NEW 2021 Clean Beauty Review | MERIT BEAUTY Minimal Makeup Testing + Review

hi guys how are you all doing i hope 
everyone is fine and enjoying the summer  
or shall i even say fall or the last of winter 
if you’re in the southern hemisphere but i just  
wanted to check in before actually talking about 
this new brand like i keep mentioning i try my  
best to find and test out new and upcoming brands 
but somehow i don’t find too many that are those  
light minimalist makeup something just for that 
everyday wear but recently i noticed a brand  
that may be what i have been looking all this 
time now i don’t want to have high expectations  
but up until now at least with what i’ve been 
reading it is this less is more responsible  
luxury clean makeup and i’m all excited about it 
now i was so excited that i got the whole bunch  
so the makeup line includes about seven products 
the first is blush a mascara a brow pomade  
highlighter foundation and then there’s lip 
oil and i also believe there’s a brush for  
the foundation now since i have enough of those 
brushes and i can actually tell you it’s almost  
similar to this colourpop one so i didn’t get that 
and i also did not get the highlighting balm since  
it was out of stock when i was purchasing but 
the rest is going to be tested and ripped apart  
i hope not literally now i am going to quickly 
jump into some more aspects about

the brand
uh which is merit beauty but if you want to
jump right into the testing and the swatches i
understand that and i do that too so i will
insert a timestamp somewhere here on the screen
so you can quickly jump into that but if you
are going to continue here with me let’s talk
about this new makeup line which was i believe
launched in the jan of this year which is 2021
so this brand is vegan cruelty free the packaging
itself is recyclable so that is great it is
available on sephora but they also have their own
website through which you could get some discounts
now if you are a clean beauty makeup lover
it seems that this brand is supposed to cover
the entire spectrum of solutions one would
need which is why it had me interested
so it’s not supposed to be matte or super clunky
makeup but more of that natural skin like feel
as minimal as it can be so now that we have that
idea of what the brand claims let’s get into truly
testing it out so i do have my bare skin prepped
post a nice daytime skincare ritual and about that
if you are interested text me in the comments
below and i can definitely share my skincare
must-haves with that let’s start with the first
and most talked about product of this brand
which is the minimalist perfecting complexion
stick now the packaging is nice it has this matte
effect and it is very compact so let’s just swipe
a few times on one side of the face and let’s see
if it is the right shade for me you know i love my
salt new york mirror so i’m going to be using that
but if you are interested in a salt new york
review i will put up the link somewhere up here so
you can check that out as well so now let’s just
try a few swipes of this product on one side so
i’m gonna do the left side which is your right
and let’s see if this shade is the right color
okay i’m not so sure about the shade color
because it doesn’t seem to match very well i
am going to buff it into my skin with this
colourpop brush and let’s just start to work it in
okay so it is a light to medium skin tone and it
shows very little of the discolorations that i
have on my face i do have an older skin tone like
i say that thousand times so it does look a little
more yellow on my skin but i can definitely work
with it so you can definitely carry it around in
your purse for that i would give it three out
of five though the quantity does not do justice
to the cost let me finish the rest of my face and
come back for the blush but for now i am okay with
the foundation so after having applied the
foundation on both sides of my face i do realize
that the color is just a bit too light for me so
i’m going to have to need a lot more bronzing in
order to come back to my own skin tone but other
than that the coverage is growing on me it is
almost coming to a more light medium coverage
which is what i’m liking so maybe if they had
a shade right for me i would have probably bumped
it up to four but for now we’re at 3.5 out of five
so now that i’ve finished my full face let’s jump
into the blush so for the blush i got it in the
shade cheeky because if you know me you would know
that i love the rosy shades for that nice light
sunburn over the bridge of the nose kind of
look so let’s just try it on and as i try it on
it’s light and dewy as i swipe it on but not
very pigmented which is actually a good thing
because the blush you can control how strong
you want it to look and also it makes it easy to
move it around on the other hand though it would
also mean that this is not going to stay on for
long and i’m just hoping it can actually stay
on at least for me till the end of this video
one thing i have to report is that it is kind
of balmy so i wouldn’t call it glossy skin
but it does leave the skin a little dewy which
is good on its own but i would be worried
when i’m using it with powder it may not sit
very well now i do like to powder under my
eyes but for today i will try to powder my nose
just to see how it really stays on the blush
so because i have the blush over my nose right
now i’m just gonna powder it a bit and see if
it gets better or worse now i’m assuming that i’m
creating a mess on my nose but at least better for
me to do it than for you guys to test it out and
notice that there is a big issue okay so like i
was saying the powder did diminish the pigment
of the blush and with a heavy hand could make
it almost non-existent which is what i’m seeing
right now but i’m happy it did not create that
muddy situation with powder on cream that we were
expecting so for that i would probably give it a
three out of five for this blush now i’m not gonna
be sulking so let’s move on to the next product
and it is the brow pomade it’s called the brown
1980 volumizing pomade and it’s about 2.4 grams
and it’s supposed to give you those nice thick
fluffy brows that hold on to all day uh i got
it in the shade black brown and i truly truly love
the packaging it’s the sleek clean and it’s almost
disguising the name of the brand but you can still
see it here in the monochrome merit written on the
bottle so it does have a nice wand and
i’m going to zoom that in for you guys
but as i was looking into the promotional video
the brand does encourage taking the wand first
downwards and then upwards to really coat that
brow well so i am going to do just that um but i’m
only going to do it one side of my face so you can
really see the difference in so can i of whether
there’s any effect of this brow pomade because
as i pulled this wand out i do not really see a
lot of product on the bristles and it does make
me a little wary of the quantity of the product
wow okay so we can really review it with just one
brow done because this is getting very close to
a 4.5 out of 5 since i’m liking the clean shape
that it has given my brows but it’s also not too
clunky it does coat it very well and the pigment
really matches my natural hair shade which is why
it truly lives up to that minimalistic
look expectation okay so since the brows
really make me happy i am excited to jump into the
next product which is this mascara it’s called the
clean lash lengthening mascara and i did apply
a light eyeliner and curled my eyelashes to get
them ready for this mascara so let’s just open
this up so here is the mascara it has a very nice
long wand and let’s just apply it on the lashes
and let’s see how it works okay so as you can see
from my lashes it does deliver and absolutely
that’s true i think i have found probably the
perfect mascara that i could wear almost every day
and let me be frank i am not one to enjoy those
heavy mascaras that coat the eyelashes but also
deposit a lot of pigment and really make it clumpy
and i’m not sure what the texture of the product
is here but it does live up to its name and the
clean game is actually spot on i do like
the separation in my lashes and the subtle
lift especially where i reapplied it now for that
i will probably give this one a 4.5 out of my
5 rating now last but not least is this shade
slick tinted lip oil and i got this one in
the shade sangria i chose this as a minimal look
really demands a bold and beautiful lip and that’s
what i was going for it has about 7 ml of the
product and if you just look at the packaging here
and let’s just pause and take that in completely
because it’s absolutely beautiful so i do see
that this lip oil it has grape seed oil and jojoba
seed oil which is great and let’s read about the
product so it is a wash of sheer color rich with
rose hip and grape seed oils for healthy and never
sticky lips uh and that’s something i was going
for my my i am loving the lips and i’m hoping
i’m not transferring it on my teeth but i don’t
think you would disagree it definitely flatters
my olive skin tone and may also double as a blush
if the real blush does not pay off and i know
you know that i am going to give this a 5 out
of 5 rating and that basically means that the
packaging the pigment the texture the quality
all stand out i am happy i got this shade and
if you like this too let me know in the comment
section below but that is all for this video i
am overall enjoying this brand and i will truly
look forward to seeing more of their products
as it really grows and it may just be their
beginning now that’s all folks for this married
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