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Ride-or-Die Makeup & Beauty Recs 💋🎀💄
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items Both high-end and affordable makeup recs that I can’t live without!
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Face Makeup ☺️
Skincare 💦
Affordable and Drugstore Products 💰
Hair Care 💇🏼♀️
Eyes 👁️
Lips 👄
Face Makeup ☺️
My ride or die favorite blush! So glowy and the best pigment payoff. I love the shade Cheer.
Soft Pinch Luminous Powder Blush
The shade of this contour is perfect for fair skin, it doesn’t come off too orange or too ashy.
Hollywood Contour Wand Easy Liquid Contour - Fair
This is a “splurge” but it’s so worth it. It is subtle and buildable with the most gorgeous sheen. I love the shade Diffused Bronze Light!
Ambient™ Lighting Bronzer
My favorite foundation. Medium coverage, but buildable to full. I go between shades 5 and 6!
Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint — 6
This highlighter lasts forever—a little bit goes a LONG way. I also use it on my eyelid as eyeshadow sometimes! I love the shade Exhilarate.
Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Positive Light Silky Touch ...
The holy grail setting powder! Been using this for years.
Translucent Loose Longwear Setting Powder
Perfect all-over powder brush for loose setting powder products!
Ultra Plush Powder Makeup Brush
Self-tanning your face can be scary, but I find this very easy to use and the mist is super fine so you don’t get large patches of tanner on your face.
Self Tan Purity Bronzing Water Face Mist - St. Tropez | Ulta Beauty
Skincare 💦
Super hydrating for my dry skin and the perfect prep for underneath makeup!
The Dewy Skin Cream Replenishing and Plumping Moisturizer
This has been in my skin care routine following my face wash for years. Witch hazel is super calming on my sensitive skin and I find it really helps soothe breakouts!
Unscented Alcohol-Free Witch Hazel Facial Toner - Thayers | Ulta Beauty
When I struggle with breakouts I have found this face wash to clear them fairly quickly!
CeraVe Acne Foaming Cream Face Cleanser with 4% Benzoyl Peroxide, Hyaluronic Acid, and Niacinamide, Fragrance-Free, 5 OZ
Affordable and Drugstore Products 💰
All-day setting spray for a great price point! My makeup doesn’t budge.
Infallible 3-Second Micro Fine Setting Mist | L'Oréal Paris
Such a pretty, luminous, dewy liquid blush. I love using this on a lighter makeup day for a soft pop of color. Loving the shade true rose!
Lumi Le Liquid Blush
So good and so affordable! An immediate re-purchase for me!
lash princess false lash mascara
I’ve been using this brow pencil for probably 10 years now. I love the fine tip, it makes it super easy to make natural, hair-like strokes. I use the shade Ash Brown.
Micro Brow Eyebrow Pencil | NYX Professional Makeup
Current favorite summer staple for an instant bronzed, glowy look. I either wear it alone on light-makeup days, or mix it with my foundation for a more luminous look.
Lumi Glotion Natural Glow Enhancer, Face and Body
Super strong hold—keeps brows in place all day.
Eyebrow Glue Instant Brow Styler | NYX Professional Makeup
Perfect cool-toned brown palette. Love this size for travel!
Discover Deja Brew | Taupe Eyeshadow Palette
This stuff is STICKY. Your foundation will stay on girl.
Power Grip Primer
This is my go-to when I need an affordable setting powder. It’s super finely milled and sets into the skin so naturally!
ColourPop®: Achieve a Flawless Finish | Weightless Setting Powder
When I’m in the market for an inexpensive cream bronzer, this is the one I grab! It works best tapped into the skin with a dense synthetic brush.
Bronzed Belle Putty Bronzer - e.l.f. Cosmetics | Ulta Beauty
I have been buying Milani baked blushes since I was in high school and I think they’re great quality for the price and are so luminous.
Baked Blush
Hair Care 💇🏼♀️
I use this almost every day. My hair is fine and tangles so easily and this helps me comb it out when I get out of the shower and serves as a heat protectant as well!
13.5 oz One United Multi-Benefit Treatment Spray - Redken | Ulta Beauty
The best shampoo and conditioner. It smells amazing and leaves your hair feeling like you left the salon!
10.1 oz Acidic Bonding Concentrate Shampoo - Redken | Ulta Beauty
The best conditioner! Your hair will feel so soft and like you just left the salon!
10.1 oz Acidic Bonding Concentrate Conditioner - Redken | Ulta Beauty
I cannot live without my wet brush! The only brush that detangles my wet hair more efficiently and less painfully.
Wet Brush Speed Dry Detangler Hair Brush for Quick Heat Drying Styles - Solid Sky Blue
This has been a staple for me for years. It keeps my hair from getting oily and also helps me add texture to my fine hair when I’m styling it!
Not Your Mother's Clean Freak Original Dry Shampoo for All Hair Types - 7oz
Eyes 👁️
Love this liquid eyeliner because it’s super permanent! Doesn’t flake off ever.
Perversion Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner - Urban Decay Cosmetics | Ulta Beauty
These eyeliner pencils stay on for hours. I’m obsessed with brown shades lately and I currently use the shade Demolition to smudge under my lash line.
Demolition 24/7 Glide-On Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil - Urban Decay Cosmetics | Ulta Beauty
Morphe brushes are always an amazing value and I think everyone can benefit from a small eye detail brush like this one! I use it to fine tune my eyeshadow or smudge out my pencil eyeliner!
M382 Detail Smudger Eye Brush - Morphe | Ulta Beauty
I personally prefer a cool-toned eyeshadow look on myself and this palette has not led me astray.
ColourPop®: Discover Stone Cold Fox | Cool-toned Eyeshadow Palette
This is definitely a higher-end purchase, but the pigment and quality is definitely there and it has lasted me so long. Extremely versatile, too!
Glam Eyeshadow Palette
Lips 👄
I’ve never seen anyone this color doesn’t look good on. Staple lipstick. 💄
Pillow Talk Matte Revolution Lipstick - Charlotte Tilbury | Ulta Beauty
These lip liners are the perfect consistency—they glide on effortlessly, but also don’t smear or budge super easily.
Pillow Talk Lip Cheat Lip Liner - Charlotte Tilbury | Ulta Beauty
This product is somewhere in between a lipstick and a lip gloss. It adds a pretty wash of color that looks glossy and natural. The plumping effect doesn’t burn either, it is more minty/tingly feeling than anything!
Vacay Mode So Juicy Plumping Gloss Balm with Peptides - ColourPop | Ulta Beauty
Blankety is the ultimate pinky nude that goes with everything.
m·a·cximal sleek satin lipstick