This Brand Your Grandmother Loves Is Shockingly Good, Especially For No-Makeup Makeup Days.
And this routine takes under 60 seconds.
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by The Candidly Team
You know how magazines and bloggers talk about their “running errands” makeup routine and you’re like “But I look like a wizened crone with greasy hair who hasn’t slept in a thousand days when I run errands.” Well. I think I solved this dilemma. If you’re like me, you either do your hair, do your makeup, wear real clothes OR you’re wearing a garbage sack mumu and appear to be a pig-troll who lives under a bridge.
But I grew tired of walking around in constant fear that I might run into some ex-boyfriend or former co-worker on one of my “pig days” because don’t we all want to appear gorgeous and put-together to everyone we know? So I made it my mission to create a 60 SECOND face & hair look I could throw together every day and look reasonably not-hideous.
Here’s what I came up with. Again, 60 seconds:
Now the exciting part. I’m only wearing FOUR products on my face. And because I like giving myself near-impossible challenges to mix things up, and also to make things easier if you’re the kind of person who’s like just tell me what to buy and I’ll buy it, I decided to make sure all products were the same brand.
So I dipped into my makeup ARMOIRE (I have a makeup addiction, I get lots of PR, and I never throw anything away) and weirdly found myself drawn to a brand I’ve not used very much even in my storied, 35-year makeup love affair:
Estée Lauder.
No, this isn’t sponsored. These products weren’t even gifted. I’ve just been extremely influenced by their TikTok presence lately and after using these specific products, I am utterly wowed by their seemingly disparate ability to be both incredibly long-wearing but also somehow natural and very “no makeup makeup.” So here are the 4 products that take me 60 seconds.
Double Wear Stay-in-Place 24-Hour Concealer
This concealer is unlike any other concealer I own or have ever used. It can cover anything but looks like nothing. I’m not wearing foundation in the photo above, just a few dots of this concealer under eyes & nose, swirled around with this brush* to disperse more all over. I have, of course, used and loved their double wear foundation* and the wear is astonishing, but I save that for something more eventy.
Price: $38
Futurist Blushmaker Dewy Cheek Tint Liquid Blush In Across The Dancefloor
This formula is wild. It’s sort of a cream-liquid in a tube and even though it’s very pigmented, it sort of sheers out tapped onto cheeks and nose with fingers to look exactly like a natural flush, or even a little bit sunburned, which is my preferred blush look because it looks real.
Here it is on bare skin and no other makeup except lip oil:
And it doesn’t budge for literally 15 hours. And it’s very hot where I live, AND I have one of those porous faces that typically eats blush.
Price: $32
Glossy Pout Tinted Lip Oil
And speaking of lip oil, this formula is also wild! It feels kind of like a moisturizing cream for your body, but for lips. It’s also the only lip oil I’ve ever used that visibly makes my lips look bigger without any of that weird stinging. It also lasts forever on the lips, and even when the high shine wears away, the plumping oil and tint remains. It’s heaven.
Price: $29
Sumptuous Extreme Lash Multiplying Volume Mascara
I have eyes so sensitive that I often forgo mascara because my eyes begin to itch and get red mid-afternoon—and this one feels like nothing. Typically I loathe a waterproof mascara because they’re impossible to scrape off at the end of the day, but this one is a dream. And yet, does. not. budge all day. Never a flake. If you scroll back up to the photo of me in my car (and Bun) you’ll see they are quite lush, and that’s only one coat!
Price: $35
The Extras
Think of these like the RLSTN E of Wheel of Fortune. They don’t count because they’re sort of a given.
1. This, the most unreal powder* I’ve ever worn. Looks like nothing and makes pores disappear.
2. This lip liner* which doubles the size of my lips without filler because I’m skeeeeeered.
3. The only lash curler* to even consider.
4. This oil* is the only skin prep I use most days and it makes my skin absolutely glow to the heavens.
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