Take a look inside a Pro Makeup Artist’s Kit to see my MUST HAVE drugstore Makeup Products!
Sections
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Skin Prep
Primers ✨
Eyebrows
Foundation
Concealers
Bronzer/Contour 👩🏽🦲
Skin Prep
My go to drugstore skin prep
Pond’s moisturizer? Oh baby, she’s that girl. 💅🏽 Keeps the skin soft, smooth, and hydrated without feeling greasy. Creates the perfect base so foundation glides on like butter 🧈 and stays put all day. Classic, affordable, and always in my kit beca...
Facial Moisturizers
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Affordable dupe for the Charlotte Tillbery Water Cream ! Leaves the skin hydrated and plump. 🙃
Hydro Boost Water Gel & Oil-Free Face Moisturizer
THIS leaves the skin sooo soft! Makes it so makeup glides on warm butter on toast😩! Great for a moisturizer AND primer! Very hydrating and EXTREMELY affordable 💰
NIVEA® Creme - Intensive Moisturizer For Body, Face & Hands
Great for sensitive skin ! Really affordable and easily obtainable!
Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water Skin Care Products
Great for cleansing the skin ! Great for all skin types 🙂↔️
100% Natural Witch Hazel Astringent
Think the original but matte! Keeps your makeup LOCKED in and looking good all day!
Power Grip Matte Primer
Primers ✨
Sooo beginner-friendly and affordable ! ✨ It dries down taccky so your makeup just sticks and smooths skin like a dream. Ideal for that “blur + grip” effect, and it works on everyone. A total must-have for flawless, long-lasting glam.😝
Face Glue Gripping Makeup Primer
As a pro MUA, I love the e.l.f. Power Grip Primer because it truly locks in makeup without feeling heavy. It gives a tacky base that grips foundation flawlessly and works on every skin type I’ve used it on. Hydrating, long-wearing, and affordable thi...
Power Grip Primer
Great for my oily skin babes ! A STAPLE in my kit! Keeps skin matte and makeup locked in all day! 🤭
Angel Veil- Skin Perfecting Primer | NYX Professional Makeup
Great for all skin types!
Poreless Putty Face Primer
Really hydrating! Best for dry skin
Bare With Me Hydrating Jelly Primer | NYX Professional Makeup
Great for all skin types
Liquid Poreless Putty Primer
Eyebrows
Super cheat, glides great on the brows and very pigmented.
Eyebrow Pencil
Super affordable and pigmented
Ruby Kisses GoBrow Sharpenable Eyebrow Pencil
My NEW FAV! Super slim and makes the perfect brow strokes ! My go to pencil. Affordable, pigmented and ULTRA slim.
Super Slim Brow Pencil
Can you say STUCK?! This keeps your brows in place without that cruncy hold! Great for feathered brows
Brow Lift - Clear Eyebrow Gel
Ultra slim ! Very affordable! And its pigmented! Definitely worth the coin
Micro Brow Eyebrow Pencil | NYX Professional Makeup
A little watery but gets the gob done! Easy to work through the brows and really affordable!
Eyebrow Glue Instant Brow Styler | NYX Professional Makeup
Comes in natural colors , a little bit on the waxy side. But it gets the job done
Another micro-tip fave. Glides on with ease, blends beautifully, and gives a clean, defined brow without tugging
Micro Brow Dual-Ended Pencil & Spoolie
Foundation
Really Good Quality for a really good price!
e.l.f. Cosmetics
OG CULT FAV! Medium/Full Coverage. Great shade range and beginner friendly!
Fit Me® Matte + Poreless Foundation Makeup
Really beginner friendly, med/full coverage.
Can't Stop Won't Stop Coverage Foundation | NYX Professional
Light/medium coverage. Great for light beats and no makeup makeup looks
Halo Glow Liquid Filter Complexion Booster
Medium/ full coverage! Great for contouring, foundation and highlighting ( concealer) All in one product!
Conceal + Perfect 2-In-1 Foundation and Concealer
Full Coverage, Great for All Day wear. Super affordable. Great for oily skin !
Super Stay Longwear Liquid Foundation 30Hr Wear
Great for a skin like finish. Not too heavy. Buildable coverage
Revolution Skin Silk Radiant Satin Serum Foundation
Beginner friendly, great shade range
Bare With Me Blur Tint Foundation | NYX Professional Makeup
FULL coverage! A little of this goes a LONG way. Wide shade range. Great formula really bendable.
Foundation
Concealers
I love the e.l.f. Hydrating Camo Concealer because it gives full coverage without caking or creasing. It blends like a dream, wears all day, and works on all skin types. Affordable, effective, and a total staple in my kit.
Face Concealer & Color Corrector Makeup
Pocket Friendly FULL Coverage Concealer
Conceal + Perfect Longwear Liquid Concealer
Long lasting formula, great shade range really bendable.
Infallible Full Wear Concealer up to 24H Full Coverage
OG cult favorite. Great coverage
Instant Age Rewind® Eraser Multi-Use Concealer
Great for beginners, great blendabilty , multi use.
I Am Magic Concealer for Dark to Light Skin
Matte, high-coverage, and quick-drying. Stays put and doesn’t budge—great for oily skin or all-day wear. Think shape, sculpt, and stay.
Concealer
Bronzer/Contour 👩🏽🦲
Great multi-use palette! Very pigmented, beginner friendly and really affordable!
Black Radiance
Great shade range! Buildable coverage, and blends like a DREAM !!
Facial Bronzer Collection
Pigmented , with a beautiful shade range ! Perfect for beginners
Bronzed Duo Bronzer
Great for bronzing and setting your whole face! Leaves a velvety finish to the skin !
Pressed Powder – Black Radiance Makeup
Great for bronzing. Nice formula with buildable coverage!
Pigmented and buttery smooth. Glides on like butter.
Buttermelt Bronzer: Long Wear Powder Bronzer
Great for bronzing and or contouring! Great shade range and EVEN BETTER formula!
TRUE COLOR® Skin Perfecting Stick Foundation SPF 15
Highly pigmented ,easy to blend formula.
Camo Liquid Bronzer & Contour
beginner friendly ! Has contour bronzer and highlighting shades in ONE pallete! buildable coverage and is also great for beginner MUAs !
Powder Contour Palette
Blush ☺️
Pigmented and affordable, great for beginners!
Fit Me® Blush Face Makeup
Long lasting, Pigmented, Affordable, just all around a MUST for my kit. 🤗
Blush Palette | Powder Blush
Pairs well with the powder blush! Very pigmented! And worth every coin!
Earth-Toned, Natural Cheek Liquid Blush
SUPER affordable! Pigment and has an amazing shade range
Camo Liquid Blush
Can you say butta!! So smooth so velvety so vibrant! Pairs well with the butter melt bronzer !
Buttermelt High-Pigment Blush | NYX Professional Makeup
Pairs perfectly with the elf liquid blush. Has a great shade variety !
Compact Powder Blush Palette with Vitamin E
Setting Powder💨
Great for the price!
Setting Powder | Loose, Pressed, Translucent Face Powder
Setting Sprays 💦
One of my go to settings sprays ! Melts the powders and sets makeup in place!
Makeup Revolution Superfix Misting Setting Spray
Charlotte Tilbury DUPE ! This spray is amazing! I love it for prep and to melt the makeup! Leaves the skin hydrated!
Make It Last Original - Natural Finish Setting Spray
one size dupe ! Keeps makeup in tact, real fine mist. easy to travel with!
L'Oreal Paris Infallible 3-Second Setting Spray
fine mist, and does a good job at prolonging your makeup wear !great to keep in your bag
The Vegan Face Glue Setting Spray | NYX Professional Makeup
IYKYK ! melts makeup like a dream! Leaves skin looking like skin!! one of my personal favs>
Continuous Setting Mist
The ultimate multitasking mist! Perfect for prepping the skin before/during makeup and melting powders down after application for a seamless, skin-like finish. Lightweight, hydrating, and ideal for that flawless, long-lasting beat.
Continuous Prep & Set Mist+
Lips
Super affordable! Great formula with high shine !
Lip Gloss – NICKA K NEW YORK
Super SMOOTH!!!!! Glides on like BUTTER!!! Pigmented and yes its affordable 💁🏽♀️