Best Drugstore Makeup 2025 | Top Budget Beauty Products That Work
NYX$9.00
Max Factor$19.94- “I like this product. I use it for quite a while and I like the way it looks on skin”▶ 3:24
- “It looks beautiful and I can't really deny it”▶ 3:43
- “If you have more dry prone skin, normal skin, if you don't want to cover something, this product is good”▶ 3:47
- “Coverage is low actually but this product looks way too good on skin and it doesn't emphasize anything it looks way too good”▶ 3:51
- “I think that it costs a little bit too much because you can easily finish this product and it's kind of pricey”▶ 3:33
- “If you want to try it grab it on sales on sales it may work quite well”▶ 4:19
- “Pigmentation is high. You don't have to use a lot”▶ 5:01
- “This product dries down and you don't have to set it with a powder”▶ 5:03
- “It's easy to work with these products and it's quite easy to blend them and they look beautiful on skin and they don't look orange on skin. They look quite neutral and I like it”▶ 5:07
- “Both products are great. Both products are stunning”▶ 5:21
- “You don't have to set them with a powder. But if you have oily prone skin, better to set them with a powder in your case”▶ 5:05
Face Sculpt Liquid Contourshade · Shade 200- “Pigmentation is high. You don't have to use a lot”▶ 5:01
- “This product dries down and you don't have to set it with a powder”▶ 5:03
- “It's easy to work with these products and it's quite easy to blend them and they look beautiful on skin and they don't look orange on skin. They look quite neutral and I like it”▶ 5:07
- “Both products are great. Both products are stunning”▶ 5:21
- “You don't have to set them with a powder. But if you have oily prone skin, better to set them with a powder in your case”▶ 5:05
- “If you have extremely pale skin, light skin, cool undertone, don't really use this bronzer because in your case, it would appear just simply orange”▶ 9:21
- “These powders are stunning”▶ 10:58
- “They look stunning on skin. They work perfectly. They don't emphasize anything”▶ 11:10
- “This one feels thinner than this one. But this one would work better in case of more dry prone skin”
- “This one is more for people with oily prone skin because it's more like a bacon a setting powder and it's more it looks more matte on skin”
e.l.f. Cosmetics$9.00- “This product is so so good. Textures thin, silky, and actually if we compare these two, I would say that they kind of close to each other”
- “You can use such products if you have oily prone skin as finishing powders”▶ 15:36
- “Everyone can use such products in under eye area and they hold concealers quite well and if you use something slightly sudden in your under eye area, your lines, wrinkles, they would appear smaller and not that visible because of this lighting effect”▶ 15:27
- “If you have for dry prone skin, you can wear such products all over your face”▶ 15:32
Blushshade · Shade 2
- “This highlighter looks stunning. Texture's thin, silky product doesn't emphasize skin texture. It looks beautiful on skin”
- “You can layer this product. It's doable and it looks brighter on skin. Texture feels even a little bit creamy. Stunning product unexpectedly”▶ 17:01
Wet n Wild$6.99- “This texture is so so good. Thin, silky, doesn't emphasize anything. You can wear such highlighters as eyeshadows, as toppers. And this shade, it shifts from blue to purple. It looks so good on skin and it looks so good on eyelids. Impressed. Impressed. I'm totally impressed”▶ 17:46
Moira$14.99Sun Glow Face & Body Highlightershade · Shade 2
NYX$9.99- “This beautiful bright and creamy highlighter texture is stunning. It's creamy. It doesn't if you don't apply way too much, it doesn't skin texture”▶ 19:23
- “If you apply way too much, it can emphasize skin texture”
- “It reminds me of highlighter from Katrice a little bit, but this one feels more creamy if we compare”▶ 19:41
- “If you wanted to try it, try it. It's a beautiful nice highlighter”▶ 19:48
- “I don't really like this packaging because sometimes I can't really open it. It's like I have to spend time”▶ 19:50
NYX$12.00- “This product works and it holds perfectly. If you have stubborn brows, if you have lots of hair, this product works”▶ 25:34
- “Currently, I use it almost, I would say, daily. And I like this product. It holds my brows and it holds my brows way too good. It dries down”▶ 25:34
- “If you don't have lots of hair, if you can easily use any products to any gel eyebrow gel product, maybe you don't need it, but if you have the same issue as I do, because it's damn, I need something way too strong to hold my brows. This product is good. This product is good and it works”▶ 25:41
Max Factor$7.49Masterpiece Wow Linershade · 260 Chocolate Brown- “It's a gel-based formula. It's longlasting”▶ 30:17
- “Product is stunning”
e.l.f. Cosmetics$8.00H2O Proof Eyeliner Penshade · Chestnut Brown
Moira$9.49Starshow Shadow Potshade · Shade 3
e.l.f. Cosmetics$6.00- “I have some drawbacks. They are quite dry and it's not really that nice to apply them and ideally you should apply them using fingers”▶ 33:01
- “For some daily needs for some daily looks these toppers are it. They don't It's not a full dupe to Urban Decay, to Fenty Beauty and so on”▶ 33:16
- “They look simple at some point. But as basic toppers, they are good. They are good if you need a kind of a duo chrome”▶ 40:12
Single Eyeshadow Neutral Nudeshade · Shade 2
Single Eyeshadowshade · Shade 6- “My favorite is shade six because it shifts a little bit from light pink to light golden. And this shift is slightly visible on skin”▶ 36:14
Single Eyeshadowshade · Shade 5
- “I like the textures here. We have beautiful contour, bronzer, and blush. Highlighter has a different texture. Still baked highlighter, but these three guys, they have exactly the same formula products”▶ 21:21
- “These products, they are not really that pigmented. Pigmentation is between low. Actually, it's low, but you can easily layer these guys”▶ 21:34
- “I'm not a big fan of this bronzer because I think that it looks way too orange”▶ 21:41
- “If you have pale skin, light skin, cool undertone, this bronzer is immediately no”▶ 21:50
- “Contour looks okay, but if you have pale skin, it's not your contouring shade because it looks more brown. It's a mix of brown with gray. It's a nice shade. It's a nice contouring shade”▶ 21:56
- “If you have more neutral, warm undertone, light skin tone, and in case of medium skin tone, actually the shade might work quite well”▶ 22:10
- “Blush looks warm as well. Highlighter looks beautiful. It emphasizes skin texture a little bit, especially if you apply way too much”▶ 22:50
- “If you apply a little bit, it looks stunning. Beautiful palette, but the shades unfortunately are not for everyone”
e.l.f. Cosmetics$6.00- “These sticks are gorgeous. If we compare them to Essence and Catrice, they look brighter”▶ 40:12
- “They are longlasting”
- “They look beautiful. They are longlasting”
e.l.f. Cosmetics$6.00Sheer For It Blush Tintshade · Pink Positive- “It smells good. It works well. It looks beautiful. No dryness while wearing, no dryness after wearing”▶ 46:02
e.l.f. Cosmetics$8.00- “This product is pigmented and mega long lasting”
- “If you have watery eyes, you can try to apply it closer to your inner corner and it should stay quite perfectly in place”▶ 38:26
Glow Reviver Melting Tinted Lip Balmshade · Strawberry Shortcake- “It smells good. It works well. It looks beautiful. No dryness while wearing, no dryness after wearing”▶ 41:57
Wet n Wild$4.99Perfect Pout Lip Liner Stainshade · Nude Tights
- “This product is quite good as well. It smells a little bit slightly synthetic but it works well. No dryness while wearing, no dryness after wearing. It tastes good. It tastes a little bit sweet. And as a basic lip treatment, why not?”▶ 41:54
- “The only thing that it feels a little bit watery and it can move a bit”▶ 42:11
- no stillEveline$7.99
Celebrity Lips Lipstickshade · 600- “They're great, but quite often they smell a little bit weird in my personal opinion, but they are good. They work quite well. They are creamy. They are pigmented”▶ 40:55
- “If you have cool undertone, this shade is for you. But if you have warm undertone, it appears kind of a little bit weird unless you combine it with something”
- “If you combine it with a brown lip liner, it looks beautiful”▶ 41:21
- “From the wearing point of view, they are good. They are basic. Nothing to it”▶ 41:45
NYX$9.00- “It's a kind of a lip balm. It looks like a mousse. It feels like a mousse on lips. It's slightly tinted and it stands a bit and no dryness. No dryness while wearing and it's not patchy”▶ 45:06
- “If we compare this product to matte lip mousse from Krice, I'm not a big fan of this product from the main line because they are dry and they look patchy. This product is better”▶ 45:20
- “I tried in 2025 lip liners from e.l.f. Cosmetics first time and I like them. They are soft, they are creamy, they pigmented”▶ 38:13
- “They aren't long-lasting because they are creamy, waxy based”▶ 38:16
- “If you want to make sure that such products stay longer in place, apply them over powder and they would stay longer in place”▶ 38:24
- “They so so good. You can apply them all over your lips and as they are quite creamy you know no dryness no dryness while wearing them”▶ 38:26
NYX$10.00Duck Plump Retractable Plumping Lip Linershade · Shade Mau- “I ordered some new shades and I'm in love and I'm obsessed with several shades especially with shade mau it looks so good”▶ 38:44
- “It doesn't look it's a little bit cool tone, but it doesn't look that cool tone and that purple then because sometimes when I order something cool tone, way too cool tone, they look way too bad in my case because I'm more neutral warm, more even warm”▶ 38:57
- “Texture is wax base. Of course, they are not really that long-lasting”▶ 39:19
- “If you want to make sure that they stay longer in place, apply them over a powder”▶ 39:25
- “This one looks more like lip gloss. Feels great. Tastes good”▶ 46:11
- “They are long-lasting. They don't fall off. They give a beautiful result. They separate well. They curl a little bit. They give a bit of length. And they look stunning”▶ 37:25
- “Normally they don't transfer and they don't fall off when it's 35 outside”▶ 37:34
- “These guys, they are way too good. Way too good. I like them”
Eveline Cosmetics$6.99- “They are long-lasting. They don't fall off. They give a beautiful result. They separate well. They curl a little bit. They give a bit of length. And they look stunning”▶ 40:12
- “Normally they don't transfer and they don't fall off when it's 35 outside”▶ 45:28
- “These guys, they are way too good. Way too good. I like them”
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