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Saving money on makeup can be difficult. You have to go many brands and figure out what each company does best. There are a lot of great products you can find that perform the same as higher end brands at a fraction of the cost, but you've got to look! Makeupalley.com is a good place to start. Using the reviews of products and

Here is a look made with some of my favorite eyeshadows - NYX Chrome shadows. NYX is a great brand, offering a pretty full line of makeup. Their lipsticks, eyeliners, etc. are all very high quality and as pigmented, if not more, as high end brands. The eyeshadows are by far their standout product. They have loose pigment shadows, pressed singles and trios, and the chrome eyeshadows just to name a few.

NYX Chrome eyeshadows look and act like mineral shadows (I believe they are), so they have the same finely milled consistency and glimmer, depth and dimension as many other brands of mineral shadows. However, since they're not marketed as mineral shadows, the cost is quite low, usually about $5 a shadow.

I got them for $1 each, though, thanks to a huge sale on the NYX website. This particular shadow, Orange, looks very similar to NARS Mediteranee. This NYX shadow has the same orange with gold glimmer look, but is even more pigmented than the NARS shadow.



One problem with mineral shadows in general, however, is that they occasionally catch the light quite strangely and can photograph oddly as well.



That dark blur in the middle of the lid was not actually there in real life, but appeared in the photo. One of the drawbacks of mineral shadows, I suppose.