We used to have tenants lease a floor in our home and their daughter basically grew up in my house. I consider her my baby sister and she's growing up way too fast and turning 13 this year.
I already know I'm giving her a starter makeup collection (she owns nothing beyond Chapstick, and not even the tinted kind), and as the unofficial makeup fairy amongst my family and friends, it's basically my duty to remedy that this year.
I don't want to miss anything obvious! This isn't about high-end beauty, so she isn't getting any Naked palettes or Nars concealers here. But I want her to have some cult drugstore basics with maybe an occasional splurge. The names can't be inappropriate, so basically nothing from Nars fits the bill anyway lol. She's got medium/dark skin, warm undertone.
So far, this is what I've got. If you were curating a box for a 13 year old (niece, daughter, sister, friend, etc) of yours, what would you include?
My Box So Far
- Real Techniques blending sponge
- ELF C Brush (HG eyeshadow brush unless you've got small eyelids, I own like...7 of them)
- Milani or ELF eyeshadow primer
- Wet N Wild Comfort Zone eyeshadow palette
- Rimmel ScandalEyes black eyeliner + maybe a loreal infallible one in a different color
- Rimmel Kate Moss lipstick (need other lipstick shade + brand ideas)
- Maybelline BB Cream or maayyybe the cushion foundation
- Rimmel Stay Matte finishing powder (or the Coty airspun one, iunno yet)
- Revlon lip butters! At least 2-3 of them. Juicy Papaya was my faaave
- Maybelline Falsies mascara (recommendation by Mishelle)
What I still need/what I'm not getting
- Mascara. I don't wear mascara so I have no idea what's good
- A crease brush. Or just a better basics brush set in general. Ideas?
- Eyebrow stuff. Does a 13 year old need eyebrow stuff? probably not
- Highlighting/contouring stuff. See reason above ^
Anyway I have a few obvious things down, but I can't think of what else to add!
Edited by Pryanka, 02 July 2016 - 12:33 AM.