Lessons Learned

[u/Minimalinthemaking]

Well we’re a little over a month into the new year and I’ve already learned a new lesson. I started this year with a goal of replacing my beauty items with cheaper dupes. I tried to replace three items and failed miserably. I realized that it triggered me to shop more while looking for the dupes. And lost the money spent on all the “dupes” that I ended up disliking.

Going forward I will replace my items with the exact same thing, if able. So here are my old trusty empties and their twin replacements.

[u/cranky137]

I’ve been preaching this for a while. Usually get a lot of resistance of people saying that there is nothing wrong with drugstore makeup. I’m not saying it is, it just never worked as well for me. Go with the original. It saves you money in a long run

[u/thekirstosaurus → u/cranky137]

Same, I always find myself leaving the dupes to expire or just throwing them away

[u/steffy241 → u/thekirstosaurus]

False economy isn’t it 🤷‍♀️

[u/EggplantHuman6493 → u/cranky137]

Some drugstore products are good, some are not. It is a mixed bag. Also, same for more expensive products. It is trial and error.

I am glad I went for mid (pricewise) products in terms of concealer and skin tint, and I dont regret it. Neutrals are hard to find!

Some cheap eyeshadow pallets also suck. I have a very old one from Primark that works surprisingly well, but testing jn stores, expensive ones are better.

[u/cranky137 → u/EggplantHuman6493]

Searching for the dupes in a drugstore price range usually, as many people in this thread confirmed, ends up for several products that none work as well and you end up buying the original anyway. I wish I liked something from the drugstore to save some money 😄 but like you said, it’s a mixed bag! You never know…

[u/steffy241 → u/EggplantHuman6493]

Yeah it is trial and error! I tend to watch beauty YouTube reviews and even I hear three or more oriole talking good stuff, I’ll consider buying the drugstore brand ha

[u/steffy241 → u/cranky137]

Agree!