23 Feelings You Get When You Go Beauty Shopping at the Drugstore

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Can't wait to go to the pharmacy? You're not alone. Ever since I realized that the store isn't just for cough drops and Clorox, I've found myself making excuses to browse its many aisles filled with lipsticks, blushes, mascaras, and more. The drugstore is a mecca for beauty addicts, with its seemingly endless shelving of products of all shades, textures, and promises.

Considering investing in some primo lip stain? That's great . . . but you can get, like, five of them at CVS, Walgreens, or Target for the same price. There's something inherently soothing about the fluorescent lighting, the soft-rock music, and aisles upon aisles of awesome finds. It's exhilarating and calming, all at once. Take a look to see the evolution of how I feel visiting that big, beautiful building.

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When You Get to the Entrance and Pass Through the Doors

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When You Walk In and Hear the Sounds of the Cashiers Scanning Items

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Smelling That Sterile Pharmacy Smell

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Walking Straight Past the Actual Pharmacy Because You Don't Have Any Prescriptions to Pick Up

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Pivoting to Get to the Makeup Aisle

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Trying to Remember What Stuff You Came Here to Get

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Abandoning That List

08

Looking to See If Revlon Has Any New Lip Colors

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Considering That You Probably Don't Need Another Red Lipstick

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Realizing That Most of the Lipsticks Have Been Pried Open

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Thinking About If You Need Another Loofah

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Deciding That Today Is the Day to Spring For a New Deodorant Scent

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Looking at All of Maybelline's Various Mascaras

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Looking at the Price on Razors When You Go to Stock Up

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Wondering If You Should Become a Vitamin Person

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Then Remembering the Entire Bottle of Fish Oil Supplements You Haven't Even Opened

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Marveling at the Wide Array of Essie Nail Polishes

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Grabbing a New Topcoat Just Because

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Thinking About Getting Some Self-Tanner but Then Recalling Your Last Experience

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Swinging by the Candy Aisle on the Way Out

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When the Cashier Tells You How Much You Owe

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But Then You Realize She's Serious

23

Getting to Your Car and Realizing You Forgot Literally Everything You "Needed"

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