Charlotte Tilbury teachs us how to perfect a summer glow

Make-up artist and face painter to the stars, Charlotte gives us her secret tricks for glowing skin

“My new Glow ga sm Face Palettes are like painting on joy. The shades glide onto the skin like silksatin and make you look fresher and smoother so you can look like the most glowing, gorgeous version of you in an instant! ”

GLOWING TO HEAVEN

Step 1: For the ultimate glowgasm summer eyes to mesmerise, my new Dreamgasm Luxury Palette puts the lights back in your eyes with a euphoric wash of crystal glow. With gorgeous shades of champagne, rose-gold and warm copper bronze, it’s a sunset dreamscape the for the eye, summer in a palette! As with all of my luxury palettes it has the same easy-to-use, fourstepprime,enhance,smoke,popsequencewhich can be dialled up or down like an old-fashioned telephone so everyone can craft their own perfect smokey look. To create a glowing summer ‘halo’ effect on the eyes, start by taking my Blender Brush and washing the soft champagne prime shade in a windscreen wiper motion back and forwards across the eye-lid. Step 2: Next, using my Eye Smudger brush, dip it in the soft dreamy gold enhance shade, and work it backwards and forwards along the lash-line and into the socket. Smoke it up with the deep smoke shade in burnished red to add intensity. Step 3: For a glorious, golden sparkle, press your finger into the pop shade and press onto the centre of the lid for added glow. Finish with a sultry feline flick using my Rock’n’Kohl pencil in Barbarella Brown and lashings and lashings of my Full Fat Lashes mascara.

To help your make-up survive the summer heat in style, once your look is complete it’s important to finish it off with a finely milled powder to lock in your make-up effortlessly and keep everything from slipping in the humidity. My Airbrush Flawless Finish powder is perfect for this - I couldn’t live without it. Once your make-up look is complete, apply Airbrush FlawlessFinishwithasoftsculptingbrushonthe T-zone, down the nose, on the chin and across the forehead. I always keep the cheekbones free of powder so that they remain dewy looking and catch the light.

TIPS AND TRICKS FROM CHARLOTTE TILBURY

I always say you can’t have a beautiful painting without a beautiful canvas and a good skincare routine, with incredible skincare products is so important. The key to magic skin is all about looking after and maintaining the best skin of your life. I often get asked about my own skincare routine, it starts in the morning and the first thing I do to get my instant glow is to double cleanse with my incredible Goddess Cleansing Ritual. I begin with the Citrus Oil Radiance Cleanse, a coconut-oil based, vitamin C boosted skin wonder that melts your makeup, improves the clarity and radiance of your complexion. I then follow this with my purifying charcoal cleanse. This skin purifier draws out impurities and tackles the deeper-rooted dirt. Helping to purify the skin, it’s an easy cleansing ritual with hard-working ingredients to create that feeling of perfectly-cleansed-skin at home. Next, I’ll use my Instant Magic Facial Dry Sheet Mask. The genius ingredients – including vitamin B3, crocus bulb extract, peptides, oils and butters – penetrate deep into the skin using a unique biomimetic vector delivery system, feeding the complexion where it needs it most for a brighter, hydrated looking finish. I always apply my award-winning Charlotte’s Magic Cream. It has a unique blend of oils and active which I call the Magic 8, including bionymph peptide, hyaluronic acid, camelia oil and vitamins C + E all with a touch of magic. I am never without it; it gives me the perfect glowing base. I then tap in my Magic Eye Rescue underneath the eyes, hydrating and visibly smoothing the skin. To finish I’ll apply either my Wonderglow, a magic brightening skin solution which colour-corrects and instantly blurs, brightens and smooths the appearance of the skin, giving me a gorgeous glowing, dewylooking complexion.”