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items These items are tried and true staples and new additions to my makeup routines! I tend to lean toward natural-looking glam beats even with a full face! This list will always be in flux, growing everyday! Keep checking in for new recs!
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Primers
Concealers/Color Correctors
Liquid Foundation
Liquid Eyeshadows
Liquid Highlighter
Liquid Blush
Primers
These products are meant to prepare the skin after skincare for makeup. They have many qualities like skin blurring, pore visibility minimizing, skin glow, sweat protection, makeup grip, and much more!
This reduces the look of pores and fine lines under your makeup! A true life-saver. Can be well paired with any other One Size primer for extra support.
Secure The Blur Makeup Magnet Primer 35ml
This primer helps to keep sweat from breaking through your makeup and causing it to slide off! Great for the tropical vacays.
ONE/SIZE Secure The Sweat Primer 1 oz
One of my OG faves, MILK Hydrogrip Primer will give you a cooling sensation with a gentle scent when first applied, and provide the protective yet tacky surface tension required to keep your makeup on your face but out of your pores!
Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer - 0.33 fl oz
This is a godsend! I tend to use this primarily in my T zone (but also all over) after priming.
Farsali Skintune Blur Skin Perfecting Serum
This primer will pump moisture into your skin prior to makeup and make sure the makeup grips your face without soaking in or looking dry! If you have dry skin, use all over, and combination skin put in your dry zones to keep a dewy skin-like makeup s...
Secure The Glow Tacky Hydrating Primer with BOBA Complex
Concealers/Color Correctors
These products provide color correction and concealment of any blemishes or hyperpigmentation on its own or under foundation, and brightening or shading facial areas when used on top of foundation. Some have good buildability and work well with their...
This OG product has an immense shade range, including color correctors!
HD Pro.Conceal - L.A. Girl Cosmetics
A great silicone-based concealer for long wear! This brand also carries color correctors, so go wild!
Maybelline Fit Me Liquid Concealer, Honey
I certainly use and abuse this concealer! I did the shade match quiz and got the concealer and foundation combo and they were very on point.
F*ck I'm Flawless Concealer - Il Makiage
Liquid Foundation
These products provide full face coverage in your varied skin tones! Many people have winter and summer shades in order to adjust for tanning and lightening of the skin within your natural environment. They have differing buildabilities as well.
A great silicone-based foundation pick! Pair with Fit Me concealer.
Maybelline Fit Me Matte Poreless Foundation
I myself don’t use a lot of foundation, I do nearly no skin makeup on a daily basis and use foundation when doing closer to full glam looks, but this doesn’t cake and gives coverage! I did the shade match quiz and got the concealer and foundation com...
Foundation Makeup | IL MAKIAGE
Liquid Eyeshadows
Liquid eyeshadows present a quick and precise way to add a pop of color and dimension to your eye look without the overexertion of brushing and blending beyond your desires. Place, allow to begin to dry, and then dab the edges for a natural blended e...
Use gingerly!!! You can put on top of primer before light makeup for a “glow within” look, or before dry makeup is applied (like setting powder, powder highlighter, powder blush, etc) to double the intensity on a full glam beat!
Liquid Eyeshadow | Ulta Beauty
The girlies on Red Note have been clueing me in on this makeup staple for an easy blending shadow look! One or two for an on the go “no makeup” makeup look or multiple with dry eyeshadow to create dimensional looks!
Matte Liquid Eyeshadow
Liquid Highlighter
These products give a slicked-on look for highlighting high points of the face like cheekbones, brow bones, jaw bones, and the bridge and slope and tip of the nose. Pro Tip: Be gingerly, it is easy to overdo it with this product and look like the Sil...
These highlighters pack a wollop! Use over liquid highlighter for intense shine and dimension to your full glam makeup look, or on its own with a “5 min” makeup look!
Liquid Killawatt Fluid Freestyle Highlighter - Fenty Beauty
Liquid Blush
Liquid blush allows for ease of application and blending of blush, with a dewy natural face finish. Pro Tip: also be gingerly with this product, and can be used under foundation/concealer for from-within blush to the skin, and then dry blush on top o...
Pigmented. If I had to choose one word to describe this blush it’s pigmented! I find it incredible, and looks amazing on all skin tones! Be gingerly, I’ve seen one dab do wonders 😅
Earth-Toned, Natural Cheek Liquid Blush
Pressed Powder
These products can be brushed directly onto the skin for a quick matte look, or over liquid products to help seal in the look and add mattefying properties. Pressed foundation, pressed contour, pressed bronzer can all be used in this fashion.
I’ve seen this change the way your makeup looks on your face in real time, I was stunned! Brush this over your concealer/liquid foundation areas to see all your pores and fine lines literally disappear into a smooth matte finish!
Microsmooth Multi-Tasking Baked Face Powder Foundation - Sephora
Powder Blush
Powder blush can be used for your 5 min no-makeup makeup look, or on top of liquid products to finish the look.
Such unctuous color shades! Blends well with over liquid blushes for color intensity
Black Radiance Baked Blush Warm Berry
Powder Eyeshadows
Powder eyeshadow is used with varying colors to create stylish eye looks, that are easily diffusable. This is a beginner friendly product.
I have the full size palette to this, which doesn’t seem to be available anymore anywhere but this mini palette has the peak essentials from the full sized version in a neat little set!
Sultry Mini Eyeshadow Palette - Anastasia Beverly Hills
Liners
Liners, for lip and eye, help to accentuate your features. You can add a bit of flair by using eccentric colors, multiple strokes for artistic expression, or use multiple colors on your lip to add dimension and gradient of color. The world is your li...
They have been OG eyeliner queens, applicator always flush and not fraying. They have since come out with iridescent color-shifting liners I’m so geeked to add those to my collection!
Liquid Eyeliner & Eyeliner Pencils
These have become my new go-to liners, I toss em in my purse with my fave clear, pink, or nude lip gloss and I’m ready for anything! They are creamy, they glide on smooth and super easy to blend and sets matte! They come in a lipstick-style applicato...
HOSAILY 3 Colors 2-in-1 Matte Lip Liner Set
Setting Powder
Setting powder dry sets wet makeup products like concealer and foundation. These can come in varying colors, not just skin tone colors, which are typically used to set under eye or allover.
I have this in both translucent and pink for different styled finishes!
One Size Ultimate Blurring Setting Powder - Ultra Pink
A tried and true classic! I have this in both tan and deep colors.
Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder
Setting Spray
Setting Spray infuses the layers of your makeup with binding activity to keep it in place throughout your busy day. This is one step under a fixing spray which has way more holding and staying power.
Your makeup? It won’t move! This also has continuous misting action.
On 'Til Dawn Setting Spray Duo Gift Set
OG Setting Spray! One of the first to offer a continuous misting setting spray that allows for even distribution of the product!
Morphe, Original Continuous Setting Mist
This really does fix your makeup into place, just don’t overdo it because if you do and you sweat, it kinda gets crummy. You really don’t need a lot! Like the instructions say, 3 seconds! No more than 3 seconds in any one spot.
L'Oreal Paris Infallible 3-Second Setting Spray
Fixing Spray
Fixing spray is genuinely a grade higher than setting spray, because you can use setting spray throughout your makeup application and build without causing a schmear, but with fixing spray that one spray is it and it is ALL, hunny! Don’t overdo it. T...
Fixing spray, not setting spray! This can and should be layered OVER your setting spray, and will literally keep your makeup on your face. ALL OF IT.
Kryolan Non-Aerosol Fixing Spray 50 ml
Now this sealing spray would and should be called a fixing spray, and that is what it referred to in French so that allows us insight on that. Originally utilized solely in professional makeup settings such as weddings, it is meant to truly seal in y...
Final Seal | Matte Makeup Setting Spray - Ben Nye
A new addition for me, but I literally get no transfer!!! Especially if I spray setting spray throughout my makeup process and then use this at the end??? Chef’s kiss!
TIRTIR Mask Fit Make-up Fixer 24H
Makeup Removal
These products gently remove makeup from your face prior to cleansing.
Use after makeup wipes! Then do your skincare routine.
Garnier Micellar Water, Hydrating Cleanser
Literally unmatched at taking so much makeup off your face before washing! A girls’ night out lifesaver, tuck them in your bag for avoiding the Trash King eye makeup look the next morning! 🦝And save those PILLOWS 💕
Neutrogena Hydro Boost Makeup Remover Wipes
Lashes
These products enhance the look of your lashes! Longer, thicker, more prominent lashes are in your future!
I can’t remember what tempted me to search for a brown mascara, I think it was venturing into brown strip lashes and realizing I couldn’t use black mascara on my bottom lashes. I’ve since incorporated this into my everyday, “no-makeup” makeup look an...
Eyeko Lash Alert Mascara - Brown
Say it with me: Brown. Strip. Lashes. I had no idea what I’d been missing! I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it before! My hair is brown, why not use brown lashes? It came when I was using my brown tinted brow gel from One Size, and thought: “now,...
Brown Lashes
When my sister put me on to this, it completely changed the way I looked at using lashes all together. The brush applicator is the key! Paint this adhesive across your lash line and across the strip of the lash. Allow them to go dryish and tacky, the...
Strip Lash Adhesive with Aloe - KISS USA
Makeup Brush Cleaners
These products deftly remove product buildup in your makeup tools.
The way to have good makeup application that doesn’t cause breakouts afterwards is using a clean brush! This is a rinse-free product that works excellent, tap your dirty brush into a bit of the solution and brush it out on a paper towel, your brush i...
Cinema Secrets Makeup Brush Cleaner - Vanilla