How To Get Smoother-Looking Skin on the Face

Discover how to get smoother-looking skin on the face with this guide with skincare secrets that help skin look smoother.

Darlings, discover my tips and tricks on how to get smoother-looking skin on the face in this expert skincare guide. If you’re wondering how to have smoother-looking skin on your face, try these helpful skincare tips and tricks and help rough, coarse, textured skin to look and feel softer, smoother, and retexturized!

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Discover How To Get Smoother-Looking Skin on the Face

Darlings, taking good care of your body is important for maintaining a healthy-looking complexion. Before you learn how to use skincare to make skin on your face feel softer and smoother, discover the environmental factors that may be affecting your skin health and skin texture.

How To Get Smoother-Looking Skin

Eat well

Introducing as many brightly coloured fruits and vegetables into your diet as possible maximises your intake of vitamins A and C which are important for skin repair and skin health. Vitamin A and C can help to boost your skin’s defences against free radical damage, allowing it to maintain its smooth, supple skin texture. Omega-3 fatty acids can also contribute to renewing your skin’s natural radiance; these can be found in fish, seeds, and nuts.


Drink plenty of water

Hydration is one of the biggest beauty secrets to unlocking smoother-looking, glowing skin. Drinking plenty of water helps to top up the moisture being transported through your skin cells and keeps skin feeling moisturised from the inside out. Dehydrated skin is prone to becoming rough and textured, whereas hydrated skin is more likely to look bouncier and more radiant. Staying hydrated helps to prevent skin becoming dry and lacklustre which can make fine lines and wrinkles more noticeable.


Sleep well

Sleep is important for your skin as your skin cells have time to repair, recover, and regenerate while you rest overnight. If you don’t get enough sleep, your skin might become fatigued and dehydrated which can cause fine lines and textured skin. For skin that appears smoother and brighter, prioritise your beauty sleep and give your skin time to rejuvenate.

Discover How To Get Smoother-Looking Skin on the Face with Skincare + Makeup

Darlings, performing a skin-smoothing skincare routine morning and night can help skin to look and feel its best. Reaching for skincare products that are formulated with hydrating, retexturizing skincare ingredients can help to transform the look of your skin texture and unlock magic skin confidence!

How To Get Smoother Skin


  1. An open, exfoliating, wash-off, chemical mask in a white-coloured tube with gold-coloured text on it with its white-coloured lid next to it.

    1. Exfoliate to remove dead surface skin cells

    Regularly exfoliating the skin on your face will help your complexion to look smoother and more radiant. Exfoliators are designed to shift dead skin cells from the surface of your skin; they remove dry, flaky, chapping skin and reveal a smoother, fresher-looking layer of new, replenished skin. I recommend using an acid-exfoliator like Super Radiance Resurfacing Facial to hydrate and smooth the appearance of skin on the face with the power of AHAs, BHAs and PHAs. The smooth, non-abrasive and bead-free formula exfoliates and hydrates in one step; it helps to refine the look of pores and gives it a youthful-looking glow. Every couple of days, use exfoliator in your skincare routine and leave on for 20 minutes – skin will look smoother and reborn!

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  2. A pearly-white serum in a glass bottle with its dropper applicator next to it.

    2. Hydrate with face serum

    After cleansing and exfoliating, it’s important to rejuvenate skin with a hydrating face serum to help skin look smoother, brighter, and plumper. I created Charlotte’s Magic Serum Crystal Elixir to unlock everyone’s best skin future! The research-powered formula is supercharged with hydration powerhouse polyglutamic acid - a humectant that’s 4x as hydrating as hyaluronic acid - that increases hydration and reduces water loss, helping your complexion to look smooth, supple, and rich in moisture. After exfoliating, massage a few drops of serum into your face for skin that looks and feels silky smooth.

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  3. Magic Eye Rescue eye cream with personalised engraving

    3. Nourish under eyes with eye cream

    Skin under the eyes tends to be much thinner than the skin on the rest of our faces, and so it is prone to becoming dry and textured. Applying a nourishing eye cream can work wonders for your eye area; I created Magic Eye Rescue as a rich, restorative eye cream that helps under eyes to appear smoother, firmer, and brighter. The formula is infused with time-released retinol which helps to smooth and tighten the appearance of crepey and wrinkled skin around the eyes hour-by-hour, as well as stem cell extracts that help to lift and contour the look of the eye area. Apply eye cream every night and wake up to magic under eyes that appear smoother and rejuvenated!

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  4. Thick and luscious pearly-white moisturiser in an open glass jar with its gold-coloured lid placed behind it.

    4. Cushion + retexturize with moisturiser

    Moisturising your skin with a supercharged face cream is the secret to smoother, plumper-looking skin. Magic Cream is Magic Skin, darlings, and massaging Charlotte’s Magic Cream into your skin will help it to look and feel smoother, plumper, lifted, and luminous! This award-winning moisturiser is enriched with smoothing-effect peptides and aloe vera and is powered by Cushion + Lift Mesh Technology to create a cushioning effect on the skin that allows makeup to layer beautifully on top. It’s a retexturizer, a skin barrier booster, and a primer in 1 with immediate results – celebrities, stars, facialists, and dermatologists love Magic Cream, and so will your skin! 99% agree skin looks SMOOTHER!*

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  5. A primer in a white-coloured tube with a white-coloured lid with text on it that reads, 'invisible UV Flawless poreless primer SPF 50 PA++++'.

    5. Prime + protect with sunscreen

    Applying a makeup primer creates a smoothing-effect barrier between your skin and makeup, helping skin to look smoother and softer and makeup to apply more seamlessly. I love to use my Invisible UV Flawless Poreless Primer to prime skin for makeup while also protecting it with SPF50. The hybrid formula hydrates, blurs, shields, protects and primes skin to prevent damage caused by UV radiation which can contribute to uneven skin texture and sun spots in the long term. Always remember to apply a high-factor sunscreen, darlings… No excuses!

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  6. Shade 4 of Unreal Skin Sheer Glow Tint Hydrating Foundation Stick with cap off

    6. Ultra-smooth foundation application

    Once you have created a smoother-looking canvas with skincare, reach for a light-coverage foundation like Unreal Skin Sheer Glow Tint Hydrating Foundation Stick to give your complexion a super-smooth, super-natural look. This stick foundation channels the beautifying powers of a ring light, swiping onto the face and instantly smoothing and blurring the look of skin and casting the most unreal glow. It builds beautifully and is perfect for creating ‘no foundation’ foundation looks that leave skin looking natural, radiant, and so smooth!

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  7. Airbrush Flawless Finish pressed powder in shade 3 for tan complexions

    7.  Set, smooth + blur your complexion with powder

    Pressed powder is the secret to making your makeup look smooth and flawless. My AIRbrush Flawless Finish finishing powder is globally loved for its smoothing and pore-blurring effects – it’s found in the clutch bags of celebrities and stars at every red carpet and event! A light layer of powder in areas like the T-zone, under the eyes and around the mouth will help to remove unwanted shine and create a silky-smooth, flawless-looking skin finish that looks airbrushed! Gently press powder into the skin to set your smoothing-effect foundation into place and give skin a flawless-looking, cashmere feel.

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Darlings, everyone deserves to look and feel confident in the skin that they are in. If you are experiencing uneven skin texture, following a supercharged skincare routine with hydrating, resurfacing, retexturizing skincare is the secret to smoothing the look of skin texture on your face! Take good care of your skin, darlings, and your skin confidence will skyrocket!

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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.

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