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What the HECK is a beauty blender?! In the beauty world, there are thousands of products to choose from. From the basics like foundation to questionable products like a fan brush, how many of these products can you match to the definition? Are you a beauty expert?
Makeup has certainly changed over the years. While women were mostly using foundation, powder, blush, and lipstick, the beauty industry has boomed with a host of new, and sometimes complicated products.ÂÂ
For many women, their beauty regimen consisted of the face products of foundation and powder, but what about when concealer, bronzer, and highlighter are thrown into the mix?
When dealing with lipstick, they only had to worry about the classic tube. Now there are differences with liquid lipsticks, satin lipsticks, and let's not even get started on the finishes. For something as simple as foundation, now you're stuck deciding if you need a matte or dewy finish. First, do you even know what matte means?
Words like tweezers and mascara are probably easy, but do you know what a palette and blotting papers are? Could you define brow gel?
Just how high is your beauty vocabulary? Are you a beauty expert who could master this quiz or do you need to spend a bit more time watching makeup tutorials?
Let's find out!
This product is applied after makeup application, to help seal in all the products.
Lip Plumper
Eyeshadow
Beauty Blender
Setting Spray
Setting Spray is one of the last steps in the makeup process. It is sprayed after application to help seal and lock in all the products. Some popular setting sprays are the Urban Decay All Nighter setting spray and the Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin.
After applying foundation and concealer, this product is applied to the face to add warmth.
Bronzer
Bronzer is commonly added to the face after foundation and concealer. It is used to bring warmth back to the face and is usually added around the perimeter (forehead, cheeks, chin).
Lip Liner
Mascara
Lip Gloss
This product is applied to the eyes for the appearance of longer lashes.
Bronzer
Glitter Glue
False Eyelashes
False Eyelashes can be considered extensions, except for the eyes. They can either be applied as individual lashes or set along the eye in a strip form.
Makeup Remover
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A solid colored stick that is applied to the lips.
Lipstick
Although there are many different forms now, the classic lipstick comes in a solid form. Lipstick can have many different finishes which include sheer, satin, and matte.
Face Primer
Tweezers
BB Cream
Applied to the lips, this product is meant to add the appearance of shine.
Blotting Papers
Lip Gloss
While both added to the lips, lip gloss is unlike lipstick in that it seldom applies much color and is often used for a high-shine look.
Blending Brush
Color Corrector
This makeup applicator is used to apply products to the face.
Highlighter
Beauty Sponge
With the appearance of the beauty sponge, makeup brushes have started taking a back seat. With the innovation of the beautyblender, beauty sponges are used to apply products like foundation and concealer to the face.
Eyeliner
Setting Powder
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Applied to the lips, this product will cause them to look slightly bigger.
Lip Plumper
Lip plumpers are a relatively new makeup products. Meant to cause a slight sting, these products slightly irritate the lips to give your the temporary appearance of a fuller pout.
Sharpener
Foundation
Contour
Applied to the brow, this product helps shape and fill the empty spaces.
Brush Cleaner
Blush
Palette
Brow Gel
Brow gels are used on the eyebrows, not only to make them appear fuller, but to help the hair fibers stick down.
After applying products like foundation and concealer, this product is used to seal those products in and help diminish any pores and fine lines.
Liquid Lipstick
Setting Powder
Setting powder is applied after foundation and concealer to help set and seal all the previous products applied to the face. It can also be used as a last measure to minimize the look of pores and fine lines.
False Eyelashes
Concealer
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Applied as a base, this product is applied all over the skin to even out the complexion.
Foundation
Foundation is often considered the most important step of makeup. The product is applied after moisturizers and primers to help even out the complexion and cover any marks or hyperpigmentation.
Brow Gel
Spoolie
Eyelash Curler
Often used in a cream or gel consistency, this is applied to the face to help blur out pores, smooth out wrinkles, and counter textured skin.
CC Cream
Face Primer
Face primers are meant to be applied before foundation. While many of them serve different purposes, you'll often find them boasting to mattify the face, blur out pores, minimize the look of wrinkles, and smooth out texture.
Tinted Moisturizer
Setting Spray
This product is applied to the face to carve out the features and create shadows.
Contour
While many use contour and bronzer similarly, they serve different purposes. Bronzer is meant to add warmth to the face while contour lies heavily on shadow. It is placed to create shadows on the face that will help carve out the features.
Bronzer
Color Corrector
Lip Gloss
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Often applied to the apples of the cheeks, this product is used to add a 'natural' flush to the skin.
Tweezers
Lip Plumper
Blush
Often coming in red, pink, and even orange tones, blush is often applied to the apples of the cheeks to bring a flushed look to the skin. It is meant to give the skin a healthy look.
Eyelash Curler
Often metal but sometimes plastic, this product is used to pluck hairs off of the face.
Palette
Setting Spray
Tweezer
Tweezers are essential to your flawless makeup, especially when it comes to the brows. Tweezers are used to pluck hairs and are perfect for removing a few wayward hairs.
Brush Cleaner
This product, often coming in an oil-based for, is used to wipe makeup from skin.
Lip Liner
Makeup Remover
Makeup remover is often used to remove all the products from one's face at once. Coming in a liquid or wipe form, they are often oil-based, use to counter many waterproof makeup products.
Liquid Lipstick
Blending Brush
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These products are used to counter any discoloration on the face.
Color Corrector
Color correctors are usually applied before foundation to counter any discoloration on the face and often in the colors of green and peach; green is used to counter any redness, while peach is used to cancel out any dark marks.
Eyelash Glue
Tinted Moisturizer
False Eyelashes
This liquid or gel product is often applied to the eye and is often 'winged' out.
Concealer
CC Cream
Sharpener
Eyeliner
Eyeliner often comes in the form of liquid or gel. While it is a staple in black, many brands have released several different shades of eyeliner. When makeup users refer to a cateye, they are often referring to their winged out eyeliner.
These pigmented powders or glitters are blended around and on the eyelid.
Eyeshadow
Eyeshadow is often a staple in one's makeup routine. Coming in several forms, makeup users have the option of using matte, shimmer, and glitter eye shadows. Eyeshadows often come with a series of brushes meant to help make the application easier.
Spoolie
Blotting Paper
Contour
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This product is applied underneath eye shadow to mute out any discoloration and help the eye shadow color remain vibrant.
Eyeshadow
Face Primer
Eye Primer
Eye primer often comes in a liquid form to help any discoloration on the eye from showing through the eye shadow. Make up users will often use a light colored eye shadow for the same purpose if they are without a primer.
BB Cream
This product is a lighter form of foundation that comes with a few skincare benefits.
BB Cream
If you're in the market for a lighter foundation, you might want to try your hand at a BB Cream. They are used as an alternative to foundation because they are lightweight but still provide some coverage.
Foundation
Mascara
Glitter Glue
This product is used to help remove excess oil from the skin.
Setting Powder
Eyeliner
Beauty Blender
Blotting Papers
While powder helps control shine, it is covering the oil with more product. Blotting papers help remove the excess oil from the skin by soaking it up onto the sheet.
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From eye shadows to highlighters, this is used to hold a collection of shades.
Makeup Remover
Highlighter
Palette
Many makeup products often come in the form of a palette. When eye shadows are sold together as a collection, it is considered a palette. The same can be said for highlight, contour, and blush shades.
Brow Gel
Meant for the lips, this hybrid applies similar to a gloss and often dries down.
Tinted Moisturizer
Blush
Liquid Lipstick
Liquid lipsticks have recently become the new rave. A hybrid between regular lipstick and a gloss, it applies like a liquid and often dries down to a matte form.
CC Cream
Meant to cancel out imperfections, this product is often applied underneath or on top of foundation.
Lip Liner
Concealer
Concealer is a staple in the makeup process and is used to hide imperfections. While many use it underneath the eyes, it is often used to 'spot conceal,' a method used to cover smaller spots on the face.
Highlighter
Palette
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This product is used to emphasize the natural high points of the face where light bounces off.
Palette
Highlighter
Highlighter is a product that is meant to add a glow to the high points of the face. It if often applied to the cheek bones, nose, brow bones, and cupid's bow.
Blending Brush
Sharpener
Applied to the lashes, this product is meant to separate them and make them appear longer and fuller.
Setting Spray
Lip Gloss
Spoolie
Mascara
Mascara is a popular makeup item that can usually be placed anywhere in the makeup routine. Often used to make one's eyelashes appear fuller and longer, it can also be paired with false lashes for an even more dramatic look.
This tool is meant to help change the shape of your lashes.
Glitter Glue
Bronzer
Eyelash Curler
An eyelash curler is used to help change the shape of one's lashes. If one has straight lashes, the eyelash curler will help 'curl' them and make the lashes appear more.
False Eyelashes
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This lip product is used to outline the shape of the lip before applying other products to it.
Face Primer
Lip Liner
Lip liners are often used to help outline the natural shape of the lips, but they can also be used to overline the lips and make them appear bigger. They are often used in conjunction with other forms of lipsticks or glosses.
Makeup Remover
Blotting Paper
This makeup tool is used to comb out the hairs of the eyebrow.
Eyelash Curler
Contour
Spoolie
While the word 'spoolie' might throw you off, you've definitely seen one before! A spoolie is the wand that you'd find in your mascara tube. When not being used for mascara, spoolies are used to comb the hairs of the eye brows.
Foundation
Lighter than a foundation or BB cream, this product helps dry skin while also giving very small coverage.
Tinted Moisturizer
For those who want lighter products than a foundation or BB cream, a tinted moisturizer is the way to go. It's main purpose is to work as a moisturizer, but the tinted aspect adds the smallest bit of coverage when applied.
Eyeliner
Color Corrector
Concealer
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This liquid is used to help remove traces of makeup from the applicators.
Tweezers
Setting Powder
Brush Cleaner
Brush cleaners are a product that often come in liquid form. It is easy for old makeup and bacteria to clog your pores from a dirty brush, so cleaning your makeup brushes are essential!
Eyeshadow
This product is used on pencils to help emphasize the tip.
Sharpener
Sharpeners are mainly used in the makeup world for pencil products. Whether it be a lip or brown pencil, it will help sharpen it to a point.
Mascara
Brush Cleaner
Beauty Blender
This product is applied as a base to help glitter shadows stick to the lid.
Brow Gel
Glitter Glue
Glitter glue is a newer makeup product made to help glitter shadows stick to the lid. While many used setting sprays previously, glitter glue's adhesive qualities help the shadows stick more effectively.
Lip Plumper
BB Cream
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This tool is used to fuse colors together on the eyelid.
Liquid Lipstick
Face Primer
Color Corrector
Blending Brush
Blending brushes are used when applying eye shadow. They are used to help blend the different colors on the lid and crease of the eye.
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