- Ready, and ... 3,2,1.
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- It's the end of 2018!
- 2018 is coming to a close
- Wow, it is
- It flew by, as it does every year,
and we have some beauty things we wanna talk about.
- Basically at the end of every year a lot
of YouTubers will share their favorite beauty products,
favorite just general projects,
and so we thought we would do the same and let
you know some products we really, really liked
this year and who made our lives a little bit easier.
- Little bit of fave.
- Little bit of this, little bit of that.
- Mhm, little bit of mine, little bit of Freds
(laughing)
- Yeah, let's get started.
- Okay.
- Number five is the Fenty Beauty Flyliner.
If you aren't very good at drawing precise lines
or you want eyeliner that's gonna pigment real good
this is your girl.
I'm not great at eyeliner, I've gotten okay
through practice.
This is an eyeliner that makes me feel confident
to try new and exciting shapes with my eyes.
- You've got a nice little long line going on.
- Yeah I got a nice little long line.
- Cat eye, nice little cat eye yeah.
It's precise too, it's sharp.
This is my number five product.
My Anastasia Beverly Hills Eyebrow Scissors.
- Snip snip.
- I have pretty bushy eyebrows naturally
and instead of tweezing the hair
which sort of messes up my line and makes them super thin;
I actually just comb them out and I trim them.
I just really like these scissors.
They're sharp but they're not too sharp.
They are very thin and so you're able
to just sort of get in there in the very delicate crevices
and sort of cut and trim your eyebrows.
I think my eyebrows are thicker
and that's better for all of us.
- Mm hm. - Yeah.
- Crevices.
- Okay you go first!
- This is a part of the Drunk Elephant line
it's a peptide moisturizer.
This is what I use after I've put
all the serums and oils and lotions and potions
on my face, I lock it in with this moisturizer
and I feel like it has made a huge difference in my skin.
I have found few things that work on my face
like Drunk Elephant does 'cause I have very sensitive skin.
You touch my cheek I will get a pimple
in that exact spot tomorrow.
- This is an All Natural Balm, it's called The Hand Stuff.
I got it from a cute little boutique on Venice,
I feel like just throughout the workday
you're goin to the restroom, you're washing your hands a lot
and throughout the day because I also
just have very dry skin my hands just get really crackly.
This is amazing because it's almost like
a shea butter consistency.
And it smells lovely.
- Oh god!
- Yeah!
This is just really great because it just refreshes
and rejuvenates my hands and it was 14 bucks
but I've had it for quite a few months.
- This is my number four product,
this is the Anastasia Highlighting Duo Pencil.
This brow pencil actually is super helpful
'cause it has a highlighting side and also concealer side.
And what's really helpful is it allows me to clean up
if I make messes.
I'll take this and be like, highlighter side, underneath.
Concealing side up top, I'm wearing it right now!
- It looks nice.
- Thanks.
- So my number four is Cetaphil PRO for oily skin.
My skin is not super sensitive,
but it does get very oily, so it's really important
that I find moisturizers that are non-comedogenic
and also are mattifying.
I usually use this product which moisturizes
and then I use another sunscreen
to sort of lock it in and protect my face from the sun.
It just always helps me feel super fresh and ready to go.
- This is a Caviar CC Cream and it works lovely in my hair
because it's not just an oil,
there's actual kind of wetness to it.
So for me it's really good at revitalizing
the curl or the texture that I've lost
on maybe a day two or day three.
- 10 in one.
- 10 in one, yeah!
Moisture, shine, smoothness, softness, UV protection,
manageability, strength, anti-breakage, heat protection,
- [Both] and light hold.
- Wow.
My next one it's this Anastasia Beverly Hills lip gloss.
What I love about this is that it is not sticky,
it's really smooth and creamy and it's super pigmented.
And when I think about color glosses I think of
just more of a sheer overcoat color.
Check this out.
- [Chantel] That's a gloss?
- [Freddie] Yes!
- Can I hold it?
- Yes!
- [Chantel] This is a good find Fred.
- 1000%.
- My next product is a favorite that everyone loves,
but I just want to recommend it for myself.
This is Smashbox the original Photo Finish
Smooth and Blur Primer.
This primer is the gold standard
if you have some little wrinkly lines.
I have huge cavernous pores, I always have
as I've gotten older the caves have gotten bigger.
Consider them to be well loved little jars of junk.
But what this does is make sure that my expensive foundation
doesn't sink into the jars.
Its sort of a blurring type texture,
if you look at it it literally looks like
you're kinda doing a blur tool on your face.
This is my favorite thing.
- My number three product is the Brow Contour Pro
by Benefit, this is actually cool
it's a pen that has four different shades.
I tend to use the darkest shade
and I don't really fill in my eyebrows that much,
but I use it just to add just a little bit
more depth to them on days when I'm really
just trying to make them pop.
One time earlier this year my regular hairstylist
was super busy so I got booked into an appointment
with someone who I don't usually go to
and they were very, very sweet and kind
and a good job for the most part,
but they accidentally cut a chunk out of my eyebrow.
There was just a hole in my eyebrow
and this is where the pencil came in handy
and it looks pretty natural, it doesn't look overbearing.
And I was able to fill in my hole.
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- This is my number three because
it's just a staple in my beauty routine.
Secret Clinical Strength, I have a lot of sweat
I have a lot of stink, clinical strength is
what I need to use and specifically in the lavender.
Now I know what you're thinking, she doesn't like lavender
(speaking gibberish)
but, in any other scent it doesn't work for me.
It literally has to be the lavender.
I think there's just something neutralizing
about the scent when it meets my B.O.
- My number three, a Peptide Eye Wrinkle Repair eye cream
by Arcona.
I've been using this every night,
according to Kristin I should be using it twice a day.
- Oh!
- Sometimes eye creams take a really long time to rub in,
like in past experiences I use eye creams and I'm like,
okay, like when, wah I'm tired.
This clearly does the job, I like it, it smells fresh.
- My number two is the Plushy Liquid Lip,
from Lime Crime in sorbet.
This is now my new go to lip color.
I've spent years being yelled at by commenters
about having imprecise red lips
and it's something that really got to me,
so I spent a long time trying to figure out
how to have the most precise lip color possible.
And I learned it would be a liquid lip.
I tend to get these little horns above my lip
whenever I drink something when I have a cream lipstick on
and this stuff just dries super fast
so that's not a problem.
I don't look like I'm a little mouth devil.
- It's just a really pretty color.
- Yeah, I love it. - Yeah it's really beautiful.
- What's your number two baby?
- My number two, Innisfree Youth-Enriched Eye Cream
with Orchid.
So this is just the eye cream that I put on,
honestly twice a day, which you don't necessarily have to
you can put eye cream on just once a day.
- No, put eye cream on, no twice a day.
Just keep putting on eye cream.
- [Jen] Put it on twice a day.
- Just keep doing it.
- According to Kristin I should be using it twice a day.
Twice a day.
- The skin around my eyes is really sensitive,
like I can get a lot of allergic reactions
and I don't react to this.
Obviously test everything out
'cause everybody's body is different,
but this is just super moisturizing
it makes me feel ready to go to bed
because it makes me feel refreshed,
and then it also makes me feel ready to wake up.
- I'm gonna do two number twos actually.
So these number twos, this little baby
it is empty because it's the best hair serum
I've ever found for my hair.
So many people ask me, oh what's the top serum
that you use on your hair?
This one.
I said it last year, I'll say it again,
and I'll probably say it next year too.
It is one of the only things that works in my hair.
Tied for number two is also this Verb Sea Texture Spray.
Sometimes my hair does have a hard time holding it's shape
and this is a way to get the texture,
but it doesn't make it frizz nor does it make it crusty.
- It's such cute packaging.
- It is.
- Everything you have is so cute.
My number two is one of my headwraps
from this year.
- Ooh!
Someone's got a headwrap line!
- Yes I did a collaboration with Fringe and Co.
I love it because it has a wire in it
so you can easily just mold it and manipulate it
into the, I don't have a mirror
so I don't know what it's doing, but this is.
- Wow, I love it and it makes it look so intricate
and you're like, it's a wire!
- It's a wire, it took me two seconds to do, you know?
- For a long time I had an eye pencil
that I used religiously and it was my eye pencil
and everyone could just eat it
if they wanted to have me try a new one.
That is until I got my number one product
which is the Anastasia Brow Definer
in both medium brown and auburn.
I have both colors.
It has a tip like an acute triangle,
in that there's one end that's really thin
and one end that's really thick
if you need more thickness or more thinness
you can kind of have it.
So the different sizes of the product help
I also appreciate that the way they have it set up
it's really hard for me to break it off
'cause my last go to eye pencil I was constantly breaking.
- My number one hair product is my
Gatsby brand Perfect Hold Wax in extra hard.
A lot of waxes and gels you can find will add
a different texture to your hair
and so some people when they put a product in their hair
they want it to change texture.
My hair, I really don't like it to take on
any new textures, I like it to feel pretty soft
and it's important that the gel just sort of comes in
does what it needs to do and then leaves it alone.
So it's not a particularly wet texture,
do you want some?
- Yeah I do I want some.
- Just put it in.
I go back to the front when I put it in.
I don't really have a mirror in front of me
so I don't know how good of a job I did,
but the thing is once this sort of dries
and sets with the hair the hold will still be there,
but any of the residual gel will sort of
have just dried in and the hair texture feels
pretty much the same as it does
when I don't have product in.
It looks like I did nothing.
- Here's my number one!
It's a powder exfoliant.
You twist the cap open, you pour a few sprinkles in
you can add it to any existing cleanser
that you already have and it's such a gentle exfoliant
that it feels like it's not doing anything.
And then you just watch the crusties, the whiteheads,
the blackheads, they all just fall off.
This thing has single handedly changed my face,
changed my skin, and it is incredible.
- My number one is this mascara.
- Okay!
- Unexpected for me because this was just
a last minute grab.
I was in New York at the New York office,
I need to do my face for a quick video, I had no 'scara.
Essence Gant.
- [Chantel] Love her.
- She says I just got sent this in the mail
if you want to take it, and I was like sure, sure, sure.
It's a mascara by Charlotte Russe.
- [Chantel] Oh!
- Now if you know Charlotte Russe
you think of clothing store, I would never have thought
that they had makeup that would have
changed my life for the better.
This 'scara, okay
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it glides on so seamlessly, it's so smooth,
it doesn't clump, I love it.
So good!
It's just one of my favorite things.
- I'm shocked.
- Mm hm.
- So those were our top five beauty products for 2018
we're excited to see what 2019 holds for us.
- Let us know in the comments which ones
you are excited to try or ones that you've tried already
that you really like.
- Happy New Year, happy producting,
and hopefully one of these will be able to help you.
- Happy New Year everybody, we'll see you next time.
- Okay bye!
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