Beauty

Creating perfect smokey eyes or blending the right shadows together can be tricky. With this in mind, brands like Eye Majic by Japonesque, ColorOn Professional and Avon have each created instant eye shadows. These are strips that already have oval-shaped color deposited on them to rub on your lids. Most of them come with layers of different colors and look like mini rainbows on the strips. The idea is to give you the exact application on both lids the way a professional makeup-artist would.

We’re living in a time where every penny counts. But that doesn’t mean we still don’t want to look—and feel—the best we possibly can. So here in the beauty department, we became curious: Though you’re saving your cents..