Wealden Times | WT260 | January 2024 | Good Living Supplement inside

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January’s
Beauty
Bargains
Josephine Fairley finds super-effective, tried-and-tested
products that don’t come with a hefty price tag
This isn’t the time of year for
a splurge. In fact, if you’re
anything like me, between
the Christmas credit card reckoning
and the January tax deadline, you
will be feeling anything but flush.
(Er, that’s an understatement.) But
here’s the thing: nobody needs to
live on beauty’s equivalent of gruel
any more. In fact, I’m increasingly
convinced that high street stores
and beauty emporia offer products
that rival (and even outperform)
the pricier stuff, on many fronts.
Over the past months, I’ve been
making it my mission to seek out
the best ‘beauty steals’ available. And
could there be a better month to
share my Top Ten affordable finds
than this – the gloomiest, brokest
month in the calendar? Here goes…
MY MOOD Nail Polishes, £5 for
singles, £8 for duos. This range
launched in 2023, from the nail
wizards at Nails.INC – which tells you
all that you need to know about the
quality. The polishes last astonishingly
well, are ridiculously affordable,
and the shade range is impressive:
everything from a nail enhancing sheer,
slightly pink-toned polish by the name
of So Beaming that is a brilliant dupe
for Dior’s Nail Glow (at one fifth
of the price), through to a passable
imitation of CHANEL Rouge Noir, in
the form of a shade called Fly – and
literally everything in between, from
nudes to scarlets, shimmers to glosses.
Revolution Beauty x Sali Hughes.
Sali is one of the UK’s leading beauty
influencers and despite being in this
business myself for 30 years, I learn
new stuff from watching her Instagram
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