Personally, I don’t think matte lipsticks are flattering past a certain age, when the vermilion border (the natural lip edge) has flattened to leave the contour less defined and lips looking smaller. Of course, tastes vary, but here are some of the products I rate most, and that have convinced me there is very rarely any reason to pay over the odds. If you’d rather buy your entire make-up kit for that price, you now pretty much can – and all of it will be great. In fact, it feels like luxury brands have to get increasingly weird to justify heavy-duty price tags: I give you Isamaya Beauty’s terribly tasteful ‘penis’ lipsticks, at £80. The only compromise was the packaging but, with the move to eco-friendly, simplified and even re-fillable packs, there’s now less of a glaring difference between ‘splurge’ and ‘snip’ even in that area. Where there used to be the odd rumour that ‘ Bourjois blush is made in the same factory as Chanel’, it turned out this was actually true and that budget brands were perfectly capable of producing superior quality make-up and still make a tidy profit. In the wake of the affordable skincare revolution, the quality of high street make-up went up and up while its prices remained low. Packaging-wise, the contrast was even greater: if you wanted that famed heavy ‘click’ from your compact or lipstick, or a wand or tube delicious enough to flash in public or display on your make-up table, it was high end or the highway. There were some brilliant budget finds available, but they were few and far between. If you wanted buttery textures, serious levels of pigment, staying power and skincare benefits, the choice was clear – you had to pay. There was a time when the gulf between luxury and high street make-up was vast.
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