TRINNY’S CAPSULE COLLECTION

The concept behind Trinny’s new cosmetics range TRINNY London is simple: take a cluttered make-up bag and pare it down to a set of neat pots of essentials, tailored to your colouring, that click together for portability. All a woman really needs, according to Trinny, is a good base, blusher, highlighter and lip gloss. Her creamy concoctions are designed to be applied with your fingers – no need for different-sized brushes or applicators.

You can buy just one item, or create a stack that click together to fit into a handbag. Trinny developed the idea when she was travelling and filming: ‘I’d unwind in my hotel room by decanting my make-up into little pots from Muji, squeezing together colours to make new ones,’ she says. ‘I was working with make-up artists all the time so I was able to try lots of different formulas but I often thought, “I wish this had a better pigment release; I wish this was more creamy; I wish this stayed on the skin longer.”’

The website helps you find the right shades to suit your colouring. You will be guided through a series of questions about your eye, hair and skin tone, then presented with a refined choice of colours that are right for you.

What Trinny has created – after months of development with an Italian cosmetics manufacturer, and having tested the formula on scores of ‘real’ women – is her ideal make-up kit.

‘The essentials are BFF [best friend forever], a skin perfector cream that lights up your skin,’ she says. ‘Then foundation, which you put where you need it. I use it under my eyes and over a scar on my cheek. I’ve included a pot of cleaning pads because you might be putting on make-up in the train on the way to work. Then highlighters, one light, one dark – I pop them in the corner of my eye if I’m tired – and a lip colour which I also dab on my cheeks for a little glow. I’m done in two minutes. It’s like painting by numbers.’ TRINNY London make-up pots cost between £16 and £35 each, and come packaged in her favourite colours, yellow and silver. trinnylondon.com