As a beauty blogger I'll use every excuse I can think of to buy new makeup, even though I just simply don't have the room for it. I have an addiction and I'm cramming as much into my drawers as possible. I own a range of drugstore and high end makeup, I differ between the two a lot. However, there are certain things from the drugstore that work better for me than any higher ends brands, vice versa. Today I thought I would share my favourite drugstore products with you all for those of you who may be on a budget or just starting out with makeup and don't want to spend a fortune! You'll be surprised what little gems can be found hidden within the shelves of Boots or Superdrug!
Starting with the base as always. I found choosing a favourite drugstore foundation much harder than I expected, just proves how many amazing foundations the drugstore have to offer. I'm a huge lover of Rimmel Londons foundations, this being said recently I've been reaching towards the L'Oreal True Match. This foundation had a lot of hype around it a couple of years ago, I only tried it for the first time last year and I reach for it quite a lot when I'm not using my Estee Lauder Double Wear. This foundation is medium to high coverage and makes your skin look flawless, it gives your skin a gorgeous glow when the light hits your face. It's duey without being oily, and it lasts all day with or without a primer.
I'm all for contouring and highlight - my favourite part of my makeup routine! So this makes me extra picky about the products I use. If you're a fair skin girl like me then you'll know what I mean when I say sometimes contour products can make me look 'muddy' especially the cheaper ones. I used to only use Benefits Hoola Bronzer, but after using it for years on end and getting a little fed up of always paying out so much for it, I went on a hunt for a drugstore dupe! Now I couldn't find a dupe of Hoola, but I did discover the Sleek contour kit, and it's fab! I have mine in shade light and it matches my skin tone perfectly! It comes with the perfect contouring shade and a beautiful highlighter that reflects beautifully under the light. It has a lot of shimmer and is a gorgeous champagne colour. I've been using this contour kit for months now and it's my go to every day product for contouring. A quick makeup tip - this contour shade works perfect as a crease colour! You might be surprised that in fact a lot of bronzers work amazingly for this!
Moving on to brows. Now I'm not sure if this is cheating because I class Benefit as a drugstore brand as well as high end, but I thought I'd throw it in here anyway. You may have seen this product popping up on my blog a lot recently. Benefit recently released a lot of new brow products and one of them was the Goof Proof Brow Pencil - I've spoke about it before so I won't go into too much detail. To sum things up it's frickin' amazing. It makes filling and shaping your eyebrows so easy. It definitely makes achieving eyebrows on fleek a lot easier to achieve.
Ah the classic Kate Moss 107. If you're into makeup, or watch a lot of beauty gurus on youtube /read a lot of blogs then you're bound to have heard of Rimmel London's Kate Moss lipstick in shade 107. If not, where have you been all this time? Under a rock?. This is almost every beauty bloggers go to berry shade in the winter, I'm no exception. I too wear this all through the autumn / winter months. It's a gorgeous matte lipstick that lasts all day and the shade is just perfect. I'm onto my fourth one so far and I can see myself having to repurchase another, and at such an affordable price I have no guilt about doing so. Rimmel, please never discontinue this lip shade, ever.
Next we'll talk about eye products. Some drugstore brands produce the most beautiful eye-shadows and let me tell you there are a lot of dupes for expensive eye palettes in the drugstore. Surprisingly, I actually prefer some drugstore dupes. My all time favourite eye-shadow palette, over riding any high end palettes I own is the Easy On The Eyes palette in Birthday Suit by seventeen. What a palette. This is personally right up my street. It contains 8 gorgeous matte and shimmery eye-shadows, three creamy shadows and a little eye primer - admittedly it isn't that great but the rest of the palette makes up for it. As you can probably tell my go to shade in this palette is Radiant Gold, which is of course the gold shimmery one. I use this on most days when I feel like making more of an effort with my eye makeup, by sweeping it all over my lid. Followed by which ever products I pair it with, I won't go into a whole eye tutorial now. I love and wear every single shade in this palette, the creamy shadows are a dream to work with. All the shadows blend so easy and are true to colour, their pigmentation is incredible.
Of course I had to include my Maybelline Colour Tattoo in on & on bronze - can you tell I like coppery / gold eye-shadows. It's because I have blue eyes and these colours are really complimentary with blue! This is my go to eye product for parties, it's so gorgeous and the shimmer reflects under the light. This lasts so well, like honestly I sometimes have trouble taking it off, the lasting power is that strong! It doesn't crease either which is a must for eye-shadows when you know you'll be dancing the night away and it will most likely be a hot situation!
If you have any drugstore favourites that you think I might like then don't hesitate to let me know - I'm always on the hunt for new products to try!
Kiera x
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