Despite being a regular on our telly for years, you might be surprised to learn that Holly Willoughby’s beauty routine isn’t all high-end products. In fact, her makeup artist Patsy O’Neill has revealed that she uses plenty of budget-friendly items to get Holly camera-ready.
As any beauty enthusiast will tell you, the key to long-lasting, flawless makeup is all in the base, which is why we were over the moon to find out that Patsy uses a very affordable product on Holly. While prepping Holly’s face for Dancing on Ice, the MUA shared that she used Super Facialist’s Skin Perfecting Primer, which hydrates, protects, refines and colour corrects skin.
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You can snap up this multi-purpose primer for just £16.98 on Amazon at the moment, making it a great budget alternative to the cult favourite Stila One Step Correct Primer, which comes with a £28 price tag. The Super Facialist primer also comes in two different shades, medium-deep and fair-light, to cater to all skin tones.
It’s chock-full of skin-loving ingredients like cica, which helps soothe and calm skin, niacinamide to control oil and improve texture, and hyaluronic acid which hydrates and boosts moisture retention. Not only does it benefit your skin underneath, but the primer also preps your skin for your makeup application, providing a solid base for your products to truly shine.
It boasts blurring technology to help smooth out imperfections and pores, along with a built-in colour corrector due to the multiple pigments. This aids in balancing and evening out skin tone, reducing any redness and brightening up sallow complexions, as well as improving overall dullness.
If redness is your primary concern, you might also want to try the Erborian CC Red Correct, which blends green pigments with nourishing ingredients to help neutralise redness and discolouration. To combat dullness, you could also give the Huda Beauty Faux Filter Color Corrector a go, which comes in six shades and promises to brighten your skin tone and camouflage everything from dark circles to blemishes.
However, Super Facialist’s Skin Perfecting Primer promises to do all of these things in one, which is why it’s not surprising it’s received such rave reviews on Amazon, reports the Mirror.
One satisfied customer wrote: “Great product for mid tone to dark skinned women. Evens out skin well and provides a good base for makeup. Lightweight and breathable.”
Another agreed, saying: “Really lovely primer, smooth, easy to put on. Best I’ve ever used. Will definitely be buying again.”
Some did find some issues, noting: “Always wanted to try a colour correcting primer like this. Whilst it smooths on nicely, I don’t notice any particular improvement in skin tone and I don’t find it particularly suitable for oily skin.”
Yet some are utterly smitten, with one satisfied customer raving: “Absolutely amazing primer. Make a real difference under foundation and has a lasting effect,” while another adds, “It tones my red down and for the price it’s just as good as other more expensive brands.”