What I use: makeup and face products

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Makeup
I should preface the makeup portion by saying I might wear makeup twice a week and that's usually on the weekend. Like Monday, yesterday, and today...zero makeup. When I do wear it, I wear some of these items (i.e. under eye concealer and lip gloss only, or mascara and lip gloss only, etc.) or on a rare day, all of them.

1. If there is a product I absolutely should use every day, it's under eye concealer. I had someone at Sephora test them on me a few years back and this was a great match: Yves Saint Laurent Anti-Cernes Multi-Action Concealer in pink beige. It is $38 and worth every blessed penny. When this runs out I'm going to try the it Cosmetics under eye concealer though, I've heard good things.
2. I basically use two eye shadows regularly and a third every once in a while. My regular shadows are Foxy from Urban Decay and Peach Beige from Sephora. Sometimes I'll wear my other favorite, Half Baked by Urban Decay.
3. If I use eye shadow, I use primer. Urban Decay is my favorite.
4. I use Prestige eyeshadow in Ebony as a liner. I am the freaking worst at eyeliner.
5. Eyelash curler is e.l.f. It's like $1 and it's just as good as the shu uemura $20 jobby. I've owned both. I can never find it online so I look for it in all stores and snatch them up as I go.
6. Recent convert to Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara - I'm going to take it a step further and say Better Than Erryting. I have tried one billion types of high end mascara and pretty much all the drug store brands. I've been using drugstore for a few years now. This one knocked my socks off. Thanks to Jill for the info on this.
7. I wear Sugar Fresh lips daily. Ruby is my actual daily wear, but it was in my purse. This is petal. I wear that a lot too.
8. I also wear F-Bomb by Urban Decay, a recent gift from Jana.
9. The thing I wear the least: it Cosmetics CC Cream. I have never been a full face person. But when I do wear it, I'm loving it and I love the high SPF.
10. I need bronzer with no talc. Jill recommended this to me and I love it: Physicians Formula Mineral Wear Talc-Free Mineral Airbrushing Bronzer.

I have NARS Orgasm blush if I need it but I really don't wear it.

Face at night...is uh, sometimes absolutely nothing. When I do the routine, it's this:

Step one: Neutrogena deep clean makeup wipes or Posh Pore-Fect face wash bar (not pictured)
Step two: Spritz of Teddy Organics rose water (not pictured)
Step three: Posh Impish Eyes
Step four: Posh Never Grow Up Anti-Aging Serum, let it sink in for about 10 while I wipe down the sink and toilet and pick up around the bedroom
Step five: Posh Never Grow Up Face Cream and StriVectin-TL tightening neck cream

Face in the morning

Step one: I alternate Posh BFF exfoliating daily facewash and Posh Pore-Fect face wash bar (not pictured). I also love St. Ives blackhead clearing scrub and St. Ives even and bright scrub and rotate them with the pricier BFF exfoliating face wash.
Step two: Posh Impish Eyes
Step three: Neutrogena clear face SPF 55 (I use a R+F one when I am continuously reapplying all day)
Step four: Posh Night & Day you are the one moisturizer

Do we have any product overlap? 

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart - KahlilGibran

Since I can't show you a photo of the light in my heart without the aid of machines, I will share my five favorite beauty things instead. Have you ever known a physical beauty who is so ugly in their soul that they appear off in an ugly way on the exterior? Me too. Don't ever let that be you. Trust that there is a light in my heart that I cultivate daily, and be sure you're cultivating yours as well.

My five favorite beauty products:

1. MAC Studio Careblend Pressed Powder in Light Plus
2. I like to call #2 Filene's Basement because this shit is at rock bottom prices. L'Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes - this is the poor lady's Lancome Definicils. There's legitimately no difference. Trust me. I used to shell out the bucks for the Lancome version. There is also no difference between this $2 elf eyelash curler and my now defunct $20 Shu Uemura eyelash curler. What's in a name? In the case of these items, a lot of wasted money, that's what.
3. Urban Decay eyeshadow primer potion - no other primer comes close to the staying power of this one.
4. I made the nice lady at Sephora try every MFing concealer in the store under my eyes to match my doesn't appear yellow but is undertone, and I ended up with Yves St. Laurent Anti-Cernes. I can get you the color if you want it but concealer is personal.
5. Lipstick is also personal, says my BFF Raymond at the MAC counter at Macy's Center City. However I strongly suggest you try MAC Twig for your every day lip color. It looks perfect on everyone I force it on.

In the interest of full disclosure, Monday through Wednesday I'm lucky to swipe mascara on before leaving the house. I apply my lipstick on the train. By Thursday I've usually gotten the ass about me to put some eyeliner and eyeshadow on. If I go out on the weekend I might even use face makeup. I am not a full makeup face girl. When I do wear more, these are some of my favorites:

1. Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil
2. Clinique Quickliner for Eyes
3. Sephora Collection Colorful Eyeshadow in peach beige
4. Laura Mercier oil-free tinted moisturizer and Benefit High Beam. The Laura is expensive but doesn't break me out like every other blasted thing. The Benefit was in a gift bag and it's awesome.

Do you use any of these? What are your top five must have beauty products?

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