I would urge you not to discount drugstore brands. I am all for high end makeup... I just got a $190 Sephora shipment the other day... but there are items to splurge on and items to save on. Do you have an Ulta? They carry some high end stuff as well as tons of drugstore brand. They are open samples of everything so you can test out coloring and such. I've found great lower end eyebrow pencils, eyeshadow, eyeliners, and mascara. I however use LORAC foundation, Stila blush, MAC eyeshadow primer, and then I've accumulated lots of MAC eyeshadows. But my daily eyeshadow set is a range of $7 Ulta brand shadows. I get compliments all the time. I think eyeshadow has much more to do with application technique than high end product(granted you don't want clumping, creasing mess but lots of lower priced eye shadows can achieve this)...and what the makeup artist does to you at the counter may not be the way it should be done for you. Experiment yourself. It's the best way.
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