Hello! Apologies that this post is coming late. I've run into some health issues over the last week or so and then I wanted to post this last night but the internet at my hotel wasn't working. Boo. Here is my much-awaited June favorites post, yay! I have a lot of products this month and a lot of photos of products this month, so make sure to look under the jump!
From bottom left to right:
1. Clinique Turnaround Instant Facial, $45.00 from Sephora. I've loved this product for a long time, but I've recently rediscovered it and started loving it again. My skin's been going through some issues lately - I think it's summer combined with stress - and so I'm willing to try just about anything to get me through my days right now. This product is great. You leave it on your face for 5-10 minutes after cleansing and then you scrub in the beads and you get a nice, clean feeling when all is said and done.
2. Laura Mercier's Translucent Loose Setting Powder, $44.00 from Sephora. For a long time, I really did not like this powder. I found that it just sat on my skin weirdly. Then I started using the Laura Mercier Silk Creme foundation (which I would have featured here, too, but the foundation that I chose just slightly beat that one out for reasons I'll talk about below) and it just made my skin so oil-free for the whole day that I couldn't turn back. I'm sorry, Rimmel powder!
3. Marcelle DD Creme, $25.00, local drugstores. I don't know if they have Marcelle everywhere or if it's a Quebec-based brand, so sorry if you can't get this outside of Quebec! The DD creme can be used on its own if you're having a good skin day, or with a BB creme on a bad day. It's a nice, lightweight cream that you apply to your face. It's basically tint free, so it can be used on any skin type. It has SPF 25, so it's a great base and a lovely way to keep your skin free of the sun's rays during the day without using something as heavy feeling as sunscreen!
4. Essie polish in Mint Candy Apple, $10.00, local drugstores. I featured this last month too, but... I'm still loving it. I know, I know, it's bad to repeat favorites, but if I'm still loving it, then it's gonna be in here two months in a row! Oops!
5. Kat Von D Lock-It Tattoo Foundation, $41.00, Sephora. Like I said above, I almost put in the Laura Mercier foundation here but this one edged it out just by a bit. What I like about this foundation is that it feels so light on your skin but it covers absolutely amazingly. Even when I have redmarks on my skin, I don't really have to add concealer over it because this just covers everything up, and I'm all about efficiency and minimizing the number of products on my face. The full-coverage formula feels like it's lightweight and almost like a tinted moisturizer, but it's got the rigour to stand up to the best of them. It never creases, and one pump of it is enough so it will last a really long time.
6. Marc Anthony Beach Waves Beach Spray. I got this in my Ipsy glam box for the month and I've been loving it. Basically what I do is when my hair is wet, I spray a few pumps of this into my hair from root to tip and I gently scrunch my hair so that it gets some natural volume to it and this just helps it along! I don't know what the full price is, though I imagine it can be purchased at the drug store.
7. Stila eye palette, limited edition. I can't find this on Sephora's site anymore so I think it's no longer available, regrettably. I used to use this palette every single day, but then I started using other products and kind of fell out of love with this one, as is the way that things go! But I was cleaning out my makeup drawer to get ready for another post and I stumbled upon this one and it was like hitting a goldmine, I've been using it all month. I really love reddish-brownish shimmer shadows, so this definitely played into my loves. It lasts really well, even without a primer, and it's the perfect size for your purse!
Thanks for reading! I have some non-beauty favorites as well as individual photos of the products under the cut for you!