Here are the 10 beauty products that every woman needs, including some of the best cosmetics, new and best selling. Take your pick.
1. The face serum.


Trish McEvoy’s Beauty Booster serum is slightly more expensive, but you definitely get what you pay for. It’s a clear liquid serum containing 30% hyaluronic acid and dual-action peptides plus antioxidants. Serums don’t get much better than this.
The point of serums is that they contain concentrated, targeted anti-aging ingredients that you couldn’t find all together with your moisturiser. From brown spots to discolouration to brightness they are aimed at improving your skin tone all round – and it’s never too soon to start. The words anti-aging seem to put some people off, however the sooner you start adding a serum to your routine the sooner you’ll see results that will continue and improve with time.
Serums take a few seconds to apply and you should use morning and evening. Thankfully you only need one….
2. The Eye Lift/Serum


Another one to try from a brand I love is Clarins Extra Firming Eye Lift Serum, designed to revitalise and help with dark circles. The point of these two is that they will give you an instant improvement to the eye area as well as provide long term benefits.
That’s not to say you shouldn’t use an eye cream but for a fast beauty fix these are both excellent. Again you need very little to use both under the eye and on the contour above.

3. Eye Creams


Bobbi Brown Extra Eye Repair Cream is an all time best seller concentrating on lines, wrinkles and dark circles. You can use this one morning and night.
Another one to try and again highly rated is Clinique’s Superdefense Age Defense Eye Cream SPF 20, which offers you protection as well as brightening. This helps to defend the eye area from visible aging and comes in a handy tube so you can take it anywh

My personal favourite for day and night is Lancome Absolue Yeux Premium. It has a lovely consistency and is designed to replenish moisture and firmness and increase radiance.
4. Moisturiser


Note: If you’re a Lancome fan it’s worth looking out for the Lanco

5. Primer


Equally Laura Mercier has wonderful primers offering SPF or extra radiance depending on what you’re looking for, and at a lower price than Eve Lom (but who can resist that packaging?) The texture is like a creamy gel and a delight to apply. It also does exactly what it says on the tin.
6. Foundation – Compact or Liquid


For a liquid foundation alternative I don’t think you can beat Lancome Teint Idole 24H foundation which really has long lasting qualities. I’ve tried others and have always come back to this, for consistency (not too thin and not too thick) and coverage.
Of course you need to go the makeup counter first to make sure you have the right foundation colour, after which you can order online. Be sure to test any shade in daylight. Shop lighting will make everything just that little bit more yellow, and what you think is the perfect colour may turn out to be something completely different when you get it home so go to the daylight with a mirror and check the colour before buying.
Foundation and concealer combined.

7. Concealer


If you want a stick concealer in luxury packaging look no further than Hourglass. Their Hidden Corrective Concealer not only comes in an easy to apply stick, is moisturising as well as concealing and doesn’t go caky after time, it’s also beautifully presented as you’d expect from this brand. I take mine everywhere.
8. Powder

This was tried on me recently at SpaceNK and I was happy to find my makeup still in place at the end of the day. There are plent

Another powder to fall in love with is Charlotte Tilbury’s Flawless Finish Micro Powder, and not just because of the gorgeous compact. This powder blurs imperfections and fine lines and helps give a flawless look to your makeup.
9. Blusher and highlighter




Finally for the perfect three in one, blush, highlight and bronzer or sculpt, take a look at Shiseido’s Face Colour Enhancing Trio which has a blush, highlighter and bronzer or sculpting colour –whichever you want to call it.
This comes in three shades, the one I’ve shown is Apple, which should suit everyone, there are also darker and more subtle shades.
10. Eyes – Liner, Shadow and Mascara


Alternatively there’s the temptation of Bobbi Brown’s Rich Caramel Eye Palette which also comes in Greystone. It also has it’s own double ended eye liner and shadow brush. You can use this for the liner alone of build up colour for day or night. Again this is an extremely tempting palette – Bobbi Brown colours are always highly pigmented so they give a deeper and richer colour. And you can be sure it’ll disappear before Christmas as it’s perfect for gifts as well.
Mascara


Firstly Lancome’s Hypnose Mascara is famous for volume, length and depth of colour, you can choose from the full range here. There are so many mascaras out there and no doubt you have your own favourite, but you can’t go wrong, when you want to update, with this one.
Alternatively try Benefit They’re Real mascara, another all time bestseller and reasonably priced. You may need a special remover for this one as its staying power is famous.