If you had $100 to spend on beauty products right now, what would you buy?
It might be a Ted Baker makeup bag, because I love the aesthetic but cannot justify yet another makeup bag at that price point!
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I’d order the Morphe 12NB palette ($15), the 9C palette ($23), and a few brushes (let’s say $30 for an assortment). With $32 left–not including shipping here!–I’d get BECCA blush in Wild Honey ($32). $100 exactly with plenty of product to play with! In fact, this is almost exactly what I’m ordering next week when I get paid. Lol
I bought that blush (along with several other goodies) from Dermstore during one of their periodic site wide % off sales. Becca and a few other cosmetic lines are generally not excluded from the promo. That plus free shipping made me a very happy girl!
Tom Ford lipstick in Richard and Tarte Tartlet in Bloom
I might drop that much on a few lipsticks (currently looking for a hydrating everyday lipstick formula). The one’s I hauled during VIB sale sadly didn’t work for me. Going to try Shiseido Perfect Rouge next and maybe another formula next.
Give the Rimmel ones a try (Moisture Renew or something like that). My lips are dry as a desert in winter, and I was on the hunt for something with lots of moisturizer, opaque color, and relatively long lasting. Tried many high end brands and bought the Rimmel one on a whim while browsing in Ulta – I’m going back for a few more. They are about $6 each
I would probably get 3 of the Tom Ford Boys lipsticks –not sure which ones, but Drake, Eric, Hiro, and Theo are contenders
Same here! 45 euro’s each here in Europe… Roman and Egon would be definitely in my bag. 🙂
Haha! $100? Let me bust out my makeup calculator!
I’m assuming shipping cost is excluded?
• Artist Couture Blush/Highlight in X-RATED = $24.99 ➢ $$75.01 remaining
• MAC Prep and Prime Fix Plus in LAVENDER (if it were in stock) = $22.00 ➢ $53.01 remaining
• Morphe Brushes M500 Deluxe Pointed Blender = $12.99 ➢ $40.02 remaining
• black|Up Sublime Powder in NPS 03 Medium = $37.50 ➢ $2.52 remaining
I don’t know what else I can get for $2.52. Maybe another brush from Morphe? But those four items would be suffice.
The Tarte Contour kit & one of the Besame brushes but if i use my Sephora gift card and have enough money I would also get a KVD liquid lipstick.
I’d have to go with a viseart eyeshadow palette, I have the dark mattes one and would like to try one with satins and metallics.
Viseart Dark Matte palette and a Kat Von D liquid lipstick. Probably Vampira.
I would buy the Chantecalle mascara that also grows your natural lashes and a Tom Ford lip stick. That’s prob a bit over the $100 mark but ??
More Wayne Goss brushes!
LMAO!! I actually did exactly that! I will be receiving Wayne Goss’s Holiday Brush today… and I can’t wait!! (Only problem is, in November he came out with his Anniversary collection and of course, I just HAD to get it! It appears that I owe the $100 Fairy some (OK, A LOT) of money ? back! LOL!
Hi Donna, I couldn’t resist buying Wayne Goss’ Anniversary Collection when I saw Brush 1. (At the time, I was considering a Tom Ford cheek brush and waiting to no avail for Charlotte Tilbury’s Magic Complexion brush). I also bought the former holiday brush/Brush 00 when it became permanent and I did buy the new, gorgeous 2015 Holiday/Finishing Brush. I am just tickled to have these brushes plus 2 from the his face set. I decided it was time to invest in higher-end brushes this year.
I would head straight to the MAC counter!(;
Yep, that’s exactly what I would do. $100 on MAC? Easy 🙂
what would you buy? i have 50 dollars to spend!
Many things 😀
maybe Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil. my friend loved it but I still can’t make myself bought some face oil with this high price when you can find cheaper and goody face oils out there.
It’s really good. If you’re in the USA Sonia Kashuk has a retinol oil that’s nice too but it’s not as redness reducing. It’s only $16 for the same amount of product!
Jane Iredale! In the Blink of a Smoky Eye shadow palette, Lip Fixation in Passion, and Just Kissed Lip & Cheek Stain in Forever Red. (Can you tell I’m thinking of a shopping trip soon???)
I’d love to get the Laura Mercier 01 Highlight Matte Radiance Powder and the Mac Ellie Goulding Face Kit-the daytime one.
I am honestly so totally maxed out on makeup that there is nothing that comes to mind as something I’m really itching to own. It would probably have to be something low on my list – a YSL eyeshadow palette or that new Dior one that looks so nice but isn’t so good….or else, I’d just stock up on the UD and BITE lipsticks I use a lot!
I need to think long and hard about this! I want to spend my imaginary 100 dollars wisely! 😉
I’d get a Viseart eyeshadow palette – Sultry Muse or Paris Nudes.
Either buy a viseart or a guerlain item or go crazy on colourpop. There is no in between. Lol.
Dior Air Flash foundation for sure !! And a mac lippy !
Tom Ford lipsticks (but at the Canadian price, it might only turn out to be one-and-a-half Tom Ford lipsticks)…. 🙁
Probably lots of Tarte gloss or UD gloss. I have a lipgloss problem!!!!
Tom Ford Something wild and a Armani lip rouge Ecstasy or whatever those are called and the Jack Black lip balm quartet if I could squeeze it in!
I would actually update my vanity with a new mirror and some containers; I’m in need of a lipstick and blush holder.
Totally unfun stuff, really. Organizing items, freshen up my stock of bases, concealers, powders, primers, mascara etc. Well, I might splurge on a couple NYX wicked lippies, but thats it!
I’d probably treat myself to the Sunday Riley night oil… that’s still me forking out $5 from my own pocket though. It’s crazy expensive!
I love that stuff. There is a nice alternative from Sonia Kashuk for $16. It’s not quite as effective or redness reducing but it’s great if you’re not willing to shell out the $$$$.
While visiting my friend and her baby in Colorado I lost my life source. A makeup bag filled with $350-$450 worth of foundations, concealers, brushes, and sponges. I use drugstore dupes a lot for eyeshadow, bronzer, mascara, etc.but I spend lots of money on choosing top brand foundations. I would easily use the money to get my estēe Lauder double wear foundation & concealer + a beauty blender sponge!
Some combination of Tom Ford and Charlotte Tilbury products. Definitely one of the lipsticks and maybe a CT eye shadow/eyeliner duo.
Definitely the Marc Jacobs 20 shadow holiday palette. Which might not even be in stock anymore..
Too Faced Bon Bons Palette — $49
Too Faced Love Flush Wardrobe — $36
MAC Dita von Teese lipstick — $18 (I’d have to kick in a few extra bucks).
Tom Ford Moodlight powder duo and an eyeshadow, maybe Surratt in Patina or Nudestix eye pencil in Immortal. That’s a little over $100. I’m willing to supplement. 🙂
Lorac pro palette and MAC brushes!
Either the ViseArt Paris Nudes + Besame Red Velvet 1946 lipstick ($103), or Guerlain Meteorites + MUFE Artist Palette Vol 1 Nudes ($104). Then again, I need a new eyeshadow palette like I need one more cat shedding all over my house (i.e., I don’t)… so I should probably sub out the palettes for a new foundation (I’m running out of my beloved super-sized It Cosmetics CC Cream! Oh no!) or brow products (my brows make Cara Delavigne’s look sparse and tidy by comparison, and I ought to do something about it now that I’m moving back to a developed nation in which employers care about such things. Like…brow wax, I guess? The brow trend started after I moved overseas, so I’m kind of out of the loop. I should probably look that stuff up. And probably figure out where I stashed the tweezers.)
I would love some new skincare, too–a combination of tried-and-true drugstore-level stuff (did you know Dollar Shave Club has an AMAZING serum?!) and Paula’s Choice (because her toners and exfoliants make my sensitive skin happy and glowy without breaking me out).
So hard to choose! 😉
Probably one or two of the Zoeva Rose Golden Brush sets. They’ve been kind of pushed aside for the limited edition things over the holidays, but aside from that, they’re the top of my list right now.
I would get zoeva products 🙂
If I had a $100 to drop, I’d get the Guerlain holiday meteorites ($80) – the remaining $15 I’d drop on a lip product of some kind
probably the marc jacobs the bronze brush
Ok. I can go in many different directions. I want to try it cosmetics brushes. I also want the new covergirl TruNaked palettes with more real techniques brushes ( and maybe a good highlight brush). Then , I also want a blush palette from Inglot. Or, finally , one of those darn viseart palettes ( or Charlotte Tilbury or Tom Ford ). Yeah, I’m all over the place today
If it’s 100$ mad money I’d like to try the YSL Touche Eclat Blur Perfector and Les Sahariennes Healthy Glow Balm bronzer.
I would try for the bareMinerals Soft and Smoky palette – if I could get my hands on it.
And the Lorac pro metals palette – around $80 for both of these
I would include a MAC lippie – something really berry.
That’s a tough one. $100 is roughly £66 so I suppose that I’d probably buy a few high-end items rather than lots of lower-priced things.
I need a new moisturiser and I’m toying between Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Oil-Free Gel Cream or something else since my once mostly clear but oily complexion has been replaced by dehydrated but still oily, medication induced acne skin. Any suggestions people? I could really do with some advice (although I do see my doctor tomorrow)!
For simplicity I’ll stick with the Kiehl’s moisturiser, so that’s £24 gone already!
I’m needing a new mascara so that would either be my beloved L’Oréal Voluminous Carbon Black mascara or one from Lancôme. I love Lancôme’s mascaras, especially the Hypnôse range and Grandiôse.
I guess my favourite out of all the above is actually Lancôme Grandiôse. I love L’Oréal Voluminous but the results you get with the Lancôme are pretty amazing. So that’s roughly £22 (lots of deals on for it just now).
That leaves £20.
Another thing I’ve been wanting for a while, to replace one of my favourite lipsticks that is now discontinued, is the Bobbi Brown Creamy Lip Color in Washed Seashell. It has the same luminous finish but it’s a tad warmer and less pink. I still love the way it makes your lips look though. The lipstick it would be replacing is the old Creamy Lip Color in Nude Pink. Why did they discontinue it? Why?????
Anyway, the lipstick is bang on £20 so that’s me done!
Three beauty products for £66 pounds. At least it’s (mostly) stuff that I need. So there you go, that’s what I would buy with my imaginary $100. ?
I would replenish my Paulas Choice Resist line of skin care products. I did quite a bit of damage at the Sephora VIB sale so I don’t want more makeup right now. I’ve got my eye on several LE spring collections to save for.
I was thinking along the same lines. There are some other skin care products I like but none as effective as Paulas Choice products. Believe when I say, I’ve tried tons of products before I say this. Others may feel fancier but few, if any, are more effective.
That’s definitely the smarter way to go. I “need” more makeup like I need a hole in my head (though there’s plenty I still want LOL). And I’m right there with you on the Resist line from PC. There’s nothing better on the market, period.
I’ve bought way too much make up this holiday season, but I really want a skincare item, the Bobbi Brown EXTRA REPAIR MOISTURIZING BALM SPF 25- $96. I got a sample of this and it is amazing! I just can’t bring myself to spend the money.
Hi Rachel, for almost the same amount of money, if you are near a Cosmetics Company Outlet store, Bobbi Brown products are discounted and a boxed set of Extra Repair products (eye cream, serum, and moisture balm) would retail approx. the same price as you quoted for the moisture balm at the counter.
I’d pick up a new bottle of Make Up For Ever Ultra HD foundation and a few new NYX eyeshadows and slide on eyeliners. I running low and those are my splurges.
More Jeffree Star products and Morphie with a restock. 😉
Hard to narrow down…Probably the two tartelette palettes (tartelette and tartelette in bloom) or the hourglass bronzer in light and the nars bronzer in Laguna dying to try them.
It sounds like a lot of money but it really doesn’t go very far, does it?! I’ve been eyeing the Estee Lauder Advanced Repairing Serum (or w/e it’s called) for a long time but can never make myself spend that much on something so boring as skincare…but since this is imaginary I’ll say I’d go with that ($62), then blow the last $38 on ColourPop stuff (LE Holiday lippies, plus a few gel liners).
I’d buy the Tarte Tartelette 2 In Bloom palette, and I’d spend the rest on liquid lipsticks from Colourpop and LASplash. There are so many shades that I need!
Wayne Goss brushes! 😀
I would get a whole lot of Colourpop – there are so many shadows I want to try! Orrr I’d get both of the Sugarpill palettes I want (Cold Chemistry and Sparkle Baby) and some other indie brand stuff. I’ve been getting pretty deep into indie brands lately.
A few options come to mind for me:
1.) Viseart Paris Nudes palette with MAC Explosion Plushglass.
2.) Tom Ford Lips & Boys in Hiro and Derek, with MAC Fathoms Deep EDES and whatever would eat up $10!
3.) MAC x Ellie Goulding Halcyon Nights, Explosion Plushglass, Only You lipstick or one of the Huggable lipsticks that would look great with Explosion, also the EDES in Fathoms Deep.
I would love to buy Burberry stuffs, as for now I only have two lipsticks, so my picks for this question would be:
Fresh glow foundation – shade Honey – 52 USD
Burberry Kisses Gloss – shade Oxblood – 29 USD
MAC Lipstick – shade Flat Out Fabulous – 15 USD
That makes 4 USD left~! Yay!
I’d get another Jack Black Oil-Free Sun Guard Sunscreen for my husband, another Kat Von D Tattoo Liner in Trooper for my oldest daughter, the Caudalie Vinosource S.O.S serum and Tocca Beauty
Piccolo Tresoro Giulietta for me. That would leave $1. =)
It’s either too much or not enough money to decide. I’d like the holiday Metiorites and there are several palettes, mostly eye shadows that I’d like to try. There are some appliances I’d like to try but most are in the $300.00 range. Perhaps a completely coordinated skin :are line. I’m not a believer that the Uber expensive products are at all better. IMHO, they pay for advertising.
I’d love to have surgery on my hooded eye lids but that’s say out of the price range.
In summary, I don’t really know how I would spend $100.00.
The Viseart Bridal Satin palette !!!
I’d get theBalm’s “Balm of Your Hand” palette, the Pur “Love Your Selfie” palette (I’m always on the hunt for be best “everything in one” kind of palettes, and those two are highest on my wish list), and… I don’t know, a good lipstick, I guess. “Sheer Beso” from Urban Decay, maybe.
Ardencyinn MODSTER eyeliner and Dior Nude skin foundation.
i’d spend 50 on colourpop shadows. because those i have only 2 but i like them almost as much mufe artist shadows. which says A LOT of things.
the other 50 for (another) two nars audacious lipstick. like i need another audacious.
or one audacious and one burberry lippies. because yes apparently i felt like i need another lippie from those two brands.
I want the tarte tartelette palette ($45), a new customized Mac quad with Brun/satin taupe/sketch/grain ($48) and a new Stila stay all day waterproof liquid eyeliner in dark brown ($22)
Oops that happened again… I just can’t stick to a budget ?
Ok, they’re 92,53 €. I would choose:
1) MAC 137 brush 50€
2) Kat von D everlasting liquid lipstick in Bauhau5 19,90€
3) UD Naked Concealer. I don’t know the exact price but I think I’d have enough money left.
I would probably spend it on a Becca blush and the Hourglass Ambient Light Palette. Plus I don’t have many items from these brands.
I’d buy Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place Makeup Foundation $38 and Diorskin Forever Compact Powder $49
Nothing too overly exciting, just backups of stuff I use on a regular basis.
Make Up For Ever Brush Cleaner – $25 CAD
Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer in Vanilla – $36 CAD
Estee Lauder Little Black Primer Mascara- $27 CAD
L’Occitane 1oz Hand Cream – $12 CAD
I would have to pay the tax as it comes to an even $100 but at least I would have backups of items I use all the time.
ooooooh…OFRA liquid lipsticks, Jeffree star liquid lipsticks, Guerlain foundation or MUG shadows (bundles!!)
Probably skincare because I’m boring! I’m dying to get some Jo Malone this holiday because I love so many of the scents my favorites being Dark Amber and Ginger Lily, Wood Sage and Sea Salt, and Cedrat and Incense. I would turn my nose up at any of the ouds or the new Mimosa Cardamon either. As for makeup, I really want some palettes, MUFE and Ciaté have my votes!
Skin care.
Skin care from lush
Every last penny of that $100 would go to Colourpop. Every time I go on the Colourpop website, my list of “priority items” changes because I’m indecisive. Sticky Sweet, Lunch Money, Birthday Suit and Mixed Tape are my must haves though!
A gift card to Sephora, so I can spend on makeup in ’16. Need all I can if I want to maintain rouge thru ’17!