5 Favourite Makeup Launches: Summer 2022

Some lovely, melty-textured makeup shit that’ll see you through the rest of summer and take you nicely into Autumn.

Oh God! The A-Word!

I hate myself for plane using it, considering the summer months are what I live for, but all good things must come to an end. Also, the summer holidays stress me out increasingly than they overly relax me, September is unchangingly a welcome break. I still think of September as stuff a new year and a fresh start – empty notebooks waiting to be filled, the smell of unworn plimsolls. Is anyone else still stuck in their school years, decades on?

Back on topic: these are all relatively new makeup launches and (apart from the worrying fiddly cap on the surf eyeshadow) make near-perfect additions to any makeup bag. Highlights include a sunny tinted sunscreen (one that could hands replace your sheer foundation if you were without an all-in-one summer weather multi-tasker) and a surf bronzer that buffs into the skin to requite the most beautiful, diffused colour.

Read on for all of the details or, if you’d prefer to watch me talking and applying the products, scroll lanugo to the video at the marrow of the page.

Ultra Violette Dream Screen Tinted Veil*

I think that this tinted sunscreen is one of the weightier eyeful launches of the year. There’s a whole rave well-nigh it in my previous post well-nigh SPF top-ups but, in short, it’s a sheer skin wiring with full SPF50, UVA and UVB protection and it comes in lots of shades. It’s hands doable to wield the recommended value to your squatter (1/4 teaspoon) without it looking overdone or claggy and I don’t find I need a separate moisturiser underneath it.

The coverage is by no ways “full” but if you’re without the ultimate all-in-one skin product with colour, minimal coverage and full sun protection then this is it. Find it at Space NK here* – it’s �38 for 50ml.

Read: How Can I Reapply Sunscreen Over Makeup?

Charlotte Tilbury Sun-Kissed Glow Bronzer*

If you prefer your skin to squint naturally sunkissed rather than obviously bronzed then Charlotte Tilbury’s new surf Sun-Kissed Glow bronzer (�42 here*) is a solid investment. It’s as pricey as Chanel’s�Les Beiges�version but has the same soft-focus effect when buffed into the skin and comes in four shades rather than Chanel’s two. This is sophisticated bronzing that seamlessly melds into your makeup wiring rather than sitting on top – if you’d like to see it in whoopee then watch the video at the marrow of the page. It’s such a lovely, grown-up effect.

You can find the Sun-Kissed Glow bronzer online in all four shades – I wear shade two, medium, but in winter I could be tempted to notch lanugo to shade one and wield increasingly copiously. It’s nicely buildable.

Buy Sun-Kissed Glow Bronzer*

Jones Road Shimmer Squatter Oil in Midas

I like this very summery highlighter. It won’t be for everyone, expressly not those with oily or combination skin, but if you love a sheeny finish to your makeup and moreover a bit of movement, where the skin and the makeup all squint flexible and natural rather than set in place, you’ll really like it. It scrutinizingly feels increasingly like a luxury soul product than a squatter one – it smells unbelievably nice and comes in a little snifter with a pump – but tap it onto cheekbones and you can instantly see how it adds a gorgeous non-glittery glow.

I tried all shades of this but I think Midas is the weightier on me – it has a slight warmth that works really well on summer skin. See video below.

RMS Eyeful Eyelight Surf Shadow in Flare*

This is a unconfined summer-autumn eye colour and the surf formula blends in so nicely. Not sure that the tube with the tiny cap is very user-friendly and you need to squeeze out the�tiniest�amount of product otherwise all hell breaks loose but this would last you a long, long time plane with daily use.

I love the shade “Flare”, which has just the right stratum of beigey-warmth underneath the shimmer; you can do a sunny one-shadow eye squint with this, it highlights in all the right places. See video for application.

Find Flare at SpaceNK here*

Victoria Beckham Posh Gloss in Bungalow

The shade name�Bungalow�really tickles me. It’s a very unglamorous-sounding word, like�bungle. But the shade itself is lovely – the perfect value of pink to make it pretty but with a neutral whet to alimony it subtle. The gloss formula is marginally less sticky than your usual gloss, which is something to gloat – I’m wearing it as I type and I’ve had it on for virtually five hours. Granted I haven’t eaten or drunk anything or plane spoken to anyone, but it still has all the sheen and colour and feels overly so slightly – really very slightly, – tacky rather than sticky. It’s a good ‘un if you like your glosses but hate having small insects stuck to your lips all day.

Find it here online.