Drugstore Beauty Shopping Secrets

                                          Kourtney Kardashian shops at Walgreens

This month's issue of Allure magazine has some great drugstore shopping advice.  I can't resist sharing a few of these tips with you guys!

Tip #1: Go to a company's website before you go shopping.  Cover Girl, Loreal, Revlon and others will have shade-matching tools on their websites that can be very accurate.  I've actually done this myself, and the sites were able to come up with colors that would look great on me based on my skin, hair and eye colors.  Some also match shades with other brands.


Tip#2: Look for new products in July and January, which is when a large number of new products launch.  These products are usually displayed on endcaps at the ends of aisles, rather than mixed in with the older products. 

Tip#3: When choosing a foundation, if you're between shades, go for the one that's slightly darker, because it will warm your complexion and you can blend it out if you need to.  You can also bring your old foundation with you and match up the bottles- apparently, this works really well. 

Tip#4: Buy eyeliners and lipliners made in Germany.  There are two factories there that produce both luxury and drugstore liners (pencils, liquids and markers) and use similar waxes and pigments in both.  I recently bought an N.Y.C. Cosmetics eyeliner that I absolutely love, and when I checked the package, sure enough, it comes from Germany!

To read more, check out this month's issue of Allure- they talk about the top products that their experts buy from the drugstore, as well as the drugstore products that rich women buy. 
You can also read part of this article online at:  http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2011/06/the-drugstore-beauty-finds-rich-women-cant-resist.html

                                            Amanda Seyfried and Blake Lively shop at CVS