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BarryM, SUQQU, Laduree, Lunasol, GOSH. With the internet, you can get nearly anything you want (just depends on how much you want to pay and/or how many hoops you want to jump through), but I’d love to be able to see/touch/easily obtain from those brands.

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Plurabelle Avatar

Catrice is my favourite brand for lipsticks. I’ve never found another formula of lipstick that I actually like. They’re so lightweight they feel like a balm, and so pigmented that they look like a perfect (usually glossy) stain. Most of their other stuff is good too – eyeliner, powder and especially their nail polish – but I never got into their blushes.

Ryou Avatar

Agh, so many! THREE, Addiction, SUQQU, Rouge Bunnny Rouge, KIKO. All but the last one are luxury brands that you can find online, but the price point makes it really hard to buy their products blind. The last one is an affordable brand that I wish is available to ship internationally, period, as I want basically ALL of their eyeshadow sticks.

Kristine Avatar

I think I’ve seen GOSH stuff at a super walgreens, which is like a huge, fancy walgreens with half a floor dedicated to beauty products. You should try to see if there’s one near you! I’ve been wanting to try Sleek products forever but hate paying for shipping. I also am dying to try Chi Chi products every time I see shaaanxo use them!

xamyx Avatar

Considering they were *the* makeupnbrand for the film & television industries, which were basically put on the grid here in the US, I feel it’s suchna classic American brand. Justnabout every major film and television show pre-1960s lists Max Factor in the credits… Unfortunately, P&G didn’t want MF to compete with CoverGirl after they acquired MF, and revamped CG.

Emily Avatar

Hi, Christine– Sorry if you already know about this and either work with the site or don’t care, but while looking for a swatch, I saw a group of your images via google. I expected to arrive on your site (where I spend waaay too much time and have for several years!), but instead I found myself on a site with a different name. It was, however, all your content and photos. I wanted to pass it on in case it was unknown to you. If you don’t want the site listed here (for instance, if you need to get it shut down) and have to delete this, I apologize for putting it here. Didn’t know where else I could put the information! Here’s a link to the site with your review: [link redacted]

Ammara Avatar

Nyx, BarryM, Milani, Wet n Wild, Sleek. I’m picking all drugstore brands because i know the markup on medium priced or high end will be huge, so I’d rather see a bigger selection of these products that I can see and feel in person, not order online blindly.

Kate Avatar

Rouge Bunny Rouge
Le Metier de Beauté
Burberry
Tom Ford
Chantecaille

In fact, I can’t even order Burberry, TF or most of LMdB products because retailers in the US won’t ship those products to canada. Some of those brands are sold at one or two counters, but in a country this size, that’s the same as being unavailable.

Chiara Avatar

Some holt renfrew locations have chantecaille and burberry! They will transfer the products to a store closest to you for free if your closest HR doesnt carry the product as well…

Kate Avatar

Thanks Chiara! Mine doesn’t have them, but I do think I’m going to try calling up the stores that do in order to see if I can track something down. I had a business trip to Vancouver last year and I made time to storm the HR there and attach the Burberry and Chantecaille counters…

Lydia Avatar

I would love to be able to get Marc Jacobs,Tarte, Urban Decay, OCC and Bite Beauty! I can get them online but I can’t see them in real life so getting things like foundation and concealer is very tricky. And getting them sent to me in Australia is very costly!

Zoe Avatar

Tom Ford, Giorgio Armani, Lorac, Sleek and Bourjois – its very difficult to buy all of these online (apart from Sleek) in New Zealand unless you use a package forwarding service, and I don’t think we have a big enough market for them here unfortunately!

Liz Avatar

I agree: anyone who didn’t list Kiko either has access in their country or has probably never tried it. Kiko is pretty much exactly like MAC, but without the super-limited-limited-bs and for 1/4 of the price.

As for me: Maquillage, Paul & Joe and Etude house. All of these are fairly easy to get online, but a physical store where I can play around with colours, textures and cool products would be funnnnnn

MachineGunMeow Avatar

True, the world is so much smaller now with internet shopping. But it would be nice to see, touch and trial products before committing to them and you can’t always do this with online purchases. Not to mention shipping fees which can be prohibitive living on this end of the world.
The brands I’d love to see in Australia (and at comparative pricing to their home country) are:

Hakuhodo
Anastasia Beverly Hills
Urban Decay
Charlotte Tilbury
Make Up For Ever

Special mention to Phyto, Kat von D and Edward Bess.

Clamavi Avatar

Well, I’d love to have Inglot, Hourglass, Tarte, Stila, Soap and Glory, Wet’n’Wild, Tarina Tarantino, Bath and Body Works, Yankee Candle, Primark, Topshop, Forever 21 (some clothes shop are here but not much and they don’t sell all their collection, for example, we don’t have access to the bigger sizes…), the list can go on and on.
It’s funny because in France, everyone loves our pharmacy brands and luxury brands but we don’t have all the rest, and it’s getting frustrating when we watch all these English/American hauls… Our drugstore make up brands stop at L’Oréal, Rimmel and Maybelline, qualitywise…

Genevieve Avatar

Well, coming from Australia it would be more like 10 Top Brands! We can get say Bobbi Brown, but only a limited selection of their range sold at one shop for double the price…..
I would love to see:
Urban decay
Bobbi Brown (whole range at the US price)
Tarina Tarantina
Bare Minerals
NARS – full range, more shops
Smashbox
Charlotte Tilbury
Hourglass
Make Up Forever

xamyx Avatar

Even in the US, we get limited products in stores, and I live in Los Angeles (the 2nd largest citynin the country!)… All of the brands you mentioned, along with a few others, still require online purchasing (with the exception of UD), or driving miles to several different stores.

A. Mar Avatar

IsaDora, Lumene, Institut Esthederm, Vichy, Avene. I can usually find pieces online but I wish the range were more easily available to me.

Natalie Avatar

I’ve never ordered anything from Sleek, but if it was available in the stores in the US, I’m sure I would! I would also like to see Fyrannae (hope I spelled that right!) I would love to check out their pigments and loose blushes in store!

tzwiggy Avatar

1. NARS
2. MUFE
3. Urban Decay
4. Burberry
5. Giorgio Armani

I also miss Hourglass, theBalm, Too Faced, Tarte, Shu Uemura, Suqqu, Laura Mercier, Bobbi Brown and Benefit.

We don’t really have any intetesting makeup here, mostly brands like Chanel, Dior, Clinique and Estee Lauder. MAC stores are only in the larger cities, often several hours away.

Veronica Avatar

SUQQU, Beaute, Missha, Lunasol, and Bourjois. In general, I’m kind of surprised that more Asian brands haven’t made it into the American mainstream – their face products actually outdo a lot of our own, particularly their SPF lines.

Wednesday Avatar

Tom Ford, Chanel, Suqqu, etc…etc.. I’m in Canada and there are a lot of brands that I have to go through major hoops for. Many of the major US department stores are no longer selling cosmetics to Canada. I ship to my USA addy and then to Canada. It gets expensive. The alternative: trying to figure out when collections will be released for Canada…and then finding them..where I’m located..hrmm.. Wally world and Costco reign supreme. Hell yes, sometimes I miss my former life in the big city. Here, the release dates seem to be always behind the curve and they do no always receive all items in collections and very few department stores carry the seriously luxurious or lesser known lines.

xamyx Avatar

I’m in Los Angeles, and although it seems most products can *technically* be found within the city, they’re all divided among locations, and spread all over town. So, even if I *know* a release date, by the time I get to any subsequent stores, they’re out of stock, LOL! Transportation costs end up making getting the products more expensive, plus all the costs associated with going to a mall (especially with a little one in tow…). Also, as far as Sephora goes, it seems they *never* restock the shelves!

Maddie Avatar

BarryM, Lioele, ChiChi, MaxFactor X, and Makeup Store. By the way, Christine, some of the newer Walgreens (“Super” Walgreens) have been carrying European drugstore makeup brands like Gosh, No. 7 and others I can’t remember right now (coffee hasn’t kicked in). The one I go to is at the intersection of Washington St and School St in Boston, MA in case you can communicate with Walgreens HQ and reference this store.

Aleks Avatar

I live in the UK, so first of all I’d like to see us catch up to the US in terms of available products from some brands (Maybelline especially – Colour Tattoos, Colour Whispers, wider range of the Vivids lipsticks). Similar thing goes for Nyx – Butter lispticks, Macaron lipsticks…
As for the 5 specific brands: Sephora (they have Sephora everywhere else in Europe, why not here?), Kat Von D, Milani, Bite and Lorac!

Cathy Avatar

We have NYX and Maybelline, but the ranges may be reduced. There are only about half a dozen tattoos and the range is reduced in NYX. But I don’t think it’s a bad thing. The range is reasonable and there’s something for everyone. Too much choice isn’t always good…too hard to choose, lol!

Josee Avatar

Jouer, Barry M, Sleek, Soap & Glory Makeup (we have the bath and body products and some lip products but I’d love to see all the makeup products that British beauty bloggers rave about) and everything from Bourjois (living in Canada I’m lucky that we have quite a few of their products but there’s always something from this brand that I want to try and I never find it at my local drugstore).

Judith Avatar

I wish we had KIKO and Catrice and Bourjois (couldn’t think of two more). I fell in love with these brands the very first time I traveled to Europe and I’ve been in love ever since, bringing product back with me every time I’ve gone back.

Chanel Avatar

I live in NYC which have many brands of makeup which I’m satisfied with but I would love to see sleek. Also, it’s crazy but I see a lot of Gosh cosmetics in drugstores (duane reade mostly) around NYC.

Nikki Avatar

Kiko Cosmetics (only one location in New Jersey – we need MORE), Sleek (I need ALL their products), Barry M! I go to London and stock up!

Sylirael Avatar

Well, I live in the brand desert, so…all of them? 😛 If I had to choose, I’d probably actually say a few more of the drugstore ones, actually. Because I’m a lipstick girl, stuff like Milani, Wet n Wild, Nyx, etc would be great, especially because even though the price would increase here (inevitably, LOL/cry) I feel like the end result would still be affordable. For high end? I’d take Laura Mercier and Giorgio Armani to start with.

Also, can we get some lipstick Queen up in here? 😉

Melissa R C Avatar

I would like to see Illamasqua in the US, we only have a handful of their nail polishes sold at Sephora. I would love to try their makeup line. I would also like to see Sleek cosmetics sold here, I purchased 3 eyeshadow palettes when I was in London last winter and am very impressed with them.

Annija Avatar

Urban Decay, Benefit, Tarte, Sleek and MAC. But if it was sold here, in Latvia, it would be twice as expensive, so I would propbably order it online anyways.

Avis Avatar

GOSH has some excellent stuff; I particularly like their Prime and Set Powder (not as a primer, but as a good setting powder for foundation, or just on its own) and it’s only £10. Their eye pencils and shadow sticks are good too.
But for a lot of things which people are talking about here, I would have to go to London or Birmingham – Charlotte Tilbury or Suqqu, for example – unless I wanted to order them by post, which means not being able to try them out first. Don’t imagine that they are on every high street!!
What I would love in the UK – and why not as they seem to be everywhere else? – is of course Sephora. We used to have one in London, I’m sure I remember it, but that was a long time ago.

MerryChillaz Avatar

NARS, Laura Mercier, Tarte, Tom Ford and Charlotte Tilbury and Covergirl. I live in Portugal and our Sephora`s don`t sell those brands. But we have GOSH, KIKO, Catrice, Bourjois, Inglot and others.

WARPAINTandUnicorns Avatar

Inglot (NEED a flagships store in Toronto!)
Sleek
Kiko
Rouge Bunny Rouge
Tom Ford

I like to see an expansion on:
NYX
Milani
Elf

I’m getting sick of the big 4 (Revlon,Loreal, Cover Girl, Maybelline) Dominating the drug store aisles. I wish they take a gamble and drop one off them or cut down their display to make more room for other brands! My Target has double of everything in terms of product for the big 4 but the teeny tiniest of display for NYX and Elf.

LaraLeaf Avatar

I would love to see Kiko nail polish! Bunches of it! And Essence – Ulta stocks a few nail polishes (but never the special collections) but I would like to see racks of it. And some Golden Rose would be nice. 🙂

Kimmy Avatar

Oh so excited for this survey! Thank you.

1) Dior Cosmetics
2) L’oreal (Not just the Travel Exclusive stuff, but the regular line)
3) La Roche Posay
4) Ole Henrisken
5) LUSH

And generally, I would love if the Brands that are in The Bahamas, actually bring more of their limited edition stuff over. I know we get the Travel Exclusives, which is cool, but I always missed out the LE stuff.

Pauline Avatar

Wish Canadian retailers would carry: Lorac, Sleek, Black up, Covergirl Queen, Inglot, Tom Ford, Cover FX,
Oftentimes we get certain collections and then some marketer decides to only let us have certain shades. So Frustrating!!

Tangie Wimberly Avatar

I’m lucky my top brands are sold in the US. But maybe Soap&Glory.. Their makeup products I would like to try. Like their eyeshadow Quad and powder.. But that’s all I can think of.

Luiza Avatar

I would love it if we had Too Faced, Tarte, Beauty Blender, Bobbi Brown and also Bath and Body Works here in Brazil… But most of all I wish makeup and cosmetics in general weren’t so expensive! We pay double the price you do in the States (think 30 dollars for a MAC eyeshadow – ouch!)

Michelle Avatar

Sleek, SUQQU, Inglot, BarryM, and Charlotte Tilbury.

Also, I’ve never heard of Lunasol until you just mentioned it in this post, so I looked it up – the products look amazing!! It just so happens that I’m going to Hong Kong in a couple of months, so I’m pretty excited to potentially buy something from Lunasol!

Tracey Avatar

OMG. Living in New Zealand we don’t have a great range of brands here. I would love it if Sephora and Ulta came here. All I can say is thank god for internet shopping, but the postage amount and time wait isn’t great.

Patrick Avatar

Sleek, barryM, Milani (in all of Canada…just not selected area and stores)same with ELF, and Charlotte Tilbury….and I’m gonna cheat and add Kiko and MUA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha

Vivian Avatar

1. Lorac (sephora used to carry lorac, but not any more. And lorac doesn’t ship to canada)
2. Kevyn aucoin
3. Suqqu (heard a lot of good things about this brand)
4. Tom Ford (really hard to find it)
5. Charlotte tilbury

Gabriela Avatar

Oh God… Only five? In Argentina we have a very small selection of makeup brands, is so sad :(.
Let me think:
1) Sleek, because I really, really love Sleek eyeshadows and blushes
2) Tom Ford because… Tom Ford.
3) Bourjois
4) Nars
5) Too Faced

Toni Avatar

I always thought you guys in the US were so lucky as it seemed you had them all so it was nice to see some European brands on the wish list. I’m from the UK. My wish list is Milani, Wet n Wild,Lorac,Kat Von D and it cosmetics.

Nina Marie Avatar

Nars, Revlon, Rimmel, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Sleek and BarryM. Luckily Urban Decay is conning to Germany soon, otherwise it would be on top of the list!

Tova Avatar

Bourjois, Kat Von D, Sleek, Urban Decay, Bite Beauty. Urban Decay might be available at Sephora… but we only have a few Sephora’s in Sweden, unfortunately. Bite Beauty and Kat Von D is only possible to get if I use a shipping service from the US. :/

Sheila Avatar

In the Netherlands I would like to see Nars, Lorac, Urban Decay, Tom Ford and Hourglass as high end brands. We used to have Sephora here but not anymore unfortunately..
In the drugstore I’d like to see Covergirl, Milani, Wet ‘n wild, Physician’s formula and Sonia Kashuk.
It would also be nice to see Makeup Geek and Whitening Lightning in actual stores, not only online.

But I am not complaining, we can buy brands such as Sleek, Max Factor, Gosh, Bourjois and Catrice.

candleashes Avatar

Sleek, Gosh, Oriental Princess, In2It, Charlotte Tilbury, Bourjois, Japanese eyelesh brands, wish Bioderma was easy to purchase, Soap and Glory cosmetics (not just some skin care and lip gloss; never understood why Sephora carries lip gloss, but not any other makeup)
Hmmm… top five you say?
It’s amazing how much stuff is not available when you really think about it

Natalia Avatar

I am quite sure they are available in my country (which is Russia :)) somewhere for a ridiculous amount of money, but these are that I want to be available in my city, in strict order of preference:
1. Stila.
2. Becca
3. Tarte
4. Dermalogica
5. Bite Beauty

janechemi Avatar

GOSH is available at most duane reades and some walgreens.

i wish we had sleek, barryM, peripera, etude, tony moly and jill stuart

Carla Avatar

I live in the U.S., and I can think of five brands that I can’t readily get here, but would like to be able to obtain more easily/less expensively:
Face Atelier – I can get it, but the shipping is very expensive
Art Deco – overseas shipping; hard to find
Kryolan – only a limited selection of products is available here
Illamasqua – Bloomingdales.com now carries some Illamasqua products, but not the whole range
Sleek
Barry M

Carla Avatar

Oh, yeah – and I want Catrice in the U.S.
NOT that I’m makeup-deprived, by any stretch of the imagination, but since I’ll buy only from cruelty-free brands, and there are so many great cruelty-free options among the European brands …

Sydney Avatar

Urban Decay. I also wish Make up forever had a store. We have one place in australia it’s available online but I’m pretty sure you can’t try out the products unless you go to the make up school that sells them. Also the city it’s in is like 15 hours away by car.

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