I have been a makeup lover for as long as I can remember. It definitely started young, by playing in my mom’s makeup drawer…. and the rest is history! From that point on I loved experimenting with different makeup and techniques. I discovered Ulta a little over 6 years ago and instantly loved the store because it carried my favorite drug store products along with my favorite name brands. This month Ulta is celebrating their 25th birthday! S
I also wanted to share some of my favorite beauty products, that can all be purchased from Ulta! It has become my one stop shop for all of my beauty needs. I absolutely love the fact that Ulta carries so many brands within their store, but I have also come to appreciate the Ulta brand items as well, especially the price points! If I am wanting to try a new beauty trend, I often begin with the Ulta brand because I know the quality is still good, but it won’t break the bank if I end up not liking it on me!
1. Ulta Eyeshadow: I get extremely nervous about trying new eyeshadows, so when I do, I don’t want to spend a lot just in case I don’t like it! They have a great selection of eyeshadow and eye products. From experience, I have found their eyeshadow to be really good! it doesn’t fade after a few hours and it never creases on your eyelids.
2. Stila Stay All Day Foundation : This is a newer purchase of mine that I have really liked so far. it gives the right amount of coverage without looking caked on. I also like that the top has built in concealer, too. It comes with an application brush inside, so it’s great for travel as well.
3. BareMinerals Well Rested & BareMinerals Powder: I have been a long time fan of BareMinerals and these two are always in rotation. Both are great for sensitive skin and leave your skin feeling smooth & clean.
4. it! Cosmetics: This is another brand I have recently discovered and love! Again their products are very light and not heavy on your skin at all. There have been a few times I have fallen asleep with their makeup on and it has never affected my skin. I love using Bye Bye Pores Finishing Powder to get that overall finished look. I also love the Illuminating Powder to get that effortless glow. Using this brush will give you an evened out look.
5. Nail Polish: if you don’t already know, I am a nail polish hoarder (only half way kidding…) I could get lost in their nail section of the store!
6. Batiste Dry Shampoo: This is one of my favorite “cheap” dry shampoos. I like that it is affordable, since I use it every day. I also like that it comes in blonde and brunette formula, as well as their original formula.
7. Bed Head Curling Wand: I will be the first to admit I am not good with a curling wand at all. My hair ends up looks a hot mess when I attempt to style it with one. But, I picked up this curling wand not too long ago and it has worked really well so far, especially since I have layers throughout my hair.
8. Mascara: If there was one thing I always have to have on, it would 100% be mascara. I have naturally long eyelashes, but they are blonde at the tips, so wearing mascara really helps to define my eyes. My favorites are Better Than Sex, Lights Camera Lashes, and Lash Sensational. I also use an eyelash curler to give my lashes a more wide-eyed look.
9. Perfume: Along with everything else, Ulta has a huge perfume collection. I always go to them to purchase gift sets, my favorite scents (which are Versace Bright Crystal and Vince Camuto Fiori), and roll on perfumes to test out!
Thanks to Ulta Beauty for sponsoring this post. All writing and thoughts are my own.
Great giveaway I'd love to win –Hanna Lei
I love Physician's Formula's Shimmer Strips Custom Eye Enhancing Mascara Duo; great stuff.Elf's Mineral Primer is a daily must-have for me.
Like yourself, I have been a lover of makeup for as long as I remember! I love trying new brands/items (when the work out). There is nothing worse than spending a ton on a product and ending up not liking it!
Great giveaway! I like the brushes 🙂
Love Ulta!
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My tried and true's are L'Oreal double extend primer, Bare Minerals powder, and Jergen's natural glow lotion!
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Benefit's "they're Real!" mascara and the beauty blender are some of my favs! Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway! I love love the philosophy moisturizer and would definitely stock up!
I loveee Clean and Clear oil absorbing sheets! They are an essential part of my routine in the summer.
I love the BareMinerals Complexion Rescue
Love the Urban Decay Naked palettes!
Awesome giveaway! I have been a loyal fan of Two Faced bronzer and Urban Decay mascara for years. Thanks for hosting!
absolutely loving the ULTA quads! will have to pick some up asap xx
Jacksons Cup of Tea
I'm in love with Urban Decay Potion Primer
I always love new dry shampoo suggestions! I will definitely have to try this one!
Mascara! I have very short lashes so I have been using Younique and it makes a huge difference!
Tried and true beauty product that is my fav is the Benefit Cosmetics They're Real! Lengthening Mascara. It works wonders!
Thanks for the suggestions! I have been a loyal Ulta customer for quite some time, and have been looking to try out some new products, especially those that are healthy and beneficial for sensitive skin. We only get one skin, we have to treat it right! Fingers crossed to win a giftcard! 🙂
Thanks for the suggestions! I have been a loyal Ulta customer for quite some time, and have been looking to try out some new products, especially those that are healthy and beneficial for sensitive skin. We only get one skin, we have to treat it right! Fingers crossed to win a giftcard! 🙂
Better than sex mascara ?
Obsessed with ULTA! I cannot wait to try some of your suggestions.
i need some new foundation, so i'd love to use! long ago i discovered eye shadow primer, and it's a game changer! thanks.
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I'm actually in love with the MAYBELLINE Baby Lips Moisturizing Lip Gloss.
I swear by NYX lippies! Great color payoff, all the latest lip trends, and awesome prices!
Great giveaway!! My absolute favorite product is my Diorshow mascara. Absolutely amazing, never leave the house without it.
I always wear mascara, I love all Covergirl mascara's, and some concealer for any dark circles or spots!
The product I fall back on is Cliniques powders. It works for me and it is more affordable than many brands. Thanks for this giveaway.
I love anything from Tarte! Especially their waterproof bronzer!
I like Miisha's Aqua Peeling Gel.
I love Ulta products. My tried and true product is the Ulta regular nail polish remover pads. Great for travel and home. No more spills.
I love ULTA! It is like Target, I never leave without something 🙂 I always get my bare minerals from ULTA and I love their NYX selection 🙂
Awesome giveaway! I love naked palettes. 🙂 and brushes!
Urban Decay eyeshadow primer! It keeps everything in place!
Thank you for these product tips! I am interested in trying some of these!
I love anything from Bare Minerals! I am currently using the Complexion Rescue and it is amazing!
love all these products!!! Ulta is such a great place to get everything you need to make you feel gorg! 🙂
Thank you for sharing all of your favorites, I also love Vince Camuto Fiori
Love Ulta! I love that mascara and can't live without my Naked eyeshadow!
Thanks for the product recommendations! I love my local Ulta.
I love a good BB cream and concealer!
Would love to win! My favorite beauty products are Clinique's almost powder makeup and Nars blush!
Kate // This Side of Paradise
Ulta is my idea of Heaven and I get in too much trouble in there. I want to try more It Cosmetics products and I love the Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara too!
Louboutins & Lipstick
I love Rosebud Salve.
I find even just a little lip color goes a long way in sprucing up my look!
I really love the Ulta brand nail polishes. They're usually buy 2 get one free or something and they stay on as long as OPI
Bare Minerals all the way!
I love designer perfumes and the Maybelline Lash Sensational Mascara.
Maybelline cat eye mascara and it's a 10 leave in hair treatment
I love my Make Up For Ever HD foundation and Benefit bronzer!
Love Ulta!
I'm still trying to find my tried-and-true beauty products. Always trying new things but rarely stick with any particular products.
My favorite tried and true beauty products are the Better Than Sex mascara, Too Faced eye shadow palettes, and Revlon ColorStay foundation. Thank-you! 🙂
I love mascara, my favorite!!
Because I have such oily skin, I swear by Urban Decay Potion Primer.
I love Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara!
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Ashley C
MAC lipsticks
I can't live without Clinique touch base in canvas light as a primer for my eye makeup. And I love the Urban Decay Naked Pallet and Mary Kay Ultimate mascara.
Nail polish. ALL THE NAILPOLISHES!!! 🙂
I honestly love maybelline mascaras, can't beat the price either!
I love my bare minerals
I love Dr. Jart BB cream and it Cosmetics brow pencil!
I love They're Real Benefit mascara!
i love a good bronzer!
I like Kiehl's moisturizer.
Just some simple pencil eyeliner and black mascara (preferably Clinique or Urban Decay).
My tried & true makeup product is NARS Orgasm blush! I'll rotate to other blushes on occasion, but this one is always my standby!
~ Kim Pincombe Cole
Omg I have so many lol. Urban Decay perversion mascara, It cosmetics byebye undereye concealer or salma hayeks' line has a great concealer. I only use physician's formula bronze and blush because it's the only one who doesn't make me breakout! I do like tarte though even though I don't have much from them except the trial bronzer from ipsy! I also swear by Julep's get eye glider pencils for eyeliner- it's the only one I will wear! everyone asks me how I get my eyeliner on so straight or perfect and they are my secret lol. it goes on so smooth and stays!
I would so love to be one of the lucky 5! this is an amazing giveaway! i'm so glad I saw it on your IG post! I really need my hair colored and cut….have been trying to get it done since April but work and other things keep getting in the way and then when I do have a free moment, I don't have the money lol.
My tried and true product is Kevyn Aucoin's The Volume mascara. So good and effective!
My only real "staple" is Bumble & Bumble gentle shampoo. It keeps my hair looking gorgeous! Other than that, I jump around a LOT! lol.
I'm still on the hunt for a fabulous beauty product! I never really get the chance to try out stuff, so I never really know what's out there!
The Simple Cleansing Facial Wipes because it always cleans so well – shaunie
My wife loves bare minerals products
My wife loves bare minerals products
I love drugstore products! The Revlon ColorStay foundation & Covergirl LashBlast mascara are two products I wear every day and buy over and over again.
i love revlon photo ready concealer and my wet N wild cinnamon spice lipstick !
Any Bourjois Paris foundation.
LOVE IT Cosmetics BB Cream — after watching a thousand reviews on youtube I finally went for it and I am so glad I did, it is now my favorite foundation! Also love Benefit "They're Real" mascara. Every time I try and switch back to another (due to cost $$$) I end up re-purchasing later!
I love Maybelline BB cream and Benefit boxed powders/blushes!
-Lauren
http://www.prettypiecesblog.com
Neutrogena Oil Free Acne Wash and Benetint
No matter how many different brands I try, I still have yet to find a mascara that works as well as the Maybelline Great Lash mascara (the pink and green tube)…started using it it middle school and haven't found anything that works as well since then.
We love the Esse brand of nail polish the best. I also love any oil of olay, the scent is light.
that would be Bare Minerals. they have been my go to for years
~addrienne mertens
Maybelline BB cream
Burts Bees Eye cream is one of my favorites.
The BareMinerals Complexion Rescue
I like the Urban Decay Naked palettes!
I like the Urban Decay Naked palettes!
It's so hard to pick 1 favorite but I really like the Pacifica Illuminating Under Eye Brightener. It makes such a huge difference under my eyes!
Yes, I discovered Bare Mineral products and love every one I have tried.
Ulta has for sure become my recent addition. It's so bad but I find myself there every time I am in the area!!
Recently picked up the It Cosmetics concealer and it is bomb!
xo Mary-Katherine | Gold-Hatted Lover
Purity by philosophy. Thanks!
I'm a mascara girl through and through! Love more brands than I can count!
My favorites are bareMinerals matte foundation, NARS lip pencil in Rikugien, Kari Gran Lip Whip, Curly Hair Solutions Curl Keeper, and the entire NUDE Skincare line.
My favorite is the CND solar oil from Ulta.
This is a must if you have dry nails.
thank you
My favorite beauty product is Maybelline Great Lash Waterproof Mascara. I've tried very expensive mascaras but always go back to this one because it's easy to apply, doesn't get guncky, lasts without flaking, and it's a bargain.
My tried and true products are Revlon's Colorstay Whipped foundation and ChapStick's Dual-Ended Hydration Lock Day & Night, which keeps my matte lipstick from drying and flaking off.
Tara Woods
I love COVERGIRL LashBlast Volume Mascara and Color Burst Lip Butter in Candy Apple! Great products!
April C.
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My fav 3 tried and true products are: 1) cover girl concealer 2) estee lauder foundation and 3) josie maran blush/lipstick stick. davisesq212 at aol dot com
i have to go with my besame lipstick. it is amazing.
danielle marie xdanimarie(at)yahoo(dot)com
I like the Rimmel Sexy Curves Mascara Extreme. thank you!!
crystalfaulkner2000 at yahoo dot com
One of my favorite products is Palmer's BB cream. I also like Almay foundation.
My tried and true product is Urban Decay Potion Primer!
My three can't live withouts – Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray, Benefit Roller Lash Mascara, and Bobbi Brown's Skin Smoothing Pore Perfecter!
Lancome foundation – I swear by it!
I cannot leave the house without Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer. Even if its for the 6AM barre class, I have to have a little something on! Good luck with training, its all worth it in the end, and it gets easier every time!
benefit boing concealer and avon cherry lip balm!
I cannot leave the house without Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer. Even if its for the 6AM barre class, I have to have a little something on! Good luck with training, its all worth it in the end, and gets easier every time!
I love Urban Decay! Kimmy Ripley
Mary Kay Cream to Powder foundation is my favorite product.
My absolute favorite beauty products would have to be the Too Faced primed and poreless powder or the Laura Mercier secret brightening powder for under the eyes.
Olay moisturizer
aggiegrad02@gmail.com
Original Oil of Olay.
I like red lipstick
JOE GERSCH
JOEBISSY@mail.com
I like loreal lipgloss and nexus conditioner.
I love Benefit Hello Flawless Foundation and I love Lancome Eye shadow Palettes.
I love Physician's Formula Argan BB Cream and fake out mascara!
I love Mary Kay lipsticks.
Maybelline BB Cream, and Maybelline Black Mascara.
I love urban declay eyelid primer
I absolutely love their eye shadow pallets.
Laurie Emerson
lauraemerson17 at yahoo dot com
I'm lost without my eyeliner and mascara! 🙂
Mac foundation is my favorite.
I love MAC Fluidline liner – never have to worry about it smudging or disappearing before my day is over!
I love L'Oreal's hair color
I love aveda lipstick!
My favorite product is HD finishing powder by Make Up For Ever!
Cetaphil cleanser is my go to.
willitara [at] gmail [dot] com
Maybelline Great Lash–can't live without it.
I love Kat Von D Lock-It Foundation!
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I love and wear Nars Lip Gloss in Triple X everyday
i love bare minerals eyeshadow! thanks for the giveaway emily 🙂
I love Urban Decay eyeshadow.
I love my Neutrogena mascara and my Maybelline Baby Lips!
I have always love Maybeline Mascara, it plumps my eye lashes up nice.
My faves are witch hazel as an astringent & Physician's Formula bronzer.
I love better than sex mascara.
St Ives lotions and anything else paraben free!
Thank You for the giveaway…my teen daughters would love an Ulta shopping spree !