What's in my Professional Kit? The Ultimate Cruelty-free Beauty Bank
Chelsea Graziano • May 21, 2021
Looking to swap out an old product for a more ethical option?
Here is my ultimate list of tried and tested cruelty free beauty and haircare brands that I have used in my professional makeup kit.
I needed a place to document all of my favourite brands and products so you all have easy access to updated information on whats hot and worth your dosh - I will update this page any time I discover a new find. Here are the key products in my professional kit.
Updated March 2025.
SKIN
Skincare - Biossance Squalane Range (oil cleanser, peptide gel mosturiser, gel eye cream, marine eye cream, retinol serum)
Moisture balm - Ere perez Papaya SOS Marmalade
Primer - Too Faced Pore minimiser primer
Paper cotton buds- MUJI Thin Cotton buds
FACE
Full Coverage Foundation - Illamasqua Skin Base Foundation, EX-1 Invisiwear
Medium Coverage - Charlotte tilbury - Beautiful skin foundation
Liquid Concealer - IT Cosmetics Bye Bye under-eye waterproof concealer
Full coverage Concealer - Tarte shapetape concealer
Cream Concealer - Glossier Stretch Cream Concealer
Cream blush - Ilia multi use Colour Haze Pigment
Highlighter - Danessa Myricks Dew Wet Balm
EYES
Volumising Mascara - Anastasia Beverly Hills Lash Brag Mascara
Lifting Mascara - Sweed Lash Lift
Waterproof Mascara - TooFaced Better Than Sex
Best Non-budge Dark Black Gel Liner - Inglot AMC Eyeliner Gel Shade 77
Eye Pencils - Marc Jacobs Highliner Pencil
Black non-budge Eye Pencil - Urban decay 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil
Setting powder (for ALL skin tones) - Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder
Translucent pressed powder - Fenty Beauty invisimatte botting powder
Brow Pencil - Hourglass Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil
Brow Gel - Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade
Eye Base - Urban Decay Eye Potion
Eye creams matte - Danessa Myricks Colourfix 24 hr matte
Eye creams metallic - Danessa Myricks Colourfix 24 hr metallic
Highlighters - Danessa Myricks Dew Wet Balm
Multi use colour paints - Danessa Myricks Colourfix 24 hr matte
Makeup brushes - My Kit co.
Palletes - Makeup by Mario Master Mattes, Charlotte tilbury quad palettes, Huda beauty nudes, Huda beauty 9 pallettes, Danessa Myricks waterproof cream palettes
HAIR PRODUCTS
Favourite Serum - Paul Mitchell Super Skinny Serum (150ml)
Hair Spray - Fudge Professional Skycraper Hair Spray
Finishing Spray - Paul Mitchell Extra Body Finishing Spray (300ml)
Texture Spray - Fudge Professional Texture Spray
HAIR TOOLS
Hair Curlers - GHD Soft Curl Tong
Hair Dryer - Parlux 3500 Compact Ionic Hair Dryer
Blow Drying Brushes - ghd Natural Bristle Radial Brush, YS Park G Series Brush, Denman headhuggers
And a list of the new Cruelty free brands on the market:
R.E.M, Rare Beauty, HausLabs, Makeup by Mario, Nabla Cosmetics.
Enjoy x
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