NEW DRUGSTORE MAKEUP W/ FIRST IMPRESSIONS! | Stephanie Ledda

Hey guys! So today I'm going to be doing a drugstore first impressions video slash haul kind of video. I recently got a bunch of new stuff from the drugstore so I wanted to try it out live on camera so you guys can see my initial thoughts and reactions to all the new goodies. So if you guys want to see some new drugstore stuff in action, don't go anywhere because we're going to try a bunch of new stuff out. Okay, to start off, I'm going to be trying out this Peach Lavender Cushion Primer slash Corrector Duo from Physicians Formula. This has SPF 20 in there so there is a little bit of sunscreen and it's just in your typical cushion compact form and it has the peach to correct darkness and then the purple to correct like dullness. So I'm actually just going to take the peach side and I'm just going to use that like in my eye area. And this is like the little applicator that it comes with. I don't know. I'm going to try this because I always need the corrector for my under eye slash inner eye corner. I just always have darkness there. But this is the weirdest little applicator so I'm actually just going to use my fingers because what the heck am I going to do with that? And also, as I'm applying it, that peach doesn't even look peach. It looks pretty much white so I'm not understanding. Maybe because it has SPF in there but I'm not really sure. I'm not going to apply it to my whole face because I don't know what it's going to do. But I mean I think it is correcting the darkness but just because it's so white, not because it's peach. I don't really know how I feel about that but we're going to move on. So then I really wanted to try this out. This also has SPF 20. This is the COVERGIRL Vitalist Healthy Elixir Foundation and I got this in Soft Honey. So I wanted to try this out because it looked really interesting and I haven't tried anything from COVERGIRL recently actually. So I'm going to apply this and it's definitely scented which I don't really like scented face products to be honest with you. But whatever. Let's get these hoops out of the way. I don't want to take them off but I probably should and somebody's going to get really irritated with me but I don't want to take them off. Alright so here's just one layer. I didn't go back to the pump and add more. I think it has really good coverage actually. Really great coverage considering I didn't have to keep reapplying more foundation. There's a little bit of a sheen to it as you can see which makes it look really natural and healthy looking because it's not super drying which I like. My skin, I don't know what it is like especially my under eye area has been so dry like I just look like a freaking crocodile. Any time that I put on makeup under there at all so that's good. I haven't done concealer yet so I'm not really sure how it's going to interact with that but right now I really do like the finish and the coverage of this foundation. So next I don't have a new drugstore concealer to try just because I was looking for the new one from L'Oreal and I can't find it anywhere near me and since I couldn't find that I'm just going to be using a drugstore concealer which is relatively new that I do like. I've used this in a video before but this is the Wet n Wild Photo Focus Concealer and this is the light medium one and I do like this quite a bit. It is a really nice blendable, creamy concealer for the under eye area which I'm always looking for something that is not going to make me look cakey and crazy so of course I'm going to use that to highlight as well. But this is a relatively new product and if you haven't seen me use it in a recent video then you would think it was a first impression right? Am I right? So so far so good. I think everything is looking very nice, very glowy and yeah so now I'm going to set my face with the Wet n Wild Photo Focus Pressed Powder. Again this is a new product. I used it in a video before and I do really like it. A lot of you guys said after I used it is that you couldn't seem to get any color payoff. You kind of just have to get off the top layer and then it is more powdery if that makes sense. So sometimes with drugstore products you kind of have to scratch the surface to get to the good stuff so if you bought this powder and you had that issue then just maybe try scraping that off a little bit. I don't know what it is but some drugstore products really are just like that. I don't really know why or what that is. But yeah so I'm just using this to set. The next I'm really excited to try this out. This is the new Maybelline Master Bronze Face Studio Bronze and Highlight Kit. So I saw this and I thought this was such a pretty little palette. So there's a few bronzing colors and then two highlight shades. So I'm going to take the bronzing colors. I think I'm just going to mix a combination of these two over here and I'm going to use these as my contouring shades. I would say the color payoff is pretty good. It's not chalky or too powdery. I feel like a lot of drugstore bronzers are really chalky and powdery with a lot of fallout and I'm not having that issue so I'm impressed. I have struggled to find good drugstore bronzers. A lot of people say the Physicians Formula one but it doesn't show up on my skin. I haven't been able to find one. So this is actually really really pretty. It's not super orange or red. A lot of drugstore bronzers are a little bit more on the warmer side and then they don't really look good as a bronzer color. So these are actually really nice. Alright so now I'm going to take the highlighting shade and we'll see how that goes. Okay. It's showing up. It's actually not too bad. It's very actually way more than I was expecting it to come off. Because I'm putting it on the brush and it doesn't look like much is getting on there but it's definitely showing up. I think it's a little bit light for my skin tone. It's very like I would say it's more on the... It's really pretty but I don't think this kind of color is flattering on my skin tone. Like it's too white for me. I'm just going to go over it with my beauty blender really quick to tone it down and get some of that off because it's just... It's not that it's like not pigmented but it's just not the right color for me for what I like. I don't like a really white highlight. I like the gold tones. I just feel like it looks better on me. So then I'm going to take a little bit of the color right next to it which is a little bit darker and let's put that on and see how that goes. Or if it's really going to do anything for me at this point. I'm not really sure. Whatever. It doesn't look bad. It's just not what I like. I know some people like a really white bright highlight. I'm not one of those people but we're making it work. It's fine. But the color, I don't know. I feel like it's just a little extreme for what I like personally. So then I'm going to be trying out this new blush from Milani. This is their blush palette. Color Harmony Coral Beams is the shade. So here it is. Really pretty kind of like peachy coral tones in there. So I'm just going to swirl my brush in there and then just apply. And I believe this comes in several different shades. So if you don't like the coral they have one that's more bronzy and they have one that's more pink. And so here it is. I think it looks really really pretty. So as you can see it's kind of blending with that highlight and making it a little bit more toned down and natural. And this is how I like to apply my blush. I like to apply it straight back. That's just how I think it works best for my face shape. If I put it directly like right here on my apples, like my face looks weird. I don't know. So I kind of just use it right above my contour area. But all face shapes are different. So just because I do it this way, if you do it on you and it doesn't look good, it might just be because your face shape is like different. So next, moving on, I'm going to be trying out this eyeshadow palette from Wet n Wild. This is their Au Naturel eyeshadow palette in the color Bare Essentials. So I have some pretty colors in there and I haven't tried a drugstore eyeshadow palette in a while. So we're going to give this a go. I don't know. It's not having a typical color that I would usually use for my crease. So what I'm going to do before I start in with that, I'm going to take this color here from the Maybelline bronzer palette and I'm going to use that as a crease color just because I need something a little bit warmer toned as my crease color. That's just what I need. So yeah. So anyways, we're going to go back in with this palette. Let's see what we got here. So in this palette, you can see that this might work for a crease color. So I'm going to add that in next. So this is number seven and it's a little bit more taupe than I typically like to use in my crease, but we're going to add it in there and see if it does anything for us. I'm not sure if it's really making a huge difference, but then I'm going to take a little bit of the color right next to it, number eight. That's going to go in my outer portion. And like I said, these colors are a little bit more on the cooler side. I don't normally use like such a cool toned brown, but the other palette that they had was kind of like cool toned also, but like in a purpley way. So I don't know. I like more like warm browns for my eyes, but we're going to make this work in. The colors seem to be blending pretty well, so we'll see. I don't think I like the color combination of this palette. I'm going to go back in with that Maybelline bronzer color just to kind of warm it up once again. I don't really like that color, so I don't know. We're going to make it work, but I don't really like it at all. To be honest, I just don't really like it. And I'm just adding it to the lower lash line also. Alright, so next I'm going to take this color right here, which is a gold toned shade. I'm going to take that and I'm going to put that on my lid. We'll see what it can do for us. I'm just putting that in the first half of the lid. And that's the reason why I wanted to get these palettes, because the golds look really pretty. So then I'm going to take the first color, which is like this creamy, shimmery shade, and this is going to go underneath my brow bone. I wish that this color didn't have shimmer in it, just because I don't really like not having an option for a matte brow bone highlight, but that's okay. It doesn't look bad though, actually. Now that I have that on, I don't think it looks bad. Then before we move on, I'm going to take a little bit of that highlight from the Maybelline palette and I'm going to put that on my inner corner. Next, I'm going to be taking this Jordana Quickie Brow eyebrow pencil. This is in the shade Dark Brunette. So I'm going to try this out. I like to try new brow pencils, but sometimes they're very hit or miss. I'm super picky about eyebrow pencils. That's why a lot of times you guys see me using just a powder for my brows, just because I don't like the texture of so many eyebrow pencils. So let's try this one out. Color-wise, it seems alright. The texture of the pencil is very soft. I don't like when the pencils are very soft. I feel like that makes them harder to use. Like if they're super soft, they're just going to kind of go everywhere. I don't know if that's just me. I just like a harder pencil. I don't know how to describe it. The color is good, so that's important. All in all, eyebrow pencil, don't hate it, but I don't like love it. It worked well enough for me though, so that's good. Alright, so now I'm going to be trying out the L'Oreal Voluminous Lash Paradise Mascara. A lot of people have been talking about this, hyping it up. A lot of people love it. Some people are like, meh, I don't really see what all the fuss is about. So I wanted to try it for myself. It's supposed to be a dupe for the Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara, which I personally did not love. I love the way that it made my lashes look, but it flaked on me like crazy. It would not stay on. Three seconds after applying it, I would already have flakes everywhere. So that's why I didn't like that mascara. I don't know, maybe you have to get the waterproof version, but I don't like waterproof mascaras because they're so hard to remove. So yeah, this is not the waterproof version, but we're going to try it out. We're going to see how it goes. So the brush looks like this. I think it's pretty similar to the Better Than Sex. It's a little bit smaller, but it kind of has that grooved shape where it's a little bit narrower in the center, but we'll see how it goes. Oh, I already made a mess. Cool. Oh, wow. So there is one coat. I think that's pretty good for one coat. It seems to definitely be gripping my lashes and allowing me to extend them to the fullest height. So that is great. So I'm going to go add another coat and see how it layers. All right. So other than that mascara glob that I have on my lid, I think that these lashes look really, really good. So I'm going to apply it to the other eye. So that's what it looks like on. I'm pretty impressed. I really like the original L'Oreal Voluminous. That's a great mascara. I love it for its volumizing and layering capabilities. This one is really great. I feel like it lengthens a lot more than the original L'Oreal Voluminous, but still gives you that really good volume and pretty good definition. My lashes look pretty fluffy. They don't look clumpy. So that's always a plus. I don't like when my lashes all look clumped together. So I'm going to let that dry before I try to get off the excess mascara, but I am going to move on to the lips. All right. So first I'm going to line with a lip liner. This is the Maybelline Lip Liner in the color Nude. This isn't new, but yeah. All right. So then I have these. These are the Jordana Sweet Cream Matte Liquid Lip Colors. So I have two colors and I'm probably going to end up mixing because this one looks like it's going to be too bright. And then this one looks like it's going to be too pale. So we're going to probably mix them, but I'll show you this one first. This one's called Strawberry Sundae and this one's called Buttercream Frosting. And just like that, now I'm freaking starving. Okay. So, oh my God. Smells like buttercream frosting. I just had like eight pieces of cake in the last week because it was my birthday, but now I want more. This color is bright though. Oh boy. All right. So that's one layer of it. It's definitely too bright for me. Like, who am I? So then I'm going to take Buttercream Frosting. All right. Maybe I should just do this one by itself because I feel like that pink, that pink, I'm not going to be able to get that pink out of my head. Maybe I just need to start over. What is wrong with me? Like, why can't I just wear like a colored lip and not have a panic attack? So I'm going to put Buttercream Frosting on by itself because I'm a little baby and I can't deal with color. But this is a pretty light nude. Texture of it is nice though. It doesn't feel like super drying and crackly on my lips, which is nice. But the color, I don't know. I feel like let's just add some more. Let's just do more. Okay. This is the Soap and Glory Pillow Plump and I have not tried this before, but this is the Sexy Mother Pucca and I just need something to tone down this lip because I feel like it's too light for me. Dude, what's going on here? I don't like this either. I don't like any of this. I'm having trouble. Let's try this one more time. So I'm just going to do this one by itself, the Pillow Plump, which is from Soap and Glory, which you can get at Target. They have it at Walgreens. It's like a drugstore brand now, which is awesome. Wow. It's definitely tingling wicked bad. Okay. So my lips are definitely tingling like a mother pucker for sure. I feel like they're vibrating. They're tingling so much. I feel like they're buzzing. Oh my God. This is crazy. I haven't worn a legit lip pumper in a while. Are they getting bigger though? Oh my God. This is insane. My lips. You guys, I can't get over how my lips are feeling right now. That's awesome. It feels very strange, but I want you to try it. It doesn't hurt. It's just very weird. Do you know what it feels like? It feels like when your foot falls asleep and it just like feels like static tingling. That's what my lips feel like right now. Like I feel like I can't even control them. Definitely try that ---- because this is mind boggling. How long does it last? Very interesting. But that pretty much wraps up the look, the first impressions. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. As always, send me your requests for products that you want me to try. I always try to find them, but you know, sometimes it's hard to find the hot new drugstore products because other people find them first or I just live in an area that doesn't get them as soon as a lot of other areas, but I try my best. So anyways, thank you guys so much for watching. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already. Other than that, I'll talk to you guys soon. 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