Hi sisters, James Charles here and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
For today's video I have something super fun planned
that I'm actually so excited for.
When I was little I used to watch TV with my mom all the time
and the one thing that I loooved watching every single year
was award season.
I don't know why, but something about a red carpet just always intrigued me so much
and one of my biggest goals growing up was to walk a red carpet
and now, because of my amazing job,
I pinch myself every single day,
because at this point, I feel like every other week,
I'm walking some red carpet and doing interviews, which is so crazy to me.
Most celebrities, when getting photographed or walking red carpet and doing interviews
like to look absolutely perfect. I mean of course, who doesn't.
But that usually includes very expensive gowns, very very beautifully done hair
and intense glam make up from some of the best artists in the entire world,
but that process can be extremely costly.
Today I want to try and get red carpet ready
full make up, full outfit, full accessories
in under 100 dollars.
I have my hundred dollar bill right in front of me,
let's head over to the store and see if we can get red carpet ready in under 100 dollars.
(intro music)
Alright guys, so we are here at CVS which is gonna be our first stop of today's video
hashtag not sponsored
You guys know I don't really use drug store products that often
I mean my regular foundation alone would literally eat up half of our budget
So we're gonna do our best to find as many products as we possibly can here
to still look good on a budget
so first step is going to be foundation
I heard the new Maybelline SuperStay Foundation is so bomb
This one is $12 so definitely a little bit pricey
for the Concealer I'm gonna grab the Maybelline Fit Me Concealer in the lightest shade
This one is $7.49 (Angry Sounds)
Alright, I know that Nikkie also loves the Maybelline Fit Me loose setting powder
I'm gonna try and save myself $2 and look for the Coty Airspun powder in a different store
I know that one is $6
However, that is the powder that created Flashback Mary (Angry Sounds)
And on Red Carpets you have to be photographed so hopefully we aren't look'n spooked
So for Mascara I was gonna pick out the Covergirl So Lashy! Mascara. Which I was literally was the face for.
Hello, that is me
But it's $11.99 and that is way out of budget at this point, like give me a discount of something I was in the commercial
So the brow pencil is $10.50, the pomade is $7.50, and so is the brow gel. I do have some pretty bushy brows but wow
A sister apparently can not have brows on fleek  on a budget
I'm going with this instead
this is the Nyx auto eyebrow pencil
This one is $5 didn't even see her
(GASP) The highlighting and countering palette is $24.99
that's literally a quarter of our budget
I don't know if we can do this
Not with that attitude get it together sister
Let's go
For mascara today I'm going to be grabbing the maybelline "great lash" mascara this one is $5.99 and I know that Maybelline is known for having really great mascaras
so, we're gonna pop that one in and hopefully it'll be a budget saver, because mascara can be crazy expensive
$6.00 for a single shadow from loreal? I don't think so sweetie.
wet n wild has liquid liners for only $3.00 so I'm gonna throw one of those in there and then I also still really badly need a highlighter.
Okay, so what were gonna do instead is I'm gonna grab the blush and highlighter duo
which is $5.99 and also the contour and banana powder duo
which is also $5.99, so the two of those together equal the same price
But, I'm gonna put this one back. Sorry sister E.L.F., I still love you
So, that way we're killing four birds with two stones
Yeah (laughter)
Alright guys, so we just checked out at CVS and we have a bunch of products
Our total came to forty-four something and that means we have fifty -five dollars and one cent left
For the rest of this video
Not too bad; but we did already spend almost half of our budget,
and thats just on make-up. We still have clothes and accessories and shoes
I don't know if we can do this guys! (laughing) That's not looking too great so far
Okay guys so, we're on our second stop called
Sister Walgreens, we only have a few items left to complete our full-on makeup look today
- (woman over speaker) Bianca IT3, Bianca IT3
- Bianca
Okay, so these lashes from Kiss are six dollars and ninety-nine cents
which is honestly not much better than the other ones from before
But, it is saving me two dollars
these kind of look relatively
normal so we're going to pick out these
for today's look, hope and pray that they work
see that eye shadow and lash and lipstick, our total is going to be $10.93
hoooh
look a diner
oh look (laughing) 3.99 clothing store or less
that's what we need
so at our last stop of today which is going to be Rite Aid
we only need a powder and a lipstick left and our total right now is at $44.80
remaining
(sigh)
$9 for lipstick?!
(gasp)
hello?
$8, $9
hello?
it's lipstick
$7
we're gonna have like 4 cents for clothes
I feel like we probably should've gotten the Nyx one when we were at CVS
(groans)
we might actually have to go back for that
back at CVS cause apparently lipstick products cost a trillion dollars each
so
I need a Nyx soft matte lip cream
which are still $7
(frustrated groaning) oh my god
I'm gonna get the liner in the shade natural which is $3.50 and the soft matte lip cream in the shade stockholm
which is $6.49
totaling to another $10 which is gonna leave our clothing budget at around 30 bucks
I'm really hungry so I think I'm gonna use $1.69 of my budget on a snack
ok guys, so since we were here earlier and already bought a bunch of stuff
we have a $9 off CVS coupon since I am a loyal CVS member
so that means this $10.93 of lipstick and lip liner that we just bought
is now going to come to $1.07
(celebrating)
we love a bargain and couponing sister, Extreme Couponers is quaking right now
alright guys, so we just got back home and we finished our entire face of makeup
except for one thing and that is the translucent powder
I know the Coty airspun powder is one of the cheapest and best powders on the market
but it's only sold at WalMart, which we don't really have a lot of here in California
so, what I'm gonna do, is it is $5.97 and sales tax is 8%
so if we do 5.98 times 1.08, we get $6.45
and subtract that from the budget
32, 33, 34, 35, 36, $36 and fifty --- six cents
and we need to get an entire outfit
so the one option that I have left, that can actually be a really great solution is
Santee Alley
if you don't know what Santee Alley is, it is this really long street in downtown LA where you can get
everything in the entire world from fake makeup to literally knock off designer handbags
jewelry, outfits for a super, super low price
it is already getting really late, so that means everything is closed down
I think we're going to call it a night, but tomorrow morning we will wake up early
get an early start, and go clothes shopping
and find hopefully an entire outfit from head to toe
for only $36.56
see you guys tomorrow
good morning sisters!
hello, it is the next day
I am up, ready, and looking fabulous
kind of (laughing)
so tonight is our red carpet event, and I am so beyond excited
we have $36.56 left
and today we have to get a full on look
I'm talking shoes, shirt, pants, accessories, the full shebang
in order to get ready for this event and we only have a few hours to do so
hopefully we'll be able to complete this look
on a budget
(chill music)
ok so we've checked out a bunch of stores
and stuff out but we're coming to the same issue and that everything is actually really cute here
but a lot of the stuff is like literally taking up the entire budget, like we found a pair of shoes that were super cute
but they were $25
we found a pair of pants that were really cute, but they were $31
we can't get the rest of the outfit for only $5
this is coming to be quite the dillema up in here
I don't know what we're gonna do
jumpsuit reminds me of Gucci and it's so good, but it's $35 so I think that would be breaking the budget
but I'm now thinking that a jumpsuit might be a really good option
because it's like two in one
for one price, so the search has moved to a jumpsuit
that'll be our game plan
(store music)
this is gonna be a no
(peppy music)
(transition music)
ok so we ended up getting that jumpsuit, it was retailing for $34.99, but
we ended up being able to talk them down to actually $20 even
thank god!
but that is still a huge chunk of our remaining budget, that means we have $16.56 exactly left
to finish off this entire outfit
we don't have shoes, we don't have accessories, and there's a slight problem too
there's a million shoe shops here in Santee Alley, but almost every single one of them is just heels
like I have seen 87 billion pair of heels at this point, but I've seen like 3 pairs of boy shoes
which is like fine I guess, I mean I definitely love a good pair of heels
oh my god, you guys, look
we just found these knock off Yeezys for only $15
clearly they're not even close to real as you can see
I have mine on
(laughing) right up in here, but they are black and red which should match perfectly with my jumpsuit
and I would so much rather have a sneaker than a heel on because lord knows I can't walk in heels to save my life
and I'd probably fall over, so these might be a go
ok guys, so my shoes are a 9.5-10 but we only have a size 8, so I'm gonna see if a sister can
do a squeeze to get these on
(gasp) wait, I actually fit them
they fit
I need these right now
ok guys, so we have our jumpsuit and our shoes now
and the only thing that's left is accessories, but our only problem is we have a remaining balance of 56 cents
so we might have to go a few dollars over budget to get this perfect red carpet look, but
I'm willing to do so
it's not like we're gonna break the bank by just 56 cents
it could really make or break the look, so let's see what we can find
suddenly we have budget again
ok guys, we just found this bracelet and three ring trio for only 99 cents
that does actually put us over budget by a few cents, but I think accessories can really make or break a look
so we are a few cents over budget, but
we did it, we are super close to $100 and now that we are over budget, oh well, I think I have one last thing
that I wanna buy before we go to today's look
alright sisters, this should be a super easy and quick drugstore makeup tutorial today
we certainly do not have many items to work with
so starting off
we do not prime the skin because that was out of budget
so I'm gonna go into the Maybelline brand new SuperStay foundation
I got the shade classic ivory, so I am praying this matches
oh ok honestly, not a bad match at all
I'm just going to blend this all over the skin
like normal
oh this foundation looks amazing
oh my god, how much was this?
only $11
I'm shook
the one really annoying thing about drugstore makeup shopping, no matter how good a product is
is that you can't actually test it out in store
so as you can see, this foundation definitely oxidized a little bit and is a little bit darker than my skin tone
so
I'm gonna go to my next step being the Maybelline Fit Me concealer
and I got the lightest shade
so hopefully this will help kind of brighten everything up
and kind of make it match a little bit better
gonna put this right in the center of my forehead
and then right under my eyes in a triangle shape
and you guys know I used to bring my concealer all the way out up into here
for that really snatched look
but more recently, I've been kind of focusing my highlights only on the very center of my face
it's a very Kim K style of highlighting and contouring, but I really, really love how it makes my skin look
and how it brings attention right here to the center of my face
gotta cover up the mustache
you guys, not even gonna lie, I am absolutely in love with how my skin looks right now
I am so shook to the core, it looks so beautiful
oh my god
I am gonna grab my Cody airspun powder and just set underneath the eyes today
you guys know I usually love to kind of bake a face in place
but I also love to go in with setting sprays and like a Mac fix plus
in between my powder steps to really melt everything in, and $22 for Mac fix plus was definitely not in the budget
I mean literally fix plus, body suit
fix plus
body suit
the last time I went to the gym was
never
so I'd rather not go naked
(laughing)
(gasp)
oh you're literally killing me
so I'm going to attempt to bronze and contour my face using what's left of this wet 'n wild duo
crap
oh that is very pigmented
maybe because it's broken into a million pieces
can't forget to chisel out the hairline, of course
let's be real though, the true test of a contour slash bronzing powder is can it snatch a sister nose
I'm not mad at the nose contour, but I'm also not like happy with her, she's like ok
I'm gonna grab a flat powder brush and dip into the highlighting
(blowing) excuse me
banana powder side of this duo
and I'm gonna pat this in the center of my forehead to bring back some of the light
and I'm also gonna place this right underneath my eyes and right up to the sides of my nose
to really brighten everything up and further the illusion of a pinched and snatched rhinoplasty
(laughing)
next to finish off my skin and base, I'm gonna open up this blush and highlighter duo from ELF
I think this one was literally only $5 which is so bomb
and I'm just gonna apply both of these to my cheekbones
starting off with the highlighter
hello
I'm gonna try digging my brush into this and actually breaking it a little bit to see if that way the pigment will actually you know
show up
ooohh there she is
ok
I actually love how this looks
I'm gonna grab a little bit of blush on an angled brush just to kind of blend the contour and highlight together
(click)
(sigh) or not
don't love doing this
for some reason, you literally have to scrape the top layer off of this
I think because it's a baked formula, but the actual pigmentation of the product underneath
is really, really bomb and I'm loving how my skin looks right now
before we do my brows and my eyes, as usual, I'm just gonna grab my damp beauty blender
and literally the lightest bit of powder
and just bake along the sides of my nose to really snatch it in place
and then just right underneath that contour as well
(loud pop)
moving right along, this is going to be our brow, for this one we're using the Nyx eyebrow pencil
this one was $4, it was literally the only one that was within budget
let's see how this one compares to our normal I think $21 or $22 Benefit precisely my brow pencil
oh this is big
I mean let's be real, we do usually love a good sister big tip (laughing)
but right now
this might not be very helpful
let's see what we can do here
this brow pencil's supposed to be dark brown, but it's literally coming off as like red
on my skin
this is not
what we need right now
not the worst eyebrow, but definitely not the best
I'm gonna grab my Maybelline Fit Me concealer on the back of my hand and just a flat top concealer brush
and attempt to clean them up a little bit, although I'm really not sure how much that is going to help
being that the main issue here is definitely the color of the brow, but
I'm not gonna complain because clearly we had not a single penny left
to go exchange this or try to get a new one, so
gotta make do with what you got (laughing)
honestly, it really doesn't look that bad, I'm definitely being dramatic, and the rest of my face looks amazing so far
so I don't wanna get discouraged by it, it's just the brows
now next of course comes the eyes
and if you're an avid and creative makeup lover like I am
you would know that eye shadow can sometimes get really, really expensive
really fast
for some reason though, I was not able to find a single big eye shadow palette
anywhere in any of the drug stores we went to
I either found these ones, like wet 'n wild, this is what I'm going to be using today
or tiny little single shadows
from like Loreal that were like $12 each
hello
I absolutely did not think so, so I picked this one up
I'm going to do my best job to create a soft glam look for my- today
I'm first gonna grab a tiny packer brush in the shade that says a brow bone, and pop that
right on the top of my brow bone to give it a nice little highlight and lift before I apply some shadow (gasp)
oh that's actually kind of pretty
I'm also gonna place a little bit of that right on the inner corner to really make that area of my face pop
and bring attention to the eyes
I'm then gonna grab a fluffy brush, this is the Morphe M 441
use code James for 10% off for all your future budget discount shopping
and dip into the shade transition right up here at the top, tap off the excess
and I'm gonna plop that right in the crease as my transition shade
well that pigmentation is definitely rather unfortunate
I guess when they say transition, they really mean transition, because that color is literally
barely even there
I am like dying to put a darker brown in the crease to really define it, but
the crease shade in this palate is a shimmer shade, which is a major, major makeup no no
you do not put shimmers in the crease, literally ever
there are barely any rules to makeup, but that is one of them
for sure
so I'm gonna do is crack back open my very, very shattered wet 'n wild
bronzer
and dip into that with a fluffy crease brush
and use that to define out the crease a little bit more
ok, now we're getting somewhere
popping back into the little eye shadow quad, I'm gonna grab this pink shade called eye lid
right on a dense packing brush
and pack that right on the eye lid
oh that's actually kind of pretty
love that, ok, down, I can work with that
this eye shadow honestly is not looking bad at all, I'm kinda digging it
I'm gonna finish off by adding a little bit of a wing using the wet 'n wild mega liner, this one was only $3
you know those days where eye liner just keeps getting thicker and thicker and thicker
because you keep messing up and putting on concealer and then adding more liner
then messing up, then putting on more liner, then adding more concealer
today's one of those days
I really wanna define my lower lash just a little bit more, but clearly we don't have any dark brown eye shadow
so what I'm actually gonna do is grab my brow pencil from before
and really lightly and carefully run this right up against my lower lash line
to create a little bit more dimension
(gasp) oh that kinda actually looks good, hello
HACK
this eye look isn't even that bad, but I think that lashes are definitely gonna take it to the next level
so
I'm gonna give my lashes a good and fresh curl
and then apply a layer of the Maybelline great lash that I found at CVS, this one was only $7
I usually love Maybelline mascaras, but honestly, not gonna lie, I am definitely not impressed with this one
I feel like with mascara, it is definitely one of those products that when you pay more, you usually do get more bang for your buck
my all time favorites are the Benefit roller lash and MAC excited play, and this one will definitely NOT
be replacing either of those any time soon, so
to add a little bit more oomph on my eyes
I'm gonna pop on these lashes from Kiss that I found at Walgreens
these are in the style corset and I got them because they kind of loosely
sorry Lilly
remind me of Miami's (laughing)
looking at these lashes, if I could describe them, I would simply say that they are
underwhelming
the actual style of the lash is literally so pretty
and for only, I think they were $6.50, they're really, really nice lashes
they're 3D, they're separated, they're nice and fluffy
the band is comfortable
but I would just say that the hairs themselves on the actual lashes are too short
and they don't make a big enough impact
so those are the eyes all complete and that was definitely a little bit of a struggle, but I feel like we
came through, I'm honestly pretty happy with these results, it looks pretty beautiful
so I'm gonna go ahead and wipe away the bake, it's been on there for quite a long time now
I'm gonna go in and line my lips quickly using the Nyx liner in the shade natural
I really like this color and when I was filming with Zhavia a few days ago, she uses one, and she said
that this is her all time favorite, so I had to pick it up for today's look, and it was only $3
and then last but certainly not least, I'm gonna fill in my lips using the Nyx soft matte lip creme in the shade stockholm
alright sisters, I guess this look is complete, normally you know I would give myself a good spritz of setting spray, but
that was out of budget for today
so I'm gonna go ahead and change into my red carpet ready outfit and I'll be right back
to show you guys the finished, completed look
ok are we ready?
(behind camera) yeah
(upbeat music)
oh hey paparazzi
you guys, this is the finished, completed look for today (gasp)
I have something else, hold on
did I spend an extra $21 in the budget that we didn't have to create a red carpet for myself?
absolutely
alright you guys, this is the red carpet full look
all complete, clearly I did not have a red carpet to attend tonight but you know what
it's the thought that counts, we have a full look from head all the way down to the toes
and I'm honestly kinda living for it, not gonna lie
if you look in the mirror
over here
it's (gasp)
it looks like I have camel toe (laughing)
overall this challenge was honestly really, really challenging
but also really, really incredibly fun to do
although I definitely love to treat myself going makeup shopping with friends
or buying a new outfit, or even getting a new piece of jewelry
for hitting a milestone on social media
ps thank you guys so much for 4 million sisters on Instagram, we're getting so close to 4 million on YouTube
sorry for the point
it was honestly a really fun challenge today to shop on a budget and this just goes to show
that you don't need to spend thousands of dollars on a new dress
or a hundred dollars on a new foundation
or to look a beautiful and stunning and fabulous because hello
I'm standing right here
(laughing)
alright sisters, that is all I have for this little makeup challenge today
like I said, it was so much fun to film, and I really hope you guys enjoyed it as well
if you did, don't forget to give it a big thumbs up down below
and next time you go out with friends and need a brand new outift and glam
try doing it all in under $100
it actually is a really, really fun challenge to do, and I wanna see what you guys can come up with
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hopefully (laughing)
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alright sisters, I love you so much, thank you for watching, and I will see you in the next one
bye
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