Makeup products that do an unreasonable amount of work.
There are people whose makeup bags contain 47 products, three unidentified pencil sharpeners and a lipstick they bought at an airport in 2018. And then there are people with very good makeup bags. Theirs are smaller. Smarter. Slightly annoying, frankly. Because everything in them seems to do at least two jobs, takes approximately 14 seconds to apply and makes you wonder why you own six versions of everything else.
So, what are they buying in October?
Not an entirely new face. Just a few exceptionally useful things.
The lipstick that does the rest of your makeup for you.
Futurelipstick Deluxe Shine One-Twist Stylo Lipstick is the ultimate 3-in-1 lipstick: it’s all the best things about a balm, a gloss and a lipstick in one softly buttery, superbly shiny, moisturizing formula. Which is why you can jettison the multiple lipsticks rattling around in your bag that aren’t quite cutting it, and replace them with this. Side note: Fling is the warm-toned soft brown that everyone’s loving this season. It’s a strong autumn shade that makes minimal eye makeup suddenly look intentional rather than ‘I ran out of time’. Pare it with bare, glowing skin (maybe just a touch of concealer and blush), plus brows and lashes. (If you like something more nude, Slip is a gorgeous, on-trend peachy-pink).
The eye color that has replaced three others.
Who needs palettes when you have Wondercolour Cream Eyeshadow Sticks? These roll-up, glide-on sticks are so creamy, so easy to use, so blendable, budge-resistant and brilliant, you’ll be converted forever. (Other luxury brands sell them for more than double what they cost at Beauty Pie). For a softer, daytime look, Teddy Bare gives the perfect creamy-matte polished look. For a metallic gleam, Brazillionaire (a cool-toned bronze) is very ‘this season’, or for something smokier (with minimum effort), go for Umber One. Use as a soft liner or smudge out for a smokier look.
The concealer that knows it has more than one job.
Everyday Great Skin Hyaluronic Blur Concealer is truly superb: creamy, blendable, buildable and blurring – erasing imperfections with the dab of a wand, all with a smooth, matte, skincare-infused finish. Formulated to include nourishing Shea Butter, Olive Oil and Hyaluronic Acid for extra skin softening. Works to illuminate and highlight too - so performs well on blemishes, dark shadows, areas of redness around the nose and mouth and any other areas you want to diminish. It also layers well over Superluminous Under Eye Genius so that dark circles all but disappear.
The mascara that ends the search
Not for nothing is Wrap Star Tubing Mascara called the G.O.A.T. by so many people. Absolutube™ technology wraps around each lash, forming a smooth, glossy polymer tube, for dramatic length and lasting curl. Stays smudge and flake free until you remove by simply sliding off with warm water. From Korea.
The thing that makes everything on top look better.
The Wonderfilter Brightening Primer is your makeup bag/skincare crossover. It’s part illumninator, part makeup-gripping primer. And it’s 100% the thing you put under makeup when you’d quite like it to still look like your makeup several hours later. With cutting-edge Pseudo-Skin Canvas Technology, hollow Prism Pearls for an ‘inner glow’ effect, and hydrating Ficucell Vita for the ultimate hybrid primer skincare-makeup mashup. Lightweight. Translucent. Imperfection blurring. Once you’ve tried it, you’ll never want to be without it.
The boring thing that makes an unreasonable difference.
Nobody gets excited about an eyebrow pencil until they can’t find theirs. Superbrow Refillable Angled Shaping Pencil is the sort of deeply useful makeup-bag resident you end up reaching for every day: an angled tip for filling and defining, a spoolie for brushing everything into place, and a refillable format so you can keep the pencil and replace the bit you actually use. Because the best makeup bags aren’t necessarily filled with exciting things. They’re filled with things you notice immediately when they’re missing.
