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Makeup Picks for Brown Girls: Shades That Don’t Wash You Out (Tested & Loved) 🤎✨
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items As a brown girl with medium to medium-dark skin and dry skin, I’ve spent years testing makeup to find shades and formulas that truly flatter and not wash me out or feel heavy. This list is my curated collection of soft full-glam favorites that make b...
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Powders
Creams
Eyes
Lips
Setting Spray
Powders
Powders for setting and blushes
Took me awhile to try this I didn’t believe the hype but omg am I glad that I tried!! Blurs every single pore and sets for the entire night! - this is cherry blossom
EASY BAKE LOOSE POWDER Banana Bread
Fire moon is that girl! Brown peachy warm tone blush for golden bronzed skin
Color Fuse Blush Powder
Slow Jam is the perfect plum blush! She’s so pretty you’re going to love !
Hybrid Blush - Cream & Powder Blush
Creams
All cream products that set well and provide the best under painting
Use it for under glow bronzing/contour, get 1 shade deeper than your bronzer. Leaves your skin with a very natural glow
Halo Glow Liquid Filter Complexion Booster
Perfect for golden bronzy glow and soft application glides right on the face
Cream Bronzer
Obsessed 🙌🏽 best bang for your buck, affordable and great coverage
Power Plush Longwear Concealer
Eyes
Simple for eyes just brows and mascara
I always end up coming back to this one no matter how many other brow pencils I test. It’s small pointed tip and light stroke make for the best realistic brow fill in! And the espresso shade is best for dark brown features
Micro Brow Eyebrow Pencil | NYX Professional Makeup
Very few mascaras that I trust but I saw this on my sister and her lashes were double in length. Had to buy cause it does just that! No clumps and super lengthening, have to get water proof cause it will not budge all day and all night until you doub...
Shop Washable & Waterproof Mascaras & Primer - L'Oréal Paris
Lips
The best brown girl friendly lip combos with shades and which liners look best with each
Perfect deep espresso brown for brown lippie. Can pair by itself with chapstick or with any lipstick/lipgloss combo. Tried and true will not leave the house without her !
NYX Professional Makeup - Espresso Slim Lip Pencil
Cork perfect warm toasty caramel brown pair with a brown or clear gloss preferably my brown pick from elf
MAC Lip Pencil | Whirl, Nightmoth, Cork, Chestnut & Spice Lip Liners
It compliments brown features so well! My brown eyes pop with this warm plum vibe and the formula is such a smooth glaze no sticky Deep plumy brown - Fig
Pair with a dark brown lip liner
PhD Hybrid Lip Glaze Plumping Gloss
Honey talks is the perfect brown glossy shade and jam session is the cherry brown that pops both of these look amazing with my liner picks !!
Glow Reviver Tinted Lip Oil
Setting Spray
Setting spray that leaves you dewy and glowy for the dry skin girls
The ultimate setting spray because it duels as skincare! Not your typical spray but it leaves your skin dewy and refreshed it melts all the powders and creams so seamlessly together and sets it to you face like skin.
I even use this just by itself o...
Spray Serum