 Hey guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel and welcome to my best of 2018 beauty series where I tell you about my favorite beauty products of 2018 in specific categories. So today's category is everything about the base, everything from primers to foundations to concealers to setting powders. So if you're interested in hearing my favorites for 2018, then just keep watching. Starting off in the order of my application, I'm going to start off with primers. Now this year was the year of primers for me. I started to realize how important it was to prep the base, prep your skin before you get started with foundation that can really make all the difference, especially because I noticed a lot of dry patches on my skin. So most of these are very, very moisturizing products that I really found help transform my skin throughout the year. So this first one is a very popular one that I've heard so many things about. And that is the Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base. Now what I really like about this is I feel like it works for so many different skin tones, even oily skin tones. I feel like you can benefit from this because it isn't oily. It just puts a layer of moisture in. It creates a great base for foundation to go on to. It's a very thick cream, so this is a very luxe product, very expensive, but it's very nice. It smells really good and it's such a great base for so many skin types. So I really like this one. I've been using this for a couple of years. I definitely was using this way more in the beginning of the year, but the Too Faced Hangover RX Primer. This has become such a staple for me. I can always fall back on this. I try so many new products, but this is one that's always going to kind of be tried and true to me. It's really moisturizing without leaving your skin too overly wet. It's definitely more moisturizing than the Bobbi Brown. I like a little bit better. I'm not going to lie. It smells like coconuts. I don't know. I just think this is a really amazing skin base. I actually haven't used it in a little bit, so I'm going on vacation, so I think I'm going to bring this with me. Now this one is for Extreme Extreme Moisture. This is more moisturizing than the Too Faced I just showed you. This is the Smashbox Photo Finish Primerizer. I love this guy. I use it in my makeup kit, and I use it on myself almost every day, I feel like. I'm not going to lie. You can leave your skin a little too moisturized, so I wouldn't really recommend this for oily skin, but this is really great if you need some extra moisture in your skin. This is so good. This is definitely one of the best releases that Smashbox released. I don't know if it was this year or last year, but whenever this was released, this changed the game for Smashbox. This is so good. This one is for skin prep when I really feel like I have some extra time. I've been loving the Smashbox Photo Finish Primer Oil. I'll use this on mature skin as well before I start on foundation. I'll do eyes first, and I'll let this soak in. The thought of oils can be very scary, but I promise you this isn't. If you give your skin the time to sink this in, it really does prep your skin beautifully for foundation to go over. Foundation just smooths out like butter on your skin, and you can also mix this in with your foundations if you want a lighter coverage as well and something a little bit more moisturizing. This is something I discovered a little later in the year, and it has been a complete game changer. This has transformed some clients' skin. Amazing. This is my last primer. I didn't know it was so into primers, but this one isn't a moisturizing one. This is the Touch and Soul No-Problem Primer. This is a smooth and pore-covering primer. First of all, let's talk packaging of this guy. It is so cute, but this is one of the very first smoothing primers that I feel like actually smooth skin. I can see it transforms skin. It just blurs the pores. It makes my skin look softer, smoother. I don't know. The only thing I can say about this is it's one of the very first smoothing primers that I feel like actually does that. So this has been such an awesome find. Okay, so let's move on to foundations. So this first one I want to talk about, it's actually my all-time favorite foundation. I've used this for years, but I haven't talked about it enough for my channel, so I did want to talk about it in this video because I love this. This is the Dior Skin Air Flash Foundation. In case you're curious, I'm in the shade 300, but I will put my shades down below for those of you who are curious. I do not wear this foundation every day as I do not want to waste it. I only wear this foundation on special occasions, but this is so amazing. It provides medium to full coverage. It's the most long-wearing foundation. Okay, so maybe not the most long-wearing, but it wears well. Like when my oils seep through, it looks good. My skin looks great and glowy. I don't know. It makes my skin look whore-less. It gives the perfect amount of... It just really perfects my skin every time I wear this. Somebody's like, what foundation are you wearing? It's this guy. It's expensive, but I promise you it's the most amazing foundation you will ever use. It transforms my skin. So this is the standard that I try and hold all my foundations to because this is so amazing. We're going to keep it with Dior because Dior has amazing base product, but I fell in love with the Dior Backstage Foundation. I have mine in the shade 2N and this is like my perfect match. This just provides really good coverage for what it is. I feel like this shouldn't be like a medium to full coverage, but it really is. It provides such good coverage. It wears pretty well and it feels really good on the skin. I just think it makes my skin look really good. I really like the finish of it. I wore this on Christmas Eve and my mom was like, What foundation are you wearing? I was like, Dior Backstage. I hadn't used it in a while and it just reminded me how freaking good this foundation is. If you haven't given it a try, I would definitely consider it because this is probably the best foundation that I tried in 2018. The next foundation that I want to talk about is actually from the drugstore. It's one of the cheapest foundations at the drugstore. It is the Maybelline Fit Me Matte & Poor List. I have mine in the shade 125 Nude Beige. I swear this has to be the best-selling foundation ever because everybody has it. Even people who don't really wear makeup, I'll see it in their makeup bag. This is such an awesome foundation. There's a reason for it. It feels so lightweight on the skin. It looks so natural. I wouldn't say it's the most amazing wearing foundation, but this foundation is so good. This is a great everyday foundation. When I was student teaching, I wore this foundation every day because it just looked so good on my skin and it felt like I was wearing nothing. I think that was the main thing for me. It looked natural and I felt like I was wearing nothing. So this is such a good foundation. It works for so many different skin types. Love this and it's like $6 or $7. I mean, you can't beat it. Okay, next is another Maybelline foundation. I've been in love with their Superstay Full Coverage Foundation. Surprisingly, I don't really like Full Coverage foundations. I like medium foundations, but I've really loved this this year. Mine is in the shade 120 Classic Ivory, but this is actually too light for me. I need to go a couple of shades darker, but I still make it work because I'm stubborn, but this really does have really great coverage. It's very matte on the skin, but it looks so good in my videos. I like to use this when I do looks and I just think for a drugstore full coverage foundation, they did a fabulous job with this because when drugstores say their foundations are full coverage, they suck. They're not full coverage and they're just not very good. So this is one that I feel like they did a really great job on and I've been loving this when I want to be extra and wear like really full coverage foundation. I go for this. I really have been loving this. It's long wearing. This is a good foundation. My mouth is getting so dry. I need to get a drink. This is like the fourth video I filmed today. Oh, guys, it's like 11 o'clock. That is so late for me, but so I just realized as I took my lashes off and changed and took my jewelry off that I forgot to mention a foundation to you guys. It was hiding in my basket. So I'm going to talk about it really quick. So this is the Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation. I'm in the shade 4.5. Do not know how this slipped through the cracks, but this foundation is one of my favorite long-wearing event foundations. It feels really lightweight on the skin. I would say it provides a light to medium coverage, but it wears so very well throughout long events. It's a very natural finish and it feels lightweight on the skin. So that's why I like it. It's one of my favorite holiday foundations to wear and I like it so much that I got on camera because I have to tell you about it. It's so good. So continuing on, we are going to move into concealers. Now there's three. I tried a lot of concealers this year, first of all, but there's three that really stood out to me. So the first one, it wasn't a new one, but this is a tried and true. So it would be wrong of me not to mention this, but the Maybelline Fit Me Concealer in the shade light. That's the shade I use. The Maybelline Fit Me line is fantastic and this concealer does not fall short. It's just a good concealer. It doesn't really crease on me like some concealers. It has good coverage. It's lightweight on the skin. I just love this concealer. Everything's right about this concealer, basically. So I've been loving this. This is like every day. I've been loving it for years. Literally been using that concealer for years. So this next one is a newer one for me and it's kind of replaced the Fit Me. I've been using it over Fit Me lately, but it does depend on my mood. But the Makeup Revolution Concealer in Define, mine is in the shade C5. It has like a lovely big dough foot. Oh my gosh, this is actually empty. I have a new one in my collection that I need to open, but this is so good. Such a good concealer. It's not too drying. It has a little bit more coverage than the Fit Me, which is why I think I like it. I don't know if I like this or Fit Me more. I'd have to do a side-by-side comparison, but I've been telling myself I liked this better. So this is a really good concealer. It's really affordable and I totally would recommend it. Really awesome. Like you can find some awesome concealers for affordable prices. But you know, on the not so affordable side, I've been absolutely obsessed with the Too Faced Born This Way Multi-U Sculpting Concealer. In my opinion, this is a hundred times better than Tarte Shake Tape. It gives way more coverage than the Fit Me and Makeup Revolution. So when I do want the extra coverage, this is my go-to. It doesn't really crease on me. It's not too dry under my eyes. Like this is everything that I could ask for when I want a full coverage concealer day. It just, it looks so good on my skin. I don't know how, like what else I can say about it other than it looks amazing and the coverage is really actually very full. It took me a while to jump on this bandwagon. Like I was like, I don't need another concealer. I always just fall back on my Maybelline Fit Me. I love the Makeup Revolution. I don't need to spend it. Nope, this is worth every penny. This is amazing. Okay, so this is a liquid contour. This is the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Contour Wand. Mine is in the shade Fair Medium. So I filmed a Charlotte Tilbury, like full face of Charlotte Tilbury and I showed you guys this product. And I think I sold a cup of you on this because it is so amazing. It looks scary dark on your skin, but it blends out so effortlessly and it looks so natural and dewy on your skin. It really does contour your skin and the most natural, beautiful. I love this. This is amazing. This is probably like one of my favorite products from Charlotte Tilbury. This is the bomb. When you put it on your skin, blend it out with a beauty blender and check out my video and you will see how amazing that product works. All right, so now we're on the setting powders. They're both from Maybelline and they're both amazing. So the first one is the Maybelline Fit Me Loose setting powder. I basically use this every day. It's my favorite setting powder for under my eyes. I have mine in the shade Fairlight. I use light on the rest of my skin and fair light on my under eyes. So lately I haven't been using powder on my skin just a little bit of powder on my under eyes and I always go for this because this to me creates the most smooth under eye and it really does stop the creasing and the fact that it has some color to it also helps cover those dark circles. So this has been so amazing. It is so soft. It has such a beautiful finish on the skin. I don't know why more people aren't talking about this powder because honestly, it's amazing. This is like my favorite loose setting powder ever and it's from the drugstore. Also from Maybelline because apparently Maybelline makes bomb based products. The Maybelline Better Skin Press Powder. This is one of my favorite pressed powders from the drugstore and just in general, honestly, I swear it provides coverage and it makes the skin look so smooth. I think it sets foundations beautifully and you want a little extra coverage. This is an amazing powder and it's from the drugstore. I think the packaging is really extra and dumb but the powder itself, it's just it really smooths the skin. It provides a little bit of coverage and this is beautiful to set your foundation with. I don't know. It's like a smoothing powder. It's from the drugstore and it does what it needs to do and it does it well. All right. So that is the end of my base product favorites. I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I hope you found it helpful. Remember to tune in for my other 2018 favorite videos and I will see you guys in the next video. Bye.