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My Walgreens cosmetics haul
Walgreens is having a buy one get one 50% off sale on some really great drugstore cosmetics, so here's what I ordered (I shop online 99% of the time).
After reading rave reviews of CoverGirl Lip Perfection lipsticks on Temptalia and also loving her color swatches (which I PIP below), I ordered them in the following colors:
Rapture
Temptation
Burn
Rich
Fervor
Hypnotic
Enthrall
I LOVE my Maybelline Eye Studio Gel liner in Blackest Black, so I ordered it in plum, charcoal, and brown.
Here is the plum, charcoal and black.
I also ordered the six Maybelline Color Tattoo cream shadows I don't yet have, so now I have them all. I think these are probably my favorite makeup product right now. I love, love, love them.
I came super close to spending $28 on Tarte Smooth Operator finishing powder, as I've used pressed powder for years and want to try a loose powder, but yesterday I read about Coty Airspun Loose Powder in Good Housekeeping as one of the best drugstore makeup products. I looked it up on MUA, and sure enough, it gets rave reviews. At only $7, it's definitely worth a try before dropping nearly $30.
All of this for around $100!!
Re: My Walgreens cosmetics haul
I used to use this powder as a teen, when I wa broke!
I don't think it's very good (sorry)! I suspect it may be like Maybelline Great Lash- I think it is popular only because it is the cheapest thing in that category. I also used that as a teen, and thought it was great. I tried it again a few weeks ago and it was like a tiny tube of clumpy asphalt.
My favorite loose powder in the 1980s was by Ultima, which no longer exists; my next favorite was Estee Lauder. I had to get money from mom to buy those brands!
Hope that powder works out for you... let us know!
That's funny. I spent waayyy more on cosmetics as a teen than I do now. I worked and everything I earned was fun money since my parents paid for everything I needed, so I was all about the high end brands back then. Now that I have a real job and also real bills, I'm pretty stingy. lol. I'll let you know what I think of the powder, although I have not used any other high end brand of loose powder to compare it to.
The problem was due to the fact that my face sweats so heavily. This powder developed white blotches when the sweat started percolating up through it. I'd always have cakey white patches on my upper lip and my cheek apples. Like rolling a chicken breast in flour. LOL- not a good look. I grew up in FL and I frequently had a salt crust on my face at the end of the day.
Love all those lipstick colors! Great deal.