About r/MUAontheCheap
In its own words:
r/MUAontheCheap is an actively moderated community dedicated to sharing makeup, skincare, haircare, nailcare, and personal fragrance sales, new releases, gifts with purchase, and more! “Cheap” is a relative term. On MUAotC there is no cost threshold, all price points are welcome from drugstore to luxury.
Community guide
r/MUAontheCheap (#940, about 1.2 million) tracks makeup, skincare, hair, nails and fragrance sales/new releases—all price points—without affiliate codes or person-to-person selling.
What belongs
Beauty deals and launches (about 4 posts/day). Rules: be kind; no tracked/affiliate links or self-promo; titles must include store, brand, product, price; beauty-sale relevance; no P2P buying/selling/trading; controversial-brand policy.
Versus Sephora and fragrance
Brand or category rooms discuss products broadly. MUAontheCheap is the deal desk with strict title metadata.
Practical pointers
Put store/brand/product/price in the title; strip affiliate tracking.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jun 19, 2017, which makes it 9 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 417 subscribers (+0.04%). It sits just behind r/darksouls (#939) and ahead of r/blunderyears (#941) in our ranking.
What sets r/MUAontheCheap apart
r/MUAontheCheap is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 76% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/MUAontheCheap grew from 1,130,694 to 1,131,839 subscribers (+1.1K, +0.10%). That is about 26 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/MUAontheCheap talks about
Across 46 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “code”, “sephora”, “daily”, “chat” and “rouge”. Other frequent themes are select, ulta, codes, ends, gma and deals. Recurring phrases include “daily chat”, “sephora rouge”, “rouge code” and “gma deals”. By format, 76% are text posts, 20% are links and 2% are images.
Popular post flairs: REMOVED (8), MEGA (3), NEW RELEASE (1), SOLD OUT/EXPIRED (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/MUAontheCheap gets about 3.6 new posts a day. The public archive holds 46,090 posts and 689,711 comments in total, about 15.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (10 posts) and the quietest was Tuesday (3). Posting peaks around 14:00 UTC and is lowest around 00:00 UTC.
Rules of r/MUAontheCheap
The moderators of r/MUAontheCheap list 6 rules. In short:
- Be kind
- No affiliated/tracked links/codes and no self promotion
- Title must include store, brand, product, price
- Posts must regard a beauty-related sale, new release, gift with purchase offer
- No selling, buying, or trading
- Controversial brand policy
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/MUAontheCheap and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/MUAontheCheap?
r/MUAontheCheap has 1,131,839 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #940 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,145 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/MUAontheCheap created?
r/MUAontheCheap was created on Jun 19, 2017, so it has been around for 9 years.
Is r/MUAontheCheap still active?
Yes. r/MUAontheCheap gets about 3.6 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 46,090 posts and 689,711 comments.
What is the best time to post in r/MUAontheCheap?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Tuesday, and most posts arrive around 14:00 UTC, with the fewest around 00:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/MUAontheCheap?
The community describes itself as: “r/MUAontheCheap is an actively moderated community dedicated to sharing makeup, skincare, haircare, nailcare, and personal fragrance sales, new releases, gifts with purchase, and more! “Cheap” is a relative term. On MUA…” Recent post titles often mention code, sephora, daily, chat and rouge. Most posts are text posts (76%).
Is r/MUAontheCheap SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/MUAontheCheap as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/MUAontheCheap?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/MUAontheCheap accepts both text and link posts, with images enabled. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “Be kind”; “No affiliated/tracked links/codes and no self promotion”; “Title must include store, brand, product, price”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/MUAontheCheap?
Communities with similar topics include r/Makeup (1.9M), r/EatCheapAndHealthy (11.5M), r/MakeupAddiction (7.6M), r/fragrance (2.5M) and r/Shoestring (5.2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/MUAontheCheap.