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Beauty Essentials For Beginners

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Beauty Essentials For Beginners offers the perfect starting point for anyone new to the world of beauty. Explore a curated selection of must-have makeup, skincare, haircare, and fragrance items designed to simplify your routine and help you build confidence. Whether you're discovering your personal style or looking to master the basics, these essentials make it easy to create a fresh, polished look every day. Find everything you need for a seamless introduction to beauty at Sephora Canada.

SEPHORA COLLECTIONMini Tap That Puff Makeup Sponges

ITEM: 2887826

59 Reviews

$16.00

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Perfect for Precision and Airbrush Finish...I love how compact and travel-friendly it is—great for keeping in my makeup bag. Whether you're a beginner or pro, this sponge makes blending effortless and precise. ...I love to carry travel-friendly makeup with me for that reason. The Sephora Mini Makeup Sponges are perfect to add to your beauty essentials!

What it is: A set of mini cushion sponges that optimize the precise application of liquid, cream, or powder makeup with minimal absorption and increased coverage.
Sponge Formulation:
Liquid, Cream, and Powder

What Else You Need to Know: These mini sponges can be used dry or damp to blend in any type of liquid, cream, or powder product, such as concealer, blush, or even bronzer. Their dense foam ensures minimum makeup absorption and maximum coverage from the very first tap. Their closed loop ensures optimal control during application, making these miniature drop-shaped sponges perfect for touch-ups in small areas.

$16.00

No mess, no fuss. It’s perfect for everyday use, whether you're a beginner or someone who likes to keep their routine efficient. ...I didn’t love this shape for under my eyes, but it works great on the rest of my face!...Beauty tool hybrid

What it is: A puff sponge that optimizes the application of liquid, cream, or powder foundation for an airbrushed result with minimal absorption and increased coverage.

Brush Formulation:
Liquid, Cream, and Powder

What Else You Need to Know: This sponge can be used dry or damp to blend in all types of foundation—liquid, cream, or powder. The dense foam ensures minimum makeup absorption and maximum spread. The added loop ensures optimal control during application and its pointed ends for hard-to-reach areas.

$28.00

It combines innovative design with exceptional performance, making it a standout addition to any beauty arsenal. Highly recommend for both makeup beginners and seasoned pros! ...I love it. Thank you Patrick TA for making this beauty essential for us makeup artists.

What it is: A multi-use artistry sponge that precisely applies five products for a flawless finish: foundation, blush, contour, highlighter, and setting powder.

Brush Formulation:
All Formulas

Brush Coverage: Buildable

Ingredient Callouts: It is vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Patrick reimagined the beauty sponge for ultimate versatility. Hand-crafted and cut to perfection, it adapts to every angle of the face seamlessly. With a bouncy rounded base to blend complexion products, a flat edge for flawless sculpting, and a tapered point for detail, it's made to do the most.

BeautyblenderORIGINAL Beautyblender® Makeup Sponge

ITEM: 2230829

Size: Original

9.9K Reviews

$32.00

Gifted by beauty blender.This sponge is amazing for beginners. ...Beauty Blender...I love the Beauty Blender it's perfect for beginners like myself who have never applied makeup!!

What it is:
A top-selling makeup sponge, the super-soft, exclusive, latex-free foam quickly blends makeup for an easy application and flawless, skin-like finish.

What it does:
The unique shape and exclusive material available only with Beautyblender® ensures impeccable, streak-free application with minimum product waste. Use it with foundations, powders, and any other complexion product. Now, the award-winning makeup sponge is available in a fun, limited-edition canister—fit for any beauty queen.

Urban DecayBrow Blade 2-in-1 Eyebrow Pen + Waterproof Pencil

Size: .01 oz·ITEM: 2182335

Color: Cafe Kitty - warm medium

2.1K Reviews

$38.00

I recommend this to beginners and even for pros. It is a natural brow. ...If you are a beginner at doing your brows this can be a little tricky, but as a licensed microblader I recommend this to everyone!

What it is: A dual-ended ink stain and waterproof eyebrow pencil that fills and defines brows with microblade precision for up to 24 hours.


Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, and phthalates. This product is also cruelty-free.


What Else You Need to Know: The waterproof brow pencil shapes, shades, and fills in sparse brows while the brow pen's brush tip + ink stain mimics thin, hair-like strokes to add depth and dimension for a mir

Charlotte TilburyLip Cheat Long-Lasting Waterproof Lip Liner

Size: 0.04 oz/ 1.2 g·ITEM: 2116507

Color: Iconic Nude - nude

2.3K Reviews

$38.00

VERY hard tip, which allows for more precision, but takes some getting used to if you, like me, are a beginner. ...Really pretty color and blends beautifully! Very easy for beginners!

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


Formulation Type: Lip Liner


Benefits: Long-wearing 


What Else You Need to Know: 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.

$18.00

It’s super easy to use for beginners and quality is amazing. 10/10...I received Sephora essential brush. I like this 10 Smudger brush because it’s perfect for complete my makeup.

What it is: A dense shader brush that precisely applies and smudges eyeshadow or eyeliner.


Brush Formulation:
All Formulas


Brush Coverage: Buildable


Bristle Type:
Synthetic


What Else You Need to Know: The SEPHORA COLLECTION Smudge Brush is your go-to brush for flawless and precise lining of the eyes. Its short, rounded head with dense fibers allows you to easily apply, blend, and diffuse eyeshadow or eyeliner. This brush provides maximum control for maximum impact, whether it’s onto the upper or lower lash lines.

$30.00

Beginner friendly...I didn’t find the brushes to be soft, it felt stipple-y on my face. It’s great for beginners and the cosmetic bag is the perfect travel size. ...A good starter kit of brushes for a beginner in makeup world. It has some of the essential brushes.

What it is: A set of three essential mini brushes from the Essential Brushes collection to create perfect, everyday makeup looks.

Bristle Type:
Synthetic


What Else You Need to Know: This is a set of three essential mini brushes in a travel bag for effortless makeup application — take it with you wherever you go. This set includes the best essential mini brushes perfect for achieving flawless makeup in no time and in a single step.


This Set Contains:

- 03 Mini Powder Brush

- 06 Mini Multi-Purpose Face Brush

- 13 Mini Multi-Purpose Eye Brush

- Mini leatherette makeup bag

$90.00

What it is: A palette featuring both eye and cheek essentials in universal, neutral tones—with five ultra- pigmented eyeshadows, a cream blush, and a highlighter.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens. It is also cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: Featuring a brand-new formula that uses Japanese technology to deliver an extreme glow, this palette is perfect for traveling and creating everyday looks on the go. Designed with luxurious, never-before-seen Natasha Denona exclusive packaging, it comes in two different tones with lighter or darker shades to complement all skin tones. These rich-pressed pigmented shadows and blush leave the skin with an optimal texture and comfortable all-day wear.

$23.00

The Essential Brush - 01 from Sephora Collection is a must-have for achieving a flawless foundation finish. ...Essential!...Especially great quality for the price! I truly don’t need any of the other brushes at all higher price point.

What it is: A tapered foundation brush from The Essential Brush collection that instantly blends for a flawless, fingertip like application in one swipe.

Brush Formulation:
Liquid

Brush Coverage: Medium

Bristle Type:
Synthetic

What Else You Need to Know: The SEPHORA COLLECTION Foundation Brush is your go-to brush for seamless foundation application in just one swipe. The sloped brush head is designed to perfectly hug the contours of the face, gliding across the skin to achieve an effortless and seamless foundation application in half the time. The density of the bristles allows you to easily layer and build foundation to the desired level of coverage, ensuring a streak-free makeup result.

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