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5 MINUTE SUMMER MAKEUP ESSENTIALS
Create a perfect look in less time than it takes to drink your morning coffee.
Modern make-up shouldn’t take three hours to apply. If the pandemic taught us anything it’s that less is more, particularly in beauty terms. Minimal products that offer maximum impact is the smartest way to update your beauty look this season. If the objective is glowing, flawless skin and a defined eye in quick and easy steps, we’ve got you covered.
1. FACE THE FUTURE
In the last year many of us have turned towards lighter foundations, concealers and complexion enhancers for the face which are quick and easy to use, here's our top favourites of the moment.
DIOR
Forever Perfect Fix
There is nothing quite like a hardworking beauty hero. This three-in-one face mist sets makeup and delivers instant hydration. A genuine glow booster, Forever Perfect Fix gives the complexion a veil of freshness to the skin.
BOBBI BROWN
Intensive Skin Serum Concealer
The key to a great concealer is weightless coverage and powerful ingredients. This silky hybrid formula treats as it neutralises under eye discolouration and primes skin for perfect application. Eyes look fresher, brighter, and more rejuvenated instantly.
LAURA MERCIER
Secret Camouflage Duo
Famed for her perfecting concealers, make-up artist Laura Mercier introduces a new innovative, high-pigment formula two-in-one duo pen that effortlessly retouches, conceals and brightens. Each duo has perfectly coordinated shades to give you creamy concealing power anytime, anywhere.
DIOR
Forever Natural Nude Foundation
Fresh and lightweight, this unique formula foundation allows skin to breathe freely with 96% of its ingredients derived from natural origins, while it also offers 24-hour perfection that ensures you radiate confidence from morning to night.
LAURA MERCIER
Tinted Moisturiser
One of Laura Mercier’s hero products, this tinted moisturiser offers the perfect amount of sheer coverage. A range of finishes allows you to discover your unique nude and perfect original no make-up make-up.
IT COSMETICS
Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream SPF 50+
This is the breakthrough colour-correcting cream everyone’s talking about. It will instantly camouflage skin imperfections including dark spots and protects your skin with SPF 50+ UVA/UVB physical sunscreen.
NARS
Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer
We might not be able to travel to French Polynesia, but Francois NARS is bringing us a holiday glow direct from his private island. NARS Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturiser keeps skin soft, smooth and hydrated with French Polynesian Kopara. This oil-free and paraben free formula builds sheer coverage and is infused with broad spectrum SPF30. Also packed with skin-loving Vitamin C, it to helps brighten complexions and protect from environmental damage.
2. LIGHT UP YOUR COMPLEXION
We all need something to lighten our world right now, why not try something that will refresh your skin or add a glow in an instant from our favourite brands?
HOURGLASS
Ambient® Lighting Palette - Volume 11
New to BrownThomas.com, this cult product is an essential amongst celebrities and makeup artists. Each of these high-tech, soft-focus finishing powders recreates an exquisitely flattering light source. Apply individually or layered for a multidimensional glow. The ultimate perfecting touch for real life flawless filter complexions.
CHANEL
LES BEIGES HEALTHY GLOW BRONZING CREAM
Possibly the most famous bronzer in the world, this famed cream-gel bronzer delivers an instant healthy, sun-kissed glow. It’s easy-to-blend formula is best applied with a brush leaves skin velvety smooth with a natural sun-kissed glow. TikTok and Instagram makeup artists also use it as an eyeshadow!
MAC
Fix +
The holy grail of setting sprays, Fix + is infused with vitamins, minerals, green tea, chamomile, caffeine, cucumber – and no alcohol. This 4-in-1 mega-multitasker hydrates, primes, sets and refreshes your look all in one fragrant spritz. MAC’s senior artist’s also use this mulit-functional spray to make highlighting powders and eye shadows pop further or mix it to make foundation’s look extra dewy. Check out @dominic_mua on Instagram to see how he does this.
3. MAKE YOUR EYES THE FOCUS
Wearing a face-covering has meant the eyes are really the place to add drama to your makeup look, whether its going for extreme length lashes, a quick and easy to apply eye-liner or a bright eye shadow in easy to apply colour stick, discover the best for summer here.
LAURA MERCIER
Caviar Stick Eye Colour
They had us at caviar! Seriously though, this versatile eyeshadow stick packs some serious punch. It delivers effortless application, high-impact colour and up to 12-hour wear. Pigment-rich shades coupled with a creamy formula offers options to smudge, blend, line, fill or define, so it's easy to create any look.
BENEFIT
They're Real! Magnet
You can count on Benefit for the most innovative mascara formulations and They’re Real! Magnet mascara doesn’t disappoint. Flexible, lightweight and builds easily, this genius product comes with an extender brush with a magnetically charged core which pulls the formula up and out beyond the tips of lashes for extreme length and a powerful lift.
HOURGLASS
1.5Mm Mechanical Gel Eye Liner - 3-Pack
When it comes to eyeliners, efficiency is key. Hourglass’ Mechanical Gel Eye Liner offers precision accuracy and ease of application – ideal for busy mornings when you’re trying to get out the door. No pot, no brush, no clean-up required. Just two clicks and one stroke creates dramatic definition that resists transfer all day long.
CHARLOTTE TILBURY
Brow Cheat
We all need something to keep our brows in shape right now and this featherlight tool from Charlotte Tilbury deftly replicates the look of fine, individual hairs in an instant. With pure pigments that offer natural-looking colour and depth, this lasting formula is essential for achieving full, defined, shapely brows all day long.MAKEUP BAG MUST-HAVES
MAC Fix +
€24.00
LAURA MERCIER Caviar Stick Eye Shadow
€32.00
LAURA MERCIER Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage Concealer Duo
€33.00
BENEFIT They're Real! Magnet
€32.00
HOURGLASS 1.5Mm Mechanical Gel Eye Liner - 3-Pack
€59.00
DIOR Dior Forever Natural Nude Foundation
€62.00
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