How To Get A Matte Makeup Look
Brush along with my AIRbrush Flawless matte makeup tutorial and create a magical matte makeup look.
- 28th August 2025
- By Charlotte Tilbury
7 minute read
Darlings, matte makeup is the moment! As a makeup artist to the stars, I love the way that matte makeup can lift and blur the look of skin to make it appear smooth like porcelain.
Matte makeup is the secret to looking airbrushed and flawless in real life! Brush along with my matte makeup tutorial and discover how to use matte makeup secrets to smooth, blur, lift, mattify your makeup.
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Step 1: Prime with Smoothing Makeup Primer
Every makeup routine should start with a primer; prepping your skin with a makeup primer will make your foundation look smoother and help your makeup to layer effortlessly. Applying a primer with a hydrating and blur-effect like Invisible UV Flawless Poreless Primer will help matte foundation to look smoother and more flawless as well as preventing creasing, caking, and cracking. Massage primer into your face, ears and neck, then give it a few moments to settle into your skin before going in with your matte foundation.
Step 2: Perfect with Matte Foundation
Make your complexion look magically matte by applying a matte foundation. The secret to applying matte foundation without looking heavy or cakey is choosing a skincare-infused formula that feels weightless and doesn’t settle into fine lines. I created AIRbrush Flawless Foundation as my ultimate full-coverage foundation with a 3D matte finish with a smoothing, blurring effect that looks flawless, every time! The formula is longwearing, feels light as air, and hydrates like skincare, smoothing on and mattifying skin to create a beautiful and flattering makeup base. If you want your skin to look matte without becoming flat or one-dimensional, you need my AIRbrush Flawless Foundation! Find your flawless shade using my Foundation Shade Finder, then apply one pump of foundation and blend out with the large, tapered end of my Hollywood Complexion Brush for maximum matte coverage.
Step 3: Set with Makeup Powder
Once your foundation is looking smooth, even and matte, perfect the look of your eye area with Magic Vanish! This colour-correcting concealer is formulated to brighten and neutralise the look of dark circles and conceal the appearance of uneven skin tone. Tap on Magic Vanish with your ring finger then blend out using the smaller, precision end of my Hollywood Complexion Brush, focusing product on the areas you’d like to conceal. Then, take AIRbrush Flawless Finish powder and set your makeup in place. Applying a soft veil of my powder helps to set down your foundation and concealer while adding a little extra coverage, improving longevity and preventing makeup creasing. With my Powder & Sculpt Brush, press powder into any areas you want to mattify, focusing on the T-zone, under the eyes and over smile lines.
Step 4: Bronze + Chisel with Matte Bronzer
Matte bronzer can be used to bronze and sculpt the look of your complexion – it couples the chiselling effect of contour and the smooth, sun-kissed finish of bronzer! Applying bronzer is the secret to giving matte foundation dimension and definition… Buff on bronzer and cheekbones look more sculpted, jawlines look more snatched, and noses look pinched to perfection! If you’re looking for the perfect matte bronzer, darlings, Airbrush Bronzer is the one you’ve been waiting for! My smoothing, blurring, airbrushing effect bronzer warms up your complexion for a sun-soaked look that feels like silk on the skin. To apply, tap The Air Brush into your bronzer compact and sweep bronzer onto the hollows of your cheeks, across the forehead, onto the nose, and anywhere that the sun would naturally hit. Blending seamlessly with your foundation, Airbrush Bronzer is a magical way to make sure your complexion looks matte and never flat!
Step 5: Matte Eyeshadow Look
Darlings, I created my Super Nudes Easy Eye Palette as the quintessential nude eyeshadow palette for creating matte makeup looks. This colour-coded eye palette includes 6 eyeshadow shades in cool and warm shades that are designed to accentuate, enhance and smoke out your eye makeup. The beige, brown and black shades blend like butter, effortlessly enhancing the look of your eye shape and buffing out into dreamy, defined-looking matte eyeshadow looks. I have decoded matte eyeshadow looks with these super-flattering, super-wearable, super-nude shades! Use this palette to create your matte eyeshadow look, darlings… It’s foolproof!
Step 6: Line + Lift with Matte Eyeliner
Complete your matte eyeshadow look with a slick of matte eyeliner. My Rock N Kohl kajal eyeliner pencils are perfect for accentuating the look of your eyes; just glide along your lash line and flick upwards and outwards at the corner to form a soft, winged eyeliner. My Barbarella Brown and Bedroom Black shades are the best shades for soft glam makeup looks – I love to take them along the top lash line to create a moody, smokey look. If you love a pop of colour, try Fig Smoulder – it’s a flawless pop of purple that looks phenomenal on brown and hazel eyes!
Tilbury Tip: Finish your eye makeup with lashings and lashings of jet-black mascara to amplify the look of your lashes and make them pop against your matte eye makeup.
Step 7: Matte Lip Liner and Lipstick Combo
Looking for the perfect matte lip liner and lipstick combo? For a classic matte lipstick look, you can’t go wrong pairing my iconic Lip Cheat lip liner and a shade of my award-winning Matte Revolution Lipstick. Lip Cheat is my velvety lip liner for reshaping the look of your lips. It glides on without skipping or bleeding, making it easy for you to trace along your natural lip line and create the illusion of fuller-looking lips. For matte lipstick, discover your perfect shade of Matte Revolution Lipstick and swipe on for comfortable, longwear matte lip colour. My matte lipsticks are enriched with hydrating ingredients – they combine a flattering matte finish with lip-loving moisture to never feel drying or emphasise lip lines. Swipe on for matte lips that unlock bold beauty confidence!
Tilbury Tip: Before applying matte lipstick look, hydrate your lips with my Life-Changing Lip Mask to create a plush, pillowy surface for lip liner and lipstick.
Step 8: Pop with Easy Matte Blush
Darlings, I adore the way a pop of matte blush can lift the look of your cheeks. I created my Pillow Talk Matte Beauty Blush Wands to make applying liquid blush quick and easy – just dot, dot, blend and pop for rosy cheeks that look naturally and romantically flushed! My liquid blushes come in pigmented, Pillow Talk-inspired shades that leave your cheeks with a super-flattering, soft-matte finish. This easy-to-blend formula is designed to be dotted onto the apples of the cheeks and blended out into a dreamy veil of Pillow Talk matte blush. Choose from 4 blushing shades and give your matte makeup look an irresistible soft pop of colour!
Step 9: Blur and Mattify with Matte Setting Spray
Lock in your matte makeup look with my Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray Matte! This mattifying setting spray is formulated to give your complexion a soft-matte finish with a smoothing and blurring effect, helping your base makeup to look matte without ever looking flat. The weightless mist feels refreshing and barely there, setting down with a super-flattering matte look and fixing makeup into place for up to 16 hours! Darlings, if you love matte makeup, you will absolutely adore this matte setting spray! Spray it on to party all night and stay matte all day!
Tilbury Tip: Do you have oily skin, darling? My matte setting spray is infused with a Dual-Action Oil and Shine Control Complex to control oil and remove shine, keeping makeup looking airbrushed, flawless, and matte!
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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.
