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This is the best gift with purchase we’ve heard of this year, and maybe even last year too! All you need to do is spend £95 on beauty or fragrance at Harvey Nichols to reap the benefits. But, wow, what benefits they are! You get a limited-edition make-up bag by Will Broome packed full of 12 carefully selected hero products, from YSL to Marc Jacobs and Elemis to Lancôme. And the best bit is it’s available online too, so you don’t even have to make the journey to the shops. It may be  March, but it’s like Christmas has come early!    The full range of products in each beauty bag includes: 

• Butter London Cosmetics Custom Blend (I Heart Nails) exclusively for Harvey Nichols (11ml)
• Bare Minerals Foundation and application brush
• Laura Mercier Mini Lip Gloss in Rose
•  Lancôme Mini Mascara in Black
• Complimentary Corner Flare eye lash application voucher, Shu Uemura (available in Knightsbridge, Bristol, Dublin, Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds)
• Skincare Replumping Concentrate Lip and Contour Shaper (15ml)
• Yves Saint Laurent Pro-radiance cream cleanser (30ml)
• Elemis Rescue mask (15ml)
• Eve Lom Brazilian tan (5ml)
• Rodial Fragrances 
• Daisy or Lola fragrances (4ml), Marc Jacobs

 The offer is only until 31st March 2010, so hurry!  

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Clinique’s Almost Bronzer is the perfect pick-me-up if you’re tired of pale winter skin. Simply sweep this bronzer over your cheekbones for a natural sunkissed glow, plus it’ll also protect you from harmful rays. We love it!

• Clinique’s Almost Bronzer SPF 15, £22
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Yves Saint Laurent Everlong Lengthening Mascara will have your eyelashes looking like Cheryl Cole’s just in time for the Easter break. If you’re planning on going out this weekend, this is a beauty must-have you should own! SD

• Yves Saint Laurent’s Everlong Lengthening Mascara, £14.90
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Oh Highstreet, how we salute you. A colourific, extensive, on trend, quality make-up drop that costs just £1 per item? Why thank you Superdrug! Choose from 100 products including mascaras, eye-shadows, lip-glosses, lipsticks and nail paints all at Superdrug online and at select stores. Go and get the piggy bank out, it’s time to crack it! SB

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Notebooks at the ready, ladies! If you're hankering after some expert advice on next season's make-up, now's your chance. Our Beauty Editor Sophie is teaming up with Nars for the charity event Look Good… Feel Better and she'll be in Selfridges, Oxford Street, on Thursday 23 September for personal appointments. Quiz her on anything beauty related, have a play with the new collection and leave with a bag of amazing Nars goodies! Appointments are just £20, so get your name down for one now! Visit lookgoodfeelbetter.co.uk for more info and call the Selfridges hotline on 0800 138 8140 to book.  

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For those of us who aren’t jet set enough to be at New York Fashion Week 2010, Urban Decay has worked out a way to make us feel like we are.  When their new Book Of Shadows Volume III landed on our desks, we’re not ashamed to say there were more than a few gasps and squeals. Obviously, we can’t wait to try all 16 of the shades, but what we love is the pop-up New York scene (look out for the ghetto girl – she’s our fave). And at £30, each shadow works out at under £2. Bargain!   Urban Decay Book Of Shadows Volume III is limited edition and available now from Debenhams. JH

• Urban Decay Book Of Shadows Volume III, £30
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One of our biggest beauty bugbears has to be investing in a palette only to use one component to oblivion, while never touching the other colours. Our prayers were answered when this Benefit palette landed on our desks this week and we instantly crowned it our new can’t-live-without buy! Model cheekbones, groomed brows, luscious lashes and the perfect pout – this baby has got it covered. Get it on your Christmas list, pronto!

 

• Benefit Her Name Was Glowla, £29.50
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Listen up! There’s a bright beauty takeover going on. Colour blocking is no longer reserved for our wardrobes and with acid tones set to rule everything from our lips to our lids, you can imagine our excitement on discovering the new Givenchy Le Prismissime Eyes in Acid Lights, £39.50. Packed full of incredible knockout shades, it will keep you looking bright and beautiful all summer long. So what are you waiting for? Dive in head first to this fabulous new beauty trend and make your peepers ping! LT

   

• Givenchy Le Prismissime Eyes in Acid Lights, £39.50
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Just in case you missed it (and how could you!) X Factor and L'Oreal Paris make-up artist Liz Martins is giving LOOK exclusive backstage access so we get to hear all the goings on in the make-up chair every week.

Make sure you don't miss her insider info every week and get the contestant beauty secrets as they happen. Oh, and if you're not yet a L'Oreal addict, you may as well add some of Liz's recommendations to the shopping list because, like the contestants she plies it with, you soon will be!  Liz says: “My secret is L'Oréal Studio Secrets Smoothing Resurfacing Primer, £12.99. It’s so amazing! The contestants’ make-up literally does not budge.' Liz uses L'Oréal Million Lashes Mascara, £10.99, and L'Oréal Infallible Liner in Chocolate Addiction, £4.99, on Rebecca Ferguson and she loves MAC Strobe cream mixed with L'Oréal youth code on all the contestants, boys included! Erm, we'll have some of what they're having please!  

We'll have more exclusive pictures, tips and (fingers crossed) plenty of make-up chair gossip in next week's issue, and every week till the end of the season. Yes folks, your favourite magazine just got even better! 

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