Hey, guys.
Welcome back.
Hello to you, new people, too.
Today, I'm going to be talking about my favorite
beauty products from 2016.
These are products that aren't necessarily
new but they are definitely the ones that
I personally love the best.
There's going to be a lot of them.
There's going to be a lot of talking in this
video.
I'm going to put my make up on as we're talking
so that you can see me wearing the products.
First, I thought I would start with skin care.
My favorite cleanser of the year is actually
the double cleanser system that I've been
using from Metrin.
I'm going to insert a picture of it up here.
Over here.
One of these two sides, you'll see a picture
of it, but it's a double cleanser.
The first cleanser is like a creamy moisturizing
oil-based cleanser.
Then, the second cleanser is more like a lighter
lathering cleanser so it's supposed to really
do a good job of deep cleaning your skin.
I'm completely addicted to it.
Next, I want to talk about oils.
I'm in love with the Josie Maran Argan Oil,
Josie Maran Argan Oil Light, and the Lucy
Minerals Ambrosia for Dry Skin.
Actually I'm about halfway through this bottle.
I don't know if you could see that but it's
down about here.
It's the first product I want to put on after
I cleanse and it's the first product that
I put at night after I take off my make up.
I like that it really penetrates my skin and
makes it feel very moisturized and I don't
know.
It's pretty awesome.
The Josie Maran products, what I like to use
them for is to mix with a foundation if I'm
having problems getting the foundation to
blend out.
Like the Anastasia Beverly Hills Stick Foundation
seems to work better if I use it with an oil
like this.
Plus, these are just great to make any liquid
foundation apply better to my dry skin and
not stick to dry patches.
I am also in love with the Shark Sauce Serum.
I need to buy a third bottle.
As you can see, I'm down to about here, but
this is a serum that I then put on top of
my oil.
It has a lot of skin nourishing ingredients.
Next would be the Paula's Choice Calm Redness
Relief line for Rosacea.
Right now, I'm using the BHA lotion from this
line and the night cream.
For moisturizer with SPF, I'm using the Josie
Maran SPF 47.
This is a very moisturizing SPF.
I love it.
My skin just soaks it up.
Sometimes, I'm actually left with my skin
feeling a little bit oily from it so I will
have to blot my skin before I apply my foundation
but I would rather be slightly too moist and
have to blot it off than to be dry, dry, dry
which is often what I'm stuck with.
Also, the Pacifica Micellar Cleansing Water
is a go to for removing make up for me and
I also use coconut oil.
Coconut oil is what I like to use on long
wearing products like long wearing liquid
lipsticks or on waterproof eyeliner.
Just whatever I'm using, coconut oil is the
bomb at getting it off.
For masks, what I like to use is the Glossier
Moisturizing Moon Mask.
I had been trying to remember to put this
on in the afternoons because I work from home
so I can mask in the afternoon if I actually
think about it.
I've been trying to remember to put this on
to mask and then take it off and put on another
moisturizer.
I love this stuff.
This is my second jar.
The Bite Beauty Agave Lip Mask is my go to
lip mask for probably two or two and a half
years now.
You can see, this is one of my tubes that's
almost empty and this one is actually pretty
low too.
My husband actually started putting this one
on at night.
It's the untinted version.
This is the Golden Pink Champagne one.
I also have the red one that I carry in my
purse.
I love these guys.
There are four perfumes that I have worn more
than anything this year.
They would be, Tokyo Milk Dark Tainted Love,
Cocoa Pink Pina Colada Cotton Candy, Cocoa
Pink Cinderella's Carriage, and Cocoa Pink
Poison Caramel Apple.
I really like fruity gourmand scents.
Scents that are sweet.
I like vanilla as a note in there and those
four perfumes have been my favorite.
If you had to press me to pick just one for
this year, I would pick the Pina Colada Cotton
Candy because I think it smells delicious.
I even have hair serums with it.
As far as hair products go, Pravana Dyes,
that's what I use in my hair.
I absolutely love my Cocoa Pink Argan Therapy
Replenishing Serum which basically helps smooth
out your ends.
My DermOrganic Thermal Spray.
It's an eight way thermal spray.
It's great.
I also love my oVertone Go Deep Hair Mask.
It's the best hair mask ever, in my opinion.
I really love the Cocoa Pink ShamPink and
Argan Therapy Crème Cleanser.
Sometimes, I use hair spray but if I'm using
hair spray, pretty much, it's going to be
Paul Mitchell, but I don't use hair spray
very often.
I don't really use many styling products often.
Oh, other than Batiste Dry Shampoo and Batiste
Plumping Powder.
(See what Batiste told me!)
Next up, would be nail polish products and
so my favorite base coat is Rainbow Honey
All Your Base.
My favorite top coat is GlitterDaze Clearly
On Top.
I have three polishes.
The first one is GlitterDaze Bellatrix.
The black shade here, it's like a black with
like rainbow holographic sparkle.
Like, sort of a magenta sheen.
The next color is KBShimmer Orchidding Me?
which is like this holographic purple color.
It's gorgeous.
Then, the final color is Powder Perfect Never
Grow Up.
It's like this silver based holographic color
with purple flakies and like a purple pink
iridescence.
Yes, I have a type.
It's purple or pinky purple with black.
These are my three favorite colors that I've
worn more than anything.
This is, I think, probably the second year
that Bellatrix has been one of my favorites
because this is my third bottle.
Onto make up because it's probably what you
care the most about.
My favorite eyeshadows this year, they're
mostly like a bunch of singles.
Urban Decay Aura which is a split shade that
has a pinky red side and a blue side for highlighting.
Urban Decay Walk of Shame which is like a
pale, peachy peach, beige base type shade.
Urban Decay Laced which is a pale pinky taupe.
That's what I like to use as a transition
color.
Urban Decay Bust which is kind of like a gray,
brown, taupe shade.
Then, we have Anastasia Beverly Hills and
the two shades that I like by Anastasia are
Baby Cakes which is like this pale pink base
shade up here, and Buon Fresco which is like
this pinky, mauvey, dusty tone right here.
The rest of the singles that I love are from
Makeup Geek, so we have Sugar Rush and Phantom
and Kaleidoscope and Sorcery.
I really, really love Urban Decay Enigma Eyeshadow
Primer but the thing I don't like about it
is that it does change the shade of your eyeshadows
a bit.
Any tinted eyeshadow primer will usually change
the color of the eyeshadow when you put it
on.
Sometimes that bothers me.
Sometimes it doesn't.
I'm going to actually put on Beauty Bakerie's
Pancake.
I've zoomed in a little bit so you can see
me apply my eyeshadows.
Now, I'm going to put the color, Kaleidoscope
on to my lid.
I'm going to sprits my brush with Urban Decay
All Nighter Spray because I just feel like
it makes the color look better and it holds
on and all that jest.
Now, take the Sigma E25 and just kind of blend
at the edges to soften everything.
I'm going to fill in my brows just a little
bit with Color Pop's Jet Set Black Pencil
and this has been my favorite brow pencil
of the year.
I like it when a company actually offers black
and it's not brown.
Now, typically, I don't fill in my brows like
for every day just because I have them microbladed.
I'm really happy with them without having
to fill them in but usually for a video or
something, I'll fill them in a little bit
just to give them a little more shape because
I have a couple of places where I have scars
where the microblading didn't take.
The runner up brow product is probably my
Nudestix Brow Stylus in BrownBlack.
Also, after I do this, I like to put Glossier's
Boy Brow in Black on top of my brows because
it's awesome and it just holds the hairs in
place.
On your average day, I don't use a pencil.
I'll use this at most or I'll just leave my
brows alone.
Just go under my brows to make sure that they
look clean.
I'm going to line my upper lashline very thinly
using the Kat Von D Trooper Liner.
This is definitely my favorite liquid liner.
I'm going to put the Nyx Faux White Pencil
in Baby Powder on my lower waterline.
I did not have access to this in 2016 so in
2016, I used Urban Decay's Walk of Shame Pencil
or Smashbox Bare Pencil and then I set it
with a white eyeshadow.
For 2016, I didn't really wear mascara because
I have lash extensions all year.
The few times I wore mascara, I think, I wore
It Cosmetics Superhero Mascara, Urban Decay
Perversion, or Tarte Lights Camera Lashes.
Since I stopped doing the lash extensions
for a while because my allergies have been
really bad, I'm basically back on the Urban
Decay Perversion train and I use a Seki Lash
Curler, and I also use a Mascara Shield to
try to help me get as much as length as possible
out of my lashes.
I hate applying mascara.
I just feel like I suck at it so yeah.
When it comes to false lashes, what I like
to wear are the Ardell Demi Wispies because
they look natural and that's what I'm going
for.
They don't cover up my eyeshadow that I just
spent 20 minutes or whatever applying so those
are my favorites for that.
I'm going to smudge a little bit of Makeup
Geek Corrupt along my outer lower lash line
just to add a little bit of depth.
I'm going to highlight under the outer part
of my brow and at the inner corner of my eyes
with Urban Decay's Aura.
For most of 2016, I used the Hourglass Veil
Mineral Primer pretty much nonstop.
I love this stuff, but when I got my hands
on the Urban Decay Optical Illusion Blurring
Primer, I fell in love with this one so both
of these make my favorites list.
I'm going to go ahead and put on the Urban
Decay primer today.
Next up is concealers.
I'm sure it's no surprise that the Kat Von
D Lock-It Concealer is my favorite concealer
but the three shades that I use the most are
White Out, L1, and L3.
Following Mickey's advice, I typically, apply
L1 and L3 around my face.
I put L1 under my eyes.
This is where I typically put L1.
This is where I typically put L3.
Then, basically, I take the beauty blender
and blend this out.
This is what my face looks like with just
the concealers on.
At this point, I feel like all I need is a
sheer foundation.
I don't really have a favorite foundation
for 2016 because I feel like there's always
been something off.
I love the Kat Von D Lock-It Foundation in
Light 41 but the texture, it's so thick.
I feel like it's hard for me to wear so I'm
going to try this moisturizing foundation
today which is the Buxom Tickle the Ivory.
I am mixing a bit of Nyx Opalescent and Nyx
White in with it on the back of my hand.
Now that I have my foundation on, I'm going
to move on to the rest of my face and my favorite
setting powder is the NARS Light Reflecting
Loose Setting Powder.
I'm going to apply my contour.
This is Aromaleigh Digitalis Purpurea.
I pressed it.
I found for me that I really need to press
my loose mineral powder like contours and
blushes or else I can't always get them to
apply evenly.
This has been my favorite of the entire year.
My favorite brush for contouring is this brush
by Real Techniques which is the Multitasking
Cheek Brush.
My favorite blushes are the Urban Decay blushes
and I've got about three shades, I guess,
that I reach for more than anything else.
Rapture which is like this mauve color, kind
of like a mauve berry.
X-Rated which is this light pink.
Fetish which is more like earthy pink, I guess.
My go to highlighters have definitely been
the Makeup Geek Highlighters.
Moon Phase and Glitz and Celestial.
I think, for this look, I'm going to put on
Moon Phase.
This one right here, and I'm going to go and
put on X-Rated.
The Urban Decay Diffusing Blush Brush is my
favorite blush brush.
My favorite bronzer is this Physicians Formula
Murmumuru Butter Bronzer in Light.
I've used it as a contour and I probably can
only do that because I have red hair right
now.
If I have blue hair, it probably wouldn't
look great, but I love this.
It's really cheap.
It's a great cruelty free drugstore product.
It smells so good.
It smells like tropical vacation and it's
awesome.
For 2016, there were probably more two eyeshadow
palettes that I really love but one of those
is the Kat Von D MetalMatte Palette and this
was limited edition.
I hate that because it has all of these beautiful
mattes and then all of these beautiful metal
crush eyeshadows.
If you were only going to buy one palette
in 2016, this is the palette that I recommended
because it's just such great quality.
I love it and you have such a nice variety
of colors.
The only thing you're really missing from
this palette is a nice burgundy or red.
It has a lot of cool tones if you like cool
tones like I do.
It's an awesome palette.
The other palettes that I really love are
from Urban Decay which is the Urban Decay
Naked Basics Palette because it's an all mattes
palette.
Although, it is not without it's flaws.
There are a couple of things that I personally
would've done differently with this palette.
My mirror is like all finger printed up but
I would've made Lethal an actual true red
burgundy as opposed to a reddish brown burgundy.
I would've put a lighter gray color in instead
of having both, Faith and Lockout, because
you could've easily made the color Faith by
mixing Extra Bitter and Lockout to make like
a mauve or warm brown.
Then, for me, for whatever reason, Commando
and Tempted looks so similar on the skin.
I would've put another matte in there that
was different.
Like, maybe a lighter pink or a light peach.
Just something because I hate how similar
those two look on my skin.
Aside from that, I love this palette and I
think it's a great addition to the naked family.
I also really, really love the Moondust Palette
but this is a companion palette.
What I mean by that is that all of these colors
I like to use on top of other colors.
I don't wear them on their own because they're
sparkly, glittery shades so I see them as
basically like an eyeshadow topper.
You can also use them on the lips because
they're really cool on lips.
I need to put something on my lips.
My favorite lip pencils are obviously the
Urban Decay Lip Pencils.
However, I do have one color from Colour Pop
that I absolutely love which is Marshmallow.
Then, I have a couple Nyx Pencils that I really
love.
Mostly, the purples like Jet Set, which is
actually like a blue color; and Oh Put It
On which is like blue tone purple.
I'm going to put Marshmallow Pencil on and
then I'm going to put on Sugarpill Kim Chi.
I love the Sugarpill Liquid Lipstick formula
a lot.
They have a very limited shade range so my
favorite liquid lipsticks of the year are
the Jouer Liquid Lipsticks but I do absolutely
love Sugarpill Kim Chi so that's one of my
favorites too.
Then, for my lipsticks, I would say the Urban
Decay Vice Lipsticks are my favorite.
The colors like, Crank which is a pinky purple.
Heroine which is a dark blue.
Perversion is black.
Violate is my favorite go to pinky purple
nude type lip shade.
Those are my lipsticks.
For eyeshadow brushes, I know kind of touched
in this but the Urban Decay Eyeshadow Brushes
are my all time favorites.
I also supplement my Urban Decay brushes with
Sigma Brushes and Real Techniques Brushes.
For my face, I use Urban Decay Brushes and
Real Techniques Brushes because those are
my favorites and that's what works for me.
You've seen most of the ones that I use in
this video.
I love this lip color.
My favorite spray for making my foundation
last all night is Urban Decay's All Nighter.
Those are my favorite beauty products for
2016.
What were yours?
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