11 Drugstore Beauty Products We Spotted on the Red Carpet This Season

It's totally normal to assume celebrity makeup artists and hairstylists exclusively use high-end, ultra-expensive beauty products on their A-list clientele pre–red carpet. After all, the cumulative sum of Hollywood's gowns and jewels is pretty astronomical, so wouldn't the liquids, powders, lashes, and glosses fall similar? Actually, that is so not the case.

Sure, the majority of beauty breakdowns we receive feature plenty of high-end formulas with the potential to end your bank account (or at least this month's grocery budget), but we also receive an impressive roster of products hailing from drugstore brands like Revlon, Tresemmé, Dove, Ardell, and more. Intriguing, no?

To prove a red carpet–worthy beauty moment doesn't have to cost you an arm, leg, and inconvenient finance-related nervous breakdown, we scoured our inboxes to find the hair and skin beauty formulas loved and used by the industry's best experts. After all, if they're good enough for muses like Ashley Graham and Regina King, they're most surely good enough for us mere mortals. Ahead, 11 of the most covetable drugstore beauty products we spotted on the red carpet this season. Keep scrolling!

Lashes

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Hair Spray

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Brow Powder

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Mascara

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Foundation

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Shine Serum-Gel

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Dry Shampoo

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Thickening Cream

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Lipstick

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Next up, check out the holy-grail skincare products dermatologists and estheticians use on celebrities pre–red carpet. 

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Erin has been writing a mix of beauty and wellness content for Who What Wear for over four years. Prior to that, she spent two and half years writing for Byrdie. She now calls Santa Monica home but grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and studied writing, rhetoric, and communication at University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. She studied abroad in Galway, Ireland, and spent a summer in L.A. interning with the Byrdie and Who What Wear family. After graduating from UW, she spent one year in San Francisco, where she worked as a writer for Pottery Barn Kids and PBteen before moving down to L.A. to begin her career as a beauty editor. She considers her day-to-day beauty aesthetic very low-maintenance and relies on staples like clear brow serum (from Kimiko!), Lawless's Lip Plumping Mask in Cherry Vanilla, and an eyelash curler. For special occasions or days when she's taking more meetings or has an event, she'll wear anything and everything from Charlotte Tilbury (the foundations are game-changing), some shimmer on her lids (Stila and Róen do it best), and a few coats of the best mascara-type product on earth, Surratt's Noir Lash Tint.