If every department store and high-end cosmetics site disappeared tomorrow, I would still find plenty of beauty products to spend my money on. It would just be a lot less money, because I'd be spending it at the drugstore in their makeup and skin care aisles.

Our readers have recommended a few of their favorite cheap products. What's yours?

So, once again, we've reached the change of season only to discover that all my summer shoes have walked off in the middle of the night, never to be seen again.

Fortunately, it's pretty easy to get cheap shoes online. Basically, there's no need to leave home anymore. You are welcome.

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This might be my biggest skin care product confession: I actually hate Cetaphil. This is pretty much beauty blog treason, but I'm fessing up, because I don't want you to feel like a weirdo if the annointed drugstore skin cleanser doesn't do it for you. (Also, because I love complaining, but isn't that what the internet is for?)

If you have sensitive skin and five dollars, you try my favorite cleanser, Olay Foaming Face Wash.

If you've got those red, bumpy patches on the back of your arms (or legs, or face) you know how hard they can be to get rid of. Chicken skin, known to derms as keratosis pilaris, affects a large portion of the population and is notoriously tricky to treat.

Although it's tough to get rid of entirely, you can reduce the appearance of the problem with lotions containing alpha-hydroxy acids. One of my favorites is Lac-Hydrin Five. It's available at many drugstores and via the all-powerful internets, where everything is beautiful all the time.