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Tate McRae’s Neutrogena Ad Has Us Asking Questions + The Foundation We Can’t Stop Wearing artwork

Tate McRae’s Neutrogena Ad Has Us Asking Questions + The Foundation We Can’t Stop Wearing

Gloss Angeles

August 18, 2026

Does it actually matter if a celebrity uses the beauty products they’re paid to promote? Tate McRae’s latest Neutrogena ad has TikTok playing skincare detective and debating how much authenticity really matters in a celebrity beauty campaign.

Speakers Kirbie Johnson, Sara Tan

TopicsFashion & BeautyArtsNewsEntertainment News

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

G-L-A-M, Gloss Angeles.

Kirbie Johnson (0:14)

Sara, is there a beauty product right now that has made your life easier?

Sara Tan (0:19)

Hmm, okay, I really feel like the Hung Vanngo Foundation, one and done. I don't feel like I even need to powder myself. And I know that that's not like part of the claims or is it?

Kirbie Johnson (0:34)

I don't know. I don't know if it's self-setting as a claim.

Sara Tan (0:36)

But it feels like it's self-setting.

Kirbie Johnson (0:38)

And you need one drop. Literally one drop.

Sara Tan (0:41)

Like, Hung, I'm sorry, this is going to last me for my lifetime.

Kirbie Johnson (0:44)

I know.

And they priced it what? It's like 48, right? We thought it was in the 60s. It's less than 50

Sara Tan (0:49)

It's like magic.

Kirbie Johnson (0:51)

No, people were kind of like, every review I've seen has ended up being positive, but they always start off with like, no undertones. And I'm like, no, it's not no undertones. It's just neutral. Everyone's a neutral.

Sara Tan (1:03)

What's your shade?

Kirbie Johnson (1:03)

So when we were in the Hamptons, which we'll get to in a second, I had a self tan. So I was a 12, but Hung sent me 10, 11 and 12, just to see kind of the spread.

Sara Tan (1:13)

Yeah.

Kirbie Johnson (1:14)

And I can go between, yeah.

Sara Tan (1:16)

Yeah. I am a 14 right now because I'm extremely tan, but he sent me 12, 13, 14 So I imagine like winter, I'll be able to go back to like the 13, but 14 is like perfect for me.

Kirbie Johnson (1:31)

It's great.

Sara Tan (1:31)

It's just so easy to use too.

Kirbie Johnson (1:33)

Brush is fabulous.

Sara Tan (1:34)

Brush is fabulous. Need just a little bit spread it all over. And then I'm like, oh, I think I'm done. Yeah.

Kirbie Johnson (1:40)

It really is an incredible foundation. He did his big one with that.

Sara Tan (1:44)

He really did.

Kirbie Johnson (1:44)

I mean, truly it is. And I'm getting a lot of questions. How does it compare to Le Skin from Mary Phillips?

And it's a very different formula. I love Le Skin. Le Skin is lighter. Yes, it's way lighter. It feels like a serum. Like this is thicker. Like you can even see when you're squeezing it out of the bottle, it takes a minute to come out. Le Skin is very fluid. Yes.

Sara Tan (2:09)

That's more like, like you said, serum tint or like liquid foundation.

Kirbie Johnson (2:15)

Yeah, I would say it's more liquid. This is like, it's like a cream in a liquid form. Yeah, it's packing a punch.

Sara Tan (2:20)

Magic.

SPEAKER_3 (2:21)

Yeah, I totally agree with you.

Kirbie Johnson (2:23)

Absolutely love it. Jaden, who used to be Hung's assistant, used it on me for the Oscars this year and I didn't know.

And so when we were commenting about it a couple weeks ago, Jaden said, Kirbie, you actually were wearing it. Yeah, and I remember being like, my face looks amazing. And I was taking all these pictures. Yeah, it was bad.

Sara Tan (2:42)

It's blurring, self-setting. It's just truly, like you said, it makes our lives easier.

Kirbie Johnson (2:48)

It totally does. So, okay, y'all.

Sara Tan (2:52)

Okay.

Kirbie Johnson (2:52)

I have the Katie Jane Hughes mascara.

Sara Tan (2:56)

Oh, are you wearing it?

Kirbie Johnson (2:57)

Yes. They sent me two, one for you. Oh, I get to keep it. Yeah, because she has eyelash extensions.

Let me tell you, run, don't walk. Oh, get it.

Sara Tan (3:09)

She was very confident too. When she left that comment on our no mascara clip, she was like, I've got something for you. Well, so, which was a little confusing.

Kirbie Johnson (3:18)

I was confused by her comment because it was about no mascara makeup.

Sara Tan (3:23)

But I think it was because you were so adamant that you were going to be wearing mascara until the day you die.

Kirbie Johnson (3:28)

So she was like, I got something for you. But that's why I responded to her, is your mascara invisible? Because that's why I was like, what are you talking about? So I did.

Sara Tan (3:36)

Tell me why it is going to change your life.

Kirbie Johnson (3:39)

It's called the micro mascara, I believe. We'll link it. But I think it's going to rival gigablack lash for me.

Sara Tan (3:47)

What is it? Is it the brush?

Kirbie Johnson (3:49)

It's the formula?

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