High and low makeup purchase

There is almost nary a line that divides high and low makeup brands when it comes to being trended or reviewed by makeup bloggers.

Hence the choices can be confusing and overwhelming  if you are just an ordinary buyer without any biases or preferences in makeup.

So how to know what to buy on the expensive side and what to get on the low end of spectrum?

For me, I take into considerations these when buying:


1.  Frequency of use
2.  Skin type
3.  Quality

If a makeup item is to be used almost daily, better ensure that the product is affordable enough to be bought on a regular basis like if it is going to be used for school or work, dates etc.

Some makeup are better allocated for special wear while others are better used for regular wear.

Two, even if a makeup is on point when it comes to trends, it is not advisable to buy if it won't suit your skin type (normal, dry , oily, combination, etc), preferences and more.

Personally when it comes to lipticks, I prefer the lipgloss, lipbalm or rouge kind over the ultra mattes because not only do matte lipsticks appear dry on my lips, they also tend to magnify the age of a mature lips, in an unflattering way.

Matte lippies unless coated or primed with lipbalm or gloss would make a forty year old wearer look "old' as in granny old. Prune-like lips is a giveaway of any one's age.

Three, quality is a make or break favor in buying makeups. Some beauty products are priced steeply but still rate poorly when it comes effectivity or likeability. Or it may go the other way, affordable but also poor in quality.

I recently bought a popular brand of local lipstick and nicey as it was on the outside, and really pigmented was not enough to sway me over as I got curious with why a lipstick would smell as it would;

how do I describe it was more like chemically unpleasant. So even if it's affordable and color likable, I choose to buy another and still regret buying that lipstick even if it was within my pocket's reach.

In other ways these are my high and low considerations for makeup:

1.  Powder - I can buy the cheapest brand (for me cheap is around Php 200 below) to medium or average priced (Php 300 - 700) because there are many good generic face powder around.

2.  Foundation - medium priced (Php 800 and above)  to high-end (Php 1000 and above worth of makeup), because some foundation can magnify imperfections and it is usually the branded ones that deliver good quality.

3.  Bb cream - since this is a go-to product for a multi-tasking mom, I get products on the low-end to medium price range.

4.  Moisturizer - low to medium price range, because if it will be integrated as a skin care routine it has to be of good quality; also it has to be a drugstore brand preferably.

5.  Lipstick - there are some cheap buys of laudable quality, just find a good product out there. But for statement lips and lipglosses I go for high-end because I have not found an affordable brand that offers a good lipbalm or lipgloss that is just right to my liking.

These are just a basic list and high and low makeups can be both a good buy if they can give the quality looked out for by a picky buyer.



Disclamer:

Post written based on the writer's preferences and makeup use.

The writer does not claim to be an expert on the topic. This is not written on technical or makeup artist viewpoint.


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