Your make up must haves?

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Curious to hear recommendations for products you swear by. I don’t use much make up and keep it very minimal but I don’t mind spending a bit for good products as I tend to use them all before buying new stuff (except for lipsticks).

My must haves are:
Bare Minerals powder fundation (I also try new ones every winter but always like to have one of these in my make up bag)
Charlotte Tilbury and Lisa Eldridge lipsticks (mostly the mat ones)
Nars Orgasm blush

Erborian bb cream, annoying it's so expensive but it's a HG
CT pillow talk lip liner, the lipstick is nice but a little too brown on me but weirdly the liner is the perfect shade
Ilia limitless lash mascara, another HG makes my lashes look so long, non-clumpy but again annoying it's a more on the pricey

UKLash serum, made a massive difference to my eyelashes and eyebrows. I also love their mascara.

Bronzer, eye shadow stick and lipstick in the summer, plus tinted moisturise in the winter.

Bronzer from Jones road, eye shadow beauty pie and the lipstick is an old Revlon red.

TM from Shiseido, or Suqqu. they do the best TM and foundations.

Must be cruelty free products.
Barry M nail polish various colours
Barry M Pink blusher
Barry M mascara
MUA eyeshadow palette
Elf putty primer
Jane iredale tinted moisturiser
Burts Bees lip balm

Hula Benefit Bronzer
Sky High Mascara
Huda Beauty Bake Powder
Mac Velvet Teddy lipstick or any Charlotte Tilbury

Rimmel 60 seconds nail varnish in various colours

Benefit bag gal and roller lash depending on occasion

Benefit hoola

Garnier bb cream

Tret

Huda Beauty bake powder
Holika Holika aqua petit jelly BB cream
Jones Road mascara
Glossier Futuredew
Glossier Boy Brow
Victoria Beckham Satin Kajal liner

Rimmel BB Cream
Max Factor Miracle Touch blush in soft pink
Rimmel lip gloss in Snog

That's it, I've become very low maintenance in my 50s!

I always use:
Erborian BB cream
Nars creamy concealer
Laura Mercier translucent powder
Chantecaille gel blusher although I’ve also started using a Stila cream blusher which is lovely
Benefit precisely my brow and gimme brow

For lipsticks I like Lisa Eldridge, Mac and various others. Mascara, still haven’t found my holy grail.

Lisa Eldridge foundation
Nars eye primer
Hourglass glow powder - ambient I think it’s called
Glossier cream blush - Cloud Paint is the product name
Bobbi Brown smoky eye mascara
Red lipstick - Mac/Lisa Eldridge are my faves

Chanel Vitalumiere foundation although it's been discontinued 😭
Chanel cream bronzer
NARS orgasm
Maybelline mascara (any of them they're all great)
Juvia's Place eyeshadow palettes.

suqqu foundation
skin 79 bb cream
suqqu powder pure colour blush in 136
nars multiple in copacabana
daniel sandler watercolour blush
urban decay setting spray
revlon balm stain (discontinued so i buy them on amazon)
loreal black lacquer eyeliner (ditto)
nars creamy concealer

This is basically my whole look plus mascara, brown eyeshadow , face primer and a champagne powder highlighter. I haven't found HGs for those categories!

benefit they’re real mascara

Estée Lauder lip liner pencils (I buy the same three all the time and between them they go with every lipstick)

garnier micellar water with the pink lid

Benefit blushers (for the formulation) - a shame that they’ve discontinued Coralista though

Benefit Pore-fessional primer

Urban Decay eyeshadow primer

Kosas Cloud Set face powder - not matte and doesn't separate or look cakey.

Clinique Dramatically different moisturise used as a primer. Discovered by chance that this makes a fantastic primer for foundation.

Tatcha VIOLET-C BRIGHTENING SERUM mixed with any foundation that I am using as I chop and change my foundations all the time. It makes every liquid foundation into a smoothing emulsion that glides on evenly, doesn't separate or go cakey and makes foundation feel weightless. As I've got older I don't want to feel that I'm wearing a face full of make up.

Mac concealer in a pot. I mix a variety of shades with a little brush.

I also love JML mineral magic powder for a super quick all over no make look as it buffs in really well.

Vaseline is a fantastic product and I apply sparingly to lips, blot and then apply lipstick and lips look smooth and plum. It's like a primer on my lips.

UK lash serum
MAC lengthening mascara
CT Beauty Blush Wand in Pillow Talk and Peach Pop
Victoria Beckham Satin Kajal liner in black, cocoa and bronze

Maybelline age rewind concealer in cool ivory
Rimmel dark brown eyebrow pencil or Technics brow mascara
Maybelline Superstay lipstick in Caramel kiss
Aveeno calm and restore night cream
Simple revitalising eye roll on gel
Any more and I look painted

Erborian redness corrector
Laura Mercia concealer
Clinuique tinted moisturiser
Perversion mascara by Urban Decay
Clinique chubby sticks for cream eye shadows
Urban Decay nude lipstick

I'm 50

My must haves
Bourjois healthy mix foundation.
Clarins bronzer/blusher
Maybeline mascara in pink tube
Clarins lip gloss or lipstick in various neutral shades.

I only wear these products these days...

Nars radiance primer
Nars tinted moisturiser
Chanel cream bronzer
Maybelline Sky High mascara
Charlotte Tilbury brow pencil
Any of my MAC or Charlotte Tilbury lipsticks.

The only one I won't compromise on is the Nars Orgasm blush. But it has to be the liquid.

I'm also a very big fan of the Rimmel Exaggerate liquid eyeliner. I've been using that one for 25 years now.

Lashify lash system - lashes stay on for at least 7 days and I clean and reuse.
Nars orgasm blusher
lisa Eldridge lipsticks

I am very curious to try Jones Road products. Is the bronzer the one in the pot that looks like gel? How do you apply it?

I have 2 items that are absolute staples - Estee Lauder doublewear foundation and Lancome hypnose mascara. Every time I try a new foundation or mascara, I regret it and go back to my faves!

Everything else I'm not too fussed. Although my most used eyeshadows are Charlotte Tilbury quads, I have 4 different ones.