 Hello! Good morning. So I guess good evening is when I'm posting this? Anyways, for today's video, I am going to finally be doing my Auric review, which is Samantha Rabindoll's brand. So I picked up one shade of the Glow Lust and then I picked up three shades of the Smoke Reflect, which is all three shades that she came out with because I'm indecisive. So if you want to hear my thoughts, then just keep watching. Hi guys, if you're new here, my name is Morgan. I am a Product Knowledge enthusiast. I just love knowing anything and everything about all of the new makeup on the market. And when a YouTuber comes out with a brand, it does excite me because I can only imagine how that feels. Particularly Samantha Rabindoll, I mean, what I can say about her is I have learned so much from watching her videos in the past. I think she's a great teacher and she definitely doesn't give herself enough credit for how great that makeup she has, how well she explains things. You guys know I've been watching YouTube since I was 13. I'm now 24. So through the years, I mean, I really have learned about makeup from her, particularly from her past videos when she did more tutorials. So I was very, very excited for her brand and I'm a little bit late on this. So I thought I would take my time. So this is like going to be the fourth time I've actually used this product. So I have my thoughts on it set in stone. So I figured if I can't be first, I'm going to give you a quality review. So that's what we're going to do. I don't have a lot of time nowadays to give thorough reviews with thorough testing because like work. But this one, I can tell you I've worn these products a few times. I definitely have, you know, my thoughts set in stone about it. Let's start off with the glow lust. So this is the complexion product that she came out with. And here's what the box looks like. Very beautiful. I must say I took some product shots yesterday. Very photogenic. Everything about the line. Even the box. So that's what it looks like. So this product has 1.18 fluid ounces, which is really great compared to the Charlotte Tilbury, which is just one fluid ounce. And I'll get into my thoughts comparing those two. But I wanted to say that before I got the product is made in Italy. If I ever came out with a makeup line, which never say never, but I don't think I ever will. It would be an Italian makeup brand. And it has a 12 month shelf life. So I ended up getting the shade Selenite. And here's the packaging. This is supposed to be like a gold drip. It's very luxurious packaging. This is comparable to, you know, like my luxury products. And the price point I would say is on the lower end of luxury pricing or the higher end of high end. So her brand is kind of a luxury brand. So this is $45. Again, not not cheap, not cheap at all. It's beautiful. I love the packaging. And I actually did my first impressions on Instagram. If you missed it, you missed it. It went away and who knows what. But I did a whole first impressions on my Instagram stories. You saw, I did struggle with this top opening it, but it has loosened up at this point. So it does have a pump. That's what it's called. And like I said, I got the shade Selenite in this line. There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven shades, which is a great range for something that doesn't have, you know, a lot of pigmentation to it. I got the second to lightest. So the lightest one was Morganite, which I was like, I probably should get the one because that's my name on it. You know, it's like it meant to be, but that one is a light cool beige and I prefer a little bit more warmer tones. I have more of a, I would say a neutral undertone because I can wear both cool and warm tones, but I prefer warm tones. So that's why I got Selenite anyways. It's a really great shade for me. So I did want to do a comparison and a lot of people have done this. So I'm not going to harp on this too much of the Auric versus the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood flawless filter because these are definitely two very, very similar products. So I'm just going to swatch Selenite from you from Auric. So this is what it looks like, like that. And obviously it spreads out a lot and it's not going to be quite so thick. And then I have two different shades from Charlotte Tilbury. So Charlotte Tilbury has a doe foot. So here is shade one, that second one down and see it's a little bit lighter. And then I also have shade three. Shade three is what I use kind of all over my skin. It's pretty close to Selenite, a little bit warmer, a little bit deeper. So that last one right there. So you can see how those three shades compare. Now immediately what you can tell just by swatches. One, the Auric is a thicker consistency. It's creamier whereas I feel like the Charlotte Tilbury is more liquidy. And then also because the Auric is thicker, it has more coverage as well. So I don't know if you can take a really close look. Like you can see the lines on my hand more from the Charlotte Tilbury. And then you just get some thickness from Miss Auric. I'm going to just go ahead and apply Auric all over. And I'll tell you how this is different from the Charlotte Tilbury. But my favorite way to apply the Auric is with, is it Auric or Auric? I think it's Auric. I said this was a thorough review, but I'm probably saying everything wrong. So I'm using the BK Beauty 101 brush. I like to spread this out with a brush. You want a brush that's not too flimsy. You want it to be a little bit more on the dense side because this is a thicker consistency and creamier. Otherwise the brush is not going to spread it out. Honestly, I just kind of go ham and blend it out. You can absolutely use your fingers as well. But I try not to use my fingers, but I'm normally not successful at that. But anyways, so this is a light layer and you'll see already look at that glow. And I did a very, very light layer. So I'm going to start off with a light layer all over my face. And then I'm going to go in where I want a little bit more coverage or a little bit more highlight. If you're my skin tone, I love this shade. It's perfectly blends into my skin tone. Like I said, make sure you're using a denser brush because this isn't exactly the easiest to spread out because it's not liquidy. It's more of like a cream, but one layer. I mean, some people are wearing this as foundation alone personally. I think it makes me look a bit sweaty. I don't find it exactly to be flattering. But let me show you something that is awesome about this product that you certainly cannot do with the Charlotte Tilbury. This actually gives you a little bit of coverage. It's a light coverage. But look, that gives you some coverage. As far as how the shine looks, I did a side by side yesterday. The Charlotte Tilbury is like a tad, a tad, tad, tad more metallic whereas I feel like the Auric is a bit more glowy. It's less shimmery and more like wet looking, but very slightly it's kind of hard to tell, if I'm being honest. But that was me, you know, really close to a mirror. But I think where the main difference between the two products is going to be, one is that you get more coverage with the Auric. So you can almost use it more so as some type of complexion product to get a little bit of coverage. My favorite difference between the two is the Auric since it's more creamy, it's much more moisturizing on my dry skin. With the Charlotte Tilbury, I feel like I need to put down a moisturizer first and then I'll go in with this and it's a bit more drying. Whereas the Auric, I feel like I don't need a moisturizer because this feels like a skincare product to me. It's very moisturizing. I just feel like I'm applying like a shiny cream to my face. So that is where the differences are as far as wear time though. I will say this. I did yesterday side by side Auric on this side, Charlotte Tilbury on this side. The Auric side got oily significantly faster than the Charlotte Tilbury. Like it was a clear difference that this side was oily, this side was not. Keep that into consideration. You know if you have oily skin or how much you powder with because the Charlotte Tilbury does wear better, but I much prefer how the Auric treats my skin. So those are the differences. Anyways, so you can apply this in many ways. You can put it all over the face first, which is personally what I prefer to do as a base. And I like it to peek through the foundations. You can mix it in with foundations. I personally don't like that as much because I feel like the product gets lost in the foundation and the foundation takes over. Like I said, you can do that. It's not my favorite. I watched Michelle Wong's review and I love what she did. She actually applied this all over as a foundation, but she put a powder foundation on top and she said that kind of muted where you looked really oily and sweaty and it looked beautiful on her skin. So if you are looking for a way to get super glowy skin, light coverage, I would suggest and I haven't tried it myself, check out Michelle's video to apply this all over as if it were foundation and then put a powder foundation on top and your glowy skin will show through. You can also use this on top as a highlighter, which I will show you in a few moments. The type of foundation that I like to wear on top and you can use whatever foundation I find that this works very well with a lot of products. I like to use this with a light coverage foundation or a light layer of foundation. It doesn't necessarily have to be light coverage, but if you just apply a little bit because the glow on this, it's beautiful. There's not a bit of shimmer to it. Alone, I do feel a little bit tin manny. So I haven't tried it with a tinted moisturizer yet. So I'm going to use the Colourpop Pretty Fresh Hyaluronic. I've been using different foundations on top. They've all worked great. I just made sure I applied, you know, like a light layer. So I'm going to use a brush, the same brush on top just because I want that light coverage. And if you have not used BK Beauty brushes yet, you're missing out. I hate using foundation brushes for foundation. I'm a sponge girl, but BK Beauty changed that for me. So like I said, I'm just going in with a little bit, just a light layer to tone down and give extra coverage. But I have used foundations with higher coverage and it still looked beautiful underneath. So I'm kind of experimenting in this review as well. So that's all I'm going to do as far as foundation. I look very, very sweaty right now looking at this because I mean, a tinted moisturizer is a very shiny product anyways and very light coverage. That's okay. What we're going to do, I'm going to do my eyebrows concealer and I'm going to come back and I'm going to get a powder with a little bit of coverage. I'm going to use my NABLA smoothing press powders and we're going to see how that works. So I'll be right back. So I just did my eyebrows and I did concealer and as time has gone by and my skin has dried a little bit, the dewiness has gone down as well as the concealer I think helped. I want to show you how this product looks on top of foundation I don't have powder on yet because this makes a stunning liquid highlighter. I'm not into liquid highlighters. If you know me, you know I hate liquid highlighters. I'm going to use my BK108 brush. But why I think this works so great as a liquid highlighter is because it has that extra bit of coverage. It's harder to see if the foundation moves. So what I hate about liquid highlighters is how it moves foundation and it looks like you have foundation skin with something shiny on your face and then foundation you can see those clear marks. Whereas I feel like with this product because it has a little bit more thickness and a little bit more coverage, even if it does move the foundation, it's harder to see that line of where the liquid highlighter is at and the glow is just obviously I really love this product. I think Sam killed it with this. Obviously the Charlotte Tilbury is the product that is like this on the market but as far as this texture and this formulation goes, it's very, very unique. And I'm choosing not to use a brush that's more dense because since the brush is lighter it's not going to move the foundation around and you can see that the highlighter has just melted into the skin. Okay, so now we're going to go over what powder does. I want to set my under eyes, underrated product, the NABLA Smoothing Pressed Powder gives a little bit of coverage, softens the skin. I'm going to start off with the Shea Light. I want to set right underneath the center of the face. So this is going to aid all of that oiliness. I don't want to cover myself into much powder because I do enjoy a glow that we have going on but you want to apply powder in areas that do get oily first because just the nature of what we have going on the skin it's going to get oily quicker than it might normally do because we have a luminizing product all over our face. So I'm going in with some a medium, just more so in the center. That's all I'm going to do. When you see that toned down the oiliness I like to use powders with a little bit more coverage because I have such light coverage on my face. You can still see that glow peeking through regardless but it's not sweaty anymore. I mean I've been talking about this product for like 20 minutes but I love it. It's really great and if you do have the Charlotte Tilbury you don't need this but I would say this I like better than the Charlotte Tilbury so you get a similar effect with the Charlotte Tilbury but I just think my skin likes the Oric better so best of our back with that. Okay let's move on to the eye products. You know I'm a sucker for a good single glittery shiny eye product so the boxes are going to look like this. Beautiful. She came out with three shades. I picked up all three. I couldn't help myself. These are made in the USA with a 12 month shelf life. These are $39 each. Again this is borderline luxury pricing so she did not come to play with a cheap brand which much respect for just with the nature of my channel of course. Now the packaging of these, again very weighty. You have a frosted glass and then the top part, this is just plastic but then you have kind of a shiny part with a mirror. I've used these a couple times as well. Not all of the shades a couple times but I've used that. So it has like a little thingy to cover it. I'm going to keep that because it might help with just making the product last longer. So this first one that we have is temper. So temper is this rose gold color so let me show you the swatches individually. So those are the swatches for temper. Let's put it on one eye. I'm just going to do one eye, one eye, take it off and then we'll do the last one. She applied a brush kind of like a MAC 217. I prefer personally to use my finger. Now these are very very similar or they look very similar as far as the cream goes to the Charlotte Tilbury cream shadows. And I don't know she's coming for Charlotte Tilbury but the consistency does feel different. I will say that the Charlotte Tilbury is a little bit more creamy. It's a little bit more prone to creasing but it is more creamy whereas this product I feel like it's a little bit more for lack of a better term dry. So it's not a dry product but compared to the Charlotte Tilbury it feels more moussey. That was the word that I used in my first impressions. Immediately I could tell it had a more moussey dry consistency compared to the pure cream that the Charlotte Tilbury had. So I'm going to take a clean brush, just work out the edges a little bit. So it also applies less deep than I anticipated. I don't know, I just thought it would be a bit more pigmented. The color is a bit more natural. So that is the cream product for temper and it's beautiful on its own. And again, like a little bit more natural than I thought. So the top layer is what you put on top. So it's kind of similar to a type of product that Tom Ford has. Now I don't like the way these feel. They feel like hard pan. Like you can kind of see hard pan already starting. But a lot of times for products like these the product continues to work after because it elevates this product. Because at first I was like, yeah, it's a nice cream shadow. And then I put this on top at first too and I was like, just a little bit of light sparkle. But I find like in the evening when the light really hits, it's when you can tell the real difference. So this is with the glitter topper. And this one I feel like is the more natural of the three that she came out with. Just a great everyday kind of sparkle to throw on with some liner and lashes. Really beautiful. And as far as the wear time on these are really well, they do not crease. So I am impressed with the wear time. Now keep in mind I don't have oily eyelids so I can't speak on that. But it wore really good and didn't crease. And I have like multiple creases and hooded eyes. So I was impressed with wear time. So now we're going to move into ego. Now this one is cool tone smoky. I almost passed on this one but then I was like, no I have to. Now I don't know if you can see that but we have some weird like discoloration going on within it. I'm still going to use it. So this one is a little bit more spicy not as natural. This one's fun. I wore this the other day. So you can see some of it's like silver. There's discoloration in it. And now it blends in fine. This one you have to be more careful with with application because it's not like a skin tone color. These are quite easy to work with. So if you're a beginner to makeup and you're not too sure about cream shadows, this is a very forgiving product because if you mess up it's kind of easy to wipe away because it's not too pigmented but it still gives you that beautiful haze of color and then of course if you want to amp it up then you go to the powder part. So I'm going to leave that there because this one I would say of the three is probably the most amplifying to the look. So like this one had kind of just like a subtle gleam. This one I really feel like gives you I don't know like rock star eyes. Really glittery, pretty. You don't need a glitter glue. I don't get full out with this product. So pretty you guys. And with eyeliner, mascara a full beat. It's going to look stunning. So this is ego. Let me wipe off my eyeballs. Getting to the last one. Oh, I forgot to show you the swatches. How it would compare. Okay, so the last one that we're doing is temper. This one's going to be a little bit more bronzy. So that's going to be the bottom swatches. Now these don't swatch very well. I have to say they look ugly in swatches. But they are pretty on the eye. I hope that you've seen. So I'm going to use a brush for this one. I'm going to use a refer number one brush just to show you that this is still a really great way to apply this product if you don't like your fingers. I believe Samantha actually used a brush very similar to this in her video, but you can use the flat side to pack and then use the top blend. I will say I don't think you need both defiance and temper. So the first one that we applied, which was the rose gold in this bronzy one because they are very very close because this product doesn't have a ton of color to it. A ton of pigmentation. They're kind of hard to tell the difference between the two. I think they're just a little bit too similar in color for you to have to buy both, you know. Map you have in both. Don't get me wrong, but as far as being a little smarter with your wallet, not that I'm qualified to give you advice on that, but those two colors are pretty similar. So I think you'd be good passing on one or the other. I know I said I prefer to use a finger to apply, but it was kind of nice not to have to use my fingers and this brush did a pretty good job. But now my inside looks ugly. Okay, and now we're going to go into the powder part, which I just hate how these feel. I just like something that's more creamy feeling. These have zero cream enus at all. Alright, there we go. So I'm going to apply. I'm going to finish the rest of my makeup and I'll be back to give you the final thoughts. Alright, so I just decided to do some mascara, you guys. Hamagrath Fetish Eyes is straight up the best mascara ever for my lashes. My lower lashes never look like this. Anyways, here is the final look. It's a pretty natural glowy look today. If you're going to tell, I think Samantha did an amazing job with her brand. I think the standout for me though has to be the glow lust. I really love it. I feel like it is a great addition to my collection. I don't have another product that feels like this or treats my skin the way that this one does. So huge fan of that. I think the smoke reflex are also very, very nice. Now this is one product that I feel like I didn't need. I do have other products like this in my collection, but they are really good. They wear really well and they are very, very pretty so I'm happy to have them. Again, she did a great job for her first launch. The products are awesome. When she does a restock I definitely recommend if you're interested to picking them up. I feel like you won't be disappointed. She came out with some quality products. So that is all I have for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already, I would love it if you would consider taking the time to do so and I will see you all in the next one. I guess have a good one.