Your Beauty ReFresher: Our Top Picks of Student Beauty
New semester, new beauty discoveries.
Explore the cover-it-up heroes and overnight wonders, because you deserve beauty that works as hard as you do.
Best Face Wash for Students: CeraVe
Break up with breakouts.
The best skincare advice we can give to students? Simply keep your face clean and moisturised. This cleanser from CeraVe is unscented and gentle, designed to reduce blemishes – for a great price. Perfect for self care nights and early mornings before lectures.
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Lip Care: LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask
Beauty sleep, made delicious.
Add instant hydration with the LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask. Perhaps the newest cult classic skincare product, LANEIGE are truly cementing themselves as hydration heroes. Try their lip products to dip your toes into the world of Korean skincare. The brand new strawberry shortcake flavour smells just as sweet as it looks.
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Best Mascara: Maybelline Sky High
We’re certain you know this mascara.
It earned its place as a viral product, and solidified itself as a cult favourite very quickly, and the Sky High mascara is still not slowing down. Now arriving in a range of unique colours, your lashes never looked so good for such a good price.
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Best Brow Product: NYX The Crazy Lift Brow Glue
Stick 'em up this season.
Get your brows in working order with the NYX Crazy Lift Brow Glue, designed to keep its hold from classroom to dinner to the bar. You have enough concerns at university; your eyebrows shouldn’t be one.
RRP: £63.00Current price: £47.25
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Best Complexion Products: NARS
Hide nothing, cover everything.
Complexion heroes NARS have claimed their place as generational icons. From favourites that haven’t left our makeup bag for years, to new discoveries like their Multiple stick, nail your complexion despite the late nights and early mornings.
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RRP: £28.00Current price: £23.00
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Best Dry Shampoo: Color Wow
No wash. No worries. All wow.
Sometimes your dry shampoo has to be a little extra. Color Wow promise to never release a product unless it is outperforming all others on the market, or doing something no other product can do. Discover their game changing haircare with their new dry shampoo.
£26.50
Best Skin Saviour: La Roche Posay
Fix it fast, thank us later.
Delivering a skin-soothing effect to a range of concerns, this versatile balm features unique and exclusive ingredients, designed to nurture delicate skin. It also intensely hydrates, protecting the skin barrier for a cool, quenched effect with each use.
RRP: £20.90Current price: £16.72
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Discovering makeup in the 2010's era of full glam was always going to lead me to beauty writing. A lover of pop culture and language, my content is always rooted in modern day trends. My beauty holy grails are the LANEIGE Lip Glowy Balms, L'Occitane Shea Butter Hand Cream, detox masks for my skin, and any hair product that promises to repair, hydrate, and strengthen!
