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Makeup Favorites as a Cosmetic freelancer💄
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items As a MUA & Cosmetic Freelancer, here are some of my favorite products that I use and recommend to my clients regularly!
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Favorite Foundations
Favorite Concealers
Lippies 💋
Blush
Setting/Finishing Powders
Brows
Favorite Foundations
Favorite foundations according to skin types & finish
Best skincare hybrid medium buildable foundation! 70% skincare that can help improve clarity, the look for fine lines, and texture within 6 weeks! Recommended for all skin types including sensitive & acne prone.
Light Reflecting Advanced Skincare Foundation - NARS Cosmetics
Best Matte Medium Buildable Foundation. Recommended for all skin types.
Studio Fix Fluid SPF 15 Foundation | 67 Soft Matte Shades
Best FULL coverage foundation! Sweat, transfer, and humidity resistant. Also color true, does not oxidize. Self setting formula.
Double Wear Stay-in-Place Foundation | Estée Lauder
For my oily girls, this foundation is EVERYTHING! Makes your skin look flawless and I love how lightweight it feels!
Complexion Enhancing Foundation and Powder - Hauslabs.com
Super beautiful foundation! Medium-full coverage, sweat and transfer resistant.
Santa Fe Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation - NARS | Ulta Beauty
Re-Nutriv is a great foundation for mature skin. Contains high quality skincare. Also great for dry skin! Contains Hylaronic Acid to help pull in moisture. Medium-full coverage and blurs the look of fine lines and pores.
Re-Nutriv | Estée Lauder
I love this foundation, 1 because it is in a compact. 2, it is beautifully buildable. 3, it's a multi-foundation. Get one your shade to match perfectly, and get another 2-4shades darker for the perfect contour.
Studio Fix Tech Cream-To-Powder Foundation | MAC Cosmetics - Official Site
I am so sad that they stopped selling this foundation in stores! This one is perfect for those who just want to even out their complexion. It is also perfect for the body! I LOVE and personally use it as liquid pantyhose!
Studio Radiance Face and Body Radiant Sheer Foundation | MAC Cosmetics - Official Site
Favorite Concealers
Best Concealer for those who have fine line concerns
Swipe Hydrating Serum Concealer - Tower 28 Beauty
Full Coverage Hydrating Concealer! If Tarte Shapetape doesn't work for you, try this! This formula is full coverage, hydrating, and flexes to your skin. So, say goodbye to creasing.
Magic Touch Concealer | Anastasia Beverly Hills
Full coverage concealer. Great for those who are looking for something with extreme coverage. Best for events.
Vanish™ Airbrush Concealer - Hourglass Cosmetics
Great clean hydrating serum concealer!
Hydrating Serum Concealer Shade 9 - Live Tinted
I am super impressed with this concealer! The coverage is insane and it doesn’t feel or look heavy!
2N Double Wear Stay-in-Place 24-Hour Concealer - Estée Lauder | Ulta Beauty
My newest favorite concealer! I love that it is double ended. One side is a cream stick and the other is a traditional doe foot
1 N Glide & Hide Blurring Concealer - TIRTIR | Ulta Beauty
Lippies 💋
Best stain I have ever tried! I personally love wearing the shade Pinked!
LIP LINER STAY-N - SACHEU Beauty
Great peptide lip balm! I also love this nude shade! Pair it with any lip liner!
Crème Brûlée Pout Preserve Peptide Lip Treatment - OLEHENRIKSEN | Ulta Beauty
The BEST waterproof lip liner. Truly will not budge or disappear!
Double Wear 24H Stay-in-Place Lip Liner | Estée Lauder
BEST EVER LIQUID LIPSTICK! Just try it! Trust me!
Powermatte Lip Pigment: Liquid Matte Lipstick | NARS Cosmetics
Super long wearing, comfortable lip liner! Especially for the price!
Line Loud Vegan Longwear Lip Liner - NYX Cosmetics
Love the nude shade range of the Makeup Forever lip liners! Anywhere Caffiene is my fav!
Artist Color Pencil Extreme Waterproof Lip Liner
These are the perfect creamy-satin finish lipsticks! Feels so smooth and luxurious! They stay on very well too
Explicit Lipstick | Long Lasting Satin Lipstick - NARS Cosmetics
I love the new satin formula that MAC has created! They are larger and feel more luxurious on the lips!
M·A·CXIMAL SLEEK SATIN LIPSTICK
I absolutely love these jam jam balms! You can feel the tingle without it being too much! JA.M. packed with hyaluronic acid and caffeine to help plump out those lines!
Blueberry Ice Jam Jam Lip Plumping Lipstick Melt - DIBS Beauty | Ulta Beauty
Absolutely love the formula of this lip oil! Not sticky and super shiny! Made my lips look extra luscious!
Ginger Zinger Lipglass Blow Plumping Lip Oil - MAC | Ulta Beauty
Blush
Blends so effortlessly. And buildable in pigment.
Pleasured Huephoric Rush 3-in-1 Silk Blush - Morphe | Ulta Beauty
Best blush for ANY complexion
Powder Blush - Orgasm - NARS Cosmetics
Such a beautiful flush of color for your cheeks! Still lets your skin shine through!
Long-Lasting Liquid Blush: Afterglow Collection | NARS Cosmetics
These cream to powder blushes are amazing! And they just released new shades!
Glow Play Cushiony Blush | MAC Cosmetics - Official Site
If you want a HIGH pigment liquid blush, here she is! A VERY little amount goes a VERY long way!
Soft Pinch Liquid Blush | Long-Lasting Dewy & Matte Blushes
Love this duo stick! Blush and bronzer in one!
Shade 2 - You Do You / Mood Boost Desert Island Duo Blush + Bronzer Stick - DIBS Beauty | Ulta Beauty
I LOVE these bronzer/blush duo sticks! They blend SO BEAUTIFULLY
DIBS Beauty
Setting/Finishing Powders
I get an airbrushed look everytime I use this finishing powder! It works great for all skin types.
Airbrush Flawless Finish Setting Powder: 2 Medium | Charlotte Tilbury
Great for ALL skin types, available in loose or pressed. Photochromatic Technology helps prevent powder from falling and caking, as well as preventing any flashback!
Crystal Light Reflecting Pressed Setting Powder - NARS | Ulta Beauty
Best loose setting powder; especially for baking under eyes!
HUDA BEAUTY Easy Bake Loose Baking & Setting Powder - Sephora
Another one of my favorite finishing powders for mature or dry skin. The mineralize powders are baked and super fine! They do not fall into fine lines, and blur textured skin!
Light Mineralize Skinfinish Natural Face Powder - MAC | Ulta Beauty
Brows
Love this brow pencil for those who just need to add a few strokes to already full brows!
Brow Wiz® | Anastasia Beverly Hills
Love this pencil for those who need a little more work on their brows or for someone who doesn't spend a lot of time on their makeup!
Brow Definer | Anastasia Beverly Hills
This brow gel is best for those who like the laminated look or for those who have unruly brows
Brow Freeze® Gel | Anastasia Beverly Hills
My favorite brow powder! Super soft and easy to apply! I like using an angled brush and create small hairlike strokes!
Goof Proof Brow Powder - Benefit Cosmetics
For my people who love brow pens, this one is my all time favorite! Precision brow like hair strokes, super easy to use as well!
Blonde Faux Brow Ultra Fine Double-Brush Tip Brow Filling Pen - L'Oréal | Ulta Beauty
One of my all time favorite tinted moisturizers! This one is a nice sheer buildable coverage! Also great for those who are dry! SPF 30
Alaska Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30 - NARS | Ulta Beauty
Eyeshadows and palettes
Love these skin palettes for literally anything and for anyone! Great for travel!
Palettes & Kits - Makeup Forever
Hands down, one of the best palettes to have in your collection! So many ways to use it!
Soft Glam Eyeshadow Palette | Anastasia Beverly Hills
Beautiful everyday palette! High pigment colors.
I Need A Nude Eyeshadow Palette | Must-Have | Natasha Denona
Such a beautiful neutrals palette!
Mini Spice Eyeshadow Palette
These liquid eyeshadows are absolutely gorgeous! I love shades ‘Tobacco’ and ‘Dessert’. Super long wearing and crease-proof!
Eye Tint Long-Lasting Liquid Eyeshadow
Contour Products
Absolutely love this sculpt stick! It looks to be VERY small but a VERY little goes a LONG way! I have had mine for a year now and I still haven't used it halfway!
Sculpt Cream Contour Stick
Another great contour palette for travel! There are so many ways that you can use this, which makes it great for anyone who wants to simplify their routine!
HD Skin Cream Contour and Highlight Sculpting Palette
This is contouring made easy! For my clients that want to learn about contouring - this is the product I always recommend to them! It is very easy to use and comes with instructions! The light/medium palette works on many complexions as well! And bon...
Light/Medium Step-By-Step Contour Highlighter & Bronzer Face Palette Kit - Smashbox | Ulta Beauty
Highlighters
I absolutely LOVE this highlight stick from dibs! You get SO much product and you can use it face and body!
Status Stick - DIBS Beauty
Love these MAC mineralized powders! They are super buttery and aren't a "glitter" type of highlight. My two favorite shades are 'Soft and Gentle' and 'Global Glow'
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish - Highlighting Powder - Official Site
The Mineralized Skin Finish powders are BEAUTIFUL for a natural looking highlight! I love using the shade 'Global Glow' as a shimmer bronzer!
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish - Highlighting Powder | MAC Cosmetics | MAC Cosmetics - Official Site
Skin tints and Tinted moisturizers
Super impressed with this skin tint! I have very dry skin and this tint made my skin look glowy and glassy! I also LOVE the coverage it provided without feeling or looking heavy or cakey!
4 Hydro Grip 12-Hour Hydrating Gel Skin Tint - MILK MAKEUP | Ulta Beauty
Such a great tinted moisturizer, especially for those who are very dry, also 100% chemical free spf
5 Hueguard Skin Tint SPF 50 Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum - Live Tinted | Ulta Beauty
False Lashes
Some of my favorite lashes! Band is nice and thin! You do not have to worry about lifting on the edges at all!
Dominique Fierce Lashes
Eyeliners
I love these gel eyeliners. They are ultra smooth, 24hr wear on the lid & 12hr on the waterline,
Glide Or Die Color Excess Gel Pencil Waterproof Eyeliner - MAC | Ulta Beauty