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Quality cosmetics don’t always have to come with a lofty price tag. In fact, there are countless gems waiting for you in the aisles of your local drugstore. Offering options for the complexion, cheeks, eyes, brows and lips, the best drugstore makeup products cater to every beauty category and are formulated with premium ingredients that suit every skin type.
Cost-effectiveness aside, these budget-friendly cosmetics are expertly formulated to ensure rich color payoff, long-wearing results and faultless application, creating a high-impact finish that is comparable to that of luxury cosmetics brands. Perfect for every makeup trend from contouring and baking to no-makeup makeup and glass skin, the best drugstore makeup products boast versatility and performance while also paving the way for innovation.
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Below, explore the best drugstore makeup products that will take your glam to new heights and make a welcome addition to any makeup bag.
Maybelline Fit Me Dewy + Smooth Foundation
Perfect for all skin types, the Maybelline Fit Me Dewy + Smooth Foundation is enriched with vitamin E to impart a dewy glow while enlivening your complexion. Offering broad-spectrum SPF 18 protection, this top-rated formula has buildable full coverage that creates a smooth, natural-looking finish.
E.l.f. Cosmetics 16HR Camo Concealer
Delivering 16 hours of uninterrupted coverage, the E.l.f. Cosmetics 16HR Camo Concealer enhances your complexion with its full-coverage, long-wearing and creamy formula. Just as its name suggests, it camouflages dark circles, blemishes and other sources of discoloration from the skin so you can enjoy a brighter and more even-looking complexion. Available in 25 shades, it can also be used as a highlight for contouring.
Honest Beauty CCC Clean Corrective with Vitamin C Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30
Boasting makeup and skin care benefits, the Honest Beauty CCC Clean Corrective with Vitamin C Tinted Moisturizer SPF 30 is a multitasking complexion product that preps, color-corrects, moisturizes and protects your skin. Available in four shades, its vitamin C-rich formula improves your skin’s brightness while also defending it from UVA and UVB rays using broad-spectrum SPF 30.
CoverGirl Clean Matte BB Cream
Whether you’ve got oily skin or simply prefer lightweight complexion formulas, the CoverGirl Clean Matte BB Cream helps prevent shine from ruining your makeup while also ensuring that your skin stays hydrated. It also provides the perfect amount of coverage to hide blemishes, dark spots, redness and other complexion-hindering forms of discoloration.
Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer Murumuru Butter Bronzer
A powder bronzer that applies like a crème, the Physicians Formula Butter Bronzer Murumuru Butter Bronzer gives you a gorgeous lit-from-within-glow courtesy of its ultra-refined pearl and soft-focus pigment-enriched formula, which smooths the look of texture while creating a bright and bronzed finish. To achieve its fan-favorite buttery-soft texture, the brand combines skin-conditioning and nutrient-rich murumuru, cupuaçu and tucuma butters.
Milani Baked Blush
Not only does the Milani Baked Blush impart a natural-looking flush to the skin, but its shimmery powder formula also creates a warm, radiant glow that instantly lifts and defines your cheekbones. Available in four universally-flattering shades, this top-rated drugstore blush is a must-have for contouring.
Flower Beauty Shimmer & Strobe Highlighting Palette
Stocked with three high-wattage powder highlight shades, the Flower Beauty Shimmer & Strobe Highlighting Palette leaves your skin with a gleaming and multi-dimensional shine. A fan-favorite for its blendability and color payoff, each shade is universally-flattering and triple-pressed and contains soft-focus silky powders so you can achieve a beaming glow. 
L’Oréal Paris Air Volume Mega Mascara
Available in traditional and waterproof formulas, the L’Oréal Paris Air Volume Mega Mascara takes your lashes to new heights with its intensely volumizing formula and oversized double bristle brush, which evenly coats every lash while boosting thickness. Designed to lift your eyelashes for up to 24 hours without weighing them down, this lightweight mascara is flake-proof and suitable for those with sensitive eyes.
Rimmel London Exaggerate Eye Definer Eyeliner Pencil
Self-sharpening and offering a bold color payoff, the Rimmel London Exaggerate Eye Definer Eyeliner Pencil seamlessly glides across your eyelid with expert-level precision thanks to its soft, textured pencil tip. Boasting a long-wearing formula, this top-rated drugstore eyeliner also comes with a smudger so you can execute exceptional smoky eye looks like a pro.
Wet n Wild Mega Last Breakup-Proof Black Liquid Eyeliner
For those who prefer liquid liners, the Wet n Wild Mega Last Breakup-Proof Black Liquid Eyeliner ensures the longest, boldest wear possible thanks to its waterproof, cry-proof, smudge-proof and sweat-proof formula. Not only does it stay put for 16 hours, but it’s also incredibly pigmented and comes equipped with an ultra-fine brush-tip, which creates a seamless glide and flexes between thin to thick strokes effortlessly.
Juvia’s Place the Nubian Eye Shadow Palette
A nude eye shadow palette modernized, the Juvia’s Place the Nubian Eyeshadow Palette brings all of your shadow essentials together in one convenient and easy-to-use palette. Stocked with 12 pans of neutrals in varying metallic, matte and shimmer shades, this palette is perfect for subtle, dramatic and every eye shadow look in between.
NYX Fill & Fluff Eyebrow Pomade Pencil
Define, carve and embolden your brows with the NYX Fill & Fluff Eyebrow Pomade Pencil, a dual-ended pomade-pencil hybrid that enhances your eyebrows using a waxy pomade that has a natural-looking matte finish. Its teardrop-shaped tip helps create the perfect hair-like strokes, helping you achieve effortlessly thicker and bolder brows.
Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick
Regardless of whether you prefer bold reds, pretty pinks or punchy neons, the Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick suits every glam style with its extensive shade range. Super-pigmented and luscious, this fan-favorite drugstore lipstick delivers a lasting, comfortable wear courtesy of its creamy, ultra-hydrating formula.
Revlon Photoready Perfecting Primer
Ensure that your skin is perfectly prepped with the Revlon Photoready Perfecting Primer, a pore-smoothing and complexion-brightening face primer that uses high-definition filter technology to blur the look of pores, blemishes, texture and other imperfections for an airbrushed finish.
Beauty Bakerie Face Flour Baking Powder
Lock your makeup in place while keeping shine at bay with the Beauty Bakerie Face Flour Baking Powder, a long-wearing setting powder that extends the staying power and coverage of your foundation while blurring the look of pores, fine lines and imperfections.
