Unreal Summer Makeup Routine
The beauty secrets in my Unreal summer makeup routine are your ticket to an Unreal summer glow up!
- 10th July 2025
- By Charlotte Tilbury
5 minute read
Darlings, it’s going to be a long, hot, UNREAL SUMMER! The secrets from my Unreal makeup collection are born to create easy, breezy, sun-soaked makeup looks with glowing, golden hour skin and juicy-looking lips! Discover my Unreal makeup routine and give yourself a summer glow up that makes you look + feel UNREAL!
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The Unreal Summer Makeup Routine: It’s the Unreal Summer Glow Effect!
If you love effortless summer makeup… If you love less is more… If you love to glow like you just got back from a week in the Maldives… My Unreal summer makeup routine is the one for you! Brush along darlings… This is how you get a healthy-looking holiday glow, all year round!
1. Moisturise with Charlotte’s Magic Water Cream
Your skin is your canvas, darling, and to create a flawless base for makeup, you need a moisturiser that hydrates and primes to make your complexion appear smooth, plump, radiant and ready for makeup. Charlotte’s Magic Water Cream is my fragrance-free gel moisturiser that drenches and revives the look of skin. The ultra-lightweight formula feels weightless while delivering 100-hour hydration* and a gorgeous, glassy-glow. Magic Water Cream is a perfect moisturiser for summer! It feels so light, so fresh, and so hydrating… It’s like summer skin, bottled! Before applying a stitch of makeup, smooth moisturiser into your face and neck to prep, prime, hydrate and set the stage for your summer glow.
2. Prime + Protect with Invisible UV Flawless Poreless Primer SPF50
SPF isn’t only for the summer, darlings! Whatever makeup look you are creating, it’s important to protect your skin with a high-factor sunscreen. I created my Invisible UV Flawless Poreless Primer as a dual-action makeup primer and SPF50 – it smooths, it blurs, it primes, and it acts as a shield against harmful UV rays. So many sunscreens feel heavy, greasy, or leave a white cast on the skin, but my primer formula is designed to layer weightlessly underneath makeup with an invisible finish. It’s my secret to flawless, poreless-looking skin with vital sun protection!
3. Smooth + Blur with Unreal Skin Foundation Stick
My Unreal makeup look is all about natural-looking, ‘no makeup’ makeup with an unreal glow. Unreal Skin Sheer Glow Tint Hydrating Foundation Stick is an easy, speedy skin tint – it’s like a ring light in a stick foundation that smooths and blurs the look of your complexion, fast! I wanted to create a foundation that looks so natural and is so easy to apply, you don’t even need a brush! Swiping on Unreal Skin Foundation Stick gives you a luminous, holiday glow that you can effortlessly layer and build from sheer, ‘no foundation’ foundation to glowing medium coverage.
4. Glow Sculpt with Unreal Skin Foundation Stick
Darlings, did you know you can use my Unreal Skin Sheer Glow Tint Hydrating Foundation Stick to bronze and sculpt? After you have perfected your foundation look, take a darker shade of stick foundation that resembles the shade of bronzer you would normally use and swipe onto the temples, hollows of the cheeks, nose and jawline to gently chisel the look of your face shape. I call this step glow sculpting because my Unreal formula has a gorgeous, luminous finish that’s perfect for giving skin a bronzed, ring light glow!
5. Summer Blush with Unreal Blush Healthy Glow Stick
My Unreal Blush Healthy Glow Sticks are the cream blush of the summer! Inspired by my Unreal Skin Hydrating Foundation Stick, these blush sticks have the same hydrating, skin barrier-boosting formula and are infused with Colour Light Mapping Mesh Technology to form sunset-inspired shades that make you blush and glow! Choose your summer blush look then swipe your favourite shade onto your cheeks for an easy, dewy, dream-sheen colour that makes your cheeks look plump, juicy and beautifully sun-blushed.
6. Juicylicious Lips with Unreal Lips Healthy Glow Nectar Oil
The summer lip combo on everyone’s lips is my Lip Cheat lip liner and Unreal Lips Healthy Glow Nectar Oil! My hydrating, tinted lip oils give your lips a dewy, juicy-looking lip glaze that’s the perfect glow match for your Unreal foundation and blush look. To make your lips look what I can only describe as JUICYLICIOUS, take your favourite lip liner and softly outline your lip shape for the perfect summer pout. Then, glide Unreal Lips Healthy Glow Nectar Oil onto your lips using the lip-hugging applicator to create a gorgeous, summer-glazed look with UNREAL colour and shine! You will love this lip combo, darlings… And the super-fruity shades SMELL just as good as they look!
7. Spray on Summer with Joyphoria
Looking for the perfect summer perfume, darling? Joyphoria is like sunshine in a bottle! I created my warm-floral scent with master perfumers to capture the essence of sun-drenched days and happy summer memories. Joyphoria opens with light, bright neroli oil and coconut water before frolicking into a heart of irresistible white florals, then settling into a sweet base of vanilla bean extract and powdery musk. Joyphoria has such synergy with my Unreal makeup collection… They both radiate that warm, glowing, summertime feeling and are mainstays in my summer makeup bag!
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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.
