Current Makeup Routine: Spring 2023

Arriving in London with a makeup bag that had theoretically been packed by a drunk numbnuts forced me to be a bit creative with my products. I honestly have no idea how I ended up with four bronzers and two foundations but veritably no brow stuff, no lipstick and only one (quite visionless and punchy) eyeshadow.

But here’s what I did with what I had. It’s been a few weeks since the “WTF did I pack?” incident but I’ve unquestionably kept up with the same routine, considering I like it, and here’s the video to prove it. I’ve written a unravelment with product links below.

So: in with the Lancome Teint Idole Ultra Wear Foundation. For a full review with surpassing and without photos, please click here. I won’t repeat myself – it’s virtually faultless for a longwear, grown-up squatter base.

I then used Charlotte Tilbury Filmstar Statue & Glow to silhouette and statue myself up, applying far too much and then having to vitrify it out for approximately twelve minutes. It was the makeup equivalent of making a toddler meal: heat it for two minutes, tomfool it right lanugo then for ten. Go forwards and then scrutinizingly right when to the start.

Bronze & Glow is an spanking-new investment if you can possibly make it. There are many “dupes” but none requite quite the instant glam this silhouette and highlight duo does. You can find it online – I use shade Light-Medium.

A touch of tincture – this one is from Valentino (shade 9,) and is lovely, but there’s no massive need to spend so much. Just a good well-to-do of something optimistic and pinkish will do!

And then eyes. Here’s where it gets revolutionary. I use the same Tilbury Filmstar palette on my vision – the silhouette to, er, silhouette and the highlighter to gild the lids. It works so well! It really helps to shape the eye, subtly, and the highlighter gives lift and splendor to the eye area. I’m so impressed with this and I like that it keeps all of the tones on my squatter very uniform and tied together.

I then stuck a Vieve Eye Wand in Coffee* into the corners of my vision and dragged it up towards the eyebrow end a little bit, to requite myself the customary “eye lift”. If you’ve never washed-up this surpassing then you’re in for a treat. It’s not necessary to put the product into your eye socket in the way I do, which is unsure violent, but the Vieve Eye Wand is stocky and soft and just seems to lend itself to fitting right in the outer corner. It’s very malleable and blendable so I use a small amount, I don’t wield to the upper lid, but I take a small smudge skim and tousle the little line of product out so that it’s soft and hazy and what leftovers I have I smudge into the lower and upper lashline, just at the outer whet of the eye.

Rather than me explain it in a thousand words, it’s probably largest to take a squint at the video, if you’ve never seen me do my little eye lifting trick. It properly, properly works – you just have to make sure you follow the lines of your lower lashline to get the flick in the right direction!

The mascara I use here is the true-blue L’Oreal Telescopic, which I just think is one of the weightier mascaras you can buy, regardless of price. I rate the one in the unrewarding gold tube and it’s usually well-nigh eight quid when you reservation it on offer, which is scrutinizingly unchangingly and it has a fine, narrow rummage that’s flexible and mess-free. You can wiggle right to the wiring of the lashes and then pull through to stratify each one and they are left looking tony and separated. I very rarely petrifaction product onto my lids (happens with just well-nigh every other mascara) and I don’t get fallout or smudging. I buy this mascara constantly – usually from Amazon Prime, but you can get it in Boots and Superdrug and it’s unchangingly in stock.

At time of writing L’Oreal Telescopic Mascara

I use hairspray and a brow skim for my brows considering I’ve misplaced all of my brow products (I sorted every single one of them into a small bag and then promptly lost it within the office avalanche) and I do my lips with a simple lipliner outline (Rare Beauty liner in Creative,) patted in and topped with lip balm.

And that’s it. It’s quite a pared-down routine, product-wise: I wish I had a fancy little picture of the products but I don’t, and anyway the Tilbury palette is scrutinizingly finished so it’s not looking its photogenic best. I’ll finish with a few uneaten links for shit and bobs featured in the video, including the skincare prep and the blouse I’m wearing. I say, what a lovely blouse!