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cmferrets

Your favorite drugstore brand? maybelline, milani, hard candy.
Your favorite brand to splurge on? mac, urban decay, bare essentuals.
Your favorite brand overall? mac bc they always come out w/ new collections. i just wish they were only once a month and smaller. (we dont need 4-6 lipsticks and 4-5 lipglosses in each collection if u are having 3 mini collections at the same time) . =)

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MissDeeCanada

Your favorite drugstore brand? Revlon or NYX. I am a MAC snob, but like products from both of these brands.

Your favorite brand to splurge on? MAC, I just love all the colours that are available and the fact that they have a recycling program!

Your favorite brand overall? MAC, I have just been using it for years, it is cruelty free, they recycle and I like that they have a Canadian history!

Julie Avatar
Julie

1. Your favorite drugstore brand? 90% of my collection is lip products and Revlon makes the best drugstore lipstick/lipgloss.
2. Your favorite brand to splurge on? Chanel, Guerlain, and most recently Cle De Peau.
3. Your favorite brand overall? Hands down, Chanel!

Becca Avatar
Becca

Your favorite drugstore brand? Hard Candy (Wal-Mart isn’t a drugstore, but hey..)
Your favorite brand to splurge on? Urban Decay
Your favorite brand overall? Urban Decay

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tehteh

Your favorite drugstore brand? Maybelline…amazing lip stuff and mascaras…doesn’t get enough drugstore love
Your favorite brand to splurge on? I always splurge and I never feel too good about it…I don’t have one…I like to get a lot of stuff at once and that’s why I splurge but I always try to get more than one brand at a time
Your favorite brand overall? If Bobbi Brown and MAC had a baby, I guess that’s be it…you know Bobbi’s quality with MACs range of options…since that doesn’t quite exist…probably Maybelline cause I have at least one of almost everything of them and I actually love it…

Oh Christ I was awful at answering this

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Kathy

1. Favorite drugstore brand?: I think I would have to say Maybelline. Over the past two years or so, I really feel that Maybelline’s overall quality has improved immensely. And their ColorSensational lipsticks are my favorite drugstore lipsticks of all time!

2. Favorite brand to splurge on?: Probably MAC. Granted, MAC isn’t the most expensive brand out there, but I tend to buy it in bulk because of the collections and whatnot.

3. Favorite brand overall?: Either Stila or Urban Decay. I just think the overall quality for these brands is above the rest, while still being somewhat affordable (in comparison to great brands like Chanel, YSL, and Dior).

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Natty

Revlon is my favorite drugstore brand.
For a splurge I love Dior foundations. Airflash is my fave.
Overall I’m a Mac-aholic lmao!! They just have such great products and a wide selection.

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Abril

Your favorite drugstore brand? Neutrogena (not makeup just a few skincare items).

Your favorite brand to splurge on? Chanel.

Your favorite brand overall? MAC

Lauren Avatar
Lauren

My favorite drugstore brand is probably Maybelline. I love their colorsensational lipsticks and their eyeshadows. Pretty good quality for drugstore makeup!

Favorite brand to splurge on is…MAC!

Of course…my favorite brand is MAC 🙂

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Wendy

Your favorite drugstore brand? Essence
Your favorite brand to splurge on? Mac
Your favorite brand overall? Kiko Cosmetics, especially their colour sphere eysehadows…

Mary Avatar
Mary

Your favorite drugstore brand? Tricky question 😀 Since in Poland we’ve got a little different assortment, than in US or UK, I’d say that it’s polish brand My Secret – eyeshadow costs about 1,5$, but quality is very good, I like matte version especially 🙂
Your favorite brand to splurge on? Dior & Guerlain (incredibly expensive but packaging is amazing 😉
Your favorite brand overall? Nothing unexpected 😀 It’s MAC

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dani@callitbeauty

Fave Drugstore Brand: Revlon – I feel that they have the best quality among the other drugstore brands. I especially love their lipsticks.

Fave Splurge: Chanel – Vitalumiere is HG material for me and I love the Rouge Coco lipsticks.

Fave Overall: MAC – Great quality and on my price point. Also, the colour range is fantastic.

Pamela Avatar
Pamela

I haven’t found many snooty MAC MUAs (maybe one or two) but it’s possible that those snobs see their position working for one of the greatest brands as *status-worthy* and it goes to their heads. Too bad because it’s just makeup. 🙁

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Samantha

I hear this a lot and it makes me sad 🙁
Where I am I have 2 counters and 1 store very near by and the MUA’s are all so friendly .. last week a male mua was kinda pushy.. but not un friendly? Idk I just feel bad others aren’t the same. It’s too bad.

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t_zwiggy

Your favorite drugstore brand? Can’t say I’m I huge fan of drugstore products, but if I had to choose one it would be NYX.

Your favorite brand to splurge on? Chanel

Your favorite brand overall? MAC

Crystal Avatar
Crystal

Your favorite drugstore brand?: Maybelline.
Your favorite brand to splurge on?: NARS!
Your favorite brand overall?: I would say Nars, but I have a lot of products from Mac that I use religiously.

Hend Avatar
Hend

-Your favorite drugstore brand?
Rimmel

Your favorite brand to splurge on?
Yves Saint Laurent, Dolce&Gabbana

Your favorite brand overall?
Diorrrrrrrr !!

Ali Avatar
Ali

* Your favorite drugstore brand?
Maybelline

* Your favorite brand to splurge on?
Chanel or Givenchy- it’s a tie!

* Your favorite brand overall?
MAC

Michelle Avatar
Michelle

Your favorite drugstore brand? Revlon

Your favorite brand to splurge on? Chanel

Your favorite brand overall? Chanel (their glossimers are addicting!)

Joanna Avatar
Joanna

Your favorite drugstore brand? Before it used to be L’Oreal but ever since Wet n Wild came out with the new lipsticks and eyeshadow palettes its definitely Wet N Wild!
Your favorite brand to splurge on? MAC & Urban Decay
Your favorite brand overall? MAC

Laura Avatar
Laura

Your favorite drugstore brand? – Bourjois! (don’t know if it exists in the US…)
Your favorite brand to splurge on? – MAC
Your favorite brand overall? – MAC

Hannah Avatar
Hannah

Your favorite drugstore brand? Revlon or Maybelline
Your favorite brand to splurge on? Chanel, definitely. I love the glossimers!
Your favorite brand overall? MAC. It has so many colors and I am big on their limited edition collections. 🙂

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nicci

Drugstore: Not sure…I haven’t bought anything from a durg store brand in a long time and almost every time I do, it goes in the trash or to a friend.
Splurge: Chanel – very evident this week. Bought a few items from the Soho collection & will pick up 1-2 nail polishes this Friday from the new collection. It is all worth it though! 🙂
Favorite: Chanel

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Carrie Ann

Your favorite drugstore brand? Revlon. It’s pretty much department store quality.

Your favorite brand to splurge on? NARS.

Your favorite brand overall? MAC, Urban Decay & Benefit.

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Tiffany H.

Your favorite drugstore brand? NYX for makeup and Rimmel for nail polish.
Your favorite brand to splurge on? NARS, their blushes are amazing!
Your favorite brand overall? MAC, it has such a large selection and they are the most affordable department store brand.

jen Avatar
jen

Drugstore: NYX

Surge: CHANEL and Bobbi Brown

Favorite: MAC (I think because I actually know what I like now instead of splurging on all collections) and Bobbi Brown!!!

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Anitacska

* Your favorite drugstore brand? Sleek
* Your favorite brand to splurge on? Guerlain
* Your favorite brand overall? Guerlain, Dior, Urban Decay and Mac – can’t choose just one 🙂

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LustreBonBon

* Your favorite drugstore brand? Fyrinnae or wet n wild or sleek
* Your favorite brand to splurge on? Chanel
* Your favorite brand overall? MAC or Urban Decay

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Hilary♥

–> Your favorite drugstore brand? Maybelline and Revlon

–> Your favorite brand to splurge on? MAC =) No doubt about it!!

–> Your favorite brand overall? MAC lol

Katie Avatar
Katie

* Your favorite drugstore brand? I can’t pick one – Revlon for lips and face, Maybelline for eyes.
* Your favorite brand to splurge on? Dior!
* Your favorite brand overall? MAC… can’t live without my MAC.

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PoorCollegeStudent

Drugstore: Revlon or NYX, but NYX is harder to find so Revlon usually.
Splurge: I recently splurged on Estee Lauder, I hope I don’t regret it! I splurge on MAC and Benefit most.
Overall: Probably MAC for the large selection of products that are mostly great and for brushes.

Lauren Avatar
Lauren

Revlon, Urban Decay, Urban Decay. 🙂

Revlon for good quality, affordable, lipsticks, and Urban Decay for ultra-pigmented eye shadows. (I actually find UD to be far more pigmented, eye-shadow wise than MAC… But maybe that’s just me?)

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CeeBee

* Your favorite drugstore brand?
Jordana – cheap as chips and decent quality, especially the blushes and the lipsticks, for $3 or $4 you really can’t go wrong. Even L’Oreal and Revlon in NZ are about $28+ a lipstick…

* Your favorite brand to splurge on?
Guerlain – hard to get in NZ, luxe packaging and gorgeous quality. I’ve never been disappointed when splurging on Guerlain.

* Your favorite brand overall?
Dior – the quints and skin shimmers are an obsession of mine!

Mary Avatar
Mary

Your favorite drugstore brand? Milani or Rimmel 🙂
Your favorite brand to splurge on? Yves Saint Laurent (the lip products, specifically)
Your favorite brand overall? Urban Decay

Elizabeth Avatar
Elizabeth

1. favorite drugstore brand: L’Oreal or Revlon.

2. favorite brand to splurge on: MAC!!! and NARS

3. favorite brand overall…MAC all the way 🙂

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monika-luiza

Your favorite drugstore brand? probably l’oreal, there are other “good” drugstorebrands but only special products from them work for me, but I know that if the bad economy should hit me, I would be able to buy all my make up from l’oreal
Your favorite brand to splurge on? chanel! love the simple packaging and IMO they make the best powders out there
Your favorite brand overall? mac!!! when I need something I go to mac first. If they haven’t what i was looking for, than I check other brands

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Lilac

Drugstore / less expensive: NYX, Maybelline, Fyrinnae
“Splurge”: MAC, Benefit is nice, too.
Overall: still MAC

hypothetically, MUFE would figure in, I`m curious about them, just it´s not available. I am pretty sure I’d like them, too.

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Pamela

fave drugstore brand-Revlon, they have great quality and the range of lipstick colors is extensive–something for all skins
fave splurge & overall-MAC, not too much of a splurge considering the $ of other similar department store brands

Erica Avatar
Erica

1. That’s a hard one, but I would say Japanese drugstore brands in general
2. Probably Bobbi Brown
3. I have mostly MAC in my collection, but still, I really like Bobbi Brown 🙂

Madii B Avatar
Madii B

Your favorite drugstore brand?
– hmm, it’s a tie. l’oreal hip & hard candy.

Your favorite brand to splurge on?
– ahhhh, everything?! lmao i’m gonna say mac.

Your favorite brand overall?
– mac, i’d have to say.

Ashley Avatar
Ashley

Your favorite drugstore brand?
-Revlon for everything but their mascaras.

Your favorite brand to splurge on?
-Benefit. Every now and then Ill buy the $35 blushes and concealer. They’re worth it!

Your favorite brand overall?
-MAC!

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venice

Drugstore brand: Prestige, Nichido (local brand)and Max Factor
High-end brand: Chanel, Guerlain, Awake and MUFE
Fave over-all brand: Chanel and Guerlain

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Michelle Thao

1. L’Oreal I guess since it seems like I have a few of their stuff.
2. MAC – since I can get them at the CCO 🙂
3. MAC – since I have mostly their stuff ;P Urban Decay comes in @ 2nd.

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Love Ann Dougherty

Your favorite drugstore brand?
Essence of Beauty (makeup brushes)
Your favorite brand to splurge on?
Laura Mercier
Your favorite brand overall?
MAC

Tracy Avatar
Tracy

Your favorite drugstore brand? Revlon I think (I don’t buy alot of drugstore makeup)

Your favorite brand to splurge on? Chanel

Your favorite brand overall? Paul & Joe

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kay kay

Your favorite drugstore brand?- i would have to say revlon, maybelline, nyx

Your favorite brand to splurge on?- mac and urban decay

Your favorite brand overall?- i dont know? i love them all!

Michele Avatar
Michele

Your favorite drugstore brand?
Revlon; because the quality is so good and they have great colours
Your favorite brand to splurge on?
Dior; they have amazing products and great packaging.
Your favorite brand overall?
Probably MAC; because of the amount of variety and because it just works

Indah Avatar
Indah

Drugstore: it’s kind of a tough race between Revlon, Maybelline, and L’oreal. It’s too hard for me to decide!
Splurge: Chanel!
Overall: has to be MAC! 😀

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Lana A

Your favorite drugstore brand? Bourjois
Your favorite brand to splurge on? Benefit
Your favorite brand overall? M.A.C. (love it, but hate splurging on it)

Ann Avatar
Ann

L’Oreal, Dior, … the last one I’m not sure. I can’t say that I have an absolute favorite. I’m still fairly new to the beauty craze. I haven’t tried enough products to decide on a fav.

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Miss Silver

Favourite drugstore brand: Maybelline, Australis, Almay and DB.
Favourite to splurge on: MAC, since MAC is pretty pricey here. Also Lancome, since that is the brand my mum wears. Also, Bodyshop is ok. NYX is another one I always go for.
Favourite overall: It’s a tie between NYX and Maybelline.

R Avatar
R

Your favorite drugstore brand?
i actually don’t really like any drugstore brands.. I like l’oreal mascara and revlon blush, though~
Your favorite brand to splurge on?
chanel and nars
Your favorite brand overall?
chanel and nars

Marie Avatar
Marie

My favorite drugstore brand is loreal. I like the hip shadows. Brand I splurge on is Dior. I love there lipsticks. Favorite brand overall is M.A.C.

Anna Avatar
Anna

* Your favorite drugstore brand: Maybelline! Love there new Dream Smooth Foundation. Also NYX for eyeshadows and Revlon for lipglosses and lipsticks.
* Your favorite brand to splurge on? Dior, Channel and Bobbi Brown
* Your favorite brand overall? MAC!!

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lazeny

I haven’t bought any makeup from a drugstore brand, however, I use Neutrogena for sunblock and Olay as my moisturizer.

The product to splurge on is Guerlain. Everything I buy from this brand seems so worth it.

My all over favorite brand is Shu Uemura. They have outstanding foundations and a large selection of point makeup.

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Ceriene

Your favorite drugstore brand? Majolica Majorca by Shiseido, KATE by Kanebo or Fasio by Kose
Your favorite brand to splurge on? Guerlain *A*
Your favorite brand overall? None! All brands have their ups and downs. None really stand out to me yet.

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Linnea

Drugstore Brand: probably GOSH, but I don’t think they’re in the US..
I do like Mark.(avon’s makeup brand) as well, or Rimmel.
Splurge: Chanel or Clinique.
Overall: I don’t really have a major brand that I have many many products from. I can’t say no brand has ever let me down either. 🙂

Diane Avatar
Diane

• Favorite drugstore brand: Tie between Maybelline & L’Oreal for their mascaras… but like Revlon for their Colorstay Liquid eyeliners.
• Favorite splurge: Bobbi Brown
• Favorite brand overall: MAC

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Vicki

I have a three way tie for favourite drugstore brands: Revlon, Rimmel and Annabelle
Favourite brand to splurge on: Pretty much anything at Sephora… Love Stila and Urban Decay
Favourite brand overall: Quo (Shopper’s Drug Mart specialty brand only available in Canada)

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