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Please, thumbs up this video because this is
our first episode of the new year.
2017 was pretty wild.
I moved to a new apartment,
I adopted a cat.
I tested deodorant
and proved to the world that I’m really...
not good at math.
And I tested tons of new makeup trends.
In this episode, I’m going to take a look back and share
with you guys my favorite products from the year.
But, instead of just showing it to you guys,
I’m gonna do a giveaway at the end of this video.
Two of you will get a chance to win a $250
American Express gift card,
so that you guys can buy some new makeup
and skincare and haircare for the new year!
I’m not gonna tell you to the end
so wait for that.
Please don’t skip ahead,
because you’ll make me really sad.
First things first--
skincare, which I’ve actually already done today
but I’m going to tell you about them anyway.
My favorite cleanser is called the
Kat Rudu Coco Honey Papaya Enzymes Cleanser.
It smells like...like fruity honey.
I love honey!
Honey is great because it’s antibacterial
and then there’s papaya enzymes and fruit enzymes
in here that are good for gentle exfoliation,
so I love using this in the morning.
And I also use it at night
so it’s just my all around cleanser.
Next up on the skincare front is this mask
by Renee Rouleau
and last week I put up a video where I got a facial from
Renee and if you watched that video you’d know that
I’m obsessed with her and her product line is amazing.
So she gave me this mask
but I’ve actually used it before
and it is just really good.
It’s called Rapid Response Detox Masque.
It has a golden kind of gel texture
and it’s designed specifically to prevent breakouts.
Moving on to makeup.
I’m actually going to put it on my face as I talk about
them so it’s kind of like a mini favorites video
and a Get Ready With Mi.
It’s a two-in-one!
First up is foundation and I have here the
Estee Lauder Double Wear Nude Cushion Stick
Radiant Makeup.
It’s part of the Double Wear line
so it is very long lasting.
Because it’s a cushion radiant formula,
it doesn’t look super drying or cakey on the skin.
This is the next product.
It is amazing.
It’s called the It Cosmetics Bye Bye Breakout
full coverage treatment concealer.
It is designed to be good for people with acne.
But what I love about it,
and I talk about this to everybody,
is it has this beautiful finish.
I will literally forget that I’m wearing it.
I can touch my face
and it’s not gonna come off on my hands.
It’s just beautiful.
It makes your skin look really nice.
It doesn’t look drying at all,
like a lot of other acne concealers do.
I’m going to focus it on the areas I’m breaking out,
which is around my cheeks.
I’m going to put it around my nose,
a little bit under my eyes.
It’s a really good all around concealer,
in my opinion.
Next up is powder.
It is also from It Cosmetics.
It’s the Bye Bye Breakout powder
from the same line as the concealer that I love.
It’s a really good powder.
It keeps my oil controlled throughout the day.
I usually will take a little bit onto a fluffy brush,
dab it onto my cheeks,
set the areas where I concealed my pimples.
Get my t-zone and then dust off all the excess.
Next up is bronzer and my favorite one is
this one from Han.
It’s called the Malibu Bronzer.
I like it because it’s natural.
The first ingredient is rice powder.
It has cocoa powder in it.
It smells like chocolate.
It’s just really good and a pleasure to apply.
Moving on to blush.
I recently discovered Artist Color Powders
from Make Up For Ever.
So you can choose whatever you want basically.
They have a bunch of bronzers, they have a bunch of
blushes, they have a bunch of highlighters.
And you can create your own trio,
you can just take a single.
If you’ve ever tried Make Up For Ever’s HD powder,
it has this really nice slick feeling...
these powders are kind of like that.
I like that this rosy shade goes on my face very evenly.
I don’t put on a lot of blush
but I just feel like it makes me look more alive.
Next up is the moment you might have been waiting for.
I definitely have.
It’s the highlighter!
I actually have two that I’m gonna show you guys today.
They’re in different formulas though,
so I feel like it counts...
they both count as my favorite highlighters.
First up is this from Milk.
It’s called the Holographic Stick in the color Mars.
It is so beautiful.
It’s this duo-chrome, peachy,
highlighter that has a pink shift.
This is my powder highlighter favorite.
It’s from Wet N Wild.
It’s called the MegaGlo Highlighting Powder.
This one is Golden Flower Crown.
These are just really, really solid great highlighters.
So if you’re looking for something
that’s pretty affordable but really packs a punch
and comes in a ton of really amazing colors,
these ones are amazing.
You can use them on the eyes,
you could put it on your cupids bow...
it’s just a really lovely all around, really good highlighter.
Next up is eyeshadow and I have a palette here
that you may recognize from another video.
It is the Huda Beauty Desert Dusk palette.
I tried this palette for the first time in one of my
previous eyeshadow palette videos.
I’ll link it right here.
Click on it after you watch this video.
I did a look with it and I was so impressed
with this palette.
It is beautiful.
It has these beautiful, rusty shades.
I love this burnt orange shade right here.
It has a lot of beautiful mattes.
This Eden color, this peach, is beautiful as well.
And it also has really interesting shades.
This Cosmo color is literally just straight-up glitter.
It’s just a very versatile palette.
You can go glittery with it, you can go matte,
you can go natural.
So I am going to do a look with this palette
but I’m going to use one of my other favorites
so I’m going to talk to you about that first.
This is a glitter from Lemonhead.LA.
It is so beautiful.
I never thought that I would be so excited
about a pot of glitter.
This stuff makes using glitter so easy.
So I’m going to use this,
but I’m going to lay down a base
with my Huda palette.
So I’m gonna go all over the lid in kind of a cat eye
graphic shape using this matte purple shade
called Amethyst.
I’m gonna put on Space Jam.
Going for this really glittery eye.
So when I’m going for a graphic shape
I like to use this with a brush.
I brought the glitter up to my crease
but not over where I put the purple eyeshadow
so it kinda looks like the shadow is outlining my glitter.
And that’s the eyeshadow done, folks.
Next up I’m going to talk to you about eyeliner
and I’m a very big eyeliner person.
I wear an cat eye pretty much every single day
if I’m not going crazy with my eyeshadow
and my favorite one is actually this one from DHC.
It’s called the DHC Liquid Liner.
It’s from a Japanese brand
and what I love about it is the brush.
It has the most amazing brush tip
with actual little hairs that the liquid comes out of
and it just makes the most beautiful strokes.
But I know that this one is a little bit hard
to get ahold of.
You can only get it online.
So I also adore the classic Kat Von D Tattoo Liner.
Liks the DHC liner the Kat Von D has a brush tip as well,
also very fine.
I’m just going to very, very slightly line my eyes
just to define my lash a little bit more.
The teeny tiny little brush tip makes it really easy
to get in between your eyelashes.
Then I’m going to go in with some mascara and this one
by L’Oreal, it’s called the Lash Paradise Mascara,
is my favorite.
I only wear it in the waterproof formula
but if you guys aren’t into that the regular formula
is really good too.
I love this one because it has a really great
volumizing formula.
The brush is super thick.
It’s just a lovely mascara.
Eyes done...
but I have one more eyeshadow
that I want to share with you guys.
I wear it all the time
but for the sake of this video I didn’t use them.
But these are the L’Oreal Infallible Paints.
I actually did a look for my Instagram
where I used these and I’ll use this beautiful baby blue
all over my lid in the same kind of winged out shape
and then I’ll put a little bit of black eyeliner, mascara and
that is my look.
So we are onto the final makeup product.
The category is lipstick but I actually have
three that I want to show you because I love lipstick
and I couldn’t just choose one.
So I’m gonna start with the drugstore option
which is this lipstick from Maybelline.
It’s actually the entire line, the Loaded Bold.
This is my favorite shade.
It’s called Dynamite Red.
It’s a really, really beautiful classic red shade.
It’s a matte, but it’s not drying.
You put it on and it feels like...
almost like lip balm.
It dries out matte and then it wears
really evenly throughout the day.
Look at it, it’s so pigmented.
So nice.
Next up, Nars launched these
Powermatte Lip Pigments.
I actually did a video on them.
They lasted so long.
I was floored.
How’s your lipstick holding up?
What do you think?
It’s pretty incredible.
It’s still there.
Really good.
Lasts forever.
Don’t feel like they are gonna suck
the life out of your lips.
Just all around, really good liquid lipsticks.
Final favorite is this
Lip Magnet from Giorgio Armani.
This is a pricy lipstick but it is ridiculously smooth.
The applicator is really great for getting all around
the lips and getting full pigment right away.
It just feels light as air.
It’s like...
it’s like a second skin on your lips.
So this is the makeup look done
and I’m going to move onto hair.
First product is this straightener from Bio Ionic.
It is a one inch straightener.
It has a nice tapered side right here
so it’s easy to curl and straighten with it.
So what I do, when I curl it,
I’ll take little sections of my hair, starting in the back,
and curl down and up in kind of a zigzag motion.
So once my hair is sufficiently wavy,
I will go back in with a texturizer
and I’ve been loving this one by Verb.
If you put it into your hair after you’ve curled it
then it gives it this beautiful,
beachiness to it.
If you put it in straight hair,
like the texture of my hair before I curled it,
it’ll give you a little bit of pieciness, a little bit of texture
but it won’t create curls by any means.
Overall, I love it as a finishing product after I style.
10/10 I would recommend to a friend.
I think that’s it guys.
That was a lot of product.
You by no means have to use all of that.
That’s just everything that I've personally loved this year.
But now, the moment you’ve all been
patiently waiting for...
the giveaway.
I have two $250 American Express gift cards
to give away to two lucky subscribers.
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If you’re really excited about the giveaway please let me
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Thank you guys so much for watching,
I hope you enjoyed this video.
it was so fun to make.
I’ll see you guys next week.
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