BREAKING: not everything in your make-up bag has to cost the equivalent of a small country's GDP to be any good. In fact, a lot of products, which we love, are completely affordable.
To prove our point, here are 20 of our favourite budget beauty buys.
Have we missed any out? Tell us in the comments below.
Rimmel's 60 Seconds clear nail varnish
£3.69; superdrug.com
Rimmel Glam'Eyes Liquid Eye Liner
£5.29; boots.com
Vaseline
£2.30; boots.com
Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula Body Lotion
£3.85; feelunique.com
Bio-oil
£8.99; boots.com
Maybelline Great Lash Mascara
£3.99; scentsationalperfumes.com
Elizabeth Arden 8-hour cream
£18; debenhams.com
Batiste dry shampoo
£2.25; chemistdirect.co.uk
Pond's Institute cold cream
£4.49; lloydspharmacy.com
Moroccan oil treatment
£12.99; zestbeauty.com
Essential oil - lavender
£6.50; nealsyardremedies.com
E45 cream
£4.40; boots.com
Garnier BB cream
£8.50; feelunique.com
Witch blemish stick
£2.89; boots.com
St. Tropez gradual tan
£11; gorgeousshop.com
Elnett hairspray
£3.89; johnlewis.com
Benefit's Benetint - stain and gloss
£15.50; johnlewis.com
Vanity case
£14.95; muji.eu
Cucumber face wipes
£0.99; superdrug.com
Nail files
£1.25; boots.com