Good Skin Is the Only Real Flex

Ask the woman who always looks rested and she'll say something unglamorous: water, sleep, sunscreen, and knowing when to stop. The women who glow tend to own about four things and use them, and they guard their eight hours like a lioness.

Polish, on a normal budget, is mostly consistency. Clean skin, one good moisturiser, brows brushed up, a swipe on the lips. It reads as money; it is actually just maintenance — quiet, cheap and criminally underrated.