I thought it would be helpful if I made a Cordelia’s Makeup Favorites page rounding up my current favorite makeup products. If you’re looking for my affiliate codes, they’re listed on my Affiliate Code page.
Cordelia’s Makeup Favorites
Here are my current favorite makeup products. Some links are affiliate links and I make a small commission on sales made through these links. Any commission I make is then used to help keep my blog active to buy products to review. Thank you if you choose to use them!
SPF
- Canmake Mermaid Skin Gel UV Sunscreen SPF 50+ PA++++ – this is the best SPF I’ve found for wearing under makeup.
- Evy Mineral Sunscreen Mousse SPF 50 – It’s sweat and water resistant, and what I use instead of Coola SPF these days.
- Jack Black Intense Therapy Lip Balm SPF 25 – this is my go-to spf lip balm for my lips.
- Supergoop! Shimmershade SPF 30 in First Light – If I’m not wearing eye makeup, I will use this as an SPF eye brightener. It reminds me of MAC Bare Study paint pot.
- Supergoop! SPF 40 Setting Spray – I prefer this to any other SPF setting spray I’ve tried.
Face Primers
You can use different primers on different areas of your face. If my redness from rosacea is very visible, I use a green primer on the redness, and the Power Grip Primer on my T-zone. Some days I want to be extra glowy, so I use Prism FX or Glow Lust as my primer. If I need to make sure it lasts all day, I will mix Prism FX or Glow Lust into Power Grip.
- Iconic London Underglow Blurring Primer – This is my new favorite primer and it works beautifully with my Lisa Eldridge complexion products.
- Auric Glow Lust in Morganite – I love this as a tinted hydrating primer for my skin. I prefer it to the Charlotte Tilbury Glow product, as well as the Elf Halo Glow product. Sadly the brand has closed.
- Danessa Myricks Prism FX Hydrating Lotion in Original (iridescent pinky-violet) or Gold (iridescent gold) – gives me a gorgeous iridescent glow on my dry skin and can be mixed with primers or foundations. I think this may have been discontinued.
- Milk Hydro Grip Hydrating Makeup Primer with Hyaluronic Acid + Niacinamide – I switched back to this from e.l.f. because I did not like their ad with Matt Rife. I don’t think it’s ok to glorify domestic violence.
Complexion Products
I don’t use setting powder all over. I do use it strategically to blur fine lines and pores, as well as set under my eyes. The older I become, the less likely I am to wear full coverage because it ages me. I look better in lighter coverage products.
- Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Foundation Shade in 2.5 – My perfect undertone foundation match that proves that I’m a porcelain olive, or ghost olive! Such a beautiful blurring foundation for dry skin.
- Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Tint T1.5 – My perfect undertone and skin depth complexion product that disappears into my pale olive skin.
- About Face The Illusionist Concealer in F1 Olive – My perfect undertone and skintone concealer match for concealing around my face.
- I like to use my fingertips to blend it out or the BK Kitten Paw brush.
- LYS Beauty Triple Fix Blurring and Hydrating Skin Tint Foundation Stick in LN1 – I finally have a stick foundation that I love for everyday wear. It’s so easy to use and looks great on my 40+ year old skin. I wear this daily.
- Haus Labs Triclone Skin Tech Hydrating + De-puffing Concealer in 01 Fair Neutral – my sister-shade concealer (not olive).
- Rare Beauty Positive Light Under Eye Brightener in Light – I use this to brighten under my eyes and I pair it with the LYS foundation stick. My under eye area is delicate and prone to caking if I use too much product.
- Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Baking & Setting Powder in Sugar Cookie – despite the fragrance, this is an excellent setting powder when used strategically around the face. I used to use Pound Cake but prefer Sugar Cookie now. I pat it on with the IT Brushes For ULTA Airbrush Tapered Powder Bronzer Brush #150.
- Tirtir Mask Fit Waterproof Setting Spray – this is an awesome setting spray that lasts through hot humid 90 degree weather in Amsterdam.
- One/Size On ‘Til Dawn Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray – I love this but it’s more difficult to get in Europe.
- Iconic London Prep-Set-Glow Hydrating Setting Spray – If I don’t need it to last all day and I just want to add a glow, I use this spray.
Cheek Products
I’m very fair skinned with porcelain cool yellow olive undertones. I use a lot of highlighters as highlighting blushes because I find it flattering.
- Huda Beauty Blush Filters – This is my current favorite blush formula! Bubblegum, Ube Cream, Ube Berry, and Black Cherry are my favorite shades.
- Em Cosmetics Heaven’s Glow Blushes in Seraph (pink) and Baroque (beige) – Seraph and Baroque are my favorite baked blushes.
- Kaleidos Space Age Highlighters – I love these so much and they have a wonderful formula! Such a beautiful duochrome and multichrome formula. I wear Moon Cruiser and Gifted the most. Gifted is a gorgeous highlighting blush.
- Black Moon Moonlighters – These have been my favorite highlighters for a very long time and all of their cheek products are excellent. I love the ethereal lit from within glow that they give. My favorite is Catshark!
- Silk Naturals Beach Bunny – (code CORDELIA 10%) the best loose bronzer for very fair skin.
- Rituel de Fille Intuition – my favorite grey mauve taupe cream for a blush and contour combo. Makes me feel sculpted!
- VE Cosmetics Witch Please Loose Contour Powder – (code CORDELIA 10%) my favorite loose contouring powder.
- Silk Naturals – (code CORDELIA 10%) my favorite cream highlighting blushes.
- Aromaleigh – (code CORDELIA 15%) – my favorite loose mineral blushes.
- Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder Flushed It Girl – I love this cool-toned blurring pink for my very fair neutral cool skin tone.
- Haus Labs Bio-Radiant Gel-Powder Highlighter in Rose Quartz and Moonstone – I use Rose Quartz as a blush or blushing highlight, while I use Moonstone as a true highlighter.
Eye Products
Eye primers, single eyeshadows, and eyeliners are definitely a necessity in my makeup favorites.
- Kiko Milano Neutral Eye Primer – My new favorite eyeshadow primer!
- Lisa Eldridge Seamless Glide Eye Pencils – this formula is the best that I’ve ever tried for smoking out. I am obsessed! I have Black Treacle, Night Forest, Cinder Smoke, and Lilac Time. I wish they had an eye brightening shade for the waterline, as well as jewel toned blue and teal.
- Bellabeautebar Eyeshadows – Bellabeautebar has made so many palettes that I’m obsessed with and these are the most used eyeshadows in my collection: Dark Dreamscape, Dead Roses, Morally Grey, Ocean Jewel, Basic Witch, and Recently Deinfluenced.
- Kaleidos Twilight Rush Quad – This is the best eyeshadow quad I’ve purchased in years! I love these colors and how blendable they are.
- Kaleidos Epiphany Glow Melt-On Eyeliners – these are my favorite multichrome eyeliners!
- Lethal Cosmetics Matte Eyeshadows – I love all my Lethal eyeshadows but especially my mattes.
- Sugarpill Loose Eyeshadows – I especially love Trance and Flora.
- Nyx Retractable Vivid Rich Mechanical Eyeliner Pencils – Quartz Queen is my perfect eye-opening shade.
- Half Magic Flik Eraser Makeup Correcting Pen – I love using this to correct the angle of my eyeliner and makeup.
Eyeshadow Palette Favorites
I adore my eyeshadow singles, but still love and use eyeshadow palettes so I had to include them in my makeup favorites!
- Bellabeautébar Dark Dreamscape Palette – (code CORDELIA 10%) the most perfect pastel goth palette ever created!
- Bellabeautébar Yin & Yang x Freya86_ff Palette – (code CORDELIA 10%) such a cool Chinese gothic inspired palette!
- Bellabeautébar Morally Grey Palette – (code CORDELIA 10%) Adore this grey and pink 9 pan palette. If you’re looking for a tiny palette to do everything demure and elegant to bold and smokey, this is it.
- Bellabeautébar Ocean Jewel Palette – (code CORDELIA 10%) I love that this was inspired by the sea!
- Bellabeautébar Dead Roses Palette – (code CORDELIA 10%) I adore this bright pink palette with reds and purples. It has every major pink multichrome you could want.
- Bellabeautébar Basic Witch Palette – (code CORDELIA 10%) I love this palette so much! I reach for it frequently. The mattes are great and it’s what started my love of Bellabeautébar.
- Bellabeautébar Recently Deinfluenced Magnetic Palette – (code CORDELIA 10%) I bought this palette for Fall 2024 and it’s stunning.
- Nabla Wildberry Cutie Palette – great for travel with pinks and duochromes! And yes, these colors are flattering on my very fair neutral cool skin tone.
- Viseart Editorial Brights Palette – I love this for cosplay, conventions, and travel. It’s my favorite all matte rainbow palette.
- Natasha Denona Mini Love Palette – I adore the mini love so much! It’s perfect for travel. These pinks are very flattering on me.
- Adept Cosmetics Cyborg Choir Palette – This palette has the most unique holochrome formula in my collection. I love Binary Beat, Android Aura, Robo Rose, Pixelated Pulse, Laser Lights, Voltage Violet, Mechanical Muse, Digital Harmony, all so much.
- Lethal 1UP Palette – the palette that made me fall head over heels with Lethal! These shades are available as single eyeshadows.
Lip Products
Right now I do my lips 3 different ways, so there’s a nice variety of lip makeup favorites included. I either use lip liner and gloss, liquid lipstick, or I pat loose eyeshadow on top of my lipstick.
- Peripera Ink Velvets – I love this blurring formula. Star Plum Pink is my everyday color and Sellout Red is my bright blue-toned red.
- Haus Labs Le Monster Lip Crayons – This is such an excellent formula that does not migrate to my teeth or around my face. It stays put! I wish Lady Gaga would make more shades in it, such as black, orchid pink, and a purple.
- Black Moon Liquid Lipsticks – I absolutely adore this liquid lipstick formula and it’s my favorite longwearing liquid lipstick formula! I wore Sleepwalker for my wedding. Armageddon, Myth, Sorrow, Genie, and Eternal are standout shades for me.
- VE Cosmetics Multichrome Lip Glosses– (code CORDELIA 10%) Innocent is my favorite but all the shades are stunning. The formula is fantastic, non sticky, doesn’t move, and highly reflective.
- Half Magic Magic Drip Glitter Lip Gloss – this is my second favorite gloss formula! I wish they had more cool toned shades available, especially a bright cool toned red. I use Y2K Cherub, Problem Child, and Frosty B*tch.
- Half Magic Sculptitude 2-in-1 Lip Liners – I use UR My Taupe/Badassery the most.
- Silk Naturals Velvet Matte Lipsticks – (code CORDELIA 10%) I love these velvet matte lipsticks and they’re ultra affordable at $6.99 each. Antici…pation, Belladonna, Ink, Casino, Corker, Genre, Tulle, and Subterranean are all great shades.
- Silk Naturals Slick Sticks – (code CORDELIA 10%) I love these gloss sticks! My favorite shades include Hex, Persephone, Potion, and Top Dog.
Brow Products
I’ve simplified my brows so much! These are my two brow makeup favorites. The way I get the best results with my brows now is to dye them every few weeks, so I only need to use minimal makeup to shape them.
- Nyx the Brow Glue Crazy Lift – I use this to brush my brows up and out.
- Silk Naturals – (code CORDELIA 10%) I use Tour loose eyeshadow to fill in my brows with a small angled brush for natural looking brows
- RefectoCil Hair Tinting Kit in #2 Blue Black – I dye my brows every few week so that they look fuller and require less product. I can often get away with not doing anything to them.
Lashes
I love wearing lashes and the following mascaras. Still searching for a deep burgundy wine mascara. These are my lash makeup favorites.
- Thrive Causemetics Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara – (get $15 off your first order of $50) the best non-flaking, long-wearing, waterproof vegan tubing mascara. I wish it had a burgundy wine shade.
- Velour-Xtensions Lash Kit clusters – I love cluster lashes and they’re easier to apply than lash strips!
- Velour Would I Lie? False Lashes – my favorite 3/4 lashes.
- Velour Latex Free Lash Glue – doesn’t irritate my sensitive eyes.
Nails
My makeup favorites wouldn’t be complete without a list of what I use for my nails. I always get compliments on my manicures.
- Orly Nail Tip Primer – I use this on my natural nails after I’ve prepped them for a manicure and I heat this under the UV lamp for 30 to 60 seconds.
- Painted Desert Cactuc Gelly Plus – my favorite builder gel/base gel for adhering tips and gel polish.
- Apres Gel-X Prep – I use this to etch the inside of my full coverage gel tips before application.
- Apres Gel-X Natural Stiletto Short Tips – I use these full coverage tips the most.
- Painted Desert Xtra Short Almond and Coffin Tips – I use these tips when I need shorter nails. They’re lovely too!
- Vettsy Hema-Free Gel Polish – (code CORDELIA 20%) Their jelly polish is great and their nail art kits are cute.
- Daily Charme Gel Polish & Nail Art – I use a lot of their products for nail art. Their tips are nice too. I have a few of their black and white nail tip kits.
- iGel Beauty Glow in the Dark Gel Polish – They make true glow-in-the-dark gel nail polish, not just UV-reactive. Lots of great polish options and nail art supplies.