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Natural Makeup Essentials

Enhance your natural beauty with my natural makeup essentials for the face, lips and eyes.

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Darlings, natural makeup is all about using simple techniques and easy-to-use products to enhance what’s already there! Your natural features are GORGEOUS and UNIQUELY YOURS, and creating a natural makeup look is the perfect way to shine a spotlight on the characteristics that mother nature blessed you with! Discover my natural makeup essentials and learn my tips and tricks for creating less-is-more, naturally radiant makeup magic!

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Discover Natural Makeup Must-Haves

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Natural Face Makeup

Applying sheer and light-coverage complexion products that enhance your natural radiance is the key to undetectable, natural-looking base makeup.

To give the skin a soft-focus glow, apply my Wonderglow face primer for an instant beauty flash! This luminous primer has a dewy-looking finish, smoothing effortlessly across the face to light up the complexion while offering a beautiful blurring effect. If a red-carpet glow is more your style, then choose Hollywood Flawless Filter to illuminate your complexion like the flattering flash of Hollywood lights! My ICONIC glow booster provides sheer coverage while bottling the beautifying, skin-perfecting properties of social media filters to make skin glow with RED-CARPET RADIANCE!

For slightly more coverage, discover my complexion icons that are perfect for natural makeup moments! Charlotte’s Beautiful Skin Foundation is my medium-buildable foundation with a natural, healthy-looking finish, illuminating the look of the complexion while smoothing the look of skin and offering a boost of hydration. Or, for just a tint of universally flattering coverage, apply my light-coverage tinted moisturiser, Unisex Healthy Glow, to hydrate the skin and give the complexion a healthy-looking, lit-from-within glow.

Tilbury Tip: The best way to get a naturally glowing complexion is to stick to a supercharged skincare routine that consists of high-performance products like my ICONIC instant-turnaround moisturiser, Charlotte’s Magic Cream.

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Natural Cheek Makeup

Flushed cheeks and sun-kissed skin will lift the look of every complexion, so applying blush and bronzer is the perfect way to warm up the look of your face when creating natural-looking makeup. For a natural finish, cream and liquid formulas are perfect choices thanks to the way they melt into the skin to create a dreamy, dewy-looking, skin-like finish.

For a fresh kiss of colour for the lips and cheeks, apply Pillow Talk Lip & Cheek Glow as a balmy cream blush that gives the cheeks a rosy glow. This emollient-rich formula mimics the look of naturally flushed, just-pinched cheeks, blushing the complexion with dreamy, luminous colour and doing the same for your lips! 

You can also create natural-looking blush looks with my Matte Beauty Blush Wands - four easy liquid blushes that give the cheeks a beautifying pop of colour! Designed to be dotted onto the apples of the cheeks for dreamy matte blush magic, my blush wands are perfect natural-matte shades for lifting the look of your complexion!

To get a naturally sun-kissed look, apply Beautiful Skin Sun-Kissed Glow Bronzer to create a warm, sun-drenched complexion. My effortless cream bronzer is the key to getting a beachy, bronzed makeup look that appears naturally sun-kissed. Using the Beautiful Skin Bronzing Brush, sweep your bronzer everywhere that the sun would naturally hit including the cheekbones, nose and forehead for a beautifully bronzed natural makeup look.

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Natural Eye Makeup

Softly accentuating your eyes is key to creating natural makeup looks! With a touch of eyeshadow and eyeliner and a lick of mascara, the natural sparkle of your eyes appears even more prominent!

Natural makeup benefits from using softer colours, so when applying eyeliner or mascara, reach for flattering brown shades rather than jet-black, lacquered formulas. I created the Dream Pop shade of my Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes! mascara for exactly that reason – it’s a rich, berry-brown mascara in my ICONIC push up-effect formula that enhances the look of every eye colour while giving the lashes a VERTICAL LIFT EFFECT in a more subdued tone.

For eyeshadow, my easy cream formula, Eyes to Mesmerise, is perfect for creating one-shadow looks that accentuate the look of the eyes with soft sparkle! The easy-to-swipe, easy-to-blend formula is available in a magical wardrobe of shades including eye-enhancing Exagger-Eyes, a shimmering nude-brown and universally flattering Pillow Talk, a glistening, pearly pink, so everyone can find the perfect shade to light up the look of their lids!

Tilbury Tip: If you prefer an understated, all-matte gaze, reach for my Super Nudes Easy Eye Palette for a neutral wash of colour that defines the look of your eyes and blends seamlessly with the natural contours of your eyes.

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Natural Lipstick Look

Natural makeup for the lips should enhance the natural lustre of your pout, providing glossy, hydrating and nourishing lip colour that makes lips appear fuller and plumper-looking!

Charlotte’s Magic Lip Oil Crystal Elixir is the perfect combination of lip care and natural makeup. This lip oil rolls across the lips to condition and hydrate, giving them a glossy finish that looks gorgeous alone or on top of lipstick. 

For even more hydration, apply Hyaluronic Happikiss to boost moisture and provide a kiss of colour. My lipstick balms are designed to provide gorgeous lip colour while nourishing the lips, pairing the comfort of a lip balm with the beautifying confidence of a lipstick. For the perfect natural lipstick look, choose Pillow Talk, my iconic nude-pink shade, Passion Kiss, a gorgeous, soft-brown hue, or Happipetal, a dreamy, peach-pink!

To give your lips a high-gloss finish, choose Collagen Lip Bath, my plumping-effect lip gloss. Gliding onto the lips and delivering a comfortable coat of mirror-like shine, my gorgeous lip glosses are the perfect way to turn up the shine! Refresh Rose is a clear gloss that applies beautifully alone or over your favourite lipstick, making it the perfect shade to perfect your natural lipstick look!

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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.