Hello my fellow beauties! I hope this Friday finds you well and that you have an exciting weekend ahead. For me, I get to look forward to IMATS on Sunday with my mom! It’s the one constant special thing that just she and I do together every year. In fact this will be our fourth year going- Our first convention was in January of ’15. Anyway, tangent over.
I bring to you, for your reading pleasure, my 2018 beauty favorites! I would suggest going to the bathroom now and getting a meal to snack on while you peruse this post. Each section will be clearly marked, as will anything I consider to be a Holy Grail product. I hope you enjoy and be sure to leave your comments and questions below. Let us begin!

FACE AND BODY

Skin Care

*Mario Badescu Facial Spray with Aloe, Chamomile, and Lavender
*Tarte Maracuja [Holy Grail]
*Oilology Argan Oil
*Laneige Eye Sleeping Mask
*Nuva Skin Eye Cream

*La Roche-Posay Effaclar Medicated Gel Face Wash
*Garnier Skin Active Micellar Cleansing Water (Waterproof version)
* The Original Makeup Eraser

*Mario Badescu Drying Lotion [Holy Grail, I’ve used this for 10 years]
*Origins Super Spot Remover

*The Body Shop Argan Oil Body Butter
*Garnier Skin Active Gel Cream for Normal to Combo skin

*Freeman Dead Sea Minerals Anti-Stress Mask
*Glam Glow Supermud Clearing Treatment
*Formula 10.0.6 Pores Be Pure skin clarifying mud mask

Nails and Hands

*Onyx Professional Acetone nail polish remover
*Revitalize Cuticle Oil by Red Carpet Manicure
*Soap and Glory Hand Food [Holy Grail]
*Gold Bond Lotion- Healing

*Orly Bonder base coat
*Essie Polish in Mrs. Always-Right
*Any OPI Nail Lacquer
*Any Sally Hansen Insta Dri
*Diamond Shield top coat [Holy Grail – it’s the only top coat that works on my nails!]
*I had the oil twice, sorry!

Hair

*Rock Your Hair Dry Shampoo [Holy Grail]
*Garnier Fructis Pixie Play Crafting Cream in Extra Strong Hold
*Redken Shape Factor 22 Sculpting Cream Paste
*BB Shine On and On and On spray

Perfume

*Elizabeth and James Nirvana Rollerball perfume in Black and White
*Vera Wang Princess Power
*Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet [Holy Grail]

TOOLS

*The Original Beauty Blender
*Juno & Co Velvet Complexion Sponge
*Eve Pearl Contour Blended Duo 201 brush
*ELF Ultimate Blending Brush
*Luxie 231 Small Tapered Blending Brush

MAKEUP

Foundation, Concealer, and Powders

*Laura Geller Spackle Treatment primer in Hydration
*Too Faced Hangover RX primer
*NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in 604 Milk

*It Cosmetics CC+ Cream in Light (I actually bought the wrong shade but now I’m out it and I’m going to hopefully go and get the right shade!)
*Maybelline Dream Cushion Foundation in 10 Porcelain
*Revolution (Makeup Revolution) stick foundation in F3

*Maybelline Superstay Better Skin concealer in 20 Light
*Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Dark Circle Eraser in Fair

*Soap and Glory One Heck of a Blot compact powder
*Laura Mercier Loose Setting Powder in Translucent

CHEEKS AND FACE

*Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit- Original
*Hourglass Ambient Lighting Edit 4

*Ulta Contour Palette
*Anastasia of Beverly Hills Contour Palette- powder

*Milani Baked Bronzer in 04 Glow
*Laura Geller Baked Blush-N-Brighten in Tropic Hues [Holy Grail]
*ELF powder blush in Twinkle Pink

*Becca Champagne Pop
*Colourpop Super Shock Cheek in Felicity

EYES

*Stila Glitter and Glow shadows in Kitten Karma and Perlina
*Colourpop Super Shock Shadows in Amaze and Swan from the Rumer Has It collection
*Urban Decay shadow in Midnight Cowboy
*M. Princess loose shadow in Pretty Petal

*Revolution (Makeup Revolution) palette in Reloaded Iconic Fever
*Bobbi Brown Bronze Eye palette
*Wet-n-Wild 6 pan palette in Vinyl Collection (Limited Edition but easily duped)

• 

• 

*The Original Jaclyn Hill palette by Morphe
————
Mascara (I forgot to take pictures)
*Too Faced Better than Sex mascara
*Urban Decay Perversion mascara

FINISHING TOUCHES

*Ofra lip liner in Silk
*Clinique Chubby Stick Intense in 03 Mightiest Maraschino
*Eve Pearl Creme Lipstick in Rose
*Dose of Colors lip gloss in Just my Type
*Marc Jacobs Le Marc lip creme in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
*Colourpop Satin Finish liquid lipstick in Brooklyn
*Colourpop lip gloss in Double Agent
*MAC Cremesheen lipstick in Fanfare
*Revlon Colorburst lipstick in 053 Sorbet`

*Clinique Moisture Surge facial spray
*Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray
I am giving the technique that Allie Glines uses to set her makeup and once I found a fan in my house, I found out that it totally is the most awesome way to set your face ever! Seriously!

Well, that’s it folks! If you made it all the way to the end of this post, you’re amazing and I love you (even if you didn’t, I still love you!) A little late, I know, but in my mind if I get it done by the end of the second week of January- yearly favorites are fair game, hah! I would love to know what some of your favorites were from this last year- beauty related or not, I’d love to know! I hope to see you tomorrow for some of my favorites from this week’s makeup bag… box… thing. And as always, don’t forget to be bold, be beautiful, and be YOU!