Drugstore vs High End Makeup The argument between drugstore and high end makeup products is a growing dispute as drugstore makeup brands alter products to compete with the high-end brands that beauty gurus rave about. The internet is full of tutorials, reviews, and “dupes” regarding drug store products and the comparisons between those and their high end counter parts. High end makeup has often been about the brand name label more than the product itself, just because the name has been associated with good quality, but recently drugstore makeup has become better than ever and is now competing with those high end brands. Regarding just the hefty price tag placed on designer makeup products, a person buying a luxurious brand will automatically
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All cosmetic products are made up of the same things: fillers, fragrances, emollients, moisturizers, minerals, binders, preservatives, sunscreens, and other compounds along with color ( Drugstore vs Department store...). Although drugstore products do tend to have slightly more fillers than high end products, everything else is the same for the most part (What are the pros and cons...). Drugstore products tend to come in cheaper, less extravagant packaging while department store products tend to have very presentable, flashy packaging completed with a recognizable logo. Just like with clothes and designer handbags, if you want to carry a foundation with Chanel’s name on it, you are going to have to pay more. The makeup industry is a status industry, so whether it is the flashy packaging that makes you feel better before using the product, or it is the designer name written across the cosmetic item, you are going to be more willing to pay double or triple the price than the less extravagant drugstore version, regardless of the product …show more content…
In an environment such as a Mac store or Sephora, there are associates usually involved in makeup artistry there to give advice, but they are also there to make a living and to complete a sale. This leads the sales associates to make a more biased stand in order to rant and rave about how luxurious their high-end product is. If you buy a product at the drugstore and find that it is an irritant to your skin or is unusable for some reason, you’re usually taking a small financial loss, but with high end products, you usually do not have the option of trying it out before purchasing it so you would be taking a much greater financial loss if the product were to not work out. Powder based products such as face powder, blush and eyeshadows regardless of the cost are made of the same ingredients (Keefe). Some people will argue that designer makeup products, such as eyeshadow, tend to have more pigment. It is usually not a matter of the manufacture adding more pigment, but instead grounding it up into finer particles. “Eyeshadow is one of the things that’s really hard to get right. There are just so many factors that make a great eyeshadow. Longevity, pigmentation, resistant to creasing, ect.” says a Not Another Cover Girl blogger. Youtuber, Jaclyn Hill, tends to often turn to the brand, Morphe, as a favorite inexpensive brand. She raves about the
All cosmetic products are made up of the same things: fillers, fragrances, emollients, moisturizers, minerals, binders, preservatives, sunscreens, and other compounds along with color ( Drugstore vs Department store...). Although drugstore products do tend to have slightly more fillers than high end products, everything else is the same for the most part (What are the pros and cons...). Drugstore products tend to come in cheaper, less extravagant packaging while department store products tend to have very presentable, flashy packaging completed with a recognizable logo. Just like with clothes and designer handbags, if you want to carry a foundation with Chanel’s name on it, you are going to have to pay more. The makeup industry is a status industry, so whether it is the flashy packaging that makes you feel better before using the product, or it is the designer name written across the cosmetic item, you are going to be more willing to pay double or triple the price than the less extravagant drugstore version, regardless of the product …show more content…
In an environment such as a Mac store or Sephora, there are associates usually involved in makeup artistry there to give advice, but they are also there to make a living and to complete a sale. This leads the sales associates to make a more biased stand in order to rant and rave about how luxurious their high-end product is. If you buy a product at the drugstore and find that it is an irritant to your skin or is unusable for some reason, you’re usually taking a small financial loss, but with high end products, you usually do not have the option of trying it out before purchasing it so you would be taking a much greater financial loss if the product were to not work out. Powder based products such as face powder, blush and eyeshadows regardless of the cost are made of the same ingredients (Keefe). Some people will argue that designer makeup products, such as eyeshadow, tend to have more pigment. It is usually not a matter of the manufacture adding more pigment, but instead grounding it up into finer particles. “Eyeshadow is one of the things that’s really hard to get right. There are just so many factors that make a great eyeshadow. Longevity, pigmentation, resistant to creasing, ect.” says a Not Another Cover Girl blogger. Youtuber, Jaclyn Hill, tends to often turn to the brand, Morphe, as a favorite inexpensive brand. She raves about the