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HOLY GRAIL MAKEUP: BEST OF 2025 💜✨🔥
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items 💜✨ All the makeup I used and loved in 2025, these products were picked up each & EVERY time I did my makeup! Is it a lot of steps? Yes. Did my makeup make it on TV and look great? Also yes! Oily-combo skin friendly, but feel free to take the ste...
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Prep 🧴
Prime 👑
Base 📦
Powder 💥
Set ✨
Brows 🤨
Prep 🧴
All things pre-makeup until primer! ✨💜
Before every makeup day, and even no makeup days!
The Water Cream Lightweight Pore-Refining Moisturizer
For the tzone! Or your most oily parts of your face!
Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Mattifying Water Powder Serum with ...
Prime 👑
Primed and ready to go 🫡✨
I think this is discontinuing in 2026, but this was my go to thanks to Uche Natori! But the new version works great as well! Just waiting on that travel size 👀
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Pro Filt'r Mattifying Primer
Universal to prime! Recommend using a brush and/or the spatula if you don’t love texture on your hands/face! You can focus on the oiliest spots or all over as a primer/setter!
Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder
Base 📦
Back to base-ics ofc ✨🥰
I use Cinnamon 04 as a colour corrector! Pairs great under my concealer, but is 100% optional! Note: set with a skin tone loose powder & also set your primer at this step if oily!
Wakeup Artist Under-Eye Correcting Concealer | Sephora
My shade: Strength! Such great pigment but still buildable!
LYS Beauty No Limits Cream Bronzer and Contour Stick
Oh so you wanna talk about brushessss? Use this to blend out your contour, trust me. It’ll go soo much faster!
The Big Buffing Bronzer Brush - Saie
I use the shade Dancing Queen 💃🏾, but they’re all so pigmented I’ll be on this for a while 😍 I do it at this step so I can control how much blush blindness I feel like having each time 😂 can be applied with fingers, brush or sponge
Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder Flushed - Matte Color for Cheek & Lip
Blends out both cream & powder but keeps the blush focused!
SEPHORA COLLECTION - PRO Blush Brush #99
My HG concealer at least 8 years running 👀 although soft matte might be coming for its spot in ‘26! I use a mix of Hazelnut, Chocolat & Amande, with the lighter colours closer to the centre of my face!
Radiant Creamy Concealer
I know it says it’s for setting, but use this to blend out your concealer and just enjoy 🥰
Makeup Setting Brush
Shade 400! They still oxidize a tad so don’t watch how it looks at first! But the formula is perfect for oily combo babes! Shout out to my girl Jewel for the reco!
Soft'Lit Naturally Luminous Hydrating Longwear Foundation - Fenty Beauty ...
I’ve had this brush so long, no regrets since 2019, and it’s still intact. No notes!
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Kabuki-Buff Foundation Brush 115
Powder 💥
Lock that base in! Oily combo skin friendly 🫶🏾✨
I use Deep, buy the mini size, it saves your wallet and it won’t take as long to get through it (but still a really long time, I’m on 4 years)
Ultra-Blur Talc-Free Longwearing Translucent Loose Setting Powder
I was hating on this because I bought it to get a free ship minimum, but it became a HG quickly! Washes well too!
SEPHORA COLLECTION Velour Makeup Powder Puff
Everything they said it does & more, this is for the EXTRA oily, or on camera/on set days!
Evolution Powder
Coco Naughty for me! On quick makeup days this also works as eye makeup too, focuses on the creases and it gives you a bit of dimension!
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Sun Stalk'r Instant Warmth Bronzer
I love this brush so much, it hugs my cheeks perfectly, it’s totally optional though!
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Cheek Hugging Bronzer Brush 190
Queen of blush Toni Bravo made it, I bought both. When they say pigment!!! Use with caution and a LIGHT hand 😅 it’s gonna last me forever 🔥👏🏾
T28 x Toni Bravo GetSet® Powder Blush
Big & fluffy but worth every penny! I actually bought this while in Milan 🇮🇹
Face 08 Precision Powder Brush
Set ✨
Optional if you don’t get oily like me! ✨
Dupe for the CT spray, but definitely worth the buy! It’s more affordable and such a unique shape! Also travel friendly ✈️
LYS Beauty Skin Loyalty Setting Spray
Dupe for the OS spray, but they just came out with a value size! Don’t breathe for like 5 secs after tho, this is your final boss sticky step to lock in all your beautiful work!
Infallible 3-Second Setting Mist
Brows 🤨
Is it a dupe or is it just that good? Either way, it’s right in my price range 👏🏾 I usually do this step before I prime my face!
Brow Laminating Gel - Clear-Drying Brow Gel
I use Espresso! Great for those hair like strokes & pigmented enough to show up!
Lift & Snatch! Brow Tint Pen | NYX Professional Makeup Canada
The spatula after gel to hold everything down, and you can rough it up again with the spoolie!
Brow Freeze® Dual-Ended Applicator
Eyes 👁️
I have big eyes so don’t take it all as advice 😂 but we love it here!
Black girl friendly! Such a great palette. If I could still link Jackie Asamoah’s ABH palette, I would, but this is the one that you can still buy 👏🏾
HUDA BEAUTY Empowered Eyeshadow Palette
Best for the creases & getting a great blend!
Crease Brush
Black or Brown! Nyx got my back for eyeliner 🫶🏾
EPIC INK WATERPROOF LIQUID EYELINER
She thicc! Anytime I have mascara on this is what I’m using
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna – Hella Thicc Volumizing Mascara
Money Maker for volume, Trendsetter for ‘natural’ 🫶🏾 great for those who can figure out how to use them! They stick on great & stay on, once the self adhesive wears off they can still be used as regular strip lashes!
Self Adhesive Lashes - Lilly Lashes
Support a local 🇨🇦 black business! Use code _ELPRUP for 20% off your first purchase!
Luxury Lashes
Lips 💋
Black girl friendly! We love yall 🫶🏾
The shimmers in fenty products can’t be tamed, I love these!
Gloss Bomb Stix High-Shine Gloss Stick - Fenty Beauty by Rihanna | Sephora
Rich Brown or Soft Brown, either way, they actually are brown on my lips, which is such a feat! Everything else I’ve ever tried pulls red. Store marker side down (follow the arrow) and you’ll be golden
HUDA BEAUTY Lip Contour Lip Stain for 12-Hour Wear
Current favourite is Rose Amber, but I’ve had almost every single fenty gloss known to the brand!
Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer
I use I Woodn’t & Bubble Tini, set them with powder and they won’t move!
Trace'd Out Longwear Waterproof Pencil Lip Liner