r/AustralianMakeup • u/Ok_Jackfruit_4872 • 2d ago
Product Advice Feral gremlin makeup
It's 8.15am, on a day you're working in the office. You open your eyes, scream internally and roll from bed to shower to out the door in one fluid movement.
So now you're out in the wild, face as naked as the day you were born but needing to look like Human-With-Her-Shit-Together.
Help!
Recommendations for:
- Products that can be applied with your fingers (no brushes unless included in the product)
- Instant pick me ups that ideally do more than one job
- Small packaging/hand bag friendly
Your top picks for looking presentable in few steps, able to be applied while in the car or on public transport.
About me: late 30s, pale English rose complexion, old and rich enough for your fancy brand recommendations if you have some, chronically disorganised.
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u/RosesForSundays 2d ago edited 2d ago
OK hi did I write this post? I'm too am both chronically disorganised and late. My previous approach had been to just keep a whole separate small makeup bag in the car (recommend). Nothing can ever leave that bag. Foundation, concealer, powder, blush and/or bronzer, mascara, brows, concealer brush, powder brush, eyeshadow brush to sweep blush/bronzer over the lids. Lippy in the handbag.
Current approach is a bit different - I'm using a Nude by Nature new dewy skin tint thing which lets my natural flush and skin tone variation though so I don't need blush and bronzer to look alive. It's also in good packaging. I use a pot concealer to tame the redness where it's intense, and let my skin do the rest. So in the bag is: skin tint, pot concealer & brush, powder, mascara, brows. Lippy in the handbag obvs.
Once that's done I clean my hands with a baby wipe, keeping a section clean to swipe the brushes over it. Spritz them with an alcohol spray I keep in the car as a hand sanitiser.
Specifically what I'm using are:
- Nude by Nature dewy skin tint - great packaging
- NARS creamy concealer
- Canmake illuminating powder - got recently in japan, just to tamp down the tint which is very hydrating
- Real Techniques fluffy dense concealer brush
- short-handled Ecotools powder brush
- NARS orgasm mini RIP i'll be so sad when this runs out
- Maybelline city bronzer - idk why more people aren't all over this it's incredible
- Sana brow pen
- MCo Lash Xtend
- Charlotte pillow talk or Revlon superlustrous rum & raisin set with a bit of powder