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Face Primer for a Flawless Application

Learn how to apply Charlotte's ICONIC face primers for the perfect canvas to apply makeup!

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Discover the magic of Charlotte’s iconic, globally loved face primers and her tips, tricks and secrets on creating a glowing, dewy canvas for your makeup! Wonderglow, Brightening Youth Glow and Charlotte’s hybrid primer-highlighter, Hollywood Flawless Filter, are where makeup magic meets skincare science!

What is a face primer?

You can’t have a beautiful painting without a beautiful canvas! Face primers work like a silk slip for your complexion, creating a glowing, plump and smoother looking base for your makeup and helps your foundation last longer!

Wonderglow is an instant soft-focus beauty glow primer! It creates a smoother-looking, candlelit, goddess-worthy canvas for your makeup. You can use it as a primer under your foundation OR on its own to turn around the look of tired, dull skin in a beauty flash! The magic matrix of supercharged ingredients including peptides to hydrate and blur the look of imperfections, while the FLORESCENT CORE LIGHT DIFFUSER re-emits light around the face!

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How Do You Use Wonderglow?

Start by applying Charlotte’s Magic Cream moisturizer using the Tilbury Tap facial massage technique. Apply Wonderglow face primer using your fingers, focusing on the top of the cheekbones. If you are applying underneath your foundation, apply Light Wonder foundation on top for a luminous, dewy-looking finish!

To Even Out the Appearance of Skin Tone...

Brightening Youth Glow is a color-correcting, moisturizing and results-driven primer with Pearlescent Pigments, Vitamin B3 and Green Algae Extract to give skin an even and dewy-looking appearance. Blur the look of imperfections, fine lines and pores! It’s the perfect base for your makeup or you can wear it alone for a youthful-looking glow.

How Do You Use Brightening Youth Glow?

Start by applying Charlotte’s Magic Cream, then apply the Brightening Youth Glow primer onto your entire face to blur imperfections for a smoother-looking, moisturized base. Apply Light Wonder foundation for a dewy-looking and glowing finish.

For a Versatile Complexion Boost...

Hollywood Flawless Filter is a REVOLUTIONARY and multipurpose complexion booster working its magic as a face primer and highlighter! Create a dewy, glowing, radiant-looking complexion by using it alone or mix it with one of Charlotte’s award-winning foundation formulas – Light Wonder for sheer, light-as-air coverage, Magic Foundation for medium, natural-looking coverage or Airbrush Flawless Foundation for full, weightless coverage.

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How Do You Use Hollywood Flawless Filter?

Use Hollywood Flawless Filter as a primer by using the wand to apply it all over the skin and blend in before applying Magic Foundation for a natural-looking glow! To dial up the glow, apply Magic Foundation all over your skin and then use the wand to apply Hollywood Flawless Filter along the top of your cheekbones, down the center of your forehead, nose and cupid’s bow and blend in with your fingers.

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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.