[dropcap]S[/dropcap]o we have covered Skincare and Body Products, now it’s time to move on to our favorite Fall beauty products in Face, Eyes & Lips, and Makeup Brushes.
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The following face products were specifically picked for their quick and easy application, and long-lasting staying power.
Benefit Cosmetics The POREfessional
- About: A face primer designed to minimize the appearance of pores
- Why We Love It: We have tried several face primers, but we always go back to the POREfessional. It’s lightweight, easy applications creates a smooth canvas for us to move on to foundation.
- Price: $31 Where To Buy: Benefitcosmetics.com, Sephora & Ulta
Revlon Color Stay Whipped Creme Makeup
- About: A long-lasting, mousse-like foundation that can be build up to full coverage.
- Why We Love It: By far our favorite drugstore foundation for dry skin. The whipped texture creates a semi-satin finish on the skin that feel light and looks flawless. Plus the staying power is amazing!
- Price: $14.99 Where To Buy: Ulta
Benefit Cosmetics Boi-ing Industrial-Strength Concealer
- About: This industrial-strength concealer helps camouflage dark circles, minor imperfections and discoloration without creasing or fading.
- Why We Love It: After trying the concealer in a Benefit concealer palette, we have been hooked ever since. The concealer does a fantastic job covering our dark circles with minimal creasing.
- Price:$20 Where To Buy: Benefitcosmetics.com, Sephora & Ulta
Too Faced Glamour To Go
- About: A on-the-go palette filled with eight eyeshadows, a bronzer, a blush, and a lipgloss.
- Why We Love It: The Too Faced Glamour To Go palette is one of our go to palettes for traveling. We especially love the bronzer and blush to warm up our complex this Fall.
- Price: $22 Where To Buy: Skinstore.com
Urban Decay All Nighter Long-Lasting Makeup Setting Spray
- About: A weightless spray to lock in your makeup all night.
- Why We Love It: We have been using the Urban Decay All night spray for years now. And for Fall, it’s an absolute must for locking our makeup, and making it look on point through out the day.
- Price: $14, $30 Where To Buy: Sephora, UrbanDecay.com
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Our favorite category of this series, these eye, brow and lip products have been our staples this Fall season.
Benefit Cosmetics Speed Brow
- About: A tinted brow gel that can sets and tames the brows. For gals on the go—this brush-on gel is the short cut to perfect looking brows. With a few quick strokes brows are set, tamed, and tinted. Now you’re ready for living in the fast lane!
- Why We Love It: This is perfect for those gals with thicker brows who don’t necessarily need to fill in the brows but want them to look a bit more polished.
- Price: $18 Where To Buy: Sephora, Benefitcosmetics.com
NARS Smudge Proof Eyeshadow Base
- About: A lightweight eye primer that keeps eyeshadows looking fresh all day.
- Why We Love It: With oily lids, it can be hard to keep eyeshadows lasting all day. But with the NARS smudge proof eyeshadow base, our eyeshadows don’t slide off within the hour.
- Price: $25 Where To Buy: Sephora
EM Cosmetics The Love Life Palette
- About: An all-in-one makeup kit featuring blushes, lipsticks, lip glosses and eyeshadows.
- Why We Love It: We have been enjoying the Love Life Palette from Youtube Beauty Expert, Michelle Phan. The travel-size compact that comes with the palette makes it incredibly easy to just pick and choose the eyeshadows we want. Paired with the NARS eyeshadow base, the em cosmetics eyeshadows blend smoothly and do last all day.
- Price: $59 Where To Buy: Emcosmetics.com
Milani Cosmetics Eye Tech Liquid Eye Liner
- About: This felt-tip liquid eyeliner is water-resistant and smudge-proof.
- Why We Love It: This eyeliner (right along the Jesse’s Girl one) is our favorite liquid liner of all time. It glides beautifully without tugging the eyelids. The best part is how well it stays on the upper lash line without smudging or flaking off.
- Price: $8.49 Where To Buy: milanicosmetics.com, Drugstores
Makeup Geek Gel Liner in Immortal
- About: A classic black gel liner that is water-resistant, smudge-proof, and safe for the waterline.
- Why We Love It: Whenever we want to change up our liners, we opt for the Makeup Geek gel liner in immortal because it is creamy, dark and stays put all day. Absolutely brilliant!
- Price: $8.99 Where To Buy: Makeupgeek.com
Maybelline Volum’Express Colossal Waterproof Mascara
- About: A waterproof mascara that adds volume and drama to the lashes without clumps.
- Why We Love It: The waterproof formula on this mascara works wonders on adding drama to our lashes without flaking off during the day
- Price: $6.99 Where To Buy: Ulta
EOS Smooth Sphere Lip Balm
- About: A sphere-shaped lip balm infused with Vitamin E, Shea butter and jojoba oil to keep the lips smooth.
- Why We Love It: We love use the EOS lip balm to prep our lips for the deep, rich lipsticks we have been sporting all season long.
- Price: $3.49 Where To Buy: Ulta
Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics Truly Red Lip Liner Pencil
- About: This creamy lip pencil helps prevent lip colors from feathering.
- Why We Love It: Anytime we want to rock a red lip, the Youngblood lip pencil in Truly Red is our go to product for keeping the lips looking their best.
- Price: $14 Where To Buy: Ybskin.com
City Color Cosmetics City Chic Lipstick in “French Kiss”
- About: The City Chic lipstick is formulated to gives the lips long lasting color and shine.
- Why We Love It: These affordable lipsticks make sporting the dark berry lips a breeze with their creamy, smooth formula.
- Price: $5 Where To Buy: Citycolorcosmetics.com
Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Lip Tar in “Black Dahlia”
- About: A richly pigmented lipstick concentrate
- Why We Love It: Anyone who knows us knows we have an OCC lip tar obsession. For Fall, we have been loving Black Dahlia. It’s the perfect dark reddish/maroon color (with a hint of berry) signature look so popular this season.
- Price: $5 Where To Buy: Sephora
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It is safe to say we are makeup brush addicts, so narrowing down our favorite brushes is difficult. But here are the best of the best brushes we have been reaching for this season.
REAL TECHNIQUES Expert Face Brush
- About: This face brush is designed to work with cream or liquid foundation:
- Why We Love It: We have been using the Expert Face Brush by Sam & Nic Chapman for several years now. The firm bristles make buffing foundation so simple and easy, we could probably do it blindfold. Our hats to the Pixiwoo gals Sam & Nic for creating a line of great affordable brushes.
- Price: $8.99 Where To Buy: Ulta
REAL TECHNIQUES Blush Brush
- About: Designed to flawlessly contour and define the cheeks.
- Why We Love It: Another great brush from the Chapman ladies. The soft bristles on the blush brush allow us to lightly tap into our blushes and sweep it across the cheeks.
- Price:$8.99 Where To Buy: Ulta
SIGMA BEAUTY F40 – LARGE ANGLED CONTOUR
- About: An angled contour brush
Why We Love It: We originally tested this angled contour brush when we gave the Sigma ‘Paris’ palette a try. We were impressed with the shape and function of this contour so much it has become a staple in our brush collection. - Price: $22 Where To Buy: Sigmabeauty.com
ECO TOOLS Bamboo Eye Shading Brush
- About: This shader brush features bamboo handles, synthetic Taklon bristles and sleek ferule made with recycled aluminum.
- Why We Love It: The dense bristles help pick up eyeshadows with no fuss.
- Price: $5.29 Where To Buy: Ulta
MAC Cosmetics 217 Blending Brush
- About: This oval-shaped brush is designed with densely packed fibers to blend shadows smoothly.
- Why We Love It: By far our favorite blending brush of all time, the MAC 217 is a must-have for any beauty lover or professional.
- Price: $24.99 Where To Buy: Maccosmetics.com
Crown Brush: Ve’s Favorite Brushes Angle Shadow Brush
- About: Designed by three time Oscar Winning Makeup Artist Ve Neill, this angle shadow brush can be used for blending and contouring the eyes.
- Why We Love It: When Ve Neill recommends a brush, we pay attention. This angle shadow brush has been amazing for applying our eyeshadows, and even buffing under eye concealer.
- Price: $7.00 Where To Buy: Crownbrush.us
Crown Brush Deluxe Infinity Shadow/Crease Duet
- About: This dual-ended brush works to apply eye shadow, while the crease brush helps define the eyes.
Why We Love It: The dual-ended brush makes applying our eye makeup an easy two-step process. - Price: $6.99 Where To Buy: Crownbrush.us
WAYNE GOSS Brush 07
- About: The Brush 07 from Youtube Beauty Expert Wayne Goss’ collection was designed for applying lipstick.
- Why We Love It: These brushes might be pricey, but the quality and performance can’t be beat. The shape of brush 07 makes it so easy to apply our lip tars or lipsticks, and even smudge eyeshadow on the lower lashes.
- Price: $17 Where To Buy: Beautylish.com
