by Annie Vischer
Summer is when your skin looks at its best. It’s beaming with gentle doses of vitamin D and generally rather happy with itself. So why cover it up? During summer most particularly, less is more. If you have freckles (I’m so jealous!) show them off. If you have naturally blushed cheeks, don’t smother them over with foundation.
In a nutshell, it’s time to embrace tinted moisturiser. What’s not to love? Hydration – great, a colour boost – how kind, an SPF – just what we needed!
So we’ve made ridiculously easy for you to get going, by selecting a few of our favourites. Here goes.
Chantecaille Just Skin Tinted Moisturiser (£58.00) is my personal favourite. It might be amongst my favourite beauty products of all time in fact. It’s long-wearing, silky and dewy in appearance. All with an SPF 15 and anti-oxidants that fight the dulling side-effects of daily pollution – London is divine in the summer, but these city-busting ingredients are rather essential when living there. I can’t praise it highly enough. Sample it on your hand at your local Space NK store if you don’t believe me.
Dermalogica Sheer Tint Moisturiser (£34.80) was my first ever base, and it’s the one I turn to if ever I get a dreaded breakout (which thankfully nowadays isn’t that often). It’s medicinal ingredients work to nourish and balance skin, so it’s a guilt-free way of getting coverage without sacrificing skin’s condition.
This one does pretty much what it says on the bottle. Time Bomb Holiday In A Bottle (£28.00) is rather magical. Like the next one you read about, when applied to skin it looks like any normal moisturiser, a pale cream. Upon contact with skin and a massaging hand, micro-particles burst to reveal a colour that will make you look like you’ve spent a couple of days on the most gorgeous of yachts in St Tropez. All this without any parabens or oil? You’d better believe it.
Estee Lauder Day Wear Sheer Tint Moisturiser (£38.00) works in the same way as the Time Bomb tinted moisturiser. Applied to skin it appears a cool green, and when massaged in it flushes with uplifting colour. Its cucumber-esque scent makes it refreshing and light-weight whilst anti-oxidants and broad-spectrum sun screen work to counter-act the signs of aging. This is one to invest in and stick with.
If you feel that your skin is suffering, looking dull and a little lack-lustre, then you need to pick up a tube of Laura Mercier Illuminating Tinted Moisturiser (£34.00) as soon as physically possible. It has a subtle pearlescent sheen that will make skin look perky and alive upon application. Go steady, a little goes along way, but you’ll be wowed by the difference it makes. Keep it in your make up arsenal for those days when you need a little help in the bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed stakes.