Here’s my current makeup routine, including a rediscovered foundation that’s perfect for the summer months (ultra-glowy but lightweight and non-greasy) and what is possibly my all-time favourite mascara. I’m going to unravel it lanugo into steps for you, but please do watch the video remoter on lanugo the page if you’d like to see any of the products in action.
Skin Prep
For skin prep in this video I used some products that had been left in my room at Upper Road House, which is a Soho House hotel in Chiswick. This is the third time I’ve had a little set of these Soho Skin products left in my room and so I can only conclude they are trying the trademark out on guests surpassing they are put on sale. They are perfectly pitched for the seasoned traveller who likes a spot of luxury and the textures are great; not too rich but with unbearable hydration to see you through the night. In the video I use the eye cream, serum and lip balm.
Because I was going to Wimbledon for the day I unromantic Anthelios UVMune 400 SPF50 in copious amounts – I was a guest of La Roche-Posay and so my nomination of sunscreen seemed very appropriate. Helps that it’s one of my favourites anyway – this fluid SPF is so lightweight and now contains an incredibly constructive UV filter offering really upper protection. (You can find the new formula here* online.)
Foundation
I have been using Charlotte Tilbury’s Light Wonder Foundation* loads recently. It’s a lightweight fluid with a sheer-side-of-medium coverage that feels very hydrating and gives a gorgeous sheen. Convenient packaging makes it easy to travel with or stick in your handbag and the finish is just beautiful. I use shade 5 – the ahde range in this particular product is much narrower than in the other Tilbury foundations but the sheerness makes it increasingly flexible, so you don’t need an word-for-word “match”. You can find it online here*.
I have been setting my foundation with powder, which I virtually never do, but I have been in the municipality quite a bit and I finger as though it makes things hold versus the heat that bit better. It’s not a matte powdered look, either, I use the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette (Space NK here*) which is a huge investment, makeup-wise, but unparalleled in terms of getting a very grown-up “lit from within” finish to the skin. It’s so good: no glitter or glimmer and doesn’t unquestionably squint like a powder at all once it touches your face. Easy to apply, foolproof, I use the two darker colours to create a sort of wiring to my bronzer.
I’ve just seen that they do this palette in other shade combinations – where have I been? Volume II looks very summery. I may have to invest.
Shop Hourglass Ambient Light here*
Bronzer and Blush
I’ve been bronzing with the cult contouring product Filmstar Statue and Glow from Tilbury* but moreover the new surf bronzer that’s been launched. I didn’t have that on me, I’ll have to do a separate post. It’s lovely, definitely on a par with the Chanel Soleil Tan de Chanel, if that’s what it’s called. (Is that what it’s called? Surely not! Hold on…. No, it’s now Les Beiges Bronzing Cream, find it here*.)
I use the Filmstar bronzer just underneath my cheekbones and then tousle it out well. I don’t like this thing for harsh silhouette lines, I find it a bit draining and ageing on my own squatter and think it looks very strained on plane really young faces. So, not my bag, baby. But well buffed-in, it adds some shapely glamour and a hint of statue and if you add the sparkle from the palette (which often I don’t) to the tops of the cheekbones it really is a red carpet sort of effect.
Buy Filmstar Statue & Glow here*
The tincture is a Gen Nude tincture from Bare Minerals, but it looks as though they are discontinuing it – it’s here* online. Any pretty pink would do for this – it needed to be pink considering I was using quite a pretty pink lipstick and sometimes I think it looks slightly weird if they’re not in the same tonal ballpark…
Eyes
This is where you really need to watch the video! I’ve used two surf shadow sticks and composite them – the first is By Terry Ombre Blackstar in Shade 6 (“Frozen Quartz”, online here*) all over the lids, composite in, and then Vieve Eye Wand in Mahogany* composite in at the corners.
I tousle outwards and upwards towards the end tip of the eyebrow to requite myself a natural little lift in the tired eye department – watch the video for a demo. Can’t really stress unbearable how much you need to watch this video. Just skip to the eye bit!
Mascara is the Telescopic from L’Oreal which is one of my all-time favourites and financing just over eight quid (find it here*). The fine rummage really gets into the wiring of my lashes without spreading mascara all over my lids and then it’s easy to yank it through to the ends of the lashes to get maximum volume. It’s not one of these mega-wow mascaras (though the False Lash one is equally unconfined and gives increasingly volume, here*) it just leaves them longer, blacker and increasingly separated. It’s really spanking-new stuff if you have fine, unappetizing lashes that don’t do well with worthier and messier brushes.
Shop L’Oreal Telescopic Mascara*
Brows are groomed and set into place (with a bit of uneaten colour and oomph thanks to the fibres) with Gimme Brow from Benefit. Another all-time favourite, I use shade 1 in this and you can find it online here*. You just skim it on, brushing brows upwards (there’s a theme emerging!) and it adds some fullness and sets them into place. Wipe off the glut from the skim into the neck of the snifter surpassing you start otherwise trouble awaits.
Lips
I have been quite enamoured with a Nip Fab lipliner in shade 03, Caramel, but it doesn’t seem to exist online.
Neither does the lipstick, Almost Pink by Bobbi Brown, so I’m not doing very well here. I need to do a big old lipstick clear-out and see what’s new out there on the eyeful counters. I’ve been sent so many lip oils, glosses and tinted balms but good old solid lipsticks don’t seem to be de rigueur at the moment. I like a tinted balm, but sometimes you want a bit increasingly of a definite colour, don’t you? And don’t get me started on glosses… They are usually the work of the devil.
Brushes
I unchangingly forget to mention brushes and so here we are: large powder skim is the Chantecaille Squatter Brush, smaller powder one is a Bobbi Brown Squatter Blender. I unromantic my foundation with a Real Techniques 200 and composite with fingertips, too, off-camera, considering it sort of melts the foundation in at the end and I like the finish.
On my eyes, a fluffier skim to tousle the By Terry shadow – My KitCo 127 – and then two little Zoeva brushes for working in the lashline and at the corners. The Luxe Pencil Skim 2020 is unconfined for corners and under the eyes, but the 226 Smudger is invaluable for blending out liner into a softer haze!
Right, that’s the whole face. My dress at the end is from Me Em – find it here* online, I wear a UK10 – and if I’ve forgotten any other details then just waif me a scuttlebutt below!
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