Make Up Must Haves

Here are just a few of my favourite go-to miscellaneous beauty products for the month of January. On a daily basis, these are the products I find I gravitate to the most.  Let me know what your go-to everyday products are!

Eye pallets: 

Urban Decay - Naked Basics (1&2)

Too Faced - Chocolate Bar

I am seriously obsessed with the Naked Basics pallets right now! With hooded eyes, I try to stay away from shimmers and glitters (I'll talk more about that in another post) and these pallets have the most beautiful medium-tone crease shade and some incredible highlight shades! The formula is creamy and pigmented! Not to mention, perfect size for travel!The Chocolate Bar pallet by Too Faced has become kind of a cult favourite on the internet right now!

Basically every beauty blogger I have seen on Youtube has at least one tutorial using the original Chocolate Bar or semi-sweet pallets. I LOVE the shade options in this pallet! They are so pigmented and did I mention they smell like chocolate?!

The only thing I will say about it is, if you have incredibly sensitive eyes like I do, if I leave it on too long, or forget to apply an eyeshadow primer, it tends to irritate my eyes. (albeit it was only once and it was 7 hours into wearing it on my eyes)

Primer: 

Smashbox - Photo Ready color correcting primer

Can I say anything bad about this primer? NO! This primer has everything you can ask for in a primer for dry, red skin. I apply the smallest amount to my nose and cheeks and am left with a perfect, pore less complexion!

Mascara: 

Maybelline Great Lash

For me personally, all mascara is basically the same but different spoolies. But this formula is really nice! I heard quite a bit of good reviews on this mascara so I figured I would give it a go and, so far, am very pleased with it!

Blush/Bronze/Highlight combo: 

Sephora Combo

This was my very first trio so I feel like I should say something about it! I just learned about contouring a few months ago (I know I know, get with the times eh?!) so I picked up the Sephora store brand combo in the second lightest shade. 

Now, while the combo looks good with my skin tone, the powder is nice and has a good finish, the bronzer shade is a little too warm to contour with. I find warm tone bronzers make for a muddy look if you use it for contouring. (as a healthy glow around the face, perfect!)

But overall, a great first product!

Eyeshadow Primer:

Urban Decay Primer Potion

To be quite honest, I didn't even know there was such a thing as primer for your eyelids until Sephora moved into the mall near me. I honestly don't know how I ever did my eye makeup before this little bottle of magic came into my life! It somehow makes the colour of my eyeshadow looks so much more pigmented!