15 Blogs for Those with Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget
If you were happy about our recent article entitled 15 Fashion Blogs for those with Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget, then you’re going to love its predecessor. We all know we want to look and feel good during these economically challenging times, but our beauty routines can put a major damper on our funds. Between hair care, skin products, and make up alone, it’s enough to have to file bankruptcy! With this in mind, we have created yet another list of beauty blogs that can help you keep up with the latest trends without lightening your pocketbook.
- 1. Bare Budget Beauty - This blog is written by a young fashionista trying to earn her esthetics license while working a part-time job. She is most definitely tight on cash but her articles will bring you the ultimate products in makeup and skin care at the most affordable prices. Since being a little girl, she has always been intrigued with beauty products as well as her piggy bank contents. Her product reviews will only cover quality items without the brand name cost. Follow her on her constant journey to find money saving steals and deals, awesome sales, eye catching look a likes, and more.
2. Beauty Bargainista - The Beauty Bargainista encourages beauty addicts and new beauty recruits to look good for a lot less. Her posts promote thrifty beauty products that can build self-esteem or increase their head turning abilities when walking into a room. This blogger is convinced that whatever the occasion or disaster today’s busy woman faces, whether at work or home, rosy cheeks and mascara ore still quintessential beauty staples. Her posts can help you maintaining your daily beauty rituals with lotions, make up, hair products, and more as well as gain thrifty and frugal tips and how-to’s on weight loss, hair removal, cosmetic surgery information and the best inexpensive beauty products to fit your budget.
3. Fabuless Beauty - For several years, this blogger was disappointed with buying super expensive beauty products that did nothing that they preached they would . Since then, she has been on a quest to locate the most inexpensive, but high quality beauty products that can really get the job done right. Her goal is to prove that you don’t need to spend a fortune on your beauty routine to look and feel a hundred percent. Even though she does admit to an occasional splurge from time to time, she is generally on task when it comes to her reviews. She does not claim to be an aspiring makeup artist or a master at makeup application skills, but her hope is to find bargain beauty products that work for her and hopefully work for you too.
4. Clumps of Mascara - Clumps of Mascara, a beauty blog for those who are new to the game, combines bargain finds and collection releases with wondrously beautiful mistakes. This blog boasts of being “Brown-girl-friendly” and “broke ladies welcome”. While some see beauty as being pure perfection and flawless images, they have another definition. To prove this, they provide articles and pictures that display less than perfect pictures. Discussions entail easy applications, cheaper brand items with a splurge every now and then, and simple techniques. Primarily for women of color, they bash stereotypes and provide education on beauty topics that most people who just didn’t know. This blog promotes the idea of women defining beauty for themselves.
5. Claire’s Beauty - Claire’s Beauty entails a everyday girl’s extreme adoration for beauty associated items. She is addicted to trying new skin care, makeup, and perfumes and writing honestly about her thoughts and opinions on these products. Almost all of her reviews are from items sold at major drugstores and chains such as Target. You will love that this blog includes some super giveaways as well as topics of interests like eco friendly and organic products and color trends of the season. Her “best of” lists are a beauty lover’s dream and there are also some great top five lists featuring products for the frugal minded woman.
6. A Mom in Red High Heels - This blogger mom of two is all about caring for one’s self. Her posts are filled with ideas to work with what you have and empowering women with knowledge so they don’t spend a lot of time or money that you can’t afford. As we all know, motherhood as well as a beauty routine can be a challenge and most moms live on a limited budget, so this blog is the perfect encouragement needed. Her tips and product reviews enlighten mom on ways to make cost effective decisions when choosing your beauty needs. Any mom reading this blogs comments can’t help but to look great and feel fabulous. This blog is not just another beauty blog but a place for support and education of moms today on all things beauty and style related.
7. Beauty on a Dime - As the Associate Editor for Daily Makeover.com , Megan McIntyre is responsible for keeping one of the best beauty websites with a community of more than three million women. Her articles include the latest products, hottest trends and must-try tips. In addition to this, she tries out a wide array of beauty tidbits; she also gets exclusives from the biggest beauty professionals in the industry on how to master everything from the perfect ponytail or bun to how to obtain a sparkling complexion and beautiful skin. Her marriage to the beauty world is obvious when it comes to posts on sexy red lipstick, irresistible hair color, and smoky eyes.
8. Behind the Counter - This blog is written by everyday people with a huge attachment to all things beautiful. On this blog, you’ll find fabulous product recommendations, helpful advice and techniques used by many of its own staffers. You can tell a lot of their inspiration comes from celebrity trends and industry standards, but when it comes down to it, quality and affordability are of the number one priority. There are even categories on men’s grooming, new arrivals, and home goods. These posts will keep you updated on how to make you look and feel your best in these hard times.
9. Beautiful Makeup Search - The author of this blog, Teri Cosenz, turned her passion and interest in beauty products into a wonderfully informative blog. She has been writing and reviewing beauty related products for over eight years. Teri has not only written for her blog, she also writes for a host of others. She is also the one who launched on of the major women community forums, Splendicity. When she is not blogging, she is on the advisory panel for one of the new beauty subscription boards. Teri is a member Glam Network, Beauty Blog Network and Total Beauty.com. This well titled Beautiful Makeup Search blog has become a foundation for her belief in sharing the latest and greatest beauty products everyday while saving a bit of money at the same time.
10. A Little More Beautiful - A fun blog about beauty, glamour, and style for women of all types. These Canadian bloggers can help you with product reviews, makeup looks, advice, and great information on current promotions. Their articles educate women who want help or advice on selecting the right beauty product to enhance their own special beauty. They write about makeup, models, Vancouver, and stuff you can buy at your local drug mart. Readers will be inspired by the theme felt throughout this blog that you don’t have to look a certain way or make a certain amount of money to be beautiful.
11. Dirt Cheap Beauty - Dirt cheap beauty is a blog focused primarily on helping you find the most inexpensive ways to stay beautiful without breaking the bank. With a number of features such as cheap makeup tips and nifty techniques you won’t have to eat ramen noodles for the next month while trying to be the hottest you can be. Posts are full of ways to keep looking great while spending less. On this blog, you will always find great beauty tips and deals for those on any budget imaginable.
12. Beauty in Real Life - This thirty something mom living in the Washington DC believes the tagline says it best that beauty doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Due to an extreme weakness for new products and her shopping spree tendencies, she writes about products that are not so hard on the pocket. Her favorite stores can range anywhere from drugstore.com to Neiman Marcus. While having a taste for the finer things, she still manages to bring you beauty advice, skin and hair products, and innovative tips and styles that work for those of us women that have to live in the real world.
13. Beauty is Easy - Beauty is Easy was started to validate a women’s need for collecting the vast number of beauty products that overcrowd our vanities and fill up our medicine cabinets. It serves a forum and community for comrade product junkies. The products tested and reviewed the latest, along with a list of classics and favorites. There are also sections on current beauty news, deals, hot coupon codes and more. Their tips and tricks offer up some great ways to save you some extra cash also. Don’t waste your hard earned pennies on any product without reading its review on this site. The authors serve up some candid opinions on what stinks on everything from hairsprays to lip gloss. These days, there are more options than ever when it comes to choosing cosmetics and beauty products so get the lowdown from some honest comments on this blog.
14. Hair on the Brain - For those of you who are all about hair, makeup and celebrity looks, this is the blog you’ve been looking for. Besides having excellent breaks downs of topnotch hair styles and how to duplicate them with more wallet friendly products, the detailed reviews on hair and beauty products will help you keep some cash in your bank account. Get a closer look into celebrity hair and makeup with her informative post while laughing at some of her humorous comments. As well as the products reviews, readers who want to look and feel like a movie star will enjoy her insight on all things beauty related and glamorously cheap.
15. Makeup and Beauty Blog - Makeup and Beauty Blog features daily product reviews, makeup tips, and beauty news. Videos and tutorials make up much of the content on this site which makes it a virtual simulation of a monthly print magazine. She provides you with no-nonsense and straight forward product reviews, while dishing on the latest tips and techniques to make you pretty as well as inexpensive tips for all your makeup and beauty needs. As far as sales go, whether you like bargain makeup or expensive brands, there’s something for everyone on this blog.
Recession or not, women want beauty products that are going to work as well as hopefully keep some change in their pockets. We hope that these lists of beauty and fashion blogs below will help women of all ages, shapes, and colors feel great about themselves and keep their pretty alive.
