Hollywood Glow Makeup Tutorial

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

    1. Magic Skin Secrets

    Every red-carpet makeup look I create starts with my Magic skincare! It’s important to prep your skin, darlings, because your makeup will always look better when you’ve applied my supercharged skincare products first. Before you get your Hollywood glow on, massage a few drops of Charlotte’s Magic Serum Crystal Elixir into the skin and depuff the look of your under eyes with Magic Eye Rescue eye cream. Next, moisturise your face with Charlotte’s Magic Cream for an immediate skin revival and the perfect canvas – I never do makeup without it! Then, prime and protect your skin with Invisible UV Flawless Poreless Primer SPF50, ready for Hollywood makeup magic!

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  2. A closed, luminous primer in a light cool-toned-beige shade in a glass bottle with a gold-coloured lid.

    2. HOLLYWOOD GLOW PRIME

    Your Hollywood glow starts with my beautifying glow booster, Hollywood Flawless Filter. This Hollywood beauty secret primes and illuminates in a single step, giving your complexion the lit-from-within look of the stars while prepping skin for the rest of your Hollywood glow makeup routine. Hollywood Flawless Filter is like a Hollywood glow filter, bottled! Choose between 12 glowing shades that mimic the blurring and brightening effects of Hollywood lights and set your Hollywood routine off to a flawless start.

    Tilbury Tip: Hollywood Flawless Filter can be used 3 ways! Apply it as an illuminating primer; mix it with your foundation to create a more radiant finish; or use on top of your foundation as a seamless liquid highlighter.

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  3. An open foundation wand in gold packaging with a pump dispenser and a medium-brown-coloured body to show the shade of the foundation inside.

    3. RED-CARPET COMPLEXION

    Once you’ve given your complexion the Hollywood Flawless Filter glow, apply Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Foundation to build red carpet-ready coverage that perfects the look of your complexion. This medium-coverage foundation is beautiful and buildable, hydrating your skin with hyaluronic acid and creating a healthy-looking, radiant finish. With the super-soft, flat-edged side of my Hollywood Complexion Brush, buff your foundation into the skin to create a flawless-looking canvas for the rest of my Hollywood glow secrets to glide onto.

    Tilbury Tip: One of my red-carpet beauty secrets is to use Magic Vanish! colour corrector under the eyes. The peach and orange tones are perfect for neutralising the appearance of dark circles and dark spots which may otherwise dull your Hollywood radiance.

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  4. Charlotte's Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer with lid off

    4. Perfect + Lift Effect

    To give your face a flattering lift effect with concealer, swipe Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Radiant Concealer under the eyes and around the nose, then blend in upward motions with the tapered end of the Hollywood Complexion Brush. This will trick the light to lift the look of your eyes and cheeks. After applying your concealer, tap AIRbrush Flawless Finish onto the T-zone and under the eyes to set and perfect the look of your complexion. It’s the powder compact in every red-carpet touch-up bag, darlings!

    Tilbury Tip: Get a spotlight effect by brightening your under eyes with AIRbrush Brightening Flawless Finish!

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  5. Charlotte's Supermodel Brow Kit includes a tinted brow gel, eyebrow pencil and clear fixing gel

    5. Supermodel Brows

    For Hollywood brows, brush up your brow hairs with the spoolie end of Brow Cheat eyebrow pencil, then sketch out natural-looking hairs for a fuller, more sculpted-looking brow shape. Once your brows are sculpted to supermodel proportions, comb Legendary Brows brow gel through your eyebrows, coating each hair to tint them with natural-looking colour and giving them a feathered look.

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  6. An open, mirrored-lid eyeshadow palette in nude pink, gold, and brown shades.

    6. Hollywood Eye Tricks

    Discover my Hollywood eye tricks for mesmeric, superstar eyes! To help your eyes to appear bigger and brighter, use my Exagger-Eyes Palette to create a shimmering eye makeup look. Sweep the ivory PRIME shade all over the lid to create a shimmering base, then accentuate the look of your crease with the rose gold ENLARGE shade. Take the bronze DEFINE shade and build intensity in the outer corner and lower lash line, then tap the transparent POP shade onto the centre of the lid as a sparkling eyeshadow topper. Complete the look by gliding my Super Nudes Liner Duo along the lash line, using the matte-black shade to create an eye-defining Feline Flick. Then, push up the look of your lashes with Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes! mascara! Use the paddle-shaped brush to coat every lash with jet-black, lift-effect mascara to create the appearance of voluminous, Hollywood lashes.

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  7. Hollywood Contour Wand liquid contour with lid off

    7. HOLLYWOOD CONTOUR

    To create the illusion of a more sculpted-looking facial framework, use my Hollywood Contour Wand as a luxe liquid contour. Gliding across the forehead, jaw, nose and cheekbones, these contour wands make it easy to create natural-looking shadows that chisel the look of your bone structure. The cushion applicator makes application effortless – just swipe on and the formula will blend like a dream with my Hollywood Complexion Brush. Just like that, you can unlock the sculpted look of a Hollywood star!

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  8. Beauty Light Wand in Peachgasm, a flattering peach-toned blush and highlighter hybrid

    8. RED-CARPET BEAUTY LIGHT GLOW

    I created my Beauty Light Wands as a way of bottling the sensational glow of red-carpet diva lights! These shimmering liquid blush and highlighters are inspired by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and the perfecting powers of social media filters, delivering an effortless, A-list glow. Darlings, I am the Queen of Glow because I am a light thief! With my Beauty Light Wands, celebrities, influencers and makeup lovers around the world can get a head-turning Hollywood glow with a simple dot, dot, blend, and glow!

    Hollywood Glow! Apply Spotlight, a liquid highlighter with a candlelit champagne-gold colour that gives the cheeks the Hollywood glow of a screen siren.

    Hollywood Blush! For a glowing pop of colour, dot Peachgasm Beauty Light Wand onto the apples of your cheeks to bathe them in magical peach beauty light.

    Tilbury Tip: My Beauty Light Wands in Goldgasm and Pillow Talk Medium look gorgeous on deeper skin tones.

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  9. Charlotte's Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighter in Champagne Glow, a warm, champagne pressed highlighter

    9. GLOW TRICKS OF THE STARS

    My Hollywood Glow Glide Face Architect Highlighters are essential to every Hollywood glow makeup look. I created these head-turning highlighters to expertly play with light to sculpt the look of your face and to make your features pop! With a unique Glow Glide texture that feels silky soft on the skin, these pressed powder highlighters give you the ability to become an architect of Hollywood glow! They’re the glow tricks of the stars!

    Discover 7 GLOWING SHADES that take inspiration from different kinds of light from moonlight to red-carpet ring lights! Everyone, everywhere can unlock their perfect Hollywood glow with these star-embossed highlighters. Follow my 6 glow tricks and apply the soft-focus formula to the cheekbones, brow bone, inner corners, nose, jawline and Cupid’s bow – the Hollywood glow will transform every moment into a red-carpet event!

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  10. Hollywood Beauty Icon Lipstick and Lip Cheat in warm rose-nude Icon Baby

    10. Charlotte’s Hollywood Beauty Icon Lipstick

    Pout like a red-carpet icon with my NEW! Hollywood Beauty Icon Lipstick in Icon Baby! First, use Lip Cheat in Icon Baby to line your lips with a warm, rosy nude shade that helps them to appear fuller and wider. Then, glide on Icon Baby Lipstick for the most magical kiss of Hollywood Pink! This lip liner and lipstick combination is the secret to effortless Hollywood glamour – it defines the look of contours and delivers universally flattering pink-nude satin lip colour with a glimmer of Hollywood shine!

    Tilbury Tip: NEW! Icon Baby looks fabulous on every skin tone! For tan and deep skin tones, pair Icon Baby with Lip Cheat in Foxy Brown or Pillow Talk Intense.

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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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