Makeup Madness Challenge 2023: Round 5 - Lip Liner vs. Face Primer

[TeamBIC]

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!

[curlychiquita]

I don't wear either very often but I'm going to go with lip liner Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Lip Liner Supersize Me 

[LCResz]

@TeamBIC Gotta go with lip liner ftw! I rarely wear foundation but I don’t like leave my lips bare, and lip liner definitely helps keep my lipstick going strong.   Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Lip Liner 

[eshoe]

This is going to be kind of boring, but liner and more specifically, Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat Lip Liner Pillow Talk. Kjær Weis Lip Pencil in Mauve is my other go-to.

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[Titian06]

@eshoe - The Kjaer Weis lip liner is about the color of my lips.  I may have to look into that one. 😁

[lliislame]

Face Primer and Foundation 

[sister13]

I am so torn! I am inclined to go lip liner, since I almost always reach for it and I really like and often need it for smooth lip lines. BIT, then I realized I wear my holy grail tarte Timeless Smoothing Primer 0.5 oz/ 14.2 g literally every day, with very rare exceptions, to fill in large pores on my nose. So, ugh, I think I have to go team primer on this one. Sorry dear lip liner! 💋💋💋

[cianni]

So far looks like I’m in the minority here, but absolutely team lip liner!! Lip liner gives so much definition (I do over line), and changes the tone of some lipsticks that makes them more wearable! I only recently got into lip liner, but it just elevates my entire makeup look. I feel unfinished without it now. Primer is also good, but I don’t use it nearly as much. I have a pretty extensive skincare routine that makes primer redundant on a regular basis.

some of my fave liners right now are the Jaclyn Hill Poutliners, MAC Cosmetics Lip Pencil , Buxom Power Line™ Plumping Lip Liner , Milani Easyliner for Lips and the Maybelline Lasting Finish lip liners

[lubmaz]

I think I can go without a lipliner, but primer is a must! I love so many primers, Huda Beauty Glowish blur jam is good for blurring the pores. Saie beauty starglow is a good glowy primer. Milk primer is good too, it has a tacky  feel that helps to grip your makeup.

HUDA BEAUTY Glowish Blur Jam Silicone Free Smoothing Primer 

Saie Mini Glowy Super Gel Lightweight Dewy Highlighter Starglow 

MILK MAKEUP Hydro Grip Hydrating Makeup Primer 1.52 oz/ 45 mL 

[kbrownnn]

I like both but have to go with primer! one of my favorites right now is NARS Radiance Primer Broad Spectrum SPF 35 Sunscreen 1 oz/ 30 mL 

[Titian06]

Definitely Team Primer!  I very rarely ware lip liner; and when I do, it reminds me why I don't.  😄  My current fave is Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Blurring Balm Powder Universal .  I've been testing a deluxe sample of Dior BACKSTAGE Face & Body Primer 1.6 oz/ 50 mL .  Aside from the scent, it's pretty nice.

[alexasteph]

Primer all day. My go to warm weather primer is Supergoop! Mineral Mattescreen Sunscreen SPF 40 PA+++ 1.5 oz / 45 mL 

[danielledanielle]

I could honestly vote either way, because I will do looks without either, but I do use face primer more so than lip liner.  Primer currently in rotation is MILK MAKEUP Mini Hydro Grip Hydrating Makeup Primer 0.33 oz/ 10 mL 

[arrecife]

Call me crazy, but lip liner. 

My makeup still looks good and holds without primer and just a post-wash toner, but my lipstick is a mess without lip liner. My go-to Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil Bad Blood , Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Lip Pencil Hex . Ready to cast an unpopular vote lol.

[Loretta55]

Face primer most definitely! My favorite face primer is ONE/SIZE by Patrick Starrr Secure The Sweat Waterproof Mattifying Primer 1 oz / 30 g .

[SportyGirly125]

@TeamBIC @Face primer Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat Blur Face Primer Blur Primer Gold I can go without lipliner 

[danielledanielle]

Saaaaaaame @SportyGirly125 

[TeamBIC]

We have results from Round 4 — EYESHADOW took the crown in a landslide victory! ✨ Thanks for tagging those favorites, BIC. 

Now we're coming back to a bracket pairing of winners from previous weeks: lip liner vs. face primer. What a matchup! Which makeup product are you voting for? 

[Buootiful]

Eyeshadow for me 😍. I almost veered to eyeliner. But, even though I have not been motivated to do an eyeshadow look, I love eyeshadow! I used this during the holidays as a quick pick-me-up: 

Close, but can't tag it, the Diamond of the First Water PAT McGRATH LABS Bridgerton MTHRSHP: Belle of the Ball Eyeshadow Palette  

[itsfi]

That's a beautiful palette @Buootiful! 

And if you were (hypothetically of course, because yes, team eyeshadow!) to veer towards eyeliner, which would be your favorite(s)?

[CarolBT]

I have debated long and hard about this, and I think I am landing in the LINER family!! Why? Because my eyelids are oily and it ends up smudging and looking like shadow anyway 😁  For this no makeup makeup gal, I like the Charlotte Tilbury Rock 'N' Kohl Eyeliner Pencil Smokey Grey ! It's very smudgy and almost veering into eyeshadow stick territory.