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sweeneywithanedge:

We all live on a tight budget sometimes, but that doesnt mean you have to sacrifice the makeup you love! Listed below, with explanations is some cheap alternatives to some more expensive products you may have in your collection.

While you take a small hit to quality and pigment, these are all products I use that make decent substitutes until our wallets are a little fuller again, enjoy! ;)

Like any girl I am a lover of the UD Primer potion (available at www.sephora.com & www.urbandecay.com) but its a bit steep at 18 dollars. Recently I ordered the dollar elf primer (available at Target & eyeslipsface.com) and I am quite impressed. Its staying power is not AS strong but my shadow still lasts throughout the day without sweating off or creasing. And for a dollar, who can complain?

I have the Mac Paint Pot in Rubenesque (available at www.maccosmetics.com) and I am a lover of it as a base for my bronze and gold looks. You can achieve the same sort of base the paint pots offer however with nearly any cream shadow. Simply apply a cream shadow on your lid that you want as a base and apply shadow on overtop. Just be careful not to use too much so it doesnt look cakey!

I really enjoy lip stains like Stila’s Lip & Cheek Stain (available at www.sephora.com) but recently I purchased an Outlast Lipstain by Covergirl at Walgreens and I am quite enjoying it. The color lasts on my lips around 3 days if I dont exfoliate it away and the shades are subtle but nice. Granted you dont get the benefit of a cheek stain as well (altough Im sure you could with some quick blending) its worth the slash in price.

Mac has a great line of soft eye kohls that go on nice and creamy. A cheap alternative I enjoy though is the Rimmel Soft Eye Kohl. I have three of them in Black, White, and Navy and I use them all the time. They are not as soft as the mac kohls but they have equal staying power if you do not have too much oil in your skin. And considering you can by about 4 or 5 for the price of one Mac one, you can build quite the collection ;)

Mac Zoom Lash is my favorite mascara of all time but I recently got to try the Falsies and I fell IN LOVE. I could not believe how big and black my lashes looked! I cant wait to buy one for myself, its going to become a staple of my collection ;)

These jumbo eye pencils by NYX (www.cherryculture.com) arent too expensive and make great bases. Still though, if you want a cheap drugstore alternative try these ones by wet n wild. They work about the same, slightly less pigmented, but since I use them as bases I dont miss the pigmentation too much. Plus at around a dollar a pop you can feel free to play around with colors. If you dont like them, youre only out a buck.

Every girl needs a good set of brushes, and Sigma is known for theirs (as is Mac). But who can afford that much for brushes when we have bills to pay. Elf offers these brushes (which are decent, I use them everyday) for only 12 dollars. And if youre lucky, occasionally (www.retailmenot.com) has coupon codes for a free set of 12 with your order. Thats how I got mine. And free to 12 dollars is a lot cheaper than $79!

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Stay fabulous my makeup fiends ;)

Via

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drugstoreprincess:

Day 1. One Makeup Product You Use Everyday

Day 2. Two Makeup Products You Would Not Recommend 

Day 3. Three Makeup Products You Wish You Had

Day 4. Four Makeup Products You Can’t Live Without

Day 5. Five Favorite Makeup Brushes

Day 6. Six Favorite Makeup Brands

Day 7. One Favorite Of Each: lipstick, lipgloss, eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner, blush, contour

Day 8. Eight Favorite Nail Colors (and their brands)

Day 9. Your Nine Step Daily Makeup Routine

Day 10. If you were given $100 to spend on makeup, what would you spend it on? List products and their prices.

(Source: liner-and-lashes)

Via

12pm

I’m going to start a new thing on Budget Beautiful called Unpopular Opinion.  Basically I’m going to tell you about products I thing are garbage for me.  Let me stress, for me!  Let me know if you disagree.  You can even do your own review and I’ll post it.

So anyways, Seche Vite.  It’s so many people’s holy grail top coat.  But we don’t get along at all.

The Seche website promises: “Seche Vite™ dry fast top coat is widely acknowledged as the world’s finest top coat. Specially formulated to penetrate through nail lacquer to the base coat forming a single solid coating over the nail plate for a much more durable finish. Guaranteed not to yellow while leaving nails silky, stronger and resistant to chipping and peeling.”

I have to agree with the fact that Seche Vite dries faster than any other top coat that I’ve used and it does not leave your nails yellow, but besides that I have to completely disagree!

For me, Seche Vite makes my polish peel off within a day or two.  It just comes off in one solid sheet.  So I suppose that it does form a since coat over the nail. It chips.  Like crazy!  

As for “leaving nails silky” and “stonger,” I have no idea. My polish peels off so quickly that I can’t agree or disagree with this statement.

I have two other concerns about Seche Vite.

Glitter gets stuck in it.  I just used some Seche Vite and now I have glitter on my nails from the last time I used it.

It also gets super thick.  It becomes a gloopy mess.  I’ve only had this bottle for a few months and it’s already giving me problems.  I guess this is a common problem.  Seche sells a thinner, but I refuse to have to buy this product.  I shouldn’t have to thin my polish anyways!  I’ve added some nail polish remover, and it’s seems to have worked.

Yes, Seche Vite will make you polish dry crazy fast and it makes your manicure shiny and beautiful, but, for me at least, that awesome looking shine will peel off in a day or too.

I wouldn’t recommend it.

10am

Katie, I was at the beauty shop today and OPI Holland is out. What one do you want?

One of the 1000 reasons I adore my mom.

6pm

As you can see, I lack in Polyvore skills, but whatever.  At least there isn’t a grey head anymore!

3am

Julep Nail Polish for 1 cent?

Too good to be true?  Perhaps.  I’m really not sure, but I went for it!

A bottle of Julep polish is usually $14.  Way, way too much for me!  I’ve never spent anywhere near that much for one bottle, and I’m a HUGE nail polish junkie.  Seriously, my nail polish collection will probably put yours to shame.

Anyways, I signed up for the Julep Maven box.  You take a quiz to see if your polish style is ‘American Beauty,’ ‘Boho Glam,’ ‘Bombshell,’ ‘Classic with a Twist,’ or ‘It Girl.’  I got ‘Boho Glam,’ which I thought was pretty legit after seeing the polish packages.  Basically you get three polishes, or two polishes and another nail related treat, every month for $19.99.  Not too bad of a deal.  

Right now there’s a deal going on where you can get one month’s box for 1 cent using the code, COLOR2012.  There’s even an option for free shipping.

You do have to put in your credit card info.  After the first month you’re charged $19.99 a month.  But, you can cancel at anytime.

I’m going to try and cancel after the first month.  If I can’t cancel I’ll pay $19.99, get next month’s box, and then cancel.  Still a good price for 5 polishes and cuticle oil.

So, order at your own risk.  I’m really not sure if there’s a catch.  But oh well.  I’ve been lusting after some Julep nail polish for quite some time.

Check out this link to take the Julep Maven style quiz!

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