We’re beginning to rouse from a period of hibernation, giddy for the idea of an old life in a new world. Coffee will surely have to be administered intravenously while we see friends and family on government sanctioned do-si-dos. Wardrobes and make-up bags will begin to creak back to life, as we try to approximate good outfits and better faces. If quarantine was about revelling in our own lazy and unjudgeable filth, our emergence out of it should entail some level of spectacle, or overexertion at least, and where better a place to start than make-up (if you’re that way inclined, of course). Dizzying lashes? A face that’s been bathed in sun (not one that’s been hung out of the window at spasmodic intervals)? Skilfully linear liner? Lips so juicy-looking they look as if they could pop? See below.
FOR GLOW
Glass skin? Really? Well yes, actually. A high-shine, crystal clear finish that will speak to the salubrious effects of lockdown. You know like, a reduced alcohol intake, endless exercise, earlier nights and pollution free commutes. Even if you haven’t. Smush a bit on your decolletage, too.
FOR BRONZE
Despite the 17 Bank Holidays in lockdown, your face is a not-so-appealing shade of sallow. A big brush fully cloaks sorry skin in health and holidays, and also gets rid of uneven skin tone and texture thanks to airbrush technology. “I wanted to create the impossible for powder,” says Tilbury, who might well have done just that.
TO HIGHLIGHT
Drizzle a drop in your foundation, or simply pat with your finger on top, along your cheekbones, down your nose, and above your Cupid’s bow. The kind of expensive, drenched-looking highlight that Chanel has become synonymous with.
CHANEL LES BEIGES SHEER HIGHLIGHTING FLUID IN SUNKISSED PEARLY GLOW, £38
TO CONCEAL
As the name suggests, expect skincare and make-up benefits. Concealing pigments to hide the initial imperfections and discolouration, and ingredients to ameliorate the appearance of them in the long run. By which we mean this long run right here, where notions of time are elastic. How long have we been in lockdown for again?
THE GLOSS
Masks might cover your mouth when you’re patrolling pavements but that’s even more reason to apply a high-shine gloss, on which precisely no hair will stick. And in a suits-all shade of dusted, lacquered pink.
THE BALM
Like you’ve been sucking on a lolly that’s left a jewel-like hint of glazed colour, and a heap of conditioning properties. Some lolly, eh?
FOR SMOKEY EYES
In edible and quaffable shades of coffee, caramel and chocolate, with a sparkling champagne to highlight under your brow, cracking a good eye with this requires little to no skill. Just as well really, because any surplus skill has been usurped by the kitchen.
FOR ILLUMINATION
Fervent Guerlain fans will tell anyone that’ll listen about these pearlescent, candy coloured balls that cast you in iridescent light come rain or shine. And oh, the smell.
FOR BASE
This new brand, an LA export, has been received to rapturous applause, not least because a whizzy algorithm helps find you your perfect foundation, from the shade and texture, to the finish. Unsurprising then that of the 90,000 glowing reviews of the foundation, 50,000 are FIVE STAR.
FOR CHEEKS
With the power to take your face from 2 to 3D, the power of blush is in its placement. Higher up, on an angle to sculpt, or on the apples of cheeks for youthful vitality. Of the peach, pink and lilac shades, there’s a matte and shimmery of the shade in each compact.
DEAR DELILAH BLOOMING EDITION PARADISE DUAL PALETTE BLUSHER DUO, £26
FOR LASHES
A mascara from someone otherwise so vocally committed to fake lashes was always going to be good. Four years in the making, the double ended wand has two formulas, one for lengthening, and the other for volumising. The bristles on both are long and spindly ensuring you can prize every last lash out for your entrance at your first post-quarantine party.
FOR BROWS
A precision tipped pencil to mimic hairs, and a gel soaked brush to fashion stray – ok very stray – hairs into some semblance of arched order.
First published on Buro247.com.
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