Top5 Makeup Products in the Lips Category

Hello everyone!!

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately, I've been taking it easy now that school has finally ended and I've been stressing out about getting my final marks. Well I got them and they're not bad at all, but I still haven't reached my goal. Now all I need is a summer job.

This is the last post of my 3 part series on my Top5 Makeup Products. The first post talked about the eyes, the second post about the face, and now the third and last post is about the lips.

I can't think of many subcategories of the lips, so this post won't even be half as long as the first two. I don't use lip liners, or primers, and I don't use stand alone plumpers. I'm very simple when it comes to the lips, I usually just use a gloss or lipstick. I should be using a liner, because I feel that my lips aren't clearly defined. But I've never used one before so I'm a bit weary of beginning that process and finding a color that works for many of my lipsticks. So let's get started, shall we?

Lip Primers

Don't have. Not sure if they even work. If my lips are very chapped, I put on some chapstick quite a while before I'm going to put lipstick on so my lips have time to hydrate and dechap. I've never used a lip scrub or anything related. Maybe I should look into this.

Lip Liners

I don't use lip liners, as mentioned above. Obviously when you're young you don't need it but now that I'm getting older I do. I mean, I'm not 16 anymore, am I? Plus I don't find the lines of my lips are defined.

Lipstick

#1 Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in 74 Parfait

#2 Too Faced La Creme in Marshmallow Bunny

#3 Too Faced La Creme in Naked Dolly

#4 NARS Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil in New Order

#5 MAC Lipstick in Pretty Please

#6 NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Roman Holiday

#7 MAC Pro Longwear Lip Colour in Lasting Lust

Yes...finally a category where I can start showing you the products!! I put more than 5 since I don't have much to show you in this post. Chanel Rouge Coco Shine takes the cake for lipstick because it is such a moisturizing and hydrating lipstick. It feels so good on your lips. It goes on smooth, even on chapped lips and it will not get stuck in the chapped areas. That's how hydrating it is. I also love the Too Faced La Creme lipsticks. I find all their colours are really dark (too dark for me) except for these two. Marshmallow Bunny is such a nice pink colour and Naked Dolly is a nude colour with a bit of pink in there. The NARS Lip Pencils are also another product that I love. The Velvet Gloss one goes on really nice and the colour New Order is a red/pink colour that I was afraid of at first, but it's grown on me. Roman Holiday, the Velvet Matte pencil, is a matte pink colour. I find if you put too much in gets stuck on your lips. I like the texture of the glossy one more but I understand that the matte pencil will obviously have a different texture. My favorite MAC lipstick since I was a teenager is Pretty Please. It is a very light pink colour. I still like it but I've moved on to new lipsticks. The last one is the MAC Pro Longwear Lip Colour, which should be more of an honorable mention than on this list, mainly because of the very flimsy hardware. Every one of these lipsticks that me and my mom have ever owned has broken. We end up twisting it too tight to close and it ends up breaking off so you're leaking either lipstick or gloss everywhere. The colour is beautiful, it is that perfect intense red that every girl should own and it comes with a clear gloss. With both applied, you will look killer hot.


Lipgloss

#1 Too Faced Glamour Gloss in Barely Legal

#2 NARS Sweet Dreams

#3 NARS Turkish Delight

#4 NARS Larger Than Life Lipgloss in International Velvet

#5 Chanel Levres Scintillantes Glossimer in 131 Mica

#6 MAC Lipglass in Oyster Girl

For a long time my all-time favorite, holy grail lipgloss was NARS Sweet Dreams. But then I discovered Too Faced Glamour Gloss in Barely Legal, and it stole that spot in my heart that I had for NARS Sweet Dreams. I love Turkish Delight, this is probably on everyone's list, and I like it because it is a nice colour, not because of its popularity. I also really like their Larger Than Life Lipgloss in International Velvet. The Larger Than Life lipgloss line feels more like a gloss and looks more like a gloss than their regular lipgloss line. So if you're looking for that glossy look, go with Larger Than Life. I also really like my Chanel lipgloss in 131 Mica. As a teenager, I loved the MAC Lipglass in Oyster Girl. I don't wear it much anymore, but it still has a place in my makeup collection.

Lip Palettes/Sets

I don't really have any lip palettes. I do have a few Stila sets that I like and I will mention them briefly because all of their season mini lipgloss sets are all limited edition colours.
The first one I bought is from Summer 2012 I believe. It had polkadots on the packaging. It had a light pink, medium pink and Kitten. I really like the light pink one. Kitten is part of their permanent collection, obviously, and while I do like this shade, it isn't my favorite. Another set I bought was in Fall 2012 and had all brown shades, again including Kitten. I bought it because I wanted to try out different colours, but those shades weren't really my thing. The last set I bought was their Winter 2013 (this past xmas) set. While the other two sets I mentioned only contained 3 mini lipglosses, this one contained 8 minis. All of the colours were limited edition except two, Black Cherry and Sugar Plum. These colours are a purple/plum colour. The colours in this set range from plum to red to peach to pink. There's something for everyone. I liked this set because it had a bigger variation in colour than their other seasonal ones. Too Faced has a Natural Lips palette out that contains 4 lipglosses. I personally haven't tried it, but that is one lip palette that I know of.

Summer 2012

Fall 2012

Lip Brushes

I only really use two lip brushes. One is a purse brush, meaning you can cover it so it doesn't get dirty and it's short. I got it at Sephora years ago in a brush set. The other lip brush that I use is the Sephora Pro Lip Brush #81.

Sephora Pro Lip Brush #81

So that is the end of the Top5 posts!! I hope you enjoyed reading about all my current favorite products. Whenever this list changes substantially, probably at least a year, I will do an updated version. I invite everyone to share as a comment what their favorite products are. I would have included the new Too Faced Loves Sephora palette for the Top5 Eyes post but it's too late. I got the palette after I posted it. So please let me know what you thought about the products I love. Let me know what your favorite lipsticks and lipglosses are and if you use lip liners and primers, I'd especially like to hear about that and know what you think about them.



Coming Up!
I'm working on a Skincare Post right now (as in, for tonight) because I've been revamping my own.

Empties & Extras: I've got about 6-7 empties so just waiting for a couple more, trying to have 10 so be patient! I want it done for June 1st.

Makeup Basics Page: just adding the finishing touches and it should be up and ready soon

More Reviews: I've been lacking in the review department so I'll get on that. If you want me to review something, just let me know.

Most Wanted: summer 2013 products, etc

Thanks for reading,

Steph xo.

Top5 Makeup Products in the Face Category

Hey everyone!

This is the second post of a 3 part series on my Top5 Makeup Products in 3 different categories: Eyes, Face and Lips. Today's post is going to be focusing on the Face. So I will be telling you about my Top5 Concealers, Foundations, Blush, Bronzers, Luminizers, etc. Just like the previous post, I will be using photos taken from Sephora and MAC's websites unless I already have a photo of the product. Since I'm showing so many products, I don't have the time to take pictures of everything and crop/edit them. They will also be smaller, because this is an image-heavy post and I don't want it to clutter.

Click here to see the Top5 Makeup Products in the Eyes Category!!

So let's start!

Top5 Face Primers

#1 Too Faced Primed and Poreless

#2 MUFE HD Face Primer

#3 NARS Pro-Prime Pore Refining Primer

#4 Benefit Porefessional

I really really like Too Faced's Primed and Poreless. It's my holy grail primer. MUFE's primer was okay, I didn't think it was anything special. I quite liked the NARS primer. I tried a sample of Benefit's Porefessional, and there was barely anything in the sample so maybe that's why I don't really think it's anything special either. One primer that I did not like is Benefit's That Gal. That primer just didn't seem to go well with my face products.

Top5 Concealers

#1 MAC Studio Finish (NW20) - for blemishes

#2 MAC Select Cover-Up (NW20) - for undereyes

#3 MUFE HD Invisible Cover Concealer (325) - for undereyes

#4 MUFE Full Cover Concealer (3) - for blemishes

Since I use Makeup Forever (MUFE) for my foundation, I've been trying out their concealers but I still prefer MAC's concealers. I've finally found my shades in MUFE's products but I really think that MAC wins the cake in this round. The MAC concealers are my holy grail concealers. I use them every single day. Do make sure you have two concealers, one for your undereyes (should be more liquidy) and one for your blemishes (should be creamier). It really is important and makes a huge difference.

Top5 BB Creams

#1 Too Faced Tinted BB Cream (Snow Glow)

#2 Too Faced Air-Buffed BB Creme (Snow Glow)

I don't really use BB creams much so I can't say which are better. I've only tried the two Too Faced ones that I own. I like their first BB cream more than I liked their new air-buffed one. I would only wear BB creams on a hot humid day where foundation is too much. When I try out other BB creams I will do a post on just my Top5 BB creams because I think I'm really lacking in the BB cream department.

Top5 Foundations

#1 MUFE HD Foundation (110)

#2 MAC Studio Fix Fluid (I think its NW10, it's smudged off)

#3 MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus (NW20)

Now that I've found my holy grail foundation, it's all I use. I love love love MUFE's HD line. I bought the set (which will be shown down below under Top5 Face Palettes/Sets) because I had nothing from MUFE (it was my first time trying their products) and I wanted to get all the products that go hand-in-hand with the foundation. I used to always use MAC before, but the problem was that they didn't have a shade that matched me perfectly, whereas MUFE does. I always used NW20 but it was always a tad too dark but the next shade lighter, NW15, made me look ghost white. I love MAC but could not wear their foundations. I was so lucky and so happy when I found MUFE's HD foundation. It really matches my skin perfectly and it looks like it's a part of me. I'm currently trying out MAC foundations again. I got a sample of Studio Fix Fluid but the shade colour is smudged off so I'm not sure what shade it is. I'm really liking it. I'm going to have to go to the store to figure out what shade it is. I know it's not higher than NW15.

Top5 Setting Powders

#1 MUFE HD Microfinish Powder

#2 Too Faced Primed and Poreless Powder

#3 MAC Blot Powder

I really like MUFE and Too Faced's setting powders. I use MUFE when using my MUFE foundation and I use Too Faced when I'm using their BB cream. I could use them interchangeable but I don't cuz I'm weird like that. I don't really use MAC's Blot Powder anymore but as a teenager, this was my holy grail powder. This one is pressed, whereas MUFE and Too Faced's are both loose.

Top5 Luminizers

#1 Benefit High Beam

#2 Benefit Girl Meets Pearl

#3 Stila Kitten Shimmer

#4 Benefit Watt's Up

I love Benefit's luminizers!! And I especially love High Beam. This is my holy grail luminizer and I wear this every single day. Well almost, unless I'm trying out a look.

Top5 Blushes

#1 Benefit Bella Bamba

#2 MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet So Easy

#3 NARS Orgasm and Super Orgasm

NARS Orgasm

NARS Super Orgasm

#4 Stila Convertible Color in Lilium

#5 Stila Convertible Color in Sweet Pea

My holy grail blush of all time is Benefit's Bella Bamba. I discovered it my accident, when i bought a kit by Benefit because I wanted to get acquainted with the brand. That kit contained Bella Bamba, High Beam, Eye Bright, and Stay Don't Stray. All wonderful products. I just recently discovered MAC's So Sweet So Easy and I really like it. I'm going to buy a fullsize when my sample is done. Of course NARS Orgasm has to be on the list. It's similar to Bella Bamba but less pink. Stila's Convertible Colors are really nice. They are a cheek and lip colour and my favorite shades are Lilium and Sweet Pea.

Top5 Bronzers

#1 Too Faced Pink Leopard

#2 Too Faced Bronzed and Poreless

Well I only own two bronzers so this list is a little short. My holy grail bronzer is Pink Leopard. It is a shimmer bronzer and it's amazing. It brightens up my face and makes me look alive. Bronzed and Poreless is a wonderful matte bronzer and it's great for contouring. It also looks quite nice on me.

Top5 Setting Sprays

#1 Urban Decay All-Nighter Setting Spray

I know there's only one thing on this list but I just wanted to mention setting sprays. I really like the Urban Decay one, it keeps my makeup looking intact all day long and all night long. I've heard great things about MAC Fix Plus but personally I've never tried it.

Top5 Face Brushes

#1 Sephora Pro Stippling Brush #44

#2 MUFE HD Kabuki Brush

#3 Too Faced Powder Pouf Brush

#4 Sephora Pro Angled Blush Brush #49

#5 Sephora Pro Precision Concealer Brush #45

My favorite foundation brush is the Sephora Pro Stippling Brush. It gives a nice buffed finish without looking streaky like some other brushes do. You lightly tap it into the skin and buff it in and it gives that air-brushed look. The MUFE Kabuki Brush is wonderful for applying powder and blending everything together. Too Faced's Powder Pouf Brush and Sephora's Pro Angled Blush Brush are both amazing for applying powder blush. For cream blushes, I use my fingers. Pretty old school. The Concealer Brush is great for applying concealer to the undereye area. For blemishes, I use my fingers because it allows you to really get in there. Right now I'm using the Sephora Pro Bronzing Brush to do my bronzer and contouring but I'd really like to get the Sephora Pro Contouring Brush, it looks perfect for contouring.

Note: I personally own the old Sephora Pro brushes with the silver handles, but I'm showing you the new Sephora Pro brushes so that you can buy them if you're interested. They're almost all identical to the old brushes anyway.

Top5 Face Palettes/Sets

#1 Too Faced Secret to No Makeup Makeup Palette

#2 MUFE Complexion Set

I only have two sets/palettes that are only for the face. I really like Too Faced's No Makeup Makeup palette. The blushes are the right shade of pink for me, the bronzer isn't too dark, the luminizer and brightener are great, but the concealer could be a tad bit lighter. The palette is of superb quality and I really like using this on days that I don't want to wear a full face of makeup, but it's also great to go along with a full face. The MUFE Complexion Set is the first thing I ever bought from MUFE. I got it because I was on the search for a perfect foundation and I actually found it quite easily on my first try (thanks to the lovely woman at Sephora). I decided to get the set because it is an extremely good deal and I wanted to get products that go hand-in-hand with my new foundation. And I had always wanted to get a kabuki brush so that was an added bonus. The set comes with a face primer, face powder, kabuki brush, and your shade of foundation. As an honorable mention I guess I'll mention the Too Faced Natural Face makeup palette. I didn't like the colours on me, but it looks great on my mom. This palette is for medium to dark skintones whereas the No Makeup Makeup palette is for light to medium skin.






So that is all of my favorite face products!! I hope you enjoyed reading this post. Please let me know if I forgot a face subcategory. I hope you liked reading about all the products I use and my Top5 picks. Hopefully this helps you decide on things you never would have tried before reading this post. You also get a better sense of the products that I'm currently using and loving. Stay tuned for the third and last part of this series, Top5 Makeup Products in the Lips Category.

Today's Makeup Look will be a Purple Smokey Eye using the new Too Faced Loves Sephora palette so keep checking, it'll be up tonight!


Hope you enjoyed the post and keep checking back for more stuff! Do let me know what your favorite face products are and why, especially BB creams and foundations.

Steph xo.