Illuminating Makeup Routine for Dull Skin
Revive the look of your complexion with Charlotte’s illuminating makeup tutorial featuring glow-boosting products that are perfect for dull skin.
- 30th January 2023
- By Charlotte Tilbury
5 minute read
Darlings, a busy schedule can leave your face looking tired and dull. Of course, a supercharged skincare routine will help to keep your skin looking radiant and refreshed, however, for those moments where you want an instant makeup pick-me-up, follow Charlotte’s illuminating makeup routine featuring her best products for dull skin.
Step 1: IMMEDIATE SKIN REVIVAL with Charlotte’s Magic Cream
Charlotte never does makeup without her AWARD-WINNING Charlotte’s Magic Cream! This first, illuminating step is essential for flooding the skin with moisture and can transform the look of a dull face with its instant-turnaround effects. With Charlotte’s Magic Matrix of 8 SUPERCHARGED INGREDIENTS including hydrating hyaluronic acid and nourishing shea butter, Charlotte’s Magic Cream BOOSTS HYDRATION BY 226% IN JUST 1 HOUR* and gets dull-looking skin GLOWING in just 28 SECONDS, leaving your complexion looking ILLUMINATED and feeling RECHARGED and ready for makeup!
Step 2: PRIME & GLOW with Hollywood Flawless Filter
To get the GLOWING complexion of a HOLLYWOOD STAR, apply Charlotte’s ICONIC glow booster, Hollywood Flawless Filter. Formulated to be smoothed effortlessly over the skin to create a radiant, buildable base with a superstar glow, this ILLUMINATING ELIXIR is perfect for BLURRING and BEAUTIFYING the look of a dull complexion to give it the perfected look of a social media filter. Darlings, not to glow prime is a BEAUTY CRIME!
Step 3: BEAUTIFY with Beautiful Skin Foundation & Concealer
Give dull skin a healthy-looking glow with Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin complexion icons! Dreamt up to give EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE their best skin day, every day, Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin heroes are perfect for illuminating the look of dull skin with radiant, medium-buildable coverage and a healthy-looking finish. First, perfect with Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Foundation, then add coverage under the eyes and over blemishes with Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer.
Tilbury Tip: To illuminate under the eyes, reach for a shade of Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer that’s one or two shades lighter than your skin tone for a beautiful, brightening effect.
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Step 4: LIFT & BRIGHTEN with Airbrush Brightening Flawless Finish
Create a brightening effect using Charlotte’s Airbrush Brightening Flawless Finish! Inspired by her AWARD-WINNING Airbrush Flawless Finish, this brightening powder is designed to illuminate the high points of the face such as under the eyes and on the tops of the cheekbones, capturing the light and acting as a beautifying spotlight. Sweep a soft veil of powder onto the face and create a brighter-looking complexion with an instant lift effect!
Step 5: BRONZE & GLOW with Beautiful Skin Sun-Kissed Glow Bronzer
Capturing the SUN-KISSED GLOW of a day at the beach, Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Sun-Kissed Glow Bronzer is the key to getting the BRONZED BOMBSHELL look with a SUNLIT GLOW! This cream bronzer is perfect for adding dimension to the face while creating a glowing finish that helps to lift and add warmth to the skin. Buff and blend the bronzer onto your face, focusing it everywhere that the sun would naturally hit – across the forehead, cheekbones and on the nose – and make dull-looking skin BRONZE and GLOW!
Step 6: BLUSH with Beauty Light Wands
Charlotte’s shimmering Beauty Light Wands are BLUSH SENSATIONS! Perfect for giving the face and cheeks a flattering flush with a gorgeous glow, these liquid blush-highlighters illuminate the cheeks to give your complexion Charlotte’s WORLD-FAMOUS BLUSH and GLOW look! Beauty Light Wands are available in four fabulous blush shades; Pinkgasm for a pretty, pink blush look, Peachgasm for the perfect, peachy flush, and Pillow Talk or Pillow Talk Medium for a nude-pink glow in Charlotte’s most ICONIC shade!
Tilbury Tip: If you love to BLUSH and GLOW, try layering your blush with Beauty Light Wands in Spotlight, an illuminating champagne, or Goldgasm, a gleaming yellow-gold – Charlotte’s perfect liquid highlighter shades!
Step 7: SCULPT & ILLUMINATE with Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighter
The ultimate secret to illuminated-looking skin is NEW! Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighters: Charlotte’s BEAUTY GLOW TRICKS OF THE STARS! Formulated to give EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE a red carpet-ready Hollywood glow, Charlotte’s Glow Glide highlighters are wonderful for illuminating the look of a dull face! Innovated with LIGHT-FLEX TECHNOLOGY and GLOW PEARL FILTER, these light-inspired highlighters help skin to look younger and more luminous, and when used following Charlotte’s 6 GLOW TRICKS, they can create a SCULPT and POP EFFECT that makes your cheekbones, eyes, nose, lips, brow and jawline GLOW!
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Step 8: LIGHT UP THE EYES with Eyes to Mesmerise
Once your face and cheeks are GLOWING, illuminate the look of your eyes with Eyes to Mesmerise! Charlotte’s eyeshadow pots are seamless cream eyeshadows that add elegant shimmer to the lids with the swipe of a finger. The formula glides on effortlessly, brightening the look of the eyes with radiant pigments in a gorgeous array of eye-enhancing shades from soft pinks like classic Pillow Talk to suits-all nudes like the mesmerising Exagger-Eyes!
Tilbury Tip: Put the finishing touches on your illuminating eye look using The Classic eyeliner pencil in Classic Brown to create a soft winged liner and Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes! Mascara in Super Black to give your lashes a 24-hour vertical lift effect.
Step 9: GLOSS and GLOW with Collagen Lip Bath
Match your bright eyes, glowing cheeks and illuminated complexion with a gorgeous, glossy lip! With Lip Cheat lip liner pencil, softly trace the outside of your lips to define and enhance their natural shape. Then, finish your look with a coat of Charlotte’s plump-effect lip gloss, Collagen Lip Bath. Using the heart-shaped applicator, glide Charlotte’s shimmering gloss across the lips to give them a high-shine finish that looks GLOSSY and GLOWING! Available in 6 SPARKLING SHADES from romantically pink, globally loved Pillow Talk to crystal-clear Refresh Rose and lustrous, berry-red Walk of No Shame, choose your favourite shade and bathe your lips in gorgeous gloss!
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Charlotte Tilbury
Founder, President, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
With over 30 years experience, Charlotte Tilbury MBE is the world's number 1 makeup artist and British beauty entrepreneur. Charlotte established Charlotte Tilbury Beauty in 2013, which is now a record-breaking beauty brand that has won over 400 awards.
