I was watching an Emily Noel video, and the topic was if something happened to your makeup collection – if it was destroyed/stolen, etc. (echoing Emily’s moment of silence) – what would be the first 10 products you would buy? I thought that was such a great topic and it got me thinking about the first 10 things I would re-buy.
And recently, we have had some major damage to our house due to SQUIRRELS. They have caused plumbing damage, electrical damage, and damage to the ceiling in our garage. Now that they have staked a claim in our house, I can only assume my makeup collection is next. Honestly, they weren’t even scared when some repairmen were right in their faces. They didn’t run. They just sat there, staring. At one point, one made eye contact with Matt. They mean business. And now that they know about me, they are going to go after Jill and take all of her makeup, too. So Jill – you should really be thinking about what you’d replace right away so you can be prepared for this inevitable problem.
Emily went mostly the drugstore route, but I have to admit… most of my products are not drugstore. But I wanted to try to find a drugstore version for some of the products I am choosing, just for fun. There are just a few things that I do not know of a drugstore equivalent, but I think I can do it for most of my items. So let’s do this.
First things first… foundation (1). I have fallen in love with my Too Faced Peach Perfect Comfort Matte Foundation in Porcelain ($36). I love it because it’s not too heavy or too matte but it doesn’t break up around my nose midday, so it’s a win. However, if I needed to pick a drugstore version, I would go for the L’Oreal Pro-Matte in Classic Ivory ($12.99).
To finish up my face, I need two powders (2 & 3). I realize I’m extra, it’s just what I do. So, the first thing I use is the smallest bit of Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder ($23) to set around my nose to ensure my foundation doesn’t break up. Since I don’t use this all over my face, I use the small travel size, and it will last me a long time. Then I use the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette ($62) with a big brush to sort of set/finish all of my face besides my nose. This is the one product that I don’t know of a drugstore dupe for. I actually dropped mine on my bathroom floor last year and it tragically broke. I immediately ordered another one. Like, I did not wait even one day. If I was going to use a drugstore version of the setting powder, I think I would try the Maybelline Fit Me Loose Finishing Powder ($7.99.) Do y’all know of a drugstore version of the Hourglass palette? Let me know.
Next, I am going for brows (4). I went far too long without doing my brows, and now my face just looks so weird when I see myself in old pictures. Y’all know my go-to is Glossier Boy Brow ($16). But as I mentioned in this blog, the Essence Make Me Brow ($2.99) is pretty good, too. I like the applicator of the Boy Brow better, but for $3, I think I could live.
Mascara (5) is probably the product I would buy next. I am loving a new mascara, but I think if I was re-stocking my collection, I would go with my tried and true Too Faced Better Than Sex ($23). I don’t own one right now, as I am playing with a few others, but if I was going with drugstore, I would obvs go with L’Oreal Lash Paradise ($9.99).
Y’all know I love eyeshadow (6) and I think I would pretty immediately buy the Morphe Jaclyn Hill palette ($38). It has all of the colors I would need for weeks and weeks, If I only had this palette for awhile, I would be just fine… until I could get more. I feel like $38 is a pretty fair price – almost drugstore- for the amount of shadows you get. However, if I needed to go True Drugstore, I would get this SophXMakeup Revolution 24 Eyeshadow Palette ($15). I have been eyeballing that palette for awhile actually, since I have heard the quality is really nice, not to mention I do occasionally watch SophDoesNails, who is the Influencer who collaborated with Makeup Revolution on this palette. It has a ton of shades you could use for every day but also several pops of color. It looks very versatile and honestly, I might just buy it.
I have to go back and finish my face, so I would actually re-purchase another Hourglass palette, the Ambient Diffused Light Palette. And as I’m looking it up, I am discovering it doesn’t exist anymore: It looks like the Diffused Light palette I already mentioned on the outside (which is why I had to mark mine with nail polish because I have opened the wrong palette too many times) except it has a shade to set under your eyes, a blush and a bronzer. It’s the perfect palette and now I am going to treat it like it is a tiny baby since it has gone extinct. It was a Nordstrom exclusive and it is so good. Now I have NO IDEA WHAT I WOULD BUY. WHY IS LIFE THIS HARD.
I will have to come back to that but I know for sure I need highlight (7) so I would buy the Colourpop In-Nude-Endo palette ($18). It is honestly the most perfect highlight palette in existence, and since it’s $18 for 6 highlighters, I think that counts as a drugstore price also. I used that highlighter palette when I was self-tanned on my cruise. I used it on my face and body and as my tan faded, I had color options for all the varying colors of my body. (It was a weird week.)
OK, I have calmed down about that Hourglass palette situation. I know I would need a bronzer (8) and I would want to get my bougie bronzer aka the Marc Jacobs O!Mega bronzer but ONLY in Tan-Tastic. It was a limited edition shade last year but it was so popular, they are bringing it back. (THANK GOD WHAT WOULD I HAVE DONE.) It’s not back yet, but it’s coming, I promise. The greatest thing about this bronzer is that I’ve used it every day for a year and you can still barely tell I’ve used it. There is no kickback whatsoever, to the point where I am like, is there any bronzer on my brush? But there is. This color is perfect as it’s not super orange-y warm and it’s not too grey-cool. It’s perfect.
If I had to go for a drugstore version, I would try the Physician’s Formula Butter Bronzer ($8.99). Jill (and the world at large) have told me how great it is, so I would definitely try that.
As for blush, I prefer the Hourglass Ambient Light blushes, but I would really want a whole blush palette (9), as one blush wouldn’t work for all occasions. So I think I would go for this BH Cosmetics Nude Blush 10 Color Blush Palette (which I do own – it’s bomb and it happens to be $6 right now. That’s right. $6 for 10 blushes.)
Finally. I would need a lip product (10), and I think if I could only have one lip product, I would splurge a little bit and pick up the Fenty Gloss Bomb ($18). I own this and it’s amazing. It is a universal color so it really isn’t super pigmented. It just makes my lips look shiny and juicy and that would work with any look I would create out of the products I have chosen above.
There were a couple products I couldn’t get in my ten when I couldn’t re-buy my Hourglass palette. And honestly, I think I might knock out the Laura Mercier powder for the Bare Minerals Round the Clock Intense Cream-Glide Eyeliner in Midnight. I am also missing a concealer… and I honestly don’t know what concealer I would buy, as my favorite one is by The Brand The Must Not Be Named, and since I no longer buy from them, I need to figure out a different solution. And I’ll be testing a few things over the next few months, but if the squirrels got all my makeup, I would stick with the products above over a new concealer.
So what about y’all? What would be the first 10 products you would re-buy if the squirrels came after YOU? Tell me in the comments. And Jill – you know what to do.
Xo,
Lauren
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A self-proclaimed beauty junkie/hoarder with a serious Sephora problem. This blog is a total rationalization of that problem. Everything is TOTALLY fine. Her free time is a mixed combination of making fun of reality TV with her husband, hanging out with cats and finally trying to figure out how to do her hair.