Surrey Homes | SH64 | February 2020 | Interiors supplement inside
The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Inspirational Interiors, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
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Grab a<br />
Bargain<br />
Josephine Fairley picks her favourite<br />
purse-friendly pick-me-ups<br />
At this time of year, post-Christmas, post-tax bill (if you’re<br />
self-employed), we often feel the pinch a little bit. But<br />
ironically, isn’t that the very time we really deserve a bit<br />
of a treat…? Nothing does that, for me, like a great beauty ‘find’.<br />
Something to perk up a tired complexion, or revive a winterlacklustre<br />
face, or work its aromatherapeutic magic on our spirits.<br />
Over my years as a beauty editor, I’ve realised: you truly don’t<br />
need to spend a fortune to find great products, but you do need<br />
to know where to look. So for <strong>February</strong>, I thought I’d put together<br />
a list of my 10 Best Beauty Bargains – face, body, hair and<br />
make-up – which I return to, time and again. (Just one sadness<br />
on that front, though: one of my go-to ‘beauty steal’ make-up<br />
brands, Bourjois, late last year announced they were pulling out<br />
of the UK market. I may just have to host a memorial service.)<br />
TRUE Skincare Facial Oils, from £13.50 for 30ml. Fact:<br />
most facial oils cost an arm and a leg (often four times or<br />
more as much as this one). But from a female-founded<br />
British skincare start-up, TRUE oils are organic, natural and<br />
ethical, yet accessible in terms of price and availability (find<br />
them at Holland & Barrett and Ocado, as well as TRUE’s<br />
own website). The quality’s seriously fab; I especially like the<br />
Nourishing Avocado & Evening Primrose Facial Oil, with its<br />
deeply grounding scent of patchouli, palmarosa and vetiver.<br />
Maybelline The Eraser Eye Perfect & Cover Concealer, £8.99. I first<br />
discovered this when I set out to walk from Soho to the City<br />
in an Arctic blast and had to nip into Superdrug for make-up<br />
supplies after the biting cold make me weep most of my eye makeup<br />
down my cheek. This brilliantly affordable concealer blends<br />
beautifully via the sponge tip – it repaired my under-eye zone and<br />
banished shadows with a dab or two. Can’t live without it, now.<br />
SenSpa Hair & Scalp Mask, £7 for 300ml. You can find the<br />
SenSpa range on the shelves of Waitrose, though its roots<br />
are in award-winning Careys Manor spa in Hampshire.<br />
Wonderfully aromatherapeutic, the line-up offers haircare,<br />
bodycare and some fab bath treats, but my favourite is this<br />
luxe-textured restorative hair mask. Lie back in the tub and let<br />
the 97% natural mix of Abyssinian oil, lava clay and coconut<br />
oil nourish winter-thirsty locks, while you breathe in the<br />
divine essential oils of jasmine, cedarwood and ylang ylang.<br />
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