Speaker 1: Episode three sixty Saving Money on Makeup.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 2: save money, embrace simplicity, and liver your life. Here your
Speaker 2: hosts Jen and Jill.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast. My name is Jen,
Speaker 1: my name is Jill, and today we are talking about
Speaker 1: makeup and this is something that this is an episode
Speaker 1: we wanted to do for ourselves, and so you get
Speaker 1: to benefit from our findings. And if you are trying
Speaker 1: to find affordable makeup that looks good and actually fits
Speaker 1: your complexion and your skin type and all that, then yeah,
Speaker 1: we hope you benefit from it too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do all of our episodes for us us.
Speaker 3: Who are we kidding? But this one, this one's just
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Speaker 1: This is true, this is actually true, so makeup. We
Speaker 1: have done a few kind of like beauty episodes in
Speaker 1: the past. We have got let me find It here.
Speaker 1: We've got episode three thirty six self care and healthcare
Speaker 1: treatments for free or low costs, so that can include facials, massages,
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and then episode twenty five we did
Speaker 1: Frugal Beauty, all natural and affordable beauty and skincare products.
Speaker 1: But we really haven't done anything dedicated to beauty literally
Speaker 1: since episode twenty five, which was.
Speaker 3: Like six years ago.
Speaker 1: So I know. So we're coming back around. And we
Speaker 1: did a poll on the frind letter. So if you
Speaker 1: love the show and you want to be involved with
Speaker 1: the episodes we make and the direction we take these episodes,
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Speaker 1: the friend letter Frugal Friends podcast dot com. So we
Speaker 1: did one and overwhelmed by all the products and brands.
Speaker 1: Was your biggest frustration with buying makeup because there are
Speaker 1: just so many products and brands. But then we also asked,
Speaker 1: are you actually more frustrated with finding the right skincare routine?
Speaker 1: And that was the second highest answer, So we might
Speaker 1: do a skincare episode in the future, and because kind
Speaker 1: of divide episode twenty five and go deeper into the
Speaker 1: skincare portion, but this one, we're going deeper into the makeup,
Speaker 1: specifically into products and brands. So we're gonna hit some
Speaker 1: overarching rules of thumb in the first article, and then
Speaker 1: we are going to dive into specific products and brands
Speaker 1: in the second article. But yeah, so we wanted to
Speaker 1: also just highlight this one comment from Denise because we
Speaker 1: just realized literally maybe last week, that you could leave
Speaker 1: comments on the polls, and we didn't know that, so
Speaker 1: any comments you've left, we're just now reading them. But
Speaker 1: she says there are too many choices and products are
Speaker 1: so expensive when you try to get the best product,
Speaker 1: it turns out doesn't work for you, so you have
Speaker 1: to shell out even more money for another brand. She said,
Speaker 1: this happens to me with Foundation because of like full coverage,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking a lot about Foundation. I
Speaker 1: did the research, read the articles, bought what I thought
Speaker 1: was a great substitute, and Nope, barely works. So now
Speaker 1: I'm out the money and the money I have to
Speaker 1: pay to purchase and try and true yet pricey product.
Speaker 1: It's very, very frustrating. So Denise, we have heard you.
Speaker 1: This episode is for you, Denise, and for anybody feeling
Speaker 1: like Denise. So let's get into it. The first article
Speaker 1: is make Up on a Budget, how to get a
Speaker 1: flawless look without breaking the bank. Jill your thoughts.
Speaker 3: This one was really helpful. Some of it repeated itself,
Speaker 3: which is totally fine. We'll just summarize it for you,
Speaker 3: but I think a really good summary of here's what
Speaker 3: you can be focusing on, here's what's fluff and so
Speaker 3: first things first, they are recommending that we can buy
Speaker 3: drugstore brands instead of designer ones. So this of course
Speaker 3: is going to come down to you doing your own research,
Speaker 3: knowing what does and doesn't work on your skin, and
Speaker 3: that's part of the frustration that we hear you, Denise,
Speaker 3: you're talking about is buying something, trying it, finding it
Speaker 3: doesn't work, and then you're out that money. I think
Speaker 3: that is where I do like these stores that allow
Speaker 3: you to try products kind of in store and sample them.
Speaker 3: The downside is that it doesn't allow you time to know, well,
Speaker 3: then what happened when I took the makeup off, how
Speaker 3: did my skin react? And some of that is just
Speaker 3: going to be trial and error. But essentially they're saying
Speaker 3: that a lot of these drug store brands are actually
Speaker 3: super comparable to maybe your more luxury brands as far
Speaker 3: as ingredients in the product. So this is where we
Speaker 3: can rely a lot on reviews as well as just
Speaker 3: comparing products in these different brands. What are you seeing
Speaker 3: that you do want? What's the luxury brand that's trying
Speaker 3: to be sold to you? And are there comparable products?
Speaker 3: Are there even dupes that can be found through maybe
Speaker 3: Lene Laurel Revlon who are definitely going to be a
Speaker 3: fraction of the price. So just because it's sold at
Speaker 3: a drug store, let's not just write it off and
Speaker 3: feel like we have to buy the most expensive we
Speaker 3: all know, most expensive doesn't necessarily mean better. So this
Speaker 3: is where we can implement our problem solving, our research,
Speaker 3: our knowledge of self, and just know that you're not
Speaker 3: necessarily making the cheap decision. You might be making a
Speaker 3: very frugal, good stewarding great decision. In a drug store brand,
Speaker 3: maybe it doesn't have as pretty of packaging, but chances
Speaker 3: are it's very similar in nature and in ingredients to
Speaker 3: maybe some of the designer brands.
Speaker 1: M Yeah, no, we love a drug store brand. I
Speaker 1: will say that I ventured into Alta for the first
Speaker 1: time several months ago because I wanted to find a
Speaker 1: tinted moisturizer that was like a foundation, and so for
Speaker 1: something specialty like that, I wanted to I wanted to
Speaker 1: get at one thing that was very high quality and
Speaker 1: then have all the rest of my makeup be kind
Speaker 1: of drug store because I I have a tinted moisturizer
Speaker 1: with SPF. THO, those were my two things that needs
Speaker 1: to have SPF and it needs to be a tinted moisturizer,
Speaker 1: and I have one from it's I think it's like
Speaker 1: a BB like a Mabeline or something from Walmart or Target,
Speaker 1: and it's it's fine, but it doesn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of coverage. So I went to Alta to find one
Speaker 1: that covers like a foundation, and I did, and I
Speaker 1: spent forty five dollars on it. And I don't wear
Speaker 1: it every day. I only wear it when I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be out to see people. If I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: seeing people or you know, doing my makeup that day,
Speaker 1: and then I wear my other tinted moisturizer that I
Speaker 1: got from the drug store. So there's a balance here too.
Speaker 1: If you wear makeup every single day, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: want to be spending forty five dollars on your tinted moisturize,
Speaker 1: or maybe you want to be getting just a foundation
Speaker 1: with SPF from Target. Decide what's right for you. Pick
Speaker 1: your one thing that maybe you want to do really
Speaker 1: good quality, and then stick with everything else drugstore brand.
Speaker 1: It's up to you. But the next thing on the list,
Speaker 1: and well the next two on the list, we're going
Speaker 1: to combine. I think the most important things. Don't jump
Speaker 1: on trendy shades and to buy the right shades. So
Speaker 1: if you were with us for episode three point fifty five,
Speaker 1: we talked about capsule wardrobes. But the secret to a
Speaker 1: good capsule wardrobe that works for you is to know
Speaker 1: the colors that look best for you. So you're undertones,
Speaker 1: overtoneshw all those colory things that I don't understand, but
Speaker 1: had somebody else look at me and tell me, I
Speaker 1: highly recommend if you are not if you were like
Speaker 1: me and don't really understand color. So that goes for makeup.
Speaker 1: So we weren't just talking about a capsule wardrobe. But
Speaker 1: knowing your colors helps you find the right shades of makeup,
Speaker 1: and it helps you avoid trendy shades because a problem
Speaker 1: that both Jill and I had was buying these lipsticks
Speaker 1: that look good on other people that we want to
Speaker 1: look good on us, but then put them on and
Speaker 1: they don't, and just like Denise, like you, then you
Speaker 1: waste the money that you saved. It's not that the
Speaker 1: quality is bad, it's that you just it just wasn't
Speaker 1: the right shade for you.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's a right and wrong shade.
Speaker 1: I think if you are somebody who has warm undertones
Speaker 1: and you want to wear makeup for cool, undertoned people
Speaker 1: like and you feel confident in that, and you feel
Speaker 1: like you look good in that, like do it. Don't
Speaker 1: let anybody tell you can't. But if that's not you,
Speaker 1: if you just are have spent years buying, Like I
Speaker 1: bought this purple lipstick because it looked good on somebody
Speaker 1: else and I was like, I want to be bold
Speaker 1: like that girl, and then I put it on it
Speaker 1: I was like, I am not bold. I look sick.
Speaker 1: So if that's you, then then finding your color palette
Speaker 1: can be really useful. And I found a website called Temptalia.
Speaker 1: Temptalia I don't know, like temptation, but Temptalia. It will
Speaker 1: It has all of the name brand and drug store
Speaker 1: shades of like makeup, and it will tell you what
Speaker 1: the color is because they all have these weird names
Speaker 1: and I don't know what it means. So like I
Speaker 1: have a warm autumn color palette. So coral rust and
Speaker 1: brick red those are my like shades for lipstick, but
Speaker 1: none of them are called coral rust or brest.
Speaker 3: Like vibrant vixen at midnight, Like I don't know.
Speaker 1: What color that is, right, So like I will go
Speaker 1: and look at the liquid lipstick that we'll tell you
Speaker 1: about later, and I'll look it up on Temptalia and
Speaker 1: it will tell me what the actual color. It will
Speaker 1: interpret what Maybelene or Revlon says that color is like
Speaker 1: it's a a warm coral or it's a cool toned red,
Speaker 1: and that can help me figure out, Oh, it's a
Speaker 1: cool tone. I don't want that. I want a warm
Speaker 1: toned or a neutral, you know, something like that. So
Speaker 1: highly recommend Temptalia. It's mainly for makeup dupes. So if
Speaker 1: you know that you love a name brand or a
Speaker 1: high end brand and you want to find the drug
Speaker 1: store dupe to it, that's actually mainly what this website
Speaker 1: is for. It will give you comparable drugstore dupes. I
Speaker 1: love that, and I use it for the color to
Speaker 1: find the right shade.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I can't emphasize enough knowing what colors are going
Speaker 3: to be best for you. I think this is what
Speaker 3: can allow us to simplify and have a capsule makeup
Speaker 3: collection and just be really confident and not be wasting
Speaker 3: the money on buying this, buying that, not even because
Speaker 3: we see it on somebody else, just because we like
Speaker 3: how the color looks in the store, and then we
Speaker 3: realize it's not for us. And then when it comes
Speaker 3: to if you're choosing foundations or powders. This is especially
Speaker 3: where I like being able to try the products out.
Speaker 3: I think I personally have only been in a Sephora
Speaker 3: like once before, but I do now know that you
Speaker 3: can try out these different shades and see I would
Speaker 3: recommend trying to get as close to sunlight as possible.
Speaker 3: That's been a tricky one for me is it's not
Speaker 3: going to look the same under their fluorescent lights as
Speaker 3: it does when you then get home, So try and
Speaker 3: get as much natural light when you're trying these things
Speaker 3: in store. But then I like their tip that if
Speaker 3: you're stuck between two different colors shades and you're not
Speaker 3: sure which one's right for you, go for the lighter one.
Speaker 3: Always go for the lighter one. Don't do the darker shade.
Speaker 3: It's not going to look as good on you, So
Speaker 3: lighter is going to blend better than the darker. Number
Speaker 3: four tip on here is to shop for versatile products.
Speaker 3: So when you're buying your makeup, making sure that you
Speaker 3: buy things that can work in a multitude of different
Speaker 3: ways as much as possible. So with Concealer, you might
Speaker 3: want to buy a lighter shade that could also be
Speaker 3: used as a highlighter. You can apply foundation and bronzer.
Speaker 3: So trying to find things I know that they also created,
Speaker 3: like blush that could also be shadow. So if that's
Speaker 3: your jam, trying to find things that can be versatile,
Speaker 3: I would maybe add on to hear just simplifying. So
Speaker 3: maybe if you're not the type of person who wants
Speaker 3: to put the same thing on your eyes as you're
Speaker 3: doing on your cheeks, but finding the palette of what's
Speaker 3: the typical eye shadow shades that I go for. I
Speaker 3: don't need all of these things cluttering up my bathroom,
Speaker 3: but I just want these three to five different colors.
Speaker 3: I know that this is going to work with a
Speaker 3: variety of things, or I just need these one to
Speaker 3: three different lipsticks. So really scaling down whether or not
Speaker 3: it's versatile, but at least simplified. And I think we
Speaker 3: run into having this massive collection when we don't exactly
Speaker 3: know our colors and we're kind of unsure of what
Speaker 3: looks good on us. So making some sort of investment
Speaker 3: of Okay, what is going to be my daily wear
Speaker 3: kind of make up? What do I feel best in?
Speaker 3: I think this is almost too pushing back on the
Speaker 3: advice to get all of the free samples as you
Speaker 3: possibly can. That was in an article that we almost
Speaker 3: did for this episode and decided we don't like any
Speaker 3: of these tips, because yeah, there are ways to get
Speaker 3: free makeup by doing all of the samples. But I
Speaker 3: think that's what leads to so much confusion and a
Speaker 3: complicated makeup drawer is we've gotten all these samples, but
Speaker 3: they're made for the masses, not for you as an individual,
Speaker 3: and it's not your color, but you keep it because
Speaker 3: you feel bad and you don't want to throw it away,
Speaker 3: and now everything's just complicated. So if that's you, you
Speaker 3: can push back on all of the free samples and
Speaker 3: spend the five dollars on the thing that actually just
Speaker 3: looks good on you. And that's going to take some time,
Speaker 3: but I would say worth it, whether you've got a
Speaker 3: friend who's a makeup artist, or you do spend the
Speaker 3: money to go to an alta USh Sephora and have
Speaker 3: them do your daily wear makeup and figure out what
Speaker 3: shades are good on you, and then you can really
Speaker 3: know these are the makeups that I'm actually going to
Speaker 3: spend on. These are the colors that I'm going to
Speaker 3: buy and you don't have to mess around with all
Speaker 3: the other confusing stuff that the Internet wants you to purchase.
Speaker 1: Absolutely amen, I would take that piece of advice if
Speaker 1: you don't take anything out, So just like, buy what
Speaker 1: works and keep using it. The fifth is one you
Speaker 1: can take or leave. Buy your must halves before you
Speaker 1: splurge on extras. I would say, just to minimize your
Speaker 1: must haves. For me, I don't wear eyeshadow. I just
Speaker 1: have made it a point to say I don't. That's
Speaker 1: just not something I'm gonna wears as makeup. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to do it. Sometimes I don't wear blush, but
Speaker 1: I don't wear I don't wear a lot of blush.
Speaker 1: There are people who love makeup and love doing makeup.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite Instagram accounts to follow is Freedom Barbie.
Speaker 1: She's a PI and she says all these fun PI stories.
Speaker 1: A private investigator, she says all these fun stories from
Speaker 1: when like she's on jobs and she does her makeup
Speaker 1: while she's doing it. So if you love to do
Speaker 1: makeup like she's so passionate about it, then that is
Speaker 1: something that you spend on and you don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to take these tips you can take the tips and
Speaker 1: say no and save in other places so that you
Speaker 1: have more money to buy the good quality makeups that
Speaker 1: you want to try. But if you're like me and makeup,
Speaker 1: I just want to like look presentable. I want to
Speaker 1: look put together. There are days sure I'll go out
Speaker 1: in public without makeup. I'm not wearing makeup right now,
Speaker 1: but I like wearing it. I don't need it, but
Speaker 1: I like it. And if you're like that, then I
Speaker 1: would say, just have your like five five staples. So
Speaker 1: for me, that's a tinted moisturizer, a really good quality
Speaker 1: tinted moisturizer, eye liner. Because I only have half a
Speaker 1: eyebrow on either side, I guess bybrow eyebrow, and then eyeliner, mascara,
Speaker 1: and then a lipstick. Those are my five. I don't
Speaker 1: have anything else. I literally have five things for makeup.
Speaker 1: I have one extra lipstick and I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: a good rust colored lipstick. So I want to have seven,
Speaker 1: but I have six. I don't want to lie I
Speaker 1: have six. I have two lipsticks and that's it. So
Speaker 1: decide what you want and just let that be enough.
Speaker 1: You don't have to have a ton of everything or everything,
Speaker 1: one of everything.
Speaker 3: I'm resonating with this so much, and I'm laughing over
Speaker 3: here because I think it's just hitting me right now
Speaker 3: that like, we might not be the best people to
Speaker 3: be doing an episode on takeup because I don't know much.
Speaker 3: And that's yeah, I do. I have a foundation, a
Speaker 3: finishing powder which woo fancy cover, I know you faous,
Speaker 3: A blush mascara, eyeliner, eyebrow pencil. Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 3: literally one lash stick. Uh huh.
Speaker 1: I have seven pieces and I want eight. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what it is.
Speaker 3: We really have simplified and we can talk more about
Speaker 3: that because maybe that is some of the tips that
Speaker 3: that people want. But this became also really clear to me.
Speaker 3: I've been traveling with friends, going different places, and I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess in some of the circles people might view
Speaker 3: me as the high maintenance person, and then in other circles,
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: I was on a trip recently with some girls and
Speaker 3: they're like, okay, and we're gonna want to get to
Speaker 3: the hotel, you know, about two hours before we go out,
Speaker 3: so we got time to like get ready, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means. Is what is two
Speaker 3: hours to get ready mean? I'm like, I'm ready now.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna get better than this. I own not
Speaker 3: gonna get buy things of makeup, and I don't know
Speaker 3: anything else to do with it. I've got one lipstick,
Speaker 3: I've got the way that I put on my eyeliner
Speaker 3: and that's it. Like my my travel makeup literally fits
Speaker 3: in like a two by four inch pouch.
Speaker 1: And name that's all my makeup. That's all of my
Speaker 1: makeup fits in this small pouch that actually Travis found
Speaker 1: when he was working at the airport, like before he
Speaker 1: got his license, he was cleaning airplanes and he found
Speaker 1: this little pouch that I still use for my makeup.
Speaker 1: And that's what I travel, That's what I use on
Speaker 1: a daily basis. That's what I travel with.
Speaker 3: And if you follow us on Instagram, you'll probably see
Speaker 3: us post a little snippet of this episode. This is
Speaker 3: what we look like. This isn't we don't do? Yeh
Speaker 3: Jen said, she doesn't wear makeup. You look beautiful. I
Speaker 3: admire it. This is the makeup that I do. I
Speaker 3: do no more makeup for attending a wedding than I
Speaker 3: do for recording this podcast, Like, it's simple, this is
Speaker 3: what we're doing. We're not spending a lot of money
Speaker 3: on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ultimately it's not about us. But I hope that
Speaker 1: we can normalize this because I think on YouTube on
Speaker 1: social media, everyone looks so perfect and put together, and
Speaker 1: I want us to normalize like, yes, makeup is great,
Speaker 1: there's nothing against makeup. I love wearing makeup. I love
Speaker 1: shaving my armpits. But it's not a necessity, like one
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the time.
Speaker 3: And no judgment. Yeah, some people like this is their hobby.
Speaker 3: They love it, right, this is going to be the
Speaker 3: value of where they choose to spend on. And probably
Speaker 3: they're not listening to this episode because they're going to
Speaker 3: spend on the designer brands and they love it. And
Speaker 3: I admire the people who know how to contour. Never
Speaker 3: in my life have I ever even attempted to try
Speaker 3: to contour or understand what that's like. Uh, but I
Speaker 3: love it when people really it's like artistry. To me,
Speaker 3: it's a form of artwork that you can do on yourself.
Speaker 3: I think it's beautiful. It's not where I am choosing
Speaker 3: to spend my time if someone wants to do it
Speaker 3: to me, I'd probably love it. That'd be so fun.
Speaker 3: But I just I don't know, I don't know how
Speaker 3: to do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but let's normalize being in the safe in
Speaker 1: the spaces that we want to be in, being in
Speaker 1: the safe space. Like like a few weeks ago, we
Speaker 1: had a Bill of the Week where she, you know,
Speaker 1: she'd wanted to shave her head and never felt comfortable
Speaker 1: and finally just did it, and she's living in her
Speaker 1: in her space, in her truth, and it's beautiful. So
Speaker 1: like lit so makeup, no makeup doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: all in or noth like are nothing, you know, Let's
Speaker 1: just pick our Let's just pick our sure, live in
Speaker 1: our delation.
Speaker 3: In this Yeah, okay. Last one on this list is
Speaker 3: number six. Just to be aware of expiration dates. I
Speaker 3: this is a reminder to myself. I'm classic for just
Speaker 3: using it until it runs out, even if it takes
Speaker 3: two years to run out. And that's a problem because
Speaker 3: it can expire it. I think probably one of the
Speaker 3: biggest concerns with that is as you're touching your face
Speaker 3: with it on a regular basis, you're gonna get bacteria
Speaker 3: in your makeup, and that's just not great, especially your
Speaker 3: eye makeup, your mascara, your eyeliners. You want to be
Speaker 3: especially aware of when did you first open it, how
Speaker 3: long have you been using it for. That's gonna be
Speaker 3: an area that you might want to be willing to
Speaker 3: throw away if it's past its expiration date. Nobody needs
Speaker 3: eye infections, so good tip. Yeah, the not necessarily money
Speaker 3: saving tip, well, I guess it is depending on what
Speaker 3: kind of medical costs come along with your eye If.
Speaker 1: You get an eye infection, yeah, that's a medical cost.
Speaker 1: Save money on eye infections. So our next article, we're
Speaker 1: getting into it. Let's talk about products. Let's talk about brands.
Speaker 1: Here's the here's what we used to come up with these.
Speaker 1: I don't like the articles that are like we compiled
Speaker 1: the best things based on Amazon reviewers. I hate that
Speaker 1: because half of Amazon reviews are fake. You can go
Speaker 1: to fake spot, get that chrome extension. You can and
Speaker 1: it helps you spot fake like reviews. So you're not
Speaker 1: getting these products that say they have like four point
Speaker 1: eight stars, but half of them are fake five stars.
Speaker 1: So not hashtag not sponsored.
Speaker 3: Okay, I want.
Speaker 1: To hear from the experts. The makeup experts. I want
Speaker 1: to hear from people who really review these products in house.
Speaker 1: That's why I love Wirecutter, which is owned by New
Speaker 1: York Times. I love Wirecutter because they don't I mean,
Speaker 1: they'll take into consideration the reviews only to decide what
Speaker 1: they test and then they all they test in house.
Speaker 1: So that is the I hold that standard for everything
Speaker 1: else in life. Birdie b y r d Ie is
Speaker 1: really good. They do in house testing for makeup and
Speaker 1: beauty products. But another one, a good one, is reviewed
Speaker 1: and so this article is from USA Today, but it
Speaker 1: was written by Reviewed and it's shop the best drug
Speaker 1: store makeup products from Lorel, f Revlon and more ELF. Sorry,
Speaker 1: uh so this is the article that we took uh
Speaker 1: and do have some of our own recommendations as well.
Speaker 1: I'm going to compile this list into an Amazon list
Speaker 1: because it'll be easier for me to give you one
Speaker 1: URL instead of six or twelve. So I haven't made
Speaker 1: it yet, but it'll be at Frugal Friends podcast dot
Speaker 1: com slash Makeup.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna write it down calling it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna call it, and all of these are
Speaker 1: gonna be there. So let's start with the first one.
Speaker 1: We're looking at mascara, all right, so our favorite, not
Speaker 1: our favorite, but Reviewed's favorite and my favorite.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: I got two options for you. One is from Reviewed,
Speaker 1: in the other they're both from Reviewed, but I looked
Speaker 1: their actual like test of mascaras. So the one on
Speaker 1: this article is the Milani ten in one. M I
Speaker 1: L A N I. That is a brand easily found
Speaker 1: at Target, Walmart, Walgreens, and it's their high It says
Speaker 1: highly rated ten in one. Like the name of the
Speaker 1: mascara is highly rated. It's not just a highly they're
Speaker 1: really doing it. Wow, good for you, Malani. So it's
Speaker 1: their highly rated ten in one is their top pick
Speaker 1: because it's easy to apply to the lashes without clumping.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: But in their test on a bunch of drugstore mascaras,
Speaker 1: they did find that it comes off within water with
Speaker 1: rubbing stuff like that. So if you plan to be
Speaker 1: crying or rubbing your eyes, maybe not if you're a crier,
Speaker 1: then I would say this is the one I use.
Speaker 1: Is the cover Girl lash Blast. It is the orange
Speaker 1: cover Girl mascaram. This is the one I use. I
Speaker 1: love it. They say it was their former top pick.
Speaker 1: It doesn't come up with there's like no smudging or flaking.
Speaker 1: You only need one coat, apply smoothly. I can vouch
Speaker 1: for all of those things. But the cons is it
Speaker 1: has a stubby wand and I can also agree with that.
Speaker 1: But actually it's wand is different from other ones. It's
Speaker 1: not like a like a brush. It's a plastic little nubs,
Speaker 1: and I find that that's better. So I love the
Speaker 1: cover Girl lash Blast. It's the orange one. But Malaney
Speaker 1: High highly rated ten in one. What is the ten
Speaker 1: things that.
Speaker 3: I That's what I'm over here wondering. Who knows. There's
Speaker 3: no way it's doing ten things, absolutely not probably two,
Speaker 3: and they're breaking it into ten somehow.
Speaker 1: How can it do more than one thing? A mass
Speaker 1: scaa oh separates and build slashes. It's two of the
Speaker 1: things that it does. Yeah, you tell us if you
Speaker 1: love that one, you let us know ten things, So
Speaker 1: let us know the other eight things it does.
Speaker 3: Clearly, we're not sponsored by any of these products, and
Speaker 3: that's why it's fun to talk about them, because it's
Speaker 3: not we're not getting money from any of them. We're
Speaker 3: just truly trying to help you find what's going to
Speaker 3: work for you. So the next product is foundation. So
Speaker 3: for the Dewey look, they are saying that the top
Speaker 3: rated one is the fit Me Dewey and Smooth foundation.
Speaker 3: I'm also clicking all these links to give you.
Speaker 1: Like from icing.
Speaker 3: Oh did I not say that? Oh yeah, Mabeline. Uh
Speaker 3: it's about nine dollars yep, ninety nine, which is great. Personally,
Speaker 3: I do use what do I use? Clinique? My goodness,
Speaker 3: I use clinique And for me, I love your tip
Speaker 3: Jen back in that first article talking about finding maybe
Speaker 3: your one or two products that you're willing to spend
Speaker 3: on and then the rest that maybe aren't as important
Speaker 3: or you can still meet your needs without spending a
Speaker 3: ton of money with a foundation, something I'm putting all
Speaker 3: over my skin. It has felt important to me to
Speaker 3: have something that I know I'm not going to break
Speaker 3: out with, can last all day. I'm sure there's other products.
Speaker 3: I kind of just like grew up on cliniques, so
Speaker 3: it's the one that I that I choose to use
Speaker 3: and I know that it works with my skin. So
Speaker 3: I'm personally really hesitant to stray from that. I don't
Speaker 3: want to do some sort of science experiment on myself
Speaker 3: that then causes my skin to break out. So found
Speaker 3: foundation is the one thing that I will spend on.
Speaker 3: But I think Cliniques Foundation is something like twenty seven dollars.
Speaker 3: So yeah, if you know that your skin is pretty
Speaker 3: resilient and you can put whatever on it, then and
Speaker 3: you're willing to just try things out, it sounds like
Speaker 3: there's some really great options for under ten dollars, which
Speaker 3: I think is really great. If you don't want the
Speaker 3: dewey look, you'd prefer the more matte look, then we
Speaker 3: recommend cover Girl, True Blend, Matte made liquid foundation. These
Speaker 3: cosmetic companies are adding all sorts of words and it's
Speaker 3: complicated titles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is really annoying, but it's funny to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: uh I will. I know I didn't mention the name
Speaker 1: of the tinted moisturizer I use, but I said it
Speaker 1: was like forty five. It's actually twenty bucks. It's really good.
Speaker 1: It's not smash box Halo and it is. It wears
Speaker 1: just like a foundation, but it's got SPF twenty five.
Speaker 1: It's a tinted moisturizer and it's really lovely. I got
Speaker 1: it from Alta and it's vegan, cruelty free all of
Speaker 1: oil free because I have oily skin, so it is
Speaker 1: it is my go to now. But yeah, I have
Speaker 1: also used plenty of drug store mascaras or sorry, plenty
Speaker 1: of drug store foundations that haven't made me like break
Speaker 1: out or anything. They've been totally fine. It's just like
Speaker 1: I wanted to switch to a tinted moisturizer and over
Speaker 1: like in the drug store. Those are very thing.
Speaker 3: And I do love the ones that have the SPF
Speaker 3: in them. I think that's great. I know some asticians
Speaker 3: will balk at the found you know, foundations that have SBF,
Speaker 3: but I gotta imagine that twenty five is still better
Speaker 3: than nothing.
Speaker 1: Oh, for Florida, you have to every I mean everything
Speaker 1: you put on your face got to have some kind
Speaker 1: of SBF. If you don't want to look like Florida woman,
Speaker 1: that's just it, all right. Let us look at eyeliner.
Speaker 1: So one of the suggestions from this article is the
Speaker 1: I should probably prepare and scroll down. I wrote it
Speaker 1: in that line it's the cover Girl perfect point plus eyeliner,
Speaker 1: so alliteration. H. But I also found another article saying
Speaker 1: the Knicks n Yx Professional Makeup Epic Wear liner stick
Speaker 1: is also good. I don't think you can go wrong
Speaker 1: with one of the eyeliner sticks that just winds up.
Speaker 1: It's not a pencil, It just kind of you twist
Speaker 1: it and it goes up like I don't think you
Speaker 1: can go wrong with one of those.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't do the liquid eye liner. I know,
Speaker 3: I realize that. I guess I just don't have that
Speaker 3: steady of a hand. And my skin isn't that. It's
Speaker 3: got a lot more give to it than it did
Speaker 3: when I was sixteen, and it just doesn't want to go.
Speaker 3: There's too too much elasticity or not enough I don't
Speaker 3: know whatever it is. Where it's just kind of going
Speaker 3: all over the place on my eyes is what happens
Speaker 3: to me with the liquid stuff. But then the pencil,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be trying to find the best
Speaker 3: possible pencil shaver and then get shards of wood all
Speaker 3: over my bathroom floor. So yeah, that the pencil that's
Speaker 3: not really the pencil that you can wind up. We
Speaker 3: don't know the right terms for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Next on the list is best lipstick, And this, I feel,
Speaker 3: is just where all makeup can come together if you
Speaker 3: don't have anything else in your repidoir. But you have
Speaker 3: a lipstick. I feel like that's all you kind of
Speaker 3: need is a good lipstick. So they're recommending Mabeline Super
Speaker 3: Stay Liquid lipstick for liquid if you want the liquid kind,
Speaker 3: and then I refer the liquid uh huh, and then
Speaker 3: Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick for the stick kind.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love to do the liquid. I think it's
Speaker 1: just easier to put on. But some people like a
Speaker 1: stick so that maybe it doesn't leak. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I like a liquid and I like a Matt,
Speaker 1: so the Mabeline super Stay and so this is where
Speaker 1: you can go. So this is what I would do.
Speaker 1: I would copy Mabeline Super Stay Liquid lipstick. I would
Speaker 1: go to Temptalia and I would search that and it
Speaker 1: would theoretically come up. Yes, y uh, it would come
Speaker 1: up with all of these. Gosh, they have a lot
Speaker 1: of Mabeline super Stays. I'm just gonna put this. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna touch on this first one, the matt ink uh,
Speaker 1: and then you can see all of the shades of it,
Speaker 1: and you just select the shade. This is not it,
Speaker 1: but for the sake of time, I will say this
Speaker 1: pink one that I have, this that I that I
Speaker 1: have selected is called you wouldn't get it? What is
Speaker 1: that color? Clearly? Yes, Joe, you wouldn't.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't even understand green. It's probably green. You wouldn't
Speaker 3: even understand.
Speaker 1: It is a neutral toned medium dark pink with a
Speaker 1: semi matte finish, so it is. Yeah. So when you
Speaker 1: understand your color palette, you know if you're more like
Speaker 1: warm warm or neutral warm neutral cool, and you can say, like,
Speaker 1: my pink is a coral or a dark pink or
Speaker 1: a light pink, so that you can use this site
Speaker 1: to you know, figure out which one is for you.
Speaker 1: So this is how I use Temptalia.
Speaker 3: I got a free lipstick, speaking of samples that you
Speaker 3: don't actually need, but this sample is actually in my
Speaker 3: color palette, flunt from Clinique. And I'm now looking like,
Speaker 3: what is it called? Ginger flower? I think I need
Speaker 3: writing glasses? Like am I saying that right? Squinting and pulling.
Speaker 1: My head back.
Speaker 3: Oh we old though, ginger flower? Guess what colorada is?
Speaker 3: Who knows this one?
Speaker 1: Uh? This orange?
Speaker 3: Just kind of like orange?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Not even oh god, oh yeah no not at all. No, anyways,
Speaker 1: let's move on. So best blush. This is one that
Speaker 1: I've seen. Literally, I've I've been. I wrote a best
Speaker 1: drug store makeup article back in twenty sixteen. That was
Speaker 1: my first four way foray into researching drug store makeup.
Speaker 1: So since I wrote that first article, one blush has
Speaker 1: come up time and time and time again. And it's
Speaker 1: the only, I think, the only one you need to
Speaker 1: know for b blush. It's Mlanie's Baked blush. Mulani's Baked blush,
Speaker 1: I think is the only drug store blush that you need.
Speaker 1: Everybody loves it on every website from the dawn of time,
Speaker 1: and it comes in eleven different colors, ranging from deep
Speaker 1: coral to light pink. So this is this is it.
Speaker 3: Does Mlanie's bluff and dude twenty different things? Is it
Speaker 3: a twenty and one?
Speaker 1: I I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just a little jat at you, Mulani, but but you
Speaker 3: doing all right? You doing good? You twice on this list?
Speaker 3: Yeah right. And lastly, we've got best eye shadow lrel
Speaker 3: Paris Infallible twenty four hour waterproof eyeshadow who eighteen in one,
Speaker 3: So you know, we love a good waterproof eye shadow.
Speaker 3: You can go swimming and still pop up out of
Speaker 3: that water and have your eyeshadow on still h Again,
Speaker 3: you can decide that you don't want any of this,
Speaker 3: you want some of it, you do like the eye shadow,
Speaker 3: go for it. Here's one that the internet says across
Speaker 3: the board. This is a real great drunk store option.
Speaker 1: And there are twenty six shades, so that is, and
Speaker 1: they're all very pretty. They are very pretty. I don't
Speaker 1: wear any eyeshadow, but there's a and they're good prices,
Speaker 1: Like on Walmart you can get one of these colors
Speaker 1: for like five forty two. They're regularly eight eight or nine,
Speaker 1: so really good, good price on those. So as a
Speaker 1: recap for brands, good brands that we're seeing Milani, you know,
Speaker 1: ninety seven and one cover girl we're seeing. We're seeing
Speaker 1: Maybolene and Loreal, all of your your cover girl cover
Speaker 1: girls on this list several times. Mlani is on this
Speaker 1: list several times, so I think if you Maybelene is
Speaker 1: several times, so I think if you stay within those,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a good chance of getting a makeup brand.
Speaker 1: But again, we're gonna link these and maybe a few
Speaker 1: more in the in the right range if we think
Speaker 1: of them later. Frugal Friends Podcast dot Com slash makeup.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for that. That is what I need. I
Speaker 3: never know what exactly to buy. Who's got the best?
Speaker 3: So here you go. You can pull it up on
Speaker 3: your phone when you're at the drug store and use
Speaker 3: it as a guide to help make your purchase along
Speaker 3: with what your colors are. Figure out, figure out what
Speaker 3: you figure out what you do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, plug those colors into Temptalia to see what the
Speaker 1: color really is, or at least what the explanation of
Speaker 1: the color is, to see if that's your shade.
Speaker 3: And you know what else you can plug in and
Speaker 3: just already know it works for you.
Speaker 1: It's always your shade.
Speaker 5: The bill of the week, that's right, it's time for
Speaker 5: the best minute of your entire week. Maybe a baby
Speaker 5: was born and his name is Williams. Maybe you've paid
Speaker 5: off your mortgage. Maybe your car died and you're happy
Speaker 5: did not have to pay that bill anymore.
Speaker 1: Duck bills, butfalo bills. Bill cleon, This is the bill
Speaker 1: of the week.
Speaker 4: Ni jin Hi Jill. This is Emily Am a somewhat
Speaker 4: long term follower, and I was just calling to share
Speaker 4: my bill of the week. I bought a house recently
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to furnish it, and one of the
Speaker 4: things I needed was a desk. So I just bought
Speaker 4: a desk at a thrift store, or a dollar and
Speaker 4: six cents because the desk was on sale at the
Speaker 4: thrift store.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty thrilled today.
Speaker 4: I hope you have a great rit week and I'll
Speaker 4: see you on Friday.
Speaker 1: Emily. A taller and six cents.
Speaker 3: That's a deal. That's indeed, that is a deal right there.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure it could have been less expensive either
Speaker 3: than free or them paying you.
Speaker 1: I love that they charged a dollar for it and
Speaker 1: then plus tax unless it was a nonprofit and then
Speaker 1: they literally charged a dollar six for it for like
Speaker 1: a full on piece of furniture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is exciting because first of all, you're buying used,
Speaker 3: so you are repurposing recycling, not buying new. That's a
Speaker 3: beautiful thing. And then you just get an amazing deal
Speaker 3: on this. I gotta imagine it's a normal sized human desk,
Speaker 3: not a miniature desk. So to get a piece of
Speaker 3: furniture for a dollar six isn't assume you didn't.
Speaker 1: Buy a child's desk for yourself.
Speaker 3: It's a great, great place to go first when you're
Speaker 3: furnishing your home. Thanks for that tip, Thanks for sharing
Speaker 3: your good news. If you all are listening and you're
Speaker 3: getting furniture, human sized furniture just at a killer price
Speaker 3: because you're buying used, let us know. Also, if you're
Speaker 3: just out here doing life, your name is Bill, you
Speaker 3: just want to tell us about what life is like
Speaker 3: as a Bill, We're going to take that too, and
Speaker 3: literally anything else that's related to the word Bill doesn't
Speaker 3: even have to be finance related. Frugal Friends podcast, dot com,
Speaker 3: slash Bill, we love it, We're here for it, and
Speaker 3: now it's time for.
Speaker 1: All right, So right now we are going to share
Speaker 1: our current makeup faves, or it's your current holy grail makeup.
Speaker 3: Oh Jen wow, I know right.
Speaker 1: I will say that that smash Box halo is like
Speaker 1: my holy grail tinted moisturizer. I've already said that, but
Speaker 1: I am finding that my Revlon actually my Revlon lipstick
Speaker 1: that I have hold on. Let me, let me go
Speaker 1: get it so I can say what it really is.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna then I'm gonna say what mine is.
Speaker 3: My holy grail of makeup at this point is just
Speaker 3: a lipstick. I don't even think that I would say
Speaker 3: specifically a certain kind. I'm just recognizing that if all
Speaker 3: I do is put on a lipstick that works with
Speaker 3: my color skin tone, then that's all I need. I'm
Speaker 3: also leaning into I'm in my eyebrow era and recognizing
Speaker 3: that if I'm able to shade my eyebrows, that also
Speaker 3: helps with looking a little bit more polished, because my
Speaker 3: eyebrows are almost nonexistent without some sort of shading. So
Speaker 3: these are the things I'm really leaning into, but also
Speaker 3: side tangent on this, I am also in a phase
Speaker 3: where I would like to where to not feel like
Speaker 3: I need to put on a foundation every day and
Speaker 3: I don't go heavy with it. But there's something in
Speaker 3: me that just for decades now feels like this is
Speaker 3: just a part of my routine. I brush my teeth
Speaker 3: and I put on some basic makeup, And I'm really
Speaker 3: wanting to lean into being able to be comfortable in
Speaker 3: my own skin and confident going outside of my house
Speaker 3: without doing my full makeup routine, and recognizing that part
Speaker 3: of that is needing to feel like I really love
Speaker 3: my skin. And so I'm in a season now where
Speaker 3: I'm leaning more heavily into just a skincare routine that
Speaker 3: I know we're going to do a separate episode on that,
Speaker 3: so I'm not going to say a whole ton about that,
Speaker 3: but realizing that if I can find a good cleanser, moisturizer,
Speaker 3: sun protector for my skin, that I'm going to feel
Speaker 3: less likely to need to have to spend than a
Speaker 3: ton on makeup to me. Makeup for the way that
Speaker 3: I've approached it feels more like a band aid for
Speaker 3: the things that I'm not doing to care for my skin.
Speaker 3: That's generally why I'm wearing it is because I feel
Speaker 3: like I want to cover up blemishes or I want
Speaker 3: to cover up my droopy eyes, and really what I
Speaker 3: need to be doing is focusing on the nutrients that
Speaker 3: I'm eating and the sleep that I'm getting and how
Speaker 3: well I'm actually caring for my skin as like a
Speaker 3: precursor to my makeup routine. So just saying that in
Speaker 3: case anybody else is finding themselves there to kind of
Speaker 3: take a few steps back before we even get to
Speaker 3: make up and look at how are we caring for
Speaker 3: ourselves in these other ways and maybe not feeling like
Speaker 3: we have to wear makeup to feel like we're looking
Speaker 3: our best? Are there other things that we can be
Speaker 3: doing to feel good about ourselves? Are there other areas
Speaker 3: that we're ignoring? So that's my roundabout holy grill of makeup?
Speaker 3: All right, Jen, you're back. What's your lipstick you found?
Speaker 1: Okay? So I have been wearing the Revlon color Stay
Speaker 1: sweded ink, and I know I love a liquid, but
Speaker 1: I've actually been enjoying this lipstick in the color hot Girl.
Speaker 1: What color do you think hot Girl is?
Speaker 3: That's a that's a red for sure.
Speaker 1: Nope, it's like a like a dark I don't know,
Speaker 1: like a it's not pink, but it's not coral, but
Speaker 1: it's not rust. It's like a I just took the
Speaker 1: sheet of paper that we had with the best lipstick
Speaker 1: colors for our color palette, and I found one that
Speaker 1: was like it, and so like, I wrote on the
Speaker 1: paper with it and it was identical and I and
Speaker 1: it was in an uncategorized color. So that girl is
Speaker 1: the color of hot Girls, and I like that. But
Speaker 1: so I'm really liking that. And for years I was
Speaker 1: pretty much only wearing the Wet and Wild. I think
Speaker 1: it's cat suit. I love that matte liquid lipstick, but
Speaker 1: they don't have any colors in my color palette. But
Speaker 1: if you find the Wet and Wild liquid cat suit,
Speaker 1: that is like my favorite, uh and it retails for
Speaker 1: about five bucks. That's I know, so that one's available
Speaker 1: at all of them, And that was that used to
Speaker 1: be like my holy grail of liquid lipsticks. It's the
Speaker 1: cat suit Matt but then other yeah, that's really it.
Speaker 1: I love the orange mascara. I forget what it's called
Speaker 1: all the time. I just know it's bright orange. I
Speaker 1: literally just said it's cover Girl, right, we literally just
Speaker 1: said it. Yeah. That yeah, but that's not my whole
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say that's my holy grail of mascara, but
Speaker 1: I would say that that Wet and wildcat suit, this
Speaker 1: Revlon color Stay, Swede ink, and my tinted moisturizer.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Just for one final piece on ways to save money.
Speaker 3: I think it's just recognizing all the marketing ploys around
Speaker 3: the beauty industry and I think being okay with discovering
Speaker 3: what works for you and sticking with that. I think
Speaker 3: we can get so caught up in the new product,
Speaker 3: the fancy packaging, somehow, new ingredients coming on the market
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, we all need this ingredient
Speaker 3: in our beauty product and this never before seen and
Speaker 3: reality is no, it's probably just repurposed, repackaged and just
Speaker 3: being really aware of what is being marketed to you,
Speaker 3: do you actually need that? And that goes hand in
Speaker 3: hand with all of our other episodes on just mindful spending,
Speaker 3: values based spending, finding what works for you and then
Speaker 3: clearing out all the other fluff and noise. And it's
Speaker 3: okay if it's a process to find what works for you,
Speaker 3: but then once you do, we can then find contentment
Speaker 3: and enough in that place and not fall for all
Speaker 3: the gimmicks and pretty packaging.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, your face is beautiful as it is naturally
Speaker 1: your hair on your head, and your body is beautiful
Speaker 1: as it is naturally. Your skin is beautiful. We are
Speaker 1: simply looking for ways to have fun and sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: art it up, jush it up, but because we need to,
Speaker 1: but because we like to have fun on a budget.
Speaker 3: And we like to read just all the labels on
Speaker 3: this makeup and have fun guessing what the colors that possibly.
Speaker 1: Please take a picture, find your favorite shade of anything, lipstick, eyeshadow,
Speaker 1: whatever I want you to take it out and look
Speaker 1: at the name of the color and like, have your
Speaker 1: friend's guess, Like, what color is hot?
Speaker 3: Girl?
Speaker 1: I don't even know what color this is. To be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't know what color it is. I love it
Speaker 1: so thank you for listening. We love reading your kind
Speaker 1: reviews of the show. Especially loved this one from the
Speaker 1: Bookkeeping artist shout out girl. Being cheap is not the
Speaker 1: same as being frugal. I love Jen and Jill. They're
Speaker 1: the queens of frugality. I'm happy there here to help
Speaker 1: us cut through the bay and the overwhelm of finance
Speaker 1: advice by dissecting what works and what's fluff. There's no
Speaker 1: investing or fancy math talk here. It's all practical, everyday
Speaker 1: advice that makes you feel good about your money choices.
Speaker 1: Best quote so far the best way to not spend
Speaker 1: money is to spend time making it. Keep up the
Speaker 1: good work, ladies. Yes, I sometimes still believe that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is my quote, And I sometimes still believe that
Speaker 1: because I love making money. We do find that an
Speaker 1: enjoyable hobby.
Speaker 3: Thanks Bookkeeping Artists, and thank you all for listening. If
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Speaker 1: Please leave your favorite shade of lipstick in your comment
Speaker 1: and say that we helped you figure out that it
Speaker 1: was for you or not for you, that you realize
Speaker 1: hot girl was for you or hot girl was not
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: Hot girls shame help me. Ginger Flowers for Me.
Speaker 1: By Frugal Friends is produced by Eric Sirianni.
Speaker 3: If that's even what this says, I'm still not convinced
Speaker 3: I might need.
Speaker 1: Real ginger flowers. It's probably is. Those are two words
Speaker 1: that sound like they could go together to make up
Speaker 1: what is it? Ginger?
Speaker 3: I don't think ginger makes flowers? Like the ginger does
Speaker 3: ginger root?
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: Maybe it does?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You're the plant girl does? I'm hot girl?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my gosh, ginger root does flower.
Speaker 1: But guess what the color of that flower yellow yellow.
Speaker 3: These people, these people are just common up with names.
Speaker 3: They don't even know. We've not done. Oh you know what,
Speaker 3: Wait a second, No, I think yellow, and it can
Speaker 3: be pink. Okay, okay, Oh wow, it's very tropical looking.
Speaker 3: It is very similar to this color. Okay, so this is.
Speaker 1: The Maybeleine super State vinyl ink. I don't love this one,
Speaker 1: so I don't recommend it. I am just looking for
Speaker 1: the color. It is charm What color is charmed black?
Speaker 3: Charmed black.
Speaker 1: Black?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, that's what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's it. No, it is a it's
Speaker 1: like a coral. It's like a darker coray color. I
Speaker 1: love the shade. I don't love the feel, the lip
Speaker 1: feel of it. So I wear it because it's a
Speaker 1: very good neutral. You wouldn't think like it doesn't look neutral,
Speaker 1: but when you put it on, it's neutral.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, this was a fun pastime. I'm remembering for
Speaker 3: Eric and I as I've got a collection of nail polishes.
Speaker 3: That is like the one thing that I do have
Speaker 3: a collection of, And he was cracking up reading the
Speaker 3: names of the colors of these nail polishes, and then
Speaker 3: he went on a rampage guessing then like realizing that
Speaker 3: there are no rules. Just whatever you want to call
Speaker 3: it is what you can call it. It was hilarious
Speaker 3: just picking up a random color guessing he was re
Speaker 3: titling them to just these insane names, which is a
Speaker 3: really there you go free date night idea. Pull out
Speaker 3: your makeup drawer and name come up with the names
Speaker 3: of the colors.
Speaker 1: Together, declutter your makeup and only keep the ones with
Speaker 1: the best names. So I'm just now seeing that this
Speaker 1: has another language on it, the hot girl one, and
Speaker 1: uh it's I believe this may be Spanglish. It says
Speaker 1: cheek a sexy, so that's the other name for it.
Speaker 3: So hot girl, sexy girl. You doing it? Yeah, this
Speaker 3: is like your This is like your Zenga profile name.
Speaker 3: That's that's actually the titles of all of our lipstick
Speaker 3: colors or Zanga pro x x.
Speaker 1: Oh baby girl, you should probably put it in your
Speaker 1: Instagram profile what your bestow file was. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's now your Instagram profile, so you're welcome. That tip
Speaker 1: is bonus love kisses, buttery sweet, Bye bye