I tried B&M's Christine McGuinness range and this £2.50 buy smells like a 90s' Body Shop favourite
17.02.2024 - 09:41
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There seems to be a famous face linked with most retailers these days.
Whether it's Louise Redknapp modelling her clothing range at Peacocks, or Emma and Matt Willis tucking into some food from Marks and Spencer, celebrities obviously up the ante when it comes to sales.
Now it's B&M's turn to partner with Christine McGuiness, who has launched a new and exclusive health, beauty, and wellness range in its stores nationwide.
Billed as a 'great-value range', it's 'designed for those with busy, active lifestyles who need a convenient beauty routine to target from the inside and out'.
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Prices start from £1 and products include everything from lip balm, face serum and moisturiser, to dry shampoo, headbands and health supplements.
I tried a number of the products to see how they fare. The Micellar Water in particular is a great buy for £1.99 and in my opinion is just as good as the premium brands, which cost around three times as much. When did we all start using Micellar Water anyway? It was always just cleanser and toner back in the day.
But there's one product that stands out above all the others and that's the £2.50 Wonder Oil. The 50ml bottle comes with its own pipette and you can use it to soften just about anything - your hair, you nails, your skin.
The scent of it gives me flashbacks to the 90s, when girls of a certain age, including myself, were covering themselves in The Body Shop's Madagascan Vanilla Flower Perfume.
The fragrance, which was discontinued, filled many a classroom and changing room as pupils doused themselves with it after PE. It was so popular in fact that just a few years back, a petition was launched to 'bring back this iconic