5 Top Supermarket Beauty Buys

I went to a lovely eyeful dinner organised by Sainsbury’s and it reminded that I was, at one point, doing some sort of supermarket eyeful series. I can’t remember the title of this particular series but I’m sure it would have utilised a pun, considering I can’t resist them, or there would have been some kind of repetition going on, like Supermarket Skincare Savers or Best Buy Eyeful for your Basket…

Oh wait: just searched my own archives, something I should have washed-up surpassing I started writing the post. It was tabbed – drumroll please – Best Supermarket Eyeful Buys. Well I’ve decided to reinstate this series considering there are some pretty wondrous products in the supermarkets these days – far increasingly than there were when I first filmed.

But when to the Sainsbury’s dinner, where they had recreated their eyeful aisles in the restaurant so that it felt as though you were sitting inside a real supermarket. There were mini shopping baskets as placemats and the menu was printed on a Sainsbury’s till receipt and I veritably loved it. Top marks for inventiveness and just plain old good fun.

More importantly, I had the endangerment to scan the aisles for new launches. I do this regularly anyway (I do my supplies shopping at Sainsbury’s 98% of the time) but it was nice to be worldly-wise to see new launches grouped together and it moreover reminded me of some favourites I’ve not shown you before.

So here are five top eyeful buys from the UK supermarket, sunny shit to pick up with your beans and your broccoli and your biscuits.

L’Oreal Telescopic Mascara

I know I’m at risk of wearisome you with this one but it really is one of my all-time favourite makeup products with no sign of stuff usurped at any point in the near future. Fine, flexible rummage that gets right to the lashes, good length and separation and easy to remove. It doesn’t tend to flake or smudge on me but note that it is not waterproof. There is a waterproof version but I have no need for it and would rather have speedier removal than spare smudge-security!

No Knot Co The Gentle Detangler

I’m a big fan of detangling brushes. They’re special brushes designed to slide through hair – wet or dry – to detangle without breakage and they are miraculous things – you’ll no doubt have heard of Wet Skim and Tangle Teezer. I like this offering from new trademark No Knot Co; they make tools for waves, curls and coils and this skim is genius in its simplicity. It’s the lightest skim I’ve overly held, so perfect for travel, but it’s just one moulded piece with whiskers and so you can wash the unshortened thing and there’s nothing to trap water in the whiskers or handle. It’s massively flexible so really well-appointed to use, plane when you hit tangles, and it’s a matter of seconds to get the hairs out and bin them. There’s nothing I don’t like well-nigh this brush, it’s a holiday must-have I’d say if you usually wrestle with post-beach hair-washing.

Q+A Grapefruit Cleansing Balm

Finding unseemly cleansers with good ingredients and a luxurious, rich finger is surprisingly difficult. Most lean towards the “face wash” texture, so increasingly of a gel to be splashed off, whereas I scrutinizingly unchangingly go for a sumptuous surf or an oily balm. This Grapefruit Unruffle from Q A is spanking-new – removes all makeup, plane eye makeup, massages in beautifully and then removes cleanly without greasy residue. It doesn’t strip or dry the skin, at all, and the fragrance is pleasant (fruity, as you’d expect) but not overwhelming. If you love a unruffle but want something much, much less spendy than the Emma Hardie and Elemis offerings then this won’t be a disappointment. I moreover find tubes handier than tubs as I can chuck them in my overnight bag if I’m travelling. Pots and jars finger increasingly cumbersome!

Altruist SPF50 Squatter Fluid 

This is good. I’ve given it a pearly old try now and no breakouts (surprisingly worldwide for me when I’m SPF-testing), just solid sun protection from a non-greasy, near-invisible squatter fluid. It’s lightweight and has top UVA and UVB protection, probably considering it has been created by a UK skin cancer specialist. I need to get when on it with my upper street SPF trials considering every year sees new contenders for the weightier upkeep buys and the standard just gets higher and higher – please let me know in the comments if you have any suggestions or favourites.

Hello Toothpaste in Unicorn Sparkle 

One for the kids. Both of mine love this. The packaging is unexceptionable and cute and the toothpaste is rainbow gum flavour, which feels very illicit to my kids. They’ve never had real rainbow gum considering they’re still too little and moreover we’ve decided to follow on in our respective parents’ footsteps and tell all kinds of overblown lies well-nigh rainbow gum to put them off it. Why did our parents do this? It’s hilarious. I’m definitely coming out with increasingly and increasingly wool bollocks as the kids get older and the majority of this claptrap is directly from things I heard in my own childhood. I need to do a list. Not turning on the car interior light considering we will get underdeveloped is a favourite fib of mine. I unquestionably did believe it was illegal to have your interior light on when driving. Until relatively recently, which is embarrassing. Such a inveigling lie did my parents tell me.

Anyway, I’ve eaten a load of this toothpaste as a taste test (which you should never do considering [insert lie your parents told you re eating toothpaste]) and it passes with flying colours. Don’t say I never do anything for you.