Top Picks: Must-Have Essential Products of 2024 Recommended by Josiah

What it is: A daily treatment pad w/ lactic and glycolic acids to safely and effectively exfoliate, tone, and brighten.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, and Combination

I love using this product to remove any dead skin cells and impurities on the face before going in with the proper skin prep.

What it is: A nature face mist to prep skin, immediately tighten pores & set makeup for dewy, glowing skin.

Skin Types: Normal, Dry, Combination, & Oily

I love using this mist before and after makeup application this helps with dullness, dryness, and uneven textures of the skin, it leaves the skin feeling hydrated and refreshed.

What it is: An oil- infused liquid serum formulated to deliver nourishment & 24- hour deep hydration for dewy skin that’s plumped with moisture.

Skin Types: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

I love this serum specifically for those who have really dry skin, this soaks straight into the skin leaving the skin feeling hydrated and healthy, the rose extract inside also helps with calming the redness on the skin.

What it is: A visibly age-defying moisturizer w/ hyaluronic acid to plump the look of skin and diminish the look of wrinkles, leaving your complexion visibly glowing and prepped for flawless makeup.

Skin Type: Normal & Dry

This product is amazing this formula floods skin with moisture, making it look plumper & smoother for a visible transformation rapidly and over time. I love its not over oily in the skin unlike most moisturizers.

What it is: A complexion booster that blurs, smooths, and illuminates for a real-life filter effect. Customize your glow with four ways to apply.

Coverage: Light

I love using this product because it can be used as a tinted primer, under foundation, mixed with foundation, or as a highlighter on high points of the face. The light-as-air formula moisturizes for up to 24 hours while smoothing and visibly brightening skin for a radiant finish.

What it is: A lightweight color corrector that visibly corrects, evens, and brightens the under-eye area with a crease-, sweat-, and transfer-proof formula that blends seamlessly

Coverage: Medium

I love using this because its a very creamy, comfortable, and sheer formula it visibly softens pigmentation and brightens the under-eye area. Peachier tones cancel out dark circles, veins, and hyperpigmentation to create even-looking skin or a blank canvas for other complexion products. Add 3 dots on the undereye and dot dark spots on the face!

What it is: A buildable, full-coverage foundation with up to 16 hours of lightweight, natural, fade-resistant wear.

Coverage: Full

I love this because it available in 34 skin-matching shades that fit all skin tones and undertones, this unique formula mimics skin’s natural tone, fusing with it for the closest match. The transfer- and sweat-resistant foundation stays color-true and fresh-looking all day long, while radiantly smoothing the look of skin. For the best result, apply to clean, moisturized skin without primer.

What it is: A medium coverage, weightless, clean foundation with fermented arnica that helps reduce redness and protects from environmental stress.

Coverage: Medium

Made with 20+ skincare ingredients, this proprietary formula delivers ultra-comfortable, longwear performance without compromising your skin. Its weightless, serum-like texture seamlessly blurs and smooths for a natural, luminous finish that wears all day. No slipping or caking.

What it is: A creamy, skin-like, medium-to-full-coverage concealer that visibly conceals, brightens, and lifts eyes and face, available in 30 waterproof shades with up to 16 hours of wear.

Coverage: Medium

This product is a skincare-infused concealer to improve the look of skin with each application. Designed with a doe-foot applicator for easy application, the lightweight and long-wearing formula visibly hydrates, brightens, and smooths the complexion.

What it is: A full-coverage, weightless, and waterproof concealer with microspherical powders that blurs and brightens for up to 16 hours of skin perfection.

Coverage: Full

This crease-resistant, light-reflecting liquid concealer blends seamlessly into skin and diffuses the look of pores and fine lines. The highly pigmented formula evens skin tone to conceal the appearance of dark circles, blemishes, and other imperfections for a smooth, natural, and airbrushed finish.

What it is: A viral duo compact of powder and cream blush formulas to achieve long-wearing bold color that melts into skin for a beautiful, radiant glow.

Finish: Radiant

This bestselling blush duo is inspired by Patrick’s viral cream-over-powder blush technique. The rich pigments blend together for a long-wearing skin-like finish to create a lit-from-within glow.

What it is: A modern way to sculpt the face, this cream-and-powder contouring duo effortlessly shapes and defines for a beautifully dimensional look.

Major Sculpt Creme Contour & Powder Bronzer Duo is a luminous cream-and-powder duo in complementary shades. The lighter creme shade shapes and defines while the powder finishes with a hint of warmth

What it is: A finely-milled blurring powder for all day wear, 24-hour shine control, and a soft matte finish. Available in four shades for all skin tones.

Smoothing and weightless, this sweat-proof powder controls excess oil and shine while blurring pores and texture for flawless makeup insurance. With a soft-focus effect, you'll always be photo ready with a no flashback, no white cast formula.

What it is: A lightweight, easy-to-apply, loose powder that blends effortlessly to set makeup for up to 16 hours of wear and 24 hour shine control.

This award-winning powder locks in makeup for long-lasting wear without adding weight or texture. It absorbs oil and reduces shine all day, creating a flawless, matte finish with no flashback in photos. These truly-translucent shades work on all skin tones, and create a soft-focus effect to subtly blur fine lines and imperfections.

Translucent is perfect for fair to medium and tan skin tones.

Translucent Honey is perfect for medium skin tones with olive and golden undertones.

Translucent Medium Deep is perfect for medium-deep to deep skin tones.

What it is: An ultra-fine setting powder that blurs imperfections and visibly reduces shine.

Coverage: Medium

This micro-fine powder gives you an immaculate complexion and doesn’t cake or sit in fine lines. Rose Wax and Almond Oil hydrate and smooth skin. Ideal for long-lasting complexion or a perfecting finishing touch. And you can now stay flawless because Airbrush Flawless Finish is refillable!

What it is: An ultra-slim, retractable eyebrow pencil ideal for outlining and detailing brows with professional-quality precision.

Features a perfect blend of eyebrow color and wax to deliver a high color payoff and add natural-looking texture and the appearance of a fuller brow. The ultra-fine tip mimics hair like strokes in sparse areas of the eyebrow, while the spoolie end blends for a natural-looking finish.

What it is: An all-in-one triangular-tipped retractable eyebrow pencil to define, detail and fill in eyebrows

Features three different-sized edges—ideal for versatility in application—and a soft, custom-built spoolie to perfectly blend for a natural-looking finish. Achieve hair like detail, shading, outlining, filling and defining with one multifunctional eyebrow tool.

What it is: A highly-pigmented brow gel with a long-lasting, waterproof formula for creating fuller-looking, defined brows—like DIPBROW® Pomade in a gel form.

This waterproof formula lasts up to 12 hours. The unique applicator allows color to be applied directly onto the brow hairs, as well as the skin, for a natural-looking finish. It’s available in 11 shades that match Anastasia Beverly Hills’ DIPBROW® Pomade assortment.

What it is: A clear gel with unstoppable hold to mimic the look of laminated brows.

For added fullness, Major Brow Lamination Gel can also be used either before or after your favorite brow pencil or pen.

What it is: A velvety matte eyeshadow palette that blends warm and cool nudes for ultimate versatility.

The shades in this palette can be worn alone or layered, blended, and contoured to create the most multi-dimensional looks that go from day to night. The cream bases allow you to really sculpt and intensify your eye looks. The shadows can be worn alone or layered over the bases for maximum depth and richness.

What it is: A versatile eyeshadow palette that contains two luminous cream bases, velvety matte and iridescent metallic eyeshadows, and glistening pearl toppers.

One of PATRICK TA’s signature techniques for creating his naturally contoured, glowing looks is to artfully layer creams and powders. The beautifully blendable shadows and creams in this collection allow you to create the most striking multidimensional looks with just one palette. Wear each shade alone or layer, blend, and contour to create the most multidimensional looks that go from day to night. The cream bases allow you to really sculpt and intensify your eye looks.

What it is: A first-of-its-kind neutral-toned eyeshadow palette with 12 creamy, buildable shades curated for every skin tone with a featherlight, matte finish.

A modern take on ‘90s neutrals, each shade strikes the perfect balance between warm and cool to create timeless looks. The Neutrals is the sister to the original bestselling Master Mattes® Palette, meticulously crafted to shape, sculpt, and enhance the eyes with superior grip for minimal fallout.

What it is: A mascara inspired by hair rollers, this super-curling and lifting mascara gives a sexy, wide-eyed look. Its patent-pending Hook ‘n’ Roll™ brush features tiny custom-designed hooks to catch, lift, and curl even short and straight lashes.

Roller Lash not only lifts and super-curls, but this instant curve-setting formula holds for 12 hours, is easy to remove, and contains provitamin B5 and serine, known for their lash-conditioning benefits.

What it is: A velvety, transfer proof, waterproof formula that lasts up to six hours without smudging feathering.

Lip Cheat Lip Liner creates a smooth, seamless line to resize and reshape for a fuller pout. The no-smudge, waterproof formula lasts up to six hours with no feathering or transferring. The texture is rich and velvety to layer comfortably on your lips. Wear alone or with a gloss for a lighter finish.

What it is: A precision dual-ended lip liner that defines, sculpts, and limitlessly shapes the lips to create the illusion of a fuller pout

This full-coverage matte formula is infused with emollients for extra comfort and does not feather or bleed. It also has lip-lock technology, which extends the wear of your lipstick, and contour-shape technology creates the ideal definition for any lip shape. The dual-ended brush blends and blurs color to perfection.

What it is: A moisturizing lipstick with a soft-satin shine and long-lasting, buildable formula.

This moisturizing formula leaves lips kissably cashmere soft with a satin-shine finish. It defines the contours of your lips, delivering a multidimensional, full-bodied effect—with no bleeding outside the lip line. It also has up to six hours (or more) of wear.

What it is: An ultimate, gotta-have-it lip gloss with explosive shine that feels as good as it looks.

This universal lip luminizer delivers explosive shine in six shades that flatter all skin tones. One swipe of Gloss Bomb’s XXL wand leaves lips looking instantly fuller and smoother. The non-sticky formula is super shiny, and has an addictive peach-vanilla scent you just can't get enough of. Rihanna was obsessed with creating the perfect gloss that makes you want to put it on over and over again.

What it is: A hydrating, alcohol- and oil-free spray that weightlessly sets makeup for up to 16 hours without melting, fading, or settling into fine lines.

From Charlotte‘s award-winning Airbrush Flawless Finish collection, this multitasking, lightweight spray provides the perfect canvas for makeup application and instantly locks in your look with a flawless, pore-blurring finish. It also features a delicate fresh floral scent.

What it is: A waterproof setting spray that gives skin an all-day matte finish.

With an aerosol spray application that is light as air and non-sticky, this formula sets full beat makeup with next-level hold for up to 16 hours. Featuring texture-solving ingredients to absorb oil and help tighten pores, the spray keeps the glam locked in with a blurred, flawless matte finish.

What it is: A bestselling, three-in-one transformative balm that softens, nourishes, and removes makeup, daily grime, and impurities.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

The rich balm melts into a luxurious oil when gently massaged into the skin, before transforming into a hydrating milk on contact with water. The unique formula effortlessly removes long-wear makeup, daily grime and surface pollutants, and deep cleanses and softens as a facial mask.

What it is: A pH-balanced, non-drying face cleanser formulated with antioxidants to gently yet effectively remove makeup, SPF, and excess oils that can clog pores.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Pores, Acne and Blemishes, and Oiliness

Healthy-looking skin starts with clean skin. This daily, gel-to-foam face cleanser removes makeup, SPF, and buildup in 30 seconds. It leaves skin looking soft, balanced, and glowing. The formula is suitable for single or double cleansing, for combination, acne-prone, and oily skin.

What it is: A milky, non-drying, cream-to-foam formula that thoroughly cleanses and gently removes makeup, leaving skin feeling hydrated.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Dryness

This three-in-one cleanser visibly minimizes pores, improves tone and texture, and plumps skin with hydration that lasts post-cleanse—even after rinsing.

What it is: A gentle, water-activated exfoliant of nourishing Japanese rice bran that transforms to a creamy foam for smooth, polished skin with a healthy-looking glow.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Pores, Dullness, and Uneven Texture

Classic: Silk Protein conditions and nourishes combination to dry skin

Deep: Japanese wild rose visibly tightens pores and clarifies the look of oily skin.

Gentle: Licorice root extract prevents flakiness and tightness in dry skin.

Calming: Japanese indigo soothes irritation of sensitive skin. "

What it is: A daily surface exfoliator that smooths skin texture, evens tone, and boosts luminosity.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Dullness and Uneven Texture

Hack: Also helps provide a healthier-looking scalp by significantly reducing dryness while hydrating the scalp skin.

What it is: An eye cream with ingredients like retinol to protect against signs of aging, reducing the appearance of wrinkles and brightening the look of dark circles.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles and Dark Circles

Visibly re-energize your delicate under-eye area with this magical cream. Powered by time-released retinol molecules, the formula works to visibly refine and resurface your skin for more youthful- and radiant-looking eyes. Its rich texture glides on to hydrate, soothe, and reduce the look of puffiness for a rapid, visible refresh.

What it is: A bouncy, weightless, fragrance-free gel water cream that immediately drenches the skin in hydration, refines the look of pores, and visibly reduces redness over time.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Dryness, Redness, Pores

This moisturizer achieves long-lasting hydration and visibly evens texture and tone for a glowing complexion. Perfect for all skin types, the gel-like formula delivers up to 100 hours of hydration with every application. Never heavy or greasy, it gives a glass-like, dewy skin finish for flawless makeup.

What it is: A next-generation super serum that visibly reduces multiple signs of aging with fast-repair and youth-generating power.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Dullness, and Loss of Firmness and Elasticity

Formulated with Chronolux™ Power Signal Technology, this fast-penetrating serum visibly minimizes multiple signs of aging by supporting the skin’s natural ability to repair and boost collagen. Up to eight hours of antioxidant protection defend against environmental assaults while high levels of hyaluronic acid lock in moisture for up to 72 hours, helping to optimize skin’s natural repair process. Skin is left looking smoother, less lined, more even toned, and more radiant and plumped with hydration. Over time, pores appear diminished

What it is: A leave-on lip mask that delivers intense moisture and antioxidants while you sleep with Berry Fruit Complex™, Murumuru seed and Shea butter.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines/Wrinkles, Dryness, and Dullness

This iconic, fan-fave pout perfector is a special intensive-care mask for lips. With nourishing Berry Fruit Complex™, Murumuru seed and Shea butter, this hydrating lip mask delivers intense moisture and antioxidants while you sleep for visibly smoother, baby-soft lips in the AM.