12 New Make-Up Finds To Perk Up Winter Skin
Let There Be Light
Super Glowy Gel, £22 | Saie
Super Skin Nova, £39 | Vieve
The worst thing about winter skin is how dull and lacking in life it can look. Thankfully it’s never been easier to create a faux glow. Whether you want to add a little or a lot, there are plenty of options that deliver a light-reflecting radiance. Vieve’s latest complexion product, Super Skin Nova, is a primer-moisturiser hybrid that’s full of plumping, brightening ingredients like niacinamide and hyaluronic acid, as well as light-reflecting pigments. These help to bounce light off the skin and add a pretty luminosity, making any complexion look healthier and more uniform. To inject a bit of life into sallow skin, Saie’s Glowy Super Gels are an excellent option. While they won’t make skin look shiny or greasy, they will impart just enough dewiness to make you look super healthy instead. Apply on its own or mixed in with your foundation or tinted moisturiser – try ‘Sunglow’ for a warm, bronze shade.
Powder Power
Light Reflecting Setting Powder, £35 | NARS Cosmetics
Cloud Set Brightening Baked Setting & Smoothing Powder, £32 | Kosas
You might not associate powder with glowing complexions, but modern formulations are so far removed from old-fashioned ones that they deserve a place in your spring make-up bag. NARS’ Amour Light Reflecting Setting Powder does a great job of setting make-up in place and adding a multi-dimensional highlight to skin thanks to gold and pearlescent particles. If you want a formula that dulls excess shine or oil while it illuminates, try the Kosas Cloud Set Powder. The new ‘Peachy’ shade is a pretty apricot tone that adds gentle warmth and brightness to medium or deep skin tones while counteracting any purply undertones. It also locks make-up in without creasing or caking.
Lip Service
My Sculpt Satin Lip Stylo, £38 | Dolce & Gabbana
Peptide Lip Shape, £24 | Rhode
Phyto-Rouge Velvet, £49 | Sisley
The right lipstick shade can really perk up a wintry complexion, and while bold colours like red might turn heads, it’s often the subtler, more neutral shades that do the hard graft. To find the right hue for you, look at your skin’s natural undertones. Warm undertones tend to look best with warm-toned colours like corals and peaches, while cool-toned complexions are lit up by cool pinks and browns. Of course, options are plentiful: Sisley’s Phyto-Rouge Velvet in Rose Sweet is a highly pigmented cool, blue-toned pink with a velvety finish that’s as comfortable to wear as it is pretty, while Dolce & Gabbana’s My Sculpt Satin Lip Stylo in My 08.06 is a bright, fresh coral that also promises six hours of hydration. Whether you want to pair it with a liner for extra definition is up to you, but Rhode’s new plumping, satiny Peptide Lip Shapers are virtually impossible to refuse.
Build The Foundations
Impeccable Blurring Second-Skin Matte Foundation, £39 | Anastasia Beverly Hills
Hydro Grip Gel Tint, £34 | Milk Makeup
Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil, £27 | Lisa Eldridge
For the most natural-looking glow, thin layers of one or two clever base products are the way to go. If you can get away with it, a little concealer just on the areas that need coverage is ideal, and Lisa Eldridge’s Micro Correcting Pencil is the hero you need for the job. Its ultra-fine precision tip means you can home in on any unruly blemishes or redness that threaten to derail your dewiness. If you want or need a little more coverage, a skin tint is a good idea. Milk Makeup’s much-hyped Hydro Grip Gel Tint is a glowy formula packed with a combination of skincare actives like triluronic acid, niacinamide and aloe water, plus colour pigments for a juicy skin finish. If you fall into the oily skin category, you’ll be pleased to hear there are plenty of foundation formulas that offer a bouncy, fresh finish while also balancing shine. Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Impeccable Blurring Second Skin Matte Foundation is one such product. Its weightless, water-based formula delivers 12 hours of medium-to-full coverage without separating through the day or settling into lines.
Add Some Accents
Satin Kajal Liner, £32 | Victoria Beckham Beauty
Lumi Le Liquid Blush, Coming Soon | L'Oréal Paris
If adding some new denim to your wardrobe is a spring essential, why not try it in the form of a creamy, coloured eyeliner? The latest addition to the Victoria Beckham Beauty Satin Kajal Liner vault is ‘Jeans’ – a mid-tone matte denim with neutral undertones of grey. Unexpectedly chic, it adds a subtle splash of colour and just the right amount of playfulness. Finally, L'Oréal Paris’s Lumi Le Liquid Blush comes in six shades, all infused with punchy pigments and subtle iridescence to lift and illuminate in a flash.
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