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Drugstore/Budget Eyeshadows and Eyeliners | 2013 Editor's Favorites
I have a whole slew of fun top tens to share with you over the next few days! You may even see some of these pop up again in a few other top tens. I wanted to put a spotlight on some of the best affordable and budget-friendly products that I enjoyed and reviewed over the past year. I hope you’ll take a moment to share your own favorites that you discovered this year.
- Makeup Geek Glamorous Eyeshadow — a shimmering, coppery gold with a frosted finish
- Fyrinnae Because Cats — a cool-toned, bluish-purple with a frosted, metallic finish
- Sleek Makeup Vintage Romance Eyeshadow Palette — a great cooler, smokier palette
- L’Oreal Amber Rush — warm, reddish copper with orange undertones and metallic finish
- Sephora Good Mood Eye Contour Pencil — a shimmery teal for that perfect pop of color on the lash line
- Maybelline Barely Branded Color Tattoo Eyeshadow — warm, creamy beige with a metallic finish
- Makeup Geek Country Girl Eyeshadow — a rosy, warm-toned brown with a pearly sheen
- Sleek Makeup Sunset Eyeshadow Palette — an intensely pigmented, warm-toned eyeshadow palette
- Makeup Geek Liquid Gold Pigment — a deep, dark molten gold
- Milani Perfect Purple — nicely pigmented, purple eyeliner
I swear by sleek eyeshadow palettes. The are worth every penny <3 and some 😉
Which one is your favorite?
I love Because Cats! And the name is just priceless 🙂 Great selection, Christine.
Yay!!
Rimmel Scandaleyes eyeliner in bronze is the most beautiful brown eyeliner that I have. And I have a lot including all the UD ones. I ordered both those sleek palettes plus the storm one after seeing your review and colors like the ones in the sunset palette are just my favorite. The redone jane cosmetics eyeshadow singles are great and really pigmented and the Sonia kashuk jewel toned limited edition palette is beautiful
Happy to hear that the redone Jane eyeshadows are nice!
My favorite budget friendly eyeshadows are Wet N Wild’s “Silent Treatment” 3-pan and the single shadow ” Nutty”. I’d really love it if they would bring back the 6-pan “Vanity”. The shadows they have been putting out lately are hit or miss, but I do like the recent 6-pan “Sparkle ‘Til Morning”. I haven’t been able to find a cheap eyeliner that performs as well as the Urban Decay 24/7 ones do.
I’m soooooo close to just avoiding WNW’s eyeshadows entirely 🙁 They have been horrible.
I know. I can’t understand why the 3-pans are still great, but almost every new eyeshadow palette they make sucks. They probably don’t care because sales are up from all of us who know how great they have been in the past. I keep trying them because they are so affordable, but I’m tired of being disappointed.
I’m right there with you 🙁
Budget friendly shadows would have to include Inglot except that they are so hard to get hold of in Canada! But the prices are certainly budget friendly. Also the Sephora Contour eye pencils (the skinny ones), especially in the colours Diving in Malaysia and Surfer Babe, as well as their Jumbo Shadow Pencils (Taupe and Dark Taupe Glitter). I also really like the most recent L’Oreal Infallible in Tender Caramel.
I would have definitely included Inglot, but I didn’t end up reviewing much from them this year having did a big bunch of their permanent eyeshadows the year prior 🙂 Their eyeshadows are great!
Inglot shadows, hands down!
They have great eyeshadows! Turns out, I didn’t have much in the way of Inglot reviews this year!
I love the Color Tattoo in Barely Branded! I use it pretty much everyday as an eye shadow base!
I can see it working perfectly for that!
I’ve never heard of Because Cats before! How could that be? THat shadow is so gorgeous 🙂
It is!
I love Inglot eye shadows .. I have never tried Sleek palettes, I want to buy sunset though..
You should try ’em, Shweta!
I love Because Cats. I love that color so much I did just a cat eye look with it, nothing else. So pretty.
I bet it was really lovely!
I love Vintage Romance and Sleek Sunset! I also liked the Exposed palette from Accessorize this year, but not much else by way of drugstore shadows.
Wish we had Accessorize here!
Milani Perfect Purple and Graphite eyeliners.
LA Girl Glide Pencils in Deep Bronze, Dark Brown and Gypsy Blue.
NYX Love In Rio e/s trio in Segredos de Giselle.
And I don’t know if it counts, but the Milani eyeshadow primer is AWESOME!
Oh, and how could I forget, WnW Comfort Zone (I know, so behind the times) and Black Radiance Downtown Browns e/s palettes!
Good to know about Milani’s eye primer – I don’t think I’ve tried it… I know I want to get a few more budget-friendly primers reviewed, so I will look into that one!
It took me a while to get on board, but I finally hopped on the Color Tattoo train! With the exception of Barely Branded & Tough As Taupe, I’ve only tried some of the LE ones, but as soon as I get a chance to get to BB&B, I plan to pick up a few more (between the fact they are under $5 there, and I have coupons, I can’t justify buying anywhere else, LOL!).
I’ve also renewed my love for L’Oréal single eyeshadows, which have been consistently good for me. While the quads can be hot & miss, I find the singles to be smooth & pigmented.
Oh, and NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils! Again, I’m late to the game, but I’m so happy I tried them. They’re great as a base, or by themselves. I picked up the set of 6, which included Milk & Black Bean, with a 20% discount & ULTA points, so it was nearly free, but I’m going to definitely repurchase, even at full price!
What are your favorite L’Oreal singles?
I am picking up those makeup geek eyeshadows! 🙂
Woohoo! Hope you love ’em! xo
Once again… your posts are reminding me why I need to get some Fyrinnae in my life! They have such gorgeous colours, and glitter…oh my… 😀
My favourite budget eyeshadows this year would have to be the two little Maybelline palettes I picked up while I was looking for a true white silver eyeshadow. I think they’re called ‘Hyper Diamonds’ palettes, and I have the black/grey/silver one and the blue/silver one! (the names are like ‘GY-1’ or something similarly nondescript)
Yes, yes, you need Fyrinnae in your life! 😀
I buy so much UD, I try not to go wild with other eyeshadow, because I don’t wear it often, but there are a couple of things I picked up this past year that have put into regular rotation. The first is the Seashore Frosts Maybelline Color Tattoo, though the reviews for it were all over the place, and most called it mediocre, it’s so unique that I will wear it just on its own as a lid color. I don’t have any creasing/fading issues as long as I wear it over UDPP just like any other (regular) shadow I wear. The second is one of the spring WnW 8-pans, Going in the Wild. I really like the purples. There have been so many mediocre or worse LE WnW shadows out since those 8-pans came out, I had to go double check that it had really come out in 2013. D:
I think Maybelline really needed to market that whole collection of Color Tattoos 28397479234x better than they did. They could have been like “Duochrome Tattoos” or something else entirely!
Oh gosh, I think I love everything on this list. I will say I’ve wanted Milani Perfect Purple ever since it was reviewed and I STILL don’t have it! I can never find it in store, even though there’s a Walgreens that sells a ton of Milani eyeliners on my drive home!
Boo! Let’s hope 2014 means it’ll be stocked up!
I love the Wet n Wild Walking on Eggshells palette. Also Flirt eyeshadow (from Kohls) in Golden Lady.
I might have to look for that Flirt eyeshadow!