I’ve worked as a hair and makeup artist for years. Here are my favorite drugstore dupes for high-end products.

• I worked as a hair and makeup artist for more than six years, and I love drugstore products.
• High-end products from brands like NARS and Too Faced are great, but ELF and NYX are on par.
• For hair, I love the Dove felxible-hold hairspray — its the closest I’ve found to my holy grail.

I’ve been doing hair and makeup professionally on and off for over a decade. For about six years of that time, I was with a wedding-focused team and did quite a bit of freelance work for photoshoots, high-school and college events, showers, birthdays, and more.

Everyone’s kit is unique to them, and testing products to find new go-tos can be part of the fun. But it isn’t always budget-friendly — after all, the global cosmetics industry is set to be worth more than $101 billion by 2027.