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POV: You don't know how to do makeup
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items Me too! Twins!!👯♀️
I'm no makeup pro, so I do things my own way and I just figure it out as I go. If you're like me, here are some items you might want to try🤷🏻♀️
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Face😚
Eyes👁️
Lips💋
Tools👛
Face😚
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $14
You don’t like or know how to apply thick foundation, but you still want a base: this is for you.💯🎀
This BB cream comes out white, and turns into your skin tone (or close enough) as you rub it on your skin🪄. The finish buf...
BB Cream Face Makeup | L'Oréal Paris
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $33
This concealer’s formula is perfect; creamy, buildable, easily applicable… Everything you need in a good concealer.✅✨
I used to be wary of concealers because I didn't know how to apply them🥲, but I feel like this is the most...
Liquid Touch Brightening Concealer - Rare Beauty
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $12
They also have a cream palette, but I've always preferred powders because I feel like they're easier to use, especially when you're scared of going overboard🤭. They're buildable, so you can go as subtle or as flashy as you w...
Powder Contour Palette | e.l.f. Cosmetics
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $7
Regardless of how much you've put on, you can't get out of the house with setting everything in😩!
This spray may look cheap, but it held my makeup on for a whole wedding without me having to reapply anything, so that’s all I’...
Photo Focus™ Setting Spray – wet n wild Beauty
Eyes👁️
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $18
I feel like every girl’s first experience with makeup involved a mascara.✨
Anyway, any mascara will do for your look, but if your concern is volume, this is the one you need🪄. Smooth formula that rarely clumps, volumizes* as...
Mascara | Sephora
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $45
GIRL I KNOW, 45 bucks for a colour corrector palette is kinda crazy, but all things considered??? That’s a steal, I said what I said🤷🏻♀️💅🏼.
This corrector is the only one you’ll ever want to buy (anyway that’s how I felt...
4-in-1 Portfolio Professional Colour Corrector | Lise Watier
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $13
I hate a pencil that you have to sharpen, but I also hate the very liquid ones that you apply with a paint-brush-looking thing😩, so this is the only I use✅🎀.
It’s basically a marker, and it’s super easy to draw thin or thic...
Eyestudio Master Precise All Day Liquid Eyeliner | Maybelline
🏷️ Avg. price: €2
I cannot, for the life of me, find this pencil ANYWHERE on their website😠, but I bought this pencil in Portugal when my previous pencil went out, and it was the first time I tried a skinny pencil🙊. Insane, amazing, never using a...
Eyebrow Pencil | Primark
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $34
They also have tinted gels, but I prefer a clear one💎; I can shape my brows first, brush them as many times as I need to, and then fill them in (idk what to tell you, I don’t like dirtying my brushes with other products😤).
Clear ‘Air Brow’ Eyebrow Gel | Kosas Cosmetics
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $34
I feel like eyeshadow is one of those things that, yea, you can get real artistic with it and create insane looks, but at the end of the day, if I want pink lids, I’m just gonna slap some pink on and call it a day🤷🏻♀️🌸🎀
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Tartelette - Eyeshadow Palettes & Cream Eyeshadows | Tarte™ Cosmetics
Lips💋
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $7
I've always preferred lip balms, not only because my lips are always chapped, but also because I hate having to be careful when I'm eating or drinking, and then needing to re-apply🙊. These are literally lip balms, they're jus...
Tinted Lip Balm | Burt's Bees
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $12
I love the SoulMatte lip liners😍. The texture is smooth and buttery, and applies very easily🥞🎀. I apply some lip balm beforehand (personal preference🤷🏻♀️), and then I apply the liner; glides like a skate on ice⛸️✨.
Some...
Gel Lip Liner Pencil | Morphe
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $35
Ugh, that texture is so juicyyyyy I love it😩😍.
A lip plumper is a good alternative if you don’t want or don’t know how to overline your lips, but still want them to look fuller🎀👌🏼.
This particular one is super smooth, ha...
Maracuja Juicy Lip Plump Gloss | Tarte™ Cosmetics
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $33
I love me a lip oil; it’s not dry like a lipstick, but it's not quite as runny as a lip gloss either👌🏼⚖️✨.
Anyone can rock a lip oil IMO: they’re easy to apply and re-apply, and they look good on everyone because they’re sl...
Wet Lip Oil Gloss - Kosas Cosmetics
Tools👛
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $21
Trust, you want to invest in a good quality eyelash curler🙌🏼.
Eyelash Curler | Sephora
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $5
Mess up your eyeliner or lip liner in peace, knowing you can easily fix it with precision💎. Just dab it in water or makeup remover and erase your little mishap🪄✨
Cotton Swabs
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $19
I think that not knowing the names or specific purposes of each brush doesn’t make you any less good at makeup🎀.
I bought 5 of these brushes a while back, and still use the same 5 for my whole face; as long as they do the jo...
Makeup Brushes & Tools | The Body Shop
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $4
I feel like you can always use a good, dry eyebrow spoolie to pick up and apply your eyebrow pomade, shape them more precisely, or even to help you groom them✂️.
Eyebrow Spoolie
🏷️ Avg. price: CAD $6 (8-pack)
You’ve done your hair before your makeup and now it’s in your face, but you don’t want to use a head band or a hair tie because it would ruin your hairdo🤨?
Girl same— get those clips: they hold your hair away from yo...
No-bend Hair Clips