Cosmopolitan Beauty Magazine Special

As most of you will know last week I had to work away in Milton Keynes (result! our hotel was opposite the maaahooosive shopping centre and the Debenhams had a MAC counter!) now unfortunatley this did involve a rather long drive, 2hours 30 minutes to be exact. Being Miss organised I naturally had my iphone stocked full of good tunes and snacks and drinks a plenty just in case but sometimes you just have to make a stop to go to the ladies room... of course I had flushable disposable toilet seat covers so no big deal and I got ready to hop back into the car but something made me wander into WH Smiths. I thought it would be nice to have a magazine to read in the bath or if I couldn't sleep and had finished the one I packed into my bag. Browsing the shelves I spotted this little ahem... Beauty!

I did um and ah about the price tag...£5.99 for a magazine?! But there's 178 pages in this bad boy solely dedicated to my favourite topic...normally I'll pay £2-3 for a mere 5-6 pages so I figured cost per page I was winning!
It took me a while to read through these 178 pages so do forgive me for not having reviewed this until now! It's the first ever issue of Cosmo Beauty and its also matched with a sister issue Cosmo Body which I also picked up! The body issue is dedicated to health, well being and exercise and costs slightly less at £4.99 although is actually a thicker volume than its more expensive Beauty counterpart but on closer inspection its just thicker paper for the pages! As someone who is trying to be more healthy this year it's definitely something I feel is worth reading and we all know that beauty starts from within! A healthy diet and exercise can work wonders for the skin hair and nails!

So back to the Beauty issue! Cosmo claim to have tried and tested gazillions of products, collated the best advice, treatments, make up, products and hairstyles to ensure the next 12 months will be beautiful!
My particular loves from this lovely little magazine were the Your Year In Nails feature on page 35 separating select colours into seasons and although I'm not one for limiting myself to reds in the winter and pastels in the summer I definitely spotted a few I wanted to add to my collection. Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream for spring, Essie's Bachelorette Bash in summer, O.P.I Nail Laquer in Glitzerland for autumn and Butter London Laquer in Big Smoke as a winter colour!
For hair care I was particularly interested to read 'Get long hair fast' to glean some tips to help my GHD ravaged hair grow faster!
One of the highlights I felt though, as this really stood out, was page 134's '82 Brilliant Beauty Buys You'll Adore'! Covering everything from make up to cleansing and anti ageing and sun care this glorious article offers premium and budget options where possible meaning even when we're in need of a beauty recommendation we can still work to our own budgets! So now when it's the end of the month and I've spent too much money (Chanel, I am looking at you with your tempting spring collection!) I know I can look to this for a beauty recommendation to suit the money, or lack of, in my account!
Finally on a similar theme if saving money is your New Years resolution then '40 Ways To Get Beautiful On A Budget' is for you! It lets you know what to spend on and what to save on!