These are all my FAVOURITE makeup recommendations and what I use in my TikTok videos! ✨🫶
Sections
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Primer
Foundation
Concealer
Eyeshadow
Powder
Blush
Primer
If your base keeps slipping and sliding off, reach for these!
The best gripping primer on the market!
Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Primer
This primer has a velvety, putty-like texture that’s designed to smooth, blur pores, and give your foundation something to grip onto so it wears longer and looks better. It’s often called a “filter-in-a-jar” dupe for higher-end smoothing primers — bu...
Poreless Putty Primer
Foundation
All time favourite foundations on the market!
Gives a skin like, no cakey finish!
triclone™ skin tech medium coverage foundation
an absolute staple in my makeup routine. The formula is lightweight and breathable but still delivers beautiful coverage that looks like real skin. It evens everything out without ever feeling heavy or cakey, and it blends effortlessly whether you us...
Dior Backstage Face & Body Foundation
This is a serum-like, lightweight foundation designed to give a natural, airbrushed finish that looks like your skin but better. It’s formulated with niacinamide and pore-blurring silica to smooth texture and soften the look of pores for a filtered, ...
Huda Beauty Easy Blur Natural Airbrush Foundation
Concealer
cover those bags with these high quality concealers!
This concealer is so good, full coverage but still melts into skin and looks so natural. It hides dark circles, redness, and blemishes with just a tiny dot and blends like a dream. I love that it doesn’t cake up or feel heavy and it’s versatile enoug...
Too Faced Born This Way Super Coverage Multi-Use Concealer
This concealer is honestly sooo good for the price. It gives really full coverage but doesn’t feel super heavy, and just a tiny dot goes a long way. It blends out nicely and brightens up my under-eyes without looking cakey. I feel like it’s a great e...
Infallible Full Coverage Concealer - L'Oréal Paris Australia & NZ
This concealer aims to combine skincare benefits with makeup coverage — think hydration, brightening, and medium buildable coverage all in one. Reviews and expert looks generally lean positive, but it’s not perfect for everyone.
Haus Labs by Lady Gaga Triclone Skin Tech™ Concealer
Eyeshadow
the best part of your makeup routine let’s be real!
This palette is luxe both in look and performance. The rose gold packaging feels high end, with a big mirror that’s great for on the go application. It combines a mix of matte and cream shadows that are generally very pigmented and blendable. The mat...
Patrick Ta Major Dimension Eyeshadow Palette
A 42-shade colourful eyeshadow palette packed with bold mattes and vibrant hues — perfect for bright, creative looks or expressive makeup. It’s vegan and cruelty-free and often praised for awesome pigmentation at a budget-friendly price.
Bright Matte 42 Colour Palette
This palette is one of Plouise’s largest eyeshadow offerings yet, aimed at creating a range of looks from soft romantic bridal to bold glam in one set. It’s an all-in-one palette you can take from the ceremony to the reception without swapping produc...
P.Louise Bridal Series - Wedding Wish XL Palette
Powder
whether your a loose powder girly or a pressed powder girly - these are the best!
It’s super lightweight, doesn’t feel dry at all, and makes my skin look so smooth without killing the glow. It blurs everything, sets my makeup perfectly, and never looks cakey (even under my eyes). Literally gives that soft, filtered skin look. One ...
Kosas Cloud Set Baked Setting & Smoothing Powder
This is Huda Beauty’s pressed version of their iconic Easy Bake powder a super fine pressed setting powder designed to give a smooth, airbrushed, matte finish while controlling shine and blurring texture without looking cakey. It’s talc free and frag...
Huda Beauty Easy Bake Pressed Powder
if you want a smooth, filtered finish without looking dry or heavy. It’s finely milled, weightless on the skin, and sets makeup beautifully while still letting the skin look like skin. It blurs pores, controls shine, and locks everything in place wit...
Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Setting Powder — Butter
This powder is so good it almost feels like a beauty hack in a jar. The texture is super fine and lightweight, so it doesn’t make your makeup look cakey — it just blurs everything out and makes your skin look airbrushed without feeling heavy. It’s am...
Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Powder
Blush
2026 is about blush, get your blush on!
honestly one of the best cream blushes I’ve tried. The formula is buttery without being greasy, blends effortlessly into the skin, and gives the most natural, healthy flush. It melts in beautifully whether you apply it straight from the stick or with...
Color Fuse Glassy Blush Balm Stick
This Patrick Ta blush duo is so pretty in real life. It comes with both a powder and a cream blush in one compact, which means you can build your look from a soft, natural flush to a more glowy, dimensional cheek. The powder is very pigmented (so a l...
Patrick Ta Major Headlines Double-Take Creme & Powder Blush
a cult-loved cheek product that combines rich pigment with a skin-infused formula.
Color Fuse Blush Powder
Setting Spray
set that in place or else!
This mist is super lightweight and feels refreshing when you spray it on it doesn’t leave a heavy or sticky film at all. It’s designed to both prep your skin before makeup and set your final look after, which makes it super versatile in your routine.
Morphe Continuous Prep & Set Mist+
The original and most loved Urban Decay setting spray — iconic for locking makeup in place even through long days and heat.
Why it’s loved:
• Long-wear finish that helps makeup stay fresh for hours. 
• Waterproof, sweat- and transfer-resistant fo...
Urban Decay All Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray
Best overall everyday choice — iconic drugstore setting mist with a micro-fine mist that helps makeup last longer and stay transfer-proof.
🕒 Claims to set makeup in just 3 seconds and can help it stay put for up to 36 hours.
Setting Spray Infallible: 3-Second Setting Mist
Lips
iconic lips are all here x
I actually really like Morphe lip liners for an everyday lip look — they’re super creamy, pigmented, and glide on smoothly without tugging, so they make lining and shaping your lips really easy. They come in lots of shades, from nudes to berry and de...
Signature Lip Pencil - Morphe
Most people love how pigmented and long‑wearing MAC lipsticks feel, and they’re often praised for how flattering the colours are on lots of skin tones. That said, some matte formulas can feel a bit drier, so lip prep (balm, exfoliate) helps them glid...
Long Lasting Lipstick
What it is: A high-shine plumping lip gloss with a lightweight, hydrating finish that gives the appearance of fuller, juicy lips without needles. 
Patrick Ta Major Volume Plumping Gloss
Skin Prep
i’ve been dealing with horrible eyelid dryness due to an allergic reaction and this stuff has been my saving grace for my dry, itchy and numb eyelids. the broken skin has healed in less than 3 days. i’m so happy!