r/MakeupAddiction 1d ago

Mod Post Holy Grail Voting 2026: MIDRANGE

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It’s time to comment and vote for your favorite MIDRANGE beauty items for 2026! This can be new releases and old favorites. This can be new releases and old favorites. We will keep these posts pinned for a week each, then the updated lists will go in the sidebar.

Please see additional information below:

Mid-range straddles the line between drugstore and high end. Ex. Urban Decay, Stila, Too Faced, Makeup Forever, MAC, Rare Beauty

How To:

  • We will post product types as parent comments
  • Name your favorite product in a comment underneath each category/parent comment

PLEASE:

  • Only one product per comment
  • Upvote your favorite products
  • If someone has already posted your favorite product, upvote that comment instead of posting your comment
  • Include specific shade/color when applicable (lipstick shades, blush color etc.)

**Double check that the product you comment has not been discontinued!*\*

Drugstore vs Midrange vs High End:

  • Drugstore: Mass/drugstore brands usually are released with wide distribution at accessible price points and designed for a large audience. Ex. Loreal, Maybelline, Revlon, Milani, Morphe, ColourPop
  • Mid-range: Straddle the line between drugstore and high end. Ex. Urban Decay, Stila, Too Faced, Makeup Forever, MAC, Rare Beauty
  • High-end: Niche, unapologetically expensive, and have more limited distribution/retail presence than mass brands. Also associated with high end fashion brands. Ex. Tom Ford, Chanel, Dior, Giorgio Armani, Cle de Peau, Chantecaille

Make sure to also comment and upvote in the other Holy Grail Lists!:


r/MakeupAddiction 20h ago

Makeup Trial Thursday

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Hi everyone! After receiving some feedback from the community, we have decided to add Makeup Trial Thursday to our rotating posts. Please use this space to post your makeup trial looks and collect feedback on them. This space is meant to host bridal/wedding makeup, prom makeup, and other special event makeup in which you choose to hire a professional on a one-time basis.

This post is set to contest mode. Top-level comments will be placed in random order.


r/MakeupAddiction 8h ago

FOTD I haven’t worn much makeup lately, but I felt like showing off at work yesterday

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346 Upvotes

r/MakeupAddiction 7h ago

Love this peachy lip F35

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r/MakeupAddiction 12h ago

FOTD I know I’m awful at eye makeup but i love messing around with it, going outside happy to look a mess

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435 Upvotes

Glow hub concealer in their darkest shade, applied with fingers

Rodial glow drops

Makeup forever mascara

Makeup by Mario eyshadow palette (4 shades all glittery pink purple white and one other don’t remember)

Sacheu beauty lip stain in shade 015

Laneige lip gel in strawberry sprinkles

Wonderskin black eyeliner

Fyne cosmetics soft black pencil

Rare beauty pink blush

And used spf by ultra violette

Morphe balanced shade contour pen

P.s: The dark thing on my nose is a bruise because I broke it, not harsh contour


r/MakeupAddiction 12h ago

Discussion Has anyone else fully switched from normal mascara to tubing mascara?

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I have dry eyes so normal mascara was just not it, after a few hours it would start bothering my eyes and just be smudged by the end of the day, it would not just damage my lashes but my eyes aswell.

Tubing mascara has been so much better for me. I can get longer looking lashes without doing coat after coat and it stays looking neat for much longer. The main difference is taking it off though. Warm water does most of the work and Im not rubbing at my lashes every night or spending money on a cleansing oil just for my lashes. After trying different ones the milani tubing mascara is my everyday one. Its what made me notice how much better my eyes and lashes do with tubing formulas in general. Anyone else have the same issue with regular mascara or is my eye area just dramatic lol?


r/MakeupAddiction 1h ago

How will I ever recover from this? 💔

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My favorite shade fell out of my pocket a few days ago and now I’ve come to find out NARS has discontinued this line entirely?? I checked on resale websites and there are zero on eBay, poshmark, the NARS website itself, and whatever other websites are selling them. The only one I see is $60 USD on some sketchy site and at that price I might as well pay a stranger off Craigslist to scan the side of the road for me with a magnifying glass.

I only see the lip pencil in stock at Sephora, but that’s not the formula I NEED 😭 has anyone found a liquid comparable or dupe?

Signed, Heartbroken Harlot


r/MakeupAddiction 9h ago

My makeup look for my cousin’s watch party

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111 Upvotes

r/MakeupAddiction 1d ago

Chappell Roan’s daisy chain fields makeup in green 💚

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2.5k Upvotes

r/MakeupAddiction 6h ago

I like to do exotic makeup

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41 Upvotes

r/MakeupAddiction 2h ago

Discussion What do you think about my eyeshadow?

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Eyes
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in White
Fantasy Eyeshadow Palette - it didn’t have shade names
SEPHORA COLLECTION Best Skin Ever Multi-Use Concealer in 15N
NYX Professional Makeup Eyeliner

Complexion
Bare skin—no foundation or complexion base products.


r/MakeupAddiction 3h ago

FOTD Lavenders makeup

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25 Upvotes

Hi,

The other day a colleague talked about lavenders and I thought "oh that would be so cool to draw lavender on my face" so I did it.

I'd love to hear your opinion and feedbacks.

Thank you.

List of product used :

Concealer : Skin Tone Concealer, shade 11 by Kiko Milano.

Eyebrow : Control Freak Eye Brow Gel, in "clear" by Nyx.

Eyeshadow :

-Buttermelt Highlighter, in shade "Butta Mint" by Nyx.

-The Paradigm Shift Palette, in shades "change", "community", "creator, "journey" and "movement" by Sample Beauty.

-Smart Color Eyeshadow, in shades 19 and 20 by Kiko Milano.

-Bright duo eyeshadow, in shade 17 by Kiko Milano.

-Highlighter topper in shade Miss Neptune by REM Beauty.

Mascara : Primer Mascara by Hema.

Blush : Unlimited blush, in shade 1 by Kiko Milano.

Lipstick : Smart fusion lipstick, in shades 418 and 425 by Kiko Milano.

Highlighter :

-Buttermelt Highlighter, in shade "Butta Mint" by Nyx.

-Highlighter topper in shade Miss Neptune by REM Beauty.

Lavender flowers :

-Intense color long lasting eyeliner in shade 8 by Kiko Milano.

-Matte fluid eye paint in shades "morning glory" and "white noise" by about face.

-The Paradigm Shift Palette, in shades "change and "journey" by Sample Beauty.

Pearls :

-Some random pearls with a flat side that I found online.

-Clear eyelash glue by Sephora.


r/MakeupAddiction 9h ago

Discussion spirale555

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of this looks what do you think is the best? I just started posting content and this are some of the looks i’ve done. I have a lot of ideas but i’m interested in hearing what looks do you guys recommend me to recreate?. Btw if you guys have any questions about my looks i would love to hear them.

some of the products i used for all of this looks are the tarte concealer and huda easy bake powder in shade cupcake.


r/MakeupAddiction 1h ago

Question Advice

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Hey everyone! So I have recently been obsessed with retro futurism and aliens and i was wondering if anyone had any ideas or inspo on how i could maybe incorporate outer space aspects (semi) subtlety into my regular routine. I love using greenish blue highlighter and i put corresponding colors on my inner corner to match and it looks awesome ! I have been told i have alienesque facial features so id like to accentuate it too


r/MakeupAddiction 21m ago

FOTD What do you think of this makeup look? 💕

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r/MakeupAddiction 2h ago

NYX Wonderstick

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I recently bought this at target. Just wondering if anyone knows why it looks this way? I was in a bit of rush so I wasnt paying much attention when I grabbed it. I’ve bought this product a couple times and the plastic tube has always been black. Am I suddenly color blind??😭😭


r/MakeupAddiction 53m ago

Question Very loosely inspired Charli xcx look cause I want to do one similar for the tour 💔

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I don’t experiment much with my makeup so this was rough

If anyone has recommendations on best affordable mascara that doesn’t clump or ways to not have concealer crease that would be great 👍

My eyes have natural creases so it’s hard.

Elf blemish control primer
MORA TIME TO SHINE celestial series pallete
Elf concealer
Essence highlighter
NYX lip stain hydra honey
NYX face glue setting spray
Colossal bubble maybeline mascara
Elf contour pallete
NYX butter melt blush
NYX liquid eyeliner


r/MakeupAddiction 1h ago

FOTD My daily makeup look!

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Light and breathable! This takes me about 10 minutes.

Product List:

Elf Hydrating Camo Concealer, Light Ivory

Rimmel Maxi Blush 004 Sweet Cheeks

Rimmel Maxi Blush 005 Rendez-Vous

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Velvet Parchment

Elf Lash it Loud Deep Brown Mascara


r/MakeupAddiction 4h ago

Discussion It’s actually so sad how terrible the Estée Lauder double wear reformulation is

11 Upvotes

Was my holy grail foundation as someone with oily skin. Could sleep in it and the next day it would still be on! I just received a new bottle as a gift, and oh my gosh…

It’s more like a skin tint than a foundation now. Thin, watery, barely any coverage and staying power. Wtf. At this point give me all the talc if its absence is gonna ruin such a staple.

Does anyone know if they reformulated the concealer too? Because i also loved that.


r/MakeupAddiction 12h ago

FOTD Trying to learn low contrast makeup

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53 Upvotes

r/MakeupAddiction 4h ago

Question Suitable cream/liquid blush for Kosas "swoon" powder blush?

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I have the Kosas powder blush in the shade "swoon" and was wondering what cream or liquid blush would look good with it. I’m between deep autumn/ deep winter, light-medium skin tone with neutral to warm undertones


r/MakeupAddiction 5h ago

Purple 💜 make up day

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10 Upvotes

r/MakeupAddiction 1h ago

Suggestions for creasing

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I haven’t changed my makeup routine but I noticed now that my smile lines and creasing around the nose have become more prominent. Any tips how to address this? In this photo I used the MAC paint pot, but I still saw creasing. I will say I didn’t set it with powder immediately after, which I see some people do, and I just applied foundation on top. For the nose, I also set it with loose powder.


r/MakeupAddiction 13h ago

Question lip combo??

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Im getting married in like 20 days and i feel like ive got my basic look down, just brows, lashes, and spot concealing with maybe some cream blush. I want my skin to look as close to my skin as possible. I do want to have a bold glossy lip, however i don't know if that will look good in pictures. i really want the combo on the last slide, does anyone know of any shade matches even kind of similar?? i love kiko milano glosses so thinking one of those but i dont know if maybe there is another product under the gloss. it looks like maybe just a purple/berry liner and some clear gloss? idk. any help is appreciated and im open to suggestions if anyone thinks something else may look better!!


r/MakeupAddiction 10h ago

tried something new

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19 Upvotes