Why I love Drugstore Makeup: A List

Oh, let me count the ways

1. I’m a Walgreens girl, but Target is my bff

2. False Eyelashes galore

3. Wet n’ Wild (need I say more)

4. L’oréal Voluminous Mascara (just ask Mario what Kim K really likes)

5. When I am too lazy to drive all the way to the valley for a MUA pro-discount on the really good stuff at Nigels or Naimies or drive to Sephora or order online and wait.

6. Most drugstore makeup brands are made in the same crazy factory’s as many luxury brands, you just don’t know it

7. In a pinch (I can race in and grab some lashes like I’m in a 1980’s game show)

8. Revlon and L’oréal, Fun fact: NYX is owned by L’oréal

9. Burt’s Bees lip glosses

10. Many makeup brands are going clean (and some never will, alas)

11. Flower Beauty (I love you Drew, only I remember when you were only in Walmart)

12. 10,007 different retinols and hyaluronic acid creams

13. Tresemme hair spray (smells like middle school)

14. The sight of it all just brings me joy

15. Bag Balm (that trusty green tin)

16. Carole’s Daughter Black Vanilla

17. Sea Breeze and Old Spice (my bf wears Swagger deodorant and I love it)

18. Revlon Colourstay “unstoppable nude” great solid keep in your purse nude

19. That good ol’ school drugstore kinda feeling

20. Honest Beauty (even though JA grates on my nerves, I respect her)

21. Maybelline Great Lash (my first ever mascara!)

22. Elevator music playing while you shop

23. Cerave Hydrating Facial Cleanser

24. Rose facial spray

25. Very rarely will you bump into anyone you know in there

26. Aquaphor

27. Neutrogena Salicylic acid gel

28. Korean Drugstore makeup forever

29. I love shocking my snobby clients with products they haven’t seen in years

30. Affordability (duh)

31. Cocoa Butter Baby Oil Gel (baby oil technology has advanced beyond our wildest post-leg shaving dreams)

32. Sunblock Spray (spray on top of makeup to get the craziest glow ever and protect your skin at the same time, acts as both a setting and glow spray)

33. Sun Bum 50 Facial Sunblock

34. No one asks or cares if you’re doing ok in there

35. Because I don’t need a tiny micro penis baby bottle of french moisturizer that counts for 400 sephora points, when they give you $$$ off your shit at Walgreens

36. That Christmas display that comes out quicker then your Non-binary nephew one day will

37. Tiger Balm (Best ever. I also use this on set to make actors cry for emotional scenes, but don’t it get in their eye, yes I did it by accident once)

38. Drugstore makeup is forever high school-cool

39. Intermixing affordable makeup is a low key flex in these uncertain financial times

40. I’m a nostalgic MUA that likes both a throwback and a deal

41. Sephora can be anxiety inducing and nauseating all at the same time

42. Love a Self-Checkout

43. Getting lost in the magazines in there (US, W, Cracked, Vogue, Dwell)

44. If I get tired and hungry, I can grab some Doritos and a Kombucca, while I shop

45. I don’t need any help figuring out what shade I am

46. Pixie’s Packaging

47. Sheet Masks (Korean if you can)

48. You can almost always walk to a pharmacy (even in LA)

49. Because when you were little, the makeup section was everything

50. I love a diverse Makeup Kit 💄🛒