The Best Rare Beauty Products That Allure Editors Are Obsessed With

Senior commerce writer Sarah Han is a fan of the Liquid Touch Weightless Foundation, which blends out like a dream and has the feel of a serum-like, skin tint sort of situation. The main difference, however, is that the lightweight formula is easily buildable up to medium coverage, which is perfect for concealing areas of redness and dark spots. The sizable, doe-foot wand makes application a total breeze, too. Just shake the bottle and dot the pigment as needed. If you don't mind getting your hands a little messy for a few seconds, you can blend and tap the formula in with your fingers if you feel like forgoing the tools.

Contributing editor Jessica Chia says she usually skips foundation and concealer altogether because it's difficult for brands to match her yellowish-greenish-brownish skin tone (aka, what some chalk up to "olive"), but noted that the 200C shade of the foundation and complementary Liquid Touch Brightening Concealer does the job perfectly. The pinkish (and not too yellow or orange) color blended with ease over her redness and acne scars. She isn't the only person complimenting the inclusive 48-shade range, since it's also one of our favorite, on-point foundations for dark skin tones.

For a sheen that just won't quit, Stay Vulnerable Glossy Lip Balm is the lip color for you. Available in five gorgeous shades (Nearly Mauve shown above), these nonsticky glosses are spiked with a nourishing blend of sunflower seed oil, water lily, and lotus seed to keep lips smooth and hydrated as hell. "I really liked the [Nearly] Neutral shade because, despite the sheerness, its gorgeous caramel hue looked lovely on my lips with some brown liner," Thorne says. There you have it — your new favorite, impossibly comfortable lip tint that's conveniently easy to throw off before a last-minute meeting.

If you've ever wondered what it's like to spritz the liquid equivalent of a floral bouquet onto your face, we've got news for you. The Always An Optimist 4-in-1 Prime & Set Mist does just that. Han isn't usually one to rave about facial mists, but this mood-lifting formula is worth all of the praise. Besides the soothing blend of lotus, gardenia, and white waterlily that she fell in love with upon the first whiff, Han appreciates that the ultrafine mist is spiked with niacinamide and sodium hyaluronate (a form of hyaluronic acid) to brighten and plump her complexion. Layer it under makeup to prep your skin, over makeup to set your work with a dewy finish, or keep it by your side as a cooling refresher throughout the day. (Han does all three, naturally.)

While she wore Soft Pinch Liquid Blush in Grace (a matte bright rose mauve) on her Allure cover, Gomez told us she likes to tap the Bliss shade (the lightest shade in the range, a matte nude rose) onto her cheekbones, in addition to adding a speck of color on her lips. Chia is also a fan of the liquid pigment, which she describes as "so textureless and pigmented that it looks like you're really flushing with color" — color, mind you, that stays pigmented, creaseless, and natural-looking all day. There are four dewy and matte finishes each so you can easily customize your sunflower-seed-oil-infused glow.

Gomez told us that she has the winged look mastered because the tip of the Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner is just so straight and smooth. Han wholeheartedly agrees. "I can't pinpoint exactly what it is, but the fluid formula, combination of the sturdy but flexible brush tip [which apparently has over 1,000 soft vegan bristles], and easy-to-grip size of the pen itself is near magic," she says. "I was shocked that I could draw both cat eyes in under than a minute."

This gentle-glide formula never tugs on your lids while it draws precise, matte-black lines. Shake well to activate this long-lasting, waterproof liner and alternate between light pressure for thinner lines and slightly higher pressure for thicker, bolder lines and cat-eyes.