New Years & Summer Festival Makeup Survival Tips

Where I live, it's summer and in summer it gets HOT. This means you have got to adapt your makeup routine to survive the heat, and afford you some amount of skin protection.When you're away from home for a few days or camping over New Years, there just isn't time to maintain your usual beauty routine, so the callenge is to cut down your routine to mere minutes with only a few key products, without compromising the end result.

Luckily, summer is also the time of year when you tend to go for a more natural makeup look with lighter coverage of foundation, natural eyeshadow and an overall moisturised, glowing appearance. My first piece of advice is to strip down your foundation routine to its bare minimum. If you have relatively good skin, a mineral powder is a good choice for sheer to medium coverage and little fuss, e.g.

• this Bare Escentuals Mini Refillable Buffing Brush which comes full of foundation with an SPF of 15

• or the Revlon Colourstay Mineral Foundation
  

and if you have skin that is a bit more problematic, try to find a tinted moiusturiser, I reccomend Aveeno's Positively Radiant Tinted Moisturiser with medium coverage and use a concealer on your blemishes. In the sun it is essential to find a moisturiser or foundation/tinted moisturiser with SPF to protect your skin from the harsh summer sun.
Another good idea is to find products that can be used all over the face, e.g. both cheeks and lips. Products like a lip and cheek tint are generally long lasting, which is a must when you dont have time to constantly touch up your makeup and cream products are moisturising with a healthy glow. Some I reccomend are;

• Benefit's Benetint or Posietint

• Nars Multiple Sticks
  
  
• or for the budget conscious, e.l.f do a great dupe for the NARS multiple, the All Over Colour Stick
  

Finally, you want some products to help keep you nice and cool and refreshed. I, for one, will not be going anywhere without

• several cans of Evian Facial Misting Spray. I have dry skin and last time I went camping it was a minor disaster so I'm not taking any chances, I'm doing everything I can to keep my skin comfortable and hydrated.




• rollerball perfume. These are absolutely fab for travelling/camping. The pen shaped bottle is convenient for fitting into makeup bags and I predict the rollerball style of applicator is going to be really big in the next few years. Plus, since thay are cheaper than your average bottle of perfume, you can buy a couple and keep them in your purse or handbag, so you can layer or swap from day to night. I would totally go for the Britney Spears Radience Rollerball, I'm completely obsessed with this scent

• wet wipes for face and hands




• hand sanitiser




• dry shampoo



• a decent Bronzer




• and finally, Waterproof Mascara! I'm going for either MAC Splashproof or Estee Lauder Sumptuous Waterproof Lash