Hey YouTube family! It's your girl Lia
back again with another video and today's
video as you can see from the title is
just my best in beauty for 2018. Now what
that means is my best products in the
brow category, in the mascara category,
in the eyeshadow,  in the foundation category that I have been loving this year. Now
I've did this last year as well and I
will annotate somewhere in the video if
the product that I'm mentioning is a last
year winner as well. Haven't watched last
year's video as of yet but will watch
it afterwards to say hey I like this
product couple years in a row this must
be a really good product. Now some of the
things I will be mentioning will be high-end.  Some things will be low-end. I think I
have a good mix of both but without
further ado let's just get into this
video and I will start in the order that
I do my makeup.
Now my favorite brow pencil I think goes
without saying if you guys watch my
videos I have a dedicated video where I
show you guys me using the NYX brow
pencil. Now I love this. This is $9.99. You
can get  it at Ulta. You can get it
wherever NYX products are sold. I have it
in the color chocolate. It's under 10
bucks and it's an amazing pencil. I think
it's way better than Anastasia
Beverly Hills in terms of price alone.
Like you don't have to pay I think
that's like sixteen seventeen dollars.
You get to save about 7-8 bucks on a
pencil that does essentially the same
thing. Love this product. Can't speak
enough good things about it. I don't feel
like I need to harp on it too long just
because again use this in every single
makeup video that I do. Now the next
product that I use because my brows are
very defined if you guys watch my brow
routine you guys know my shape is there.
So I'm just filling in with my brow
pencil the sparse areas but the issue
that I have is my brows want to go every
which way. I know a lot of you guys out
there with kind of the same bushy
eyebrow problem that I have you guys
relate to me on this. You guys know we
gotta keep them brows in check. What I
have to use even days when I don't even
fill in my brows I have to use a brow
wax. Now for the majority of this year
2018 I loved my MAC brow wax. Now this is  a fairly expensive or was fairly expensive.
It''s like 18 19 bucks maybe even over 20
dollars for this little pencil of wax.
But I went was gonna reorder it went
on MAC they didn't have it. They gone. They don't sell
this No
but I did some research I got the elf
wax. This is only $2.00. So
drastically cheaper than the Mac but
does the same thing. All you need is a
pencil of wax whoever makes one. If you
have one at your local beauty supply
store for $0.99 any wax just holds these
things in place because throughout the
day your brows want to move. So this is
like edge control for your brow hairs. So
the next thing I do is clean up my brows
and for that I like to use my mac studio
finish concealer. I have this in color in
NC42 as well as the LA Girl Pro
concealer. I use both of these. I use
this for really lightening it up and
these are more skin tone to kind of not
give them that starkness. I know a lot of
times when you clean up your brows it
can look a little bit too light. This
makes it a little too light. This tones
it down a little bit. I use the shades
cool tan, warm honey, fawn I use a lot
of the LA girl Pro. You guys know I have
a whole video where I swatch pretty
much every shade of this. I'll link it up
above. Anything darker than medium beige is what I typically use to clean up my
brow. Not all the way up to like
beautiful bronze. That like there's a
little window of kind of skin tones that
match my skin perfectly in the LA girl
Pro concealer that I love to use for
cleaning up my brows. So again these two
in conjunction work really well and it's
so funny because this is like a over $20
product but this is like a three dollar
product and they work so well together.
Or you can use one on their own. Like
this is good if you don't want to
lighten up up under your brows as you're
doing your brows and you just want to
kind of skin tone clean up this works
well. Now the next step I do is actually
prime my eyelids and I like to use
eyeshadow bases. Now what I used to love to use is Mac Painterly went ham
on this. Have hit the bottom of it but
the thing about painterly is it drives
out very fast and very easily. And it's
not that cheap of a product to kind of
repurchase for how fast it kind of dries
out. But a product that  hasn't really
dried out on me and I really love is
the NYX eyeshadow base. Now I also have
hit pan almost on this one and this is
in the shade  skintone. Like this
it's very creamy. Goes on effortlessly.
Does kind of the same thing that
painterly does but for a third of the
price. Now the next category that we have
is eyeshadows and eyeshadows this year of course it
has to be the Anastasia brand. It has won
my heart this year I think from Modern
Renaissance to Soft glam. To even the
palette that I made myself years ago it
has come through. I think these are the
most pigmented, most buttery kind of
shadows that you can get for the what
under $50 price point. I know that's fairly
expensive and if you don't like palettes
you can of course make your own kind of
palette. I've created and put shades into
my own palette from Anastasia that I
know I love. I've hit pan on some of
these shades. Again soft glam and
Modern Renaissance though. If you're trying to debate which one cuz you don't need
all. Again I don't know why I have all
but you don't need all. If you were to
pick out of the two I like soft glam
more than I do Modern Renaissance. Modern
Renaissance is for somebody who probably likes the pinkier tones and I'm somebody
who kind of likes some more warm kind of
tones a little bit more. But another
brand that has done a really good job is
Colourpop. I have the perception palette
by MakeupShayla. Again another palette
that hits my eye and hits me in all the
rights spots. Look at that whole row. This
whole row gets used. Now again if you
guys know me I'm not a big purple thing.
I'm not a big blue fan and I'm a big
green fan but there are colors in here
that I just adore so much. So it's a little
bit cheaper than the Anastasia palette.
I think this palette was under at least
25 bucks and Colourpop always has
coupons going on so you can always find
a sale with Colourpop. Now the next step is
lashes. Now it goes without saying on
this channel you guys know my favorite
lash. My favorite lash is the 03 beyond
naturale by kiss. 03 beyond Naturale. You
can find them at. I ordered mine a lot
of times on Amazon just because I know
it's gonna be on Amazon and I always get
the six pack deal because you get six
for $15. At a beauty supply store they're
about $2.99 $3 each. Can reuse them up to
like three times. I think normally I wear
them three times and then I'm pretty
much done with them. Now if you want a
good dupe for em. A good dupe is the Ardell 600 lashes. Now they're very
comparable as you can see still have
that kind of cluster wispie  kind of
look going on about them. The thing about
Ardell. I think they're also $2.99 $3.99.
Maybe close to $3.99. They're more readily
available. You can find these at Target
and all that have these on today I have
these on and pretty much every video are
you guys actually what lashes are those
it's the kiss of beyond natural lashes
but are they good alternative if you
can't find the kids lashes anywhere and
lash that I really have been loving
lately but they're super expensive so
they're not something that I would
typically buy over and over again is the
eye Lord Jasmine Brown dramatic lashes
one days in a couple of videos these are
super cute they're about $7.99 though
and again I repeat lashes a couple of
times but after a while they get kind of
soggy the band just doesn't look bright
it's a little too bendy for me I can't
wear them I can wear these a few times
but they're very dramatic they don't
look dramatic and on camera and all that
in real life they have a dramatic look
they look beautiful on camera but I do
like my kiss a little bit more but if
you're looking for like something that's
different than what I typically do I
think these are cute and dramatic as
well eyelash glue
it's the duo brush on adhesive I have
this right here got a new pack because
I'm running alone on it it's not as
gloopy as kind of the tube do all the
tube do I used to love that used to kill
that used to kill that and black I
thought I was doing the best job that I
could do but then B glue everywhere but
I thought that was normal
that's not normal you can have the brush
on adhesive it goes on very thin your
lashes don't look like clumpy they don't
look weird it's easy to do if you're a
beginner I highly suggest to brush on
adhesive before the tuba the ISA next
step is eye liner last year I don't
think I had a favorite eyeliner quite
frankly I only found this within the
last what seven months it's the Stila
stay all day eyeliner pencil best
thinnest pencil out there that I have
been able to find super thin as you guys
can see right there just goes on smooth
precision is everything I can do a wing
with this I didn't trial win today just
because when you've got a food commit to
and if it goes south it goes south so I
only want to jinx things on camera but
when I do use this and when I do have
the ability or the time to put into
doing
this makes it so much easier again look
how thin that brushes mascara YSL the
shot mascara very expensive so I ain't
gonna harp on it too long because I hate
the fact that it's expensive but it's
good and it's expensive now I wear
lashes a lot on camera but day-to-day
ain't got time for the lashes so this
kind of gives me a little bit of it's
never gonna be nothing out there that's
gonna make me look like I'm lash mcgee
out here but this does a good job at
trying but for my under eye this a
little bit more affordable and this is
the Mac extended play gigablack lash I
love this from my under lash line I
never make a mistake sometimes when you
use a brush that's - it's sick on your
bottom lashes you get those little dots
down here it's black everywhere in your
life where did I go wrong that's because
the brush was it thin enough to give you
a black I think it's made specifically
for the under lash area it just does an
amazing job at coating them and making
them look they're look elongated and
just overall does a good job not like
poking me in the eye next we have primer
I like to make it easy on myself with a
primer water I think it's a lot easier
than squeezing something in my hand and
rubbing it on if you guys know something
about me you guys know I like things
that work fast in the morning I need to
get up I want my hair to be fast and I
also need my makeup product to be a
quick kind of 5-minute beating out the
door this makes it easy just because I
can spray and go so the next thing we
have is foundations I'm gonna go through
this very fast because I couldn't just
choose one I'm gonna explain to you why
it's been my favorite of the year very
quickly because all of these have
different purposes now I love the Urban
Decay all nighter foundation use this
for the majority of this year I think I
tried it December of 2017 and from then
on every video I pretty much film that
was not a foundation review I had this
foundation on the eye thanks to me all
the time I didn't have to think in my
brain I know I came on this camera and
always had Urban Decay all nighter
foundation on now if you're somebody out
there who's looking for a drugstore dupe
of that I'd have to think the Revlon
Colorstay foundation is a great full
coverage drugstore foundation haven't
found anything out there that beats this
I do have the combination oily version I
know I'm dry skin and so I should have
the dry skin inversion I just like this
a lot better I think the tone of it
matches
a lot better I had the shade 375 now if
you watch my Revlon Colorstay video you
guys know I mixed two at that time
before I knew there was a shade in the
middle that's all I was looking for with
a shade in between the two shades I've
used and now I found that in toffee
caramel so 375 is my shade and that an
Urban Decay all nighter I am 8.75 but
since about September October what I
have used in every video including
today's video is the Born This Way
Foundation love this foundation I don't
know where heads been on my life but I'm
so glad it has entered my life I have
been sleeping on this I've been sleep
oh yeah I have been trying to tell me I
did a try it and I wasn't listening for
some odd reason but I finally cracked
down and got it and I am in the shade
Brule best foundation I have no cons
about this I hope by the time I'm
uploading this video that my foundation
review on it it's allowed on my channel
because you guys will see I don't need
to spend all day on this there are no
cause with this foundation normal
foundations I can find something like it
breaks down its ugly it don't last all
day it's lying it's too much cover it's
just too little covered this one checks
all the boxes next one NORs the natural
radiant foundation I am in the shade who
are you guys know I've mispronounced
this all the time you guys correct me
all the time in the comment section
because I just always butcher the name
of it I like this foundation just gives
you a natural radiant glow I think I
like this more than I do
the sheer glow I know I like it more
than the all-day weightless I think a
lot of you guys out there I probably
like this more than the all-day weight
lifts and the sheer glow and the sheer
matte and all that out there just like
this foundation overall and then last
but not least this isn't my favorite
filming foundation but it's one of my
favorite foundations the Bobbi Brown
Skin Foundation I know I have a whole
foundation review on this foundation
love it I'm in the shade golden six but
recently I found the Smashbox Studios
skin 15 hour hydrating foundation is an
exact dupe for this even down to the
bottle I think it Smashbox didn't even
try to be different they just said we're
gonna do the same thing
I'm mache 3.35 in this Smashbox I think
it's just a little bit cheaper but it
does the same exact thing like these two
exact same product next we have
concealer I know last year I was a big
stand
or the heart-shaped a love them then
Tarte played us this year with their
foundation that they only release that
had like six shades and then I can't
sort art completely but I needed a
replacement I need something to take
over cut the tarp straight take I'll be
honest that was a good concealer out
here but Maybelline better skin I think
is it amazing concealer as well I think
the drugstore concealer game is where
it's at
I like the la girl Pro concealer too as
a concealer I know I said I like to use
that to clean up my brows but it's an
amazing concealer as well but Maybelline
the fit me this a lot of people like the
age of Ryan I hate the age rewind
concealer but this this though I love it
I love it
I have it in two different shades medium
deep and medium it just depends on the
day which one I want it wants a little
bit more brightening than the other one
but can't go wrong with Maybelline
better skin setting powder love the
Sasha Buttercup I started using this
when my Laura Mercier setting powder
broke I love that but the feel kind of
the area over here broke so powder would
just go everywhere so I needed an
alternative the Sasha Buttercup setting
powder is where it is at I think it's a
little yellow so sometimes I do pour
some my Laura Mercier in there I do pour
a little bit in here just because like I
said it's a little yellow I don't want
to look too yellow so I'm gonna tone it
down I'm not have it on today and I
don't I don't look too yellow
so contour game I think on Asajj you got
the contour game on lock at least for me
I love everything on Asajj it does in
terms of contour that's all I have on
today my favorite contour has been the
Anasazi cappuccino it says powder
bronzer and it can be used as a bronzer
for some but for me I got a mutated kind
of color so it's not too bronzed the
palette I have been using this for years
some of the shades I created on my own
like these - I bought separately from
honest Agia but the palette comes with
this this and then I think there's two
other kind of lighter shades but I
replaced those lighter shades with this
one a couple of these shades as you can
see I've hit pan on so clearly this is a
palette that I love massage you can't go
wrong with them now the next products
that I love blushes I love me some blush
recently
now the blush I have on today Mac raisin
you guys know I've probably mentioned
this in
other videos I think it's definitely a
good brush for people who are my skin
tone and deeper I think if you're a
little bit lighter than me it could be a
little bit too intense but if you're a
little bit darker than me I think this
is just an amazing kind of warm berry
just perfect fall color overall me I
just use a light hand you can't go too
heavy with it cuz you could be looking
like a real clown no my next favorite
blush is unlawful from a NARS a very
cute blush and it reminds me of my
favorite blush now I'm not gonna spend
too much time on it because I'm pretty
sure it's discontinued like I don't even
know if mixed makes blushes that look
like this anymore but Bob this years ago
have loved this for years but I keep not
reaching for it as much because once
it's gone and I feel like it's gone it's
NYX terracotta they're kind of in the
same family I'm showing it on camera
though this does look a little bit
Pinker um but as you can see I've hit
pan on terracotta it's an amazing
summary even fall time blush next we
have highlight game you guys know I'm a
highlight scene the highlight that I
have on today is my favorite the Bobbi
Brown bronze glow highlighter as you can
see hit pan on this as well I ordered
another one on the way because I just
have to have bronze glow on me at all
time
now another highlighter that I really do
enjoy is gilded honey by Laura Geller as
well as the master chrome by Maybelline
now this is the drugstore of like stand
out there like this is when I need a
gold gold bang and gold type of a
highlight and then this comes through
and I just look like golden girl out
here so I relive the Maybelline the
Laura Geller and of course the Bobby
Brown next is setting spray Urban Decay
all nighter goes without saying setting
spray that I love and last but not least
lips lips lips lips lips love lying in
my lips with Mac chestnut that's my
go-to again another thing but I think I
learned from the glam twins a long time
ago they love chestnut so I was like let
me try this chestnut amazing for us
brown skin girls out here not my
favorite you guys know it's Anasazi a
sepia like I talk about this all the
time my go-to liquid lipstick but if
you're looking for a good drugstore dupe
I definitely say tried the color pop
mess around it's an amazing alternative
to
if you can't find this or if it's a
little bit outside of your price range
I think the anastasiya is $17 I know
colour-pop is off $6 again these two
guys you can see in the tube very close
shades now this has been my favorites
video I hope you guys enjoyed it you
guys let me know what are your favorite
products have you tried any of the
products I've mentioned I'm always on
the look as you can see for new products
new suggestions and new things out there
that I need to try you guys put me on
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