My APRIL FAVORITES!!

hi everyone welcome back to my channel and welcome to Nikki uncut this is going to be all of my April favorites it's mid May can't believe it this month has already gone by so fast but I'm here to share my all my favorites from the month of April I have a lot and have a really fun variety I thought I would switch things up and really actually include things that other than makeup like items I love other than makeup so sit back relax and let's get into the first couple favorites I have a lot in front of me I have a lot below me I have some random things like I mentioned and I want to get into just some like skin care that I loved for the month of April and I'm continuing to love in the month of May one of which I'm almost out of I have like maybe two more uses left in this if I'm lucky it's from dalba it's the double layer revitalizing serum this has white truffle in it it is extremely hydrating and Plumping for your skin I love it at night I love it also during the day if my skin like if I wake up on a day and my skin feels especially be like dehydrated and more dry than it usually does now I am more oily skin but I do still have times where my skin just feels more like I said dehydrated and um a little bit more tight than it usually does and that's been happening a lot lately just as we transition into like warmer weather my skin just always feels more tight and dehydrated in the winter months or like the colder months so this I've Loved for not just the month of April I've been using this like I think I started using this maybe in February um so it took me a while to get through and I I used it pretty consistently so that kind of tells you a lot about it too it's a small bottle but it definitely lasts me quite a few months so love this love the way it lays under makeup as well what I would usually do is do like a hydrating toner it's one of my liquid toners first like either a BJ toner or like my Fenty milky toner one of my many favorite toners and I actually have a new one that I'm going to tell you about in just a second I would do that first then I would kind of lock that in with this serum and then I would put uh like my scent a moist izing sunscreen on top and that's been one of my go-to daily skin care skin prep routines um that I've been loving lately so love this product it is just really luxurious and feels incredible on my skin so that's been a huge favorite of mine and then keeping with the theme of skincare speaking of toners too you know I love a good toner I love a good Essence I love a good liquid exfoliator I love all those things I love like that first step after the shower after you washed your face um in the morning or at night I love a liquid essence or toner this one was sent to me from babore and I actually used to use babour I I want to say like six seven 5 years ago a long time ago and I kind of took a minute like a like to say the least I took a minute not using them and I'm so happy to be using some products on them again I have a couple cleansers that I'm using and like rotating between that I'm really liking but the brand sent me this and a few other things I'm trying out right now I've never used this from babore um and I've always loved like their skin ampules like those little ampules that are like hyaluronic acid and things like that I've Loved this brand for many years let's just put it that way but this is a new product that I never tried it's the refin retinol smoothing toner so the way I like to use this is I alternate so the nights that I don't use a Retinol Serum or retinol cream I'll use this as like my first step in my nighttime skincare routine I don't use this during the day so this is like a nighttime toner I just noticed how I how do I say this okay I like it because it has retinol in it and I can use it on the days or the nights that I'm not using my retinol cream because I I kind of take a step back every once in a while with my retinols if my skin starts to feel a little like it's going to start to feel like it's getting irritated I I try to like not go too hardcore into retinols and I catch myself slipping up all the time so on the nights as I'm like trying to ease up in my retinol but I still want to have like a retinol active ingredient in my nighttime routine I love this for that so it's been really nice my skin feels amazing after this there's no irritation um there's no sensitivity that's caused by using this so I'm really loving this product needless to say so this has been a an April favorite and I will continue to use it into May and probably June and until I run out of this it's been uh it's a pretty big bottle so it's going to take me meant to run out of that another skincare product that I love love love love this is so unique okay it's a little dirty let me wipe off the cap but it's a really unique sunscreen from naked Sundays and I actually attended a an event for naked Sundays the brand not too long ago in LA and I tried this at the event it was like sitting on the table where we were all like eating lunch and I put on my hands and it was like it it just feels like a lightweight serum it's unbelievable I don't know how they did it but it's a sunscreen it's called Cabana clear and it's really unique it's a water gel serum sunscreen it has SPF 50 in it I think what I like the most about this is it reminds me a lot of the buor um Aqua resist SPF 50 pa++ Plus+ you know that one it's like in a blue tube I talk about it all the time so this is like very similar um in texture and the way it absorbs into your skin you can see it's like really runny for a lack of a better way to put it really watery it's it's it's exactly like what it says it's like a watery gel that absorbs really quick into your skin it quite literally feels like nothing on your skin and it absorbs within seconds of rubbing it in I absolutely love the way this lays under makeup it is just so thin so lightweight it's ideal if you're someone who just I'm going actually put some on this hand as well CU it feels really nice and hydrant too but this is like an ideal product for someone who hates the feeling of sunscreen but wants to start using it and wants to especially use sunscreen under their makeup and doesn't want them doesn't want that sunscreen to affect the overall outcome the finish and the wear time of their makeup if that sounds like you and something that you've been looking for or like a problem that you have you should definitely check this out really really fantastic and Innovative product from naked Sunday so I've been loving that and then while we're on the subject of sunscreens this one is really interesting really interesting this is from a brand that I had never heard of and they actually reached out to me and they wanted to send me some products so they sent me some products which thank you to the brand the brand is called beakman 1802 um again I had never heard of this brand and I I believe they're like more of an indie up andc coming brand so I was really happy to try a new product and just a new brand in general they had sent me this and I wasn't expecting them to have like a tinted like any kind of tinted products cuz they're a skincare brand but this is the milk tint SPF 43 it has broad spectrum it's a tinted primer serum and this looks so nice on I mean it looks so so beautiful so what I've been doing is I will either put this on on like the days that I'm just running around town I'm just you know I'm running errands I'm like you know just not really I'm not going to work basically long story short I wear this on the days and I'm not really going to work but I've also definitely like worn this on days where I've gone into town and like just done like a client's makeup and come right back home like those more simple lowkey days it's fantastic wear however you want in whatever scenario you want it's basically a really nice Tinted Moisturizer that offers really amazing moisture so it's not like a tinted moisturizer that feels really good when you initially put it on then once it dries down it just kind of feels like me you know what I mean but this actually feels like it's like hydrating your skin keeping it moisturized keeping it plumped keeping it really dewy now I was hesitant to try this because I do have oily skin I talk about this a lot now granted this does make me very very shiny very very very shiny and that's part of the reason why I don't actually like to wear this when I'm working all day like on set because it makes me just a little too overly glowy throughout the day where i'm like I kind of get self-conscious about it so I also like this when I'm just you know out and about like walking my dogs like it's just like a nice way like throw something on my skin it's really easy to blend in it gives me some moisture gives me some cover surprisingly this gives quite a bit of coverage in fact let me just show you okay let me just stop talking about it and actually show you so it has a dropper and initially when I was trying it like for the first two times it reminded me a lot of the Ilia serum like that dropper it's like an oil tinted oil has SPF in it I don't love that product for myself it just does not suit my skin type so I thought this is going to be very much like that and it is very similar however I could feel like I can get away with wearing this more on my my oily skin than I can the Ilia one so if that makes sense hopefully it does but let me Swatch it and show you what it looks like so I'm going to do a little dropper of it the texture of it is very thin it's very lightweight but you could see it gives really stunning coverage like it's a good amount of coverage for being a tinted serum it's shocking how much coverage it gives like it literally Blends right into the skin it is just seamless on it doesn't look like you're wearing makeup or like a tinted product it just looks like you have beautiful healthy glowy skin the bonus is it does have that SPF 43 which is a really nice high number usually like tinted serums and products like that have like SPF 30 and it's not like enough to like offer actual protection I would still suggest of course wearing an actual sunscreen underneath a product like this but it's really nice really easy and I've been just loving it so this has been an a favorite that I cannot stop trying out and just wearing on a day-to-day basis like again light natural easy to work with but still gives really nice coverage let me wipe this off because we're going to dive into some other products that I'm loving and let's dive into some actual makeup so for actual makeup whole my gosh this is so stunning on Mac cosmetics sent me this product they actually sent me three two of which are in my Pro kit I almost immediately put them in there after I tried this one on myself so I've been wearing the shade medium one it's what I have on right now with concealer with a few other things but it's one of my base products I have on my skin right now this is so gorgeous okay it's the Mac strobe dewy skin tint and the shade that I have on is medium one and I have two other Shades like I mentioned that are deeper in my proit and they are stunning this is a very similar product to the elf. Halo glow and the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless filter it gives you that same luminous strobe like finish to your skin like that Lit from within that really glowy stunning Flawless glowy complexion type look it's very similar to those type products let me show you what it looks like on top of my hand just so you could see I hate wasting it so I'm going to do a little bit but this product it does give some coverage but the finish it leaves you with is just pearlescent it's just gorgeous it is absolutely gorgeous in fact let me just add a bit to the top of my nose not to waste it I don't want to waste this product that's how much I love it so big thank you to MAC Cosmetics for sending me this I was like giddy with excitement when I saw a package from Mac I'm always so beyond excited to see anything from Mac come to my come to my door I'm always so grateful so I am loving this product and it's very similar to I mean it's basically the same formula but tinted um as the original like strobe cream from Mac it's like a really old school product it's been around forever it is a fantastic product to like mix into your foundation or to wear underneath to get that Lit from within look this is like the best of both worlds it gives you a tint gives you some coverage with that same kind of glow so loving that it's absolutely been on heavy rotation for me since I received it so thank you again to Mac now speaking of glowy products the RMS um red Dimension Hydra bronzers RMS also sent me these in PR I've been wearing them almost on a daily basis the shade that I've been wearing the most though is Malibu Muse and they really really got to step it up with the amount of Shades that they offer I believe there's only two correct me if I'm wrong um which is just what are we doing here what are we doing here let's offer some more some more shades please so that aside the formula they did a fantastic job on they really did so let me Swatch it for you Swatch it did you hear that let me Swatch it on my hand so it's basically like a a luminous very airbrush type finish bronzer very soft um glowy gorgeous it's just a fantastic product I've been loving it I've been wearing it so much in the month of April and I'll continue to wear it in in in May and June and summer and all those months so I've been loving that and then the product one of the products actually another product I should say that I have on right now is from swed it's the blush that I have on right now it's in the shade dollface so swed if you don't know about them they're they're I want to say they're UK based brand I'm almost positive pretty sure they're let's just say they're UK based brand brand and they have some of my favorite lashes so if you follow me on Instagram you probably see me talk a lot about their no lash lash um they're beautiful beautiful soft feathery natural lashes but anyway that's the same brand so sweet also has makeup products this is a product that I'm loving it's kind of like a it's almost like a a cream but powdery base hybrid blush so it's not necessarily like a glowy cream but it's not necessarily a matte powder it's like a cream to powder hybrid formula really really nice on oily skin has a really long lasting finish to it it feels kind of like silky has like a satiny silky feeling to it it's just a gorgeous formula they did send two colors but this is my favorite one by far it's again the one I have on right now and it's just been a hit I've been loving this for the month of April so that has been again in my makeup bag taking it with me on the go I've been using it a lot let's dive into some more makeup because I actually have quite a bit left um one of the products I have on my lips I have three products on my lips I'll make sure I link them in this video too as well as like my eyes Shadow cuz I'm sure I'll get questions on that it's a glitter from give um and I also have blue eyeliner I'll make sure I'll link all that in the the description box of this video but the lip I have on is actually WHL lip liner from Mac a liquid lip from jivan and then i' I've topped it with this it's a new formula from Charlotte Tilbury it's going pretty viral it's pretty popular it is a lip plumper and it's not one of those like spicy uncomfortable lip plumpers that you know we all have tried and are not too comfortable to wear this one is like more of like an intense cooling sensation rather than an intense burning tingly sensation so if you're interested in a lip plumper that is not too overwhelming and too painful to wear on your lips this is a really nice formula there's two shades I have the shade well they're both Pillow Talk there's a pillow talk and a lighter shade and then a Deeper Shade I have the lighter one it's Pillow Talk in fair to medium so that's what I have on right now is like my gloss and been loving it Charlotte Tilbury suckered me into their products once again I feel like every time I think I'm done with Charlotte Tilbury and like I think that they haven't like come out with anything new and Innovative in a while they just suck me back in so that sucked me back in and then and speaking of lip products I got this for free um not too long ago at an event that I was at it's the Clarence lip perfector there's nothing really super special about it except for the fact that it has a nice sponge applicator which I really just enjoy fact I'll put it on right now on top of that Charlotte but it's just a really nice conditioning lip balm it has a very slight slight pink tint to it like a light pink tint to it feels really nice Definitely conditions my lips again very simple very straightforward but you could tell I've been absolutely loving this and it's been on in my purse and just on the go with me I've even had in my car for like a couple days too just cuz I can't be without it loving this from Clarance really really nice lip um conditioner okay so speaking of more makeup the next product I want to talk about is from dibs it's actually two different shades from dibs you'll probably recognize these they're super popular they're super viral at this point and I feel like I missed out for a while cuz I it took me a while to try these but the brand actually reached out and they wanted to send these to me to try so thank you dibs I really appreciate cuz these have been so heavily on rotation for me for the last several months since I've received them the two shades that I use the most though that I want to call out are number three and number 5.5 so 5.5 is what I have on for my bronzer today and this is the shade let me just show you right here so that's the shade that I have on from my bronz bronzer all on my forehead cheeks nose in my eye like in my crease all that good stuff and then the blush that is on the other end is equally gorgeous I don't have this blush on like I mentioned I have that sweet Beauty one on but that's a blush and there really is something so extremely convenient about having one product that has your blush and your bronzer in the same component so I've been loving this not only that and let me show you the other shade too the number three it's not only that okay so convenience aside that would be great but if the formula wasn't great that I I wouldn't use it right but this formula is fantastic they did a great great job of this formula um Glides on really smooth is longwearing really easy to blend out really easy to work with just a great formula so that's the shade of the blush in the number three and just to show you in case you're curious here's the bronzer in the number three it's a little bit lighter a little bit more cool tone or neutral this one's definitely more warm toned so both are amazing they have tons of different shades too they're all great Shades so there's definitely a wide variety of shade of Shades to choose from which is great thank you dibs for that but the formula fantastic absolutely loving those highly recommend them if you want something that is just one product that has two things that are essential for your everyday makeup so loving that another product that I'm loving that I do have on as well underneath my concealer is this under eye brightener it's the Hideaway concealer SL brightener from CI Ray these are actually more I shouldn't say a concealer they're more of a color corrector and brightener allinone so the shade that I wear is golden hour this was a recommendation from my friend Ali Gins loving it I wear it every single day I grab for this every single time I'm putting makeup on it is fantastic and you can I have mentioned this before you can't wear it alone just like by itself it's enough coverage to color correct and brighten and give some coverage as well but also I like to primarily wear as an underneath to color correct and brighten and then go on top with my concealer for like an ultimate Flawless under ey so I love it either way but I use it the most as like an under eye base and corrector before my actual full coverage concealer goes on top so loving that been wearing it constantly um kind of random this next product like actually very random because this product has been around for a long long time it's from freck Beauty they I believe this is the first product they ever launched um as a brand I believe correct me if I'm wrong but this is a freckle um pen basically it's like a freckle a freckle product it's what I have on clearly right now I have some faux freckles on kind of random and I know it's not like really the trend right now now but I also don't really care I just I wear makeup as I like to and not based on Trends so it kind of makes sense that I would be using this like much later on but it's their Freckle pen basically it's the original Freckle pen and it's in the original shade they have two shades and you basically just take it looks like a liquid liner and you take it and you just dot on freckles so what I did is I dotted it all over across my nose and and then after it's on I just push it in lightly with my fingertip to kind of give it a more natural Freckle look and I love it I feel like I'm like 10 years younger every time I put this on I don't know is something so fresh and extremely youthful about a freckle like I know I don't have real freckles clearly I'm a fraud I'm faking it till I make it but I envy the people out there who do have freckles cuz they're so fresh they're so beautiful and I just I'm obsessed and it's a way for me to kind of just get my feel on freckles and it lasts all day so like I'll put this on at the you know end of my makeup application after my blush my powder all those things are on and it literally does not move like these freckles will be on till I wash my face at night so loving it very random I know but I had to call it out cuz I just I've been loving my freckles my faux freckles lately um and then another product that I've been loving lately is something that I picked up for my full face of Tom Ford and it's honestly like this standout product um out of the new products I tried for that video I've tried a lot of stuff from Tom Ford before I filmed that full face video and if you missed it it's up on my Channel right now it's like 2 weeks old at this point but this liquid liner just really knocked my socks off to be honest I love a good liquid liner and I have so many and it takes a it takes a lot to impress me with a liquid liner I'm very I'm a tough critic with them but this one is just outstanding it's expensive but it's outstanding and I will say you do get a lot for your money in terms of like that price point it's double-ended which I thought at first why does it have to be double-ended well you get two different finishes and you could achieve two different types of liner with this one liquid liner so on this end it's a longer traditional felt um actually it's a brush stroke pen not a felt tip pen and this I use to kind of Glide along all across the top of my lash line and then this end is more stiff and this is more of like a this is the felt tip pen um whereas this one was like the the actual like has bristles to it so this one is stiffer and what I like about this one is on my one hooded eye this one right here I can really get into that corner where I usually have a really really difficult time um getting my liquid liner or my pencil liners into to this area right here with this side of the pen I can get in there with ease and precision and get the job done so I didn't think I would love this as much as I do but it has quickly become a favorite Li liquid lip liner eyeliner for me that I've been loving non-stop um since I got it for that full face of to for so loving that we're going to switch gears to some hair stuff I want to quickly talk about this Coco and Eve like a virgin clarify detox shampoo I use this like twice a week on my hair TMI but my hair gets my scalp gets oily um within hours of washing my hair it just my hair type and I don't know what to do to to change it or to fix it but this does help to clarify so what I do in the shower like once or twice twice being the most I use this like the max I use it per week I'll use this as my first deep cleanse on my scalp and I'll make sure not to like bring it all the way down into like you know like the length of my hair cuz it is a clarifying shampoo so I try to focus it on my scalp and I try like lean back and rinse it like that so I don't get too much running down the strands of my hair which is inevitable it happens but I'm not like actually actively washing the strands of my hair and the length of my hair with this cuz it is a little bit more drying cuz it's clarifying so loving this as like a first cleans and it definitely does help I've noticed a little bit in terms of keeping my hair cleaner feeling longer so it's helping me out it's helping my oily scalp out quite a bit so I love that and then speaking of hair tools or hair products I have a tool that I want to talk about and I'm actually going to demonstrate with you all this is from here we go so this was a last minute purchase during the Sephora savings event it's from the brand main it's Jen Atkins hair tool line it's a deal okay and I I know it's like not like super super cheap but it's $98 and I got it 20% off during the Sephora savings event and I would have thought I don't know the way it the way it works is it gives me like the most beautiful fake blowout and so in my head I think it should have been I would have been surprised I'm surprised it was as affordable as it is does that make sense am I rambling let me know but anyway I love this product and I love what it does to my hair so what I do and my hair does not look great right now because I braided it to go to sleep and so it's it's got like some like kind of like random waves in it that are not super cute and Polished so let me just show you what I do when I want my hair to look better and like I have blowout skills I'll take the front pieces especially I'll flip it I'm working with a really short extension cord right now so that's why I can't pull this fully out but what you do is you twist as you're working with it and it's the equivalent of a round brush with a blow dryer let me get closer and actually do a better job with the side so you can see what I'm talking about cuz right now you're probably like that doesn't look that great but my hair is a little dirty so it's not going to hold this as well as it usually does but it's great for getting like that curtain bang effect as well so if you have longer bangs like longer Fringe like I do do you see that it gives this beautiful like faux round brush blowout effect that if you're not good at that if it's too time consuming you could achieve the same type of look with this hot round thermal brush whatever they call it I can't remember you can achieve the same look with this so let me just do this side one more time and if you want a better like fullon tutorial on how I use this please leave me a comment and I will actually film like a dedicated reel to this and I'll film it in my bathroom where I have like more room to like spread out but you kind of get the idea so it just it's great with fringe it's great with layers if you have layers in your hair and you want to have that that voluminous blowout effect to your ends and your all your layers you should definitely check this out I think it's honestly genius I think it's foolproof it's really lightweight which I appreciate I did see some uh reviews online about how people didn't like how the way it felt like they felt like it felt like cheap I guess I understand what they mean just cuz it feels it's like a very light product it's a light tool I should say not product but I I like that because holding something that is heavy for a long period of time is just hard on certain people's hands you know so I don't know I love it I think it's a really great tool I think it's really Innovative and just really easy to work with look at that right you get the idea terrible demonstration uh I definitely don't get a good I don't get an A for this demonstration but you get the idea so it's an awesome tool I have been obsessed with it I've been traveling with this I've been using it almost every single day look cuz look at that isn't that pretty it definitely shows up even on my dirty hair it shows up it's so it's just so easy um it does get hot so be careful if you do pick this up don't touch this cuz it is it does get quite hot and also don't hold it on your hair for too long especially if you have like blonde hair that's more fragile just be careful just a little forewarning okay we have other random things to talk about including this sweater that I've been sitting on for like the past I don't even know how long I've been rolling at this point we're just having fun together talking about favorites so this sweater I haven't talked about clothing in a minute but I actually love talking about clothing so if you enjoy this please let me know and I'll include more clothing going forward so this is from a brand called dressed in la la um how cute is this sweater so I actually have the matching skirt from this brand I'll make sure I tag it so you can check it out it's a really cute brand they have really fun patterns so like that's like their biggest thing they have like really big bold patterns but their quality is amazing and it's so funny cuz I actually found this sweater well first I found the skirt okay so the skirt is in the exact same print and it was a targeted ad that I got on Instagram like Instagram like saw me saw my aesthetic and they were like this girl needs that skirt we're going to like run this targeted ad towards her well it totally got me cuz I bought that skirt instantly I get so many compliments on it it's the same exact material same print so um I'll link it too just so you can check it out and then one of my cousins was over spending the weekend at M's house and she was wearing this I was like Sarah where'd you get that sweater I'm like is that dressed in lala she's like I don't know I just got some targeted ad on Instagram I'm like no way I did too and I have the skirt I was like well that just confirmed that I need the sweater so I totally ordered it like that night it's the coziest comfortable sweater I've flown in it a couple times it's like it's just like the perfect like oversized throw on with anything it looks super cute it's got big Pockets down here somewhere anyway I'll link it it's just been a favorite people are loving it so I thought I would include it in this and then last but not least okay talk about random this is very random and it's down by my feet so let me lift it up so one of my friends on Instagram her name is Nicole I'll make sure I tag her cuz you'll you're going to want to check out her content she has a makeup line um called half caked which they sell on Amazon she does like Style videos she does makeup videos she is a mom she's just like I I love following her okay I just love her style I love following her she's just like a delight to follow okay so she was posting about something completely different but in the background of this um post that she had I saw these pillows and I was like I dm' her and I said okay that's great like I love the video but can you tell me can you please send me the link to your pillows cuz I want them I sound so hilarious but I've been looking for good quality leopard pillows for my couch for I don't know since I've moved into the house I'm in right now okay so I've been looking for good leopard pillows for like 5 years now I'm not even kidding you like sounds like an exaggeration it's not so she's like oh they're linked up my ltk which if you don't know what that stands for it's like to know it it's a platform that I use all the time I love ltk I love shopping it it's like it's it's so fun okay it's like it's like a Shopper's dream to just pop on ltk and like I don't know shop other people's profiles so I shopped her profile I used her link or like her affiliate code so um shout out to Nicole for like linking this for me cuz these are my new favorite pillows I got them in the mail just recently I ordered four of them and I'll try to insert a photo if I remember of my couch with these on them they're really soft really cushiony they're beautiful and they're like my my leopard pillow dreams have come true with these pillows so that's it that wraps up this April favorites video it's long it's a lot of random stuff but I really hope you enjoyed it I had so much fun sitting down with you and talking and just sharing my favorites it's like my all-time favorite video to film for you all so leave me a comment let me know what your April favorites were if you had any new favorites let me know if there's something that you think I should check out that you are loving I would just love to start the conversation so leave me your thoughts let me know if you liked any of these random favorites like my pillows I'll make sure I link everything below as I knock stuff down I'll leave links to everything below but thank you so much for watching and I'll see you all in the next one bye [Music]

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Published: Tue May 14 2024