Beauty and the Budget Money Saving Beauty Tips

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Find out how to look your best – and stick to your budget – with these five money-saving beauty tips.

1. Make Products Work Double-Duty
The beauty industry would like us to buy a different product for every body part and use, but most of the items in your makeup stash can pull a double duty. Some easy ways to shave pennies off your beauty budget include:
-Don’t buy eye cream – a gentle face moisturizer can also be used under your eyes (though moisturizer with sunscreen may irritate very sensitive skin).
-Forget about buying eyeliner. With a small, angled brush and a little water, your eyeshadows can work as eyeliner, instead.
-Got a stick of Palmer’s Cocoa Butter or a tin of Smith’s Rosebud Salve? You can use these products as a lip balm, frizz tamer, skin smoother and blemish healer.
-Put that jar of Vaseline to work as lip gloss and much more. (more…)