NEW AT SEPHORA! NEW Pat Mcgrath Quads, Westman Atelier Foundation , Patrick Ta & MORE!

[music] Hello, my dear friends. Oh my gosh, there is so much makeup launching. It is hard to keep up, but you know, this is what I live for. I am loving testing all of the new makeup. So, I have some more new makeup to test today that I think you guys would be interested in. The absolute start of the show. I did I did end up picking up two of the new Pat McGrath quads. How can I not? You know, she launched four. We'll talk about it. And then I just have a couple other things that I thought I'd try alongside it because I got to get to tested on this stuff. I have the new Westmin Itilier foundation, the new Patrick Ta artistry sticks. Finally, I picked up this new Ilia finishing powder, which looks to be kind of like an hourglassesque finishing powder style. Laura Mercier just launched some new cream face palettes. So, I might grab into this for at least blush and highlight today. I don't know about the bronzer. And I picked up the shade I had been wanting of the lip oil stick from Rare Beauty. Some of these items I actually have for an upcoming haul, but I honestly couldn't wait to get them on my face. So, I'm going to give you the little preview before. So, I spent an arm and a leg on this Westminier foundation. I used it yesterday on Instagram stories, but I didn't get to wear it for long enough. This is their Supreme Bio Complex Liquid Foundation. It is a whopping $69. It is Westminatilier, but it sounded right up my alley. It's supposed to feel weightless, have a medium coverage, blur and smooth the skin with a very hydrated finish. in Westminatilier I would target as a mature skin friendly brand. So normally if it works on mature skin it's going to work on everybody and I find that this really feels like a skin care first formula and there are skincare ingredients here that's supposed to like smooth and brighten and tone and firm but like I feel like every foundation nowadays claims that. But I do feel like this feels really nice on the skin and it it does feel like a skincare product to me because it does feel really hydrating on the skin. The only call out I'll have that it claims is I don't feel as though it's weightless. I mean that's okay because it does feel nice and hydrating. But yeah, it does not feel weightless. It almost feels like a moisturizer, you know, a cream. So here's how it looks on my skin. You can see very hydrated, very skin-like. I don't think it blurs pores or anything, but it definitely evens the skin out while keeping the skin looking nice and hydrated. By the way, I picked up shade Ailier L2. I think is a tan shade for me. So, I could have gone just a wee bit lighter. It still is workable for me right now. But, if you are a shade match, do keep that in mind. Like, I'm not unhappy with this shade match. I wouldn't return it, but I probably could have gone a wee bit lighter. Let's build up a little bit of coverage. This is how she's sitting on the skin so far. I think the skin looks really healthy. It does give a true medium finish. I just need to see how this wear is, but I definitely like it. It's not beating out my Dior foundations in a fight by any means, but it does look really beautiful. And I think if I'm having a dry skin day that my skin will really thrive with this. So, I do think it will be a great option for mature skin. I did order the Patrick to Artistry sticks. They're $34 each, so they're quite expensive. There's 10 different shades, so I thought I'd show you the ones that I picked up. Got the brightener in spotlight. This shade is amazing structure for my skin tone. And then this one is shape. So, these are like thin contour sticks, which are becoming quite popular right now. Like, I have mixed feelings about these thin sticks because I really like them for like my nose and my lips, but I don't like them for contouring like the outskirts of my face. But this, the shade structure, I love for down the nose. I used these yesterday as well, so I'm definitely forming an opinion on these now. But structure is the absolute most perfect nose contour shade for me. It's natural enough, but it still adds a nice shape. I also really like this around the outskirts of the lips. Actually, there is a little brush on the end here that you can use. It's a little It's a little dense. I don't love it, but in a pinch, you can use it, especially for like the nose and stuff. Now, shape. Here's what I don't like for using this for bronzer. It's really more of a contour shade, I guess. You know, if you truly were just using it to pinpoint certain areas on the face, it's not that big of a deal, right? Just a little here, a little there. Just more precision. This is fine. Then you can go in with a different bronzer. But yeah, I guess this is good for the pinpointed shape. Yesterday I was using it all the way around and it just felt like such a waste of product to me. So I would almost never reach for this to use as my bronzer for the day. I'd only use for this for precision contour, which this is meant to be used as contour, but it's a shade that can also be used to bronze if you want. Not a super warm bronze, but especially if you have a cool undertone. Um, but yeah, just pinpointing under the cheeks, it's fine and it does blend really nicely. I think this is a very nice formula. It's easy to use. So, if you love a more pinpointed contour style product, you'll like this. You can also run this into the eye for the brightening shade. You can use it like right here to clean up and brighten. You can put it on the under eyes if you want. It didn't mess with my concealer too much. It is quite creamy. So, I'll probably just use this here for example. I would also use this if I wanted to brighten or shape like underneath my eyebrows. But you see how nice that does blend and that does clean up and brighten. So, just think, you know, if you're looking straight forward, where would you want the brightest points of the face? You can kind of naturally see you'd want it here, you'd want it here, you'd want it here. And you can go through and correct with this brighter shade as well if you over bronzed or over contoured. I'm just going to leave it at that. Overall, I think these are very, very nice. They blend very easily. If you like the thin shape of them, you will enjoy them and they don't mess with the finish of the foundation or anything or catch on to any dry patches. They truly just shade and shape where you want them to. I have two of the new Laura Mercier Bond Glow Cream Face Palettes. I hadn't heard much about these, but you know, I'm a Laura Mercier stand here. They're quite expensive. They're $59. There's four different shades. It's a creamy balm to powder face and eye palette. It's a face palette. I have the shades a more And then here's Jolie, which will be more for medium complexion. So, I want to see how exactly cream to balmy this is. It just feels like a really wet balm if I'm being honest, which I mean, you can see how wet that looks. I don't like that. Very, very sheer. I don't know if I'm going to enjoy this, but I thought I would use it for some color on the face today. So, we'll take the sculpt shade. Just using the Amore palette. Yeah, this is quite subtle. Very natural actually. Quite pretty. Melted in really nicely. I was not impressed with this. Like I don't really see it being powdery. It's similar to the new Armani blushes where those are balm and they turn to powder, but those ones are actually a lot more pigmented. These are more sheer to begin with. Actually going to take the highlight glow color first. You know, I'm really picky about a cream highlighter, but actually it's not that bad. This is quite natural and pretty. It's again, I prefer a powder. This is not changing my mind anytime soon. No. See, it's emphasizing. It's emphasizing texture. I don't love it. Actually, it's okay. It's okay. It does add a pretty glow, actually. Am I giving you whiplash? Um, it's pretty good for what it is. I'm content with it today. And then we'll put on a little bit of this peachy pinky cheek color. I don't know if these are going to last very long though on the face. I feel like these could fade just based on how it's swatched, but we'll have to see. Yeah, I didn't love the highlight cream. It's pretty. It's good for a highlight cream, but I do feel like I lost some of the smoothness on my face from it because it emphasized a little bit, but good enough for the cheek color today. I think [snorts] it's quite expensive though for what it is for $59. I'm going to continue using it, but on first impression, I'm not like jumping for joy over this. I picked this up out of my own curiosity, the Ilia Self Focus Finishing Powder. It's $44 for a powder, but it was giving me very much Hourglass vibes because it's supposed to hydrate the skin and blur, add a dimensional finish while also ex absorbing excess oil. So, I'm just going to use this to lightly set my skin today. I used this yesterday. I wasn't sure quite how I felt. This one I think is going to take a number of uses to gain my thoughts on, but my idea for this is to set my makeup without looking completely mattified. Hopefully, that's where I would like to use a powder like this. And I feel like it did a really nice job of that today. I didn't love it yesterday, but I feel like it did exactly what I wanted it to do to almost be an untraceable powder on the skin that will set my makeup, but didn't flatten everything that I use. Like the Westmin Itilier foundation added such a pretty glow. I wanted that glow to stay and I do feel like it's there. So that's nice. I don't think it like blurred or anything, but it set without being too mattifying. So, so far so good. So, okay. I like how I use that today. But let's get into the meat and potatoes of this video. I did end up ordering two of the eyeshadow quads from the new Pat McGrath collection. These have potential. I'm not sure. I wanted to do the research for you, but this is like her backstage artistry collection. So, you can get the whole collection on the Pat McGrath website. I just ordered what was available at Sephora because the Emerald Eyeshadow Quad was absolutely beautiful. And then there was this, it's supposed to also be a face palette of like primary colors basically. I knew I didn't want that. So, I settled for the two that they had at Sephora. And then they also have an eyebrow gel that's like tinted and it changes the color of your eyebrows. Not my style, so [laughter] I didn't purchase that, though I do believe that is available on Sephora. I picked up the two eyeshadow palettes and these are $62 each and I want to see if these are giving old school Pat McGrath because, you know, they've been going through a lot of changes lately as a brand. So, I was just curious like what this launch was going to be. So, the packaging is kind of simple here. I can see on the back it already says made in Italy. 18 month shelf life. She's launched little quads like these before, which historically are pretty nice quality. The pans are smaller than I thought they were going to be, but these are Rose Rebellion. I mean, they're not like small, but remember these quads used to just like take up the whole palette. They don't anymore. They're smaller. But they've launched palettes with these size pants before. This is the one that I know you guys want to see because it's the one I wanted to see. Ooh, that's pretty. But I'm not I'm not seeing any special shades. This is Film Noir Nude. Beautiful. Okay, let's get these swatches on. We'll do the exciting one. So, metallic, satin matte, metallic, and then this is basically a metallic shade as well. No special shades in this one. The shimmers are a little sticky feeling. Not in a bad way. They'll stick to the eyelid, but I just want to note what I'm feeling. Ah, that kind of looks kind of looks average. No, like a normal like a normal pretty quad, but nothing special. This one has a little bit more potential here if you can see these shades. So, let's see what formulas we're working with. This doesn't necessarily feel like a special special shade, you know, from the Mothership palettes, but it's got a little more oomph to it. We have a matte ballet pink satin matte. Has some reflex in there. Kind of chocolatey brown. Okay. And then this shade's kind of special. Yeah. So, the color palette that I love the most, the noir, has nothing special about it at all. Turns out the rose shade, which I almost passed on, actually has a little bit of pizzazz here. So, let's see this last one. Yeah, it's still not the formula that I'm looking for, but it is more true to Pat McGrath. This looks like it's going to be a little little flaky. We'll see about that. But yeah, this palette is just all regular metallic, which is disappointing. Beautiful, but disappointing. But this one looks like it's actually going to give us something. Let's play with this palette first, the Film Noah nude, because I'm disappointed in it. It had potential to be so stunning. I mean, it is stunning, but wow, this is super duper pigmented, though. It had potential to be amazing. It looked gorgeous, but it's just like normal formulas. So, just not what we're used to from Pat McGrath. I mean, we are now, but [sighs] [gasps] as an OG fan, still holding on hope. Anyways, this is a lovely, beautifully pigmented crease shade to start us off. I'm sure this is going to be gorgeous, this palette here. Going to use that also on the lower lash. Run that along. Let's add some depth here. I'm being careful because this shade could have some fallout because it's so metallic, but it's actually sticking to the eyelid really nicely. Just getting a little bit of additional depth built up. Going to use the bronze shade on the majority of the eyelid. Oh, that's gorgeous. I mean, it's very, very high quality. All of these shades, just not the special texture, but gorgeous nonetheless. And then we're going to take the lightest shade and brighten everything up. When I say I like cool tones, this is the kind of cool tone I'm talking about where it's really just neutral taes. Like this is what I want a giant Natasha Denona palette of. Oh, that's beautiful. Oh my gosh. I was just talking crap on this palette, but like it's gorgeous. Like I love this look. I love the quality. I love the tones. This is an ideal everyday palette for me. Um, it's not special, but I love it. Okay, I was ready to be like, "Oh my god, what a waste of money." It's not. It's beautiful. Okay, let's try Rose Rebellion, which I was pretty sure I was not going to even buy, but this one actually has some spunk to it, a little bit of fun. So, I'm just going to start off with this ballet pink. It's actually a little bit of warmth on it when it's blended into the skin. Now, this we've seen a billion times over from Pat McGrath, as you know. The girl loves rose. Always mauvey roses. Like, they came out with Divine Rose. It sold so well, put the brand even higher on the map. Uh, and then they like could never let it go and everything after that point was rose. This is like a peachy rose. I wish it pulled less warm on me, but anyways. And then this chocolate brown has some pink reflex in there, but the pink reflex are going to blend away. It's one of those formulas. I don't know what I want to do. I was almost going to do a halo eye and then I was almost about to put this brown all over the eyelid because I want to layer the shades, but I do want to see each shade kind of on their own. So, I'm just going to leave this as is. But there's a couple looks that I have in mind. Oh my gosh, I have to admit, you guys, it feels good to play with eyeshadow to play with Pat McGrath eyeshadow, no less. How fun. So, this shade is got a chrome to it, right? I think it's duo chrome. It has like a golden green shift to it. Oh, this is beautiful. This is a special shade. It's like her more modern special shades, not the OG special shades, but that's really pretty. This does give Pat McGrath. That's so funny. I am so upset that there's nothing special about this palette. I love it, but the palette that I wasn't going to get is the one that actually has what I was looking for. I They just Why does it have to be pink? Why did the special palette have to be pink? Does the Emerald palette have any special shades? Let me know. I passed on it, but I don't know. I'm like kind of wanting it now. Now, this shade did feel a little chunky to me. It looks a little chunky. This might have to be tried on a different day just cuz I don't have enough eyelid space, but if you use a glitter glue, it's fine. I'm going to have to keep you guys updated. I just don't have the space for this, and I wanted to try this one. But these are high quality eyeshadows, you guys. The mattes are blending beautifully. The shimmers are messfree. Very, very high quality. Let me put a little bit of brown liner on in the typical Pat McGrath way. I mean, I was not excited about these little guys. They're beautiful and I just had a really fun time with them. I think it's just been so long since I've used Pat McGrath eyeshadows on camera that these are fun. These are these are very pretty. They are not anything new. Nothing was reinventing the wheel here, but if you need a little new fresh Pat McGrath kick. I mean, I do like these. I do. Um, and then last thing that I have, I'm just going to finish off. It's not going to match, but my eyes are already mismatched. I want to try the formula of the soft pinch lip oil stick from Rare Beauty. I picked up the shade Dream. It was sold out at my Sephora, so I ordered it online. They're so nice. They're very pigmented. hydrating, have a little bit of a glow. They don't feel too goopy or melty in the stick, but I wouldn't suggest leaving this in the sun. I love this shade. This is such a pretty everyday mauvey pink. Okay, it's already escaped outside of my lip liner, though, so hopefully it doesn't get too messy. Boom. That's what we're working with today. That was a fun little play sesh. I mean, it's not like a put together look, but here's what we've put together here. I love how hydrating the Westminatilier foundation is. I still don't know if it's like worth it or a top favorite of mine, but I do think it's going to be really hydrating and beautiful for mature skin. It's just not as blurring as I would have liked for it to be. The Patrick Ta artistry sticks are exactly what you would want out of these, but they are thin. So, I wouldn't really use it for the outskirts of my face, but for more precise areas, fantastic. Not sold quite yet on this cream face palette from Laura Mercier. Going to have to wear it some more. The Ilia powder, I liked how I used it today, so going to This is another one where it's going to take a few uses for me to decide. Uh, I like this lip oil stick. I mean, it's it's a lip product, so whatever. But obviously, this was the main focus of the video. And as uninterested as I was by this launch, the quality didn't disappoint. The formulas in this particular one did disappoint me in that it was missing [clears throat] anything special. Like these are both the same price point, but this just has basic [snorts] nice quality like metallic shades, whereas the rose one actually has some extra special pizzazz that I think warrants the price point a little bit more. But that said, even this palette, like it's gorgeous. It's high quality. So yeah, I mean, if you're a Pat McGrath collector, these aren't anything new, but I like them. So that's that's that on that. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. I just wanted to cover these quads because I knew a lot of you are curious about them. I hope this helped you make your decisions. And if you picked up the green palette from the Pat McGrath website, let me know the formulas in there. I'm curious. And I'll see you guys in the next one. Bye, guys. Have a good one. It's delicious. [music]