PARTY TIME!
Five easy ways to get ready for the silly season
Prep & prime
It’s a crime not to prime if you’re hoping to get long wear out of your makeup. It’s just as important as wearing the right underwear with your party dress as it smooths and flatters while keeping everything where it should be. Not only will it help keep your makeup in place for hours, it also helps to blur imperfections, plump dry skin and colour-correct for a brighter, healthy-looking complexion. WE LOVE Clarins SOS Primer $50 Rimmel London Radiance Primer $14.95
Update your base
Fluid Fl id andd lilightweighthh i iis theh new way to go in terms of foundations this party season. New innovations and skin-loving ingredients mean they’re more than just a cover-up and help nourish and protect our skin. These lighter formulas are extremely buildable without looking too cakey and work well with a damp sponge to get a fresh, glowy look that feels barely there. WE LOVE Beauty Blender Original Sponge $30 Clinique Even Better Makeup SPF15 $55
Go bold
For your next party trick, ik try bold lips with very little makeup – sometimes the simplest updates have the biggest impact. All you need is a light layer of foundation or tinted moisturiser and a lick of mascara. Summery corals, fuchsias and punchy reds are in, and for this look a matte formula is best. Prep with balm to rid lips of dry flaky skin and use a liner. WE LOVE Revlon Super Lustrous Matte is Everything Lipstick in Red Rules the World $24.95 Clinique Long Last Soft Matte Lipstick in Mandarin $36
Smoke it out
A soft, sultry eyeshadow is perfect for a party but it’s tricky to perfect. You don’t need 10 shades – two will give you ou a great smoky look in minutes. Try using g a palette with browns and nudes and apply ply your shimmer shade last. If you’re not great at with a brush, apply a cream shadow all over er the lid with your finger. WE LOVE Flower Beauty Shade & Blend Brush $12 Max Factor Contouring Stick $23.95 Max Factor Miracle Prep Eyeshadow Primer Eyeshadow Primer $23.95 95 Covergirl Quad Palette $14.95
Set & forget
Dance all night long without the worry of your makeup migrating elsewhere ere with the help of a setting spray. By misting a spray or, for oily skin, setting ing with a powder, your look will stay freshesh and stay in place all night without you having ving to take a makeup touch-up kit with you. ou. WE LOVE DB Cosmetics Ready Set t Translucent Setting Powder $12.99 99 M.A.C Prep + Prime Fix+ $39