Your Look, Your Way: Build Your Complexion

Must-have Matte

For an all-over soft matte look, blurring primers and matte foundations are your best friends - but we love a built up contour and even blend to match. 

Step one: Begin with a pore-blurring primer like this cult classic Smoothing Primer from Benefit, making sure to take down your neck for an even finish. 

Step two: Follow with a mattifying foundation like Fenty Beauty’s Pro Filt’r Matte Foundation or a powder version like Make Up For Ever’s HD Skin Matte Foundation. Then brighten any dark circles with NARS’ Soft Matte Concealer. 

Step three: The key to a velvet finish? Contour sticks like Makeup by Mario’s Soft Sculpt, which elevate our usual bronzer to a more refined and defined effect.

Step four: Set with Sephora Collection’s baked powder, tapping into your skin with a beauty blender and brushing off the excess after five minutes. For all-day staying power, mist on the bestselling ONE/SIZE Setting Spray.

Fresh and Glowy

Need a look that gives a full night’s sleep freshness? Tinted moisturisers and sheer foundations are your go-tos. 

Step one: After moisturising and applying your daily SPF, smooth on Milk Makeup’s Hydro Grip Primer. A little goes a long way, so avoid product pilling by using only a pea sized amount.

Step two: Try Rare Beauty’s Positive Light Tinted Moisturiser for sheer coverage, or Sephora Collection’s Best Skin Ever Glow Foundation if you sway more towards medium. Swap out your foundation brushes for a makeup sponge like Coco Cosmetics’ viral Marshmallow one for a dewy finish. 

Step three: Brighten dark circles by applying Armani’s Luminous Silk Concealer under your eyes in upward sweeps, before blending.

Step four: Use a cream bronzer like Rose Inc’s Solar Bronzer in the hollows of your cheeks and in your temples, sweeping across your forehead. Then dab ILIA’s Multi-Stick onto the apples of your cheeks for a sun-flushed, juicy glow.