Not All Cheap Makeup Is Worth It...Here’s what ACTUALLY is.
Haruharu Wonder$28.00- “I did two layers today and that's it. We're literally ready for makeup”▶ 0:39
M Perfect Cover BB Cream SPF 42 PA+++shade · Mixed Shades 21, 23, and 13- “This beats so many like $50 plus foundations that are in my collection right now better than like the new reformulated luminous silk from Armani”▶ 0:43
- “I would argue that this is better than the OG Armani if I really had to like put my money on a product”▶ 0:57
- “I've bought this product for maybe six years now”▶ 1:03
- “This is one of the best products for mature skin out there”▶ 2:16
- “It just immediately covers all your redness”▶ 2:24
- “It's not like full coverage, but let me level with you here. I think that it's that perfect balance between medium coverage, creamy natural finish that ends up looking like just perfected skin and not like really good foundation, if that makes sense”▶ 2:26
- “If I'm wearing this, I'm not getting compliments on the foundation. I'm getting compliments on how my skin is looking”▶ 2:44
- “Do you guys see how like traceless this is?”▶ 2:55
- “Putting this on, it's like it just blends itself”▶ 3:08
- “I fully fully believe that it is the best foundation product BB cream that money can buy at an affordable price. Period”▶ 3:11
- “I would spend many, many, many, many more dollars on this if I had to”▶ 3:19
- “It wears beautifully and it's so blurring”
- “I feel like when I'm consistently wearing this, my skin does better”▶ 3:39
BK Beauty$34
Salt New York$16.00Best Case Concealershade · N12- “It is one of the most affordable, incredible concealers out there”▶ 4:29
- “This beats out like I have so many concealers here. Glossier Stretch concealer easily”▶ 4:39
- “Though it's a different finish, I would way more likely recommend this than like the Nars potted concealer”▶ 4:45
- “It is one of the best pot cream concealers on the market, period”▶ 4:54
- “If you have dry, mature under eyes or in general, you just find that you have dark hollowess that you really want creaminess and you want to bounce light. You don't want the under eyes to look really sunken”▶ 5:09
- “So many people sleep on this concealer, it's not even funny”▶ 5:27
- “I try out a lot of luxury concealers a lot. There are a lot that never look this good under my eyes”▶ 5:43
Morphe$15
Camo Liquid Blushshade · Peach Perfect- “I do think that the e.l.f. Cosmetics liquid camo blushes are maybe the best liquid blushes at the drugstore”▶ 7:09
- “There aren't a lot of liquid blushes that are going to give you that finish and that blend”▶ 7:18
- “The fact that this just blended on its own like this”▶ 7:35
- “My cheeks, they just have this blur. There's like this really soft freshness to this blush and it stays in place where you put it”▶ 7:42
- “Really difficult to find that at the drugstore”▶ 7:50
- “I still do think that these are the best”
- “If there is one drugstore liquid blush that I think formulation wise is really excellent, it is the e.l.f. Cosmetics”▶ 8:19
Essence$5.99Cream Eyeshadowshade · Oyster- “This Essence eyeshadow is really lovely”▶ 9:40
- “I really enjoy it because it has more of a cream to powder kind of texture”▶ 9:45
- “I actually think it's pretty reminiscent to the strobe highlights from RMS”▶ 9:51
- “I think that this is way more of like an RMS strobe lights kind of product. It has that creaminess, but then it sets down like a powder would”▶ 10:07
- “Perfect as like a one and done shadow”▶ 10:23
- “I will say you need to work in layers with it because it dries down. So, just be a little bit patient with it”▶ 10:26
Maybelline$13.00
L'Oreal Paris$15.99- “Is such a unique product and a very unique brush”▶ 11:42
- “You get a really, really lovely curly and soft lengthened look”▶ 11:58
- “Definitely gives you that like lash extension, lash lift sort of effect on a budget”▶ 12:05
- “For this price and for this amount of length, it just it really delivers”▶ 12:12
- “You can really build out more intensity without it starting to look super spidery. It still keeps that kind of defined effect”▶ 12:29
NYX$11.99Lip IV Hydrating Gloss Stainshade · Drippin' In Rose- “Perhaps one of my favorite affordable lip products of all time, the Lip Ivy from NYX”▶ 12:44
- “I have tried a lot of lip stains. K beauty lip stains, high-end. This is one of the best on the market, period”▶ 12:50
- “Look at how juicy and even that color is”▶ 13:06
- “If you're like, Amanda, I don't want it to be this pigmented, you just take your little piece of tissue, you blot it off, you put a little bit in the center again. And that, my friends, is not going anywhere”▶ 13:10
- “The most perfect, subtle, but like longwearing lip stain. So good”▶ 13:32
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