TIPS, TRICKS & MUST-HAVES IF YOU'RE DOING YOUR OWN WEDDING MAKEUP

If you’re doing your own wedding makeup, discover Charlotte’s tips, tricks and easy-to-use makeup MAGIC for an effortless Look of Love™!

Unlock the secret to a dreamy, glowing LOOK OF LOVE if you’re doing your own wedding makeup with Charlotte’s tips, tricks and easy-to-use beauty must-haves!

These beauty secrets are essential to follow to look and feel like the most BEAUTIFUL version of yourself at a wedding, whether you’re the blushing bride, mother of the bride, bridesmaid or magical wedding guest!

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TIPS & TRICKS IF YOU’RE DOING YOUR OWN WEDDING MAKEUP

1. Prep Your Skin For a Perfect Canvas

Makeup MAGIC needs perfectly prepped skin! Before applying your makeup, make sure to cleanse, exfoliate and hydrate your skin with Charlotte’s research-powered skincare secrets for a brighter, smoother, plumper looking complexion that’s ready for makeup!

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2. Avoid Using Too Many Products

You may think you need to wear extra makeup products on your wedding day, however for a gorgeous, glowing look, sometimes, less is more, especially when packing your beauty bag!

Charlotte recommends choosing mini, travel-size versions of your favourite beauty icons, and multi-functional makeup treats that can beautify more than one of your features, like her Instant Look of Love™ in a Palette for eyes, cheeks and complexion, and Tinted Love lip and cheek tints!

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3. Prime & Lock in your Look with Long-Lasting Beauty Secrets

When doing our own makeup for a wedding, you want it to last all day and night, and avoid worrying about touch-ups! Unlock the secret to long-lasting makeup magic with a high-performance, oil-free setting spray! Charlotte’s Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray is a must-have first and last step to prime and set your makeup for up to 16 HOURS!*

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4. Wear a Lipstick That Makes You Feel Beautiful

Lipstick is happiness in a tube, darlings! So choose the best, most magical lipstick for you to bring JOY, LOVE & HAPPINESS to the day! To discover the perfect lipstick to wear to a wedding, discover Charlotte’s Lipstick Finder! Or, virtually try on all of Charlotte’s pout-perfecting shades on CharlotteTilbury.com to discover your dreamiest shade!

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5. Book a Virtual Consultation for Tailored-To-You Beauty Advice

Before the big day, book a 1-2-1 virtual consultation with a trained-by-Charlotte beauty EXPERT for tailored-to-you tips, tricks and advice! Whether you’re the bride-to-be who’ll be doing her own wedding makeup, or a bridesmaid, mother of the bride or wedding guest who wants to learn application tips or find their perfect shade match, there’s a virtual consultation for you!

To find your DREAM BRIDAL LOOK, book a MAGICAL Get Your Dream Bridal Look virtual bridal beauty lesson with a beauty expert! You can book for the whole bridal party on request, or enjoy an individual 1-2-1 consultation for some me-time! Or for quick tips, tricks and shade matching, book a Bridal Makeup Magic Secrets consultation!

BEAUTY MUST-HAVES IF YOU’RE DOING YOUR OWN WEDDING MAKEUP

Discover Charlotte’s makeup and skincare MUST-HAVES for achieving a gorgeous, confident, beautiful wedding makeup look!

Gleaming Glow Skin Duo

The perfect skincare kit for a pre-wedding pamper is Charlotte’s Gleaming Glow Skin Duo! Unlock the secret to gleaming, glowing skin and the perfect canvas with her dual-action acid exfoliator to resurface, smooth and hydrate the look of your skin, and Charlotte’s MAGIC moisturiser of your choice; the original, ICONIC, award-winning Charlotte’s Magic Cream or research-powered light-textured Magic Cream Light!

The Gleaming Glow Skin Duo also includes a deluxe sample of Charlotte’s Magic Serum Crystal Elixir to use directly after Super Radiance Resurfacing Facial; it’s an easy-to-use 3-step skincare routine in a kit!

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NEW! Instant Look of Love™ in a Palette

Unlock the secret to brighter-looking eyes, love-blushed cheeks and a smooth, AIRbrush, flawless looking complexion with Charlotte’s NEW! Instant Look of Love™ in a Palette in Pretty, Blushed Beauty and Glowing Beauty! It’s the perfect all-in-one makeup palette to create a LOOK OF LOVE on the go that suits EVERYONE!

Featuring 3 love-blushed, romantic eyeshadows to make your eyes sparkle, Charlotte’s award-winning Airbrush Flawless Finish powder for a flawless, poreless -looking complexion, plus a sculpting-effect bronzer, soft-focus highlighter and glow-giving rose-kissed blush, these 7-shade palettes helps you EFFORTLESSLY beautify your eyes, cheeks and face in minutes!

NEW! The Look of Love™ Kit

Exclusively available on CharlotteTilbury.com is Charlotte’s NEW! Look of Love™ Kit! Featuring all of her NEW! love-blushed Look of Love™ beauty secrets, it’s the MUST-HAVE kit for a gorgeous, glowing wedding makeup look!

Choose your Instant Look of Love™ in a Palette shade from Pretty, Blushed Beauty and Glowing Beauty, before selecting your dreamy Look of Love™ lipstick, matching Lip Cheat lip liner and hydrating Tinted Love lip and cheek tint!

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Supermodel Brow Kit

No beautiful wedding makeup look is complete without full, fluffy, feathered SUPERMODEL brows! Charlotte’s Supermodel Brow Kit is a magical trio of eyebrow secrets to FILL, FEATHER & FIX your brows in place with a full, feathered, fluffy, natural looking, flattering finish that LIFTS the LOOK of your complexion!

Choose your flawlessly matched shade using Charlotte’s Supermodel Brow Finder and create SUPERMODEL BROWS with the expert eyebrow pencil, Brow Cheat or Brow Lift, tinted brow gel, Legendary Brows and long-lasting, clear brow gel Brow Fix to add tint, texture and definition to your brows!

The Famous Airbrush Flawless Routine

For a FLAWLESS, PORELESS LOOKING complexion that lasts for up to 16 HOURS with no melting, no fading and no creasing*, discover Charlotte’s Famous Airbrush Flawless Routine!

This magical makeup kit includes Charlotte’s high-performance, oil-free original or NEW! scented setting spray, Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray, complexion-perfecting, full-coverage, research-powered Airbrush Flawless Foundation and Charlotte’s magic matte, hyaluronic acid-infused Airbrush Bronzer!

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GIVE THE GIFT OF THE LOOK OF LOVE™ WITH MAGICAL GIFTING SLEEVES!

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Gift a bride-to-be, bridesmaid, best friend, mother of the bride or YOURSELF Look of Love™ MAKEUP MAGIC by selecting your favourite magical Bridal Gifting Sleeve at the checkout! My beauty secrets are easy to choose, easy to use and easy to GIFT! To make them extra special, share the LOVE with these beautiful gifting sleeves! Choose your favourite of 3 designs when you select Gift Wrap at checkout, darlings!

DISCOVER THE MAGIC OF NEW! DISNEY100 X CHARLOTTE TILBURY MAKEUP LOOKS

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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.