Best Drugstore Makeup of 2025 ...
L'Oreal Paris$15.99- “This is one of the very best powders at the drugstore, period”▶ 0:33
- “It is micro fine. You have silica blurring out any of your pores, fine lines, just smoothing you out”▶ 0:38
- “You look velvet, but not dry and cakey because this is so lightweight”▶ 0:45
- “It wears forever. You are going to be locked in tight”▶ 0:50
- “But if you have normal to dry leaning skin, you're still going to get away with looking so gorgeous and velvetized”▶ 0:52
- “If you have super super dry skin, I wouldn't recommend this one for you”▶ 0:59
Essence$5.99- “$5. Three colors in here. There are three individual chambers and you can use one color at a time or mix all three colors or two colors together at once in the lid”▶ 1:05
- “This is a micro fine brightening powder. And if you need to wake up your under eye in a hurry and you only want to spend a handful of dollars, this is the one”▶ 1:16
- “I cannot get over the price. It actually performs very much like luxury and is in top placement with my powders”▶ 1:26
Waterproof Loose Setting Powdershade · Brightening- “I take this powder to the sink and I'm like, 'Watch this.' And I turn the faucet on and I'm like, 'Check it out now. Touch it. It's not wet. It's going to mattify and waterproof your makeup. And it does”▶ 1:39
- “This is the craziest product to integrate into your makeup routine. It is truly something different”▶ 2:04
- “I'm not going to stop talking about it. It's that good”▶ 2:13
Catrice$8.00- “It is the very best for snatching your nose, doing underpainting on the lips”▶ 2:30
- “The glide of this product is what gets me incredible smooth glide. There's no patchiness, no skipping”▶ 2:35
- “It wears a long time. It blends out perfectly. And it has a nice color intensity, so you're not just getting like a whisper of color”▶ 2:42
- “I swear to you, this performs like RCMA and is worth the $8 over and over and over and over again”▶ 2:48
- “I'm obsessed because I like to blur my pores. I don't want glass skin emphasizing texture, and sometimes the more glossy blushes out there can really do that”▶ 2:59
- “You want something that has a little more of a true creamy blurring finish in my opinion”▶ 3:17
- “I love the texture of this. It's so easy to blend. I will even pat this on the lips”▶ 3:24
- “Catrice, you have outdone yourself with these two products. They are insanely good”▶ 3:28
Essence$6.99- “The moment I tried this, I was so mad at myself for not trying it sooner because this is one of the most gorgeous stick foundations, period. Drugstore or not”▶ 3:40
- “It melts into the skin. It's not gummy. It's not patchy. It's not fingerprinty”▶ 3:48
- “It has the right amount of coverage. It's not too heavy. It's not too light. It wears great”▶ 3:55
- “You can underpaint with the different shades. They have so many different shades and each tube is like five, six bucks”▶ 3:59
- “You can bron with this, contour with this, you can brighten with this. One of the greatest launches in 2025. So underrated”▶ 4:05
- “I'm giving it like a massive thumbs up”▶ 4:16
L'Oreal Paris$13.99Colour Riche Intense Volume Matte Lipstickshade · Worth It 601- “However, you guys, these thinner tubes, they smell like vanilla. It's giving a little bit of MAC. It's giving warmth”▶ 4:43
- “And the matte formula in here is non-drying. It is perfect in opacity”▶ 4:53
- “I feel like I'm putting YSL on my mouth. I feel like I'm putting MAC on my mouth. This does not feel like L'Oreal. It does not feel like drugstore”▶ 4:56
- “I want to say if my memory serves me right, that Worth It is a dupe for Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk that went kind of viral earlier in the year”▶ 5:10
- “I need more shades. I love it”▶ 5:25
L'Oreal Paris$13.99Colour Riche Intense Volume Matte Lipstickshade · Rebellious 108- “However, you guys, these thinner tubes, they smell like vanilla. It's giving a little bit of MAC. It's giving warmth”
- “And the matte formula in here is non-drying. It is perfect in opacity”
- “I feel like I'm putting YSL on my mouth. I feel like I'm putting MAC on my mouth. This does not feel like L'Oréal Paris. It does not feel like drugstore”▶ 6:02
- “I need more shades. I love it”
NYX$8.00Retractable Vivid Rich Mechanical Eyeliner Pencilshade · Under the Moonstone- “It's the most flattering, perfect metallic liner. It wears beautifully”▶ 5:39
- “It just adds like a little kiss of glimmer and shine and just makes you feel like every direction that you look like there's just this little saturation of just glowy, glisteny, romantic goodness to your eyes”▶ 5:42
- “I love this liner. Like, I'm almost out of it. I never run through a mechanical liner like this. Like, this is crazy”▶ 5:57
Essence$3.99Blend & Line Eyeshadow Stickshade · Full of Beans- “It's a $1.99. Go and grab this. Especially if you have green eyes or blue eyes”▶ 6:13
- “The tone in here is perfection. It has just I don't even know like a hint of coppery red in here. It's chocolatey mocha. Beautiful metallic”▶ 6:18
- “You can pop this on the lash line pretty carelessly. Go in, take a brush, bam, bam, bam. You're going to blend it out. You're going to have a smokey eye in 2.2 that cost you $2”▶ 6:29
- “Also, update update. We're going back a few steps, but like the longevity factor of this $2 shadow stick, stop it”▶ 8:48
CoverGirl$7.99Perfect Point Plus Lashline Micro Eye Pencilshade · Bright-Eyed Beige- “This is so itty bitty micro fine. It's a creamy brightening pencil”▶ 6:43
- “This particular shade, brighteyed beige, is so perfect if you want to awaken the waterline, but you don't want to go on what can end up looking like, did you just put concealer in your waterline? That's strange”▶ 6:49
- “If you have close set eyes, not only is this going to brighten and make your eyes look more awake, it will widen them, which gives this all over uplifted look”▶ 7:21
- “It wears forever”
LAKA$8.00Mono Eye Shadowshade · Allure- “Is the closest that you are going to get to Tom Ford sequin shadows or Makeup by Mario. It is that perfect glimmery top coat that feels entirely high-end”▶ 7:42
- “This one is six bucks. I'm shocked. I reach for it more than the others just mentioned because this shine is insanity”▶ 7:55
- “You literally pop it on your finger and we're going to do the little pat pat pat. Like the glow is immediate. No fallout”▶ 8:30
- “K beauty. What are you doing? That is so like perfected with the way they formulate just the packaging, everything for the price. Stop”▶ 8:40
Riding Solo Single Shadowshade · Howdy
Honest Beauty$7.99- “I buy in bulk. I do not get sent these. They are my very, very favorites”▶ 9:14
- “These are fragrance-free and great for sensitive skin and also awesome if you wear makeup that is really hard to get off”▶ 9:16
- “I even sometimes like go on my lashes like so and it doesn't irritate my eyes”▶ 9:23
- “That is the holy grail unchanging favorite”▶ 9:41
Medicube$24.00- “I can't count how many of these I have gone through. So satisfying to peel or wash it off in the morning”▶ 9:48
- “Doesn't feel as suffocating as trying to do the morning shed and sleep with an actual collagen jelly mask on. I can't do that. I toss, I turn”▶ 9:55
- “This has no fragrance in it, nothing irritating my eyes when I'm sleeping. It feels good”▶ 10:06
- “I wake up, I peel it off, I have glass skin. It is so good”▶ 10:12
Cetaphil$9.29- “I am so devoted to this cleanser, oil to foam from Cetaphil. This stays in my shower”▶ 10:24
- “It doesn't irritate my skin, my eyes. It removes makeup beautifully”▶ 10:29
- “Leaves my skin feeling really soft but perfectly cleansed without any tightness”▶ 10:33
- “If you have normal or dry skin, I think that you would love this. And it's under $10”▶ 10:39
Naturium$32- “I was spending $225 on Augustus batter retinol and other, you know, Shanny Darden, different retinols that were really, really up there in price. And I switched over to Naturium”▶ 10:53
- “This uses encapsulated retinaldehyde which typically is better tolerated for most skin. So if you're a little more sensitive, this is one to check out”▶ 11:14
- “I also read that retinaldehyde, even though it is a little more gentle and better tolerated for most, works more efficiently and faster”▶ 11:29
- “I love how my skin looks when I use this”▶ 11:36
L'Oreal Paris$12.99
- “This competes. This is so easy to use. If you're like a one and done out the door, you know, little mascara, but you want like a little glitz and glam, this is great”▶ 12:27
- “These are little jelly glitter sticks. They feel extremely similar to Danessa or Fenty”▶ 12:42
- “These are so smooth, reflective, gorgeous, cooling, longwearing. They're also six bucks”▶ 12:49
- “This gets an honorable mention for sure”▶ 12:56
L'Oreal Paris$13.99- “This stating on the bottle that it will help your makeup last up to 36 hours, is the first product that has a bold claim like that on it that I'm not like, 'Oh, gross. I roll.' Like, yeah, sure”▶ 13:29
- “This is hairspray for your face. This is one size, but at the drugstore, and I actually prefer this one”▶ 13:41
L'Oreal Paris$11.99- “This says up to 24 hours. I'm kind of believing that, too”▶ 13:52
- “Now, this has a cute little curved bent wand. Really easy to get in here and do everything that you need to get your stubborn brow hairs to stay in place”▶ 13:57
- “It is not crunchy, flaky. There's no color in here. And I am so obsessed”▶ 14:07
Eau De Parfumshade · Piximimosa- “Really, really cool container. You can pop this in your purse. Great for travel. It's like genius how this is”▶ 14:19
- “This is so intense. A lot of people were asking, 'But does it last?' Yes, it really does”▶ 14:40
- “I just want to like roll around and like I'm on a cloud. I'm in a magical garden that doesn't exist on Earth. That is how I feel when I wear this”▶ 14:55
Pure Instinct$16.95The Original Pheromone Infused Essential Oil Perfume Cologneshade · Original- “This is not unisex. It's very feminine. It smells fruity”▶ 15:11
- “I've gone through these, you guys. You can get them for like $10, $15”▶ 15:19
- “You guys always ask for perfume recommendations and I just had to give you options that smell so high-end that are not going to put you back a hundred bucks”▶ 15:33
Pure Instinct$16.95- “We have the lucky version as well that is like fresh. This I will be wearing as the weather like thaws out and we approach spring. It's very jasmine gorgeous oil”▶ 13:37
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