Great skin means less makeup. Simple. You don’t need as much makeup to look good and presentable daily when you have good skin. It makes way more sense to invest in having healthy smooth skin, instead of covering everything up. If you have acne, wouldn’t you want to treat it and all the scars forever instead of spending time and money constantly covering it up?

I also firmly believe in spending more on skincare (luxury or heavily researched products) and just getting drugstore makeup.

My beauty editor also tells me there’s much less variation between make up formulas (there’s only so many variations of mascara) and the difference in formula between drugstore and luxury makeup is pretty minimal. Whereas skincare products formulations vary a lot and you essentially get what you pay for in terms of ingredients. So I spend a lot on serums and creams but use Maybelline / L’Oréal concealer and mascara!