Back in the day YouTube was all about the "makeup collections" and showing off the huge amount of products you'd hoarded over the years.

"In this drawer I keep my lipsticks" *opens drawer to reveal 500 lipsticks*

I rarely change up my whole makeup routine, instead I occasionally add in a few new pieces to my daily makeup edit and after a few days I usually know if they're going to become favourites or get switched out for something else. There are a few new products that I've recently been reaching for time and time again, so I thought I'd share my findings... warning, hide your purse!

The lovely team over at NARS sent me their new launch and I just had to jump on here and share it with you guys. I personally love a highlighter but I think they are still one of those products that seem to just intimidate people. If I were to ask my non-Internet friends what's in their makeup bag, I could pretty much guarantee there would be an untouched hand-me-down highlighter from my collection that they've wanted to try but never really had to guts to, or there wouldn't be a highlighter at all.

I haven't really felt the need to run out and haul a load of beauty products for a while, honestly it's probably because I'm lucky to be sent a lot of from brands and PR agencies. But something happened over Christmas, maybe it was to do with the videos I was watching, I don't know, but I came into the new year with a huge list of beauty products that I just had to get.I filmed a haul video and first impressions, which you can watch at the bottom of this post, but I thought I'd pick out my top five purchases and break it down and highlight why these stood out to me.

If you saw yesterday's video you'd know that I decided quite last minute to film a 2017 beauty favourites after enjoying watching everyone else's online. It wasn't difficult to pick my top products because unlike my past self, in 2017 I used a lot less product, focusing on the things that really work for me.For this post I thought I'd set myself the task of picking out the top five from my list of favourites, really highlighting the top products I can't live without.