Looks like a good list! If your makeup budget is really small, Wet n Wild, Rimmel, Jordana, and Milani all make some excellent products for between $1 and $5. Well the Rimmel may run a bit more but it’s often on sale. Also worth noting that many drugstore brands are actually owned by the same parent company as the fancy stuff, and these products are often manufactured in the same factories. What this means is if you know what to look for you can often get basically the same formula as designer makeup -sometimes exactly the same, minus the fragrances and packaging - for under $10. For example L’Oreal owns Giorgio Armani cosmetics, and some of their eye shadows are basically the same thing (see L’Oreal Infallible vs. GA Eyes to Kill).

You can find a lot of these designer/drugstore dupe lists on pinterest and some makeup subreddits, plus there’s a website, Dupe That, where you can also search for dupes.

Another place to look for designer dupes is from Asian brands. Etude House for example makes brow products at a price that put Anastasia to shame, and you can usually find them for a good price on Amazon and Ebay. Only thing is if you’re ordering them from say, the US, you must do your homework on the seller or risk getting either a fake or expired product.

Haha, sorry this is a whole essay, I just really love makeup :)