I took a bit of make-up bag with me on an in a single day journey a few months in the past after which once I received dwelling once more from my travels I forgot to unpack it. I solely occurred upon it by complete fluke, the opposite week, once I went trying to find a type of sticky garments rollers within the prime a part of the wardrobe. And there it was, the make-up bag, like a relic from one other time.

Resisting the urge to right away open it as much as see what treasures lay inside, I believed I’d undergo it on movie as a substitute and kill two birds with one stone by doing a make-up video. Kind of like a make-up model of Prepared Regular Prepare dinner! Could have been dangerous, seeing as if I had no thought what supplies I’d be working with, however on the similar time not as a result of I do are typically a creature of behavior with my magnificence appears to be like. It wasn’t as if I used to be going to unzip the bag to discover a shiny blue glitter eyeshadow and sticky fuchsia lipgloss…

Lo and behold, it turned out to be the entire normal suspects required to create my signature “barely there” look – a glance that’s only a marginally extra polished, enhanced and groomed face than my normal one. No dramatic transformation.

Think about my pleasure, although, once I noticed that the contents of the bag included a tube of what may properly be certainly one of my favorite make-up bases of all time. These things is just supreme. Watch the video to see it in motion – in the event you’re studying on e-mail you’ll must click on right here to open it in your browser.

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It’s the Kevyn Aucoin Stripped Nude Pores and skin Tint. How that is so gentle in texture but additionally so completely creamy I don’t know; it additionally provides probably the most refined blur-and-glow mixture I’ve seen in a product so fresh-feeling. It glides on easily, provides simply sufficient protection to even out skintone and is the proper product for individuals who need the dewy results of a tinted moisturiser however not the surplus slitheriness.

Kevyn Aucoin Stripped Nude Pores and skin Tint at the moment has a number of shades within the sale at Area NK* (they did have the entire shades on sale however I used to be too sluggish off the mark to nab mine, ST04) however you possibly can see the total line-up at Sephora*.

I’ll be again with a correct evaluate of the Pores and skin Tint, together with earlier than and after photographs as a result of I understand how a lot you want these. Particularly once I zoom in and I haven’t remembered to verify for rogue hairs on my face! I used the Bobbi Brown Full Protection Brush (right here*) to use within the video nevertheless it does equally as properly with fingertips and also you most likely waste much less product…

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Different base merchandise: the Uncommon Magnificence Bronzing Stick (shade Completely happy Sol) is now normal subject in my make-up routine. I’ve three of them, so I didn’t truly miss the one which had been languishing at the hours of darkness for months. I used to be one of many first to mock the pattern for drawing brown traces throughout your face with contour sticks however – I give up! – I’ll admit I’ve come round to the method. Primarily as a result of a lot of my favorite bronzing issues now are available in  stick type and that’s probably the most wise option to apply them – simply draw them on like a toddler with a chunky crayon.

The upside of that is that you just get the color exactly the place you need and want it and it’s simpler to observe the road of your cheekbone or wherever it’s you’re attempting to bronze/contour. (Draw onto the locations the solar hits to bronze, draw into the shadow to contour.) Then you definately simply take a brush and gently buff in, attempting to not upset the inspiration product under in any other case it goes all patchy.

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By the way in which – and I point out this within the video – all of those lotions and sticks and balms are all very properly and good till you employ them over a really moisturising base that slides a bit, after which as quickly as you attempt to buff all of it collectively all of it goes utterly down the pan. You flip to the sunshine to look at your completely blended contour to search out that half of your basis has disappeared.

There’s something extremely optimistic to say about old-skool powder bronzers and blushers and that’s that not solely are you able to simply whisk them evenly throughout the pores and skin with out upsetting the superbly utilized layers beneath, they go some option to truly setting these beneath layers into place. Simply as you’d use a translucent powder to set your nostril, chin and brow, the colorful bronzes and blushes assist with longevity on the remainder of the face. If that’s your bag and also you even require longevity…

I additionally discovered my treasured Vieve Eye Wand on this bag – once more we’re again onto cream merchandise that you just scribble on like an overgrown little one, however bear with me. As a result of I can not do with out these Eye Wands – there are lots on the market from totally different manufacturers however by some means the Espresso shade from Vieve is simply spot on. Not too metallic, simply the suitable depth of brown to create a horny smoke, however not so deep that it’s scary to the neighbours in the event you fail to mix it in correctly.

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It’s tender sufficient to mix out simply and fantastically so it’s unlikely you’d fail however you must be comparatively fast –  give it a minute and it’ll have caught in place so solidly that you just’ll want a correct eye make-up remover to get it off earlier than mattress. I like to make use of it to attract a shortish, stubby line from the outer nook of my eye in the direction of the tip of my eyebrow (see the video for a demo, it’s about eleven minutes in) after which smudge it out. It cheats a bit of little bit of a watch raise. I used to do that with an eyeliner and do a extra exact little wedge form, however in all honesty this fashion with the chunkier crayon takes half the time and achieves nearly the identical factor. The intention of the sport is to bypass the place your eye droops down on the corners (in the event you too have this downside) and make a bit of optical phantasm that sees the eyes upturn themselves and look vastly extra optimistic and jolly.

Hurray!

Mascara is sweet outdated Telescopic from L’Oreal. By no means has a make-up product been repurchased so many occasions – by me, at the least. It lengthens and separates and simply makes lashes look very a lot better in case you have honest and superb ones. This isn’t a “stripper lash” mascara neither is it actually “pretend lash impact”, except you are inclined to go for the very refined ones (I haven’t worn them for years) nevertheless it makes an enormous distinction on me. And the very best factor is {that a}) it sticks round fairly properly but b) removes simply along with your regular cleaning balm or cream. No particular remover required.

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I completed off my look, in the event you may even name it that (I ought to rename it… Sprucing-Up Routine) with a little bit of lipliner (Uncommon Magnificence*) and a lip oil balm from Ipsum.

Random muss of the hair, which is among the delights of it being shorter (the extra mussing the higher) after which the low-key dolling-up was full. Little bit of a watch raise, lip definition sketched again in and a sheeny, sheer pores and skin base that simply appears to be like like actually wonderful pores and skin. A glance that’s completely my bag.

(I used the Magnificence Pie angled cheek brush* to buff within the cheek merchandise and the Charlotte Tilbury smudger brush on the eyes. If you happen to watch the video and see my cheek mishap with the blusher and love the color – and energy – then that’s the Charlotte Tilbury matte blush in Peach Pop*. My cardigan is outdated Me + Em.)