Episode three sixty Saving Money on Makeup.
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Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen, my name is Jill, and today we are talking about makeup and this is something that this is an episode we wanted to do for ourselves, and so you get to benefit from our findings. And if you are trying to find affordable makeup that looks good and actually fits your complexion and your skin type and all that, then yeah, we hope you benefit from it too.
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This is true, this is actually true, so makeup. We have done a few kind of like beauty episodes in the past. We have got let me find It here. We've got episode three thirty six self care and healthcare treatments for free or low costs, so that can include facials, massages, stuff like that, and then episode twenty five we did Frugal Beauty, all natural and affordable beauty and skincare products.
But we really haven't done anything dedicated to beauty literally since episode twenty five, which was.
Like six years ago.
So I know. So we're coming back around. And we did a poll on the frind letter. So if you love the show and you want to be involved with the episodes we make and the direction we take these episodes, you have to join the friend letter. Sign up for the friend letter Frugal Friends podcast dot com. So we did one and overwhelmed by all the products and brands. Was your biggest frustration with buying makeup because there are
just so many products and brands. But then we also asked, are you actually more frustrated with finding the right skincare routine? And that was the second highest answer, So we might do a skincare episode in the future, and because kind of divide episode twenty five and go deeper into the skincare portion, but this one, we're going deeper into the makeup,
specifically into products and brands. So we're gonna hit some overarching rules of thumb in the first article, and then we are going to dive into specific products and brands in the second article. But yeah, so we wanted to also just highlight this one comment from Denise because we just realized literally maybe last week, that you could leave comments on the polls, and we didn't know that, so
any comments you've left, we're just now reading them. But she says there are too many choices and products are so expensive when you try to get the best product, it turns out doesn't work for you, so you have to shell out even more money for another brand. She said, this happens to me with Foundation because of like full coverage, we're going to be talking a lot about Foundation. I did the research, read the articles, bought what I thought
was a great substitute, and Nope, barely works. So now I'm out the money and the money I have to pay to purchase and try and true yet pricey product. It's very, very frustrating. So Denise, we have heard you. This episode is for you, Denise, and for anybody feeling like Denise. So let's get into it. The first article is make Up on a Budget, how to get a flawless look without breaking the bank. Jill your thoughts.
This one was really helpful. Some of it repeated itself, which is totally fine. We'll just summarize it for you, but I think a really good summary of here's what you can be focusing on, here's what's fluff and so first things first, they are recommending that we can buy
drugstore brands instead of designer ones. So this of course is going to come down to you doing your own research, knowing what does and doesn't work on your skin, and that's part of the frustration that we hear you, Denise, you're talking about is buying something, trying it, finding it doesn't work, and then you're out that money. I think that is where I do like these stores that allow you to try products kind of in store and sample them.
The downside is that it doesn't allow you time to know, well, then what happened when I took the makeup off, how did my skin react? And some of that is just going to be trial and error. But essentially they're saying that a lot of these drug store brands are actually super comparable to maybe your more luxury brands as far as ingredients in the product. So this is where we can rely a lot on reviews as well as just comparing products in these different brands. What are you seeing
that you do want? What's the luxury brand that's trying to be sold to you? And are there comparable products? Are there even dupes that can be found through maybe Lene Laurel Revlon who are definitely going to be a fraction of the price. So just because it's sold at a drug store, let's not just write it off and feel like we have to buy the most expensive we
all know, most expensive doesn't necessarily mean better. So this is where we can implement our problem solving, our research, our knowledge of self, and just know that you're not necessarily making the cheap decision. You might be making a very frugal, good stewarding great decision. In a drug store brand, maybe it doesn't have as pretty of packaging, but chances are it's very similar in nature and in ingredients to maybe some of the designer brands.
M Yeah, no, we love a drug store brand. I will say that I ventured into Alta for the first time several months ago because I wanted to find a tinted moisturizer that was like a foundation, and so for something specialty like that, I wanted to I wanted to get at one thing that was very high quality and then have all the rest of my makeup be kind of drug store because I I have a tinted moisturizer
with SPF. THO, those were my two things that needs to have SPF and it needs to be a tinted moisturizer, and I have one from it's I think it's like a BB like a Mabeline or something from Walmart or Target, and it's it's fine, but it doesn't have a lot of coverage. So I went to Alta to find one that covers like a foundation, and I did, and I spent forty five dollars on it. And I don't wear it every day. I only wear it when I'm gonna
be out to see people. If I'm not you know, seeing people or you know, doing my makeup that day, and then I wear my other tinted moisturizer that I got from the drug store. So there's a balance here too. If you wear makeup every single day, maybe you don't want to be spending forty five dollars on your tinted moisturize, or maybe you want to be getting just a foundation
with SPF from Target. Decide what's right for you. Pick your one thing that maybe you want to do really good quality, and then stick with everything else drugstore brand. It's up to you. But the next thing on the list, and well the next two on the list, we're going to combine. I think the most important things. Don't jump on trendy shades and to buy the right shades. So if you were with us for episode three point fifty five,
we talked about capsule wardrobes. But the secret to a good capsule wardrobe that works for you is to know the colors that look best for you. So you're undertones, overtoneshw all those colory things that I don't understand, but had somebody else look at me and tell me, I highly recommend if you are not if you were like me and don't really understand color. So that goes for makeup.
So we weren't just talking about a capsule wardrobe. But knowing your colors helps you find the right shades of makeup, and it helps you avoid trendy shades because a problem that both Jill and I had was buying these lipsticks that look good on other people that we want to look good on us, but then put them on and they don't, and just like Denise, like you, then you waste the money that you saved. It's not that the quality is bad, it's that you just it just wasn't the right shade for you.
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And I don't think there's a right and wrong shade. I think if you are somebody who has warm undertones and you want to wear makeup for cool, undertoned people like and you feel confident in that, and you feel like you look good in that, like do it. Don't let anybody tell you can't. But if that's not you, if you just are have spent years buying, Like I bought this purple lipstick because it looked good on somebody else and I was like, I want to be bold like that girl, and then I put it on it
I was like, I am not bold. I look sick. So if that's you, then then finding your color palette can be really useful. And I found a website called Temptalia. Temptalia I don't know, like temptation, but Temptalia. It will It has all of the name brand and drug store shades of like makeup, and it will tell you what the color is because they all have these weird names and I don't know what it means. So like I
have a warm autumn color palette. So coral rust and brick red those are my like shades for lipstick, but none of them are called coral rust or brest.
Like vibrant vixen at midnight, Like I don't know.
What color that is, right, So like I will go and look at the liquid lipstick that we'll tell you about later, and I'll look it up on Temptalia and it will tell me what the actual color. It will interpret what Maybelene or Revlon says that color is like it's a a warm coral or it's a cool toned red, and that can help me figure out, Oh, it's a cool tone. I don't want that. I want a warm toned or a neutral, you know, something like that. So
highly recommend Temptalia. It's mainly for makeup dupes. So if you know that you love a name brand or a high end brand and you want to find the drug store dupe to it, that's actually mainly what this website is for. It will give you comparable drugstore dupes. I love that, and I use it for the color to find the right shade.
Yeah. I can't emphasize enough knowing what colors are going to be best for you. I think this is what can allow us to simplify and have a capsule makeup collection and just be really confident and not be wasting the money on buying this, buying that, not even because we see it on somebody else, just because we like how the color looks in the store, and then we realize it's not for us. And then when it comes
to if you're choosing foundations or powders. This is especially where I like being able to try the products out. I think I personally have only been in a Sephora like once before, but I do now know that you can try out these different shades and see I would recommend trying to get as close to sunlight as possible.
That's been a tricky one for me is it's not going to look the same under their fluorescent lights as it does when you then get home, So try and get as much natural light when you're trying these things in store. But then I like their tip that if you're stuck between two different colors shades and you're not sure which one's right for you, go for the lighter one. Always go for the lighter one. Don't do the darker shade. It's not going to look as good on you, So
lighter is going to blend better than the darker. Number four tip on here is to shop for versatile products. So when you're buying your makeup, making sure that you buy things that can work in a multitude of different ways as much as possible. So with Concealer, you might want to buy a lighter shade that could also be used as a highlighter. You can apply foundation and bronzer. So trying to find things I know that they also created,
like blush that could also be shadow. So if that's your jam, trying to find things that can be versatile, I would maybe add on to hear just simplifying. So maybe if you're not the type of person who wants to put the same thing on your eyes as you're doing on your cheeks, but finding the palette of what's the typical eye shadow shades that I go for. I don't need all of these things cluttering up my bathroom, but I just want these three to five different colors.
I know that this is going to work with a variety of things, or I just need these one to three different lipsticks. So really scaling down whether or not it's versatile, but at least simplified. And I think we run into having this massive collection when we don't exactly know our colors and we're kind of unsure of what looks good on us. So making some sort of investment of Okay, what is going to be my daily wear kind of make up? What do I feel best in?
I think this is almost too pushing back on the advice to get all of the free samples as you possibly can. That was in an article that we almost did for this episode and decided we don't like any of these tips, because yeah, there are ways to get
free makeup by doing all of the samples. But I think that's what leads to so much confusion and a complicated makeup drawer is we've gotten all these samples, but they're made for the masses, not for you as an individual, and it's not your color, but you keep it because you feel bad and you don't want to throw it away, and now everything's just complicated. So if that's you, you can push back on all of the free samples and spend the five dollars on the thing that actually just
looks good on you. And that's going to take some time, but I would say worth it, whether you've got a friend who's a makeup artist, or you do spend the money to go to an alta USh Sephora and have them do your daily wear makeup and figure out what shades are good on you, and then you can really know these are the makeups that I'm actually going to
spend on. These are the colors that I'm going to buy and you don't have to mess around with all the other confusing stuff that the Internet wants you to purchase.
Absolutely amen, I would take that piece of advice if you don't take anything out, So just like, buy what works and keep using it. The fifth is one you can take or leave. Buy your must halves before you splurge on extras. I would say, just to minimize your must haves. For me, I don't wear eyeshadow. I just have made it a point to say I don't. That's just not something I'm gonna wears as makeup. I'm not going to do it. Sometimes I don't wear blush, but I don't wear I don't wear a lot of blush.
There are people who love makeup and love doing makeup. One of my favorite Instagram accounts to follow is Freedom Barbie. She's a PI and she says all these fun PI stories. A private investigator, she says all these fun stories from when like she's on jobs and she does her makeup
while she's doing it. So if you love to do makeup like she's so passionate about it, then that is something that you spend on and you don't necessarily have to take these tips you can take the tips and say no and save in other places so that you have more money to buy the good quality makeups that you want to try. But if you're like me and makeup, I just want to like look presentable. I want to look put together. There are days sure I'll go out
in public without makeup. I'm not wearing makeup right now, but I like wearing it. I don't need it, but I like it. And if you're like that, then I would say, just have your like five five staples. So for me, that's a tinted moisturizer, a really good quality tinted moisturizer, eye liner. Because I only have half a eyebrow on either side, I guess bybrow eyebrow, and then eyeliner, mascara, and then a lipstick. Those are my five. I don't
have anything else. I literally have five things for makeup. I have one extra lipstick and I'm trying to find a good rust colored lipstick. So I want to have seven, but I have six. I don't want to lie I have six. I have two lipsticks and that's it. So decide what you want and just let that be enough. You don't have to have a ton of everything or everything, one of everything.
I'm resonating with this so much, and I'm laughing over here because I think it's just hitting me right now that like, we might not be the best people to be doing an episode on takeup because I don't know much. And that's yeah, I do. I have a foundation, a finishing powder which woo fancy cover, I know you faous, A blush mascara, eyeliner, eyebrow pencil. Yeah, I mean I literally one lash stick. Uh huh.
I have seven pieces and I want eight. Yeah, that's what it is.
We really have simplified and we can talk more about that because maybe that is some of the tips that that people want. But this became also really clear to me. I've been traveling with friends, going different places, and I mean, I guess in some of the circles people might view me as the high maintenance person, and then in other circles, I'm like, I don't even know what you're talking about.
I was on a trip recently with some girls and they're like, okay, and we're gonna want to get to the hotel, you know, about two hours before we go out, so we got time to like get ready, and I'm like, I don't know what that means. Is what is two hours to get ready mean? I'm like, I'm ready now. It's not gonna get better than this. I own not gonna get buy things of makeup, and I don't know anything else to do with it. I've got one lipstick, I've got the way that I put on my eyeliner
and that's it. Like my my travel makeup literally fits in like a two by four inch pouch.
And name that's all my makeup. That's all of my makeup fits in this small pouch that actually Travis found when he was working at the airport, like before he got his license, he was cleaning airplanes and he found this little pouch that I still use for my makeup. And that's what I travel, That's what I use on a daily basis. That's what I travel with.
And if you follow us on Instagram, you'll probably see us post a little snippet of this episode. This is what we look like. This isn't we don't do? Yeh Jen said, she doesn't wear makeup. You look beautiful. I admire it. This is the makeup that I do. I do no more makeup for attending a wedding than I do for recording this podcast, Like, it's simple, this is what we're doing. We're not spending a lot of money on this.
Yeah, ultimately it's not about us. But I hope that we can normalize this because I think on YouTube on social media, everyone looks so perfect and put together, and I want us to normalize like, yes, makeup is great, there's nothing against makeup. I love wearing makeup. I love shaving my armpits. But it's not a necessity, like one hundred percent of the time.
And no judgment. Yeah, some people like this is their hobby. They love it, right, this is going to be the value of where they choose to spend on. And probably they're not listening to this episode because they're going to spend on the designer brands and they love it. And I admire the people who know how to contour. Never in my life have I ever even attempted to try to contour or understand what that's like. Uh, but I
love it when people really it's like artistry. To me, it's a form of artwork that you can do on yourself. I think it's beautiful. It's not where I am choosing to spend my time if someone wants to do it to me, I'd probably love it. That'd be so fun. But I just I don't know, I don't know how to do it.
But yeah, but let's normalize being in the safe in the spaces that we want to be in, being in the safe space. Like like a few weeks ago, we had a Bill of the Week where she, you know, she'd wanted to shave her head and never felt comfortable and finally just did it, and she's living in her
in her space, in her truth, and it's beautiful. So like lit so makeup, no makeup doesn't have to be all in or noth like are nothing, you know, Let's just pick our Let's just pick our sure, live in our delation.
In this Yeah, okay. Last one on this list is number six. Just to be aware of expiration dates. I this is a reminder to myself. I'm classic for just using it until it runs out, even if it takes two years to run out. And that's a problem because it can expire it. I think probably one of the biggest concerns with that is as you're touching your face with it on a regular basis, you're gonna get bacteria in your makeup, and that's just not great, especially your
eye makeup, your mascara, your eyeliners. You want to be especially aware of when did you first open it, how long have you been using it for. That's gonna be an area that you might want to be willing to throw away if it's past its expiration date. Nobody needs eye infections, so good tip. Yeah, the not necessarily money saving tip, well, I guess it is depending on what kind of medical costs come along with your eye If.
You get an eye infection, yeah, that's a medical cost. Save money on eye infections. So our next article, we're getting into it. Let's talk about products. Let's talk about brands. Here's the here's what we used to come up with these. I don't like the articles that are like we compiled the best things based on Amazon reviewers. I hate that because half of Amazon reviews are fake. You can go to fake spot, get that chrome extension. You can and
it helps you spot fake like reviews. So you're not getting these products that say they have like four point eight stars, but half of them are fake five stars. So not hashtag not sponsored.
Okay, I want.
To hear from the experts. The makeup experts. I want to hear from people who really review these products in house. That's why I love Wirecutter, which is owned by New York Times. I love Wirecutter because they don't I mean, they'll take into consideration the reviews only to decide what they test and then they all they test in house. So that is the I hold that standard for everything else in life. Birdie b y r d Ie is really good. They do in house testing for makeup and
beauty products. But another one, a good one, is reviewed and so this article is from USA Today, but it was written by Reviewed and it's shop the best drug store makeup products from Lorel, f Revlon and more ELF. Sorry, uh so this is the article that we took uh and do have some of our own recommendations as well. I'm going to compile this list into an Amazon list because it'll be easier for me to give you one
URL instead of six or twelve. So I haven't made it yet, but it'll be at Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash Makeup.
I'm gonna write it down calling it.
Yeah, we're gonna call it, and all of these are gonna be there. So let's start with the first one. We're looking at mascara, all right, so our favorite, not our favorite, but Reviewed's favorite and my favorite.
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I got two options for you. One is from Reviewed, in the other they're both from Reviewed, but I looked their actual like test of mascaras. So the one on this article is the Milani ten in one. M I L A N I. That is a brand easily found at Target, Walmart, Walgreens, and it's their high It says highly rated ten in one. Like the name of the mascara is highly rated. It's not just a highly they're
really doing it. Wow, good for you, Malani. So it's their highly rated ten in one is their top pick because it's easy to apply to the lashes without clumping.
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But in their test on a bunch of drugstore mascaras, they did find that it comes off within water with rubbing stuff like that. So if you plan to be crying or rubbing your eyes, maybe not if you're a crier, then I would say this is the one I use. Is the cover Girl lash Blast. It is the orange cover Girl mascaram. This is the one I use. I love it. They say it was their former top pick. It doesn't come up with there's like no smudging or flaking. You only need one coat, apply smoothly. I can vouch
for all of those things. But the cons is it has a stubby wand and I can also agree with that. But actually it's wand is different from other ones. It's not like a like a brush. It's a plastic little nubs, and I find that that's better. So I love the cover Girl lash Blast. It's the orange one. But Malaney High highly rated ten in one. What is the ten things that.
I That's what I'm over here wondering. Who knows. There's no way it's doing ten things, absolutely not probably two, and they're breaking it into ten somehow.
How can it do more than one thing? A mass scaa oh separates and build slashes. It's two of the things that it does. Yeah, you tell us if you love that one, you let us know ten things, So let us know the other eight things it does.
Clearly, we're not sponsored by any of these products, and that's why it's fun to talk about them, because it's not we're not getting money from any of them. We're just truly trying to help you find what's going to work for you. So the next product is foundation. So for the Dewey look, they are saying that the top rated one is the fit Me Dewey and Smooth foundation. I'm also clicking all these links to give you.
Like from icing.
Oh did I not say that? Oh yeah, Mabeline. Uh it's about nine dollars yep, ninety nine, which is great. Personally, I do use what do I use? Clinique? My goodness, I use clinique And for me, I love your tip Jen back in that first article talking about finding maybe your one or two products that you're willing to spend on and then the rest that maybe aren't as important or you can still meet your needs without spending a ton of money with a foundation, something I'm putting all
over my skin. It has felt important to me to have something that I know I'm not going to break out with, can last all day. I'm sure there's other products. I kind of just like grew up on cliniques, so it's the one that I that I choose to use and I know that it works with my skin. So I'm personally really hesitant to stray from that. I don't want to do some sort of science experiment on myself that then causes my skin to break out. So found foundation is the one thing that I will spend on.
But I think Cliniques Foundation is something like twenty seven dollars. So yeah, if you know that your skin is pretty resilient and you can put whatever on it, then and you're willing to just try things out, it sounds like there's some really great options for under ten dollars, which I think is really great. If you don't want the dewey look, you'd prefer the more matte look, then we
recommend cover Girl, True Blend, Matte made liquid foundation. These cosmetic companies are adding all sorts of words and it's complicated titles.
Yeah, it is really annoying, but it's funny to say, yeah, uh I will. I know I didn't mention the name of the tinted moisturizer I use, but I said it was like forty five. It's actually twenty bucks. It's really good. It's not smash box Halo and it is. It wears just like a foundation, but it's got SPF twenty five. It's a tinted moisturizer and it's really lovely. I got it from Alta and it's vegan, cruelty free all of oil free because I have oily skin, so it is
it is my go to now. But yeah, I have also used plenty of drug store mascaras or sorry, plenty of drug store foundations that haven't made me like break out or anything. They've been totally fine. It's just like I wanted to switch to a tinted moisturizer and over like in the drug store. Those are very thing.
And I do love the ones that have the SPF in them. I think that's great. I know some asticians will balk at the found you know, foundations that have SBF, but I gotta imagine that twenty five is still better than nothing.
Oh, for Florida, you have to every I mean everything you put on your face got to have some kind of SBF. If you don't want to look like Florida woman, that's just it, all right. Let us look at eyeliner. So one of the suggestions from this article is the I should probably prepare and scroll down. I wrote it in that line it's the cover Girl perfect point plus eyeliner, so alliteration. H. But I also found another article saying the Knicks n Yx Professional Makeup Epic Wear liner stick
is also good. I don't think you can go wrong with one of the eyeliner sticks that just winds up. It's not a pencil, It just kind of you twist it and it goes up like I don't think you can go wrong with one of those.
Yeah, I can't do the liquid eye liner. I know, I realize that. I guess I just don't have that steady of a hand. And my skin isn't that. It's got a lot more give to it than it did when I was sixteen, and it just doesn't want to go. There's too too much elasticity or not enough I don't know whatever it is. Where it's just kind of going all over the place on my eyes is what happens
to me with the liquid stuff. But then the pencil, I don't want to be trying to find the best possible pencil shaver and then get shards of wood all over my bathroom floor. So yeah, that the pencil that's not really the pencil that you can wind up. We don't know the right terms for it.
Yeah.
Next on the list is best lipstick, And this, I feel, is just where all makeup can come together if you don't have anything else in your repidoir. But you have a lipstick. I feel like that's all you kind of need is a good lipstick. So they're recommending Mabeline Super Stay Liquid lipstick for liquid if you want the liquid kind, and then I refer the liquid uh huh, and then Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick for the stick kind.
Yeah. I love to do the liquid. I think it's just easier to put on. But some people like a stick so that maybe it doesn't leak. I don't know, but I like a liquid and I like a Matt, so the Mabeline super Stay and so this is where you can go. So this is what I would do. I would copy Mabeline Super Stay Liquid lipstick. I would go to Temptalia and I would search that and it would theoretically come up. Yes, y uh, it would come up with all of these. Gosh, they have a lot
of Mabeline super Stays. I'm just gonna put this. I'm just gonna touch on this first one, the matt ink uh, and then you can see all of the shades of it, and you just select the shade. This is not it, but for the sake of time, I will say this pink one that I have, this that I that I have selected is called you wouldn't get it? What is that color? Clearly? Yes, Joe, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't even understand green. It's probably green. You wouldn't even understand.
It is a neutral toned medium dark pink with a semi matte finish, so it is. Yeah. So when you understand your color palette, you know if you're more like warm warm or neutral warm neutral cool, and you can say, like, my pink is a coral or a dark pink or a light pink, so that you can use this site to you know, figure out which one is for you. So this is how I use Temptalia.
I got a free lipstick, speaking of samples that you don't actually need, but this sample is actually in my color palette, flunt from Clinique. And I'm now looking like, what is it called? Ginger flower? I think I need writing glasses? Like am I saying that right? Squinting and pulling.
My head back.
Oh we old though, ginger flower? Guess what colorada is? Who knows this one?
Uh? This orange?
Just kind of like orange?
No?
Not even oh god, oh yeah no not at all. No, anyways, let's move on. So best blush. This is one that I've seen. Literally, I've I've been. I wrote a best drug store makeup article back in twenty sixteen. That was my first four way foray into researching drug store makeup. So since I wrote that first article, one blush has come up time and time and time again. And it's the only, I think, the only one you need to
know for b blush. It's Mlanie's Baked blush. Mulani's Baked blush, I think is the only drug store blush that you need. Everybody loves it on every website from the dawn of time, and it comes in eleven different colors, ranging from deep coral to light pink. So this is this is it.
Does Mlanie's bluff and dude twenty different things? Is it a twenty and one?
I I don't know.
Just a little jat at you, Mulani, but but you doing all right? You doing good? You twice on this list? Yeah right. And lastly, we've got best eye shadow lrel Paris Infallible twenty four hour waterproof eyeshadow who eighteen in one, So you know, we love a good waterproof eye shadow. You can go swimming and still pop up out of that water and have your eyeshadow on still h Again, you can decide that you don't want any of this, you want some of it, you do like the eye shadow,
go for it. Here's one that the internet says across the board. This is a real great drunk store option.
And there are twenty six shades, so that is, and they're all very pretty. They are very pretty. I don't wear any eyeshadow, but there's a and they're good prices, Like on Walmart you can get one of these colors for like five forty two. They're regularly eight eight or nine, so really good, good price on those. So as a recap for brands, good brands that we're seeing Milani, you know, ninety seven and one cover girl we're seeing. We're seeing Maybolene and Loreal, all of your your cover girl cover
girls on this list several times. Mlani is on this list several times, so I think if you Maybelene is several times, so I think if you stay within those, you're gonna have a good chance of getting a makeup brand. But again, we're gonna link these and maybe a few more in the in the right range if we think of them later. Frugal Friends Podcast dot Com slash makeup.
I'm excited for that. That is what I need. I never know what exactly to buy. Who's got the best? So here you go. You can pull it up on your phone when you're at the drug store and use it as a guide to help make your purchase along with what your colors are. Figure out, figure out what you figure out what you do.
Yeah, plug those colors into Temptalia to see what the color really is, or at least what the explanation of the color is, to see if that's your shade.
And you know what else you can plug in and just already know it works for you.
It's always your shade.
The bill of the week, that's right, it's time for the best minute of your entire week. Maybe a baby was born and his name is Williams. Maybe you've paid off your mortgage. Maybe your car died and you're happy did not have to pay that bill anymore.
Duck bills, butfalo bills. Bill cleon, This is the bill of the week.
Ni jin Hi Jill. This is Emily Am a somewhat long term follower, and I was just calling to share my bill of the week. I bought a house recently and I'm trying to furnish it, and one of the things I needed was a desk. So I just bought a desk at a thrift store, or a dollar and six cents because the desk was on sale at the thrift store.
I'm pretty thrilled today.
I hope you have a great rit week and I'll see you on Friday.
Emily. A taller and six cents.
That's a deal. That's indeed, that is a deal right there. I'm not sure it could have been less expensive either than free or them paying you.
I love that they charged a dollar for it and then plus tax unless it was a nonprofit and then they literally charged a dollar six for it for like a full on piece of furniture.
Yeah, this is exciting because first of all, you're buying used, so you are repurposing recycling, not buying new. That's a beautiful thing. And then you just get an amazing deal on this. I gotta imagine it's a normal sized human desk, not a miniature desk. So to get a piece of furniture for a dollar six isn't assume you didn't.
Buy a child's desk for yourself.
It's a great, great place to go first when you're furnishing your home. Thanks for that tip, Thanks for sharing your good news. If you all are listening and you're getting furniture, human sized furniture just at a killer price because you're buying used, let us know. Also, if you're just out here doing life, your name is Bill, you just want to tell us about what life is like as a Bill, We're going to take that too, and literally anything else that's related to the word Bill doesn't
even have to be finance related. Frugal Friends podcast, dot com, slash Bill, we love it, We're here for it, and now it's time for.
All right, So right now we are going to share our current makeup faves, or it's your current holy grail makeup.
Oh Jen wow, I know right.
I will say that that smash Box halo is like my holy grail tinted moisturizer. I've already said that, but I am finding that my Revlon actually my Revlon lipstick that I have hold on. Let me, let me go get it so I can say what it really is.
Okay, I'm gonna then I'm gonna say what mine is. My holy grail of makeup at this point is just a lipstick. I don't even think that I would say specifically a certain kind. I'm just recognizing that if all I do is put on a lipstick that works with my color skin tone, then that's all I need. I'm also leaning into I'm in my eyebrow era and recognizing that if I'm able to shade my eyebrows, that also helps with looking a little bit more polished, because my
eyebrows are almost nonexistent without some sort of shading. So these are the things I'm really leaning into, but also side tangent on this, I am also in a phase where I would like to where to not feel like I need to put on a foundation every day and I don't go heavy with it. But there's something in me that just for decades now feels like this is
just a part of my routine. I brush my teeth and I put on some basic makeup, And I'm really wanting to lean into being able to be comfortable in my own skin and confident going outside of my house without doing my full makeup routine, and recognizing that part of that is needing to feel like I really love
my skin. And so I'm in a season now where I'm leaning more heavily into just a skincare routine that I know we're going to do a separate episode on that, so I'm not going to say a whole ton about that, but realizing that if I can find a good cleanser, moisturizer, sun protector for my skin, that I'm going to feel less likely to need to have to spend than a
ton on makeup to me. Makeup for the way that I've approached it feels more like a band aid for the things that I'm not doing to care for my skin. That's generally why I'm wearing it is because I feel like I want to cover up blemishes or I want to cover up my droopy eyes, and really what I need to be doing is focusing on the nutrients that I'm eating and the sleep that I'm getting and how well I'm actually caring for my skin as like a
precursor to my makeup routine. So just saying that in case anybody else is finding themselves there to kind of take a few steps back before we even get to make up and look at how are we caring for ourselves in these other ways and maybe not feeling like we have to wear makeup to feel like we're looking our best? Are there other things that we can be doing to feel good about ourselves? Are there other areas that we're ignoring? So that's my roundabout holy grill of makeup?
All right, Jen, you're back. What's your lipstick you found?
Okay? So I have been wearing the Revlon color Stay sweded ink, and I know I love a liquid, but I've actually been enjoying this lipstick in the color hot Girl. What color do you think hot Girl is?
That's a that's a red for sure.
Nope, it's like a like a dark I don't know, like a it's not pink, but it's not coral, but it's not rust. It's like a I just took the sheet of paper that we had with the best lipstick colors for our color palette, and I found one that was like it, and so like, I wrote on the paper with it and it was identical and I and it was in an uncategorized color. So that girl is the color of hot Girls, and I like that. But so I'm really liking that. And for years I was
pretty much only wearing the Wet and Wild. I think it's cat suit. I love that matte liquid lipstick, but they don't have any colors in my color palette. But if you find the Wet and Wild liquid cat suit, that is like my favorite, uh and it retails for about five bucks. That's I know, so that one's available at all of them, And that was that used to be like my holy grail of liquid lipsticks. It's the cat suit Matt but then other yeah, that's really it.
I love the orange mascara. I forget what it's called all the time. I just know it's bright orange. I literally just said it's cover Girl, right, we literally just said it. Yeah. That yeah, but that's not my whole I wouldn't say that's my holy grail of mascara, but I would say that that Wet and wildcat suit, this Revlon color Stay, Swede ink, and my tinted moisturizer.
Yeah. Just for one final piece on ways to save money. I think it's just recognizing all the marketing ploys around the beauty industry and I think being okay with discovering
what works for you and sticking with that. I think we can get so caught up in the new product, the fancy packaging, somehow, new ingredients coming on the market and all of a sudden, we all need this ingredient in our beauty product and this never before seen and reality is no, it's probably just repurposed, repackaged and just being really aware of what is being marketed to you,
do you actually need that? And that goes hand in hand with all of our other episodes on just mindful spending, values based spending, finding what works for you and then clearing out all the other fluff and noise. And it's okay if it's a process to find what works for you, but then once you do, we can then find contentment and enough in that place and not fall for all the gimmicks and pretty packaging.
Yes, yes, your face is beautiful as it is naturally your hair on your head, and your body is beautiful as it is naturally. Your skin is beautiful. We are simply looking for ways to have fun and sometimes you know, art it up, jush it up, but because we need to, but because we like to have fun on a budget.
And we like to read just all the labels on this makeup and have fun guessing what the colors that possibly.
Please take a picture, find your favorite shade of anything, lipstick, eyeshadow, whatever I want you to take it out and look at the name of the color and like, have your friend's guess, Like, what color is hot?
Girl?
I don't even know what color this is. To be honest, I don't know what color it is. I love it so thank you for listening. We love reading your kind reviews of the show. Especially loved this one from the Bookkeeping artist shout out girl. Being cheap is not the same as being frugal. I love Jen and Jill. They're the queens of frugality. I'm happy there here to help us cut through the bay and the overwhelm of finance advice by dissecting what works and what's fluff. There's no
investing or fancy math talk here. It's all practical, everyday advice that makes you feel good about your money choices. Best quote so far the best way to not spend money is to spend time making it. Keep up the good work, ladies. Yes, I sometimes still believe that. Yeah, that is my quote, And I sometimes still believe that because I love making money. We do find that an enjoyable hobby.
Thanks Bookkeeping Artists, and thank you all for listening. If you enjoyed this show this episode, if you've been enjoying us, Please do take a minute to leave a rating and a review. It does help us find other community members. Other Frugal Friends know if this is going to be the right show for them, and if it's good or simple or funny or enjoyable, especially if it's a five star. We might read it on show. You might get your little name shouted out. That's what you like.
Please leave your favorite shade of lipstick in your comment and say that we helped you figure out that it was for you or not for you, that you realize hot girl was for you or hot girl was not for you.
Hot girls shame help me. Ginger Flowers for Me.
By Frugal Friends is produced by Eric Sirianni.
If that's even what this says, I'm still not convinced I might need.
Real ginger flowers. It's probably is. Those are two words that sound like they could go together to make up what is it? Ginger?
I don't think ginger makes flowers? Like the ginger does ginger root?
How are you?
Maybe it does?
I don't know. You're the plant girl does? I'm hot girl?
Yeah, oh my gosh, ginger root does flower.
But guess what the color of that flower yellow yellow.
These people, these people are just common up with names. They don't even know. We've not done. Oh you know what, Wait a second, No, I think yellow, and it can be pink. Okay, okay, Oh wow, it's very tropical looking. It is very similar to this color. Okay, so this is.
The Maybeleine super State vinyl ink. I don't love this one, so I don't recommend it. I am just looking for the color. It is charm What color is charmed black?
Charmed black.
Black?
Yeah, yeah, yes, that's what.
Yeah, that's it. That's it. No, it is a it's like a coral. It's like a darker coray color. I love the shade. I don't love the feel, the lip feel of it. So I wear it because it's a very good neutral. You wouldn't think like it doesn't look neutral, but when you put it on, it's neutral.
Oh wow, this was a fun pastime. I'm remembering for Eric and I as I've got a collection of nail polishes. That is like the one thing that I do have a collection of, And he was cracking up reading the names of the colors of these nail polishes, and then he went on a rampage guessing then like realizing that there are no rules. Just whatever you want to call
it is what you can call it. It was hilarious just picking up a random color guessing he was re titling them to just these insane names, which is a really there you go free date night idea. Pull out your makeup drawer and name come up with the names of the colors.
Together, declutter your makeup and only keep the ones with the best names. So I'm just now seeing that this has another language on it, the hot girl one, and uh it's I believe this may be Spanglish. It says cheek a sexy, so that's the other name for it.
So hot girl, sexy girl. You doing it? Yeah, this is like your This is like your Zenga profile name. That's that's actually the titles of all of our lipstick colors or Zanga pro x x.
Oh baby girl, you should probably put it in your Instagram profile what your bestow file was. Oh yeah, yeah, it's now your Instagram profile, so you're welcome. That tip is bonus love kisses, buttery sweet, Bye bye