Summertime means that things get sweaty and sticky, including your makeup. Instead of begging your perfectly straight eyeliner and clean lines of eyeshadow and lipstick to stay put, you might as well embrace the inevitable meltdown and start out with something pre-smudged. I’m talking no-fuss makeup that starts out blended and beautiful.
Let’s put sharp color blocks and winged liner aside for a moment and use the heat to appreciate the dreamy, ethereal quality of softer, more natural-looking makeup. The look is becoming more and more popular with celebrity makeup artists, including Londoner Neil Young who says, “There’s something very modern and realistic about a lip or an eye that feels lived in, and I feel it’s more reflective of how real women wear make-up.”
Could his words ring any truer? “Real” women don’t have time to sit in a chair for hours while a professional does their makeup. So let’s lean in to this blurry trend and use smudging to embrace the mistakes we make while applying powder in a hurry.
