There have been a few Sephora sales lately and as you might have assumed, I’ve picked some things up. But I’ve also gotten some things in the last several months that I’m not sure I’ve shared with y’all so I wanted to give y’all a roundup of some random products and what I think of them. (Obviously.) I know this might seem like a lot of things, but I want to stress that this has been spread over the last several months, not just like, one huge purchase, and the most expensive things were likely bought with 20% off! I also have gotten several eyeshadow palettes recently, but I am going to do a big palette roundup in the next few weeks where I swatch everything, so that’s going to take a bit of time. But I definitely have enough palettes for a big post, so stay tuned for that!
Ole Henriksen Glow Brightly Radiance-Boosting Super Set ($49): As y’all know, I have been a Drunk Elephant devotee for a long time but I tend to go back to Ole Henriksen pretty regularly, because I really enjoy their Truth Serum, which is their vitamin C serum. I think it’s a really nice serum, and it’s less expensive than drunk elephant. This set in particular included the following:
– 1 oz/ 30 mL Truth Serum
– 0.25 oz/ 7 mL Goodnight Glow Retin-ALT Sleeping Crème
– 0.25 oz/ 7 mL Banana Bright Eye Crème
– 0.5 oz/ 15 mL C-Rush Brightening Gel Crème
I really like ALL of these products, so I feel like this set is a steal. However, I have not yet tried the Goodnight Glow Retin-ALT Sleeping Crème. Right now I have it on back up after I run out of my Sunday Riley Luna Night Oil. However, I love all the rest of these products, and I’m excited to get more of them!
Urban Decay Naked Skin One & Done Hybrid Foundation ($36): As I mentioned, I’ve been on a quest for lightweight foundations, and I decided to try one of Urban Decay’s less popular foundations, as this is sort of like a tinted moisturizer/bb cream. However, this is oil-free, so it wears nicely on me, very similarly to the Dior Backstage. I need to test both a bit more to see if the Urban Decay is a dupe, but even if it is, it’s not much more expensive, plus, the Dior has a MUCH better shade range. However, I do like this, and I’m happy with it.
Dior Backstage Face and Body Foundation in 1 Neutral ($40): I have been on a quest to try new lightweight foundations, since that’s my jam now, and after watching a bunch of reviews of this, decided to try it when it went on sale. I initially got this foundation in shade 2 Neutral, and it was too dark, so I ended up getting it in 1 Neutral and it looks better. When there are 40 shades, I don’t always assume I am the lightest, but I need to remember that I am. I’ve worn this about a week, and I feel like my skin has looked really nice. It feels very lightweight, like I’m not wearing much at all, but I feel like it really evens out my skintone. I’ve been wearing this with the Too Faced Peach Perfect Mattifying Setting Powder (below) and I haven’t really even had to touch up my face all day long!
Too Faced Peach Perfect Mattifying Setting Powder ($33): I bought this as an impulse, because I saw a few people with a similar skin-type to me (combo) say that they really like it, and I thought that maybe I could try it out. It’s a bit peachier than the more ivory Laura Mercier setting powder, which I was using previously. I’ve been using a very light dusting on this all over my light foundations, and to set my concealer under my eyes, and it’s kept my makeup looking really nice all day. It’s definitely matte, but it doesn’t look dry or cakey. Also, it smells like peaches, and weirdly, tastes like peaches? I do not know why they did that, but it does. I discovered that by accident. I don’t recommend this as an appetizer.
Yves St. Laurent Touche Eclat Radiance Perfecting Pen ($38): This is the product that I’ve used the least out of everything on this list, as I’ve only used it a few times. So far… I’m not really impressed, but I want to give it another few tries. I’m not sure if I just didn’t use enough, but I don’t think it did much. I don’t have serious dark circles so I don’t need a heavy duty concealer but it’s entirely possible that I need more than what this is. This is a product that used to have a lot of hype but I never tried it til now, and I’m just… not totally sold.
Yves St. Laurent Tatouage Couture Liquid Matte Lip Stain in 15 Violet Conviction ($37): This might be the hero product out of everything I got. I actually was trying to buy a set of three of these lipsticks that I am almost sure existed on the Sephora site, but of course disappeared during the sale. But anyway, this is more of a stain than a drying liquid lipstick. I decided to really go for it and get a dark shade and it wore really well during the day. I could add more on top without things getting crumbly or weird after I ate. The applicator helped give me a really crisp line, tho with like all dark/red lip colors like this, I tend to touch up around the edges with concealer. I really want to get more shades of this! Maybe a red next? I just love this formula so much!
This isn’t the best picture in the world, as I didn’t take it for blog use, but I realized too late that it was the only pic with this lipstick, so it will do. I think a lip swatch is better than an arm swatch! (Also pictured is the Hourglass Scattered Light Eyeshadow in Smoke, described below.)
Laneige Kiss and Make Up Set ($28): I am getting repetitive in this blog, but I totally love this lip mask, and this set contained a full-size version, (yay!) and then a few minis in different flavors! I could have broken this set up for gifts but… I didn’t.
Urban Decay Heavy Metal Glitter Liner in Grind & Distortion ($20): I have been really into these glitter liners because you can use these in a bunch of different ways. Obviously you could really line your eyes with them if you wanted to, as it has a small brush tip. But I really like using it to put some glitter in my inner corner, or you can just paint the whole dang lid with glitter pretty easily. Grind has a bit more blue/green translucent glitter, and Distortion is a bit more pinky. It’s so hard (for me) to take good pics of glitter swatches but I did my best!
Hourglass Scattered Light Glitter Eyeshadow in Smoke ($29): More glitter! But this is the most beautiful, elegant way to wear glitter I’ve ever seen! I am really angry because I wanted to get all of the colors of this during the sale but of course they are sold out. But this particular shade is a bit more taupe/cool-toned and the glitters are so tiny, that they almost look like a glossy sheen. I need all the colors! Why is life. I need the champagne-y shade soooo bad!
Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed Highlighter Mini Macaron Set ($40): I bought one of the full-sizes of one of the included highlighters and then when I saw this set, I realized I could get 4 mini-highlighters for about the price of one big one, and decided to go that route! I had never tried Opal before, which is one of their flagship shades, and it’s a pretty bright highlight. But Vanilla Quartz is very much the highlight for me. It looks white, but it has sort of a gold-peachy shift that is just gorgeous. There is also a pink-y highlighter and a more lavender one, that I don’t love as much for cheek highlights but I think are great inner corner highlights for a bit of a pop!
(When I did the swatch below, my arm was stained in between Prismatic Amethyst and Vanilla Quartz from the YSL lipstick above. I only had it on my arm for a few minutes and it stained that quickly. But that’s a feature more than a bug, obvs.)
Whew. That was a lot. Did I pick up anything you had your eye on? What have you picked up at Sephora lately? Tell me in the comments because I want to know everything. (I’m nosy.)
xo,
Lauren
Purchased; All opinions are my own
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A self-proclaimed beauty junkie/hoarder with a serious Sephora problem. This blog is a total rationalization of that problem. Everything is TOTALLY fine. Her free time is a mixed combination of making fun of reality TV with her husband, hanging out with cats and finally trying to figure out how to do her hair.