How To Cover Spots With Makeup

The first step for covering spots with makeup is a good skincare routine to help create a smooth canvas for makeup to glide onto. Apply Charlotte’s Magic Cream - her AWARD-WINNING, GLOBALLY LOVED day cream - massaging it into your face and neck to help create a glowing, hydrated complexion that's ready for foundation.

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Applying a primer creates a barrier between your skin and your makeup, helping you to get a smoother foundation application over skin that may have texture or blemishes. Charlotte's primers are formulated to give the complexion a soft-focus, blurred effect, helping the face to look radiant while preparing it for makeup.

Discover Charlotte's primers including Wonderglow, a glowy, soft-focus primer, Hollywood Flawless Filter, a luminous glow booster, and Invisible UV Flawless Poreless Primer SPF50, a sunscreen and primer hybrid, and find your flawless primer match!

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Apply your chosen foundation to lay down base coverage for your spots. For lighter coverage with a radiant finish, apply Light Wonder, or for medium-buildable coverage, apply Charlotte's Beautiful Skin Foundation for a healthy-looking glow. To get full coverage in a flash, apply Airbrush Flawless Foundation for maximum coverage with a weightless feel that helps to disguise the look of spots.

Tilbury Tip: Use Charlotte's Hollywood Complexion Brush to buff your foundation evenly into your skin.

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Using Charlotte's full-coverage concealer, Magic Away, apply a shade that matches your skin tone to any areas of redness or discolouration and tap in to blend. Dot the concealer on top of any spots you may have and tap it in with your finger to help the concealer blend seamlessly into the skin. For a lighter-coverage option, choose Charlotte's Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer, a buildable formula that lets you slowly add coverage in any areas you feel necessary.

Tilbury Tip: It’s always better to apply your concealer after foundation, as you may not need as much coverage as you thought.

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Set your makeup using Airbrush Flawless Finish, tapping the smoothing-effect formula onto any areas you want to stay put. Apply to your t-zone and lightly press onto any blemishes using the Powder & Sculpt Brush; this will help your concealer stay in place while providing a little extra coverage.

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