 Hi YouTube family, we are talking July monthly favorites. I have not done a beauty video in about a month, so I might be a little bit rusty. We will see how this goes. I'm so glad that July's over because I had just all kinds of things happen. If you didn't see my video on I'm Back, then I will definitely link that below so that you can see that. I had a couple surgeries in July and everything was a little bit challenging. But what was really great about it is while I was laid up, I just had them bring my makeup to me and I did makeup almost every single day without fail as I was recovering. And so I got to test a lot of stuff, especially stuff that I'd already had. And then I got to be able to peruse the new stuff that was coming out. I will have a video on what's new at the drugstore that's gonna be up. So I do hope that you enjoy this video and if you are new here, I would love to have you as a subscriber so don't forget to hit that little red button down there and hit the bell next to it. Please give this video a thumbs up everybody if you do enjoy the content that I have here for us gal. So I'm gonna start out with the base. And the base is some great primers that I found. Oh, by the way, I am going to be having a skincare and a haircare video separate of this because I was able to try so much this month because I wasn't filming and editing that I just have a lot that I wanna talk about. So I'll be having that up next. But this one is just about makeup today. And you guys know that I'm a drugstore queen. I love drugstore, but I also love QVC. And I also, there's occasionally something that will pique my interest in high end that I will look at and I'll go, I need to give that a try for my subscribers to see whether or not it would actually be worth the money. So the first thing is this big Mac Daddy thing of Spackle by Laura Geller. You can still get this on QVC. I don't know why she went out of Ulta. I know that her whole company was going through a revamp and somebody said she's going out of business. No, I don't think she's doing that, but I do know that her whole company was kind of having a little bit of a wobble there, but that's still on QVC. So this huge thing of Spackle is four ounces. And it is the tinted under makeup primer. And this is in champagne. So it has a tiny, tiny bit of a sheen. As you can see there in the bottle, it is actually that color, which is a teeny bit of a satin sheen to it. And it just is a beautiful hydrating. And also it does have the dimethicone in it. So it helps with the pore smoothing. It helps grip your makeup. I have used this for years. I just forgot about it. And then when I saw this one, I was like, oh yeah, I'm going back and I do love it. Now I don't know if this one will be available right now, but whatever is available, I will go ahead and list for you guys. It does really help with the longevity of my makeup in the heat too, which I like a lot. Tarte has a new one and it is called Tarte Double Duty Beauty Primer. And I didn't think I was going to like this. Now if you guys like hydrating primers as opposed to pore filling primers, this is your friend because this is such a lovely primer. It feels so good. And it does help your makeup last longer. It just feels really super hydrating. You can see it's a milky consistency. It's even running a little bit down my hand there. I did pump out a lot, but it is just, it just has a lovely, lovely feel to it. So if you're a dry gal and you need something to help you with that dryness under your makeup because your makeup looks a little too cakey or textured or whatever, you might really, really enjoy this. I know that I've been enjoying it. It may, yeah, I mean, look at that hand. That hand just looks gorgeous and it's not normally gorgeous. So I really have been loving that. Now on the flip side of that, actually I also want to tell you that smells like coconuts, which a lot of their products have a little bit of a scent. I do like the smell of it. It's very subtle. It's not like, you know, a really big coconut smell. Now, my favorite one, though, that I discovered and I discovered this by chance because it got sent to me with some products that I ordered off of Milani Cosmetics.com is the Prime Perfection Face Primer. Okay, this, it's so awesome, you guys. This comes out a little bit milky as well, but it's much thicker. And this has that same feel to it as far as the hydrating effect, but it also has the pore filling in it, which I love. And I've just, I've fallen completely in love with this. Now you guys know that my, probably my all-time favorite is Angel Veil, but I think, this is really hard for me to say, I think that this is like right next to Angel Veil for me right now, next Angel Veil. But I do, I really like this. Now this one has a minty smell to it. Very subtle. Again, it's not overpowering. Of course, I'm not somebody that worries about scents too much. The Laura Geller one doesn't have a scent at all, just so you know. But very kind of a little bit minty on here, refreshing and coconut over here, kind of like even at the spa type thing. So love those. Now I am going to just rave and rave and rave and rave and then rave some more about this new camouflage under eye primer from Catrice. Guys, this has changed the game for me on my under eyes and what I'm doing with it. Okay, it is so hydrating. It is so hydrating. As a matter of fact, I usually have so much creepiness under my eyes that by the half, half way through the day, I'm like wanting to take my makeup off or touch up or something. This helps to not have to do that. I still have my lines. I still have, you know, the wrinkles, blah, blah, blah. It's still hard because I have very, very deep dark circles. It's still hard to cover them. But this hydrates your under eyes so well. And then I put my color corrector on and then I put my concealer on and then I go ahead and I lightly powder. I don't normally powder at all, you guys, but I lightly powder stays in place all day. I don't have the problem with it, you know, ending up looking like a cakey, crepey mess. And I am in love with this stuff. You guys try it, honestly, really try it. It says four invisible lines. It doesn't make them invisible, but it sure helps plump them up. And I was just like, so impressed with this. Okay, Anastasi Beverly Hills just came out with her eyeshadow primer. And this one, you guys, is good too. I have really been loving, loving, loving this. The reason is, is because not only does it grip like a, I don't know what, it just grips your eyeshadow and keeps your eyeshadow on. But look at it. It has a very light, light color. So it's gonna take, and it's gonna make, you know, your lid completely opaque so that when you go ahead and put your eyeshadow on, you don't have, you know, your other, I don't know, I have bluish color veins on my lids, but they don't show through with this. And it lasts all day. And I will put it on a teeny tiny liner pencil and I'll put it on underneath my eyes right before I put on my other eyeshadows that I put on underneath my eyes and it grips those. I love this stuff, you guys. And I think, if I'm not mistaken, both of these are the trial size because I knew that the Anastasi would last me forever on the eyeshadow primer. I wish that I'd gotten the big one on the Tarte Double Duty Beauty. This is the mini size, just so you guys know that. I did wanna talk to you guys about these two foundations. These two foundations could not be more on the opposite end of the spectrum. This one is the Juvia's Place. This foundation is so pretty, but it's thick. And it does give you absolute full coverage and it's gonna be a thicker foundation. So if you're somebody that doesn't like thick foundation, this might not be for you, but I'm telling you the coverage on this in the lasting time and how it wears and how it doesn't show any texture. It's gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. This is what I have on for a foundation today, but I did mix it with this. Now normally on days, these summery days, I've been using this. I've used the new Stay Naked Foundation from Urban Decay. I just got this last week. So I've been using this. It is a very, very light foundation. It doesn't cover my imperfections. It just kind of gives me a really nice, light, dewy look to my skin. And I use it on days when I'm just kind of bumming around the house or going out and doing errands. I like it very much. I think it's a pretty foundation. For me though, somebody that has a lot of age spots, it's coloration. I have very red texture through here and I want my skin to look more perfected. I tend to go towards the heavier side. So I tend to go towards this. But here's the thing. This one's too heavy. This one's too light. But I mix these two together and they are so good. And I like the Juvies Place anyway. What I have been doing is mixing it with the Laura Geller Spackle. And it's gorgeous when I mix that and get just the perfect amount together. This one, like I said, if you like natural finishes on your skin, it's beautiful. It really truly is. But it doesn't give me enough coverage. Now what I have been doing is doing a little bit more spot coverage with my concealers in order for this to be exactly what I want it to be. So I'm gonna recommend both of these to you and tell you that I've been loving them all month long. I do wanna tell you about a couple of things that didn't work for me. Let's talk about those really quick. I had somebody ask me about this. This is the Ghost Veil from Lime Crime. This is their lip primer. Guys, I'm not impressed with this. I don't see that it keeps my lipstick from going anywhere or it doesn't make it last any longer. It just wasn't something that I was really impressed with. The formula of it is extremely thin. So you put it on and it kind of melts into your lips and it just doesn't seem to me like it really does much of anything. It doesn't like plump your lips up. It doesn't, I just don't feel like there was that wow factor if that makes any sense to where I would be like, oh, this is gonna make your lipstick last. It's gonna make your, you know, not bleed, blah, blah. I didn't feel like that. So I'm not gonna recommend that to you guys. Lime Crime, it was I think like $16. I just didn't feel like it was worth it. And then the Damn Girl mascara. I don't know why they have to put a swear word on there. But anyway, this mascara, I liked it the first day I wore it. I don't know whether I lost the stopper out of it. I don't think so because I can still hear the sucking motion that you do when you pull a mascara wand out. But this is so clumpy and goopy and nasty on there that I can't even use it. It just makes the biggest mess. I can't even wipe off enough that it won't clog the stopper. And I don't know whether I just got a bad one. I know that people are really liking this. I feel like it's a lot like the Better Than Sex mascara. I feel like they just got a bigger wand. So I don't know if that's the case or not. Beautiful packaging as always too faced. But for me, this was a pass guys. So I just wanted to throw those in there as we're talking about this. I do wanna tell you that I got my hands on the waterproof lash princess from Essence. Love this stuff you guys. Okay, my beef with the green tube of the lash princess was that it started to flake halfway through the day. Beautiful volume, beautiful length. I love that mascara but it did flake. This is one that won't. And it's not terribly hard to get off at night either if you use a little bit of oil, coconut oil, whatever. I use some oils from the ordinary to take mine off. Or I use, I use Wog Cleanser from Hylamide. That's fantastic. Which I'll talk about in another video. But anyway, not very hard to get off and I have really enjoyed it. Exact same wand as the one that is in the green tube. But I like it, I like it very much. And I think this is the one that I will be purchasing from now on instead of the green or any of those others that are the lash princess one. And while we're talking about mascara, I also got the waterproof Worth the Hype from Nyx and I love this just as much. I'm wearing Nyx on this eye today and I'm wearing essence on this eye today and I can't tell a difference whatsoever. I do feel like the Nyx wand, it's bigger and it's fluffier. And so I do feel like sometimes it gives just a little bit better volume. But as far as the way that it catches every lash, it lengthens it volume, you know, gives me volume, takes care of my bottom lashes, catches those. Both of these are beautiful and I would highly recommend either one of them. I also want to give a shout out to Rimmel. Rimmel sent me a little care package of a bunch of their eyeliners. They had their exaggerate, they had their scandalous eyes, all that kind of thing in there. And this one is the scandalous eyes and this is their thin liner. I love this, you guys, I have it on today. It makes a very, very thin line on right down there by that top lash line, which is where I love to line so that my lashes look a little bit more voluminous. And it does say 24 hour. Now I don't know if it's 24 hour or not cause I don't wear my makeup that long but I do know that it lasts a long time and I really do like it. My hands shake really bad as most of you know. So I need something that has a very precise tip on it in order not to make a huge mess, which sometimes I do anyway. But I really do love this one and I thank Rimmel for sending this to me. I had, they have another one that I really didn't care for. It had a little ball on the end of it and it was more of a long the lines of a stopper one. And that one, I kind of, it was just too thick on the end of it. They did have another one that was had a little bit thicker tip on it as well. So this one was the one out of all of those that I like the best. So it was the one that was very fine. Okay, I got a couple of palettes from Makeup Revolution that had just released on Ulta.com and this one is their blush palette. It's called Vintage Lace Blush. Look how beautiful this is, you guys. Okay, I also want you to take notice that on here, hopefully the camera will catch this up. I don't know if it will. But this is the one I've used the least this month and it has like these gold glitter particles all over it, you guys. That's like just on the top layer. I don't know why companies do that. Do you guys, I don't know why they put that glitter to make you think that, I don't know. I guess some people are drawn to glitter. But once you get through that and that was, I was freaked out because I don't like glitter at all on my cheeks. And so I was like, oh brother, another one of these. But as soon as I dusted that off and got through that, it's not like that. These are shimmery blushes, but they are not glitter. And so I was really glad about that. So let me just swatch those for you. They're just pretty blushes. I have on this one right here today, the second one. And it just seems to go with just about every one of my looks, but these two together are just so pretty mixed together. And I just, I really love it. And for the money, I think it was, I want to say it was $15, but of course you guys know I'll put it up here. But this is, it's pretty, really pretty. It's a lot like the baked Milani blushes that have that little bit of sheen in them. So if you are looking for something like that and you want to get a good bang for your buck, that is something that I highly recommend. I also wanted to show you guys this cool little brush that I found on moda.com. Moda, it's actually modabrushes.com, I think. Anyway, moda and Royal and Langnickel and another brush liner that I can't, that doesn't come to mind right now. I, they had their little mystery box of stuff that I just, I bought because I like mystery boxes. But I bought this separate and I think this is the coolest thing. This is a tiny, tiny little fan brush and it's got a long wand on it, but it is just this itty bitty fan brush. I have been using it to put a little bit of highlight down my nose. I will use it in my inner corner to dust and brighten that up. I use it on the top of my cupid's bow. I just have been enjoying it. It's not really something that is really needed because all those things you could actually do with your finger if you wanted to, but I've just have been really enjoying just kind of playing around with that little brush and I wanted to show that to you guys because it's been a lot of fun. That's it for the monthly favorites. I know that that was a really long video but I had a whole bunch that I tried and that I absolutely fell in love with and so I'm so glad that I got to share them with you. Please don't forget to give the video a thumbs up if you wouldn't mind. I would really appreciate it. Next video will be all about skin and hair care loves for the month of July. I had quite a few things that I wanted to share with you guys, some of my tried and true things, but some new things too. So I love you guys so very much. Take care of yourselves. You're the best part of my day and I will talk to you very, very soon. Love you, bye-bye.