Today I am rounding up all of my beauty faves from 2021 and putting them here. I started doing monthly beauty posts summer 2020 and I find them a ton of fun! I slowed down posting after finding out that I was preggo with baby # 2 due to being so sick but I am trying to make a comeback and this feels like a great place to start. I am organizing things by category by order of how I use them.
Enjoy!
Primer
Dior Backstage Face and Body Primer
Color Corrector
Charlotte Tilbury Vanish Color Corrector in the shade 2
Foundation
Hourglass Vanish Seamless Finish Liquid
Nars Soft Matte Complete Foundation– I raveddd about this foundation when I got it last year and I am STILL in love with it. Anytime someone asks me for a foundation recc, I always suggest this one. The finish is FLAWLESS and matte but not drying at all.
Concealer
Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer – I use this concealer in a few shades. Caramel and praline are really close to my skin tone so I use them to conceal my dark circles and blemishes. To brighten, I use ginger and marron glacé. I love how this concealer blends out really easily, gives me really good coverage but isn’t cakey at all. I also use chocolate and cafe to bronze/cream contour.
Dior Forever Skin Correct Concealer – I use the shade 0N to brighten
Bronzer
Huda Beauty Easy Bake Powder in Coffee Cake
Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Matte Bronzing Powder in shade 3
Too Faced Translucent Powder in Deep
Setting Powder
Clinique Setting Powder in Transparency 3
Blush
NARS Blush in shades Deep Throat and Exhibit A – I always mix these two together and I get so many compliments on the color they make. If you are a blush girl, you need these two! Exhibit A is a little intimidating in the pan but trust me on this one. Just tap your brush into it lightly, apply, and then build as you see fit.
Lip Liner
Patrick TA Liner in the shade Oh She’s Single
Mented Cosmetics Liner in the shade Foxy
MAC Liner in the shade Cork
Morphe Liner in the shade Sweet Tea – I keep several of these in my vanity and makeup bag because it is the PERFECT nude shade and matches just about all of my lipsticks.
Makeup Forever Liner – Anywhere Caffeine
Lipstick
Charlotte Tilbury Lipstick in the shades Nude Kate, Yes Honey, Kim KW, Bitch Perfect, and Cover Star
Gloss
Pat McGrath Gloss in Love Potion
Fenty Gloss Bomb in Hot Chocolit
Eyebrows
Anastasia Beverly Hill Brow Wiz in Chocolate and Medium Brown. I use chocolate to outline my brows and then fill in my brows with medium brown.
Eyeshadow
Huda Beauty Rose Gold Remastered Palette
Hair Tools
DryBar The Mixologist Interchangeable Styling Iron – I bought this iron last year and I have LOVED it ever since. I have used all three of the wands and I really like them all. My favorite out of the three is the waver because it gives the most perfect beauty waves that last.
-XO, Elle
