From flawless base products to the prettiest blushes, glossy lips, and makeup that makes the whole look come together this is a collection of popular, highly-loved makeup products worth knowing about. Whether you love a natural everyday look, soft gl...
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🤍 BASE &PRIMER & FOUNDATION
CHEEKS + GLOW❤️😊
EYES + LIPS
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HAIR💕😊
🤍 BASE &PRIMER & FOUNDATION
The flawless base edit primers, foundations, concealers & powders
✨ A true makeup-bag staple! This NARS concealer gives that perfect creamy, smooth, radiant finish without looking heavy or cakey. 🤍 It has buildable coverage that’s perfect for brightening under-eyes, covering imperfections, or adding a little highl...
Radiant Creamy Concealer
✨ Such a good powder to add if you love a smooth, set makeup look. It’s especially nice for anyone who likes having a powder in their routine for setting makeup and keeping everything looking more finished.
🤍 A pretty option if you want your makeup set while still keeping a more luminous-looking finish. It’s a great addition to a makeup routine if you don’t want your powder to make your skin look completely flat. NARS Light Reflecting Loose Setting Pow...
NARS Light Reflecting Pressed Setting Powder
✨ This is a good option if you like more coverage from your concealer. The formula is buildable and designed to give a matte finish, making it a great choice for a more full-coverage makeup look. HUDA BEAUTY #FauxFilter Matte Buildable Coverage Water...
☁️ A good everyday powder option if you want something lightweight. The pressed formula makes it easy to use and carry around, and it’s designed to help reduce shine without completely taking away your natural-looking finish. Kosas Cloud Set Baked Se...
Kosas Cloud Set Baked Setting & Smoothing Talc-Free ...
✨ If you’re looking for more coverage, this is a great product to add to your beauty finds. It has a full-coverage formula while still being designed to look smooth and natural on the skin. Hourglass Vanish Airbrush Full Coverage Longwear Concealer
Mini Vanish Airbrush Full Coverage Longwear Concealer
🤎 A well-known foundation option for anyone looking for a more long-wearing makeup base. This would be a good pick for a going-out makeup routine or when you want your base to stay looking finished for longer.
🤎 A good option if you like having your face products together instead of carrying a bunch of separate compacts. This is perfect for adding warmth and definition to a makeup look.
Capri Cabana Cheek Thrills Bronze & Tone Duo - Morphe - Ulta Beauty
✨ My go-to for a flawless base! This Too Faced concealer has amazing full coverage without looking super cakey or heavy. It’s hydrating, buildable, and gives you that smooth, bright under-eye look 🤍 You can also use it to conceal, highlight, or cont...
Born This Way Super Coverage Multi-Use Concealer
An affordable, super-popular gel primer designed to prep the skin and help makeup stay in place longer. The lightweight formula creates a smooth base while giving foundation something to grip onto, making it a great first step before makeup. It’s als...
Jumbo Power Grip Primer - e.l.f. Cosmetics | Ulta Beauty
A long-wearing foundation made for a smooth, perfected complexion with a soft-matte finish. It provides buildable coverage and comes in a wide range of shades, making it a great option for creating everything from an everyday polished base to a more ...
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Pro Filt'r Foundation
An updated take on the iconic Shape Tape concealer, designed to provide coverage while giving the under-eye area a more moisturized appearance. It can be used to brighten under the eyes, cover blemishes, clean up makeup, or add extra definition aroun...
shape tape™ hydrating full coverage creamy concealer - tarte
A budget-friendly concealer that gives buildable coverage while maintaining a more hydrated-looking finish. It’s an especially good option for someone who wants a reliable concealer without spending a lot of money. With a low price point and thousand...
A setting powder made for that smooth, filtered-looking complexion. It helps set makeup while minimizing the appearance of shine and creating a more blurred finish. This is a great product to include for anyone who loves a perfected glam base and wan...
Ultimate Blurring Setting Powder - ONE/SIZE by Patrick Starrr
A classic setting powder that helps lock makeup into place while controlling shine and giving the complexion a smoother, more polished appearance. Its finely milled texture makes it useful for setting areas like the under-eyes, T-zone, and anywhere m...
Translucent Loose Setting Powder - Laura Mercier
A beautiful medium, buildable foundation that gives the skin a natural radiant finish without making the complexion look overly heavy. The formula is designed to blur the appearance of imperfections while keeping the skin looking fresh and skin-like....
Light Reflecting Advanced Skincare Foundation
A lightweight complexion product designed to give the skin a soft, luminous appearance. It can be worn on its own for a subtle glow, underneath foundation as a radiant base, mixed into foundation, or applied to specific areas of the face for extra lu...
The blush, bronzer & glow edit because the cheeks make the whole look
🥥 A cute lip product to add if you’re into easy, low-maintenance lip looks. A lip stain is especially nice when you want color without constantly reapplying a traditional lipstick.
💄 A good one to add if you love a classic lipstick. There are tons of shades, so you can find something for an everyday lip or choose a more noticeable color for going out.
MAC M·A·Cximal Silky Matte Lipstick - Ulta Beauty
🎀 If you love a noticeable blush moment, this is definitely one to look at. The liquid formula is buildable, so you can keep your look soft or add more when you want that extra rosy/glowy finish.
HUDA Beauty Blush Filter Soft Glow Liquid Blush
🍑 This palette is perfect if you like having multiple blush shades in one place. It has several powder blushes plus a highlighter, so you can mix shades and create different looks instead of buying everything separately. HUDA BEAUTY Blush Filter Blu...
💋 Such a cute everyday lip option if you want something between a lipstick and a sheer lip product. It’s easy to throw into your purse and use whenever you want a little extra color.
Almost Lipstick in Black Honey | Glossy Lip Balm
🩷 This is such a cute addition to a nighttime self-care routine. If you’re making a “beauty essentials” list, a lip treatment like this is an easy product for people to add to their wishlist.
Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask
🌸 A really easy product to add to your makeup collection if you want a classic powder blush. NARS has tons of shades, so you can find one that works with the kind of makeup looks you like. NARS Blush
NARS - Orgasm - 777 Blush
One of the easiest products to make the star of a makeup list. This highly pigmented liquid blush gives a noticeable flush with a very small amount of product and blends beautifully into the complexion. It comes in a variety of shades and finishes, m...
Soft Pinch Liquid Blush - Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez
A gorgeous cream-and-powder blush duo that gives you two formulas in one compact. The cream can create a fresh, radiant flush while the powder adds more color and definition, and layering them creates that dimensional cheek look that is so popular in...
Major Beauty Headlines - Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush - PATRICK TA
A liquid highlighter made for creating a soft, luminous glow without making the complexion look overly glittery. It can be tapped onto the cheekbones, bridge of the nose, cupid’s bow, or other high points of the face to add light and dimension. It’s ...
Match Stix Glow Skinstick - Fenty Beauty by Rihanna
A lightweight liquid illuminator that can instantly make the complexion look more radiant. It can be used underneath makeup, mixed with foundation, or applied directly to the high points of the face. The versatility makes it a great product for both ...
Glowy Super™ Gel Gift Set - Saie
An affordable liquid blush that gives cheeks a fresh pop of color while remaining easy to blend and build. It’s especially good for people who want the liquid-blush look without paying luxury prices. Ulta currently lists it among e.l.f.’s best-sellin...
A unique powder duo designed to softly blur and transition color around the cheeks and under-eye area. The subtle powder texture can help create a seamless finish after applying blush, making it especially useful for people who love a very blended, p...
Mini Major Headlines Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush Duo - PATRICK TA
EYES + LIPS
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The Finishing Touch Edit lashes, brows, liner, gloss & everything that completes the look
A popular drugstore mascara designed to give lashes a longer, lifted appearance while adding definition. It’s an especially strong affordable recommendation because it has thousands of reviews and remains one of Maybelline’s current best-selling make...
Brownish Black Lash Sensational Sky High Waterproof Mascara - Maybelline | Ulta Beauty
A tubing mascara designed to create a more defined, lengthened lash look. Tubing formulas are especially appealing to people who like a clean, separated lash appearance, making this a nice alternative to traditional volumizing mascaras. It’s currentl...
tartelette™ XL lengthening & tubing mascara - tarte
A slim brow pencil designed to create precise, hair-like strokes and add definition to the brows. The thin tip makes it easier to fill in sparse areas without making the brows look overly drawn-on. It’s also an affordable option, making it easy to in...
Black Fill & Fluff Eyebrow Pencil Pomade - NYX Professional Makeup | Ulta Beauty
A clear brow gel designed to hold brow hairs in place while creating a polished, groomed appearance. It’s an easy final step after brow pencil or powder and works particularly well for people who like a lifted, brushed-up brow style. The product is c...
Shade 3 Brow Haul of Fame Brow Pencil & Gel Value Set - Benefit Cosmetics | Ulta Beauty
A luxury lip oil with an ultra-glossy finish that gives the lips a smooth, hydrated-looking appearance and a gorgeous reflective shine. It’s one of those products that instantly makes a simple makeup look feel more put together, whether worn alone or...
Lip Glow Oil Hydrating High-Shine Gloss - DIOR
A high-shine gloss that gives the lips an instantly glossy, polished appearance while remaining comfortable to wear. It’s an easy recommendation because it works beautifully alone or layered over lip liner or lipstick. The recognizable Fenty name als...
A nourishing lip treatment that combines the comfortable feel of a balm with a glossy finish. It’s designed to hydrate the lips while leaving them looking soft and polished, making it perfect for everyday use. Sephora currently lists Summer Fridays L...
Lip Butter Balm - Summer Fridays
A budget-friendly gloss that gives the lips a smooth, shiny finish without the price tag of luxury lip products. It comes in a large selection of shades, so shoppers can find everything from soft nude tones to deeper colors. It’s currently one of Ult...
✨ The ultimate product for that super sleek, glossy, “I just got a blowout” hair look. This is especially good to have when humidity and frizz are ruining an otherwise perfect hairstyle. I’d use this when you’re doing a blowout or straightening your ...
Extra Strength Dream Coat Ultra-Moisturizing Anti-Frizz Blow Dry Treatment Spray - COLOR WOW
🍯💛 This is SUCH a pretty addition to a hair-care collection. If your hair looks a little dull after styling, a tiny amount of hair oil through the lengths and ends can give it that shiny, finished look. I especially love this type of product for th...
Honey Glow Icons Hair & Lip Set - Gisou
HAIR💕😊
🫧 This is one of those products I’d recommend keeping in your everyday wash-day routine because it does SO much for making your hair easier to manage. Use it after washing when your hair is damp, especially if your hair gets tangled or feels rough a...
Detangling and Frizz Fighting Leave In Conditioner - OUAI
💦 If your hair is constantly asking for MORE moisture, this is the type of product I’d add to the routine. It’s perfect for wash days when your hair feels dry and you want something lightweight to put in before styling. I’d use it on damp hair and t...
A classic if you want a finishing oil that makes your hair look smoother, shinier, and more polished. I’d use a small amount through the lengths and ends after styling rather than putting a ton on at once. It’s especially nice when your ends are look...
No. 7 Bonding Hair Oil - Olaplex
🤍 This is one of the BIG hair-care products I’d save for when your hair needs extra attention, especially if you regularly use heat or have hair that feels damaged. Instead of being just another conditioner, it’s designed as a leave-in treatment tha...
💸✨ This one gives major “expensive-looking hair” energy. It’s a deep-conditioning treatment you can add when your hair needs extra softness and moisture, especially after lots of styling. I’d use it as a special wash-day treatment rather than someth...
Mini Money Masque Deep Conditioning & Strengthening Hair Treatment - COLOR WOW