cheap but great products: ColourPop
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow: Viseart, Marc Jacobs (the new Eye-Conic palettes), Makeup Forever, ABH
Your skin tone/coloring: NC15 w/some redness
Best brand for splurging? Marc Jacobs beauty
Best brand for cheap but great products? ColourPop
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Anastasia
Your skin tone/coloring: Light, yellow tones.
Best brand for splurging? Guerlain – Idylle perfume, a fabulous lipstick or Meteorites… hard to go wrong and I’ve never regretted it!
Best brand for cheap but great products? Colourpop, NYX, Milani, Jordana (the eyeshadow primer is fab!), BH Cosmetics, LA Girl all have some sterling offerings.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Juvia’s Place!
Your skin tone/coloring: light, neutral
Best brand for splurging? Givenchy, but I’ve only ever tried the lip products. Maybe NARS for all around.
Best brand for cheap but great products? I don’t know any DS brands well enough to recommend a whole line. Revlon makes killer lipsticks, but I don’t think $8 or whatever is all that cheap considering you can’t try it on first. I swore by Wet n Wild liquid liner (non-waterproof, brush applicator) until developing watery eyes.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Sugarpill for matte brights. MAC for all around-they’ve got their misses for sure but the range is so vast they probably have whatever you need and some of their shadows are absolutely perfect IMHO. I keep thinking about UD, but they seem to have shifted mostly to palettes and the quality can be really hit and miss. Honorable mention to Nakeds 1-3 for metallic browns.
Coolish lt to med, prob red undertones. KGD013. Most foundations are overtly yellow, even on the ‘cool’ side. Splurge: Viseart, but on sale, it’s not way bad. Will splurge on a Pat l/s, but again, on sale. Cheap, but great: CP, to a lesser extent, Nyx. Pigmented e/s: Viseart and old MUFE.
Your skin tone/coloring: light medium to medium, yellow undertones
Best brand for splurging? Giorgio Armani Beauty for the most amazing lip products and foundations!
Best brand for cheap but great products? Colourpop, NYX
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Anastasia Beverly Hills
Your skin tone/coloring: fair/warm (elf Flawless Finish Foundation in Natural/Porcelain)
Best brand for splurging? Lorac
Best brand for cheap but great products? Wet n Wild
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Wet n Wild (at least the ColorIcon shadows)
Your skin tone/coloring: Medium w/ olive undertones MAC NC37 or Lancôme Teint Idole Foundation N360, deep brunette, blue-green eyes w/ gold flecks.
Best brand for splurging? Tom Ford or Guerlain for lipsticks, Natasha Denona or Viseart for eyeshadows, Lancôme for foundation, Chanel or Marc Jacobs for blush.
Best brand for cheap but great products? Nyx! In a heartbeat! Also ColourPop is a great one, too.
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? I would have to say Viseart and MUFE. Usually, KVD does, too, but less consistently.
Your skin tone/coloring: Very fair wit neutral undertones; magenta/red hair; hazel/green eyes.
Best brand for splurging? MUFE, Bite, Elizabeth & James, Guerlain (loose & pressed Meteorites), Urban Decay
Best brand for cheap but great products? E.l.f., Wet n Wild, Nyx, ColourPop, Milani
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? MUFE, SauceBox, SugarPill, Juvia’s Place, Urban Decay, Kat von D
Skin tone: fair
Best brand for splurging: Pat McGrath, Chanel, Guerlain
Best brand for cheap but great product: CG, I’ve really got to try ColourPop almost everyone mentions it, I think I’ve heard it’s coming to Sephora??
Best brand for pigmented eye shadows: Pat McGrath
Your skin tone/colouring: Porcelain, with pink undertones
Best brand for splurging? Chanel, Clarins
Best brand for cheap but great products? Here in Australia, it would be Natio and Rimmel
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Urban Decay, in the past, bareMInerals
Skintone / coloring : light, MAC NC 20, med brown hair and eyes
Splurge : Burberry, Armani, NARS, Hourglass
Cheap: Milani, Wet n Wild, NYX, Colourpop
Pigmented: ABH, KVD, MUFE and MAC
I’m fair to light with neutral undertones.
My favourite brand to splurge on is Make Up For Ever.
My favourite brand for cheap but great products is L’Oreal, I love their Infallible Eyeshadows!
My favourite brand for pigmented eyeshadows is Make Up For Ever, I have a ton of their Artist Shadows.
Your skin tone/coloring: Fair, cool
Best brand for splurging? Dior, Chanel and Nars
Best brand for cheap but great products? Inglot, Maybelline and Sephora’s own house brand
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? they all have winners and stinkers but I’d have to say Inglot, UD and some of the old Ready shadows from Bare Minerals (I pulled out the Star Treatment palette 2 days ago and have been using it – what fabulously rich pigmentation and texture). Also Lorac, though it’s no longer available in Canada.
NW20 dark blonde with green eyes.
Favorite current splurges: YSL foundation (All Nighter!!) & lips – Tint in Oil & new one that stays on all day (but gloss on top is a must to keep from dry feeling.). Oh – for brushes…WAYNE GOSS – love, love, love!
Cheaper Brand – I like some Physicians Formula (bronzer & quad eye shadow).
Pigmented eye shadows: ABH & Makeup Forever. Not yet tried Viseart 🙁
Your skin tone/coloring: MAC NC23! Light, with prominent warm yellow undertones.
Best brand for splurging?: BITE for sure!!
Best brand for cheap but great products?: Colourpop!
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow?: MUFE!!
Good grief … we had exactly the same answers.
Your skin tone/coloring: Cool/ Pale
Best brand for splurging? Tough to answer since each brand does fine on somethings but lack in other. I would go for NARS. Overall great!
Best brand for cheap but great products? Uhhhh! WetnWild! For sure! Love it!
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? Right now I’m crazy for Nyx Warm Neutrals, Sugar High, Smoke Mirrors (? I think is called? Just purchased actually) gorgeous and perfect!
Your skin tone/coloring: Caramel-complected /MAC NC50-ish.
Best brand for splurging? I’m not splurging right now. But I hope to get certain products from Jo Malone and Charlotte Tilbury in the near future.
Best brand for cheap but great products? ColourPop (everything), Milani (lipsticks), NYX (lip glosses).
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow? ColourPop, Urban Decay.
♥ Your skin tone/coloring:
• Dark
• Warm/Golden undertone (touch of neutral)
• MAC NC44.5/45 or C7, MUFE 173, TO’s 3.0Y/3.1Y, IMAN Clay Medium/2
♥ Best brand for splurging?
• Stilazzi
• Looxi Beauty
• Coastal Scents
❝ I love hitting up Coastal Scents whenever they have their 0.99¢ Hot Pot sales. It’s Splurge City! ❞
♥ Best brand for cheap but great products?
• Wet n Wild
• COSRX
❝ There are some hits and misses with WnW, but all-and-all, they’re pretty great. COSRX is a Korean brand that makes AMAZING skincare products that doesn’t break the bank. ❞
♥ Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow?
• Urban Decay
• ColourPop
• Viseart
• Juvia’s Place
• Looxi Beauty
• Kat Von D
• MAC
Your skin tone/coloring: light yellow/gold
Best brand for splurging? Bite Beauty
Best brand for cheap but great products? ColourPop
Best brand for pigmented eyeshadow: Make Up For Ever
Skin tone: light with warm to olive undertones
Best brand for splurging: Natasha Denona, Charlotte tilbury, and Hourglass. I also love Pat McGrath and Tom ford if I want to go absolutely nuts.
Cheap but great products: Colourpop for sure. I’ve also bee super impressed with Loreal and Milani lately. Flower beauty is also great.
Best brand for pigmented shadows: MELT hands down. Runner ups are Natasha and Viseart. I need my pigment to blend effortlessly so normally super pigmented shadows are not my friend (ahem, subculture), but these brands get it perfectly perfect.