Best Order to Apply Makeup, Featuring Vegan & Cruelty-Free Brands

Moisturizing your skin is an essential step to hydrate and treat your skin before starting to apply heavy and harsh makeup on your skin, it is also vital to create a protective layer for your pores and skin. If you have extra time, prep your skin with moisturizing eye patches and a moisture-rich mask.

Our cruelty-free picks:
G.M. Collin Instant Radiance Eye Patches
G.M. Collin Aqua Mask

Primer is essential because it is considered a protective layer to your skin when using makeup. It also helps smooth down your pores to create a flawless finish and help all the products set and last longer.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Catrice Illuminating Prime and Fine Dewy Glow Fixing Spray
Charlotte Tilbury Wonderglow Face Primer

Foundation is arguably the most critical step here. Be sure to use a foundation that matches your tone and skin type, and do not forget to blend blend blend! Especially down your neck for an even look. You don’t want to look like you’re wearing a mask. Start from the center of the face when you apply the product and blend outwards.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Milk Makeup Flex Foundation Stick
Jane Iredale Beyond Matte Liquid Foundation

Concealer helps hide any imperfections in your skin, including any discoloration or hyperpigmentation. It’s an excellent way to hide any blemishes and helps your skin look brighter and healthier. If you already have perfect skin, you can skip it! Don’t feel like you need to put everything on because it exists.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Tarte Shape Tape Contour Concealer
Catrice Cosmetics Liquid Camouflage Concealer

Bronzer is important because it helps shape and redefine your face, giving you a lovely sun-kissed tone and a natural definition of your cheekbones, nose, and neck.

Our cruelty-free picks:
L.O.V. The Glowrious Highlighting & Bronzing Palette
BECCA Sunlit Bronzer

Blush helps bring out the rosy undertone of your skin and gives you warmth to your face that was covered with the foundation.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Catrice x Eman Cheeky Blush Palette
L.O.V. Blushment Blurring Blush

Using a translucent powder after blush seals everything together. Make sure to add a little extra under your eyes (you’ll brush it off later) to catch any eyeshadow fallout.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Ben Nye Luxury Powder
Catrice Nude Illusion Loose Powder

While you may see beauty gurus on Instagram and Youtube applying shadow before finishing the face, it’s easier for the everyday humans to finish up the face, add extra powder, and clean up small fallout by brushing fallout away.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Catrice x Eman Bronzed AF Eyeshadow
Jane Iredale Come Fly With Me Eye Shadow Kit

Eyeliner brings out a beautiful definition to the eye shape. If your look calls for smokiness, you might want to apply this before blending in the eyeshadow.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Jane Iredale Powdered Eyeliner
Stila Stay All Day Waterproof Liquid Eye Liner

If there’s anything that completes the look, it’s mascara. You can forget blush or bronzer, but never mascara!

Our cruelty-free picks:
Covergirl LastBlast Volume Mascara
Glossier Lash Slick

A nicely-defined brow offers balance to the face, giving it a beautiful natural look. As you age, your eyebrows fade more, so it’s essential to pay attention to defining them.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Catrice Slim’matic Ultra Precise Brow Pencil
Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade

Whether you love neutrals or bold colors on your lips, adding a pop of color (or shine) to your lips makes all the difference in the world!

Our cruelty-free picks:
Jane Iredale Triple Luxe Long Lasting Naturally Moist Lipstick
Jeffree Star Velour Liquid Lipstick

First of all, congratulations on making it this far on your makeup transformation. Now you can seal everything together with your favorite setting spray.

Our cruelty-free picks:
Cover FX Mattifying Setting Spray
Too Faced Festival Refresh Spray