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Before I became a Cosmo beauty editor and had cabinets filled with outrageously expensive makeup products , I painted my face with almost exclusively drugstore makeup. That's all I could afford, which was perfectly fine, because the aisles of CVS, Walgreens, and Target are packed with products that rival many high-end formulas. Honestly, I still use a lot of my drugstore beauty favorites to this day—all of my Sephora picks, be damned. I won't pretend, though, that all drugstore makeup is the best, either, hence why I've done the work compiling all of the best products, according to our entire editorial team.
One thing about Cosmo 's beauty team is that we're constantly testing new makeup launches, including whatever is