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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Madeleine Spencer

Does anyone really need a £1,400 moisturiser?

It all started with a grey cream. Yes, you read that correctly: grey. Unpromising a colour, grey, isn’t it? Especially when it comes to cosmetics. But I had been told by a fellow beauty journalist that it was brilliant, so despite my reservations, I scooped out some grey cream and put it on my skin. 

That day, three people I see regularly and who therefore know how my skin usually looks asked me what I’d done to achieve such glow. The only change was the addition of that grey cream, so I decided to do a sneaky little experiment and use it twice a week to see if the praise flooded in on those days. It did and I am now a convert.

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