Your honesty is such a breath of fresh air. So many of my past favorite makeup/skincare people on youtube over the years have sold out and are nothing but paid commercials anymore. But you, Kackie, are holding on.
i can't do it if i don't care about it. my whole intention in creating this channel was for work not to feel like work. y'all can feel it when a creator doesn't have their heart in it anymore.
@ the color fill series was super interesting! Maybe seeing more demos of different color goals - getting peach to show peachier or baby pink pinker. Or even how to eyelid color correct to get eyeshadows to pop more (eg using lavender base to minimize yellow lid color). Cuz you’re right - noooobody talks about this concept!
@@kackie Agree 100% on more color theory and the color fill concept! I think I must have an odd skin tone that I still am struggling to identify that causes lip colors and blushes to appear much different on my skin than the product appears in the pan/tube/packaging. This causes wasted money spent on colors that just don't work and I feel that understanding the color fill idea or sort of layering of colors would be immensely helpful to me. The perfect red lip video was life changing for me by the way even though I am still searching for the perfect match to the lipstick color that I came up with (mostly because I'm trying to stick to drugstore lipsticks to find it.)
I would appreciate a colour theory video on what happens when colours are applied on skin tones (from fair to deep) with a strong olive undertone. Thank you! Happy new year 2025!
Yes please! I wondered why rosy cheek products were more peach on me so I thoroughly enjoyed that series of videos as well. Maybe do a video for each , warm, olives, cool so we can learn how and what to buy for ourselves and how to use what we have or maybe I just need to rewatch the eye shadow one 😆. I find I’m only using the same 4/5 of the shades from the Mario neutrals palette for example which I purchased before knowing about the Kim one.
Thanks for highlighting that Lisa Eldridge is putting out innovative. Other brands just release new products, but they aren't innovative. Lisa strives to improve products, not just releasing new colours. She is getting ready to release a complexion corrector (or concealer) in a pencil form. I am excited for that release.
Ugh I love your style, jewelry all of it!!! Also, I still love makeup but I don’t watch any other beauty TH-camrs anymore but you. Your content just hits different!
You’re so right about Hourglass. I’ve literally never hated or regretted anything I’ve bought from them and have finished the blush pans and bought more. 👍🏼 I like their eyebrow pencil/crayon thingy, too. It’s not too harsh in the way it spreads through the eyebrows.
As a micro content creator, Merit has always been so lovely to work with. They are super respectful and kind, and I appreciate them sending PR to those of us with smaller sub numbers. ☺
I will admit--I went on a spending spree for Black Friday. But! I had a purpose--I wanted to find a new skin tint/foundation. My tried and true NARS light reflecting foundation wasn't looking great on me. I bought the Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Tint, Lisa Eldridge Skin Tint, Surratt Dew Drop foundation, a plethora of drugstore foundations/tints, Ciele skin tint, Fenty Soft Lit Foundation and the Vieve Complexion Balm. By far, by FAR my favorite--the Vieve Complexion Balm. So much so, I am contemplating returning everything else. The Vieve is gorgeous. It is spectacular. And I am 48--I am not getting any younger or less lined. The Vieve is everything. And would not have known it existed until you showcased it on your channel. So, thank you! Happy New Year!!!
@ the coverage, the shade color (matches perfectly) and I just love the way my skin looks. I think it is lovely. Not too specific, sorry about that. But when I compare to other foundations, I feel my skin looks better with the Vieve.
sappy message incoming, Kackie I’m so happy I stumbled across your channel a couple years ago. I seriously enjoy your videos SO beyond much. I look forward to them every single time. You’re such an amazing beauty creator, never change for anyone Kackie!!! Your personality is just amazing & so are you! Glad I can fangirl here about Zelda hehe. Hope you have a lovely new year!
it's so interesting seeing continuities among creators, abbey yung (a youtuber who i mainly watch videos about hair care on) has also said in her video where she tried fifty something lip balms that the ole hendrichsen and eadem lip balm were some of the best formulas!! super curious to try one
Your videos truly bring me joy and I get so excited every time you upload. I trust your recommendations and am rarely disappointed. Thank you so much for providing us quality, thoughtful content and for continuing with long form videos. TH-cam > TikTok and as a millennial, I will happily die on that hill. Give me an hour long video any day. Thank you for so many amazing videos in 2024! I hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season and been able to relax because you deserve it. I look forward to what you’ll bring us in 2025 💖🎉
Among the sea of end of year roundups, this video was *refreshing*!! I would definitely have given RMS a shout out. They put out some beautiful things this year! Their bronzer in Betty something or other was a game changer as a fair skinned gal. But gosh darn it can Makeup by Mario release the fair shade in the skin enhancer already?!?
So I must share that your adornment style is so gorgeous and it is a whole vibe. You're the inspiration behind my piercings journey and also the reminder to invest in pieces I love. Thank you for being unapologetically you!
I've been (im)patiently waiting for a new Kackie video. How dare you have a life? jk I'd like to add Glossier Birthday Cake lip balm to most reliable. Nothing else feels as good or lasts as long. I'm 1st wave Gen X, so I'm 10 years late to the Glossier party but found it because you mentioned it in one of your videos, which I mainlined as soon as I found you. Thank you! Happy New Year! Love ya, lady!
I was agonising which neutral eye palette to buy, and you came through! Especially since Danessa Myricks palette price was a bit too rich for my blood. Thank you 🙏🏼
@@kackie I must admit, I'm still tempted by the original Makeup by Mario palette. It looks like the shades and undertones are warmer, while Kim's are more cool toned. I'm more of a neutral to warm girlie, so wondering if Mario's would work better. I saw in another video that you actually decluttered that one though, ahahah.
Absolutely agree on Lisa Eldridge. She released my favorite products of the year: the kitten flick liquid eyeliner (so easy to use); the skin tint (best complexion match I have ever had and love the finish and coverage level); and the gorgeous, refillable lipstick case. I understand folks disappointment that LE only offered 8 colors with the initial release BUT that tight palette meant that I have found my holy grail lipstick color - Medici. I would never have ordered it if there had been a wider array of colors that included some lighter, clearer colors. Medici turned out the be the "nude" that I have needed for my well pigmented lips all along. Who knew?
Oh Kackie! Is it weird that I get super excited when I see a new video from you? I get more excited to watch you than just about anything else going on in my life 😂 I know weird, but you are just so dang gosh entertaining!
My product of the year is the LYS blush in Focused! Thank you for recommending that and describing it so perfectly! It is like every perfect color rolled into one with the most flattering sheen.
I love YOU and your makeup roundup! Super job Kackie! And congratulations on a larger audience! Just keep being you and let’s laugh at all the crappy cosmetics we shove into the NO pile!
I love the concept of the video and it's a really creative way of "reviewing the year". Personally, I was still missing little "make-up Oscar figures".😉🏆 I wish you a good and healthy start to the new year!🎆🎇
Hello Kackie! Absolutely loved your video.❤ I totally agree, the Rhode Skin Blushes were way overhyped but I guess a point of quality had to be made for the formula because the packaging was a poor attraction point. But anywhoo, yes, my opinion Natasha Denona products do not disappoint. I think I may go put an order in now, lol!! By the way, I’ve been missing your “welcome home from jail” sign. I LOVED it and thought it was hilarious😂. Hope you have a Happy New Year🎉 Sent with love 🙏🏻💕💕💕
Great video in a sea of “favorites” videos right now…although I watch those too! Always love your energy in your videos! Question…what shade of Sarah Creal concealer do you wear?
Love your channel. The formulas that work for you are some of my favs. Would you ever be interested in trying the new Chanel velvet foundation? Dying to know just how matte it REALLY is. After purchasing every concealer known to man, I discovered Chanel’s and the search is finally over. Thank you for another entertaining year. You are special and worthy. ❤❤❤
I got myself the Lisa Eldridge lipstick for my birthday because I was in love and also because it feels bigger than luxury to me, it feels like a moment in beauty and sustainability. The category that came to mind for me was “Immortal product”. There’s a Korean music show called “Immortal Song” where current performers cover massive hits from past decades, the idea being ‘this was great and nostalgic but actually it’s still amazing’. When a classic product either comes back into vitality like Clinic black honey, or gets a makeover and hits it big like those Revlon glossy lipsticks, I just find it super satisfying.
I am mad for the Lisa Eldridge Rouge Experience lipstick- BUT I am a red lip fan. The other color I want to try (Ashes of Roses) is sold out and the other dark merlot color is not available yet, but the remaining colors look very similar to me. The Ribbon Rouge experience is 100% worth the splurge and the experience of interacting with the component is a true luxe experience.
Although I haven't tried the refillable lipstick yet, I haven't tried a Lisa Eldridge product that I haven't loved, the skin tint is just absolutely lovely on me (which I found out from you, so thanks!) and the liquid lurex eyeshadow in Zora is a bedroom eyes brown on me for sure, I am obsessed. My other big innovator of this year (partially because I only found her products this year so have been catching up) is Danessa Myricks, if she did that lightworks packaging with a nude colourstory I would be at the front of the queue, bank card in hand.
The Dior mono color in Rose Tulle is my HG, please never discontinue these. They are such a gorgeous, not glittery but somehow alive color and formula. LOVE
Omg thank you for talking me off a ledge with fara homidi. That packaging is catnip for me and because I couldn’t really find any reviews from my go-tos I was like maybe I need to try it? Now I don’t. So thank you!
I have already finished one Sarah Creal lip balm and I have two others in my purse and in a basket by my computer. It is THE BEST!!! I have that Ciele concealer on my list for my next $100 Rouge Reward haul. I want spf on my pigmented areas!!!
I love yall too and I have oily skin so I love this channel better than the dry skin population. I am joking but I am not wrong haha. Have a great day I truly love this corner of the internet
I had a terrible experience with them. Zero response from either email or Instagram messages about issues with the products. The bronze eye paint cracked like crazy and the blush and bronzer were just way too warm and orange on my pale pasty skin.
This is such a great video. I feel like the Lisa Eldridge Skin Tint is an instant classic. It's SO good, and RMS eye brights and glow spf have become solid formulas for me. The eye brights are excellent one and dones. Also Hindash boy tears, such a solid eye lid prime/base. And now im getting the hindash highlighter to use in my inner corners...
I just went to the Thrive site to buy the liquid lash mascara in brown and I’m devastated to see that they don’t make it anymore!!! I too only wear tubing mascaras so I need a recommendation for a good brown one!!!
Great well considered video! Thanks. One tiny point of contention-Lisa Eldridge Rouge Experience in Medici is the best “my lips but better” shade I’ve ever found. And I think other light olive people have felt the same. Every “nude” I’ve ever tried goes pink or orange. I think those lip colors were nuanced and informed, but so subtly they weren’t obviously so. Just quietly effing awesome. She’s also one of only a few brands(maybe About Face too) really delivering on the olive undertones, not just talking about it (Mob Beauty. Ahem. They made straight up orange olive shades that somehow miraculously looked olive on the website.)T5 skin tint is almost too green and too gray for me; never been so happy to have something not quite work for me. I mix it with T2 and it’s perfect. Only time I haven’t resented having to buy two shades. Oh dear, that was almost a rant. I get excited about this stuff. 🥴😬
the Mob Beauty olive shades are completely baffling, but I will say that for yellow-leaning olives the golden shades are great! About Face F2O matches me well, but I like Mob Beauty in G20 better.
I would love to know how to make the Creel concealer work for me. No matter how thinly I apply it or how much I buff it out with a brush or sponge or my fingers, it still manages to cling to my dry spots and creases. The lightest shade is also possibly too peach/dark for my skin tone.
I think American /British brands are not up on innovation because K- and now C-beauty have been leading the charge with unique formulas, textures, and colors for the past few years at price points that are so much more accessible. Of course the downside is options for a wide range of skin tones but it seems a few brands are perking up to that realizing they can capitalize globally. I know it’s not your thing but I’d love to see you try some of the Asian beauty big hits from the past year!
It's WILD to me how browsing YesStyle and Stylevana show so many product formulations that US/Euro brands don't have in their lineups! But yeah, the downside is the extreeeemely limited shade range for most of them. Not just the complexion products -- eyeshadows are almost all pastels and light neutrals, lip products are almost all light and mid-range neutrals/mlbb shades. I've only seen a few outlier brands like GirlCult (and I guess Kaleidos counts?) doing dramatic weird or dark lip colors or bold/dark/bright eyeshadows. Even brands with over-the-top awesome packaging (Zeesea, Florasis) are pretty tame/samey in their product hues.
Totally. I am very fair but warm/neutral and many of the K-Beauty tones are too light/strange for me (and I have yet to try a base product because the limited pics on YesStyle confuse me-I think one of the Welsh siblings wears a really light tone that I thought would match me in one of the cushions!) There’s definitely an “ethereal fairy” vibe to some of it that is not a look I can pull off. It will be interesting to see how these brands view themselves moving forward and how they place in the market. A Korean/East Asian only audience is still big but limited compared to catering launches for a full on international market. I do see a lot more brands opening their own US websites outside of the Yesstyles and Stylevanas so they’re definitely getting curious on the possibility. For now I kind of pick and choose what works and I admit I have the skin tone privilege of even being able to do so.
Also, that said I think TirTir was smart to go for it and release three cushion types in a fuller range of tones, and send out PR of all/most of the colors to show that they’re taking a risk to move KBeauty forward on complexion colors. I think if this causes them to have high sales it will make other brands reconsider their offerings which I hope is the case!
@@kkmarzipan Oh for sure -- I think they got a good bit of initial press/hype on that foundation from flooding the influencer space (and then apparently a lot of people do really love it! I can't use it, alas -- cyclomethicone is a guaranteed cystic zitfest for me). But I think they got the BIG hype with the hugely expanded shade range. US/Euro consumers have come to expect that, but it's def new in the K/J-beauty space. I hope to see more Asian brands follow suit, and also hope it trickles over into eye and lip color offerings too!
I still have never bought a single hourglass palette because they never make them for olive skin tones. They finally branched out to cater to different skin tone depths, but not actual tones. Literally every single blush and bronzer shade in those palettes turn straight orange on my face
I adore your videos and swear by them. So much so that I may even buy the SKKN CLASSIC MATTES EYESHADOW PALETTE, even though I have Patrick Ta and don’t have any problems with it! But above all, I couldn’t take my eyes off of yours through out the video 🤩😜 Could you please mention which products and colors you’re wearing? 🙏🙏💖💖
Would you by any chance have a video that shows how to achieve a similar effect (even if the colors don’t match)? I have all the products you mentioned (except for the Hindash that I was planning to order) but I’ve never managed to get as beautiful a result😝
To be fair to Flower Beauty, they released their bronzing drops years before bronzing drops became trendy. I think Jen Phelps might have made a ‘They did it first’ type video about products like recent viral ones that predated the viral one (ex: L’Oreal Lumi Glowtion, EM Cosmetics Lip Cushion).
Could you make a video about brands that actually have that "capsule" approach that if I bought something five years ago and want the same thing ti will eb there, and is also amazing quality texture and everything?
Kackie, I am such a big fan of your videos. I'm about to start making beauty content for TH-cam and I'd love to know more about your lighting set up because your videos always look 🤌
This one is personal, but Most Makeup confidence increasing Stat: my undertone. Which is OLIVE OMG. And now I have one foundation (about-face) in my shade and a green color corrector that are changing my (makeup) life. I always wondered why the pictures in the shade finder tools never looked like me, I thought maybe I just didn’t know what I looked like? But it was because none of them had my skin tone! Now it makes sense.
Best "just gets me ready for my day quickly and without too much crying" goes to the Fenty stick foundation, the Gucci bronzer in 01 (for basically all the face colour when I cba), the Gucci highlight in 04 for face/eyelids/inner eye corners, Tilbury setting mist, Lisa Eldridge's mascara, Hourglass's microbrow and those chubby Ilia lip liners and maybe a Dior glow balm whatsit. Oh, also the Jouer concealers and either Jane Iredale or MAC Studio Fix powder for blemishes and discolouration, which takes probably 60% of my makeup application time 😑
That Sarah Creal lip balm is amazing. I will definitely repurchase. I loved the old balmdotcom from Glossier and am glad that they brought the old formula back, but can't stand the new delivery system/component.
I, also, have noticed that brands are putting out products just to release things instead of releasing things because they fill a gap in the market (I'm thinking about all the Makeup by Mario versions of a bronzer). I would love to see less releases and brands releasing only when they have something truly unique or improved. I also wonder how much better a blush could possibly be. At what point do we reach maximum lipstick quality?
Same. Sorry Kackie but I bought a _second_ DM Groundworks palette. The Kardashian palette can't be used as under eye color corrector, or contour, or lip tint like Groundwork. I believe DM is still hitting it out of the park when it comes to creating products that are *User Friendly*. Do I love all her color choices or need spangle and duo chrome in everything? No, but _sweet fancy Moses_ I *live for* the portability and accessibility built into her last products: Ground Work, that last Transformer-esque Light Works palette, the complexion balms... Sorry to sound like a Stan but DM is still keeping me interested in what she is doing with makeup.
New Hot Girl who just took off her Glasses goes YSL. They have been around for a while. I was looking up at why in the last year they have been releasing bangers and it looks like in the last 4 years they made some good hiring decisions, and they also dumped a lot of money into their beauty brand.
The Lisa Eldridge lipstick looks amazing. I agree we need more shades. I need some cool, deep tones. Don’t see anything that would work for my undertone/skin tone.
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Hahahah I was like “what just happened?!” 🫣😂♥️
Admit that you just wanted to see that fabulous check mark with this comment 😂
Your honesty is such a breath of fresh air. So many of my past favorite makeup/skincare people on youtube over the years have sold out and are nothing but paid commercials anymore. But you, Kackie, are holding on.
i can't do it if i don't care about it. my whole intention in creating this channel was for work not to feel like work. y'all can feel it when a creator doesn't have their heart in it anymore.
More color theory content in 2025 please! I love learning and seeing more demos on that :)
anything in particular you'd like to see me focus on?
@ the color fill series was super interesting! Maybe seeing more demos of different color goals - getting peach to show peachier or baby pink pinker. Or even how to eyelid color correct to get eyeshadows to pop more (eg using lavender base to minimize yellow lid color). Cuz you’re right - noooobody talks about this concept!
@@kackie Agree 100% on more color theory and the color fill concept! I think I must have an odd skin tone that I still am struggling to identify that causes lip colors and blushes to appear much different on my skin than the product appears in the pan/tube/packaging. This causes wasted money spent on colors that just don't work and I feel that understanding the color fill idea or sort of layering of colors would be immensely helpful to me. The perfect red lip video was life changing for me by the way even though I am still searching for the perfect match to the lipstick color that I came up with (mostly because I'm trying to stick to drugstore lipsticks to find it.)
I would appreciate a colour theory video on what happens when colours are applied on skin tones (from fair to deep) with a strong olive undertone. Thank you! Happy new year 2025!
Yes please! I wondered why rosy cheek products were more peach on me so I thoroughly enjoyed that series of videos as well. Maybe do a video for each , warm, olives, cool so we can learn how and what to buy for ourselves and how to use what we have or maybe I just need to rewatch the eye shadow one 😆. I find I’m only using the same 4/5 of the shades from the Mario neutrals palette for example which I purchased before knowing about the Kim one.
Thanks for highlighting that Lisa Eldridge is putting out innovative. Other brands just release new products, but they aren't innovative. Lisa strives to improve products, not just releasing new colours. She is getting ready to release a complexion corrector (or concealer) in a pencil form. I am excited for that release.
Ohh I love the Jones road pencil one. A wood pencil would also be sustainable.
And her claims hold up! The new liquid eyeshadows are truly smoothing as she says! And the skin tint 😍
I agree. With each release we get something unusual... Can't wait for new shades and formulas for rouge experience and any other launches.
Ugh I love your style, jewelry all of it!!! Also, I still love makeup but I don’t watch any other beauty TH-camrs anymore but you. Your content just hits different!
thank you so much!!!
Same!
Yeah I’ve recently become addicted to Ana Luisa thanks to kackie 😂
You’re so right about Hourglass. I’ve literally never hated or regretted anything I’ve bought from them and have finished the blush pans and bought more. 👍🏼 I like their eyebrow pencil/crayon thingy, too. It’s not too harsh in the way it spreads through the eyebrows.
Their tubing mascara is also the besttttt imo. Hourglass is so gooooood.
As a micro content creator, Merit has always been so lovely to work with. They are super respectful and kind, and I appreciate them sending PR to those of us with smaller sub numbers. ☺
I love you kackie ❤ for 2025 I just want to see more of you on TH-cam. Rants, color theory, discussion, bedroom eyes brown, anything. 😊
Please!!! Bring an olive toned person on and do their makeup with color theory!
Your commentary on hourglass hits the nail on the head for how to beat this system. And why I love Mac and Nars.
I will admit--I went on a spending spree for Black Friday. But! I had a purpose--I wanted to find a new skin tint/foundation. My tried and true NARS light reflecting foundation wasn't looking great on me. I bought the Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Tint, Lisa Eldridge Skin Tint, Surratt Dew Drop foundation, a plethora of drugstore foundations/tints, Ciele skin tint, Fenty Soft Lit Foundation and the Vieve Complexion Balm. By far, by FAR my favorite--the Vieve Complexion Balm. So much so, I am contemplating returning everything else. The Vieve is gorgeous. It is spectacular. And I am 48--I am not getting any younger or less lined. The Vieve is everything. And would not have known it existed until you showcased it on your channel. So, thank you! Happy New Year!!!
Just curious, what differentiates the Vieve from the rest, for you?
@ the coverage, the shade color (matches perfectly) and I just love the way my skin looks. I think it is lovely. Not too specific, sorry about that. But when I compare to other foundations, I feel my skin looks better with the Vieve.
@ thank you for sharing!
Kackie!
The Merit tubing mascara is ALL TIME. It’s glossy black, it doesn’t clump, and it doesn’t make your lashes crunchy when it’s on.
You had me at "I made a spreadsheet". ❤😊
Freak in the sheets 😂 yes I’m in accounting I will use this whenever I see an opportunity
@@Thetinyfit OMG thank you 😅
Thank you for being here and being yourself. I truly appreciate it.
"Sephora-dable"? LMAO🤣
sappy message incoming,
Kackie I’m so happy I stumbled across your channel a couple years ago. I seriously enjoy your videos SO beyond much. I look forward to them every single time. You’re such an amazing beauty creator, never change for anyone Kackie!!! Your personality is just amazing & so are you! Glad I can fangirl here about Zelda hehe. Hope you have a lovely new year!
Thank you SO MUCH. I'm so glad you're here 🥹🥹🥹
it's so interesting seeing continuities among creators, abbey yung (a youtuber who i mainly watch videos about hair care on) has also said in her video where she tried fifty something lip balms that the ole hendrichsen and eadem lip balm were some of the best formulas!! super curious to try one
Your videos truly bring me joy and I get so excited every time you upload. I trust your recommendations and am rarely disappointed. Thank you so much for providing us quality, thoughtful content and for continuing with long form videos. TH-cam > TikTok and as a millennial, I will happily die on that hill. Give me an hour long video any day.
Thank you for so many amazing videos in 2024! I hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season and been able to relax because you deserve it. I look forward to what you’ll bring us in 2025 💖🎉
Among the sea of end of year roundups, this video was *refreshing*!! I would definitely have given RMS a shout out. They put out some beautiful things this year! Their bronzer in Betty something or other was a game changer as a fair skinned gal. But gosh darn it can Makeup by Mario release the fair shade in the skin enhancer already?!?
I am in my late 40s with hooded eyes and the RMS eye lights are just so good. I now have 3 of them.
So I must share that your adornment style is so gorgeous and it is a whole vibe. You're the inspiration behind my piercings journey and also the reminder to invest in pieces I love. Thank you for being unapologetically you!
thank you so much for being here!!
Kackieeeeeeee!!!!! As a lover of makeup and luxury. I am still wanting a roundup of your thoughts on elf makeup products!!!! If ever possible ❣️❣️
I've been (im)patiently waiting for a new Kackie video. How dare you have a life? jk I'd like to add Glossier Birthday Cake lip balm to most reliable. Nothing else feels as good or lasts as long. I'm 1st wave Gen X, so I'm 10 years late to the Glossier party but found it because you mentioned it in one of your videos, which I mainlined as soon as I found you. Thank you! Happy New Year! Love ya, lady!
Thank you for the link to your Glossier video. I hadn't seen it yet. It's like a bonus Christmas gift!
I was agonising which neutral eye palette to buy, and you came through! Especially since Danessa Myricks palette price was a bit too rich for my blood. Thank you 🙏🏼
Amazing! I'm so glad this helped! Let me know how you end up liking it!
@@kackie I must admit, I'm still tempted by the original Makeup by Mario palette. It looks like the shades and undertones are warmer, while Kim's are more cool toned. I'm more of a neutral to warm girlie, so wondering if Mario's would work better. I saw in another video that you actually decluttered that one though, ahahah.
Thanks!
Absolutely agree on Lisa Eldridge. She released my favorite products of the year: the kitten flick liquid eyeliner (so easy to use); the skin tint (best complexion match I have ever had and love the finish and coverage level); and the gorgeous, refillable lipstick case. I understand folks disappointment that LE only offered 8 colors with the initial release BUT that tight palette meant that I have found my holy grail lipstick color - Medici. I would never have ordered it if there had been a wider array of colors that included some lighter, clearer colors. Medici turned out the be the "nude" that I have needed for my well pigmented lips all along. Who knew?
Oh Kackie! Is it weird that I get super excited when I see a new video from you? I get more excited to watch you than just about anything else going on in my life 😂 I know weird, but you are just so dang gosh entertaining!
My product of the year is the LYS blush in Focused! Thank you for recommending that and describing it so perfectly! It is like every perfect color rolled into one with the most flattering sheen.
I love YOU and your makeup roundup! Super job Kackie! And congratulations on a larger audience! Just keep being you and let’s laugh at all the crappy cosmetics we shove into the NO pile!
I don't know what's different but you look positively radiant in this video.
Kackieeeeeeee!!!!! As a lover of makeup and luxury. I am still wanting a roundup of your thoughts on elf makeup products!!!!
Yes please. I want a critical color review!
Oh we are going to need to see more thoughts on SKN By Kim-that was unexpected.
Happy new year Kackie - I am so very glad I found you !
I just had a baby so I have absolutely no reason to buy makeup at this point yet I watch your videos religiously. Keep being you.
I loved this format. So fun to watch!!!!
I love the concept of the video and it's a really creative way of "reviewing the year". Personally, I was still missing little "make-up Oscar figures".😉🏆 I wish you a good and healthy start to the new year!🎆🎇
Hello Kackie! Absolutely loved your video.❤ I totally agree, the Rhode Skin Blushes were way overhyped but I guess a point of quality had to be made for the formula because the packaging was a poor attraction point. But anywhoo, yes, my opinion Natasha Denona products do not disappoint. I think I may go put an order in now, lol!!
By the way, I’ve been missing your “welcome home from jail” sign. I LOVED it and thought it was hilarious😂.
Hope you have a Happy New Year🎉
Sent with love 🙏🏻💕💕💕
Great video in a sea of “favorites” videos right now…although I watch those too! Always love your energy in your videos!
Question…what shade of Sarah Creal concealer do you wear?
Thank you! I wear 1.0 Fair Cool
ND can make more money with the midi palette due to volume. Loads of people wanted the big palettes but simply couldn’t afford them. ❤🎉
I love this video concept! I’m so happy you are feeling more and more like yourself! Happy New Year to you!!!!
Thank you for always bringing grounded takes to the beauty space
I am hoping for Lisa Eldridge to bring out Sarah Creal like lip balm that fits the Luxe refillable case.
I found you back in 2018 and then lost you for some reason till 2024 and I AM SO GLAD I DID!!! I really do love everything about you and your videos.
Love your channel. The formulas that work for you are some of my favs. Would you ever be interested in trying the new Chanel velvet foundation? Dying to know just how matte it REALLY is. After purchasing every concealer known to man, I discovered Chanel’s and the search is finally over. Thank you for another entertaining year. You are special and worthy. ❤❤❤
I got myself the Lisa Eldridge lipstick for my birthday because I was in love and also because it feels bigger than luxury to me, it feels like a moment in beauty and sustainability. The category that came to mind for me was “Immortal product”. There’s a Korean music show called “Immortal Song” where current performers cover massive hits from past decades, the idea being ‘this was great and nostalgic but actually it’s still amazing’. When a classic product either comes back into vitality like Clinic black honey, or gets a makeover and hits it big like those Revlon glossy lipsticks, I just find it super satisfying.
Kudos for you for approaching the Year’s End list in a truly innovative way.
Well now I need that Sarah Creal lip balm! The mascara is amazing for me, no smudges at all!!
I look forward to your videos. They are honest and informative. You make us think!
I am mad for the Lisa Eldridge Rouge Experience lipstick- BUT I am a red lip fan. The other color I want to try (Ashes of Roses) is sold out and the other dark merlot color is not available yet, but the remaining colors look very similar to me. The Ribbon Rouge experience is 100% worth the splurge and the experience of interacting with the component is a true luxe experience.
You are so thoroughly entertaining 😊
Although I haven't tried the refillable lipstick yet, I haven't tried a Lisa Eldridge product that I haven't loved, the skin tint is just absolutely lovely on me (which I found out from you, so thanks!) and the liquid lurex eyeshadow in Zora is a bedroom eyes brown on me for sure, I am obsessed. My other big innovator of this year (partially because I only found her products this year so have been catching up) is Danessa Myricks, if she did that lightworks packaging with a nude colourstory I would be at the front of the queue, bank card in hand.
The Dior mono color in Rose Tulle is my HG, please never discontinue these. They are such a gorgeous, not glittery but somehow alive color and formula. LOVE
Omg thank you for talking me off a ledge with fara homidi. That packaging is catnip for me and because I couldn’t really find any reviews from my go-tos I was like maybe I need to try it? Now I don’t. So thank you!
This was so much fun! I agree with so many of your choices.
I have already finished one Sarah Creal lip balm and I have two others in my purse and in a basket by my computer. It is THE BEST!!!
I have that Ciele concealer on my list for my next $100 Rouge Reward haul. I want spf on my pigmented areas!!!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
I love yall too and I have oily skin so I love this channel better than the dry skin population. I am joking but I am not wrong haha. Have a great day I truly love this corner of the internet
Kackie and her spreadsheets a woman after my own heart this is how I know we would be friends in real life❤❤❤
EXCELLENT video as always; I so appreciate you. I think I saw an insta post that said you were feeling crap - I hope you're doing better x
Fun video! Thanks Kackie!
The brand sweed. I love their skin tint. A must try!!!! Thanks Kacki. I’m looking forward to 2025 content
I had a terrible experience with them. Zero response from either email or Instagram messages about issues with the products. The bronze eye paint cracked like crazy and the blush and bronzer were just way too warm and orange on my pale pasty skin.
OK Natasha Denona's new eye scult palette is AH-MAZING
what a great concept for a video! 🎉
Jouer is such a solid brand. Love their blushes, too.
Agreed! Highly underrated brand.
Great video! Loved the concept!
This is such a great video. I feel like the Lisa Eldridge Skin Tint is an instant classic. It's SO good, and RMS eye brights and glow spf have become solid formulas for me. The eye brights are excellent one and dones. Also Hindash boy tears, such a solid eye lid prime/base. And now im getting the hindash highlighter to use in my inner corners...
I don't care if it's to affiliate links but when kackie says 'i made a spreadsheet' my heart flutters 😂
VIEVE! Lovely Glasgow girl 🏴. The ninetease palette 👌
That is THE cool palette
I just went to the Thrive site to buy the liquid lash mascara in brown and I’m devastated to see that they don’t make it anymore!!! I too only wear tubing mascaras so I need a recommendation for a good brown one!!!
Great well considered video! Thanks. One tiny point of contention-Lisa Eldridge Rouge Experience in Medici is the best “my lips but better” shade I’ve ever found. And I think other light olive people have felt the same. Every “nude” I’ve ever tried goes pink or orange. I think those lip colors were nuanced and informed, but so subtly they weren’t obviously so. Just quietly effing awesome. She’s also one of only a few brands(maybe About Face too) really delivering on the olive undertones, not just talking about it (Mob Beauty. Ahem. They made straight up orange olive shades that somehow miraculously looked olive on the website.)T5 skin tint is almost too green and too gray for me; never been so happy to have something not quite work for me. I mix it with T2 and it’s perfect. Only time I haven’t resented having to buy two shades. Oh dear, that was almost a rant. I get excited about this stuff. 🥴😬
the Mob Beauty olive shades are completely baffling, but I will say that for yellow-leaning olives the golden shades are great! About Face F2O matches me well, but I like Mob Beauty in G20 better.
I discover the house lab concealer this year and it works well for me. 😊
I needed a Kackie's video! So satisfying!
Edit: Natasha Denona's palettes are such a good product!
I'm a perfume girlie and LOVE Merit's Retrospect for this year. Runner's up are: Glossier You Doux and Orabella Salted Muse.❤
I would love to know how to make the Creel concealer work for me. No matter how thinly I apply it or how much I buff it out with a brush or sponge or my fingers, it still manages to cling to my dry spots and creases. The lightest shade is also possibly too peach/dark for my skin tone.
I think American /British brands are not up on innovation because K- and now C-beauty have been leading the charge with unique formulas, textures, and colors for the past few years at price points that are so much more accessible. Of course the downside is options for a wide range of skin tones but it seems a few brands are perking up to that realizing they can capitalize globally. I know it’s not your thing but I’d love to see you try some of the Asian beauty big hits from the past year!
It's WILD to me how browsing YesStyle and Stylevana show so many product formulations that US/Euro brands don't have in their lineups! But yeah, the downside is the extreeeemely limited shade range for most of them. Not just the complexion products -- eyeshadows are almost all pastels and light neutrals, lip products are almost all light and mid-range neutrals/mlbb shades. I've only seen a few outlier brands like GirlCult (and I guess Kaleidos counts?) doing dramatic weird or dark lip colors or bold/dark/bright eyeshadows. Even brands with over-the-top awesome packaging (Zeesea, Florasis) are pretty tame/samey in their product hues.
Totally. I am very fair but warm/neutral and many of the K-Beauty tones are too light/strange for me (and I have yet to try a base product because the limited pics on YesStyle confuse me-I think one of the Welsh siblings wears a really light tone that I thought would match me in one of the cushions!) There’s definitely an “ethereal fairy” vibe to some of it that is not a look I can pull off. It will be interesting to see how these brands view themselves moving forward and how they place in the market. A Korean/East Asian only audience is still big but limited compared to catering launches for a full on international market. I do see a lot more brands opening their own US websites outside of the Yesstyles and Stylevanas so they’re definitely getting curious on the possibility. For now I kind of pick and choose what works and I admit I have the skin tone privilege of even being able to do so.
Also, that said I think TirTir was smart to go for it and release three cushion types in a fuller range of tones, and send out PR of all/most of the colors to show that they’re taking a risk to move KBeauty forward on complexion colors. I think if this causes them to have high sales it will make other brands reconsider their offerings which I hope is the case!
@@kkmarzipan Oh for sure -- I think they got a good bit of initial press/hype on that foundation from flooding the influencer space (and then apparently a lot of people do really love it! I can't use it, alas -- cyclomethicone is a guaranteed cystic zitfest for me). But I think they got the BIG hype with the hugely expanded shade range. US/Euro consumers have come to expect that, but it's def new in the K/J-beauty space. I hope to see more Asian brands follow suit, and also hope it trickles over into eye and lip color offerings too!
Good luck
I still have never bought a single hourglass palette because they never make them for olive skin tones. They finally branched out to cater to different skin tone depths, but not actual tones. Literally every single blush and bronzer shade in those palettes turn straight orange on my face
Your look is amazing! Your eyeshadow is 😍
I adore your videos and swear by them. So much so that I may even buy the SKKN CLASSIC MATTES EYESHADOW PALETTE, even though I have Patrick Ta and don’t have any problems with it! But above all, I couldn’t take my eyes off of yours through out the video 🤩😜 Could you please mention which products and colors you’re wearing? 🙏🙏💖💖
i'm wearing the bobbi brown shadow stick in cinnamon, the ysl 300 quad, and hindash's highlighters!
@@kackie Thank you so much. They look gorgeous on you 💖💖
Would you by any chance have a video that shows how to achieve a similar effect (even if the colors don’t match)? I have all the products you mentioned (except for the Hindash that I was planning to order) but I’ve never managed to get as beautiful a result😝
To be fair to Flower Beauty, they released their bronzing drops years before bronzing drops became trendy. I think Jen Phelps might have made a ‘They did it first’ type video about products like recent viral ones that predated the viral one (ex: L’Oreal Lumi Glowtion, EM Cosmetics Lip Cushion).
100% agree about the summer Fridays balm. I don’t understand the hype when Naturium and Eadem exist.
Oh and Ole Henriksen is great also
Could you make a video about brands that actually have that "capsule" approach that if I bought something five years ago and want the same thing ti will eb there, and is also amazing quality texture and everything?
Ordered!!! Can’t wait!
I HOPE YOU LOVE
Kackie, I am such a big fan of your videos. I'm about to start making beauty content for TH-cam and I'd love to know more about your lighting set up because your videos always look 🤌
This one is personal, but Most Makeup confidence increasing Stat: my undertone. Which is OLIVE OMG. And now I have one foundation (about-face) in my shade and a green color corrector that are changing my (makeup) life. I always wondered why the pictures in the shade finder tools never looked like me, I thought maybe I just didn’t know what I looked like? But it was because none of them had my skin tone! Now it makes sense.
Best "just gets me ready for my day quickly and without too much crying" goes to the Fenty stick foundation, the Gucci bronzer in 01 (for basically all the face colour when I cba), the Gucci highlight in 04 for face/eyelids/inner eye corners, Tilbury setting mist, Lisa Eldridge's mascara, Hourglass's microbrow and those chubby Ilia lip liners and maybe a Dior glow balm whatsit. Oh, also the Jouer concealers and either Jane Iredale or MAC Studio Fix powder for blemishes and discolouration, which takes probably 60% of my makeup application time 😑
Loved this video! Natasha is having a sale right now do I need both of the highlighters? What’s the difference between them?
Oh okay so, super glow is a gorgeous finely milled powder. The new one is a wet look gel hybrid that's like cooling on the skin.
That Sarah Creal lip balm is amazing. I will definitely repurchase. I loved the old balmdotcom from Glossier and am glad that they brought the old formula back, but can't stand the new delivery system/component.
Love your eye makeup. What are you wearing?
Kackie, I see that there is a new Skkn by Kim eyeshadow palette with sparkly shades in it. I am so tempted!
I, also, have noticed that brands are putting out products just to release things instead of releasing things because they fill a gap in the market (I'm thinking about all the Makeup by Mario versions of a bronzer). I would love to see less releases and brands releasing only when they have something truly unique or improved. I also wonder how much better a blush could possibly be. At what point do we reach maximum lipstick quality?
For me - it’s a hard no on any Kardashian/Jenner products.
ok
Same. Sorry Kackie but I bought a _second_ DM Groundworks palette. The Kardashian palette can't be used as under eye color corrector, or contour, or lip tint like Groundwork.
I believe DM is still hitting it out of the park when it comes to creating products that are *User Friendly*.
Do I love all her color choices or need spangle and duo chrome in everything? No, but _sweet fancy Moses_ I *live for* the portability and accessibility built into her last products: Ground Work, that last Transformer-esque Light Works palette, the complexion balms...
Sorry to sound like a Stan but DM is still keeping me interested in what she is doing with makeup.
I feel the same way. Not in any timeline.
I agree! But don’t let that stop you from using makeup you like.
I would love a SKN by Kim video! I’ve really enjoyed everything I’ve tried, even though I have no interest in supporting her.
The skin by Kim palette is exactly what I’ve been looking for
Same. I remember kackie saying she loved it, id been hovering on the Mario one but skin by Kim it is.
“Hot weird” is my new compliment 😂
hahahahahahha
Fun video! What shade were you wearing on your lips in this video? Is it the new Kackie Thrive gloss??? Thanks!!!❤
It's just a clear gloss. I think maybe the new one from Ravie.
New Hot Girl who just took off her Glasses goes YSL. They have been around for a while. I was looking up at why in the last year they have been releasing bangers and it looks like in the last 4 years they made some good hiring decisions, and they also dumped a lot of money into their beauty brand.
AMAZING category well done
The Lisa Eldridge lipstick looks amazing. I agree we need more shades. I need some cool, deep tones. Don’t see anything that would work for my undertone/skin tone.
i’m early! hello, from south africa. love your videos!
Say it louder for the ppl in the back! We have enough bronzing drops 😂
“The world has enough bronzing drops” 😭😭🤣