What's your everyday makeup routine?
What is your everyday makeup routine? Do you have a certain look you wear most days?
There’s nothing I really stick to. I always use MAC Espresso eyeshadow to fill in my brows, but anything else can vary! If I’m not testing anything, I’m probably not wearing much makeup at all!
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most days, because I’m busy… undereye concealer, black eyeliner (using Urban decay’s Zero right now), mascara top and bottom lashes. then some lip balm and gloss
If there’s something I do absolutely everyday, it has to be sunscreen! Otherwise, my routine varies too. Sometimes, I just put on some powder for oil control, otherwise, it’s foundation and the works.
MAC Charcoal Brown on my browns, tinted moisturizer, mascara and blush! (concealer on bad days :P)
brows* haha
It tends to change from day to day! But this is usually what stays the same!
Foundation- Makeup Forever Face & Body, Korres Wild Rose, or NARS Sheer Glow applied with a Sigma F80 Flat Top Brush.
Concealer- MAC Studio Finish applied with fingers
Powder- MAC MSF applied with a Sigma F50 Stippling Brush
Blush- It changes every day!
Bronzer- Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder in Medium applied with a Sigma F50 Stippling Brush
Brows- MAC Handwritten Eyeshadow and ELF Brow Gel
then I prep my eye with my NARS Smudgeproof Shadow Base and do whatever eye look Im in the for and any lip products I want to use! xx
I like to change it up everyday, but most days when I don’t bother with the complicated stuff, I just do a little primer and foundation.
smokey eye shadow/liner, (color varies but im currently loving urban decay deluxe shadow box)mascara, under eye concealer, powder on t zone, and jack black lip balm
Like Christine the only consistent thing I do daily is fill my eyebrows (for now I use the Daiso eyebrow powder since it’s $2 and works well). Then I do my eyeshadow/mascara while I am waiting for my moisturizer to soak in, next I do my blush and last I do my lips (if at all, I may just do lip balm then really do it when I get to work).
A lot of it changes but at the moment this is what is consistant.
Prime:smashbox photo finish
Foundation: at the moment revlon colorstay
Conceal: at the moment sonia kashuk hidden agenda palette
Brows: mac brow set in girl boy
Eyes: changes everyday
Cheeks: change everyday although I’ve been using sleek contour kit to highlight lately
Lips: change everyday too.
CoverGirl concealer, Maybelline Dream Matte powder, ELF eyelid primer, and LashBlast Luxe mascara are the only things that pretty much stay the same.
I always start off w/ a moisturizer that has SPF in it, an eye cream & a mattifier in my T-zone (all Murad). I use Clinique All About Eyes concealer on my dark circles, Too Faced Shadow Insurance & Revlon Colorstay foundation. I apply MAC Select Moisturecover to any red areas, then I apply my blush, eye liner, eye shadow, Benefit High Brow & a black/brown mascara. For my eyebrows, I use a taupe liner from Wet ‘n’ Wild. I think it costs 99 cents at the drugstore, but it’s the best eye brow pencil I’ve ever used. It’s so creamy and lasts all day. I tend to wear lip gloss or lip balm more often than lipstick.
1. Moisturizer with SPF/Primer: MAC Studio Moisture Fix SPF 15 mixed with Shiseido Ultimate Sun Protection Lotion SPF 60.
2. Pore Filler: Clinique Instant Perfector Pore Minimizer in Invisible Light (now discontinued). I’m planning to use the Too Faced Primed and Poreless Primer, which I’ve tried, as a suitable alternate. FYI, the reformulated Clinique Pore Minimizer is no where near as effective in filling in pores or keeping my skin matte. The Benefit Porefessional gives similar results as the new Clinique.
3. Undereye Corrector: Bobbi Brown Corrector in Light to Medium Bisque
4. Undereye Concealer: I’m trying a ton, so it’s almost never the same product.
5. Liquid Foundation: Same as above.
6. Setting Powder: Same as above.
7. Bronzer: Same as above.
8. Contour: MAC Pro Scultping Powder in Sculpt
9. Fill in brows with Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Cream Shadow in Ash
As you can all see, I’m still trying to find that perfect combination.
This seems like a long list, but it’s a really simple look! – tinted moisturizer all over, concealer on spots, liquid highlighter on cheeks, setting powder, brow pencil, ivory eyeshadow from eyelids to brow-bone, brown eyeshadow in creases, brown pencil liner on lash-lines, and lipstick/gloss.
I barely wear makeup and usually it’s just Jack Black Lip Balm and some sheer under eye concealer (Clinique Airbrush) since I don’t have problematic skin. When I do wear makeup it’s usually different eveytime but it’s always bright colors<3
Usually I just follow my skincare routine (clinique 3-step, then even better serum for dark spots followed by moisturizer) and then, rearly if i feel like it, some foundation (clinique even better or diorskin nude), powder, some eyeshadow, mascara and lipsick or lipbalm – most of weekdays I don’t put any makeup on unless I have to go out 😉
estee lauder doublewear foundation, ecru
mac brow pencil, lingering
mac painpot, bare study
mac eyeshadow, blanc type
mac cheek powder, marine life
mac lip liner, gingeroot
mac lipstick, playing koi, topped up through the day with mac lipstick, naturally eccentric.
mac msf, by candlelight to highlight.
The only consistent thing I do daily is basic skincare, maybe slather some sunscreen if I’m going out. Make-up (simple, complicated, or in-between) only when I feel like it. ^_^
I always put on, at lease, tinted moisturizer, bronze powder, mascara and blush. The rest may vary or I don’t put it at all!
MAC Pro Longwear Concealer, Painterly Paint Pot, Pur Minerals 4 in one mineral powder foundation, some eye liner, blush and lipstick. I only get more “complicated” if I have time to spend in the morning. Then I might bother with liquid foundation, setting powder, powder shadows and some highlighter.
I actually don’t wear much makeup. On the weekdays, I just go to school and most weekends I’m just relaxing or hanging out with friends. I don’t really like wearing a ton anyways. I feel it’s kind of awkward to look different on different days if you change up your makeup!
I usually wear:
tinted moisturizer: Laura Mercier
concealer: Laura Mercier camouflage pot
blush: chanel corail
eyeliner: chanel waterproof automatic in espresso
I don’t wear lipstick when I’m wearing blush (and the other way around). I feel like it makes me look a bit too dressed up for just a regular day out.
Same here… I use Benefit’s Dallas blush almost every day because it’s a safe color, but everything else varies…
moisturizer.
if wearing makeup, spf/tm or foundation, some blush, and lipstick.
no concealer cuz i can’t find one that doesn’t cake on me 🙁
I color correct first, then conceal. I wear powder foundation and MAC’s Warm Soul as a bronzer/color accent. Everything else depends upon time and my mood.
Everyday before I let anyone see me(!) I do:
Clinique pore minimiser
Laura Mercier silk creme foundation
YSL touche eclat
MAC Studio fix powder
MAC truth and light liquid powder
Bobbi brown pink sugar/pale pink/coral and/or one of the many mac limited edition beauty powders
If I’m in a rush on my eyes I’ll do either Dior jazz club (gold, silver, white and black liner) or Bobbi brown taupe or grey on the lid with bobbi brown champagne quartz or rockstar in the crease and bobbi brown ivory/white on the bone and corners. If I feel down I’ll put urban decay 24/7 eyeliner on plus black mascara. If I feel ok I might skip the liner.
Lips is always changing but I like staining at the moment then gloss on top – but everyday on average it’ll be pink stain and pink gloss, or bobbi brown sandwash tulle/tulle/pink lipstick. Or Mac pink plaid.
I can get it all done in about 15 mins but I like to take about triple that!
I don’t wear makeup every single day, but when I do, I have to follow these steps! I’ve tried skipping steps, or applying in different order, but it just doesn’t work for me.
1. Moisturize face
2. Apply eyeshadow primer (Nars Smudgeproof)
3. Apply eyeshadow base (MAC Painterly Paint Pot)
4. Apply eyeshadow to upper lid
5. Apply liner to upper lashline (Laura Mercier cake liner)
6. Curl lashes
7. Apply eyecream + base under eye
8. Apply concealer to undereye area (Amazing Cosmetics Concealer)
9. Apply eyeshadow/liner on lower eyelid
10. Apply mascara (Helena Rubinstein Lash Queen)
11. Apply foundation (Jane Iredale Pressed Base)
12. Apply concealer on spots if I need to
13. Eyebrows (Anastasia Brow Powder duo in Medium Ash)
(14.) Apply contour
15. Apply blush
16. Apply highlight
17. Apply lipstick/gloss
Face:mac prolongwear concealer. Maybelline fit me powder
Eyes: Macs all that glitters,ricepaper,woodwinked
Lips:mavs ravishing lipstick with revlons peach petal lip gloss
My makeup routine is kinda lengthy, but nonetheless, is something I have been doing for so long that it has become second nature. Primer, concealer, Foundation, powder, blush, eyebrows, eye primer, eye shadow base, eye shadow, liners, mascara…its done it that very same order, with a couple of pauses here and there…
I dont use make up everyday. But if I am expecting someone to do a house call, powder and mascara, If I am going out or having company, the works.
Foundation, concealer, eye, cheeks, lips, hi light and contour.
And usually I wear bright or dramatic colors when I go out. Sometimes natural but I get bored with that so its usually bold for me 😀
Liz Earle light moisturiser,benefit pore minimizer,gosh primer,estee lauder foundation,MAC studio concealer,mac mineralised studio finish natural,blush(varies everyday),l’oreal millionaire mascara and e.l.f studio brow kit.
mac moisture cover under eyes and on blemishes, mac msf natural dusted all over face lightly, mac coffee eye pencil on waterline/upper lash line, lancome hypnose mascara, mac blush in tippy on cheeks and dior lip glow 🙂
Mostly put Nutrogena’s sunscreen , Shisedo face powder, Fasio light brown mascara for brows ,
no eyeshadow. Just black mascara from Dejavu. For lips i change everydays.
Now i love Clinique’s ‘Super Strawberry’ Chubby stick
and Bobbi Brown ‘Plum Rose’ Rich Lip Color SPF 12
BB Cream, elf primer, a brownish/bronzy gold shade from sleek, liner/mascara wet n wild, elf contour/bronzer, glow baby glow highlighter
It varies from day to day. If I am lazy, I usually put on sunscreen, a colored liner, black mascara and a simple lip stick and/or lip gloss.
a tiny bit of revlon colourstay mixed with my moisturizer then set with MAC blot powder, after blush I go over everything lightly with Body Shop vitamin E falical mist on a stipppling brush to get rid of the powdery look.
Then I use a cool toned colour in my brows (UD secret service) if my makeup is warm toned and a warm brown (MAC handwritten) is my makeup is cool. Then whichever I want if it’s both 😉
I don’t wear a full makeup look everyday but very recently as in…this saturday,lol, I’ve been wearing 3 stripes of benetint on my cheeks (rubbed in of course), 1 coat of BUXOM Lash Mascara, and a little bit of EOS Lemon Drop, with Dior Addict Lip Glow 🙂 its super fresh and glowy! Its perfect for summer!
I usually wear some sort of foundation, concealer, bronzer and/or blush, eye shadow, liner & mascara. What I am doing that day or time, how my skin is that day, dictates how much, intensity, etc. I use.
Only a few things stay the same and at the moment the only consistent products are: BE prime time (I hate this and am trying to use it up!), UDPP, Painterly/Bare Study paint pot, Benefit Erase Paste on dark circles and powderflage over, Cle de Peau brow pencil (not worth the splurge, thankfully it was a gift)
Everything else changes!
I usually don’t wear makeup often, but when I do I tend to wear my favorite products:
-Too Faced Primed & Poreless
-Too Faced Shadow Insurance
-Dr. Jart+ BB Cream
-MAC Studio Finish concealer
-Benefit Boi-Ing concealer
-MAC Blot powder and MSFN as setting powders
-NARS Laguna
-Sometimes a highlight, I use MAC’s Happy Together duo mineralized blush
-MAC eyeshadows
Mine’s pretty consistent, the only things I change are the shades.
Sunscreen
MAC SPF Prep+Prime
Prescriptives Virtual Skin Foundation
Concealer sometimes (if I need it)
MUFU HD powder
MUFE Contour&Higlight Duo
Blush color of choice
UDPP
MAC Paint Pot (usually Bare Study)
Eyeshadow combination of the day
MAC Rich Ground Fluidline
Auburn Mascara
MAC Auburn Brow Shader & MAC Brow Finisher
Clear Lip Liner to prevent bleeding
Lipstick
That’s for a weekday work look. For a casual weekend look, just sunscreen, mascara, and lipgloss.
MOISTURIZER
-PHILOSOPHY Hope in a Jar SPF 30
BROWS
-MAC Charcoal Brown e/s
-Maybelline clear mascara as brow gel to set my brows
EYES
-LORAC eye primer
-MAC Carbon e/s to line VERY CLOSE to my upper lashes
-GIORGIO ARMANI Eyes to Kill Mascara
-Curl lashes (after mascara dries) with a SHU UEMURA lash curler
FOUNDATION
-URBAN DECAY Urban Defense tinted moisturizer in Bulletproof
BRONZER
-CHANEL Soleil de Tan bronzer
HIGHLIGHT
-MAC Improper Copper cream colour base to cheek bones, brow bone, and cupids bow
POWDER
-DIORSKIN Nude Natural Glow Fresh powder in 40 to set my makeup down the t-zone
LIPS
-Jack Black’s Intense therapy lip balm in Lemon Chamomile (thanks Christine for this wonderful recommendation!)
-MAC Perennial High Style lipglass pressed lightly on my lips
BRUSHES I USE ON A DAILY BASIS
-MAC 266: brows
-MAC 206: eyeliner for shadow (cannot live without this brush!)
-Clinique foundation brush: to apply my tinted moisturizer quick
-MAC 109: bronzer
-SIGMA F25: for setting powder
DISCLAIMER : that’s not my real makeup routine I’m way too lazy to wake up earlier to do all this stuff but that used to be
Face:
Revlon photo finish base
Nars foundation in Mont Blanc
Clarins cream blush (last year limited edition)
Eyes:
UDPP of course 🙂
Mac eyeshadow tempting or mulch
and my L’oréal mascara
Lips :
UDPP for lips
Mac high tea or YSL rouge in a nude shade
Mac transparent lipgloss
Face (prep): the body shop matte it face primer, revlon color stay foundation or Joe fresh style light weight foundation, benefit boi-ing concealer or MAC pro-longwear concealer, then MAC mineralize skinfinish natural
Eyes: UDPP, and my eyeshadow changes really often, but I usually do like a sultry eye, then maybelline colossal volum express with loreal telescopic carbon black overtop, or (over the summer) I’ll be using maybelling one by one (I have the waterproof version) and for liner I really like the physician’t formula gel liner stack trio for brown eyes
Face (colour): blush changes every day, bronzer is rimmel london’s natural bronzer in sun dance or benefit’s dallas or NARS laguna.
for highlight, it’s either benefit’s georgia, MAC’s chez chez lame or NARS albatross
Lips: just lip balm. I’m in band, and I play a woodwind instrument, so I usually don’t wear lip products.
I moisturize my face with Biore’s dual moisturizer with SPF 30.
Then I’m done. xD
Sorry, I’m new to cosmetics, and I’m only interested in eyeshadow, lipstick, and nail polish because I just want to experiment with colors on a face for a change, instead of a digital canvas (graphic design major!). So I never wear makeup outside the house. xD
I don’t really do the same look everyday. For eyes when I have time to do a eyeshadow look i’ll usually bronze and browns for eyeshadow and filled in brows. But for a quick look, usually just eyeliner and lipstuff!
Right now it’s:
Foundation: MAC Studio Fix Fluid NW22
Powder: MAC MSF Natural in Medium
Concealer: Benefit Erase Paste
Blush: Benefit Coralista or Nars Orgasm
Bronzer: Nars Laguna or Physican’s Formula Happy Booster Light Bronzer
Highlighter: Benefit High Beam
Brows (if I do them): Clinique brow pencil
Eye Primer: UDPP
Eyeshadow: Changes everyday! I usually use the Naked Palette, BOS III, or Ammo Palette, though.
Eyeliner: UD Zero, and random NYX or UD liner under my lashline.
Mascara: Loreal Telescopic, Loreal Voluminous, Clinique Bottom Lash
Lips: Jack Black lip balm, random lipgloss depending on the day!
Ooh, or NYX Pinched for blush! New obsession.
This all definitely changes from time to time, though.
—work days
primer
foundation
eyeshadow base
eyeshadow
eyeliner
brow
bronzer
blush
highlighter
loose powder
lipbalm
lipstick
—-day off
nothing
“If I’m not testing anything, I’m probably not wearing much makeup at all!”
I find that REALLY hard to believe.
Why is it hard to believe? I enjoy wearing makeup as much as I do not wearing any at all. I test makeup 4-6 days a week, and it’s nice to have a break.
I understand that, but the question was “what is your everyday makeup routine?”, which means the days and times you ARE putting on makeup, what would it be. I just feel this question is a chance you could elaborate and be helpful. You’re obviously incredibly knowledgeable and for girls (i.e.: me) that are not, answers to these questions are useful. Sorry it just seemed like a missed opportunity on your end. I love this site I used to check it everyday, but now it’s mostly nail polish and I don’t so often anymore. But when I do and see yet another polish review and you shrug off a question, I got annoyed. Sorry really didn’t mean to offend you.
Hi Kati,
I explained the things I do on a regular basis, but I am testing various products – I’m not testing the same foundation, eyeshadow, primer, etc. I might wear no eyeshadow, or I might wear something green, or I might do two different looks altogether. In short, I don’t have an everyday makeup routine short of filling in my eyebrows or wearing no makeup – because nothing else is consistent. In order to review as many products as I do, I very rarely wear makeup except for testing purposes. I just can’t afford to waste an opportunity! 🙂 I’m sorry this answer isn’t good enough for you.
I try to do 3-4 reviews per day and do my best to vary the products so it’s not only one type of product. Sure, there are exceptions when perhaps a brand releases 12 polishes in a collection that I’ll split it into two posts, but there are far more posts about every other category than nail polish on this blog.
I use Clinique gel moisturizer, Bobbi Brown gel eyeliner, mascara and blush or bronzer everyday.
I usually don’t do my lips unless I feel like it & I wear EOS balm 24/7
Lately it’s been Laura Mercier TM, MAC Select Cover-Up and MAC Blot. Eyeshadow, eyeliner, blush and lipstick change often.
Work
Face: Sunscreen, primer, liquid foundation and concealer applied with fingers, setting powder
Eyes: brow pencil then powder (Shu Hard 9 and NARS Bali), Painterly on lids as base, then 2 or 3 neutral shadows, with dark brown pencil to line upper lid, and brown mascara
Cheeks: bronzed or NARS Zen to contour, then blush
Lips: cool rose or berry lipstick (current favourite is Chantecaille Heirloom Lip Chic)
Perfume: whatever I’m into at the moment
I have acne-troubled skin, so makeup is a must. But, I’m in school, so it has to be quick. I find that I use these everyday:
Foundation: Revlon Colorstay
Corrector: Bobbi Brown Corrector
Concealer: MAC Studio Finish
Powder: bare Minerals Mineral Veil
Blush: varies
Bronzer: NARS Laguna
Mascara: Maybelline The Falsies (only on days when I have time)
Lips: Korres Lip Butter in Jasmine
I’m usually in a rush in the morning, so if I have time to put on mascara it’s a good day! Because of school, eyeshadow, lipstick, and lipgloss are saved for when I go out or for special events!
Face; mac longwear concealer for under eyes and select cover up elsewear, no foundation
Cheeks; mac ladyblush with fawntastic and estee
Face; mac longwear concealer for under eyes and select cover up elsewear, no foundation
Cheeks; mac ladyblush with fawntastic and Estee lauder bronze shimmer as highlight
Eyes; too faced as primer, lancome glaze, Burberry almond and inglot 30 for shadows. Inglot gel eyeliner and maybeline one by one mascara
Brows; inglot brow pencil and lancome brow gel
Lips; recently been using Chanel lip laque in 77 or rouge coco in 04
I keep it pretty simple for work, as my job is quite quiet and I don’t see many people daily! I wear my Clinique DDMG, either MAC tinted moisturizer or NARS Sheer Glow (depending on weather/humidity!), MAC brow gel, BE Buxom Lash, MUFE Smoky Lash on top, NARS Sex Appeal blush, and MAC Hue or YSL Rouge Volupte #1 or #2. It sounds so much when typed out but it takes <5mins!
i mostly go to work made up i am a pharmacy technician by day and a makeup artist by some night and every weekend. if i am not toally made up i usually just wear a tinted moisturizer, i have to fill in my eyebrows because i shaved them down to only half of eyebrows and i must wear blush.
Since I’m young I keep it simple. Philosophy hope in a jar for moisturizer. Then Mac bare study paint pot on the lid with covergirl lash blast fusion mascara. Anddd. Lipbalm! Sometimes lipgloss 🙂
Skin is the most important part of my routine. I always wear concealer and powder. I really enjoy wearing eye makeup but when I’m in a hurry I skip out on that.
MAC Studio Finish Concealer
MAC Studio Fix Powder Foundation
UDPP
Painterly paint pot
Too Faced Totally Toasted eyeshadow duo
Loreal Lineur Intense liquid eyeliner
Covergirl Lashblast
Lip balm.
new fav routine after i bought Loreal UV Matte Protector!! Dont really need much coverage as it tinted my skin so i just add Clinique press powder with a brush. Then brows, bronzer and blush!!
If I want to be fancy I wear
Bobbi brown black mauve shimmer ink on upper lashline
Curl lashes, covergirl lashblast (orange tube) in brown black
Mac moshi! moshi! on inner corners
Chanel Rose platine on lower lash line
Then I put BB correcter and Creamy Concealer on my dark circles (they are looking better though:) and set my whole face with chanel universal powder.
For cheeks it’s almost always Bobbi Brown Antigua. Becca shimmering skin perfector on cheek bones:)
Fill in brows with anastasia brow powder duo, set with anastasia clear brow gel.
Finish off with a chanel glossimer and i’m done! 🙂
On lazy days it’s just brow gel, mascara and a lipgloss. 🙂
Smokey eye my favvvv
Revlon Colorstay Foundation
Bobbie Brown corrector
Maybilane Dream Matte Powder
MAC Soft Ochre Paint Pot
NARS Laguna Bronzer or Benefit Hoola
MAC Teddy Eye Khol
I Change blush/mascara/lipstick on a daily basis
Tinted moisturizer, concealer, powder on the T-zone, blush, curled lashes, clear brow gel, eyeshadow (I do a neutral highlighter and then a light color on the lid, because that’s what works best for my eyes), eyeliner, mascara, lipstick. I know what works best for me, so the colors don’t vary much — I only own about a half-dozen eyeshadows, two lipsticks and one each of everything else.
Hi Can some explain to me what BB cream is?
Everyday I keep it super simple. MAC Mineralize Skinfinish, MAC Select Cover Up concealer, UDPP, a simple eyeshadow look with the Naked palette, Lancome Hypnose Drama mascara, MAC Nymphette lipglass then its a mad dash out of the door.
I don’t wear make up every day, but when I do, this is the routine I follow:
Primer: Black Radiance Complexion Perfection Shine Control Primer
Foundation: MUFE Face & Body
Fill in Brows: NYX Single Eyeshadow in Black
Blush: This could vary, but most days my go-to blush is Rock & Republic’s Shameless.
Lips: Carmex (the original formula in the squeeze tube)
It’s a very simple and natural look, which is what I prefer for daytime and work. I like to save my vivid, colorful eyeshadows, lipsticks, and glosses for evenings out or special occasions. =)