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The Best Budget Makeup

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Beautiful colors, sophisticated formulas, wallet-friendly prices: the new and the classic.

Best Mascara: The Classic

Maybelline New York Full n’ Soft Mascara, $8

Its famous (and even older) sister mascara in the pink-and-green tube has its following, but this wand surprised testers with its ability to define and keep lashes soft―never spiky.

To buy: At drugstores.

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