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Skin prep: the perfect base
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items All my favourite products for prepping the skin for makeup and keeping it in place and looking fresh all day/night 💖.
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One of my OG favourite primers. A primer and moisturiser in one it can be applied as the moisturising step in your routine. Keeps the skin hydrated and plump all day to reduce flakiness and cakey-ness. Would reccomend for both dry and oily skin types...
Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base Hydrating Primer
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This exfoliant is perfect for a light exfoliation to prepare skin for makeup and get rid of any dead skin cells or build up that could enhance texture or cause patchy application. Perfect for daytime use as long as you follow with SPF!
6% Mandelic Acid + 2% Lactic Acid Liquid AHA Exfoliant | Paula's Choice
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If you need a primer that grips your makeup to your face, this is it. Super affordable and high quality, this primer is in my regular rotation for long days and nights, when I NEED my makeup to stay in place.
Power Grip Primer - e.l.f. Cosmetics
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The perfect match for the Power Grip Primer. Sets makeup down for long lasting wear with at a great price!
Setting Sprays, Mists & Powders
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My absolute holy grail setting spray. I can't tell you how many of these I've been through and I never get sick of how beautiful this leaves my makeup looking.
Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray - Charlotte Tilbury
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The perfect moisturiser to go under makeup during the day. This cream really is magical.
Magic Cream Moisturizer - Free Shipping - Charlotte Tilbury
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A beautiful layer of light hydration that keeps your skin plump and makeup ready. Great for oily or dry skin types. When I'm oiler I use alone, when more dry I use with something like the bobbi brown vitamin enriched face base or a gel moisturiser.
The Base Face Milk - Clean and Vegan Facial Essence - ILIA Beauty
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A hydrating milky toner that protects the skin barrier while also providing a nice layer of light skin prep.
Hydrating Milky Toner - Byoma
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A beautiful hydrating primer that keeps your makeup looking fresh.
Pro Filt'r Hydrating Primer - Fenty Beauty
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One of my favourite water based primers to keep skin looking refreshed and makeup looking fresh.
Hangover Replenishing Face Primer
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A beautiful way to add layers of light moisture to your skin before makeup. This product feels lovely and hydrating on the skin and it's perfect for layering wirh a light gel moisturiser as part of your skin prep.
Fat Water Niacinamide Pore-Refining Toner Serum with Barbados Cherry
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A great alternative to the original Charlotte's Magic Cream if you find the OG to thick. As a water cream this is far lighter and absorbs easily into the skin without being too heavy, but still sitting beautifully under makeup.
Charlotte's Magic Water Cream
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Perfect for that glazed donut skin. You can even mix tinted moisturiser or foundation into the glazing milk for a sheered out glowy complexion look.
glazing milk | rhode skin
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A beautiful silicone free primer that helps to minimise the appearance of pores and that works SO WELL with oily skin! I love to use it under it's foundation counterpart; the Huda Beauty Easy Blur Foundation. Both have become some of my most used pro...
Easy Blur Silicone-Free Smoothing & Pore-Minimizing Primer
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If you're an oily skinned girl, or even a sweaty girl (like me), this moisturiser is near unbeatable for skin prep!! I'm yet to find anything that compares to it quite honestly... the way it sinks into the skin like a dream leaving it plumpnamd hydra...
The Water Cream Lightweight Pore-Refining Moisturizer …