Eve Lom
Eve Lom’s Radiance Perfected makeup line contains Berry Flux Vita, a powerful antioxidant from raspberry stem cells that improves skin’s suppleness and tone. The formulas also boast SPF to protect skin from the sun.
Our Top Pick: For those looking for the perfect summer glow, try the label’s Golden Radiance Bronzing Powder. The ultra fine particles blend effortlessly for a subtle bronze finish that disguises imperfections while softly illuminating your complexion. And the fruit stem cell extracts help deliver moisture right down to the dermis for unbelievable softness.
Golden Radiance Bronzing Powder, $48 at Barneys
CoverGirl
The All-American drugstore brand teamed with Olay, a derm favorite, to make your beautifying routine a whole lot easier by adding skin-boosting goodness to its best-selling products.
Our Top Picks: When our complexion is looking less than perky, we like to use the line’s Simply Ageless 3-in-1 Liquid Foundation. The medium-coverage base hosts a cocktail of ingredients, including vitamins B and E, niacinamide, green tea, allantoin and glucosamine to firm, reduce fine lines and improve our skin tone, so we look like we’re glowing from within. And for late nights out on the town, we like to dot on The De-Puffer in the morning. The concealer contains a cucumber-infused rejuvenating serum that reduces puffiness while covering up our dark circles, making us look like we got a full eight hours of sleep.
Simply Ageless 3-in-1 Liquid Foundation, $16.99 at Drugstore.com; The De-Puffer, $6.99 at Target
Algenist
Microalgae are able to survive in harsh environments by harnessing energy from the sun and adapt by changing color. Algenist’s cosmetics range utilizes the green, red, blue and golden algae to color correct and improve skin’s tone and luminosity plus alguronic acid, a potent anti-aging agent, to rejuvenate your complexion.
Our Top Pick: The brand’s new line of color-correcting drops comes in four shades — green, apricot, blue and pink — to treat a variety of complexion concerns by soothing, brightening and neutralizing skin tone.
REVEAL Concentrated Color Correcting Drops, $38 at Sephora
Perricone MD
Minimalists rave about the celebrity dermatologist’s No Makeup Makeup line consisting of natural-looking foundations, concealers, tinted bronzers and lipsticks infused with peptides, vitamin C esters and a load of other compounds that benefit skin.
Our Top Pick: The No Blush Blush is a liquid tint that contains dimethylaminoethanol (a natural alcohol found in sardines) that plumps, hydrates and lifts your cheeks with a natural-looking flush. We also like to add a little on our lips for a rosy-toned pout.
No Blush Blush, $35 at Perricone MD
STUDIO I 10
This U.K.-based beauty brand is tailor-made for older women who want to instantly knock 10 years off their faces. The well-edited collection’s star ingredients are Nyamplung Oil, a free radical scavenger that stimulates cell repair, prevents photoaging and softens skin, and Suberlift, a proprietary botanical tensor that lifts and firms skin.
Our Top Pick: Though the Age Defy Skin Perfector and Brow Lift Perfecting Liner are cult faves, we’re enamored with the label’s recent launch known as the 6-in-1 Perfect Lash Mascara for its amazing lengthening and thickening abilities. It’s infused with Capixyl to naturally encourage growth, ozonized jojoba oil to enhance elasticity and shine plus argan oil and jojoba gel to hydrate and strengthen for easy glide-on application.
6-in-1 Perfect Lash Mascara, $31.60 at STUDIO I 10
Josie Maran
Every single product in the eco-friendly label contains argan oil. Hailed as a complexion-clearing cure-all, the legendary Moroccan oil is rich in vitamin E and essential fatty acids and has been shown to minimize fine lines, restore elasticity, improve skin tone, reduce inflammation and protect skin.
Our Top Pick: Not only is the brand’s latest addition Coconut Watercolor Cheek Gelée loaded with the line’s famous liquid gold, but it’s also enriched with coconut water, the nectar of gods, to instantly cool and hydrate your skin in blazing hot weather.
Coconut Watercolor Cheek Gelée, $13 at Sephora
Honest Beauty
After years of getting her hair and makeup done by the best in the biz, you better believe Jessica Alba knows her stuff. Launched last fall, her eye-pleasing cosmetics collection offers natural, non-toxic ingredients with skincare benefits for a diverse set of skin tones.
Our Top Pick: Enriched with hyper-moisturizing ingredients like grape seed oil and aloe vera, skin-soothers like chamomile and calendula and a mineral-based broad spectrum SPF, the brand’s tinted moisturizer offers all of the benefits of your favorite BB cream, but with a more lightweight finish.
Everything Tinted Moisturizer SPF 20, $28 at Honest Beauty
Nuance Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek’s beauty line uses tepezcohuite, a bark from Mexico that is used in hospitals to regenerate skin on burn victims.
Our Top Pick: To balance out unevenness, test out the brand’s liquid foundation. It combines the miracle bark with age-defying antioxidants, such as blue agave, prickly pear and South American camapu to smooth, hydrate and firm.
Flawless Finish Liquid Foundation, $11.24 at CVS
If you’re like us, you’re always running behind, especially in the morning. And as you know, keeping your face clear, moisturized and protected from the sun, not to mention looking flawlessly pretty, can take up a substantial amount of time. Thankfully, beauty brands have taken notice and developed good-for-skin cosmetics to fit our busy lives. These multitasking products contain skin-beautifying ingredients to simplify our routine, so it’s easier for us to look gorgeous without sacrificing the health and appearance of our skin. Here’s a short list of our favorite makeup that improves your skin to make your beautifying routine a whole lot easier.
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