i do love my staple products. and though i’m what you could call “picky” about my hair products and what i use to treat my kinky, coils, i’m a lot more flexible when it comes to makeup. for me, makeup is a time to play and have fun and invoke your inner picasso!

while you can often find me circling the beauty isles at cvs, walgreens or one of my favorite places to buy makeup, walmart, picking up new items, there will always remain those staple items that i consider holy grail – that is, if they start to fail me! but these drugstore products so far have yet to let me down and after years of wear, i KEEP going back and continue to keep these items stocked in my bag.

these are my current and constant holy grails drugstore products…

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is awesome! i have a fond place in my heart for diorshow azur blue mascara.

besides the fact that it smells HEAVENLY — like rose water. it’s beautiful on.

it’s really, really blue out of the tube and on the lashes, so i DO NOT recommend this as daily wear. but it will make a evening/night face pop. or for fun, you can put just a touch on the tips of your lashes during the day – but be sure to do only one coat. 

it’s worth the almost…gulp…$30. go get some! 

this is a great way to do a blue eye (which by the way, blue highlights brown eyes well) without looking like you stepped out of a vintage saved by the bell episode.

please let me know if you would like to see a tutorial of this look. i have a tube of this very mascara ready to go!

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