In His Kit The Drugstore Makeup Hailey Biebers Makeup Artist Swears By

If you’re a fan of red carpet makeup, make sure Robert Sesnek is on your Instagram feed. The New York-based celebrity makeup artist is known for painting the famous faces of Hailey Bieber, Chrissy Teigen, Lucy Hale and Adriana Lima to name a few, and when we found out that the makeup pro was a go-to artist for German drugstore brand Catrice Cosmetics, we couldn’t wait to ask him about his holy grail budget picks. Turns out, Sesnek had been using Catrice in his kit months before the partnership began. “The eyeshadow palettes are really what got me started and hooked,” he says. “I was doing a shoot with a client and had a whole bunch of palettes laid out and she said, ‘Let’s try that colour.’ I had never used Catrice before and was so impressed with the pigments and quality. It was like a domino effect.”

Here, Sesnek gives us the low-down on his go-to bargain buys (which are all under $15, BTW), his A-list makeup tricks and more.

On the bargain buys in his makeup kit:

“Definitely Catrice’s HD Liquid Coverage Foundation. I try and use as little foundation as possible — I like skin to look like skin — and that’s where the HD Foundation comes in. It really hides imperfections, but leaves your complexion still looking like skin. You can wear it as full coverage or sheer it down, and it has an element of luminosity to it, which I absolutely love. Plus, it’s multi-purpose: I can also use it as a concealer and contour.