Minimalise your makeup bag with the best multi-tasking products

The future is multi-purpose (Picture: Getty Images)Oh, the pleasure of leaving the home once more!
One factor I’ve not missed is carrying a bag round all the time. Al fresco socialising means I’m now carting round a gazillion additional layers so I actually don’t need a ginormous makeup bag weighing me down too.
If you’re feeling equally, we’re in luck, as a result of certainly one of the largest tendencies in makeup presently is multitasking products.
This isn’t simply the outdated pot of pink stuff you need to use on your cheeks and lips however pencils and tubes of pigment designed for use on eyes, cheeks and lips, in addition to concealers and highlighters.
You’ve in all probability heard about ‘skinimalism’, the new pattern for paring again your skincare regime and utilizing fewer products, which is best for your pores and skin, your pockets and the planet. This is actually the makeup model of that.
Nudestix was early to the sport, launching its vary of make-up crayons in 2014, and whereas the model has expanded, the lip and cheek pencils, concealer pencils and double-ended sculpting pencils (£20 every, cultbeauty.co.uk) embody the superb of with the ability to do your complete face with a fistful of pencils.
Live Tinted’s Huesticks (£18 every, livetinted.com) in a spread of demi-matte and shimmer shades supply comparable flexibility, whereas the cult Milk Makeup has Colour Chalk, which can be utilized on eyes, lips and cheeks, moist or dry.

Use moist or dry on eyes, lips, and cheeks (Picture: Milk Makeup)In addition, Canadian model 19/99 (so known as as a result of it’s for anybody aged 19 to 99) has simply launched a spread of seven pencils (£19 every, cultbeauty.co.uk) it says can be utilized as lipstick, lipliner, eyeliner, eyeshadow, blusher or highlighter.
‘We imagine extra is now not acceptable in the magnificence trade,’ says 19/99 co-founder Stephanie Spence, ‘so we’ve got streamlined our product assortment to give attention to creating high-quality, multipurpose makeup necessities that may be woven into our prospects’ each day routines and used for each daring and delicate seems to be, day or night time.’
Crayons not for you? Check out Depixym for artist paint-style tubes of ‘multi-use, ultra-long-wear, waterproof and high-pigment matte lotions’ — 20 shades designed for use alone or combined anyplace you want, as the whole lot from basis to eyeshadow and lipstick.
Makeup artist Caroline Barnes is a big fan of the much less produce, much less packaging, fewer guidelines strategy.
‘Professional makeup artists have been doing this kind of factor for years — want a purple lip however don’t have purple lipstick? Use a purple eyeshadow with some lip balm,’ she says. ‘But it’s very nice that this kind of creativity is being inspired by manufacturers.’

Should you continue to need brushes to mix and clean, makeup artist Ruby Hammer’s magnetic brush units are solely in protecting with the vibeAnd, curiously, whereas in the previous shoppers might need welcomed manufacturers dictating — or demonstrating — the way to use their products, Caroline believes the explosion in on-line tutorials means we’re higher ready than ever to go our personal method on the subject of makeup.
‘People are so significantly better at placing makeup on,’ she says. ‘If you wish to know the way to do one thing, there’s sure to be a YouTube video exhibiting you, so I feel individuals have extra confidence and really feel extra free to experiment than in the previous.’
And whereas their multifunctional nature means much less waste, the truth you possibly can select the colors you truly need additionally means you don’t get landed with product you don’t use.
‘In conventional palettes, there’s all the time that one shade you simply don’t use,’ says Caroline. ‘Here you don’t get that — it’s much less packaging, much less fuss and extra of what you truly need and use.’
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The solely draw back is that you simply received’t get a stunning luxurious end such as you may from a matte velvet lipstick. Aside from that, nonetheless, there’s nothing to not love.
And whereas a lot of the enchantment of those products is that you simply don’t want to hold a load of brushes with you as you possibly can merely apply with your fingers, do you have to nonetheless need brushes to mix and clean, make-up artist Ruby Hammer’s magnetic brush units (£28 for a set of three, or £12 for every extra brush, rubyhammer.com) are solely in protecting with the vibe.
Three stackable brushes make a conveyable pen and are designed for use as you would like. I’ve used the smudge brush to assist flip a line of eyeliner into one thing smokier, the tapered brush for mixing a scrawl of highlighter at the high of the cheekbones and the spoolie for brushing by way of brows after I’ve used a brown pencil to assist outline them.
Now all you want is a brand new pencil case and that back-to-school — alright, back-to-real-world-socialising — vibe is full.
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