Satellite Chic

I’m a big fan of drug­store cos­met­ics. I feel resource­ful each time I swipe on my favorite buy, Loreal’s Volu­mi­nous Mas­cara, know­ing that I’ve saved $15 bucks or so over my old depart­ment store standby, Lancome’s Defini­cils and still look lash-lovely.

For a while, I was armed with Revlon’s Age Defy­ing Light Makeup with Botafirm SPF 30, a light dewy makeup, some­where in between a tinted mois­tur­izer and a full cov­er­age foun­da­tion. With an SPF  of 30, its sweat-proof for­mula, and a price tag hov­er­ing around $10 bucks, it was THE per­fect foun­da­tion, espe­cially dur­ing sum­mer­time. Stock up if you can find it, but it looks as though Revlon has either dis­con­tin­ued, refor­mu­lated or repack­aged it, because it’s nowhere to be found!

Off to the depart­ment store I begrudg­ingly went to pick up an indus­try favorite and my old go-to, Laura Mercier’s Tinted Mois­tur­izer. Instead, I switched it up and tried the newer for­mu­la­tion, Illu­mi­nat­ing Tinted Mois­tur­izer. It was like a light had been turned on from within. I was all aglow. Sud­denly, $42 seemed like a steal.