7 Holiday Makeup Hacks to Beat The Heat

You’ve styled up your holiday outfits (there are more shoes than nights...) and condensed your travel-friendly toiletries into 100ml bottles. Next, it’s time to edit your holiday makeup bag, featuring your fave summer looks for the week ahead that won’t melt as soon as you look at the sun. Read on to discover the hardest-working holiday makeup hacks you need to know for your next vacay...

1. Use a Damp Sponge to Apply Foundation

To keep your base fresh and flawless no matter how high the temps rise, apply your shade of Lasting Radiance Foundation with a slightly damp sponge. Blend onto skin for a sheer, lightweight finish that won’t feel heavy in the summer holiday heat and lets your natural glow shine through. Plus, this formula is SPF 25, so it protects your skin as you glow.

2. Setting Spray is Your Beauty BFF

Ah, face mists. What would we do without these cooling, makeup-setting marvels in our beauty bags? Keep your cool on those balmy holiday nights with a quick-fix spritz of Insta Fix & Glow Setting Spray, setting your holiday makeup look in place while refreshing your skin. You can even use it before applying foundation as a super-lightweight primer.

3. Don’t Forget Waterproof Mascara

It may seem like an obvious choice when packing your holiday makeup bag, but waterproof mascara isn’t just for avoiding champagne spray at the beach club. Sweep 100% Waterproof Mascara through lashes for a sweat-proof, heat-proof formula that stops mascara from melting under eyes – no matter how many pool parties you’re hitting this summer.

4. Get a Glow-Boosting Mani

Nail your summer glow with a little help from your pre-holiday mani-pedi. Opt for a bold blue, hot pink or fresh coral nail polish shade to boost your natural tan in one stroke of the brush. Super Gel Nail Polish comes in a range of tan-enhancing hues and lasts up to 14 days without chipping. Ideal.

5. Enhance Your Tan with Body Bronzer

Need a little extra glow on the first couple of days of your trip? Not just for the face, Radiance Brick can also be used as a tan-enhancing body bronzer. Swirl a fluffy powder brush into the shimmering brick, then dust over your shoulders, décolletage and down the centre of arms and legs to contour and glow in one.

6. Leave Matte Lipstick at Home

We love a statement matte lipstick, but high summer holiday makeup calls for lighter, high-shine formulas that last from daytime pool parties to all-night dancing. Sweep on a bold shade of Provocalips 16 Hr Kiss-Proof Colour; a long-lasting lip stain with a lightweight, glossy top coat. It’s also the ultimate kiss-proof colour that’s perfect for any impending holiday romances...

7. Add a Quick Slick of Colour

We always feel a little braver with colour in the summer, adding sweeps of statement-making shades to lids and lips that we wouldn’t dream of wearing at the office. Forget heavy eyeshadows and creams; use a bright shade of Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal Eyeliner on the upper lash line for a hint of colour without weighing down eyelids or feeling caked. Or, for a quick hint of shimmer, use fingertips to swipe on a holiday-inspired hue of Wonder’Swipe 2-in-1 Liner to Shadow. We love bold blue hue Crave Me.

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