Play Our Sephora Makeup Quiz And We'll Guess Your Sign!
- by Brittany Brown
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Makeup is one of those things that is super specific to each person. From young to old skin and dry to oily skin, there's a specific combination of products for everyone that is just right. For example, a person with combination skin may use two different kinds of primers for their dry patches and large pores.
That being said, everyone has those products that they just can't live without. Imagine choosing between lipstick or mascara, or eyeshadow or blush? Sounds cruel, right? Especially while packing for a vacation, or an overnight business trip. That basically sounds like the toughest decision ever made.
Makeup preferences say a lot about the wearer. Bright eyeshadow might mean a strong and colorful personality. A red lipstick may be a homage to classic and posh makeup looks. But what about guessing our signs? A lover of warm eyeshadow looks (super trendy right now) may be a fire sign like an Aries. Fans of a dewy skin texture may be a water sign, like a Pisces. Love neutral or natural tones? Definitely a Capricorn, an Earth sign.
Could a preference between liquid eyeliner and pencil eyeliner really determine what sign we are? Pick some favorite makeup products and we'll guess the appropriate sign.
Pick the best makeup product: foundation or primer
What's the point of primer without foundation? Believe it or not, some people put on primer even if they're not wearing foundation. A pore filling primer will help even out the texture of your skin and a hydrating primer can act as a moisturizer. However, nothing will even out the skin quite like a foundation.
Pick the best makeup product: eyeliner or mascara
Eyeliner and mascara are two products that help emphasize the eye. Mascara is applied to the eyelashes, and help open the eye by creating length and volume on the lashes. There are many ways to apply eyeliner, but the endgame is to shape the eye to make it appear bigger or smaller.
Pick the best makeup product: blush or bronzer
Blush and bronzer are used to define and bring color to the face. Blush is specifically used to add a rosy color pop to the cheeks to appear more lively. Bronzer is more for that sun-kissed glow. This is super helpful for in between seasons when your foundation is too pale.
Pick the best makeup product: bronzer or highlight
Contour and highlight add definition and glamour to the face. Contour powder or cream is meant to emphasize the natural shadows on the face to make features look smaller or sunken in. Highlight is used at the high points of the face to bring things forward like the forehead, chin, or cupid's bow.
Pick the best makeup product: cream or powder contour
Contouring is all the rage thanks to Kim Kardashian and her makeup artist. The famous family all seem pretty chiseled with the help of makeup and great bone structure. Cream contour is easier to blend, but it can certainly get messy. Powder is a quicker option, but it doesn't have the same longevity.
Pick the best makeup product: lipstick or lip gloss
We've been painting our lips for centuries, but today's beauty technology makes everything more fun with a million different finishes and colors. Lipsticks are traditionally more opaque than a lip gloss. Lip gloss is exactly what it sounds like, a shiny coating for your lips. Either product will complete your amazing makeup look.
Pick the best makeup product: liquid lipstick or traditional lipstick
Liquid lipsticks changed the lip makeup game forever. This product applies similarly to a lip gloss but has the full coverage of a lipstick. The best part is that liquid lipsticks dry down and basically become indestructible. There's rarely a need to reapply a liquid lipstick, but some consider them too drying.
Pick the best makeup product: lip liner or lipstick
Lip liner can be used to prime the lips for a lipstick or on its own. For dark or dramatic colors, it's super helpful to make guidelines for yourself to make your lines flawless. Some like using lip liners on their own because they give pigment, but they're not as heavy or intense as a lipstick.
Pick the best makeup product: foundation or conceler
If you're going for a glam look, or just have some dark circles, foundation and concealer is a must. What if you're only able to choose one though? Depending on the concealer of your foundation, you might be able to get away with just that, but may people rely on concealer for their full coverage product.
Pick the best makeup product: color corrector or concealer
For anyone with redness or pigmentation, color corrector is a lifesaver. Green will cancel out any redness and orange will help with dark spots. You might look a little silly with casts of green and orange on your face though. That's what concealer is for, so choose wisely with your makeup.
Pick the best makeup product: matte or metallic highlighter
Highlighters aren't just the markers you over line your school work with anymore. Now it's a makeup trend that focuses on the high points of the face. A metallic highlighter will give a dewy, or glowing affect, when a matte highlighter is meant to brighten areas with a lighter pigment.
Pick the best makeup product: powder or cream blush
Powder blush is pretty standard. Most powder blushes come pressed in a compact or a pallet, unless they are mineral blushes that come in a loose powder form. It's harder to find liquid or cream blushes, but the brand Benefit has special tints that can be used on the cheeks and lips. How innovative!
Pick the best makeup product: eye primer or face primer
It seems like there's a primer for everything these days. What does primer really do? Well, it creates a barrier between the skin and product that helps the pigments you're applying to your face last longer. Can you believe that there are people who don't believe in primer? Can't relate.
Pick the best makeup product: eyeliner or lip liner
Seems like a lot of what we do to get ready in the morning has to do with lining things. Both products enhance their corresponding parts of the face. A lip liner can fool the eye in thinking lips are bigger than they are, and that's what eyeliner can do for the eyes as well.
Pick the best makeup product: brown eyeliner or black eyeliner
The great thing about eyeliner, like many other makeup products, is that there is something for everyone. Black eyeliner might be too extreme for people with super fair complexions, or if someone wants more of a subtle look. Black eyeliner is more traditional, and perfect for winged eyeliner, but to each their own.
Pick the best makeup product: red lipstick or pink lipstick
Before brands like Urban Decay, lipstick really only came in three shades: red, pink, and neutral. The co-founder of Urban Decay wanted more variety in the makeup world. Red and pink lipstick are forever classic lipstick colors. Most people have a preference for one or the other, though. Everyone loves a natural lip.
Pick the best makeup product: gel eyeliner or liquid eyeliner
Both of these eyeliners are great for detailed looks and winged eyeliner. Liquid eyeliner is more fluid and may come in a felt tip pen form or brush that's dipped in he liquid. Gel eyeliner has two components - the pot of eyeliner and an angled brush to apply the product to your eye.
Pick the best makeup product: liquid eyeliner or pencil eyeliner
What eyeliner you use depends on the look you're going for. This question is just as much about your daily eyeliner look than it is about products. A pencil eyeliner can be smoked out to make a softer look, but liquid eyeliner is best for definitive lines and geometric shapes.
Pick the best makeup product: cream eyeshadow or powder eyeshadow
Eyeshadow is a makeup product that is placed around the eyes to add color or definition. There's truly something for everyone with eye makeup with thousands of combination of colors, textures, and opacity. Cream eyeshadow is best applied with a fingertip or stiff brush, and powders have more flexibility in application.
Pick the best makeup product: matte eyeshadow or glitter eyeshadow
Matte eyeshadow and glitter eyeshadow are on the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to eye makeup texture. Matte eyeshadow is usually smooth and creamy with no amount of reflection in the powder. Glitter eyeshadow is just what it sounds like. They're typically more gritty with the texture of glitter
Pick the best makeup product: lip balm or lip scrub
Both of these lip products have to do with the health of your lips. The more healthy the skin on your lips, the better those dark and dramatic lipstick colors will look. No one likes a flaky lip, a lip scrub will help exfoliate and the lip balm will hydrate.
Pick the best makeup product: fake lashes or mascara
If mascara is not enough for the glam look you are going for, then it is possible to add false lashes. Like hair extensions, they are attached and are supposed to blend with the already existing hair. There are all kinds of lashes from natural to super big and fan-like.
Pick the best makeup product: makeup brush or makeup sponge
When it comes to applying makeup, people can get pretty passionate about how its done. Makeup brushes and sponges both had advantages and disadvantages, the but cult like following of the BeautyBlender would have you think otherwise. Makeup sponges are great because they press the pigments into the skin instead of painting like a brush.
Pick the best makeup product: BB cream or foundation
What BB cream and foundation have in common is the ability to smooth out the skin and blur out imperfections. A foundation may have SPF or hydrating properties, but the main difference is the amount of coverage. Most foundations have a medium to full coverage, when BB creams have a light coverage.
Pick the best makeup product: individual lashes or strip lashes
If you are not in love with your lashes, no fear, fake lashes are here. There are even options when it comes to the little black hairs we glue to our faces. A strip lash is the most common and comes on a band to place at the end of your eyelids against the natural hair. Individual lashes are more custom, and you can place as many as needed.
Pick the best makeup product: eyebrow stencil or eyeliner stencil
Geometric shapes on the face are hard if you have a shaky hand or no artistic inclination. Luckily the innovators of the beauty world have created stencils to help our brows be on fleek and our winged eyeliner be sharp as a knife. It may seem a little extra, but these tools must help someone.
Pick the best makeup product: pore filling primer or hydrating primer
Everyone's skin texture is different, so we are lucky to have so many products catered to these differences. Oily skin and dry skin need a lot of the same things, but a hydrating primer might make oily prone skin too greasy. Pore filling primers are great for people with oily skin, who generally have larger pores.
Pick the best makeup product: automatic eyebrow pencil or traditional eyebrow pencil
Eyebrow pencils create a softer look to fill in and define the little toughs of hair above our eyes. An automatic eyebrow pencil is similar to that of an automatic eyeliner that you twist up for more product. No sharpening required! A traditional eyebrow pencil you do need to sharpen but that is the opportunity for the perfect point every time.
Pick the best makeup product: lip pumper or fiber mascara
These products go the extra mile. A lip plumper has stimulants in it that case the lips to swell up temporarily, which give the illusion of a naturally full pout. Fiber mascara has little fibers in the mascara liquid that help build on top of your lashes. How cool is that?
Pick the best makeup product: eyebrow pomade or eyebrow pencil
Big brows are in and it looks like they're here to stay. Previous generations will remember the less eyebrow the better. People who have a slim line for an eyebrow compares to the big beautiful brows people celebrate today. This is what is recommended if you're fully drawing on an eyebrow.
Pick the best makeup product: brow mascara or mascara
Brow mascara is similar to traditional mascara in the way that it ads pigment to hairs on the face for emphasis. They are the few hairs on our face that we actually want to see. At least, the ones that look in place and stay within our preferred eyebrow shape.
Pick the best makeup product: clear brow gel or pigmented brow gel
Brow gel, brow mascara, whatever you want to call it is a product to keep eyebrow hairs in place and/or make the eyebrows look fuller. A clear gel may be used after other eyebrow products, like a brow pencil, to keep the hairs in place within the lines you drew.
Pick the best makeup product: nail polish or lipstick
Adding color to your lips or nails seems to be a very feminine thing. You probably would not see a beauty ad or campaign without either. Well, polished nails are sophisticated, but so is that perfect lipstick shade that makes you feel like a boss. For a glamorous gal, the choice is hard.
Pick the best makeup product: blush or eyeshadow
It is the battle of the pigments! Most eyeshadows and blushes are powder pigments pressed in a pan. The best way to apply pressed powders are with brushes. The hairs pick up the pigmented powder so you can apply it to your face. You are already beautiful, but these pigments definitely will not hurt.
Pick the best makeup product: powder foundation or liquid foundation
We're so thankful for foundation! Whether we're having a bad breakout or some dark circles, foundation is here to save the day. If you have oily skin, a powder foundation may be best for your skin type, but definitely don't believe that there is not a liquid foundation for you.
