Re: Expensive vs cheap brands
In general, the pricier brands. Although, I don't think MAC is that much more expensive than some drug store brands now.
I completely converted from drug store to department store brands a long time ago. Anytime I do delve back because something is supposedly really good.. always disappointed.
Unless a company owns two brands and they have some similar looking products, you can find that they are usually the same thing. For example, Estee Lauder owns MAC. EL Illusionist mascara (discontinued) was almost the same as MAC pro longlash but £5 more. The only difference was the MAC packaging and quality of the brush was cheaper.
Johnson and Johnson own both Neutrogena and ROC etc.