 Hi guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me. I am gonna share with you just some of my drugstore favorites and I have been You know, it's kind of funny because in in my my real life and my job and all that I was called myself the queen of cheap in the sense that if there is a Better alternative that costs less money Especially when it comes to certain things that I'm doing in my business Or if I'm booking an airline flight. I'm gonna look around them. I'm not so much like a shopper in the sense But I'm usually driven to purchase a product and then when I identify that product, I'm gonna see Where I can get the best buy so Yeah, so this is just some of my drugstore favorites because I have been using Drugstore products for a lot longer than I've ever used anything high-end in fact there's very few high-end cosmetics that I have to have and Actually, I can think of two that I have to have that comes to cosmetics the rest of my cosmetics a Drugstore and I think sometimes drugstore does it better than high-end So if you're curious about some of my favorites, please stay tuned So it's not gonna be a surprise to you guys when I talk about mascara. I have had mascara Gosh all my all my since I was 12. I have been a mascara wearer I I go nowhere without mascara if I had to choose a cosmetic that I couldn't live without it would be a Mascara now I have a favorite That I get off of Amazon, which is the petite and pretty that is my ultimate currently favorite mascara It is reasonable when you think about the price of mascara and especially the high-end prices But there is drugstore mascaras that I think rival it that I want to pair with it in other words I love how lush the petite and pretty makes my lashes look But I will start out sometimes and I don't have it with me here. I have an essence primer I'll put the primer on my lashes, which is kind of really spooky looking because then my lashes are all white and Then I typically will do a first coat with my ultimate favorite. This is my essence a lash princess When I started to use this particular drugstore product to me It rivaled my high-end at the time, which was superhero For me a cosmetic superhero mascara was my high-end of choice. I have tried many other high-end mascaras many of them They were sent to me complimentary for review But the high-end mascara that I repeatedly purchased was the superhero. I love the superhero I thought it was awesome. I discovered the essence the lash princess the black tube with the purple writing I have the green one. I have the one that has peach. They are not the same They they don't hold the same. They don't cover the same on my lashes It may be completely different on yours, but on mine. They're just they're not the same So I love this when I discovered it I Quickly realized and I kept trying my superhero because I'm like going it's gonna be better It's like I don't know five times the price of this But ultimately it wasn't this lasted as long it didn't flake on me. It didn't smudge on me. It was just Beautiful today. This is still my drugstore mascara of choice. I just picked up two of them I think I showed it in one of my last videos. I haven't been able to find it as readily I can find all the other essence mascara, but this one is always sold out For a reason obviously So I picked them up I got the last two off the shelf and what I do is I use the primer and I do my mascara first You guys have heard me say that I do my mascara first After I do my skincare and all that and I usually have like an eye mask underneath and I'll start with my mascara so I do my my primer and For my lashes and then I let that dry and then I'll go in the living room And I have my mirror and I typically will start with this and I put one coat on each eye And then I immediately go into my petite and pretty and I dip once and I just coat The entire lash is upper and and lower with my petite and pretty and then I dip again And I do the other eye so I'm repeating one eye with one dip And my lashes just start to pop. They just really start to pop Then I when I'm done I will then go in the bathroom and I'll take a q-tip and I'll wipe off the excess that I have because I'm I'm not really neat with it And that's when I start to do the rest of my skincare or I might still have my eye Masks on I wear an eye mask every day I might still have my eye mask on and then I start to do my eye shadow I've got a number of different drugstore eyeshadows that I've been playing with But I haven't found one that I like as much I found ones that are close But I haven't found one that I like as much as my amethyst from a busy art. I just love that palette I love the colors. I love the payout. I love how it looks on my eyes So but I have been playing with many different and I'll probably show them in another video because today's eye look is completely drugstore so Mascara absolutely if you can get your hands on this one if you haven't tried it Check it out. Try it now Foundation has been an issue for me. I have I've gone to the kick-ass foundation I've gone to a few different foundations But I always go back to my high-end foundation, which I happen to buy at the SD at the Cosmetic company store and it is my SD lot of double wear and I just love that foundation The only thing that comes Close and does not cover as much and I have all those veins is going to be my number seven lift and illuminate I've talked about this foundation. This one is unopened and I'm gonna leave it unopened. I'm gonna pack it with me on my trip And I'm gonna leave it unopened and put this in the suitcase But this is in the color wheat, which is a really nice Coverage for me lift and illuminate. It gives me a little bit of a glow not much a very dry skin and one of the things that I When I went and I had the procedure done the the Botox that I talked about two videos ago the the injector or the the doctor basically said that she was amazing how good my skin looked how luminous and It it wasn't the foundation because it had come off at that point in time They cleaned my face and all that but it's the collagen. I think is what really works on the inside out So that and wearing a foundation that gives me a little bit of a glow Which I prefer in my my number seven the number seven that I've been wearing the most is the hydro luminous this is just Really pretty hard to find here in the States. I Haven't looked in a while because I have two of them This was actually gifted to me from one of you my subscribers from the UK and this is in the color wheat still my favorite I love this foundation it Rivals of this version Rivals my SD lotter is it it's not in its active. It doesn't cover as much But oh my gosh, this is a beautiful foundation and I'm thrilled that I have to I hope eventually they'll sell it here in the States I like this better than the number seven now. I'm going to say that number seven is a foundation or a brand That's a bit more pricey, but it's drugstore. It's a bit more pricey The other thing that I really like for the longest time I would do Urban Decay when it was on sale and I would get their gel liners because I don't like a pencil You have to push down on I don't like anything that's super drying and I Also don't like anything. I have to sharpen So I have been on a hunt Some of the pencils that I have I've had this for quite a while. This is from Sephora This is their gel. You twist it up. It's got the little it's got the little smudging brush on the end now I'm boycotting Sephora, you know ever since and this was a number of videos ago where I talked about the fact that Sephora sent me a survey and as soon as I said my age They said no, thank you and I just found a vent. I was offended by that however These pencils from Sephora and I have like three or four of them That have been purchased over the course of time They they're hands down better than my Urban Decay Sorry, they are hands down better than my Urban Decay. So When I need to repurchase this I'm gonna send my husband into Sephora Just for the principle of the matter because I don't want to support Sephora. I thought they treated me crappy So Sephora pencil for those of you that are not you know my age and you love Sephora These are really really nice better than my Urban Decay and Ulta Also has a retractable pencil. That's a gel liner However, the Ulta one it does not have any kind of a smudging You know tip on the end, which I really like but it does have the retractable It is a softer pencil and I like that a lot now when you when you talk about gel pencils That retract up and down if if you're not careful you can break them off, right? I mean, that's a drawback, but Ulta has a really really nice one But the one I have been using the most and it's a little bit hotter than the Sephora one and about Little bit maybe about the same level as Ulta And that is the one that I get from Elf. I Love the Elf pencils a lot I think that the Elf pencil the retractable Elf pencil has a good payoff the colors are vibrant They last they don't run they don't smudge and They have a ton of different shades, which I really like so I love those pencils the second ones I would like are the ones from NYX. I think the NYX retractable pencils are super nice as well But hands down number one drugstore and a hate to admit it is going to be that Sephora the Sephora one is the one that I just really really really like and second would be alt altas and Elf would be probably I probably have more elf than I have from the Elter brand and Elf is way more Affordable I do not like the essence pencils. I've tried many of those. They don't like them as much But I'll tell you elf hands down their pencils are beautiful Absolutely for me, and I love the different shades that you can get essence. I love their mascara. Oh, baby. I love their mascara, so NYX I use for the brow I have a lot of Brow color and I also use the elf and I just got two more Elf I love it. So I end up putting this on my Eyebrows and then I put one of those Gel ones that you can freeze it in shape so it doesn't you know go all over the place Which I never really have a problem with but I just feel like it really holds it and I use that on top of this I love that so elf hands down most of my drugstore products are elf this really cute blush It's got a little bit of a glow So you have to powder it down or at least I do because it just gives me too much of a glow It may look brown, but it is a really pretty pretty shade See if I can I don't even know if you can See anything and then this is the the brow is that I use the Elf brow gel Put that on there and then NYX is usually what I put on under my under my brows. So You know, I love drugstore, right? I mean to me it's affordable. I think half the time my makeup looks really good I use a setting spray when I'm all done and my setting spray of choice is again NYX And this is the matte finishing fine mist. I have a big canister of one. I have a morphe one I've had I've had many different setting sprays, but I keep coming back to this one. It's my favorite It does a great job holds up well on me. The matte will take down any of my excess shine Which I sometimes have so I do think drugstore does it better They certainly do it better on my wallet and I've never been a high-end gal I mean other than my Estee Lauder foundation and my Viziat palette those are really the two High-end that if I have to say that I can't live without that it would have to that and I have repurchased I have other high-end palettes that have been gifted to me. I love them. I use them but my Viziat's my number one favorite and To this day, I have not and I've got a ton Lately this has been happening to me. My batteries don't last long. I've got to get I've got some new batteries on order I'm hoping they come before our trip, but it's just very very frustrating so I have a ton of Drugstore products and like I think I was saying that I had a lot of drugstore palettes that I'm not ready to really talk about them because I Want to keep using them for a while especially this one on my eyes before I say I really like it But right now obviously my Viziat's the best and I want to enclose I often get comments about my lipstick or lack of lipstick Some of you will say you look washed out. You need to put darker colors on. I Just can't bring myself to a dark lipstick. I just cannot get to that point yet. So my Choice my lipstick of choice has been and I have a ton of lipsticks. I should show you How many lipsticks I have but the one I keep wearing is romantic rose from Maybelline and this is the number 450 This is the one. I just wear over and over again. I just really like it. It's a it's a I Think it's a pretty Pretty pink. It's not too peachy. It's not too brown. It's not too pink It's sort of like right in that halfway point I Consider it a nude more of a nude color and it's just super pretty and then my My Rimmel and I have I've just bought more of this number 45 These are the two drugstore lipstick that I have I have repeatedly bought now both the Rimmel and the romantic Rose I've had to buy off of Amazon because I have not been able to find either one of these shades in Any of the drugstores that I go to not Walgreens not Wal-Mart CVS in any of them I always look to see I never see this one and I never see this one So this is a Kate Spade from Rimmel 45. It's my favorite and romantic rose from Maybelline 450 is my favorite. So that kind of wraps up my my drugstore I hope you enjoyed the video when you see this video I won't be around so I may not be able to answer comments as readily I will get to all your comments, but by the time this gets published Where will I be? I will be in Vegas. I Will be in Vegas at our annual conference Berkshire Hathaway Home Services is the franchise that I belong to and We have our annual conference or convention and this year. It's in Vegas next year It's in New Orleans. Oh my gosh. I'm really looking forward to that, but it's in Vegas, baby So Jay and I are going to be flying out. We've got a bunch of events plan that we have to take work events and And all of that and then at the end of our convention, that's what we're going to be doing a little getaway So Yeah, I'm super excited. So next I'm going to share with you because so many of you have asked about my watch bands You know, where do you get your watch bands and just like my foundations and my makeup and stuff like that? I have my favorites. I'm an Apple watch person But you can get some really pretty Apple watch bands that are so affordable so I'm going to talk about that and also a lot of you ask about earrings and I am I've got a ton of earrings and One of our youtubers Wendy has created Packages of earrings for me that I purchased from her now I haven't done it in a while, but I'm gonna have to reach out to her and see if she can do me another package But she creates jewelry and it's affordable and it's pretty so I'll be showing some of that my next video guys Thank you so much. Love to you all and I will catch you later. Bye. Bye