The Beauty Products Celebrity Makeup Artist Nam Vo Uses to the Last Drop

Existent Techniques brushes, NARS lipstick, and Tatcha mist.

Photograph-Analogy: The Cut; Photos: Retailers, Portrait courtesy of Nam Vo

Photo-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Retailers, Portrait courtesy of Nam Vo

Photograph-Illustration: The Cut; Photos: Retailers, Portrait courtesy of Nam Vo

On the Beauty Grouping , a Facebook community co-founded by the Cut and the Strategist , people chat all day long about the products they honey — the ones so skilful they'll make yous hit that little " motorcar-refill " box at checkout. Below, we asked one of our favorite dazzler pros to share her ain selections.

Nam Vo calls herself the "queen of glow jobs." She's known equally the makeup artist backside the "Dewy Dumpling" look, a technique that creates radiant and glowing skin, consummate with ultrahighlighted cheekbones that could rival fifty-fifty the nearly reflective dolphin skin. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Kylie Jenner, Michelle Phan, and Chrissy Teigen accept all become #DewyDumplings over the past few years.

But although her signature wait is all about makeup, Vo says information technology'south worth investing in your skin care start. "I could recommend the best concealers, the best foundations, the all-time coverage, and as a makeup artist, I could create the illusion of cute skin. I could handpick your makeup, and you lot'll look lit on photographic camera, simply rather than creating the illusion of cute skin, I say you take your money, your pennies, your stimulus check, and invest that in skin care."

Specifically, Vo wants y'all to consider what she calls the four pillars of bully peel care: microneedling, microcurrent, radiofrequency, and LED. "Microneedling helps with scars, and it helps to stimulate collagen. Microcurrent is similar working out a musculus. Like, I could do tricep and bicep curls and my muscles are going to lift and tighten, merely it's harder to get ahold of those muscles underneath your skin. I have a theory — if yous want to avoid Botox, and all those fillers, I say kickoff microcurrent every bit early on every bit possible. Only call up: It's not going to assist with pigmentation, and it's not going to help with texture," she explains.

Every bit for the other two pillars: "Radiofrequency helps stimulate collagen, and it's really tightening the skin. And lastly, LED — the Rolls-Royce of LED is the Celluma, and I'thousand obsessed with it. It helps to heal, it helps to regenerate, and it helps your skin to strengthen over fourth dimension."

Vo is the official makeup artist for Real Techniques, and she recommends its makeup sponges and brushes as an area where y'all can save money. "I'g commonly a picayune chip more bougie, just when information technology comes to brushes, virtually brands, even some of the high-luxe brands, are going synthetic in regards to animal cruelty. I love working with Real Techniques because it's a save-coin-honey product, simply they're really very well-crafted and very well-thought-out."

Below, she breaks downward more than of her essentials, including the $6 brush she always keeps in her kit, the SPF that doubles every bit a highlighter, and the texturizing pilus spray she's used for five years.

Real Techniques Sculpting Brush

"This brush is great for profile, foundation, foam blush — it'south so multipurpose and a staple in my kit."

 Peach & Lily Power Calm Hydrating Cleanser

"I similar this cleanser because it'south a lightweight gel that takes every ounce of makeup off, and it doesn't strip the skin. I know the founder, Alicia Yoon, and I really respect her product-development process. I use so many different oil balms and do double cleansing, so when it comes to the gel cleanser, I want to keep information technology really clean. In that location's no scent, it'south light, and does the chore. Information technology'southward but a really dainty deep cleanser."

NARS Velvet Matte Lip Pencil

"This is the perfect beige-nude. It brightens upwards any await. You could utilise concealer to neutralize the lip and create a bare canvas, simply I feel similar this has something spicy. Information technology's most like a hypernude peach — I bare out my lips with it, but information technology has a piddling bit of kick to it. I can practise a Popsicle lip on top or low-cal it with different colors, and information technology gives a really nice base. Information technology's not drying at all."

AMOREPACIFIC Vintage Single Extract Essence

"I've been using this for ages — I put it on my face up and my neck and chest, besides. It's a nifty antioxidant; it brightens the peel, it grabs moisturizer, and it's just overall a Dewy Dumpling staple. I know I am actually high-maintenance, and at that place's a large debate if people like essences, merely I've institute over the years that my skin drinks information technology up, and it makes my skin really spongy and plump. I also experience like information technology makes all of my serums perform better after I apply this. It'southward definitely a winner craven dinner."

Tatcha Dew Mist

"I've been using this for 10 years. It gives the skin a sheer veil of moisture and dewiness without looking greasy. It'due south well-nigh like liquid moisturizer, so no matter what await, I ever spray a little touch of this."

Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing Cream

"Another Dewy Dumpling staple. There'south something about this i — it's matte only glides on like butter, and it gives you a very beautiful, sheer glow. I feel like a lot of people are intimidated by foam bronzers and adopt powder bronzers, but I think cream bronzers look a lot more healthy and hydrating. If y'all use a nice synthetic castor and spread it on in a cute way, it's actually a lot easier, and it looks like it'south coming from the pare. Foam formulas blend with the skin and powder formulas sit down on summit of the peel. I don't think i is ameliorate than the other, simply my personal preference are cream bronzers and cream contours because I like everything to look flossy and skinlike. I often exercise cream and so practise powder, too."

Supergoop! Glow Stick SPF 50 PA++++

"I utilise this not but as an SPF but as a highlighter, and it gives you a dewy wait. Fifty-fifty if I'grand just running out the door and I don't have any makeup on, it gives a dewy expect to my pare. I am an SPF-crazy person, and I think I get this from my roots because my mother is also SPF-crazy. I grew upward in a family where we were more scared of dominicus damage than anything else. If I'm walking around NYC and getting sun exposure, I try to utilise every two hours. I go freckles near my eyes and on top of my cheekbones, so this stick is perfect for creating a dewy glow and protecting this area that I'm almost concerned about."

Real Techniques Complexion Blender Makeup Brush

"This brush is platonic for laying down foundation, blending foundation, as well as your bronzer and your contour."

Tom Ford Shade and Illuminate

"I love this considering information technology'due south a contour, simply it's dewy, and so there's ii colors. Together or separately, it's just the gift that keeps on giving — I can create more intense contour, I tin can apply as a bronzer, a highlight … the list goes on. I can't fifty-fifty remember how I heard about this product, just I take always been excited about everything Tom Ford launches. It has been a Dewy Dumpling staple for ages. "

Nécessaire The Body Wash

"I like this bodywash considering I'm not big on fragrance on the body, but information technology gives you lot this invigorated, fresh outburst of eucalyptus, and it feels really fresh and clean."

Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray

"This is probably the one pilus product I've been using the last five years consistently. It fluffs upwards the hair, it gives it texture, and information technology holds your curlicue. It does And so much."

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