Are you brand conscious?

[Reha]

Re: Are you brand conscious?

@M_was_here

^I think Reha is referring to being a brand snob towards makeup. Clothing-wise I am not a designer-only kind of a person and wear what I like.

As for makeup, I’m afraid I am a high-end snob. I don’t like having a big stash of makeup so whatever I do I get, I end up getting the higher-end version of it and prefer that over the drugstore version. And it’s funny since I wasn’t like this a few months ago, even MAC was considered kinda’ high-end but now I don’t care for brands like MAC, Benefit, Too Faced, Stila, Urban Decay etc. I also hate things in cardboard packaging or cheap plastic-y packaging that a lot of drugstore makeup comes with. I ended up depotting my Wet ‘n’ Wild (one drugstore brand I love and find the quality better than many higher-end stuff) because the plastic packaging was just yuck. So I will make an exception for eyeshadow and lip glosses but lipsticks, blushes, tools I prefer the higher-end version, always. >.<

You know M…before I started this whole makeup obsession…I though MAC was like the mecca of all makeup. Now I don’t think their eyeshadows are all that at all In fact, I really regret spending all that money on the UD eyeshadows I initially went out and grabbed.

There was a time when I was using strictly Guerlain skin care. That’s it. I was addicted and it was good stuff too. But I was spending so much it was ridiculous! Now, my skin care is half that price and works so much better. My makeup lasts me ages and ages because I don’t need so much of it.

There definitely IS quality in higher priced names…but I don’t think the drugstore brands are too far behind them nowadays. Every company is upping their game and really trying to appeal to a more educated population who IS willing to spend that extra cash on the good stuff. You just have to look.