Video summary
The video features a detailed review of various drugstore makeup products specifically curated for mature skin, where the creator evaluates each item based on performance, texture, and suitability for aging concerns. The presenter begins by discussing setting sprays and primers, ultimately passing on the Milani Make It Last Microfine Mist due to its drying alcohol content, while highly recommending the NYX Lid Lingerie line for its long-wearing matte and shimmer formulas that do not dry out eyelids. She also praises the Morphe Cloud Light blushes for their baked formula and saturated colors that diffuse beautifully, alongside the Revolution Beauty natural nude balm, which she finds excellent for concealing creased or dried-out foundation throughout the day.
Moving into complexion products, the creator expresses strong enthusiasm for the L'Oreal Balm Foundation, noting that despite its initial tacky feel, it dries down to a natural finish with good coverage that does not settle into fine lines. However, she is less impressed by the L'Oreal Infallible Cushion Foundation, citing issues with product quantity and overall preference for other cushion options. For setting powders, she gives a pass to the Next Wonder Snatch powder due to low value but recommends the Revolution Beauty Powder Pops for its effective oil control and blurring properties without feeling heavy. She also highlights the Ulta Beauty contour sticks as incredibly creamy and blendable, particularly praising their lack of orange tones which makes them versatile for both contouring and bronzing.
The review continues with a focus on eye and brow essentials, where the presenter falls in love with the Maybelline Colossal Bubble Mascara for its ability to build length without smudging, and recommends the Morphe Brow Definer pencil for its comfortable angle and dual-ended design. She is equally excited about the Maybelline Sculpting Stick eyeliners, which offer a micro-thin tip for precise application and a built-in brush for creating wings, boasting impressive 24-hour staying power. Additionally, she lauds the Morphe Jewel Intentions eyeshadow palette for its tonal shades that allow for versatile looks using just a few colors, reinforcing her belief that these affordable options rival high-end quality.
In conclusion, the video serves as a practical guide for shoppers looking to navigate the drugstore market with confidence, offering clear distinctions between products that succeed on mature skin and those that fall short. The creator emphasizes that while some items like the Elf blush sticks were too emollient and faded quickly, others like the NYX Wonder Snatch concealer provide a great dupe for more expensive serums without creasing. By sharing her personal experiences with each product's longevity, texture, and finish, she aims to help viewers make informed purchasing decisions, encouraging them to try specific items while skipping others that may not deliver the desired results for aging skin.
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Hey friends, I have a bunch of new
makeup in front of me and
most of it is drugstore. I think I'm
going to reserve the high-end stuff for
later after I try it quite a bit. So,
these are fairly new to me. I've just
been trying them. I'm going to
rapid-fire through purchase or pass.
We're going to do that. I'll give you
the reason that I say either one of
those, so you know that and hopefully
you'll get some great recommendations
out of this. Everything that I have on,
including my necklace, my earrings, the
shirt, all of the makeup will be listed
for you down below as well. And also all
the products that I hold up will have a
number in the corner of the screen that
you can go down and shop in the
description box or in the first pin
comment that way to find the products if
you'd like to. So, let's get going
because we have quite a bit to go
through. Pass or purchase on the Milani
Make It Last Microfine Mist for me,
pass. This was very drying. It does have
alcohol in it and so it is going to be
very drying. If you're an oily person,
though, you might like this a lot in
place of the One Size because it really
truly is a very fine mist, which is
lovely, but for me it was just too
drying throughout the day. I tried out
the Super Superlock Maybelline, this is
the brow setter gel. This is a purchase.
This is so good. It holds your brows. I
have hairs that on this eyebrow right
here that stick straight down and this
one does the trick so good. If you have
gray hair, it's going to also hold that
gray hair in place. Such a good eyebrow
gel. NYX has their Lid Lingerie Matte
and they also have a new shimmer one. I
do like both of them. They're both very
long wearing and they both both really
dry down really well without drying out
your eyelids. That's a huge thing for
me, but they don't stay tacky. I use
this one. This one is in Nude Endo and
this is such a good one for using as an
eye primer base and it just works out so
well to take away all the discoloration.
I actually really, really love this one
for that, but their colors are beautiful
as well. Also, Morphe recently came out
with their Cloud Light blushes. You
guys, these are incredibly beautiful.
They are every bit as good quality as
the powders, which I use all the time.
This is my second powder that I
absolutely love in Dawn. I'll link this
one for you as well. These blushes are
are saturated, but at the same time you
can diffuse them out very pretty. They
have really pretty colors. I'm sure
they'll come out with more. Morphe does
blushes really, really well and this is
like a baked formula that just looks so
pretty on cheeks and I also tried from
Revolution Beauty. This is their natural
nude is the color. These are their balms
and you can see that you have to break
that seal right off the bat. But, what
you get is left with is this natural
looking balm, kind of like Jones Road.
It has the same kind of text- texture as
that. You can use this if you get the
situation during the day where your
concealer looks terrible, creasing,
dried out, whatever you get with that.
You can use that right under there. I
did hear about this from the makeup
artist on TikTok. I can't remember what
her name is right now. She's also on
Instagram. I can't remember what her
name is. If I think of it, it'll go up
on the screen for you guys. But, love
this and glad that she mentioned it.
It's a really good product for doing
that. Here's the Morphe Cloud Light
powder, but it's in a darker color that
I've been using for a bronzer and it is
a really good one, really nice one for
warming up the face. This is their
darkest color, I believe, in sunset. It
might not be the darkest one. I know, I
think it is. I think it is the darkest
one. So, this is a beautiful powder from
a Revolution Beauty. Their Bouncy Glow
Highlighter and I think this is the rose
colored one. Let me see what the color
is. Dawn. This is a feel like almost
like Super Shock Shadows from ColourPop.
It has that same feel and when you get
it on your cheeks, it's going to just
have glow. Nothing more, no glitter in
it. It's going to give you a beautiful
beautiful glow and I absolutely love
this product. It reminds me of high-end
products. I think it's just such a good
one. I'm really in love with that. It
gets sent from Maybelline the Colossal
Bubble Mascara and I had tried this
before but I'm going to tell you that I
fell in love with it. I didn't expect
to. I thought, "You know, I think I've
tried this before and I think I didn't
like it but I did. I really
ended up enjoying it." It builds up
lashes. The lashes look beautiful and
natural and it really gives a ton of
length and it stays all day. For me,
there was no smudging on it whatsoever.
And then I tried the Morphe brow definer
and I really love this one. This one is
in the color hazelnut. I don't know
about the color. It seemed just a tiny
bit warm to me but what I loved about it
is the angle, the pencil itself and then
of course you get the spoolie on the
other end. Really great product that was
easy to use. Um not too stiff, not too
emollient to where it just rubbed off
but really good one and I'm enjoying
using that one a lot too. Elf did bring
out their sticks on their blush and on
their bronzer. I will tell you that I
feel like these are just
they seem like they are compared to all
the other blushes that are going on
right now, they seem just a little bit
too emollient like they wiped away too
quickly. So that was my problem with
that one. With these, so these are a
pass on this one. I'm not really really
happy about that. This one is in the
color medium on their contour bronzer
stick and I didn't like this color at
all either. Very quickly throughout the
day, they just went away. L'Oreal came
out with two foundations that I recently
tested. They came out with their balm
foundation quite a while ago, and this
is a gorgeous foundation, by the way.
Absolutely adore and love this
foundation for mature skin. Because even
though it is a balm product and it kind
of feels, you know, real tacky as it's
going on, it dries down and it looks
very natural on your skin. This gives
good coverage and yet doesn't feel like
heavy coverage on your skin. And I I
actually really love this. I used it
with my sponge and found that it covered
up a lot of like dark spots and whatnot
on my face. So, I actually really
enjoyed using this. L'Oreal came out
with their Infallible Cushion Foundation
as well. I feel like this is light
medium buildable coverage. One thing
that I am not crazy about a cushion
foundation, I left my cover on there
because I did not want it to dry out.
So, one thing that I'm not crazy about
with a cushion foundation is that you
just don't get that much.
Um it's a great concept to be able to
take it on the go or whatever, and
that's probably what I would use it for,
but I don't know if I like this
particular foundation just for
foundation. I think that you can do
better in a lot of other cushion
foundations. These eyeliners from
Maybelline, I love these things. You
guys, you have to check these out. These
are called sculpting sticks. One is in
Smooth Espresso. They're 24-hour liners.
They have an angle on it again, but wow,
this is a micro thin liner that you can
do your upper lash line or your lower,
either one. It has this really great
angled little teeny tiny brush on the
other end. So, you can go in and do a
wing if you are somebody that likes
wings, then you can do them very easily.
It just is a great little brush on that
end. I was so shocked at how much I love
this. And as far as staying power,
fantastic staying power on those. Next
has this powder right here, which is
their Wonder Snatch powder. Although I
really like this powder, feel like you
don't get very much at all for what's in
here. So, this one was a pass for me.
It's a nice setting powder, keep that in
mind as well. Uh Revolution Beauty, this
is the powder pops and this one is in
rose. This comes in a few different
colors. This rose is great. The oil
control on this is really good. The
blurring property is really good, but it
doesn't feel super heavy. I really did
enjoy this one and I feel like this one
keeps your shine at bay as well. This is
the NYX Wonder Snatch concealer. I did
put this in another video as a
alternative to the Tower 28. Definitely
feel like this is a dupe. This is really
good. It has that same serum
consistency. Thin enough, but pigmented
enough that it's going to cover really
bad dark circles, but thin enough for a
mature skin that it's not going to
crease and it's not going to settle in
heavy into those fine lines. Ulta Beauty
came out with their new contour sticks.
Um
loved this. Absolutely loved how creamy
it was, how well it blend out blended
out on my skin. And I think this one is
the light medium color. This is the the
perfect contour color and it has no
orange [clears throat] in it whatsoever.
You could use this as a bronzer, but I
probably would just stick with it just
as a contour. Very creamy and very
beautiful. Milani came out with their
tubing mascara. I felt like this was
better than their last version and I did
like it very much, but I did feel like
the Maybelline Sky Tubes actually beat
Milani out on that. This just for some
reason it built up like nothing else
I've seen. You can continue to build on
itself and it just it looks so good.
Separates, it it comes off easy. It's
just a beautiful beautiful product. I
love it and I would say skip the Milani
and go for the Maybelline. I told you
all that I was going to try these ones
from Morphe when I had that PR haul and
these are amazing shadows. And I think
that you can get all kinds of looks out
of these. All I did with this one right
here, which this is the Jewel
Intentions, so it has a very deep mauve
and then kind of a light purple topper
and then the cream color right here
that's a matte. So, matte, matte, and
shimmer. And all I did today was I put
that matte right there all over
everything on my eye and clear up into
the onto the brow bone right up here, um
just as a little bit of a transition.
And then I put this that is the purple
on top of it. That's all I did today for
an eye shadow. And the eye shadow look
looks tonal and I I love it. And I can
tell you that all of these palettes are
just they're just beautiful. All right,
that is it for today's video. I hope
that you did enjoy seeing these today
and I hope that you are relaxing and
enjoying the rest of your day as well.
Tell me if you tried any of these
products down in the comment section. I
would love to hear that from you. Take
care. Love you. Talk to you soon.
Bye-bye, friends.