Brush Up Top 10 Makeup Picks
I am a Professional Makeup Artist and an educator. Being into this profession, I keep on purchasing and trying different and new makeup products to see which one fits in.It is definitely a struggle to find the right products that actually work. To make the process easy for everyone, I have personally swatched, swiped and tested a lot of makeup products to find the best ones that are actually worth spending money on.
Below you will find the list of my top 10 beauty products that you can try. They will help you make a statement without saying a word as the best makeup products have always been a means for self-expression. These recommended products can be easily found on Nykaa or any Sephora store near you.
- MAC Strobe Cream
MAC Strobe Cream is one of MAC’s bestselling products across the globe. It is a serum like highlighter that contains mineral pigments that help in brightening up your complexion and make it look like you are glowing from within. It contains potent botanicals that de-stresses, moisten, freshen and boost the look of dull, flat or tired-looking skin by providing it with a plethora of nutritious vitamins and a mega dose of green tea.
You can use it underneath your foundation to give your face an inner glow. It can be used as a highlighter, i.e. only on the high points. It can be also mixed with foundation to make your foundation more dewy.It is best for people with dry to combination skin types.
2. Benefit porefessional Primer
Benefit Porefessional is one of the best pore minimizing primers. It quickly minimise the appearance of pores & fine lines and gives you really smooth skin. It is translucent and the formula is oil free, hence complements all skin tones and helps makeup to stay for at least 7-8 hours even in hot and humid conditions.
The primer has a balm like texture and is slightly coloured but becomes transparent once blended. It has a very velvety finish which applies easily on the face. It works on sensitive skin type also without any breakouts.
It has silicone content to it, so it’s advisable to stay away from it if you are allergic to silicone.
3. LA Girl HD Pro Concealer
L.A. Girl’s HD Pro Conceal is a range of creamy concealers and colour correctors that offer opaque coverage. These are crease-resistant concealers and have a very lightweight texture despite being creamy. The concealer has a long-wearing formula and hence helps in camouflaging darkness under the eyes, redness and skin imperfections. These concealers provide complete yet natural-looking coverage, even skin tones and hide imperfections, cover the dark circles and minimize fine lines around the eyes.
The best part is it comes in a tube for easy dispensing and application and blends really smoothly into the skin to give natural finish. It comes in various shades so as per your need and requirement you can choose the right match of your correctors and concealers.
This is a multitasking concealer and is perfect for contouring and highlighting. The concealer is budget friendly and works really well for combination skin as well.
4. Make Up For Ever Ultra HD Liquid Foundation
Make Up For Ever Ultra HD Foundation is one of the bestselling liquid foundation. It’s an iconic foundation that provides undetectable medium to buildable coverage and a blurred, second skin finish that stays up to 24 hours.
Its weightless formula contains hydrating hyaluronic acid, smart adaptive pigments that adjust to your complexion, and skin-fusion technology that blends easily to create a natural, skin-like effect. It remains completely invisible under super focused camera technology and provides a seamless blend.
This foundation is quite popular with Makeup artists and makeup lovers because of its superior bend ability, advanced blurring properties and natural finish. It’s available in 50 shades for almost all skin tones. The foundation is perfect for all skin types.
5. Benefit Cheek Parade Palette
This is just the perfect cheek palette with all your cheek desires absolutely met here. Benefit’s iconic bronzers & blushes are put together in this cheek palette. Cheek Parade comes with two bronzers, three blushes, and a short-haired brush. These 5 shades normally flatter all the skin tones and they are all in full size. These are all powder products that Benefit sells separately but you get an amazing deal when you buy them in this palette.
The set includes:
- Galifornia Blush
- Rockateur Blush
- Hoola Lite Bronzer
- Dandelion Blush
- Hoola Bronzer
The quality is great, the value is amazing, and the packaging is out of this world. It’s really very beautiful and cute.
6. Anastasia Beverly Hills – Brow Wiz
Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz is an ultra-slim, retractable eyebrow pencil and is ideal for outlining and detailing brows. The retractable and ultra-fine tip is perfect for spot-filling in areas where brow hair is sparse by mimicking fine, hair-like strokes, while the spoolie end blends for a natural-looking finish.
The unique wax formula adds texture, deliver a high colour payoff and creates the appearance of fuller-looking brows with ease and flexibility. The smudge-proof formula stays whole day for fresh, natural-looking brows. Brow Wiz is available in 10 shades and can cater to all skin tones.
7. Huda Beauty Rose Gold Remastered Eye Shadow Palette
Huda Beauty Rose Gold Remastered Eyeshadow palette is a reformulation and a transformed version of the original Rose Gold palette. This palette is inspired by Huda’s obsession with the absolutely necessary colours you use on a daily basis. With its modified shades and game changing textures, these eyeshadow is now the best in the business.
The palette includes eight buttery mattes, eight melted metal shadows, one black shadow that can be used wet or dry, and one Pressed Pearls shadow. The new ‘metal fondants’ have such a creamy and molten consistency that they can easily be blended with either a brush or your fingers.
The eyeshadow palette has very pigmented colours. They are really easy to blend and build up and are very buttery and long lasting.
This Remastered palette is dreams made reality and nothing compares to this 18-pan spectrum of buttery shades.
8. Inglot AMC Gel Liner
One of the Best Eyeliners! It has high intensity pigments that provides ideal coverage and rich colours after just one application. It has a creamy and delicate formula that dries to a long lasting, smudge proof, and crease-proof finish. Once it dries, it is waterproof and doesn’t flake.
If you are one of those people who have oily lids, or watery eyes, and no matter what you have tried, your eyeliner always smudged or transferred, and you’ve been looking for a holy grail gel liner then THIS IS IT!
9. Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara
Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara is an intensely black voluptuous volume mascara for the defined, sexiest, multidimensional lashes possible.
It provides extreme volume and a more dramatic look with each and every coat. The hourglass-shaped brush was designed with extra stiff bristles that separates, coats and curls each lash to voluptuous perfection. The formula is carbon black and one coat of the same makes lashes full, defined, and stretched to unbelievable lengths.
Two coats and the lashes are even more luscious, curled, and dramatic. Three coats of the mascara help you achieve the most intense, black, multidimensional lashes possible.
The mascara is smudge free and long lasting. Its paraben free and vegan friendly.
10. Smashbox Always on Liquid Lipstick Gula-Bae
This is just a custom made shadelaunched by Smashbox, created especially for the women of India. GULA-BAE is a versatile and unconventional pink created especially for the women of India.
The lipstick is a solid, matte finish liquid lipstick with strong, deep pigments. The lipstick is infused with Primer Oil complex and offers comfort and does not dry your lips out.
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