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My 5-Minute Makeup Routine (For Days I Have Zero Time)
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items Some mornings I have five minutes between making lunches and walking out the door, and that's it. This is the exact routine and the multitasking products that get me from bare-faced to put-together before the kids notice I'm gone. Nothing fussy, noth...
Sections
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Skin Prep & Base
Cheeks & Glow
Eyes & Brows
Lips
Tools & Finishing
Skin Prep & Base
First step, always. Wipes off yesterday's sunscreen and any overnight buildup so my skin is actually clean before anything else goes on — no sink trip needed.
Neutrogena Makeup Remover Cleansing Towelettes
Dabbed on while I brush my teeth so it's already sinking in by the time I start makeup. My under-eyes need all the help they can get these days.
First Aid Beauty Brighten + Glow Eye Cream with Niacinamide
This is my whole ‘base’ in one step — tint, moisture, and SPF without a separate foundation. Blends in with fingers in about ten seconds.
Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer Natural Skin Perfector SPF 30
Two dots under the eyes, blended with a fingertip — covers the ‘up since 6am’ look better than anything else I've tried without looking cakey.
Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage Concealer
Cheeks & Glow
One swipe on each cheek and blended with fingers — gives that just-got-back-from-vacation flush without needing a brush.
MERIT Flush Balm Cream Blush
Warms up my whole face in a few swipes along the cheekbones and forehead. Melts in so fast there's no blending brush required.
Milk Makeup Cooling Water Bronzer Stick
Dabbed on cheekbones and down the nose. It's basically ‘lit from within’ in a tube, and it layers right over the bronzer without pilling.
Kosas Wet Stick Dewy Cream Highlighter
A quick dust with the puff over everything else so the blush and bronzer actually stay put through school pickup.
e.l.f. Halo Glow Setting Powder
Eyes & Brows
Two swipes and my brows are done — this is the fastest step in my whole routine and somehow makes everything else look more finished.
Glossier Boy Brow
One coat, top lashes only. Somehow still looks like I have lashes even after a full day and zero touch-ups.
Lash Sensational Sky High® Washable Mascara
One swipe of the stick across each lid, blended with a finger. Doesn't crease by lunchtime, which is the whole reason I switched to it.
Stila Stay All Day Cream Eyeshadow Stick
Not a makeup product exactly, but a stray brow hair can undo the whole ‘put together’ look faster than anything else on this list.
Tweezerman Slant Tweezers
Lips
SPF for my lips, which I always forget about otherwise. Goes on clear and tacky enough that lipstick actually holds on top of it.
ILIA Lip Wrap Hydrating Balm SPF 15
A couple pats on the lips with the doe-foot applicator. Buildable color and shine with zero precision required, even in a moving car.
Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Tinted Lip Oil
One stick, three jobs — dabbed on cheeks and lips so I'm not carrying three separate products just to look like I have a color story going.
ILIA Multi-Stick Cream Blush + Highlighter + Lip Tint
My one ‘nice’ step — I keep this in my bag and swipe it on right before I walk into wherever I'm going, even if the rest happened in the car.
Chanel Rouge Coco Bloom Lipstick
Tools & Finishing
A few spritzes at the very end so all of the above actually survives drop-off, pickup, and everything in between.
Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Setting Spray
For blending the tinted moisturizer and concealer in about fifteen seconds flat. Damp, not soaked — that's the whole trick.
Beautyblender® Original Makeup Sponge
Lives in my bag as backup for touch-ups — a couple swipes and a blend with the sponge and I look human again before pickup.
Milk Makeup Supernatural Skin Tint Stick
Soft enough that I don't need to look in a mirror to know I haven't gone overboard with the blush. My last step, every single time.
EcoTools Angled Blush Brush