Hi! I’m one of those people who grew up not allowed to do makeup, found one look that (sort of) worked for me in my 20s, and now want to figure out different techniques and products in my 30s. I’ve mostly stuck with lower end products in the past, largely because I can’t justify $$$$ for something I’m not great at. My skill level has improved somewhat since the pandemic, so now I’m curious about exploring higher-end products without spending unnecessarily.
Current collection favors NYX, Revolution, Colourpop. Probably the fanciest thing I own is Urban Decay setting spray 😆 are there brands or preferably specific brands and products you’d recommend to someone wanting to level up from here without spending just on the name brand? Any budget products you particularly love? Basically, what do you think is really worth spending on and what is just as serviceable on the low to middle end of price?
I’m a girl who cannot turn down a palate. No, I do not use a ton of colors but I just love palates. I can’t help it. If loving palates is wrong I don’t want to be right.
Sephora used to do a spectacular holiday palate which was like every single sephora eye color and formulation, every single lip color and then some eye liners. All for around $50. The pans were small but allowed for such experimentation.
To me that would have been ideal. Sephora brand products are certainly not luxe but they are pretty decent IMO. However those jerks stopped making it.
They do still do a blockbuster holiday palate with eye and lip products. And I want to say it’s like 80 shadows and 20 lip colors and some brow stuff. Still a lot of options to create different looks for a reasonable price.
If they ever bring back that original holiday palate I’m totally buying it.