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On this week's episode of Beauty With MI, host Mi-Anne Chan puts a full face of NARS makeup to the 12 hour test. Just in time for Valentine's Day, she sees how these products will hold up when going from desk to date. Watch this episode to see if NARS makeup is date worthy!

Products Used:
Nars Natural Radiant Longwear foundation in Fiji $49: http://fave.co/2s5MHp0

Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Custard $30: http://fave.co/2sawKhj

Nars Blush Duo in Hot Sand/Laguna (Minnie $24) $42: http://fave.co/2nED38q

Nars Dual Intensity Blush $45: http://fave.co/2s8lJwV

Nars Highlighting Blush in Albatross $30: http://fave.co/2nD33Rd

Nars Duo Eyeshadow in Hammamet $36: http://fave.co/2scga0w

Nars Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner in Via De’Martelli $26: http://fave.co/2nDLMaM

Nars Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner in Via Appia $26: http://fave.co/2nDLMaM

Nars Velvet Matte Lip Pencil in Never Say Never $27: http://fave.co/2nFQtAV

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Transcript
00:00This fella retails for 46.
00:02Retails for 46.
00:07No!
00:08Hey guys, it's me, Ian, and this is Beauty With Me.
00:11Valentine's Day is just around the corner,
00:13and today I have a very fun 12-hour wear test planned for you.
00:17I'm going to wear an entire face of NARS products.
00:20I'm going to test it all day.
00:22I'm going to The Lion King later with Colin, my boyfriend.
00:25It's going to be a nice little pre-Valentine's Day date.
00:27So I'm going to start with foundation naturally,
00:29and I have a very exciting new launch from NARS.
00:33This is the brand new Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation.
00:37It's supposed to last a purported 16 hours.
00:41We shall see.
00:43Pretty pricey, it comes in at $49,
00:45but I tend to really like NARS face products,
00:48so I'm pretty excited to try this one.
00:50In all of NARS foundations, I'm Fiji.
00:54It is catching a little bit on the dry patches on my nose.
00:59On my cheeks and chin and forehead, it looks really great.
01:03Alright, so on the skin, I think it applies really well.
01:06I think it looks really natural in most of the places of my face.
01:09Again, the only place I think it's catching is around my nose,
01:12but I just got over being pretty sick,
01:15so my skin on my nose is still kind of healing.
01:18I think One Pump really did a good job of evening out my skin tone.
01:23Concealer-wise, I have the classic NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer.
01:26This is the little mini version, which is really great for travel.
01:29And I'm just going to put that around my eyes and on top of some blemishes.
01:33So I love this concealer for under the eyes because it just blends so beautifully,
01:37especially when you use a beauty blender with it.
01:39So moving along into bronzer, and I have this really cute mini of NARS Laguna and Orgasm.
01:47So NARS Laguna over here is NARS' iconic bronzer,
01:52and then Orgasm is the brand's iconic blush.
01:54So I'm going to use Laguna because I do really love this shade as a bronzer and just a very
01:59subtle contour.
02:00I'm brushing this in the classic three motion onto my cheekbone, on my forehead, under my jaw.
02:09Bronzer always patchier on my left side! I don't understand!
02:13Will you guys let me know in the comments, again, even though I've asked you this before,
02:18if you have a better cheek when it comes to applying bronzer?
02:22Because I just don't know how to fix it.
02:25Like, this left side's always patchier.
02:28I'm going to go into blush now.
02:30This is my beloved NARS Dual Intensity Blush in the shade Sexual Content.
02:35This was a limited edition shade, but it is my favorite NARS. Please bring it back!
02:40It is a well-loved product.
02:42Now this is limited edition, as I said.
02:44There are a few other shades of Dual Intensity Blushes that I think can give you a similar effect.
02:49One of which is Fervor, and the second of which is Panic.
02:52The way that I like to use these is swirl the two shades together.
02:55And I usually try to hit the apple of my cheek and then sweep up.
02:59When I think about, like, a little bit from within glow, I think of this blush.
03:04I have a very exciting highlighter here.
03:07This is NARS Albatross.
03:10Right off the bat, I'm seeing it, but it's not super, like, in your face.
03:15And actually, on the cheek, it looks much more warm.
03:19In the pan, it looks so almost white on the cheek.
03:22It's, like, gold.
03:23It's really picking up the light really, really beautifully.
03:27Ooh!
03:30So I'm going to, as per usual, prime one eye and not prime the other eye,
03:35so that we can see how the products wear on their own and how they wear with a primer.
03:38Putting that onto my lid.
03:42Eyeshadow-wise, I have an eyeshadow duo that I really like.
03:46Like, I actually travel with this one a lot if I don't want to bring a full palette.
03:49This is the NARS eyeshadow duo in Hamamet.
03:53And sadly, this is also limited edition.
03:56I don't know why all of my favorite NARS products are limited edition, but it is beautiful.
04:01It has this, on the left side, there's a beautiful kind of rosy bronze.
04:06And then on the right side, there's this really pretty pale peachy brown cream.
04:13It's gorgeous.
04:14These are colors that are actually really similar to NARS Silk Road, so if you want to find that one.
04:19It looks kind of like Bor-Bor in the pan, but I just really love it to build it up
04:25and create a very natural crease.
04:26So you can do this to define your eyes and then just put a lot of mascara, and sometimes I'll
04:30just do that.
04:31But I'm going to do a little bit more, and I'm going to put this shade on the left all
04:36over my lid.
04:37Eyeliner time.
04:38I usually go for a liquid eyeliner, but I was thinking of going with something a little bit softer today.
04:43So I am going to be using the NARS Larger Than Life Longwear Eyeliners.
04:48So I think I'm going to go with a mixture of this matte brown and this bronze.
04:56All right, and this is as good as it's going to get.
04:59As you can see, I am not using a NARS mascara right now.
05:01This is a Shiseido waterproof mascara.
05:03NARS actually doesn't have a true waterproof mascara in the line.
05:08I'm going to let my lashes dry before I move on to anything else because I am one of those
05:11people.
05:12I will not let my mascara dry.
05:14I'll close my eye or something and there will be mascara all over my face.
05:17So it's less dry.
05:18And now on to, in my opinion, the best part, the cap to any makeup look, the lips.
05:26So I have two lipsticks here from NARS.
05:28These are the Velvet Matte Lip Pencils.
05:31Classic lipsticks from the line.
05:32They are supposed to be very long-wearing.
05:34So let's go with Never Say Never, this lilac-y pink.
05:38So I love these lipsticks.
05:39Because I have so many of the shades at home.
05:41But the one thing that I do think is a little bit of a hindrance is the way that it's
05:46packaged.
05:46This cap, if you don't secure it very tightly, it can fall off in your bag.
05:52And that's it!
05:57I'm a big fan of the makeup so far.
05:59We'll just see how it wears.
06:01It is noon right now.
06:02I just had my lunch.
06:04So we'll see how this goes, how this works throughout the day.
06:08I'm going to go to the show, as you know.
06:10I'm probably going to have a few snacks in between.
06:12I'm going to carry the lipstick with me, just because I have to do any touch-ups.
06:15But everything else, we're going for it with the makeup.
06:18So I'll check in with you later on today, post-Lion King.
06:22And we will see how this is holding up.
06:25Bye!
06:26Hey guys!
06:27I'm here with Colin.
06:28What's up?
06:28And we are about to enter the theater to watch The Lion King.
06:35Makeup is looking, skin-wise, looking really good.
06:38It was getting a little bit oily toward the end of the day.
06:40It's around 6 o'clock now.
06:42I just left work.
06:43The side with the primer is holding up really well.
06:46Shadow-wise, it's still there.
06:48On the side that I didn't prime, the shadow is creasing a lot.
06:53But the eyeliner actually is holding up on both sides.
06:56So 12-hour wear, pretty good.
06:59I think that the bronzer is fading a little bit.
07:02I think that this foundation is not matte and my skin is very oily.
07:08I think it would benefit from a little bit of powder right after application.
07:11But otherwise, I think the makeup still looks pretty good.
07:14I'll see you guys at midnight.
07:15Hey guys!
07:16We are back from the show.
07:17My face, you know, foundation-wise, I think that it's covering pretty well still.
07:23It's starting to show a little bit around my jawline.
07:27But otherwise, I think the coverage held up.
07:30It's starting to look a little bit oily.
07:32Like, I would definitely blot.
07:33If you're not oily, I think you'll love it.
07:34The finish is beautiful.
07:35It gives you a really dewy look.
07:38But personally, for me, toward the end of the day, I did get a little bit too oily.
07:42So I'd give it a little blot.
07:43So as you guys know, I wore primer on the left side and I didn't wear primer on the right
07:46side.
07:47But I think that they both held up pretty much equally as well.
07:50I think that the wing might be a little bit more crisp on the side that I wore primer.
07:54But other than that, it's not creasing the eyeliner.
07:56It still looks very, like, opaque.
08:00It still looks good.
08:01I'm getting a little bit of smudging on the bottom of my lids.
08:03But that's because at the end of The Lion King, I kind of cheered up a little bit.
08:06When they did the reprise of Circle of Life.
08:10But anyway, the eyeshadow is pretty nice still on the side that I primed.
08:16It's starting to crease just a touch toward the inner tear duct.
08:18But on the side that I didn't prime, it's creasing quite a bit.
08:23But what can you do?
08:25Not much when you have eyelids as oily as I do.
08:29Lipstick, in love.
08:30I love the color.
08:32I love how it feels.
08:33It doesn't feel dying.
08:34It didn't catch on any, like, dry patches on my lips.
08:38It stains so beautifully.
08:40Like, so nicely that I actually didn't even feel like I had to reapply earlier today.
08:45But I did just to see how it applied over itself.
08:48Which it did really well, by the way.
08:50The Laguna is still there.
08:52The blush, I think, has diffused quite a bit.
08:54Highlighter, I still think, is pretty popping.
08:57But other than that, it was good.
08:59Good.
09:00Pretty good test, I think.
09:01I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
09:02Let me know in the comments if you would buy anything.
09:05Or what your favorite product from NARS is.
09:07I will catch you guys next week.
09:09Bye!
09:09Thanks so much for watching, guys.
09:10I hope you enjoyed this video.
09:12Let me know what you guys want to see next on Beauty With Me in the comments down below.
09:15And click here to subscribe to Refinery29.
09:17And click here to watch more videos.
09:19Bye!
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