Someone asked me where I buy my stuff and I started typing and then stopped, because the honest answer is ten different places. There is a system, it's just not obvious from the outside.

If you could only shop at one beauty site in the UK, which would it be?

For me, LOOKFANTASTIC. Not because it's the cheapest, but because it's the only one I use that covers scalp, hair, skincare, makeup, body care and fragrance in one basket. My code there works on repeat orders too, not just the first one.

If your face is the problem rather than your scalp, I'd send you to YesStyle instead, and tell you to stack my code onto whatever sale they've got on.

Why I need ten shops

I've got androgenic alopecia, seb derm on my scalp and face, and type 1 rosacea, so I'm not shopping the way most people do. I need piroctone olamine and salicylic acid, specific K-beauty formulas that don't feed Malassezia, and salon-grade shampoo for human hair toppers. No single shop stocks all of that.

So the K-beauty is split across four shops (and yes, there's a reason for that), Dermatica handles the prescription side, and Charlotte Tilbury and NARS cover the makeup I'm still learning.

The whole map, what I buy where and what I pay, is in my Where I Actually Buy Everything post, and every code lives on my discount codes page.

Some of my links earn me commission and the codes are mine, at no extra cost to you.