High-End Versus Budget Beauty Editorial

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Here’s Looking at You: A High-End Versus Budget Beauty Editorial

Nicole Blanco Ramos

July 13, 2018
• 3 min read

Serving face, face, face doesn't have to cost a ton, ton, ton of money

The myth has officially been debunked: Earlier this month, Wonder pit expensive against easy-on-the-wallet, designer against drugstore in a beauty brand face-off and found that budget can in fact hold a candle to high-end. We have featured guests Alyssa Lapid and Maxine Lara to thank for the no holds barred product review. In Style Science: The High-End Versus Budget Beauty Showdown, the two beauty girls worked their way through eyebrow pencils, mascara, liquid eyeliner, liquid lipstick and blush with practical, everyday makeup in mind; now it’s time to have some fun with something a little more experimental.

“Here’s Looking at You” is a beauty story about eye-catching makeup featuring stunning morena beauty Arabella Nepomuceno where more is more. It’s one of the few occasions where we’ll gladly celebrate excess. “This shoot puts both the high-end and budget beauty products that emerged victorious in the Style Science episode an equal footing,” shares fashion stylist Cessi Treñas. “The editorial acts as a level playing field for these products.”

To give each winning items from the beauty showdown its own moment in the spotlight, makeup artist Jorence Delimos deliberately piles on product, making each one the focal point of the shots captured by photographer Edward Joson. Hairstylist Ricky Diokno, meanwhile, opts for youthful curls, something raw and relaxed, to complement the statement-making makeup.