Articles about: budget buy
Simple Facial Wash gel: The ultimate budget cure for that stubborn teenage skin
Up until last year, I’d never had any problems with my skin. I’d made it safely through my teenage years without any major incidents (skin-wise, I mean) and had never once really had to...
Best Budget Beauty: Part Two!
Times are tight, we’ve all tightened our belts and one of the first areas we cut back on was our beauty spend. Not altogether like (are ya mad?!), but that fancypants lipstick is now a payday...
Essence Vintage District Collection: review, pics, swatches
We might all be tightening our belts this January but this is one spring collection we can safely indulge in without the remotest fear of breaking the bank. Better yet, with its shades of...
Christmas Gift Guides: Stocking Stuffers For Under A Fiver
ARGH!!! Feck knows how it happened, but Christmas is just four weeks away! But don’t panic Beaut.ies cos we’ve got your back – all this week we’ll be bringing you our...
You get what you pay for with primer: Smashbox Photo Finish Vs NYC Smooth Skin
Those of us wanting to provide a little foundation insurance for day time or evening wear will be all too aware of the primers on the market, promising to provide a perfect canvas and to blur...
Rate it: best Christmas gifts for under a tenner
Oh the bargains out there are coming thicker and faster than the snow that has been falling over the last week. (But don’t you just know it will all have cleared up by *actual* Christmas leaving...
Rate it: best cheapie beauty buy!
It was the best budget buy EVER! It cost less than a tenner but you love it and you use it to bits – maybe it’s lipstick from a cheapie brand, maybe it’s a dupe for a much more...
Parisian Purchases: What I got at Monoprix
Crap pic alert! Yeah, it’s my dirty mind, but anytime I’m in Paris and I see a Monoprix, well, I get the sniggers. Anyway, as I think I may have mentioned, I was in France’s capital...
Trying and liking: Bourjois Anticernes Pinceau concealer
I recently shelled out 28 quid on a shiny new Clarins Instant Light Perfecting Touch concealer when my trusty YSL Touche Éclat petered out. Unfortunately, I managed to somehow lose the bloody thing...