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Products I’ve been using and enjoying this month to create my makeup ~lewks~

 

Eyebrows

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz $21

 

Pros:

  • Precise lines

  • Easy to use

  • Large range of color options

  • Good for filling in uneven spots/touching up

  • Easy to blend

Cons:

  • Pricey

  • Runs out fast

 

Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade $18

Pros:

  • Relatively inexpensive

  • Little product goes a LONG way

  • Buildable color

  • Easy to blend

  • Creamy

Cons:

  • Moderately difficult to use, can get messy

  • Doesn’t come with a brush

 

Eyes

Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion

Pros:

  • Keeps eyeshadow from creasing

  • Little goes a long way

  • The tube lasts a long time

Cons:

  • Packaging makes it difficult to squeeze the product out

  • Expensive

 

Urban Decay Naked Heat Palette $54

 

Pros:

  • Easy to blend

  • Buildable color

  • Very pigmented,

  • Shimmery shades POP

  • Lots of transition shades

  • Definitely red-hued but surprisingly not overpowering

  • Makes you look and feel fierce

Cons:

  • Only use like 6 of the shades

  • the name “Ashes” (second to last shade in the palette) makes me uncomfortable

  • Shades don’t work for every skin color

 

Too Faced Better than Sex Mascara $24

 

Pros:

  • Relatively cheap

  • Volumizing and lengthening

  • Little product necessary for the desired effect

  • Jet black

Cons:

  • Clumpy

  • Smudge-y + messy

  • Can’t use alone for the desired effect

 

Diorshow Iconic Overcurl Waterproof Mascara  $29.50

Pros:

  • Intensely black

  • Holds amazing curl

  • Separates lashes

  • Intensely black

  • Doesn’t clump or flake

  • Doesn’t smudge

  • Waterproof!

  • EXTREMELY long lasting

Cons:

  • Annoyingly hard to wash off

  • VERY expensive

  • can’t use alone for desired volume/length

 

Face

Primed & Peachy Cooling Matte Perfecting Primer $34

 

 

Pros:

  • Lightweight

  • Smells good

  • Cooling

  • Good oil control

  • Pore blurring

Cons:

  • Expensive

  • Runs out fast

 

Born This Way Super Coverage Multi-Use Sculpting Concealer $29

 

Pros:

  • AMAZING coverage

  • Easily blendable

  • Super soft, smooth, natural look

  • Creases less than others

  • Lots of product

Cons

  • none

 

Laura Mercier Flawless Lumiere Radiance-Perfecting Foundation $48

Pros:

  • Long lasting

  • Nice texture/scent

  • Blurs pores

  • Lightweight

  • Radiant

  • Mattifies oily skin

Cons:

  • Limited range of shades

  • yellowy

  • Drying – wouldn’t recommend for dry skin types

  • Marketed as “full-coverage” but actually more medium coverage

  • Expensive

 

Tarte shape tape setting power $34

Pros:

  • Doesn’t look cakey

  • Prevents creasing

  • No flashback

  • Brightens under eyes

  • Vegan!

  • Lightweight & soft

  • Blurs + mattifies

  • Mesh lining prevents spillage + clumping of the powder

  • Keeps concealer in place

Cons:

  • Pricey

  • Limited color range

 

Benefit Hoola Cream-to-Powder Quickie Contour Stick $28

Pros:

  • Easy to use for amateur contour-ers

  • Easy to blend

  • Easy to apply

  • Warm, bronzey pigment

  • Good pigment

Cons:

  • Runs out fast

  • Terrible packaging – product literally falls out of the tube onto the floor

 

Urban Decay AFTERGLOW 8-hour Powder blush $26

Pros:

  • Little goes a long way

  • Good, bright pigment

  • Goes on even

  • Buildable color

  • Vegan!!

Cons

  • Pricey

  • No mirror in the compact

 

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray $32

Pros

  • Dries quickly

  • Keeps makeup in place ALL DAY/NIGHT

  • Covers entire face in one spray

  • Fine Mist

  • Refreshing

  • The bottle lasts a long time

Cons

  • Makes face feel a little sticky/tight after (but worth it and feeling goes away)

  • Need to use more than instructions say

  • Pricey

Michaela Pinette is a junior at Bates College. She is a Biology and Economics double major. In her free time, she enjoys napping, going to the gym, watching the bachelor, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and pulling all-nighters to finish homework.
Elizah Laurenceau is a senior at Bates College. Her hobbies consist of rewatching Call Me By Your Name, using Huji to take pictures, and playing with her dog. She spends her days either glued on her computer or late nights finishing up work.