Makeup That WON’T Break You Out – Part 2

Here are some more makeup product options that do not have pore-clogging ingredients recommended byour advisor, Rennie Chi, who loves researching and trying cosmetics. Regardless of the number of steps in your make-up routine, you have choices with a broad range of brands and budget.

Bronzer

1) L.A Girl Glow Envy Bronzer ($7.99)

This bronzer is made with an innovative, bouncy formula that is able to soften and blur texture on your face. This is a gel-to-powder formula that melts into your skin, leaving you with a seamless, long-wearing, natural, airbrushed finish. It has buildable coverage and is formulated with skin-loving ingredients like jojoba oil, squalene, and vitamin E. Jojoba oil is known to smooth dry skin, prevent flakiness, and improve skin elasticity. Squalene moisturizes the skin as well, while calming redness and inflammation. Vitamin E improves the appearance of skin as it aids the skin in looking firmer and fuller and maintaining wrinkles and aging.

2) Milani Cheek Kiss Cream Bronzer ($12.99)

This Milani cream bronzer formula is a lightweight, ultra-blendable formula that gives a summer-glow all year round. It melts into the skin, leaving a matte finish. It is infused with skin-loving blends of nourishing oils, vitamin E, and micro-sized spherical powders to help blur imperfections. Micro-sized spherical powders are particles that have a sphere shape and are small in size, which smooths texture, reduces caking on skin, improves spreadability, and gives an optical effect on your skin. This product is made vegan and 100% cruelty free.

3) Rare Beauty Warm Wishes Bronzer ($26)

This bronzer stick melts into your skin, giving you a sun-kissed look that doesn’t fade. The weightless and smooth texture of this bronzer makes it easy to achieve a seamless, natural finish. It is a nongreasy formula that won’t cake, crease, and most importantly, not clog pores. It is made cruelty free, vegan, water resistant, and paraben free. Parabens are speculated to potentially lead to cancer formation.

4) Charlotte Tilbury Cream Bronzer ($58)

This bronzer creates the summer glow on your face. It blurs and hydrates your face, while improving your skin every time you put it on. The lasting power is up to 16 hours, with it being both sweat and humidity proof. The skin will get 2x more hydrated within an hour of putting it on, and your skin will look 42% smoother within 28 days. This cream bronzer is infused with hyaluronic acid and sunshine provitamin D3. Hyaluronic acid aids in hydrating the skin’s outer layer, which improves the skin’s appearance and gives it a more youthful and radiant look.

Blush

1) Juvia’s Place Liquid Blush ($18)

This viral blush has taken social media by storm and for good reason. This blush formula is known to be highly pigmented and blendable. It will accentuate all your features for a flawless finish on your face. With this blush, a little goes a long way, with long-lasting effects.

2) Pixi On-the-Go Blush Stick ($18)

This is yet another blush that has gone viral on social media. It can be used for both the cheeks and lips for a natural, seamless finish. This blush is perfect for the no-makeup days where you still want some color on your face. It is packed with vitamins for antioxidant benefits. Additionally, it is paraben-free and not tested on animals.

3) Benetint ($24)

This is a cheek and lip stain that gives you a tinted rose color. It has a doe foot applicator, a precise q-tip, that allows for an easy and seamless application. Within seconds, you can have color on your face that lasts for hours. It is smudge proof, sheer and buildable, and allows for a natural finish on your face.

4) Fenty Cream Blush ($26)

This cream blush from Fenty Beauty is a light, non-greasy formula that melts into skin for an effortless and natural flush of color. It is easy to use with a sheer but buildable finish. It is formulated to be sweat and water resistant without feeling sticky. It smooths over skin and won’t disturb makeup underneath. Additionally, Fenty Beauty is 100% cruelty free.

Powder

1)  Saie Airset Radiant Loose Setting Powder ($30)

This loose setting powder mats and locks in the makeup on your face. Not only is it weightless and oil absorbing, but it is also moisturizing with a natural, velvety finish. The powder is infused with squalene, moisturizing the skin to keep it plump and smooth. It is also formulated with ethically-sourced Mica, which allows for luminous, supple skin that does not turn cakey or dry. Ethically-sourced Mica is sourced in a manner that respects human rights, minimizes environmental impact, and supports local businesses. The majority of non-ethically-sourced Mica comes from India with other major producers being from Belgium, Brazil, and China.

2) Haus Labs Loose Setting Powder ($38)

This is a skincare infused powder that is also clean. It is free of talc, but it still blurs, controls shine, and sets makeup. It is formulated with patent-pending fermented arnica, which visibly reduces redness and irritation, evens out skin tone, and protects skin from environmental stress. Arnica is an herb that belongs to the sunflower family and has been used for centuries for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties. Additionally, every dollar from every purchase spent will go out to mental health.

3) Kosas Cloud Set Powder ($35)

Like its name, this pressed powder will give you a real-life soft, dreamy skin finish. It is a soft and sheer setting and smoothing powder with benefits that include:

• Reducing shine, which comes from the bamboo stem extract
• Smoothing, which comes from the passionfruit leaf extract
• Reducing the appearance of pores, which comes from the peony extract

All extracts are nature-based with beautiful benefits for your skin.

4) Refy Skin Finish Loose Setting Powder ($32)

This is a unique water-based powder that leaves your skin looking like skin. With its unique formula, it will not only cool your face but also blurs and reduces the appearance of pores on your face. It also removes unwanted shine away from your face. It blurs, hydrates, and gives your skin a natural finish. It is formulated without talc and fragrance.

Lip Gloss

1) Tower 28 Lip Gloss ($16)

This lip gloss has a formula like no other. Although it is marketed as a lip gloss, it doesn’t have the feeling of a lip gloss, which can often feel sticky. This has a non-sticky feeling on your lip, while providing the shine that a lip gloss provides. Additionally, there are a lot of shades for this product, suiting every preference.

2) Clinique Lip Gloss ($24)

This lip gloss is a classic. Specifically, the Black Honey shade. Although from first glance, it may look intimidating with its color, the color that it gives once you put it on your lips is amazing. Black Honey by Clinique is known to be a universal shade, suited for every skin tone. Not only will this look amazing on your lips, it lasts a long time and the shine stays through.

3) Nyx Butter Gloss ($6)

This is a favorite of many from the drugstore. With this lip gloss only costing $5, there are many fans. Additionally, there are a lot of shades to this product, which will suit many preferences.

4) Maybelline Lifter Gloss ($10.99)

This is another favorite from the drugstore. This lip gloss is said to be extremely glossy by many who use this. Some lip products do not have a good color payoff on your lips, but this is said to have a good color payoff, meaning that the color from the lip product is pigmented enough to make a difference on your lips.

Lip Oil

1) Clarins Lip Oil ($30)

This Clarins lip oil is a popular product. With its scent, shade range, and applicator, what’s not to like? The second you open this lip oil, the scent is immediately there with a good shade range and color payoff. The applicator is also a favorite, as it has the big doe-foot applicator everyone enjoys.

2) Haus Labs Lip Glaze ($26)

This lip glaze from Haus Labs feels amazing on your lips. This lip product is a mix of both lip gloss and lip oil. It has the shine from a lip gloss, but has the feeling of a lip oil. It does not have the sticky feeling that a typical lip gloss has. Additionally, every dollar from every purchase spent will go out to mental health.

3) Ulta Beauty Lip Oil ($10)

This is one of the best drugstore lip oils out there. It has different scents, with each of them being different fruit scents. Not only are they all scented, but they give the most incredible shine ever. Additionally, it’s almost always on sale!

4) Milani Lip Oil ($11.99)

The Milani lip oil is also a favorite. Not only does it have strong scents for users to enjoy, but it is also a non-sticky lip oil with amazing color payoff.

Lip Balm

1) Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm ($24)

If you haven’t heard of the Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm, you could be living under a rock! These are a cult favorite for many reasons. They have different scents to each flavor, with each color being different. Additionally, it does a great job of hydrating your lips. The applicator is also easy to use.

2) Ole Henrickson Pout Preserve ($22)

This is another lip balm that comes out of a squeezy tube and is said to be the most hydrating tinted lip balm there is on the market. There are a few colors with different shade ranges.

3) e.l.f. Squeeze Me Lip Balm ($4)

This is one of the most inexpensive lip balms on the market but still works extremely well. Although the color payoff is not as visible as you would expect, the product works and is also scented with various flavors.

4) Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment ($16)

There are both untinted and tinted versions of this product. The untinted ones are scented with multiple scents, all smelling great. The tinted ones are unscented, but they have an incredible shine and have a good color payoff, with an easy-to-use and convenient applicator.

It may be confusing to differentiate between the many types of lip products that get released and are recommended. Here’s some tips to help you choose the right one:

• Lip gloss is a classic, as it gives your lips a glossy finish and a hint of color.
• Lip oils have similar effects to a lip gloss, but they primarily concentrate on providing hydration to keep your lips soft and supple.
• Lip balms are mainly formulated to hydrate your lips and relieve chapped or dry lips. However, with the new cosmetic lip balms, they can also add a hint of color and shine to your lips as you wear them.

And yes, it may be confusing with the plethora of makeup products and the 10-step processes. Everybody has their own makeup routine that works for them so pick and choose from the recommendations and see how it fits on your skin. 

As for Rennie, during a typical day, she’ll use concealer, blush, powder, highlight, and lip products – all less than 15 minutes to apply. However, for a night out, she will go ALL out with a foundation or skin tint, concealer, liquid/cream blush, liquid/cream bronzer, pressed powder, loose powder, brows, mascara, eyeshadow, contour, powder blush, powder contour, highlight, and then lip products! If you’re like me and tend to be lazy about makeup or short on time, go with a simple routine – I like to use a concealer, setting powder, eyeliner, eyeshadow, mascara and a lip product – all in less than 10 minutes!