 Hi guys, it's Monica. Thank you so much for joining me in this video. I am going to share with you some of my favorite drugstore brands. So if you're interested, stay tuned. So you know, I did a video where I had done a collaboration with Simply Sheila and we had kind of copied this idea of this tag that Marlene did with Clara. I will link all the videos below. But it was all about 10 drugstore products under 10 minutes, under $10 each, and you couldn't repeat the brand. When it was trying to do that collaboration video, it really brought home to me the fact that I am way more a drugstore person than I am a high end, way more. When I mentioned in the comments to somebody that, let me know if you want to know what my favorite drugstore brands are because there's some brands that I have a number of products that I buy from. And I couldn't do it in that tag because you could only, you couldn't repeat the brand. So I started to really think about it and I said, yeah, I will do it because everyone was saying, yes, I want to know, I want to know. And then I looked around and I said, wow, and it was exactly what I thought it was. I knew which drugstore brand I preferred or that, I shouldn't say that I preferred, that I ended up using the most products from. And that was the one I was going to start with. I probably have three or four drugstore brands that I repeatedly buy products from. And none of these that I'm going to share with you are one-time wonders. They're not. They're not one-time wonders. They're products that I've bought over and over again and that I love. So I'm going to start off with the one I have the most of, which is going to be the ELF line. Now I've tried a number of different things in ELF that I've liked over the course of time. And I know, and I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time because a lot of the stuff I've already talked to you about, but I mean the ELF line, I have a number of different things that I like including brushes. Now I am a finger person, meaning I apply my foundation with my fingers. I don't, I don't, I mean I might use a sponge on occasion to pat in, to pat in some setting spray. I might use a brush for, you know, overall blending or to put on my blush or contour. And I looked at the brushes that I use over and over again and it surprised me which ones they were because I was like, oh wow, this is amazing. So I have this, put my glasses on. This is a blending brush from ELF. I really, I just really like the thickness, the consistency of this and the fact that I can blend with what I need. This is the one that I use to do my contouring or to even blend in my contouring because sometimes I use a cream contour. But when I use a powder contour, I use this and this is an ELF brush. One of my favorite brushes and I've gotten a number of these. I have one in my motor home. I have one that I travel with and I have one where I broke the handle off to make it short so I could just stay in my cosmetic bag. And this is the ELF, I think it's just the blush brush. ELF blush brush. So these are the three that I use for my face. Over and over again, I bought this one. I think this is my, my, you know, I tend to have two of these. They, sometimes they come apart here easier the way I treat them, but I have two of these. I have one of these in the motor home and then I have one at home and then I have the same thing here with this blending brush. So these are the three ELF cosmetic brushes that I would highly recommend if you haven't tried them. This one, this is just perfect. You know, I can do my blush. I can dip the other side in. I can even do a contour if I wanted to get away with one. I can do it a turn it again and do a little bit of highlight. All depends on what I'm doing, but I absolutely love these brushes from ELF. The other thing, and I don't think I really talked about this much. I'm on the fence as to whether or not I would buy this again. And I know I said none of these are one-time wonders, but I've repeatedly used this. I just haven't repeatedly bought it. And this is actually their lip scrub. It is a brown sugar ELF lip exfoliation scrub. I've used a lot. It is very gritty. If you ever have dry skin, flaking skin on your lips and you just want to get rid of it, yeah. This side is very gritty. I tend to use this side more often than not. It smells like sugar, like brown sugar. It does. It's not a bad smell whatsoever. I like the fact that it's in a tube. It lives in my pocketbook. I can apply this any time I want and it really takes off the dead skin on my lips. Now this, I don't know, you know when I'm done, I mean I play around with lip products a lot, you know. But when I'm done this, we'll see if I buy it again. But I'm using it and I use it all the time. This is not going to be a surprise. This is the Poreless Petty Primer. They do have this in a couple of different shades now. I use the shade Universal Share. And as you can see, oh, maybe you can't. I've hit pan. So I use this every day. I use it on my nose. I love this. The next thing from ELF that I use every day that I've bought over and over again for some reason, I just love this palette. And so this is the color correction. And you can see I use the peach, the green, the blue, hardly any of the yellow. But I do use this an awful lot. You can see the colors that I've used. And you can't beat the price. So I love the fact that these are extremely affordable products. I really, I do. So to me they're like, yes, that brings me to, and I have tried ELF foundations. I've not liked them. I've tried ELF different ELF products. I've tried some of their shadows and some of their blushes. I, and I've not liked them. I've given them away. So, you know, for ELF drugstore, those are the ones that I use those particular products over and over again. And I really like them. The second one that I have the most products with, and I'm not even going to show you the Essence mascara because you guys have seen it so often. Plus, it's in the living room. I didn't bring it in here. But I do use a lot of Essence products. So the ones that I really love a lot is I use their Pure Nude Space Lighter. It's sort of like a highlighter. If, if you just want a little bit of a glow, a little bit of a, I don't know, it kind of like, to me, it's white-ish, but it blends in really nice. So if you just want to have a little bit of a glow, just a light little glow, I love this. Cheap, cheap money. I also, in this fell apart, I usually have a tape together. This I've used so much, and this is their Banana Powder. I really like this a lot. You can't beat the price on Essence. I think their products are excellent. The mascara. I use their mascara. I use their Eyelash Primer. I've used a few other products from Essence that I really like. But to me, yeah, you know, Essence all the way. I just think they have a great line between Elf and Essence. Wet and Wild, I only have one thing that I really like, which is the Creme Brulee Eyeshadow. It has to be the Creme Brulee, not the Brulee that you see everywhere. It's the Creme Brulee. I really like that one. That's super, super a lot. Next up for me, I would have to say it would probably be number seven. I use a lot of number seven products. I love their Touch-Up Stick. I actually use this sometimes to touch up on my nose. I use their foundation. I have the one from the UK. I'm not going to show that because you guys can't get it here in the States. So I use the number seven Lift and Luminate. This is a serum foundation. This has, I think, an SPF of 15 in it. It is not full coverage. It is not full coverage. So with this, I definitely need to work on my veins. You know, I usually do my primer and then I use my color corrector on my veins. And then I try to do some sort of either the number seven Touch-Up. This is called a Blemish Touch-Up. I think it works great for your veins. So I use this along with this foundation. I have to set the foundation with a setting spray, but I do that on most every foundation. So a setting spray. I love how my skin looks with this. I really do. It never looks heavy. It never looks cakey. I just wish it was a little bit more of a full coverage. I like my veins to not show as much. So, but still, number seven. I think hands down, I've had a lot of skincare products over the course of time on number seven. I've used some of their powders. I've used a number of their products and I really, really like that line. You can't beat the price on it at all. The other, oh, and I forgot to show you this because this in the Essence line, I use this every day. This is their liquid color corrector. I like this a lot and this I just dot up. It just brightens under my eyes. I've gone through, this is probably my fourth one. I was by the pink one. I put it all around here and I just tap it in. I really like this a lot. When it comes to concealer, mention the benefit. That's my favorite. But then I have two drugstore concealers that I really like. But the one that I get the most coverage from, which neither one would I put, I would not put. I know many people do. The age-rewind. I know many people will put these under their eyes. I can't. I cannot put this under my eyes. I cannot put this under my eyes. I really, I really can't put anything under my eyes. It makes my eyes look horrible. But I really like the Glamoflage and this is from Hard Candy. This is a concealer that is pretty thick. So, you know, it works great on my veins. It works great on pretty well anything and I can blend it in. It does not work great under my eyes. I can sometimes dot just a little bit over here where I have this blue vein that sometimes looks like a shadow. It's my vein showing. Sometimes I can cover it up a little bit. Sometimes I can cover it up with this, but this doesn't cover it as good as this does. It's just that I would only be able to do this on that spot and nowhere else because my eyes would look horrible. Speaking of Hard Candy, most of the time lately I've been using the City Lips, which I really like. I do have a discount code for anyone that's interested, but I do like the City Lips gloss. Higher end, but when I'm thinking drugstore, it's the Hard Candy. The Hard Candy for the drugstore, I just think it's, I just think it works really well. They have really pretty shades, tints. I also have the Hard Candy. I don't know if you guys have ever used this, the lip oil. Oh my gosh. I love the lip oil. I'm into like trying to do lip treatments and exfoliation. So the lip oil is really awesome. The lip glosses are really awesome. I think when I bought these, they were on sale in Walmart and I want, I don't even remember, but I think they're like maybe five, six dollars if that a piece. And I don't remember how much of a lip oil is. I use the lip oil when my lips feel really dry and I like the lip oil a lot. So for drugstore, I think it's, I think it's just super amazing. I also use a couple of different blushes, my favorite blush for drugstore, and I use this almost all the time. This happens to be my Avon blush. This is Mad About Mauve. I love this blush. I think to me this is a perfect, perfect blush. I love the colors. I love everything about it. The only thing that actually comes close to that shade on me and doesn't wear as nice. The Avon, when I put the Avon blush on, it, it's pigmented and it just looks really pretty and it stays on. And you can see the two shades are very, very close. This is the Elta Beauty Monroe blush. This is the Avon blush. And both of these shades are very, very pretty. However, I like the Avon blush better. It goes on. We dropped it. It goes on better. It looks better on. I also have a Milani. I cannot get any color payoff on the Milani. It's like a waste of energy trying to put that on and actually show it. It could be that I have the wrong color. I just really don't like it. And because I'm doing a drugstore video, I want to do my whole look in drugstore and I used the City Mini Palette from Madeleine is the Skyscape Dust number 520. When I bought this originally, I thought, well, not that it was really a dupe for my Viziat Amethyst, but it kind of reminded me of the color theme and my Viziat Amethyst is my favorite color theme. So when I bought it, I said that'd be close. The problem with this is the colors are close, but they do not blend nicely on me at all. I really have to work harder to apply this. So I have to work harder. I have to work longer. There's a lot of powder that comes out that goes over my face. And I know every shadow is going to have powder fallout. But this has a lot of powder fallout. I still like the colors. So today I worked really hard to put these on my eyes. And I used my Ulta eye crayons that I've shown you many times, but this is what's on my eyes. And my Elf cream brulee and then this shadow and then two of the Ulta color shadows, the black and the lilac one is what I have on my eyes. So my whole look today is drugstore. Yeah, drugstore. And on my head is my John Rene Kristen wig. It's kind of funny. I haven't really played with this wig much. I haven't worn her much. I love the look of this. I really, I really do. But I was watching a video where Taz did color comparison and a little bit of her style comparison using this. And it kind of like inspired me to pull out Kristen and put her on my head. I think this, I think this is kind of a really cute look. It's very, it's, it's very much a bobby style, a bobby style. Does that make sense? It's like a bob. I don't know if you can see. But it's a straight look. The fibers are really beautiful. I like the fact that it's got a slight little root. It's not like an overwhelming long root. The lace front across my temple looks really good. I just really like the wig. I forgot how much I like the wig. Now it does fall in my face a lot. So I've been trying to train it a little bit. You know, you rub your hands together. You get your hands nice and hot. And then you go like that. And kind of like, and you can, you can kind of train a wig. I mean, it's going to take more than the minute, the seconds I just did it. But you can kind of train a wig. Either that or eventually I'm going to bite the bullet and get myself a steamer. I just haven't done that. So anyways guys, I just wanted to share this with you. My drugstore. Oh, I also want to tell you this is not drugstore. But I forgot to mention this in my other video. I received this complimentary from Clarence from the Octolene Network. Really looking forward to trying this. This is a blue orchid treatment oil for dehydrated skin. I took this with me when I went to Nashville. And when you're traveling, you're out of your routine and all that stuff, you need a little bit extra boost. I use this every day, sometimes twice a day, put it on in the morning, put it on at night. It has a fragrance, but it's a healthy fragrance, if that makes sense. Not like fruity, not overwhelming. It just, it just feels really, really good. So I used it in Nashville, put it all over my neck, all over my face, my hands, and away from home and you fly, you absolutely are going to have some dehydrated skin. So this is 100%, let me read it for you, 100% extracts from plants. There's a natural aroma scent. It's got natural preservatives and it has some essential oils. It really is very, very nice. It felt good on my skin. Never was like greasy, just really super, super nice. I like it. So this was sent to me complimentary and yeah, I really like this. So check it out guys. So anyways, I think, I think I covered, I think I covered all my drugstore, I think. And if I forgot something, I'll have to mention it another time. I've got a, I've got a ton more drugstore products for sure, but I wanted to just talk about the ones that I use over and over and over again, because I think that's more impactful than the one ton wonders. Get a lot of one ton wonders. Bye guys. Thank you so much for joining me. I'll chat with you later.