Please share your fave make up dupes :)

RachRubyD

fairy_lights wrote: »

Has anyone got any ideas for a dupe of Smashbox primer? I use a lot of it and it's the only thing I've found to stop my face getting really shiny and oily, but at £24 a tube I'm desperate to fine a substitute!

w7 do a primer that's very similar, think its about £3. My makeup teacher told us it was a dupe and we all bought it, its pretty good. Illamasqua do a matte primer which I think is nicer than smashbox but its around the same price.

The MUA eyeshadow palettes are really good dupes for Urban Decay and just good on their own. I do have them both but I must admit I reach for the urban decay more they just slightly less fall out but honestly if I didn't do makeup myself and use the urban decay alot for weddings I wouldn't bother save your money.

I never buy high end lipsticks either as there is so many dupes on the high street. If anyone into lashes some really good dupes for mac ones are the amazing shine lashes which are about £2-3 compared to makes £10+.

poppy_f1

fairy_lights wrote: »

Has anyone got any ideas for a dupe of Smashbox primer? I use a lot of it and it's the only thing I've found to stop my face getting really shiny and oily, but at £24 a tube I'm desperate to fine a substitute!

i have been told that the lanacane anti chaffing gel is preffy much identical to the smashbox primer

i havent tried it as i wasnt to keen on the smashbox primer but might be worth a shot

chanie

fairy_lights wrote: »

Has anyone got any ideas for a dupe of Smashbox primer? I use a lot of it and it's the only thing I've found to stop my face getting really shiny and oily, but at £24 a tube I'm desperate to fine a substitute!

Lanacane anti chaff gel is supposed to be a well known dupe of the smashbox primer. I haven't tried it, but I kid you not. Google it.

lucywillow

I own both these products and they are very similar.
The smashbox primer ( a xmas gift) is a good product but I actually prefer the Lanacane gel as it has a slightly smoother texture.
I buy the Lanacane from Poundland so it's even more of a bargain.
Hope this helps.

fairy_lights

Brilliant, I will get some Lanacane and give it ago. I've seen it on amazon for about £7 a tube but will have a look in some pound shops and see if I can find it cheaper elsewhere. I would never, ever, have thought of anti-chaffing gel as a primer substitute!

ali-t

jenniewb wrote: »

I still think that Mac make the colour cosmetics (eye shadows mainly) for both Boots No.7 and The Body Shop. I think also the liquid coloured eye liner in Boots No.7 has exactly the same consistency as Mac coloured liquid eye liners, sadly the colours don't work for me.
The black looks pretty similar too but again not what I'm looking for (I prefer the felt tip types of the gel liner from Bobbi Brown which I've yet to find a suitable dupe for, many are similar but just lacking too much to be called a dupe).

I love Chanel nail varnish (I borrowed/stole my mum's purple Chanel polish and couldn't bring myself to hand it back before using it up...) The reason I really liked it is that it stayed put- so little chipping and also stayed glossy for a long time. I've tried many other brands but am yet to find one which works just as well, Rimmel is the nearest I've come to the non chipping if you use an over-coat but isn't exactly as strong.

L'Oreal Youth Code serum is not the same as the Lancôme (Genefique?) type it copied, but it comes closer than any other brand I've tried and does help with fine lines.

Nars make a really good cult classic called The Multiple, there are a wide variety of colours and with or without a shimmery illumination, but if you check out Superdrugs GOSH they have three of their own cheek-stick tints. The colours are limited so you may not find the same colour replicated but they do seem to have the same intensity and natural look. Not exactly the same, you will feel the difference but the look is the same and the ease of use is the same. Other brands get the intensity all wrong and you have to blend far more IMO.

If anyone knows of a decent brow-liner crayon which matches with Nars can you please let us all know- I really like the Kalamata brow perfector, its not affordable to me and all the other cheaper brow cosmetics are either pencils which break or run down far too fast (I hate brow pencils because they constantly need sharpening) or there are brow colour mascara type wands which only work if you have consistently thick brows, mine are only thick at one end and thin at the other-so thin that applying this stuff just looks daft My brows are naturally a caramel blonde, not a good look for me to go natural! I saw the Soap and Glory type and liked that but £10 is a bit steep for me.

GOSH do a fab felt pen brow pen that looks really natural and stays put until you remove it. I'm a natural red head with fair brows and until I had them tattooed on this was my go to brow product. Better coverage than pencils or powders but not fake looking.

jenniewb

ali-t wrote: »

GOSH do a fab felt pen brow pen that looks really natural and stays put until you remove it. I'm a natural red head with fair brows and until I had them tattooed on this was my go to brow product. Better coverage than pencils or powders but not fake looking.

Thanks for this! I'd seen them about a month ago but wasn't sure of their staying power as the pen I tried seemed to be quite difficult to test on my arm (maybe it had dried out?) and I wasn't sure if it was going to last the day, but what you say seems to contradict that so I'll definitely give this one a go, thanks

xMonsoonx

Boots 17 single eye shadow in Mardi Gras is an almost exact dupe for MAC Satin Taupe.

cherrypippin

If anyone knows of a decent brow-liner crayon which matches with Nars can you please let us all know- I really like the Kalamata brow perfector, its not affordable to me and all the other cheaper brow cosmetics are either pencils which break or run down far too fast (I hate brow pencils because they constantly need sharpening) or there are brow colour mascara type wands which only work if you have consistently thick brows, mine are only thick at one end and thin at the other-so thin that applying this stuff just looks daft My brows are naturally a caramel blonde, not a good look for me to go natural! I saw the Soap and Glory type and liked that but £10 is a bit steep for me.[/QUOTE]

Sleek do an amazing eyebrow pencil (£5.99 at Superdrug - but I've had it on offer before now too). It's a twist up, so no sharpening, and it's such a great texture - the waxiness is just right. It's also shaped with a narrower and a wider end (difficult to explain!), which makes it really easy to use and draw the shape you want.

I have dark hair and brows, but choose the "light" option, and it looks so natural. Oh, and it also has an eyebrow brush on the other end.

I love it so much, I have a few stockpiled, although I haven't actually used one up yet, and I use it every single day!

faerielight

I don't know if it's a dupe, but I'm using Bare Minerals Frame and Define Brow Styler. it's a very thin twist up nib and the color is a perfect ashy taupe and it is a good one, , but it's £15