- Hi everyone.
Welcome back to Adore B's YouTube channel.
My name is Amy Clark, I'm the Senior Editor
and I'm joined by a wonderful new face in our content team.
Sadaf.
Welcome. - Hi.
- You guys are gonna see Sadaf on the channel
a lot more in recent months
because Maddie and I are so excited to have fresh meat.
- I am so excited to be part of Adore Beauty.
I wrote on like a manifestation book.
So manifesting works guys, that I wanted to work at Adore.
- You wrote Adore on your manifest?
- I did. - Wow.
- There you go.
So Sadaf has been one of our Beauty IQ contributors
for a couple of years now,
basically I just send her an email and say,
"Hey, I need you to try this,
hey, I need you to try this and write about it."
Yes, it's a hard job.
What we thought we would do today
is actually go through some of the products
that each of us have reviewed
and written about for Beauty IQ.
But ones that we've actually repurchased
or will be repurchasing soon.
I dunno about you
but one of the things I always think as like a reader
or on Instagram and I say something or review,
I'm like,
but does that person like actually use that product?
You know, would they spend their own money on it?
With Beauty IQ we never do fake reviews,
but you can't like keep everything
that you review in your routine.
So, each of us has got a selection of four
and you were saying it was really hard to narrow down.
- This is really hard to narrow down.
I think I swapped and changed out like a 100 times.
So the first one is the Laneige Perfect Renew Youth Serum.
I fell in love with this on first application.
It's like the epitome
of making you look like a dewy dumpling.
- So I haven't tried this product because--
- Oh, you need to try this.
- Yeah, I assigned Sadaf to write about this product
in her article and we'll go.
I basically tasked Sadaf with writing,
reviewing six Instagram famous products.
- It's so good, like really silky.
It's so nice.
And it just makes your skin look so dewy
and I honestly woke up like looking really well rested
and my face looked really radiant
and I actually just quickly,
it has like a super berry complex
which is really antioxidant rich.
So I am obsessed with that
and I would purchase that a 100 times over.
- So I dunno if you can see the difference
between the treatment hands.
[Sadaf] Look at that.
- This hand, sad, tired, overworked.
This hand, thriving, dewy.
- Thriving, she's thriving.
- Hydrated. - She's hydrated.
- All right, I'm gonna do one of mine.
So this fragrance is Who is Elijah HIS HER, Eau de Parfum
or EDP.
I wrote an article that was like,
"Is this affordable fragrance,
a dupe for a $440 cult favourite?"
For me, it really was like love at first sniff.
And so I might even just put on a bit now.
- Yeah. I've actually wanted to smell that one.
- Have a bit of a waft.
[Sadaf] I've seen so many people rave about this one.
- This is a unisex fragrance and because it's an EDP.
It is kind of a more concentrated fragrance,
so it lasts longer.
It's fresh, but also sultry.
It's a bit androgynous.
It's clean, but a bit sexy.
- Sorry, is this weird I'm being so close to your wrist?
Ooh, I like that.
Like it's earthy.
- Yeah, exactly.
- It's very cool.
- Yes. It's very cool.
- Cool girl vibe.
- It is a cool girl fragrance.
- But like approachable.
Like you can sit with us.
- I'm onto my second bottle.
And I've also lost the lid.
So that's how you know that I use it.
- So this was an article you gave me to do
about probiotic skincare,
which was one of my favourite articles to do.
But if I had to choose my fave from those products,
it was this Aspect Probiotic Mask,
obviously it's really good.
Like it has really good ingredients
to obviously nourish your skin.
And like if you have an impaired skin barrier,
it's really good.
But I love this before makeup.
It just, nothing beats this mask before makeup.
- So you use it more like a primer.
- Yes.
- Let's layer on top of my already dewy hands.
- It's like a moisturiser.
- Yes.
- And you leave it on.
So you do everything else.
Do your hair, like have a shower and look how creamy
and silky and beautiful that is.
And I just grab my Face Halo
and then makeup just sits so beautifully.
And my skin just looks a little bit brighter, like clearer.
It kind of evens out my skin a little.
I'm just obsessed with it.
Like every time, especially if I have like an event
or I'm going out,
I'll always pop this on before makeup.
- Great tip.
- You can change my life with that
so thank you, appreciate it.
- Doing God's work.
- Yeah. Not all heroes wear capes.
- Let's do hair.
This is the Kerastase Chronologiste Pre-Cleanse.
I'm not gonna say the rest.
[Sadaf] It sounds fancy.
Kerastase product names are super long and super French.
It's like a pre shampoo cleanser for the scalp and roots.
So I wrote about this again,
when this particular range launched.
I did a bit of like a road test, tested out all the products
in this particular range and then I picked--
- You have really good hair by the way
and it's always shiny.
- This one's just like a standout one that I've finished
and have since repurchased.
I love a good scalp scrub
or like a scalp cleanser.
So I always double shampoo.
So I do either a scalp scrub first
or a deep cleansing shampoo and then do my second shampoo.
Okay. I'm gonna just bubble some out.
- I love a texture shot.
- It's such a tease.
It's like just, I don't.
Bubble.
I don't wanna waste.
Shit, okay.
Okay anyways, as you can see, it's more of like,
it doesn't have a scalp scrub.
Okay.
I'm gonna put that away now.
It doesn't have a scalp scrub texture.
Like there's no, there's no bits in it,
but rather it has more like exfoliating acid ingredients
that help to accelerate scalp.
It just has a beautiful fragrance,
it's like.
- It's really nice.
- Again, unisex product.
Love it.
What's your third product?
- Okay. So this is the makeup For Ever Primer.
So this comes in a range
that you sent me to do for this story
on makeup For Ever primers.
You actually taught me this was to multi prime.
So I get a oily T-zone.
So the shine control I use for like my T-zone
where it gets really greasy during the day.
This Dullness Eraser I just found it really
like kind of sunk into my skin really beautifully.
And it kinda matched my skin tone really nice.
And this just makes my makeup stay on all day.
It's not modifying, but it's not super shiny.
So it's good for oily skin people like me
as the name suggests it's a dullness eraser.
So it doesn't take away anything from my complexion.
And I, yeah.
I just love this.
- I think there's like 10 or 11
in the entire range,
but it's like you pick and choose the ones
that are gonna suit your skin type and concerns.
For me,
I would do like the hydrating one
but also there's an like a redness,
a green one for redness.
- And it has different shades.
So like there's yellow undertones.
There was yeah,
for darker skin, lighter skin.
It has a really good shade range for there's something
that's like not a foundation.
It's a primer.
So I really liked that too.
- My third one is also makeup related.
- Ooh, I'm so excited.
We're talking about makeup
- The tube with lots of fingerprints on it.
And my hands are all not greasy, but they're like lubed up
because I've put so much product on them.
This is Napoleon Perdis,
the Cheek Switch Cream Blush Sticks.
- You always have the best cheek, like cream blushes.
I've stalked your Instagram.
Sorry if that sounds weird.
- This whole video, is just to inflate my ego.
- No seriously.
I've literally done like cream.
This is a topic for another day.
- Actually did this story.
It was one of my first articles for a Adore.
The headline was something like
"these cream blush sticks make me look alive on Zoom calls"
because we were like peak lock down.
A bit of blush just makes you look alive and healthy.
There's three shades.
But the one that I love the best,
I'm actually wearing it today as well.
It's called Save The Coral
and I'll just show you.
- Oh, I love that colour.
- Looks like this.
It's kind of like a peachy coral.
I love it
because it's the stick.
So you can just draw it on.
I like to get a flat kind of stickling brush
go like this, blend it onto the skin like this.
But the formula is cream as the name suggests
but it kind of dries to like a satin.
It's like this cream to powder satin finish.
So looks juicy, but it stays all day.
- Oh, nice.
Your skin looks dewy.
- Thank you, again.
- Sorry. - So many Compliments.
- I need to stop.
- We kind of, both of us has saved.
- Saved our best for last.
Tell me about this concealer.
- Okay. I've done a YouTube video on this.
I've done a Beauty IQ article on this here, here, Maddie.
I have really, really dark circles.
Things like this, like a good concealer
that not only helps mask your dark circles.
Again, nothing wrong with having dark circles,
mine are genetic.
I love and embrace them, but if there's a really
good product that can even slightly mask them
and blow them like it is actually life changing for me.
I have bought this so many times.
Like it is like one of my favourite all time products
and I can't live without it.
Like I cannot leave the house now
without putting this concealer on.
I use toasted wheat, but it does have a good shade range.
So look, I can't avoid creasage,
it does happen, but I don't care.
I love this.
I just love it.
- And also because it's that quite a creamy fluid texture.
I don't know if you are,
yours is clean.
So you obviously don't use this.
- I don't.
I use my little mini beauty blender.
- But say like, I don't know you were on the go.
I wanna say there's almost no such thing
as a completely 100% crease-free concealer,
but, because the texture is so creamy and light,
it's not like you can't move it throughout the day.
So you can get your little sponge
or you can get whatever and like just touch it up.
It will buff it back in.
[Woman] Can I see what it looks like on your hand?
Like give a little swatch.
Don't waste too much.
- No, that's fine.
- Don't waste.
She's like,
- I know
- Every swipe counts
- Every swipe count.
- Okay. Ready for this swatch.
Look at that creamy consistency.
Like I haven't obviously blended that in
but when it goes on and I use my mini beauty blender
to kind of like buff in it just looks so gorgeous.
For someone with dark circles,
if you are looking for a good concealer,
definitely look into this one.
You change my life, I will change your life.
So there you go.
- Towel. - [Woman] That's okay.
(Sadaf clapping)
- Ive chosen this product because,
dermatological releasing this new serum,
you know, they tell us it's gonna be amazing.
And sceptical me is like,
okay, I'll wait to see it.
But I was like, it's quite an expensive serum and
for an expensive serum to be like really worth the money
if you say like, don't have the financial means
to just be able to buy any product.
- It's gotta be really good.
And so the reason why it's my last one today is because,
I have repurchased.
I've probably gone about through four bottles of this
since I first got it.
And I was actually genuinely like surprised
that I loved it so much,
surprised that I saw such a difference in my skin.
So it is the Dermatological Smart Response Serum.
The marketing around it is a little bit confusing.
Basically it says that it is a smart serum
that responds to what your skin needs at any given time.
But really it's a four in one serum.
It's brightening, hydrating, calming and firming.
I use it day and night.
It's like a, just one of that
like all rounder, everyday serum.
The texture is like, and I wouldn't even use this much.
I would use one palm in an application.
So it's very silky,
it has a fragrance, but it's not super overpowering.
- Oh, look at that.
- But it's just like you put it on
and your skin just looks and feels a bit better.
- Yeah. It feels refreshing.
- Yes, exactly.
It's a bit refreshing.
It's great for morning and night.
My hands are just living the life right now.
- I don't wanna waste this,
I'm just gonna put it on my.
- So I think like a marker
of a good all rounder serum like this
is if I finish the bottle
and then I move onto something else
and then I'm like, and I miss it.
And I'm like,
I think I just noticed a bit of a difference
'cause I'm not using it,
that to me is the marker of a product,
it's like you don't know what you had until it's gone.
That's my fourth product
and that kind of rounds out our little reviews here.
So we're gonna put the links
to actually all the articles that we've spoken about today.
Sorry, as you're gonna have to put all the links
in the description, but they'll be down here.
And if you have tried any of these products
or actually I would love to know in the comments
if you have tried something
because you read it on Beauty IQ and you love it,
let us know in the comments.
But otherwise, Sadaf and I will see you next time.
- Bye.