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Makeup Madness Challenge 2023

It’s March, and here in the BIC that can only mean one thing… 🥁… It’s time to celebrate the anniversary of one of our favorite activities: MAKEUP MADNESS! Yes, we’re bringing back this fan-favorite challenge for the third year in a row, where our beloved makeup categories go head-to-head in the ultimate showdown to earn the crown of Community Champion. 👑

This year, we’ve retired our previous winners – Mascara (2021) and Lipstick (2022) – and brought in a mix of some new and old categories to face off in some fierce competition. It’s up to YOU to vote on the winner … and share some tried-and-true beauty recs along the way (that’s what we’re really here for, after all). 😉

Don’t know how to play? It’s easy! TO VOTE, hit the reply button below and tell us which category you’re voting for AND tag a product you love that represents the category you’re voting for during that week. For example, @GeorginaBT loves a tingly lip moment, so she might reply with “Lip Plumper! My new fave is Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Gloss Bomb Heat Universal Lip Luminizer + Plumper Hot Chocolit."

Let the games begin! Each new round of voting starts Fridays, and ends the following Thursday at 2pm PT:

ROUND 1 (3/3 – 3/9): Lip liner (👑) vs. Lip plumper
ROUND 2 (3/10 – 3/16): Face primer (👑) vs. Setting spray
ROUND 3 (3/17 – 3/23): Foundation (👑) vs. Tinted Moisturizer
ROUND 4 (3/24 – 3/30): Eyeshadow (👑) vs. Eyeliner
ROUND 5 (3/31 – 4/6): Lip liner vs. Face primer ◀
ROUND 6 (4/7 – 4/13): ??
FINAL ROUND (4/14 – 4/20): ??
CHAMPION REVEALED (4/21): 👑???

Hit “Reply” below and vote for your favorite product in this week’s round, use the “#” sign to tag a specific one you love, then check back for the results and the next round of voting!

missjeanie

While I do have both in my stash... I full on support team #tinted moisturizer. The last few years of all the skin tints and tinted SPF's comgin out in a wider shade range and from more companies has made my heart happy and my wallet lighter. I don't think I have one specific favourite. But my current rotation... NARS Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer Kosas Tinted Face Oil Comfy Skin Tint Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint Summer Fridays Sheer Skin Tint with Hyaluronic Acid + Squalane Tower 28 Beauty SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation MILK MAKEUP Sunshine Skin Tint Clean Foundation Clarins UV PLUS Anti-Pollution Sunscreen Multi-Protection Tint SPF 50 Light and MAC Cosmetics Studio Radiance Sheer Face & Body Foundation

kbrownnn

this is hard because I really love both but I have to go with foundation! I have a few favorites that I rotate through but lately I really like NARS Light Reflecting Advanced Skincare Foundation Vienna

lmaster

HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA Triclone Skin Tech Medium Coverage Foundation with Fermented Arnica 100 Light... SEPHORA COLLECTION Best Skin Ever Liquid Foundation

JoSometimes

These are some great picks @lmaster! I love both of them!

lmaster

@JoSometimes they are fabulous!!

alerum

Team tinted moisturizer!! i know people need more coverage from day to day, but i HATE the look of foundation on my face, I haven't been able to find a good foundation, and everything creases and turns cakey for me! Tinted moisturizer always gets the work done!

Current fave tinted moisturizers:

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40 Foundation Formosa ST4

Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint for Dewy Sheer Coverage G6

Mellmars1185

My vote goes to foundation. I wear it almost every day. I like tinted moisturizer. However, I like having more coverage. Currently, I am using Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Perfect Glow Flawless Oil-Free Foundation . I want to try KVD Beauty Good Apple Full-Coverage Transfer-Proof Vegan Serum Foundation next.

JoSometimes

Definitely Team Foundation but mostly because I haven’t tried a tinted moisturizer before. I’ve only ever tried foundations that were formulated to also keep some hydration in my skin. Currently liking SEPHORA COLLECTION Best Skin Ever Liquid Foundation.

If anyone has suggestions for tinted moisturizers to try out that play nice with eczema and are easy on the wallet, I’d be willing to give them a shot some day.

CynthieLu

I've used a few tinted moisturizers (all of them have spf) but they are expensive @JoSometimes I am quitting my Elisabeth Arden tinted sunscreen, no matter how much I love it, it's too pricey to continue. If you find a friendly one that's a good price, please share 😉

niki172

I got to go with foundation on this one @TeamBIC - unfortunately you guys don't carry my Chanel foundation (Les Bieges super dry skin friendly). But I do like the coverage of the MAKE UP FOR EVER HD Skin Undetectable Longwear Foundation

SFBayarea415

Team foundation! NARS Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation

lnum

I could never use a tinted moisturizer in place of foundation when I need to go to an event, but I can always wear a light coverage foundation when I don’t need a lot. Foundation is more versatile for me personally. My favorite at the moment is Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Perfect Glow Flawless Oil-Free Foundation .

LCResz

@TeamBIC I’m team foundation, but like many have commented it was a tough choice!

PAT McGRATH LABS Sublime Perfection Foundation

Cissy63

I am voting Team Foundation. Even though it’s coming into the time of year I usually wear a skin tint.

But most of the time it’s foundation. I need the coverage it provides.

Right now my best favorite one is

Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Longwear Foundation 3cool

WinglessOne

Now see, "Tinted Moisturizer" is an unfair category because it includes a lot of tinted sunscreens that are SPF 30+ and contain at least one good moisturizing ingredient. (By "tinted," I mean a tint that's actually visible on skin, not a tint that's just meant to hide zinc oxide's white/grey cast and not be super evident on skin.) I quit liquid/cream foundation a few years ago. But I still use powder foundations to tame a sunscreen's shine or cast, or just to blur the lines between my skin tones, so I can't quickly write off the whole "Foundation" category. Plus, there are skin tints containing little (below 30) or no SPF that can count as Foundation, like Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint which I've tried a few times.

So now I'm trying to decide what I use more often: tinted sunscreens or powder foundations. I rotate through many sunscreens all year, and most of them are not tinted. And I apply powder foundation over the super shiny or very white/grey-cast ones. The more I talk through this, I think my vote has to go to:

Foundation. And it pains me a bit to write that.

Sephora US doesn't sell some of my favorite powder foundations, but a very recently discovered love is SEPHORA COLLECTION MicroSmooth Baked Powder Foundation .

CynthieLu

@WinglessOne it was a real tough decision between this two, i had to really debate with myself to make a choice. I wonder who's going to win this week 🫣