The drugstore is now a place to get the hottest new products, formulas, and colours. Just look at Garnier and Marcelle making it first out with the new BB creams, and what with Pat McGrath and Gucci Westman at creative helms of Covergirl and Revlon respectively. I now turn to Maybelline which hasn’s often impressed [...]

Maybelline Superstay Makeup makes some pretty exciting claims and in the past I might have scoffed and gone to the Dior counter or something, but honestly, lately drugstore foundations have been pretty much on par with their expensive, department store counterparts. The foundation claims 24 hour, heat and sweat resistant coverage that won’t transfer onto [...]

Maybelline One by One Mascara wasn’t bad on the outset.  I loved the rubber bristle, and the mascara seemed to volumize easily enough.  I could layer on as much as I wanted. But this mascara doesn’t live up to it’s “One by One” claims.  This is no Mascara Singulier.  While my lashes were somewhat separated [...]

So I normally don’t wear drugstore foundation, but that’s mostly because in the past I didn’t wear all that much foundation and it was usually high end because the testers are more easily accessible. I was in the process of trying a department store foundation and after having gone back three times to exchange the [...]

Maybelline XXL Pro Volume mascara claims to curl lashes, and keep them curled for a full 12 hours. Yes, I was skeptical too, as curling mascaras never seem to magically curl my lashes or keep them curled for any significant time frame. Nevertheless, I was curious because there are some pretty great drug store mascaras [...]

I tried the Maybelline Eye Studio eyeshadow palettes in 05 (Give me Gold) and 30 (Purple Icon). I didn’t LOVE them. While there are a couple of really fabulous drugstore eyeshadows, for the most part, I find that you need to layer on a ton to get the colour to show up, and they don’t [...]

I’m pretty neutral about this lipgloss. Which isn’t all that helpful, but it does pretty much balance out in the pros and cons department. For those of you that like  super high shine lipgloss, this is going to be disappointing to you. It’s not that really wet shine that many women love, it’s more of [...]