The Average Cost Of Makeup In A Woman's Cosmetic Bag

Is $104 accurate?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Cuby and Christine here, it's Light FM producer

(00:02):
Christin hanging out. I am reading a headline and I
my jaw just dropped, and I'm sorry, ladies. If this
is like really the average, I apologize, Okay, women carry.
The headline says women carry an average of one hundred
and four dollars worth of cosmetics in their makeup bags.
And that's according to a new survey. So is that true?

(00:22):
One hundred and flourida what easily? But like, what's the
most expensive thing in a makeup bag? Like what makes
up A part of that? A big part of that
one hundred and four bucks?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The foundation?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, how much is foundation?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I think it depends. Like mine's around forty dollars the
one I use, that's about average.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
There's one that I like, Sado, which they discontinued and
they put out like a fancier version and I bought
it recently and I think it was like up to
sixty four or something. Yeah, like it really like cosmetics
have I know where prices of everything have gone up,
They've gone crazy. I bought Clinique lipstick.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
I like it a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
It's very moisturizing. It's now twenty eight dollars for lipstick,
for the lipstick, for the one that I and I
go through like like it's chapstick. I go through it
like crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
I thought lipstick was like five bucks. Can you get
five dollars lipstick?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yes? Maybe certain pharmacies will sell five dollars, maybe even
more now five dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah, because there's a Lori album that's really nice too
and moisturizing, and that's like twelve dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
That's not that Maybe that's more on I don't want
to say the cheap side, but the cheap side.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
What makes what makes a lipstick good? What are you
looking for, ladies? Are you looking for? How long it
stays on? Is it the ingredients?

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
How it feels right because you want it to feel
comfortable and you want it to last, and then you
have to like the color. So sometimes the difference I
think between the expensive ones and the drugstore ones sometimes
are the colors. Yeah, that's true, right, Like every it's
fun to follow people who put up dupes, like if

(01:56):
like if you like Charlotte Tilbury, because those are like
thirty five dollars, here's the drug store dupe. Like a
lot of women like to find the ones that are
similar and save some money and save some money exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
So one hundred and four dollars is really not surprising
to you for that to be the average amount of
cosmetics you have in a bag.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Right, No, I think once everything's added up, that's that's
about right.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, unreal, So it's not would you go higher than that?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yep? I could say one four is just your basics.
But then you've got like, you know, we have stuff
for occasions, we have extra stuff, we have different lipstick colors,
we have different glosses we have and then boom, now
the prices have gone up.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
You get miss scaas a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh yeah, that's gone up like crazy too. It's expensive
being us.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Cubby, what are your essentials? By the way, before you
leave the house, what do you have to have? Like
you can forget maybe this one, but no, you can't
forget this one.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Are you with me? I like foundation, msscarra I go eyeliner? Okay, eyeliner,
that's important.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Blush ladies just need a little bit of blush.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Do I look awake?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
And lipstick bronzer for me?

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Okay, the bronzer you get that A little bit of
the insight here? Do you want some to I could
use a bronzer, but I got my bag. You're so
lucky zero dollars you seriously? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:16):
With your backpack? Who goes made breakfast for you in
in like Naomi's little right tupperware?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah? Do you know my bag right now?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Let me see here. I would love to know what's
in there, because sometimes you walk out like you're leaving
for the day and you forget your bag in the
room right, and Christina and I are like, hello, Cubby,
your backpack.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
What Christine was talking about? I have this tupperware that oh.

Speaker 5 (03:40):
Look Philadelphia Eagles I was on sale. Okay, But and
then I got your chocolate that you gave me from
your trips. And I have some mail that I grab
from outside, oh, on your.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Way out from your house my house.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Do you have CBS coupons?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yes, you do have some. You have like that long
receipt right, Yeah, there's always a discount on cosmetics Maska.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I'm so lucky. Next Lifetime, I'm being a dude.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Cobby and Christine in the morning. More next on one
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