The best of Cheap!!

I've been wanting to do this for a while now. I've always appreciated the quality of high end products and I still do. However, in the past, I feel I've underestimated the quality and potential of cheaper products. I've written off cheap items as not having quality do to the lack of an inflated price. I have discovered recently, that If you read reviews and look hard enough, you will find those drugstore gems for great prices. What I'm doing with this post is comparing my favorite drugstore products to my favorite high end products of similar type. Let me know if you have anything to add to this list!

It all started with a $1.00 eyshadow brush from E.L.F.......

FOUNDATION
Best high end: Bare Minerals

Best Drugstore: Revlon Colorstay ties with Revlon Photoready

CONCEALER
Best High End: Merle Norman Coverup

Best Drugstore: Covergirl smoothers concealer (redness)
Maybelline 24 hour superstay (undereye circles)

EYESHADOW BASE:
Best High End: Urban Decay Primer Potion

Best Drugstore: L'oreal Decrease (in fact, I'd call decrease a dupe for UDPP)

BRIGHT EYESHADOW:
Best High End: Urban Decay (entire line)

Best Drugstore: Wet N Wild

EVERYDAY EYESHADOW:
Best High End: Too Faced Natural Eye Pallette

Best Drugstore: NYX champagne and caviar pallette

LOOSE EYESHADOW:
Best High end: Bare Minerals (entire line)

Best Drugstore: Jesse's Girl Eyedusts

GLITTER:
Best High End: Urban Decay's midnight cowboy line

Best Drugstore: NYX candy glitter liner and cream pallettes

MASCARA:
Best High End: Buxom Lash mascara in black

Best Drugstore: Maybelline's Lash Stilletto and L'oreal Voluminous Million Lashes

LIPGLOSS:
Best High End: Buxom and Bare Minerals lip gloss

Best Drugstore: Revlon super Lustrous lip gloss

BRONZER:
Best High End: Too Faced in Snow Bunny

Best Drugstore: Physician's Formula Happy Booster

NAIL POLISH:
Best High End: OPI (entire line) -> my favorite color is lincoln park after dark

Best Drugstore: Sinful Colors (avaliable at Walgreens)

MAKEUP BRUSHES:
Best High End: Merle Norman ( my foundation brush has lasted for 7 years!) and Kat Von D (sephora only)

Best Drugstore: E.L.F. ,Sonia Kashuk (Target for both), and Eco Tools

EYELINER:
Best High End: Urban Decay 24/7 glide on eye pencils and Buxom liners

Best Drugstore: NYX jumbo eye pencils, E.L.F. liquid liner, physicians formula shimmer strips liners.

MAKEUP SETTING SPRAY:
Only one and it's high end: Urban Decay All Nighter setting spray

FOUNDATION PRIMER:
Best High End: Bare Minerals Prime Time

Best Drugstore: L'oreal Magic Pefecting Base

PALLETTE:
Best High End: Urban Decay's Naked Pallette

Best Drugstore: Wet N Wild's color Icon pallettes *favorite is Lust*

PERFUME:
Best High End: Viva La Juicy

Best Drugstore: Britney spears circus fantasy