Happy New Year everyone! I’m going to try and get all my best beauty discoveries of 2024 posts up this month but I’ve been a little unproductive lately so I hope I can get my ass in gear and get them written up! As always these are not necessarily new releases for 2024, it just happens to be the year I’ve got to try them properly!
Starting with base makeup, and I have a few products here that I really like and work especially well together! The Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base RRP $34 CAD for 15ml* is a newer product to my makeup collection but one that stood out immediately! I feel like this is such a cult product but I’ve never had the chance to try it before now and the consistency was so different to how I expected! I thought this was going to be a gel formula but it is a thick oil free cream. It’s non greasy and very moisturising so has been perfect for me this winter as it’s so dry where I live! This preps my skin well for makeup making sure it doesn’t settle into fine lines and helps plump my skin and keep it hydrated all day. I will be sad when this runs out as it’s on the expensive side but I see why it’s such a classic product now!
It works particularly well to provide a good base for the Urban Decay Face Bond Foundation in 5 Fair Neutral RRP $57 CAD | £36.50*. Billed as waterproof, sweatproof, and transfer resistant with up to 24 hour wear and a medium buildable coverage, this foundation comes in 40 shades and while I wouldn’t say it’s been able to knock my number one foundation (Estee Lauder Double Wear) off its top spot, I find myself reaching for this a lot! It’s great for oily and combo skin, though I have heard less so for dry skin, it’s mattifying, the wear time is great and it doesn’t oxidise or separate. I love the packaging too, it looks sleek and saves so much space!
I do like to mix it with the Pixi Flawless Beauty Primer $37 CAD | £24* to add a little something extra though! I think Pixi makeup is so underrated! This helps add some luminosity to the UD foundation and I only need a tiny blob to do so! There is quite a bit of sparkle but it still somehow manages to be subtle and helps make my makeup look better!
Sticking with Pixi and the H20 Skin Veil in Translucent RRP $34 CAD | £24*. This is a weightless, loose water powder that sets makeup and mattifies my combo skin all day without looking flaky or cakey! The pot looks small but this has lasted me months and I only need a tiny amount to set my whole face. I don’t feel like I need to top up during the day either and my face never looks flat or dry! Definitely worth a try it you are oily or combo, it works so well!
I am a complete convert to the Urban Decay All-Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray RRP $48.50 CAD | £28.50*. I’m cheating a little with this one as I have had minis before in 2023 and not been blown away but them but since I’ve had the full size, I’ve been using this every day and testing it more fully so I’m including it because I love it! I recently flew home for Christmas and had numerous delays and an extra flight in order to get to my destination and when I finally walked in the door, I could not get over how good my makeup still looked considering I had been traveling for around 30 hours altogether! This spray promises to last up to 16 hours, is waterproof, transfer free and kept my makeup looking fresh! You only need to spray after makeup application, not before and I ended up giving my mum the rest of my bottle in order to save a little weight in my luggage on the way to my home in Canada as I have a backup here and she had used it a couple of times over Christmas and was enjoying it too!
For blush, it was love at first use with the Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Cheek Tint in Rosy Peach (50.5) RRP $56 CAD | £36* earlier in the year. I have previously found liquid blushes a little intimidating but this one is fool proof! The formula is lightweight and buildable, blends easy and has good wear time. It’s a peachy shade with a hint of pink that gives a beautiful, brightening healthy glow. I apply a couple of dots on my cheekbone then use a brush to blend, add another dot if needed to build it up and it gives me a diffused, airbrushed finish. I want all the shades!
I hesitated on whether to add the YSL Make Me Blush Liquid Blush in 44 Nude Lavalliere RRP $56 CAD | £31 as I just recently got this at Christmas. However, I’ve been using it non-stop since then and it’s a beautiful nude pink shade that, like the Armani, has a beautiful formula! It looks like it’s going to be pigmented when you first dot it onto your cheekbones but it sheers out and is easily buildable. It gives a lovely flush of colour and a diffused finish like the Armani too!
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| Top to bottom - YSL Make Me Blush Liquid Blush in 44 Nude and Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Cheek Tint in Rosy Peach (50.5) |
Next up is a product that has a special place in the category of “products previously send in PR that I have repurchased” – the MERIT Clean Lash Mascara RRP $36 CAD | £23. This is a tubing mascara that defines, separates, and lengthens lashes for a wide-awake look with zero smudging. The bristles make it easy to coat my lashes and it works well to lengthen. There are no clumps or flakes and no smudging as the day goes on! Although this is a more natural looking mascara and doesn’t give as much volume as some I have tried, I am so happy to finally have a smudge free mascara that doesn’t bother me! I took this on holiday to Mexico earlier this year and was so impressed with how it lasted in the heat! I am also obsessed with the packaging! It looks so luxe on my dressing table! See my full MERIT post here!
Finishing up with lip products and the Armani Beauty Prisma Glass Hydrating Lip Gloss in 02 Candy Halo RRP $52 CAD | £30* is much more of a luxury pick! It’s an oil in gloss formula giving volume shine and care and contains 15% squalane. It has a lightweight formula, feels comfortable and hydrating on my lips and there is no scent, stickiness or tingling. It’s definitely a nice to have in my collection!
I have found myself continually putting the Ole Henriksen Pout Preserve Hydrating Peptide Lip Treatment in Strawberry Sorbet RRP $30 CAD | £17 in my bag or pocket if I am heading out somewhere as it works so well to hydrate and gives a lovely natural pink tint. It’s a lip treatment that plumps lips and smooths fine lines and I like the strawberry scent!
Lastly, and probably my favourite lip products of the year, the Naturium Phyto-Glow Lip Balm in Petal RRP $10 USD | £12 at the very end of 2023 and despite having some issues with the packaging (the end popped!), customer service were great and I duct taped it and used it up anyway (using my new Peach shade for the photo as Petal is already finished and in the bin – another sign that I loved this product!). This is a very hydrating lip balm with a beautiful shine and non-offensive vanilla scent! It has the perfect amount of stickiness for me and was long lasting so I didn’t need to top up too often! Petal is a lovely my lips but butter shade and this kept my lips so smooth. Like I said, I just recently repurchased in a new shade as I couldn’t bear not to have it in my collection despite the bad packaging!
Wow, that was a little longer than I intended this post to be and I probably forgot a few products too! Have you tried any of these products? Let me know what you thought if them and what your favourite makeup product was of 2024!
*denotes a PR sample that was sent to me.
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Danielle xx
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