I have been unable to find a good product log for beauty products. I would like an app where I can rate products, easily see my own ratings, and create lists of beauty products and brands. Like a Goodreads or Letterbox for makeup and skin care.
Store apps like Sephora and Ulta are limited to their products and do not let you easily see your own ratings nor create more than 1 list of products. There are a few skin diary apps where you can set reminders to complete beauty routines, take skin progress photos, and log expiration dates, but none of the mobile apps allow reviews logs and multiple lists.
I went over to YouTube to see if any beauty gurus had any advice. The two common suggestions are (1) blog about it or (2) use Excel / Google Sheets. My goal is to keep fewer spreadsheets, so I'm going the beauty guru route and will keep my beauty product diary here on my blog.
Key: 5 - perfection / 4 stars - I like it / 3 stars - mediocre / 2 stars - acceptable / 1 star - bad
Ranked by Type
Cleansers
- Avène, Cleanance Cleansing Gel, $20 - This is a think gel that doesn't have any rough exfoliants. It's in a squeeze bottle so can be cut.
- Fresh, Sugar Strawberry Exfoliating Face Wash, $33 - Dumb brand name, but I like this scrub a lot. I may have just been recovering from the wreckage the Ordinary products wrecked on my skin, but this really helped most of my acne clear up. It's in a squeeze bottle so can be cut.
- ZO Skin Health, Hydrating Cleanser, $49 - this smells like grapefruit and is very nice on the skin. At this price, I wouldn't buy again since no Ulta or Sephora points and I didn't notice a change.
- CeraVe, Acne Foaming Cream Cleanser BPO 4% for Acne Prone Skin, $19 - Doctor recommended but has benzo peroxide.
Toners & Masks
Make-up Removers
Moisturizers
Foundation & Primers
Contouring
Lips
Eye Liner
Eye Shadow
Lashes
Mascara
Settings
Brushes & Sponges
Hair
Nails
Brow
For Mom
Brands Ranked by Opinion
Perfection
- Biodance, Hydro Cera-nol Real Deep Mask,$4.75 each - dramatically brightening face mask
- Lancôme, Bi-Facial Double-Action Gentle Oil-Free Eye Makeup Remover, $42 - Great makeup remover, best used with compostable cotton balls! Plastic bottle.
- Farmacy, Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm, $36 - Great makeup remover, best used with washcloth! Plastic jar.
- Estee Lauder, Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Multi-Recovery Complex Serum, $80 - great results. They have sustainable packaging commitments so it's near perfect.
- Urban Decay Cosmetics, Anti-Aging Eyeshadow Primer Potion, $24 - This is a great primer, I really can notice a difference in both vibrancy and ease of application, but it also reduces eyeshadow fallout. The bottle is small enough for travel or makeup case. The best part? The bottle can be cut-up so you really get your money's worth and then recycle it.
- It Cosmetics, CC+ Cream Illumination SPF 50+ Color Fair Light (ivory pink), $44 - Decent coverage foundation and can be easily cut with scissors
- Ofra Cosmetics, NikkieTutorials Highlighting Trio, $35 - Most like Becca's old highlighters and bronzers, very soft and shimmery.
- Burt's Bees, Lip Shimmer, $5 - Hydrating like lip balm but colored like shiny lipstick
- Burt's Bees, Moisturizing Lip Balm, $4 - Hydrating like lip balm but colored like matte lipstick
- Ben Nye, Final Seal Spritzer, $33 - I was told this is used by drag queens and it certainly lived up to that suggestion! Quite a set and lasted it me 2 years. Sadly, it's not sold at normal makeup stores.
- Caliray, Freedreaming Blurring Lightweight Skin Tint - The 5 , $32 - Hydrating foundation, light medium with a neutral warm undertone.
- Peter Thomas Roth, Pumpkin Enzyme Mask Enzymatic Dermal Resurfacer, $60 - Mom's absolute favorite scrub and mask.
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