How much do you spend on beauty products?

chanie

In ascending order:

Body - brands like dove, sure, Gillette. I don't spend much on basic stuff nor do I think too much about these products.

Skincare - I suffer with acne, so it's,important to find brands that don't cause breakouts. I used to use Liz Earle, but stopped once I had my children, due to finances. I've recently discovered la roche posay, which seems to work well. I stock up when it's on offer, but I use the products sparingly, so it lasts for ages.

Make up -premium brands like Nars, bobbi brown etc. I don't buy lots of products (foundation, blusher, lipstick etc), so I can afford to spend a bit more.

All in all I think I'm pretty good in this area. I try to stick to simple routines and don't have lots of products.

Any

Probably around £30 a month when averaged
Massive sucker for Clinique miniatures, and I buy something every other month when they have "get 5 treats with every purchase". You wouldn't believe the collection I have. But soo good for travelling.
Most my make up is clinique, and also have some creams. Also have some Clarins creams as my MIL is Clarins sucker and buys me Clarins for Xmas and Bdays.
Although I love Nivea too.
Shower gel-whatever is on offer and smells lovely.
Hair-head and shoulders. Lighter streaks put in twice a year (£50 a go)

This is my one addiction.

Kim_kim

After reading these replies I'd say a kings ransom.
It's my treat, my luxury.
I love expensive products, it's the smell, the texture, the user experience.
I use bog standard sure deodorant & I use those Venus razors. I use tresseme conditioner (the one you put on before shampoo). Other than that it's pretty much luxury.
Shower gel - Australian body care tree tea
Shampoo - Australian body care & Phillips Kingsley & fudge violet.
Face wash morning - Elemis resurfacing face wash
Cleansing oil (night time to remove make up) Elemis.
Toner - pixi glow tonic
Moisturiser - dermalogica active moist
Night cream - Elemis pro collagen marine
Face oil - neux
Neck cream - M&S
Eye cream - Gatineau defi lift
Hand cream - body shop hemp
Foot cream - margaret dabbs foot hygiene cream
Body lotion - various - really like Gatineau
That's the tip of the iceberg

Kim_kim

Forgot makeup!
How about just favs
Foundation - Tarte, Nars, it cosmetics
Powder - make up forever, it cosmetics, Tarte
Under eye - Tarte shape tape
Contour - Tarte
Blush - benefit, Nars, Tarte,
Rarely use highlighter
Eyeshadow - Laura geller (love them)
Eyeliner - a cheapie, no 7 (I think) liquid liner
Eyebrow - blinc
Mascara - a cheapie - L'Or!al double extend (the one with the white mascara in half the tube).
Lipstick - it cosmetics, Laura geller, benefit (they're real).

Sometimes I use primer - benefit porefessional

Luna.B

I am subscribed to 2 beauty boxes (glossybox and birch box) which are about £12 each per month. Because of these I never need to buy mascara, blusher or moisturizer because I always seem to get some before I run out of the stuff from previous boxes...I have about 15 bottles of unopened face and body moisturizer that I just haven't gotten round to using. I get a lot of face wash too. I like my beauty boxes because I haven't had to buy quite a few things for a long time and I'm always trying new brands.

I do buy foundation every 2 months, I get estee lauder double wear which is £30, it's steep but it's the best foundation I've ever worn.

I used to buy mac lipsticks but I don't anymore because they dry my lips and Avon matte lipsticks are just as good if not better in my opinion (don't dry my lips out and half the price of mac)

I also buy from benefit and limecrime.

A brand I'm loving at the minute is juvais place, they make eyeshadow that are really pretty and highly pigmented but pretty cheap for how nice they.

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I think at my age I would probably need scaffolding for my fizog I have a granddaughter that keeps me well supplied in shampoo, I think she buys stuff every week then decided its not what she likes and changes so I get her barely used bottles of that and conditioner, plus at Christmas I seem to get lots as well in presents .
I prefer Johnsons baby talc although my DGS and his wife bought me some swishy foam shower stuff and talc at Christmas and I save that for high days and holidays (when I am going out somewhere special ) But I only use it now and again because of a skin problem

I have shower stuff on a prescription and its called Dermol 200 which I have to use because chemo had a nasty side effect on my skin, and left it tissue thin, so I have to be careful when I shower as I cannot use a scrub net wash thing or I will tear the skin off. I tend to just pat very gently when showering. I do buy Uvistat factor 50 in the summer as I have very fair skin and burn very easily

No make up at all, and only soap and water on my face.

I do have quite a few hand creams ,again not bought but given as presents which I use during the year.
I use Sure deodorant and sensodyne toothpaste. No point buying mascara as if I take my glasses off I couldn't see what I was slapping on my eyes :):)

I do like nice perfume though, and my one treat to myself is Chanel no. 5 which I use mostly, or any thing that again my DGD discards as she decided she wants something different

No nail polish as I just don't have the time to faff about putting it on .I am clean and smell normally pretty good, and decided a long time ago that most stuff bought in the chemists was a complete waste of cash (this is from a lady who was born 'over the shop' of my late Dad who was a chemist )

When my OH was alive he disliked too much 'powder and paint' as he called it and was quite happy for me to do without it.

Back in the 1960s it was slapped on by the bucket and I too had 'Dusty Springfield panda eyes' (I could see what I was doing then ) and who remembers Max Factor Panstick ( bit like polyfilla and covered a multitude of cracks :)

No I am quite happy as long as I am clean and fresh and hopefully don't frighten the animals too much with my 'naked ' face ;0;0;0

Bathory

JackieO, you can still buy MF panstick, I tried it once but found the shades really weird.

If I didn't have rosacea I doubt very much I would bother with makeup, but its become a need as I'm too self conscious without it. I use 3 things most days - high coverage foundation, powder and mascara - mostly drugstore brands.

I keep other stuff as minimal as possible. I get Cetaphil when its on offer as my skin has gone less and less tolerant over the years and only seems happy with this. I buy Vosene shampoo (£1), conditioner, roll on and bar soap and get these from Poundland or the Bodycare store. OH gets me expensive perfume but I stock up on Panache and Chloe narcisse - again when I find them at a good price and they will last a few years.

I also tip cheap foam bath into empty handwash bottles. Tesco's lavender foam is in them at the moment for around 80p for a litre.

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Bathory yes the colours are rather odd and a lot of folk back then thought looking rather orange was fetching :):)

ancientofdays

Not very much at all. I am quite lucky, I've got reasonably good skin but it is a bit sensitive and I tend to be careful with what goes on it.
I do have some expensive stuff, but they were gifts, I can't justify the expense of Decleor or Elemis. I love l'occitane products but they are a bit expensive.
I use a bog-standard micellar water as a cleanser, steamcream moisturiser, inexpensive shower gel and I've found shampoo and conditioner in home bargains that works for me, £1 a big bottle, it is called Anovia.
I don't wear makeup, I do have some but it was bought for a special occasion and probably is all dried up now or poisonous, after 5 years I really should bin it. I don't like myself with makeup on so really not sure why I bothered!

VfM4meplse

JIL wrote: »

My daughter goes through a bottle of foundation every month

This is a lot, especally for a young person! Until recently, I wore make-up every day (I started as a teenager, to conceal my skin) and even so a 30ml bottle of foundation easily lasted 3-4months.

These days I dilute it 1:2 with moisturiser (serum) - better skin being an advantage of middle age, I still don't like looking pasty though - so a bottle lasts me a good 9 months. £15 for 9 months is not going to break the bank of VfM, although I suppose it does cost more in serum, which is also about £10/30ml.