5 BEAUTY BARGAINS YOU NEED TO TRY!

OK, this is how it works: as I potter withal doing my eyeful research stuff, testing everything in the world from eyewateringly expensive squatter creams to the cheapest brow gels, I make note of any sunny undear eyeful finds I come across. Until I have five of them listed: and then I make a video. That’s the unstipulated gist of it.

I should do the videos increasingly often than I do but time runs yonder from me and then something else new and shiny from the eyeful labs comes withal and you all know how that story ends. With a reservoir of wondrous products that could get yonder with stuff far increasingly expensive than they are – high-performing, slickly-formulated skincare and luxurious-feeling makeup gems – but that aren’t. They are very much cheaper than their luxury equivalents and very often on offer.

In this video we have a lipstick that’s much cheaper than the one I bought from Gucci, a unconfined new shampoo that’s good for those prone to dandruff and three other sunny eyeful buys. It’s an spanking-new mixed bag of well-priced goodness! Let’s go:

Revlon “Pink in the Afternoon” Lipstick,

After the Gucci lipstick experiment (here, if you missed it on Instagram) I made it my mission to find the nicest pink lipsticks on the upper street. In all honesty I haven’t been hugely successful so far, mostly considering when you try to find lipstick testers on the upper street they are all missing, or covered in melted lipstick, or they have rolled under the stand. But this pink from Revlon, Pink in the Afternoon, is a very good start indeed. It’s only slightly increasingly muted than the Kimberley Rose from Gucci (here*) but somehow it is infinitely increasingly wearable. Less in your face. Not quite so scary.

It is well-appointed to wear with a sheeny finish to start that wears lanugo to an scrutinizingly powdery pink. I love it. And £7.99? A hell of a lot increasingly palatable than the Gucci version, plane if I did get a self-ruling (uselessly small) canvas bag from Gucci…

Sali Hughes Placid 5 Wounding Daily Exfoliant,

I’ve unchangingly been partial to an wounding exfoliant – AHA for glow, BHA for keeping my pores well-spoken and spots at bay. Sali’s 5 Wounding Daily Exfoliant covers both bases – glow and clarity – but the weightier thing well-nigh it is its supreme gentleness. You really can use this daily and I have been – every morning as a lazy swipe without my lazy micellar cleanse.

If you have been toying with the idea of introducing an exfoliant into your skincare routine but have been tumbled well-nigh how to use it, when to use it and whether it will play nicely slantingly your retinoid addiction, this is an spanking-new place to start.

L’Oreal Revitalift Clinical SPF50.

This is a knockout product from L’Oreal; a upper protection squatter sunscreen with a really lightweight, sophisticated feel. It disappears immediately and you can’t finger it once its on the skin, sunny underneath makeup and easy to cart about. What’s not to love? Spanking-new for oily skin, dry skin will want a solid moisturiser underneath as this is light on the plumtious front. Currently less than half price at Sainsburys.

Mitchum Cedarwood Stick Deodorant.

Mitchum recently launched a Gel Surf deodorant and though I love the texture, the smell and the efficacy it felt slightly messy to apply. I prefer their surf stick and they do it in the same Cedarwood scent, which is just gorgeous. Slightly green, slightly woody and a far cry from some of the soapy smells that deodorants often have. The surf stick claims 24h hour protection – I never need that much and would shower it off anyway, but it definitely works its magic over the undertow of a normal day. Though if I partake in a spot of cycling on the Peloton then it is tested to its very limits and there’s definitely some…moistness.

Head & Shoulders Bare Shampoo

This feels like a very new lean for Head & Shoulders; a shampoo that looks increasingly premium than anything they’ve made surpassing and with a stripped-back ingredients list. It still contains the signature H&S anti-dandruff agent, so I think it’s as constructive as you’d hope it would be, but it feels so gentle on the scalp and my hair wasn’t at all dry or stripped without rinsing. It’s self-ruling from sulphated surfectants, silicones and dyes and plane the lather feels soft and luxurious. In a veiling test I would have had this lanugo as a pricey buy so it’s an wool steal, expressly at the current price.