Wondering which makeup routine order you should be following? Charlotte’s guide to the correct order for makeup steps tells you everything you need to know.
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For a FLAWLESS and RADIANT beauty look, it’s important to apply your makeup in the correct order, darling! Not only will it make makeup application easier and more cohesive, but your beauty products will successfully complement each other and you’ll reap more of the benefits of each product for a gorgeous makeup look that WOWS!
If you’re wondering how to apply makeup in the correct order and how to put on makeup step by step, you’ve come to the right place. Read on to discover how to apply your makeup in the correct order for SPELLBINDING BEAUTY that lasts!
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The first step in your research-powered beauty ritual is primer! This MAGIC beauty product HYDRATES your skin, BRIGHTENS your complexion, REDUCES the LOOK of pores, fine lines and wrinkles and provides the PERFECT base for the rest of your makeup!
Charlotte’s Wonderglow is a soft-focus glow primer that creates a dewy and radiant appearance while priming your face for everything that comes next. Or for a 2-in-1 sunscreen and pore-blurring effect primer in one, use Charlotte’s Invisible UV Flawless Primer with SPF 50 shield, hyaluronic acid and pollution defence.
Charlotte’s Magic Vanish! is a long-wear colour corrector for your face! Infused with skincare ingredients, it CONCEALS any dark circles and spots, CORRECTS uneven skin tone and SMOOTHS the look of your skin. Simply tap it on your face to neutralise the look of dark circles, then apply it on any areas on your face showing redness or pigmentation for a PERFECTLY NEUTRALISED, even-looking complexion that’s ready for the next step.
Charlotte’s collection of foundations gives your face a FLAWLESS base while creating an even canvas for the rest of your makeup to work its MAGIC! Before selecting your foundation, discover Charlotte’s guide to foundation finishes to find your favourite!
If you’re looking for full coverage, Charlotte’s award-winning Airbrush Flawless Foundation creates poreless-looking skin that lasts all day, while Charlotte’s Unreal Skin Sheer Glow Tint hydrating foundation stick is a light-coverage foundation that looks super-natural and gives skin a radiant, ring light glow! Looking for something in between? Try Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Foundation, a super-hydrating foundation that offers medium coverage for a healthy-looking GLOW!
The next step in your makeup routine is concealer. Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer is a super-hydrating concealer with medium coverage that CONCEALS, CORRECTS and BRIGHTENS any areas of your face showing blemishes and dark spots and circles. For a full-coverage finish, reach for Magic Away liquid concealer instead!
Tilbury Tip: To visibly sculpt your face and add dimension, choose a concealer that’s one to two shades deeper than your foundation.
Once you’ve created coverage and concealed any blemishes, it’s time to LOCK IN your base with Charlotte’s collection of MAGIC face powders! Charlotte’s Airbrush Flawless Finish is a smoothing-effect pressed powder that’ll give you FLAWLESS-LOOKING skin with a cashmere-like touch. Or for a more complexion-perfecting GLOW, choose Charlotte’s Airbrush Brightening Flawless Finish to brighten, blur and lift the entire look of your eyes and face!
Tilbury Tip: If you plan to follow your powder with creamy-based cheek products, avoid using powder on your cheek areas at this stage to prevent pilling and patchiness!
Once you’ve created a FLAWLESS, SEAMLESS-LOOKING canvas with Charlotte’s complexion icons, it’s time to add some definition! Charlotte’s Hollywood Contour Wand is a MAGIC beauty tool with a lightweight, blendable and buildable formula that perfectly sculpts the appearance of your cheekbones and jawline for a more REFINED complexion. Prefer to contour with bronzer? Choose Charlotte’s award-winning Airbrush Bronzer with hydrating hyaluronic acid for a GLOWING GODDESS complexion!
After you’ve applied and blended your contour, use Charlotte’s Beauty Light Wands to create further definition. This award-winning liquid highlighter complements your contour with an HD finish, leaving you with a NATURAL -LOOKING GLOW and LUMINOUS complexion. Or if you prefer to highlight with powder, Charlotte’s Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighter will give you GLOWING, LIFTED and SCULPTED-LOOKING skin!
Next, it’s time to UNLOCK your supermodel brows! Charlotte’s collection of eyebrow makeup creates beautiful brows in minutes, visibly sculpting your brows and making them look thicker while lifting the entire look of your face! Charlotte’s Brow Lift is a cream-wax eyebrow pencil that creates FULL and FLUFFY brows fast while Brow Cheat is a micro-precision brow pencil that PERFECTS your arches and helps to fill in those tiny gaps for a natural brow look!
Once you’ve filled in your brows, Charlotte’s Legendary Brows tinted brow gel adds further tint and texture, while Charlotte’s Brow Fix clear brow gel visibly sculpts and sets your brows in place for supermodel brows that stay!
Tilbury Tip: Before you get to work on your brows, comb your brows to reveal their natural shape and get a better idea of what you’re working with.
Once you’ve achieved your supermodel brows, it’s time to beautify your eyes with some eyeshadow! Charlotte’s collection of eyeshadow makeup includes eyeshadow palettes, cream eyeshadows and eyeshadow pencils, offering you different ways to create eyes that WOW fast! Don’t forget to check out Charlotte’s eyeshadow makeup tutorials to ensure the perfect eyeshadow application each time.
Tilbury Tip: Before putting on your eyeshadow, apply some primer or concealer to your eyelids to create an even base and give your look some serious staying power!
After applying your eyeshadow, it’s time to DEFINE and ENHANCE the shape of your eyes with eyeliner! Charlotte’s Rock ‘n’ Kohl eyeliner is an intense eyeliner that creates a 1-slick line for FIERCE definition, while Charlotte’s ICONIC Pillow Talk eyeliner creates a DREAMY and defined eye look fast. Looking to create a SEXY winged eyeliner look in seconds? Choose Charlotte’s The Feline Flick liquid eyeliner for wider-looking eyes that WOW!
The next product in your magic makeup routine is mascara! Charlotte’s Pillow Talk Push Up! Lashes is a MIRACLE product that provides instant length, volume, stretch and lift, while the ICONIC Full Fat Lashes is a 5-in-1 mascara that creates buildable volume and length!
If you apply mascara before your eyeshadow and eyeliner, it will be trickier to precisely apply them, as your newly lengthened, lifted lashes could get in the way!
Next, it’s time to tackle your lips and create that PERFECT POUT! The first step to luscious lips is creating shape and drawing out the edges of your lips with lip liner. The ICONIC Lip Cheat helps to define the look of your pout, adding volume to your lips and providing a beautiful base for your lipstick for easy application!
Once you’ve outlined and defined your lips with lip liner, it’s time for some lipstick! Charlotte’s collection of luxurious and long-wearing lipsticks create a KISSABLE look fast with Matte Revolution helping you cheat your way to WIDER, FULLER LOOKING lips and the supermodel-inspired K.I.S.S.I.N.G giving you a luminous, full-bodied pout!
If you’re a lip gloss lover, it should be applied after lipstick, to perfect your pout and give it a luscious, luminous shine! Charlotte’s iconic Lip Lustre gives your lips a SUMPTUOUS, silky finish in seconds, while Collagen Lip Bath is the ULTIMATE beauty cheat for achieving FULLER-LOOKING, mirror-shine lips fast!
You may be surprised to see blush this far down in the list but actually applying blush last is one of Charlotte’s ULTIMATE beauty tips! When the rest of your beauty look is complete, you’ll be able to better see how much colour you need to give your finished look a GLOWING KISS of blush. For a LUMINOUS glow, choose Charlotte’s Cheek to Chic two-tone pearlescent pink blusher. Or if you prefer to create blush using a more creamy formula, Charlotte’s Pillow Talk Lip & Cheek Glow is a warm rosebud-pink cream blush and lip tint in one!
Now you’ve applied your makeup in the correct order, it’s time to lock in your look! Charlotte’s Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray is an oil-free, lightweight and ultra-hydrating setting spray that sets your makeup in place for up to 16 hours* so it lasts from day to night!
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.
