Main Street Prep: Kylie Jenner Cosmetics Review

I talk a little bit about beauty on here and love sharing all of my recommendations. My favorite part of my morning routine is doing my makeup. It gets me ready for the day, calms me down and allows me to focus on something trivial that also makes me feel good! Now, I'll just say right now that I love the Kardashians. Love em' or hate em', you can't deny that all of them are highly successful business women. As soon as Kylie announced she was releasing a matte liquid lipstick line last year, I knew I had to have one. Since the start of Kylie Cosmetics, I've acquired two matte lip kits, the dark bronze Kyliner kit, and the bronze Kyshadow palette. I really enjoyed testing out all four products, so I thought I would tell you what I like and don't like about each item.

1. LIPKITS

Color: Kristin

Formula: Matte

Availability: In-stock

What It Comes With: Matte liquid lipstick and matching lip liner

Price: $29

Rating out of 5 stars: 4.5/5

As soon as I saw Kristin on Kylie in this picture, I knew I needed it. The strawberry pink color looked so good with her skin tone, and I only hoped it would look as good on me. I actually got Kristin the day it was released, so I was super excited. I anxiously awaited my package which took a good week since demand was so high for the product. When I first tried Kristin on, it definitely looked different on me than Kylie. However, I love it!!! The color is a little darker than how it photographs (I think you can get a more accurate swatch of the color on the line's Instagram page, but the editing on this photo that I saw definitely made it look a little pinker/brighter). The color is described by her website as "a warm brown berry." This is pretty accurate- a pink shade with brown/mauve undertones. The best part about the lip kits is that they stay on forever. I was able to get through three meals without the entire thing wiping off. There was a little that came off in the center of my lips, but I quickly just swiped another coat on without even looking in the mirror and I was good to go. You never have to re-line your lips or carefully reapply the lipstick ever during the time you're wearing it. The application is a little tricky- be careful because the color is highly pigmented. Any time you accidentally go outside of your lips, it's going to be hard to fix. With that said, the lipstick is difficult to take off. I used miscellar water on a cotton round to take off her lip kits after a long day, and it does the job after a solid minute of scrubbing. Maybe miscellar water isn't the best option to remove an intense lip color, but that's what I use! One little thing to note: while it's not a huge deal, the lipsticks do dry out your lips a little big because they are extremely matte. It's nothing crazy, just make sure you moisturize your lips before and after with some vaseline.

Color: Candy K

Formula: Matte

Availablitity: In-stock

What It Comes With: Matte liquid lipstick and matching lip liner

Price: $29

Rating out of 5 stars: 3/5

Candy K was the first ever Kylie product I purchased, so it's close to my heart. It looked like such a beautiful nude on Kylie, so I ordered Candy K for me and Dolce K for my sister as a little present. Maybe it's just because I have fair skin, but Candy K is most definitely not the neutral nude I thought it was. It looks very dark on my lighter skin and I tend to only wear it out at night, or when I have light makeup on the rest of my face. This is not to say that I don't love the color, because I do. It's just more of a statement lip than an every day color. I think they were marketing it as a really wearable nude (when in fact it's not), so that is the reason I gave it a 3/5. Other than that, my comments on formula and texture are pretty much the same as Kristin (the color of which I like better than Candy K). To my knowledge, all of her lip kits have the same ingredients but different pigmentation.

2. KYLINER

I swatched this in my bathroom in natural light

Color: Dark Bronze

Formula: Creamy

Availability: This particular color longer sold

What It Comes With: Eyeliner pencil, gel eyeliner pot, angled eyeliner brush

Price: $36

Rating out of 5 stars: 4.5/5

I stopped wearing black pencil eyeliner a good three or four years ago because lining your waterline with black is very intense/not good for every day wear. Black on my waterline makes my eyes look very small and narrow- I don't like it! The only time I'll do black liner nowadays, is if I'm doing liquid liner on my upper lash line. I exclusively only do soft browns on my waterline now- it opens up my eyes and creates a softer, smokey eye. This eyeliner shade is gorgeous. It's a cool brown with little flecks of gold and bronze in it. I didn't actually realize what came with the Kyliner kit until I got mine in the mail (again, I also got this product the day it went on sale). It contains 3 products: a creamy eye pencil, a glass gel eyeliner pot, and a small angled eyeliner brush. I was pleasantly surprised! The $36 dollars made more sense to me, because you're essentially getting three things in one package (this would make each item in the kit around $12, which is still a little pricy). The texture of the pencil and gel liner is amazing. The pencil glides smoothly onto your lid and feels nice on your waterline too (many eyeliner pencils are too pointy and I end up poking my eye out, haha). The gel is amazing when applied carefully with a good brush. I used the brush that the kit came with to try it out for the first time, and it sucks. The bristles are prickly, not of good quality and don't smoothy apply the liner. It came up really choppy and messy when I tried to use it, and I'm actually pretty good at applying eyeliner. Once I switched over to a professional angled brush, the application was perfect and the liner looked amazing. Therefore, I don't think the $36 price tag is worth it. The brush that comes with the kit either needs to be eliminated in order to lower the price, or they need to upgrade the quality of their company's brushes! The brush is the only reason I gave this product a 4.5/5- other than that, the eyeliners themselves are stunning and they don't slide off your lid as the day/night goes on.

P.S. You can no longer get this product because it was from her exclusive birthday collection, however I'm sure the new brown and black eyeliners are just as fabulous!

3. KYSHADOW

Color: Bronze palette

Formula: Mostly matte powders, with a couple of shimmery colors

Availability: Currently sold-out

What It Comes With: 9 pressed powders

Price: $42

Rating out of 5 stars: 5/5!

Ah, I saved the best for last! I don't think I've ever been so in love with an eyeshadow palette, ever. I'm very picky about the eyeshadows that go on my lids. I used to be crazy and experiment with hundreds of different colors (blues, pinks, reds, purples...) and looked insane. Now that I've refined my makeup skills, I know what works for me and what doesn't. I have really blue eyes, so bronzy/orangey browns make them pop! I've searched long and hard for a palette that has literally every color I need and also has the perfect shades for my eyes. I found those things in this palette. I feel like it was made just for me! Seriously though, getting my hands on this thing was a real process. I went online right as it went on sale every week and finally got one on the fourth week I tried. This s*** sells out really fast! But, it was totally worth the wait and stress of buying it. Every single color in it looks amazing on me AND every other person I've used the palette on. There is a really out-there orange, but if you use it right (and with a light touch), it creates the most beautiful subtle halo of light around your eyes. I also love that since there are nine colors, the number of looks you could create are endless. I do the lighter colors during the day for subtle enhancement, and use all nine at night for an intense smokey eye. My favorite colors from the palette are: Quartz (a shimmery champagne), Citrine (a matte bright orange), Bronzite (a matte chocolate brown), and Topaz (the perfect matte taupe). After I got the palette, I followed the steps in this video to achieve the same look as Kylie and it turned out looking really good. I recommend watching it if you're not sure where to start with the palette. Her makeup artist's recommendation for which colors to use where is how I normally do my eyes with it, but I've also started branching out and creating my own color combinations too. Last thing about this palette: the pigmentation is freaking unreal. All you have to do is literally dab your brush for one second onto a color, and already you have too much. What's good about that, is you can build the color up to be as intense or as light as you like! I've never seen anything so pigmented in my life... even the Naked palettes don't hold up to this standard (I said it). This is officially my favorite palette I've ever purchased, and I know I'll be hitting pan on this one way before all my other eyeshadows. This product deserves a 5/5 and I will continue to recommend it for anybody looking to buy a great neutral palette.

Below are some photos I took of A) the colors swatched on my arm and B) close ups of all the colors (there are only nine colors so don't get confused by seeing sixteen different powders... I did repeats in each photo so you can compare them!).