LUXURY Holiday Makeup ACTUALLY Worth EVERY Penn

I'm going to be sharing with you the best luxury makeup items this holiday season that I'm absolutely loving. I have a mixture of both holiday luxury items and then just non-holiday luxury items that I'm loving right now this holiday season. I was going to make this completely holiday collection luxury recommendations but I feel like I've already recommended them in plenty of videos so I wanted to give you some other luxury items that I've been loving that I haven't talked about quite as much. You guys know I've I've been more picky of what I welcome into my life. From the luxury makeup scene, as I just feel makeup across all points are getting better and better, that it can get harder to justify the luxury makeup. That said, I still love luxury makeup. And these, in my opinion, are worth it. I just feel like I'm seeing the price points pay off on my face. So also, my jewelry. I have added to my Ideal stacks. I need to show you the new pieces that I added. A huge thank you to Ideal for sponsoring today's video. Ideal creates unique, modular, high-quality, lab-grown diamond pieces. Beautifully handcrafted in Antwerp, Belgium. I just feel like this is a company who puts quality first with hand-selected top 1% of lab-grown diamonds. Now they are known for their modular collection, which is absolutely genius. It has add-on pieces that you build and customize and from there you get multiple ways to style them and wear them. I have grown up my collection a lot over the past couple of years and I just feel like my collection has gotten better and better with the versatility of my pieces. So let me show you what I have now added. I wanna talk about, I think this one's my favorite piece. Probably my favorite piece ever. This is their initial diamond duo. So with this, you can customize what metal you want, of course what letter you want, and then it also comes with A little diamond piece that makes it so dainty and cute and just a little bit extra than just the initial. And you can choose to pick this up with the gold chain or you can just order the initial and diamond piece. So for example, since I've been building on my ideal collection, I've had my gold chain, so I just needed to get the initial and the diamond piece. And the chain is really great because it has notches here so you can choose the length. That you want your necklace to be and you know with their modular system There's all types of different pieces that i've added to change how this necklace wears But I think this one is my favorite now on my ears. This is another top runner So the piece that I got is the ray piece So it's just that beautiful ring of diamonds and this comes in, you know, rose gold white gold and yellow gold I just went to match with the stud that I originally had. So if you're building an ideal collection, you're going to start off with a diamond stud. And so I just ordered two of these ray pieces and I added my diamond stud in the center and it gave my diamond stud so much more interest, so much more character and overall so much more bling and shine, which I love. So this is actually one of my new favorite pieces. Pair with my studs because I don't wear hanging earrings anymore for the moment. So it This is perfect. It keeps it tight to my ears, but it also is absolutely stunning. When you purchase from Ideal, you get the whole luxury experience, which is the whole point of luxury beauty. Luxury jewelry comes with elegant packaging and handwritten notes. And of course you get free shippings and returns, 24/7 live assistance with their phenomenal team. And the luxury boxing experience also comes with a free gift. This time I got a shine kit, Which I always, always appreciate. Appreciate it with my pieces. So I will have the link down below to check out Ideal. I will also have all of the links to all of the pieces that I've collected over the last couple of years so you can see my top picks. And I just really love like with this collection that I've built, there's so many different configurations and ways that I can wear these pieces. And they're just going to last forever in my collection. So I'll have that link down below. Let's get into some more luxury items. So the first item that I have is a skincare item, and I have refrained from mentioning too much just because of the price point. So a video like this is a perfect time for me to mention that one of these luxury skincare products that has been my guilty pleasure is this A3O Elemental Serum from Elm Biosciences. Yeah, it's a $135 serum, but I love the way it makes my skin. feel and look it's not too thick but it's not too thin it's the perfect consistency for a serum it makes my skin i feel like so much more hydrated throughout the day and so much more firm and elm biosciences i think they focus more on maturing skin so this does really help improve the plumpness the tightness of the skin and i do feel like it has helped my dark spots a little bit it's helped with skin texture hydration and i feel like my skin looks so I look so much more glowy throughout the day when I wear this without My skin feeling too heavy or like I put too much product on to achieve that goal because you know how glass skin is so trending and the glass skin products are really popular. Sometimes it's just too much layers on my skin. It's too heavy on my skin. This, I feel like it gives the glow without feeling like a really oily, heavy serum on my skin. It's jam-packed with antioxidants. It helps with aging, UV damage, pigmentation, and dehydration. So this, for me, is kind of like a do-it-all serum. And sometimes I'll just apply this before doing my makeup because makeup sits on it so nicely since it's so hydrating without being too heavy. So a little bit of a guilty pleasure, but I could not hold back from recommending it in today's video. is a foundation that I've been loving that I haven't gotten a huge chance to talk about on my channel. This is from Clarins. This is the double serum foundation. It is genius. So you might know them for their double serum. It's one of their most popular skincare products. And you know what a huge Clarins fan I am. So this is a foundation that is infused with the serum. I think the packaging is genius because you can see the serum as well. I have it on my skin today. It is I must have scratched my neck. It is such a comfortable, skin-loving foundation. I feel the actual skincare on my skin. Again, very, very hydrating, fantastic for mature skin. It feels flexible, you know, when you smile, when you laugh, you have the fine lines. It just. It flexes over the natural face movement. It gives about a medium coverage, but it perfectly evens everything out without looking too makeup-y. This is a skincare-makeup hybrid that I can get behind. I'm very, very picky with skincare-infused foundations because I find a lot of them don't wear as well and they look very heavy. This is not one of those. This is a skincare-infused foundation that I actually approve of. Clarins did a phenomenal job with this. Now, don't go in thinking you're going to get a ton of coverage with this. For some reason, like when I swatch it in the back of my hand, I feel like it's going to give me a lot more coverage than it actually does. When you spread it out to a comfortable layer, you don't get a ton of coverage. It evens the skin out, makes it look beautiful and really, really natural. Okay, so I have a series of holiday launches following this. I almost didn't put this one in this video because I've talked about this product so much. But it is truly one of my favorite holiday launches. And I did want to share this because it's been sold out at Sephora, but it's 15% off at Macy's right now. Hopefully by the time this video goes up. So this is the Couture Face Palette from YSL. It's a little bit of a harder-to-come-by item. But YSL blushes are one of my top two favorite powder blush formulas, Hourglass being the other favorite formula, but they came out with this phenomenal six-pan palette, four blushes, two highlights, four of these shades are brand new, two are existing in their permanent range. There is no change from the quality of this to the individual shadows, so it is truly a luxury experience from the packaging. To the formulations, I've demoed this a lot on my channel already, so I'm going to move on, but since I did see that it was still in stock at Macy's, and hopefully, like I said, it still is when you're watching this, I had to share that fact. Okay, next up is the most versatile pink blush, I think. In the luxury market, I love this blush. It's a little bit of a guilty pleasure pick up because it was totally unnecessary, but it ended up being totally necessary once I realized how much I love this pink blush. So this is only for the pink blush lovers. This is the Dior Rouge blush in 277 It is a satin finish and it is the most vibrant. But yet, beautiful pink blush out there. It will definitely stand out if you go to the counter in the range of blushes. Your eye will go straight to this pink blush. But typically I stay away from pink blushes like this because I don't find them to be as flattering. But in the Dior formulation, you can absolutely make it work for you. Now this has more of a sheer lay down. I would recommend to apply this with a Not dense brush, something very kind of flimsy, something that doesn't press too heavily into the powder so that you can get a soft wash of this blush. You'll see in my demo that I really had to build it up, but I much preferred that for a color like this. So this to me. It has the perfect level of pigmentation for a blush color like this, so it doesn't look too much on the face. I also love to wear this to blend out other blushes because sometimes just having a pop of pink on the cheek is what you need to finish off the look. So if I'm wearing another blush and I want something to soften the edges but give like a pink cheek, I use this. And again, it's the perfect formulation because it's not too pigmented. It's very sheer. So it gives a kind of watercolor blend out on the cheeks. It's a perfect pink shade for the winter time for that I've just been out playing in the snow kind of look. So I think you'll find this much more useful this time of year. And it's just stunning. I love using this to blend out other blushes. But it's beautiful on the face alone. And like I said, I don't normally like. These types of blushes on my face, but this one, they found a way to make it flattering. So it's definitely a splurge, but I think it's one of the most unique, versatile pink blushes on the market. Okay, I have a couple more holiday items that I've talked about a lot, so I'm going to speed through them, but it needed said because it is that special. The Dior Forever Glow Luminizer in Frozen Medallion. This highlight might be my favorite holiday launch. this year because it's giving that luxury holiday essence with this packaging that you're just going to keep forever and then the highlight inside is not bad at all either in fact it is gorgeous this is a beautiful champagne with a subtle tone of coppery peachy pink it is So unique and I think Dior has one of the best. Best luxury highlight formulas. It's the Forever Glow Luminizer formulation, but it just seems a little bit more elevated, not to mention the beautiful embossment of which I have worn down, unfortunately, but you gotta use the product. This, to me, is what a holiday exclusive is all about, and this brought it, so I had to mention it. Since we've been in the Sephora sale craziness, and these aren't sold on Sephora, It had to be mentioned, these beautiful Chantecaille highlighters, which, hold on, they sold out last year. Let me make sure they aren't sold out. They should have a Black Friday sale coming up. Where if these aren't yet sold out it's a good time to get them. Oh yay not sold out. Okay these are the cheek lights from Chantecaille and I think the quality of this is even better than the Dior highlight. These are a little bit more subtle but these melt into the skin. You cannot tell where the highlight stops and starts. Now I always always always feel guilty for recommending Chantecaille, especially because These are $105, but if you got the money and you want to spend it on something super special, I would say they're still in stock, so wait for the Black Friday sale. I will imagine they'll sell out then. I'll probably have a code for that. I'll keep you guys updated, but I fear these might be my favorite highlight formulas. They came out with one last year and I did not recommend it last year, but then I kept using it throughout the year and I was like, okay, I can't lie. I gotta recommend them this year because I got my money's worth out of last year. So this year they launched two shades, Champagne and Pastel. I'm using Patel right now, which is a little bit brighter. Champagne's a little bit more neutral on me. It's a glow from within situation. It looks like... Super, it's not super natural, but the way that it blends in, you're like, it could be. It's just superb quality. I'm not saying you gotta buy it, but I'm saying I really recommend it, okay. Let's move on to, I have a couple lip products and I've learned from this video, I'm really into like the luxury glitter lips. The ones that give really sparkly effects on the lips. This is the time of year, if I'm gonna wear them, it's gonna be this time of year and I'm up for that challenge. So this first one, it's not a new product, but I recently rediscovered it and I remember not loving this. But now that I kind of know how to use it better, I've been using it a lot because it's just so pretty for this time of year. So this is the YSL Love Shine in the shade 10 and it's basically a gloss for the lips but it has little sparkles in here. Now I don't recommend like globbing it on because it doesn't look the best on dry lips. What I love about this, first of all, you gotta love the YSL packaging. How I like to use this is I like to use a base color. So right now I have on Anywhere Caffeine Lip Liner and then I would recommend putting on a lip color that's like close to your natural color. Right now my lips are... I have pretty pigmented lips, so I don't need to put on anything right now, but I think this does look good with a base color. And then just patting this on. Now, I did glob it on in the demo to show you what it looks like so it could pick up on camera, but I'm not doing that on the daily because I actually don't like this globbed on the lips. I just like a subtle hint of this on the lips because it gives the prettiest, most subtle sparkle, which I think is natural, but also a fun play for the holidays. I think it's always fun to pick up a YSL lipstick because it feels like a treat. It's absolutely gorgeous to have in the purse. And I love this color. It's a little bit different than the rest of what's available in the YSL lip line. You know, it has that extra touch of sparkle that you'll see in the mirror. I've been loving this. I've got to be honest. And then I do have another sparkle lip color. This one I've been talking about, but it's unreal. It's unique. I don't have anything else like this in my collection, which is so, so important if you're going to shell out the money. It's very, very exclusive. It's limited edition. It's the Dior Rouge. From the new holiday collection in Glazed Peach. Don't even waste your time on the other shade that they have because this is the one and I have the other one. This one is so much better. It's going to be extremely underwhelming if I swatch. Like it gives a whole lot of nothing, but on the lips it gives the most pretty peach sparkle that it's like a balm, it feels like a lip balm, but it gives this glaze over the lips that is just. It's magical. It's enchanting. It's not too icy because you still have that peach color which isn't like blue icy grossness. It's so unique. I'm just gonna let the swatch speak for itself. It looks absolutely stunning with like a contouring nude kind of lip liner and it's hydrating. You don't feel the weight or the crunch of the glitters on your lips. It doesn't feel horrible. It feels like a lip balm that gives the prettiest holiday peachy glaze. As the name is, all over the lips. 100% worth it. I don't own anything like this in my collection. Now, if you know me, I'm such a gourmand girl when it comes to fragrance. This has hints of gourmand, but it's actually quite a mature perfume. But I've been very much enjoying this here from Miu Miu, of all places. Do they have a lot of fragrances? They have like... Three or four. Anyways, I really like this one. This is the Miu Miu Muatine Eau de Parfum with strawberry and vanilla. The notes of those are very, very subtle. This is in the floral fragrance family, which I'm not like a huge fan of, but you know what? I can appreciate it with this perfume. It's like a warm floral. Now the keynotes are wild strawberry, gardenia, brown sugar, and vanilla accord. All of those are quite subtle. I do get a... Heavy hint of floral with this, but I do smell that sweet twist, which I really like. So this is like my big business perfume that I've been enjoying on the daily. I love a little cupcake body spray type situation, but if I'm going out, I'm embodying like mature, independent woman, but who still likes a little bit of sweetness. I have been loving this. No, I'm not a fragrance influencer. You know, take my reviews with a grain of salt. Never buy a fragrance I recommend blindly. The point of my recommendations is to, when you see this, go into store and smell it because Morgan likes it a lot. But this is on the more mature side for me, if you identify with my fragrance preferences. But it's worth a smell. It's definitely like a special occasion fragrance and I've been really, really... Enjoying this one. I'm like hit or miss with luxury perfumes because a lot of them they're too mature for me So I am very very picky, but I really really enjoy this one quite a lot. I've let me just give myself a Light little wow It's so good. It's It's so good without being like too mature Anyways, there we have it you guys. Those are some of the luxury makeup favorites that I have been using a lot and I do really think are worth the money and I think that these stand out from what you can get at a lower price point. I think I can see and feel the money in these. The luxury experience is there and they're worth that little kick. Not so little kick up I guess you could say but anyways I'll have everything that I mentioned linked down below and again huge thank you to Ideal for sponsoring today's video. I will have a link down below to the pieces that I picked up as well as all the beautiful pieces that I have in my collection. I hope you guys enjoyed this video found it helpful and let me know if you want some more luxury makeup reviews. I'm definitely due for a walk. down Bloomingdale's or Saks or something just to look at the counters and what they have. I haven't been able to do that yet this year so I need to see these luxury launches in person for sure. So anyways, I hope you guys have a fantastic day. Have a good one. Delicious.