If you buy premium make up

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

How much do you estimate the contents of your make up bag are worth?
Ive roughly added mine up and ive got it to £200

That’s exactly why I took it seriously! 😄 People on here can be unhinged. Remember all the bollocks about YP not being able to save for deposits because they eat too much avocado toast and buy coffees. Batshit.

@MorePlantsYES

was there?? I must have missed that. Hopefully that person was joking too, I hate to think of any woman martyring themselves in such a way

I'm wondering how all this translates in reality

I tend to use Doll10 and Laura Geller

I have looked at the premium brands, I feel quite happy with what I have

So I'm curious to know if posters who are buying all the premium stuff, is it more for day-to-day or is it more for evenings out? Do you find it has better staying power?

Also, are you going for a really fully made up look or is it very subtle?

For me it's staying power, easy application, overall quality of result and joy I get from using it.
As an example, I used Chanel powder blush for decades. I could never understand why people need to touch up during the day, why to carry blush (or any make up really apart from lipstick) in your handbag - my make up lasts 14h+ with no touch ups needed. Until I bought some cheap blush. I hate it - colour is nice, it's highly pigmented, but it doesn't blend, I have to be very careful when applying, and then it doesn't stay from morning till evening. I hate waste so I keep using it, can't wait for it to run out and will be back to my Chanel make up.

Hmm … Interesting question, @Huckleberries!

I’m over 60, so I’ve been buying make up for over fifty years. That’s a lot of experimentation and assessment and re-assessment! Even given the fact that I’m fairly minimalist in what I buy.

Things that impact my choosing and shopping:

Sensitive skin. Not White. Contact lenses for 40 years.

There’s no doubt that the cosmetics industry has evolved exponentially in the decades I’ve been shopping. If you’re under 45 you will have no comprehension whatsoever of the dearth of decent, suitable products I was faced with for ages and ages. Even when the beauty business began to acknowledge my existence I had to wait for the stuff made with higher quality ingredients that didn’t bring me out in hives or turn me into a weird shadowy facsimile of a human being. And no cheap mascara that would throw flakes between my eyes and my lenses.

Besides which, I tend to prioritise skincare and don’t really have much interest in foundation, bronzer, highlighter, etc. So I’m perfectly at ease with spending a lot on the very few products I do use in order to guarantee great colours, performance and user experience.

Definitely no distinction in quality between day or evening, casual or formal. Doing my face is generally very last minute - so dressing up might just mean spending an extra five minutes in front of my mirror.

I tend to buy the best at each price point
so if it’s premium I use it because it’s the best/works the best in that category for me
I consistently buy tarte mascara because it’s the best I’ve found and Estée Lauder concealer, but I’m not buying it because it’s premium if that makes sense? I’m buying it because it’s the best I’ve tried

For me who buys a mix, it really depends on the product.
I don’t really buy super premium stuff like some on here.

Some I think is better. I really like the SPF I use (Clarins I think but possibly Clinique). I love the Trinny Perfector and love how it feels/looks on my skin. I love lots of setting sprays but don’t find the Tilbury one any better than the budget one I buy.

The only products I save for going out is some sparkly eye shadow and more expensive perfume. Otherwise my routine is pretty much the same whether I’m going to work or to lunch.

Yes I was told the same when I worked in home insurance. I do need to review this because we’ve got new devices and stuff.

I would never put my make up bag in hold luggage because it would be cheaper and easier to replace a few swimsuits and dresses. 😄

For day to day and all I change for evenings is to add a bit of eyeliner and eyebrow pencil. I don't wear much, just enough to make me feel better: foundation, blusher, highlighter, concealer (dark shadows), mascara, lipstick, transluscent powder. Takes about two to three minutes.

All I touch up and carry is a lipstick.

DD gave me a No7 blusher palette and it brought me up in hives. I tired a No7 foundation, seemingly the same ingredients/colour as my clinique one and it just didn't sit right.

I stick with what and I know and what agrees with me. When Inhave tried to economise, it hasn't been a great success. L'Oreal lipstick is good though. No 7 makes my lips sore.

On the whole I stick with Clinique, Estee, Lancome.

Now scent is another matter altogether and that may border being an addiction.

@Cherrytree86sorry for snapping at you I thought you were being a fun sponge!

I've got a real mix. Lipstick - my current favourites are a Lancome rouge absolu which retails for like £32 (I probably got it on offer), a Mac marrakesh mere which was about £15 on eBay, and an MUA matte one from Superdrug that cost about £3. So I don't think higher cost necessarily means better quality.

Or, maybe it's more accurate to say that paying more doesn't necessarily mean you'll like it more.

Same here @Cherrytree86, the sarcasm went right over my head for some reason!

My (large - it's reallly a toiletries bag) makeup bag's a right mishmash, CBA'd to work out its value but it currently contains:

• Estee Laude Double Wear foundation (I've messed about/wasted money for years trying cheaper alternatives, then decided to stick with the DW as the shade I use is literally a perfect match for my skintone)
• Laura Geller, elf, Bobbi Brown and No7 primers
• elf pressed power and No7 loose powder
• Iconic baked highlighter
• NARS Orgasm blusher (of course 😄)
• Couple of Tarte eyeshadow palettes (one of my fave brands, though I'm a bit over the price tags now)
• One of the Milk Makeup multi-purpose sticks which I don't love as much as I thought as I was going to
• 2 Maybelline mascaras (I tend to like Maybelline and L'Oreal mascaras best, Tarte ones are good too but overpriced)
• MAC, Maybelline and L'Oreal lipsticks and my Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk lipstick (though I've stopped buying CT due to ridiculous prices and some of her products being not all that brilliant - I have a couple of the Colour Chameleon eyeshadow sticks and although I love the colours, I don't love the lack of blendability for the price!)
• Beauty Bay eyeshadow sticks (better than the above mentioned CT ones imo and a lot cheaper!) and also a couple of Rimmel and Laura Mercier ones
• Hello Sunday and Summer Fridays lip balms (not buying the SF again, I fell for the hype! I do like it but cheaper ones are just as good imo)

Looking at that little lot, I definitely don't want to add it up 😬and don't even get me started on the rest of my eyeshadow palettes as I have a weakness for them! Tbf the toiletries bag was £4.50 from Home Bargains, though, which helps a bit. 😄

I'm about to leave my job and go back to freelancing so am going to have to rein my spending in drastically for a while, on the plus side I've definitely got enough makeup to last me for the duration! 😄

@Melarus I’ve got the Westman Atelier hydrobalm lippie and I absolutely love it. I’ve got English Rose and it’s beautiful. I’m wearing it day and night so can thoroughly recommend. When I first bought it, I did kick myself and it’s not cheap but I love it

but I’m a total enabler and love Westman Atelier and Lisa Eldridge and pretty much use that with the odd hourglass thrown in

I also love the fact that both Lisa Eldridge and Westman Atelier are independent female founded brands

@ruethewhirlkeep an eye out for when tarte do their so many items for about 70 dollars, it’s the custom bag sale usually in May
you can usually get a foundation or concealer, powder, blush, eyeshadow palette, mascara, brows and something lip related plus a bag

Or 45 different colours of a Stanley cups (are these still a thing?) or the Harrow/eton/ fettes school fees!
Or put the money onwards that Tuscan villa holiday with SIL, MIL, DP, STBE, DN, DSS, to get over the bastard of a husband who left you for the 25yr old gymn bunny/work colleague/best friend!
Personally I’d keep on buying very expensive lipsticks!

This was an old one I got (you can pick what you want and shades)

Thanks! It sounds fab. I feel enabled... but in a good way!

Ooh, I'd forgotten about that! I've snagged a couple of bargains that way in the past. Thanks for the reminder!

the absolute shite that people come out with on threads about expensive bags

Guilty as charged re four figure handbag threads, but then also I think nothing of spending three figures on a "daily driver" rucksack to get one that is comfortable (female-specific fit! height-adjustment!) and has pockets where I need them. Maybe I just don't see the point in spending four figures just to have all the weight on one shoulder.

Re makeup: does the 💸 makeup work better than the Max Factor / Rimmel / etc cheaper stuff? Like, does it go on easier, look nicer, stay put better, resist smudging? In particular, I have the most hooded eyelids ever and eye makeup gets trashed as soon as I open the eye after I finish applying it.

Eye primer makes the biggest difference for me on hooded eyes

I saw "primer" and automatically thought of this...

Royal effing Mail! Telling me they ‘tried to deliver’. 😡

I was right here, waiting. Now I apparently won’t see my Hydrabalm until Wednesday. 😡😡😡

For a sheen that won't budge no matter what!