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The speaker presents an enthusiastic review of Ulta's "21 Days of Beauty" sale, declaring it to be the best edition yet due to the sheer volume of high-quality brands and new items available at 50% off. She explains that while she typically highlights a select few favorites, this year's catalog was so packed with gems that she had to curate her list carefully. The video is structured as a day-by-day guide starting from August 28th, offering viewers early access details for premium members and outlining specific products to watch out for. She emphasizes that while not every single item on the daily lists is perfect, there are numerous "bangers" across the sale period that make it an incredible opportunity for makeup enthusiasts to stock up on their favorite brands. Throughout the review, the speaker highlights several standout recommendations, including the Dibs Glow Tour Duo shimmering blush and contour stick, which she praises for its creamy formula and suitability for deep complexions. She also champions iconic items like MAC lipsticks in classic shades such as Cool Teddy and Blankety, Charlotte Tilbury's Hollywood Flawless Filter, and the BK Beauty Essentials Collection Face Brush Set, noting that getting these high-end tools at half price is a rare find. Additionally, she recommends the Urban Decay Face Bond setting spray and the Laura Mercier Real Flawless foundation for their longevity and performance, suggesting they are among the most underrated foundations on the market that deserve to be purchased even at full price, let alone during a sale. Conversely, the video serves as a cautionary guide against wasting money on specific products despite the discount, such as the Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Instant Setting Blotting Powder which appears dry and sits poorly on the skin, and the NARS Multi Stick which she finds patchy and difficult to apply. She also advises against purchasing the Urban Decay Tube Job mascara and certain Charlotte Tilbury foundations that tend to feel heavy. The speaker notes that some days of the sale are quieter with fewer exciting deals, but urges viewers to focus on the weekly steals from August 28th through September 3rd where major brands like Rare Beauty and Estee Lauder's Double Wear foundation appear. She concludes by encouraging viewers to utilize her daily breakdowns in the video description to navigate the sale effectively, ultimately praising Ulta for securing better deals and cooler brands compared to competitors like Sephora.
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As requested, I went through the entire Ulta 21 Days of Beauty catalog and I picked out some of the best and some of the worst items that you can pick up during the sale. As somebody who has tried tons and tons of makeup, almost everything out there on the market, I want to bring my experiences to you to share with you the ones that I think you will love and the ones that I think you should save your money on. And you guys, I have to say, as I was going through the catalog, you guys, this is the best, the best Ulta 21 Days of Beauty yet. Normally when I do this, I pick like 10 really good items and sometimes, you know, I have to stretch it a bit and like, you know what, I'll put this one in. Oh my gosh, I had to cut items off my list. They have some ultimate favorites this year. I don't know how they did it. Like, there's a bunch of brand new items to the market that are going to be 50% off. So, it's a good one. This is one that you are going to want to watch. I actually think I might do daily, almost daily, not every day is great, but almost daily posts of the best items because there's just too much. The items that I picked, there's even more that I want to talk about. Like, there's a lot of items that I enjoy that I'm not featuring as the best, but like I still want you to know about them. So, I just had to say that. Like, this Ulta 21 Days of Beauty is the best year I've seen from them yet and I don't know how they're doing it. So, this is going to be a fun video. >> [music] >> So, I will have down below the best items by day since every single day is going to be a different deal. If you don't know how Ulta 21 Days of Beauty works, 21 days, every single day there is quite a lot of items set for that day that are 50 50% off, you guys. They also do have weekly deals. So, on top of the daily deals, they do have a number of products, again, a ton of products that are going to be 50% off for that entire week. So, this is the page, the preview page, and then it will remain the same once the sale actually starts. If you are a diamond or platinum, you're actually able to start today, early access, exclusive access to the sale. It looks like you have 35 beauty steals in store and online when you have exclusive early access. So, I think we're going to go day by day here, and I want to start off with Friday, August 28th. There is one item that I wanted to call out as a favorite, and that is going to be the Dibs Glow Tour Duo shimmering blush and contour stick. So, you're going to get 50% off of $38, which is a fantastic deal. And this is already amazing cuz on one side you get a contour stick, and on the other side you get a blush shade. Now, how this is different from their original stick duos is this is more of a shimmering finish, but these are beautiful nonetheless. They also have beautiful shades for deep complexions, as well. I gave some of those to my friends when I got these in PR, but these are beautiful, creamy, easy-to-use, easy-to-blend formula. I thought she moved. So, this is one I am so, so excited about. If you love cheek products, these are amazing. Now, unfortunately, during this day, there also is a major hit that I don't recommend, which is the Fenty Beauty Invisimatte Instant Setting Blotting Powder. This sits on top of the skin and looks extremely dry. So, I don't even think this is a product that is worth it on sale. You can get better, more affordable powders that work better than this, if you ask me. This is coming from somebody with dry skin. Saturday, August 29th. This is an incredible day. I just want you to know that these three items, I love. I'm recommending them. Also, you can get a Chloe perfume for 50% off. I know a lot of people love Drunk Elephant. Like, there's a lot of bangers on this Oops, did not mean to click on that. I don't personally recommend this one. Uh, but there's a lot of bangers on this day. It's a good Saturday to go to Ulta. But, my favorite recommendations that I will have linked down below would be the MAC Maximal Silky Matte Lipstick, Silky Satin Lipstick, just their lipstick line in general. They have so many iconic shades. I pulled out a few of my favorites. Cool Teddy, Warm Teddy, Yash, Blankety, Fleshpot. Some of my favorite nudes are available from MAC. I believe I demoed the shade Blankety. If you're looking for a good cool pink nude. So, I mean, MAC lipsticks are classic. I don't need to make a whole review on this. You know they're amazing. And they have so many classic shades here. So, you can get a MAC lipstick for $12.50, which is incredible. So, I'm really excited about this for you guys. If there's any shades you've been wanting to stock up on or restock on, now's a good time. Also, I wanted to call out Charlotte Tilbury. There's a number of items during this sale where you're going to get Charlotte Tilbury for 50% off, including her iconic Hollywood Flawless Filter. Now, I'm not going to lie, there's a lot of really great dupes of this out there. But, if you want the original, $25 for a Flawless Filter from Charlotte Tilbury, another incredible deal. I used it today. It's been a while since I've used it, and I have to say, I see why this is the OG. It sits so smooth and pretty on the skin. I used the shade three for all over my base, and number one as a highlight. And, I mean, there's the reason that she She this trend because she's the OG of it. So, I just think Charlotte Tilbury at 50% off is incredible. I don't think she's ever been in this sale before. So, she's a brand to watch out for. Sunday, August 30th, there was some items that did catch my eye, but nothing I wanted to write down and recommend to you. However, on August 31st, that Monday, this will be online only, but if you're looking for a quick brush cleaner, I highly highly recommend this Cinema Secrets makeup brush cleaner. Now, I used this when I was a makeup artist because it sanitizes, it disinfects brushes, and it really quickly gets out literally every little bit of pigment. Now, don't get me wrong, you should still, you know, wash your brushes under the sink, but if you really need to clean your brushes, professionals use this for a reason, and this is a great way to just try it since it is a travel kit. But, guess what? It's only going to be $7.50, so this is an incredible time to try it. What a phenomenal deal. I don't have any call outs for September 1st or 2nd. I'm trying to see if there's anything major here. I mean, you can get some Juvia Place brushes, those are pretty good for 50% off. Juicy Couture, if you're into this one, smell it in store. I do like the Jane Iredale eyeshadow sticks, but again, it's not like an all-time favorite. So, these two days are a little bit more quiet for me, but on Thursday, September 3rd, my absolute favorite complexion BK Beauty, is having an 50% off. So, it's going to be $75 for the Essentials Collection Face Brush Set, which has all the brushes you would need. I love this brush for foundation. I love this brush for either bronzer or all-over finishing powder. This brush is great for bronzer. This Any Any powders. Any powders. However, you want. These ones are nice and not too dense. The one one middle is the most dense, which is why I like it. Sorry. Is why I like it for bronzer, but these are super soft. They're synthetic fibers and they just have the best most high quality of complexion brushes. So, $75 for these four brushes is incredible. Now, BK Beauty often has sales on their website, but you can never get 50% off these brushes. So, that's why it's incredible. Also looking towards this day just because I have to get my two cents in anything here are amazing. Urban Decay eyeshadow potion. That's always a classic. If you use that, restock on that. And then the About Face Matte Fluid Eye Paints are also really nice. Now, if you go here, they're some weekly beauty steals. So, they're going to be the for 3 weeks these deals. So, from August 28th to September 3rd, let's see what we're working with here. The only thing I put down for this day is a product I don't recommend. If you scroll down here to the bottom, you'll see a lot of Sigma eyeshadow palettes here on sale. I do not like Sigma eyeshadow palettes. So, that's definitely a worst item that I don't recommend. I've never liked their quality. I found them hard to blend and a little bit patchy. So, for me, even at 50% off, these aren't worth it. But, here to kind of redeem Sigma, I do love this color correcting duo. That is incredible and very high quality. Oh, wow. You can get some leg and foot massagers. Some interesting interesting products. It's worth a look. Here, I've used this recently. I didn't really love it. Didn't help with my dandruff. Nah, I don't really love this week's drops. So, this one is not very good. Friday, September 4th. The only product that I caught out because I think it's amazing, I just have never seen these on sale because it's such a popular product, are the Sol de Janeiro body butters. I really love this purple scent and the pink scent. So, their classic one isn't going to be on sale, but that's okay because the pink one and the purple one are absolutely amazing and I love the way that these soak into the skin. I love the way that they smell and I've never seen them at 50% off before, so I wanted to call those out. I talked really fast during that because I had to sneeze. Anything else for that day? I like Wild Daisy perfume though. I haven't tried this so intense. Max Studio Radiant serum is pretty nice nice and thin. I think that's it for this day. September 5th is pretty cool that Rare Beauty is going to be on sale. I don't love this product specifically, but it's nice that it's on sale. If you happen to see your go-to brow products on sale, definitely stock up because you know brow products are the quickest to run through. So, one of my favorite pencils that's really really precise is from Benefit. It's the Precisely My Brow pencil and it's only going to be $14. So, even though it's not an exciting item to purchase, if you happen to see your favorite brow pencil or gel, please pick it up because this is a sale that you want to stock up. So, I do want to recommend the Benefit. Also on this date, they do have a product that I recommend not to purchase and it's going to be the Beautiful Skin foundation. So, even though I was talking about how Charlotte Tilbury actually has some items on sale, I don't recommend this one because it sits quite heavy on the skin. There's just so many better foundations that I'm going to talk about during this sale. This is one that I don't recommend picking up even though it's Charlotte Tilbury. I I don't like really foundations from Charlotte Tilbury. I've never liked her foundations. So, this one is no exception. I do like her Airbrush Flawless, but still she's just never to me been a brand that I tag as a good foundation brand. September 6th, I didn't really have anything that caught my eye personally, nor September 7th. I didn't like the scents that they had for Sol de Janeiro, but that's just, you know, my own thing. You know, nothing I want to talk about there. Nor September 8th or 9th. So, these are meh days, if you ask me. The only thing that would excite me on the 8th would be beauty blenders, because those are expensive. Then on the 9th, this is nice, but again, I'm not obsessed with it. So, yeah, we have a few days where it's going to be a little bit dull. I don't recommend that, but what is very exciting during the week of September 4th to 10th for the weekly deals, there's products that I really enjoyed. The foundations, I said, don't waste your money on the Charlotte Tilbury, but definitely, definitely hold off and buy these two foundations, if you're interested, right? I'm wearing this one today, the Urban Decay Face Bond self setting waterproof setting spray, which What is wrong with me this morning? I cannot see. I cannot speak. Okay, Urban Decay Face Bond self setting waterproof foundation. I love this. It's on my skin right now. I demoed it today. It is so smooth. It is absolutely worth the full price, $40. So, the fact that you can get it for $20, incredible. If you ask me, this is one of the most underrated foundations ever. I obsess over this one. I think it's great. Last great in the summer. Amazing. The other one, amazing during this weekly deal, is from Laura Mercier, the Real Flawless Weightless Perfecting Waterproof Foundation. This one went through a little viral phase, but it is really beautiful and long-lasting, and I recommend it for all skin types, especially oily skin types, which I have a dry skin type, but I know this works beautiful on oily skin as well. And Laura Mercier is quite expensive, so 50% off $54 is pretty incredible. So, these are some of my favorite underrated foundations, if you ask me. They're long-time favorites of mine, so I when I saw they were on sale, I was so excited for you guys. I don't need to purchase them, as you know, but anything else super exciting? My mom loves the Drybar dry shampoo. That would be her recommendation through and through. Ew, I do not like this. Do not like this one at all. I love the foundation version, but the highlight version is not for me. Lots of dull tan. Okay, anyways, worth the look, but the foundations for this week, what a good stinking deal. Hold on, I got to put a pacifier on my baby. Um, what are the chances you think she's going to go back to sleep? This is her butt. These are her legs up in the air. This video might be interrupted anyways. >> [laughter] >> All right. Friday, September 11th. Oh my gosh, this first thing right here, Bobbi Brown eyeshadow sticks. You know I think these are so underrated. They're going to include both the double-sided and just the OG. Today I I did only matte shades today. I just wanted a simple eye look as per usual. What's new here? But I used the shade antique rose and then taupe in the outer corners, but I think the mattes from Bobbi Brown in particular are incredible. I don't love their shimmers quite as much, though. First of all, eyeshadow sticks are so so so so so so expensive. So, um, when I did my eyeshadow stick video, a lot of you were like, "Well, I just can't justify an eyeshadow stick. I I might as well just buy an eyeshadow palette." Which I totally totally get, but I do just love how quick, fallout-free eyeshadow sticks are. So, 50% off. This like I'm screaming to you guys. This is my own personal recommendation cuz nobody else likes eyeshadow sticks, but like I'm This is very exciting. Anything else exciting during this day? Oh, this one's cool, too. From BK Beauty, again. I like their face brushes better than like their eye brushes, but their eye brushes are still great. So, you can get this for $40, five brushes. So, BK Beauty and Charlotte Tilbury like the new brands to the Ulta sale. Well, BK Beauty was in the last Ulta sale as well, but still. It's still a new and shiny brand at Ulta. So, really great sets. Um Saturday, September 12th. Did I have anything? Yes, I did. This classic right here, this OG, Estee Lauder Double Wear. This will be the reformulated version, but 50% off $52, $26. You can't beat that if this is a favorite of yours. I still do really, really like this foundation even after the reformulation. So, I know there are so many people where this is their daily foundation. So, if that sounds like you, boop boop boop. Stock up. Yeah, guys, I'm going to have to feed her soon. Her feet are up in the air. I knew it was game over. I went to put the pacifier in her mouth and she smiled at me. Like, she was not going back to sleep. Also, for this date, a classic, right? I love this one. I've it's not currently in my rotation, but this is so stinking expensive, the Double Serum from Clarins. So, if you are a user of this, which I know so many of you are, you better buy it because that is an incredible discount. And I think that's everything that I enjoy. And then on the th- Excusez-moi. >> [snorts] >> And then on the 13th, I always talk about this. You guys know, Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution lipsticks. I love Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks. They're like my favorite. I know they're so, so expensive, but at least you can get them for 50% off. Now, this is the Matte Revolution. I do prefer for Kissing, but their Matte Revolutions are still really good. You can get the classic Pillow Talk for 50% off. Shades that I like I did demo class. I did demo Pillow Talk for you. It is like my lip color, but better. Even though people say it's too peachy, I do really like this on myself for an everyday lipstick. It's iconic for a reason. But from the matte revolutions, I love Catwalking. I love Cinematic Red. I love First Dance. It is a little deeper than it looks on the demo. Pillow Talk medium, wore that for my wedding. Super fabulous, Supermodel. Those are all going to be great nudes. Ah. I mean, her matte colors are still so so great. So I definitely recommend these cuz I do love a Charlotte Tilbury lipstick. And then one of the items that I don't recommend that you might be tempted by are the multiples from NARS because a multi stick is so in right now, but these are patchy and hard to apply. I do not like this formula at all. They did recently reformulate them. I tried the reformulation. I am not a fan of the reformulation. So this is not even worth it for $20. You can get so much better cream sticks out there. So a no on that. Um I didn't tag anything for the 14th. Nope, I don't think I've tried any of these. Oh, there is a complexion set from BK Beauty, but these aren't my favorite brushes from them. So that's why I didn't tag it. September 15th, I know these are really popular, but a item that I use every single day during this sale is on sale. I mean, it's not too bad in price to begin with, but for $11, it's amazing. Tangle Teasers. If you have hair that gets tangled up, this is even better than the Wet Brush. The way my hair just glides with this brush. Okay? Not a single stop. Not nothing with these brushes. I don't know how they do it, but it's true. Like this no tangles exist with this brush. So, this is an item I wanted to recommend because I literally use this every day. Every single day. No, I don't because I don't brush my hair every single day, but if I'm using a brush, I've been using this. Um they have them for different hair types, curly to coily, fine, straight to wavy. So, this would be the one that I would get. I think I just have a generic one. I didn't even know they had one for hair types. How cool. I might have to get one, honestly. You can never have too many of these. On the 16th, I do believe I skipped a day. Yes, but I do like the Elemis night cream and they're very, very expensive. The RMS Beauty ReDimension blushes are fantastic. This is one of the longest-lasting setting sprays. I honestly should have put that on the list. Uh yeah, I would say that that that covers that. But on the 17th, I did have a call out for something that you do not want to waste your money on and it's This is a fairly new product. This is the Urban Decay Tube Job mascara. Don't do it. There's just much better out there. That's all I'm going to say on that, but I wanted to call it out because it's a brand new item to the market, which is very, very exciting, but also this mascara itself is not very good at all. If I'm being honest. It's fine. Not worth it though. These, did they change the formula of these because I remember them being super dry from Stila. The vocal fry, I know some of you guys are not going to like it, but it's the morning. Um and then I didn't tag anything for the beauty deals this week. No, buy this. No, this flakes. I don't know how Better Than Sex got so popular. This is very blurring here from Tarte. Tartelette, that's a good one. I like these Buxom lip liners. They They great neutral shades. See, so much I could recommend. So much that I didn't. That's why I'm going through the list with you just to talk. Like I just I've tried so many things. I've got my opinions, okay? But that does cover it. Those are all the notes that I had for the 21 Days of Beauty. If you want it a little bit more condensed, just come back to this video because down in the description box, I will have this not this by date. That was for me. But just for me to go down the list, but you'll see this right here by the date. I have them. If you come back to this video, whatever date it is, you can just check right here and I'll tell you items that I think are worth it and items that you should not spend your money on here in the worst section. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and found it somewhat helpful. You know, this is just my experience as somebody who's tried a ton of products and I think that this sale is incredible this year. Like Ulta is killing it just overall. Like you know I'm a Sephora girl. I love Sephora, but like I can't stand up for Sephora anymore, honestly. I've been enjoying Ulta a little bit better lately because I've just they're doing the cooler stuff. They're having the better sales. They're getting all the good brands. So shout-out to Ulta. Shout-out for this sale. It's quite incredible. I will keep you updated. Make sure you guys have my notification bell on because I will tell you daily deals that are super duper duper worth it. So you'll get that notification. Hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you guys in the next one. Okay, have a good one.