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Bargain hunters, rejoice! Discount beauty has arrived at the Bicester Village outlet shopping centre | Sali Hughes on beauty


It’s not only the prices that make a trip to the designer outlet worthwhile, it’s the hope of tracking down cherished discontinued items

Benefit’s unit was selling its latest gifts collection at various discounts weeks before their prices were matched elsewhere by Black Friday. The aesthetics are slower moving The hope of tracking down discontinued items is often the reason for a visit to an outlet village – my companion succeeded in her pilgrimage for some Fendi boots that had got away – and the same can be true for beauty. Bicester’s Beauté Prestige International, home to Shiseido’s brands such as Nars and Clé de Peau, was in possession of some lipsticks in classic, wearable nudes and reds since replaced by refillable tubes in regular stockists.

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