Alright guys, here we go for this video of 2019 and apparently I needed more fleece and
Reading socks. Everyone is up this week and like going to the gym and I'm like
I need to feel like I'm wrapped with blankets for the first 7. :P
Hello, everyone and happy 2019
I hope you guys are having a great start to the year and I am back
Going back to 2019 I but I'm gonna get these years all confused this entire video. Is it 2018 2019?
What am I talking about here today?
We're gonna do a full face of my favorite products for 2018 in the high-end
Kind of luxe category mostly just like Sephora and MAC products that I've been really enjoying this past year
I did a full video using all my favorite drugstore products
I put that up on Sunday so you can go and check it out
I will link it at the end of the video for you guys
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I got my coffee. I got all  my makeup laid out. So without further a-do Let's get into this
So first we're going to start with the brows and this should come as no surprise to anyone
But it's primarily benefit products. The first one is the precisely my brow a pencil
They just released a whole bunch of new colors this year. So 4.5 is my jam. Love this shade
The pencil itself is nice and fine. It just makes it really easy to
Fill in my brows without it looking to like chunky and aggressive and to set everything in place
I'm using the only clear brow gel
I use the entire year unless I was testing something new which is the benefit
24-hour brows that I've gone through so many of these this year. This is one of those hardcore
Gels, and it's going to keep the brows in place. It helps give that sort of feathered effect at the top
You guys can see that
And I just, I really like it. My brows don't budge throughout the day
It's probably the best I've ever used. Now to prime the lids and I'm using the NARS tinted smudge proof eyeshadow base
This one is more like back half
2018 and I started using this and I haven't been able to stop it kind of covers everything up
so if you have any veins on your lids or
Discoloration or just anything it just see what I mean. Like it gives a little bit of color
it blends out really easily and all of the
Eyeshadows just pop on top of it. Eyeshadow palettes
-panic attack-
this was a struggle cause I tested a
LOT of eyeshadow palettes!!!
Palettes this year the one I probably use the most out of all of the different ones is the Too Faced just peachy mattes
this one just has a lot of really good easy colors that are just
Blendable, they make every look work. Just very good everyday palette
So this is probably the one that I use the most but I did want to make some honorable mentions as well
One is the Urban Decay Born to Run palette. I have talked about this not a lot. It's nice and pigmented it blends up
really smoothly on the eyes
I found that I could get away with just using this palette and I was really happy because it had
Everything that I needed it has the Browns it has little pops of color if I want it has a nice highlight shade like it
Was pretty well rounded and then the last one this is more recent
But I do want to mention it because I've been using it a lot recently is the ABH sultry palette
I really like the undertones
It's a little bit more on the cooler side
Which was has been a lot of fun for me because everything has been more like the peachy match is very warm. Very orange toned
This one is not like this "Fresh Twig", "Burch"
-tries to find the next shade-
"pearl"
"Dystopian".
These have been sort of the shades. I keep gravitating towards again like all of the ABH pallettes
They're a little bit on the dusty side when you first dip your brush into it. So just be prepared
Don't be aggressive with it, very delicate palette. But they're very blendable. They look beautiful on the eyes
They build up really nicely and all the colours just complement each other really well, so today
I think I'm going to go in with the ABH palette in that "fresh" shade
And I'm just going to apply that
first to the top of the crease and then I'm going to use a mixture of the ABH palette "birch" and "twig" as
Well as the Too Faced palette in "peach tea" and just kind of smoke it into the crease just to make a really natural
Gradiated kind of effect and then moving into the urban decay or Born to Run palette
I'm gonna take a bit of Radio and then I'm gonna put that in the outer corner and layer guilt-trip right on top
And it's gonna give this really pretty
teal
Purpley vibe that I'm excited about now before I get into the fun like single glittery
Products that I've been obsessed with this year. I'm gonna take a little bit of pearl from the a BH palette right here
I'm going to put that on the center towards the inner part of the lid and that is gonna act as sort of the base
To the shade. I'm gonna put on top, okay
Glittery products were everything for me this year 28, not this year. I guess last year product
Number one should come as no surprise to any of you that have watched any of my videos this year
It is the hourglass of scattered light glitter eyeshadow. This is the shade aura they have I think five different
Tones, I have used them in a bunch of tutorials. So I'm not gonna use them today but like they are
UNBELIEVABLE guys! They look so
Beautiful and they just pop on the eyes
They don't look chunky they blend on top of whether you're gonna use like a glitter primer or a regular primer
They don't flake underneath the eyes either. The tones are unbelievable. I think my favorite one out of all of them
Might be foil foil is this like burnt gold shade that looks incredible on the eyes and again, it just has that
Reflect to it. It has the pigmentation to it. It's very metallic. It's gorgeous and the one I'm gonna use today is by butter
LONDON this is the glazing eye gloss and this shade right here is unicorn
Which is one of those shades that I was like this doesn't look right
I'm just gonna pop some of this on top not brand enough gonna pop a little of this on top not special enough
Boom put this on. It's magic it is this sort of like a moosie formula to it
It has this wet like feel on the fingertips. And this one in particular has like a pinky
lilac
frosty tone to it that
just layers
So well for me on top of a variety of different looks probably not more like the golden rust tones
But everything else I'm like, yes more of that, please they have a bunch of other colors as well
But like unicorns probably the one I use the most this year and it just it looks so pretty on the lids and yeah
Can't get enough of it for eyeliners
There were two than I wanted to mention one was the new launch for 2018
One wasn't but the one that isn't a new launch is one that I'm using in a new way
And it is the Tarte clay pot in black. It's a really good gel potted liner
Regardless, but what I've been doing is I've been using it on the waterline and it doesn't budge
I'll use this brush by Sigma
This is the waterline East 17 brush and I'll dip it into
The pot here and then just apply it like stamp it to the upper waterline. Oh my gosh guys
It does not transfer. It doesn't budge. It is smudge proof incredible. It works really well
It doesn't irritate my eyes in any way it's amazing. And then the other liner is the Fenty beauty fly liner
This is just a really good pitch black
beautiful liner that glides onto the eyes super easily
It glides over glitters over regular shadows doesn't matter how much I put on my eyes
This seems to go over all of it. It has a very fine tip applicator. It's not glossy. It's not matte
It's kind of a nice in-between. I really like it. It applies. Well on both eyes. I don't have to keep like
Shaking it or trying to read it or whatever. It doesn't dry out on me. It's awesome. Okay mascara and lashes
So two mascaras one is the Marc Jacobs Velvet noir this one really
Like I use it for a while and then I stopped using it then it came back down
I was like "Why did I stop?!" you guys know I do like myself a good dramatic lash this one fits the bill just big
Fluffy black lashes which I love and then the other one this one I first used and I was like, oh, no, it's fine
I guess and I don't know
Well, I don't know if it just needed some time to like marinate for a bit and then it was awesome
But whatever it is, it's really great. Now, it's the Y iself o seals the curler volume effect. Mascara
I don't know which of those names is the correct one, but that's what's listed on the bottle
I guess over time giving the formula a chance to get a little bit thicker has made it better and
Now I just can't stop using it
It has a curved wand and really little tiny little bristles that are going to cling on to every single last lash that you have
again
This is more of a dramatic lash but you guys though
The jam and the lashes I'm gonna be using today should come as no surprise to any of you they are the velour effortless lashes
Basically any of the ones within this line are amazing, they are pre-cut. So they're much shorter
They're supposed to be a little bit more natural easier to wear they're shorter as well
So they're going to fit more seamlessly with your natural lashes and they're just easy to apply. I love them
I love them. I love them. I love them. Okay, now that our eyes are most the way done
Let's go on to the face and we're gonna start with a primer that again is one that I used basically all year
This is the Clarins SOS primer and this is the zero to peach one
It blurs imperfections. It looks like I have
foundation on my skin when I put this on no joke, this is
Unbelievable. They have a bunch of them within the line. They have ones for redness
So they have like a green tint to them for sallowness, which has a lavender tint. They have a bronzing line
um
But this is the one we are going to use today is a bit of a peachy beige kind of a warm
Undertone to it and I'll use like sometimes I'll just use this as as
Foundation in the summertime with a little bit of bronzer and like that's it
Like I don't know what they put in this stuff, but it's amazing another one
I did really like this year. So I want to mention it is the farsali skin tune, blur primer
This is another one that blurs out the skin. It just doesn't have that same
Warm peachy-ness to it that the SOS one does and I think I use the Clarins one more than the farsali one
But both are really good primers that I used a lot in 2018 now, let's go on to foundations
I have a couple I wanted to share with you one is the Dior Forever undercover 24-hour full coverage foundation
It has a mixture of pure pigments and like a watery kind of a base. So it's very very thin but very full coverage
So you have to shake it up before you use it. You apply it to the skin. It blurs everything out
It applies like feels like nothing on the skin and it gives you a ton of coverage. It's an awesome awesome foundation
It is on the expensive side
But I really like it and then the next
Foundation I blame my obsession with it on Sylvia Ghani when I went out and we collab together
She and I swapped makeup bags and she was saying this is her ride-or-die foundation. She's obsessed with it
it lasts all day and I was like, oh
So I put it on a wore it threw the day and by the end of the day my skin I swear to you looked exactly
The same as when I first applied it and it's the two-faced peach perfect comfort matte foundation. This looked insane on my skin
Usually I try to avoid really really matte foundation
So when it says matte on it, I'm like oh, but this one doesn't look dry on my skin
It's not dewy but it's like I'm just a nice Demi kind of matte finish. It looks really pretty on the skin. Very natural-looking
I'm using here natural beige, which I usually mix with porcelain which sounds really weird, but I'm telling you that it works
You know what?
I think I use a Dior one in the video where I tested out the award winners from Sephora
Which I will link down below for you guys
So I will use the Too Faced one today and you guys know the technique that I've been obsessed with is using a big fluffy
Powder brush and applying it to the skin it helps you to control the number of layers that you apply
It doesn't get super cakey on the skin and it gives this like airbrush effect. It's beautiful for concealers
The high-end category had a lot of really good ones or at least in 2018
I think the ones that I played around with the most would have to be the cover FX Power Plate concealer and
the Born This Way multi-use sculpting concealer from Too Faced
These do right here just had really good full coverage, but still really lightweight kind of a feel on the skin
I don't like anything super heavy under the eyes, which is why I tend not to go for like the Tarte shape tape
Especially in that under-eye area just because it gets really dry and really thick and like creasy under my eyes
I know it's oh my god, I don't like it! But these not at all
They're very lightweight they cover up everything and ya no really like them
So I'm using a bit of the cover FX one in the inner corner
And then I'm using a darker shade of the Too Faced one
Right in the center and then I kind of blend everything out from there and where to use my other favorite tool
If I can find it, right, where did I put it? This is the stands out beauty sponge
It is a diamond kind of shaped sponge. You guys have seen me use this a lot this past year
This is my second one that I'm on and I have like another 4 in the door
I love this for blending out foundation concealer powder. It does the job it feels really cool
It feels like memory foam if you see it
I mean, it's like crumples up and it goes back to its original shape
But I like the fact that it has this sort of flat side here
You just you can get right into the corner and just press the product in
it's just a really good multi-use sponge that I just can't stop using the next product isn't a concealer and it's not a foundation but
I kind of use it like concealer and it's one. I talked a lot about on insta story
So those of you that follow me on insta story and Instagram you guys know and have probably seen this product before
But it's by Lancome and it's this cushion highlighter chroma
It looks like this the product itself looks kind of like concealer, but it has this really pretty
Reflect to it, which is very very subtle
And what I like to do with this product is actually take a really skinny brush if I can find one...
Skinny brushes where are you?
And I'll dip it into the product and I will use this
To put into any like smile lines or anything that I am currently
experiencing and it just reflects the light and makes them appear a lot less noticeable. Honestly Lancome you cannot
Discontinue this product it is so good is so necessary
Obsessed with this now we need to talk about my love affair with the high-end
Powder category in 2017 and also get this hair out of my lashes. I hinted at this a little bit in the drugstore video
I uploaded on Sunday, and I said that I had just the best powders I have ever used
This entire year are right here in front of me
And so for those of you that want blurred skin Barbie like plastic looking skin these powders
Will do that for you. Number one is the hourglass veil translucent setting powder just blurs everything out. It doesn't cake
It doesn't crease. It's just a really good one. The next one is by
Elizabeth Arden, this is the high performance blurring loose powder. I use this mostly in the first half of 2018
I could not stop using it
It just makes everything look very soft and airbrushed and then the third one which I kind of use
With the other two powders almost like a finishing powder is by laura geller and it's their filter finished setting powder in
universal and this one
SUPRISED me. When I first used this. I actually bought this it was part of like an Amazon
Tested kind of a video. I first put it on and I was like
I don't think they're gonna like this and then I saw how my skin looked in different light and it just it
Makes my pores look less noticeable and has a little bit of a sheen to it
So my skin looks really dewy and soft and every time that I use this powder especially mixed with these other ones
People ask me what I've done to my skin is so freakin beautiful
I love how it looks with the other powders as well as by itself, but mostly just with the other powders
I feel like it's too
Dewy to use by itself personally, but these three powders have really done it for me this year
I was obsessed with them really good powders highly recommend them 2018 was the year of high end powders for me
so I'm gonna start with a little bit of
The hourglass one and I'm going to first make sure there are no creases under my eyes
Step number one and then I'm just gonna put a little bit on the sponge and then press it
Underneath my eyes here and then I'll just use a big fluffy brush and I will apply a little bit of powder
over the rest of my face
Particularly in the areas where I don't want the foundation to rub off and then I'm gonna take the Laura Geller powder
And I'm just gonna swirl my brush in it, and I'm going to start with the tops of my cheekbones
Applying a little bit under the eyes
Basically basically everywhere now, I'm gonna put on a little bit of blush though
I gotta say 2018 was the year drugstore blushes for me. I have a lot of favorites in the drugstore video
So check it out at the end of this video, but one from the high-end category that he really liked and used a lot
It's by bare minerals. This is their gen nude blush in the shade beige for days
This is a blush as I saw from Ali off of youtube and she was using it and I was like, whoo
I need it and I'm obsessive. It's so good
Oh, I just realized that I went right into blush and didn't even apply bronzer yet woops. That's fine. It's fine
We'll do it after this color is really nice and one I wouldn't have picked up myself
Because it has more of like a bronzy effect
I was like, oh it's gonna be too brown on my skin and it's not going to look right?
For me, but has a very subtle hint of warmth and like a rosy undertone
That's just like barely there, but it gives this beautiful
I don't know just this beautiful warmth to the skin and without looking too muddy and ya know I love it
so I'm getting my hair into my brush, and I know that's super annoying but I
I'm too lazy to go ahead and find something to tie my hair back and the bronzer I'm going to use
This is my ride-or-die this entire year. It is by Guerlain and it is their terracotta
Tan enhancing bronzer. It has a little bit of a blush kind of tone in the center
It has a bit of a sheen to the actual bronzer itself. It's not super matte
I will say that the scent is very very strong. Very perfumey
So if you are sensitive to scents, you are probably not gonna like this
But I just kind of like power through it because it doesn't sit on the skin. It's not
Scented all day like it does dissipate really quickly
But that really hits you in the face when you open up the product the color is great
I love how it has that blush in the center because I love blush like basically all over my face. It's so pretty
And it's not too dark. It's not too light. It's not too orange. It's not too grey
Just a really good tone blends out. Well, I really like it
Okay
Let's go on to highlight because there are two here that I really want to talk about one should come as no surprise
This is by ABH. It's the amrezy kind of collab that they did that is this highlight right here. It's a nice
Soft pale gold that is still light enough for my skin tones
Sometimes these just don't look right on my skin. But this one I find is light enough for me
This is the shade right here. It is a very over-the-top super glam. Very metallic
Very buildable gorgeous gorgeous color. And then the other one. I've been really enjoying is by Ofra. This is the highlighter in Star Island
-struggles-
This one has that same undertone being in that pale champagne kind of category
But it is much lighter these Ofra highlights are no joke
They are some of the most pigmented highlights
I have ever come across you to be very careful when you're applying these cuz a little bit goes a long way and that is
Coming from me someone who is obsessed with highlight and wants to bathe in it. So because I've used the abh one fairly recently
I'm going to use Star Island today
I've never used it with a fan brush before but I kind of want to try it. I know today is not for trying stuff
But I'm curious I feel like this would work well with this particular formula that is so pretty
let's get into lip color and there are a bunch here that I have that I want to mention because
ya know I used a lot and I'm sticking to just the neutrals today because I want to talk about the ones I use the
Most often and while I do love myself a good like bright pink or deep red and things like that
They weren't the ones that I use most often. So first of all, Bare Minerals glosses we have
Sugar and totally here. They just felt really nice on the lips
I'll swatch them all for you guys so you can see what they all look like
but where where am I going to swatch this so that sugar it's more of a pinky tone and then
Totally has more of a nude kind of a base. It's much lighter
Both are just very pretty very pigmented glossy glosses. Another class that I really liked is by Mac. This is their lip glass
This is from their holiday collections tinsel seeker, and it's a pretty shade
I've been using it a lot on top of any
Lipsticks that I have and it just adds a pretty sheen a nice pink pop to the lip. It's really really gorgeous
And then oh, this is the only bright shade that I wanted to talk about. This is by buxom
This is their Vava plump the entire lip collection the Vava plump line. I really really loved in 2018
This is in paradise bound which is a bright bright beautiful shade and it is super pigmented super over-the-top
Like look at that look how intense that is
It is a plumping lip gloss, but I did not find it to be like tingly or over the top or anything like that
I just felt it to be a really nice glossy high pigmented lip color that I really fell in love with this year
they also have some really nice nude shades too in case you're interested and then another matte lip color that I really loved is their
Versicolor varnish lip cream snare cream lip stain, and this is in crushing it one-one-one
This product is really pretty because it applies like a cream but it dries down to a stain
Look at that color, by the way, let's just like take a moment to appreciate that
But it dries down to a stain that stays put on the lips
I'll put like a gloss on top, but then I know I have that color on underneath. That's not gonna fade at all
I also have the red in this one as well and it's just like this kind of came out of nowhere
I didn't see anyone talk about this and I just loved it. This year was awesome
So I think today I'm gonna put on the Mac the cream lip stain
And then I'll put a gloss on top just so you guys can see what this looks like as a stain
Look, how pretty is that? Oh, I'm obsessed then. We'll top it with a little gloss maybe
sugar on top
Alright sugar on top. Oh, I just realized I didn't finish up underneath my eyes Wow got too excited
Okay
Let's set this makeup down make it not move all day and for that I'm gonna use the cover FX
Dewy finished setting spray. This has been one of my favorites this year. It's very
Like it's not gonna give you a very harsh and matte feel it doesn't feel really drying on the skin
It's very light like the mist is very fine. You know, I like that and it keeps my makeup in place all day
I really can't ask for more than that
Woah, look at that all my favorites in one place. Love it
But I need to know what your favorite product was from 2018 in the high-end category
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Wow and that's everything I hope you guys are having an amazing start to 2019 and make sure you stay tuned on Sunday
We're gonna be doing the worst products of 2018. There were some bad launches in 2018. So make sure you stick around for that
I hope you guys are having a great start to the year and I will see you guys all on Sunday. Love you all
