Oh, definitely! I still love it now, but the relationship has evolved and become more nuanced, which is how I feel about relationships with people, like my husband or my family — longevity gives way to deeper appreciation of the relationship and what everyone brings to that relationship. For...
My total routine is more complicated now than it was when I first got into makeup/beauty overall. My skincare routine has a lot more steps and products today than ever before (though I don’t think it’s excessive!). I used to do contour/blush/highlighter and lipstick/lipgloss daily (in the early...
I feel like I can buy pretty blindly from Kiehl’s, Origins, Clinique, CeraVe, First Aid Beauty, and Dermalogica and feel like I’m not going to get a subpar product.
A lot of my favorite cheek products come from Natasha Denona, MAC, and Fenty these days. I also think Chanel remains reliable for blushes, bronzers, and highlighters with very few misses over a very long period of reviews.
Sydney Grace and Pat McGrath were the two that immediately came to mind! I wanted to say Viseart, but there are enough more middling shades (workable, more buildable mattes) relative to marketing that I don’t know if I’d really say “most” reliable. The same is true with Natasha Denona–a...
I’ve had good experiences (maybe not to holy grail status but solid options) with most of the foundations/concealers from Guerlain, Giorgio Armani, Lancome, NARS, and Tarte.
Lipstick is the one category that I feel can be done well by a lot of brands at all different price points, but I know that I can count on Giorgio Armani, Guerlain, Pat McGrath, Urban Decay, and Bite Beauty!
I just pick one side that I want to use and forget about the other so I can store it upright in a glass like I do all my other brushes!
I’d have to say MAC or Urban Decay because they’re both brands I really enjoyed years ago but am less drawn to these days – not that they don’t have some stellar products in their core ranges or some interesting limited launches, but there’s something missing. With MAC, I think some of...
