Best Capsule Makeup Palettes To Have In Your Beauty Arsenal
Hands up if travelling light is a concept you struggle with. Instead of packing the entire contents of your makeup bag, why not pick one palette that gives you endless creative possibilities on your eyes, face, lips, and cheeks. Here are our favourites for summer days – and nights, and beyond.
It’s no surprise the queen of makeup seduction, creates a palette that gives you the bestt all-over glow. Starring four shades to cover all your radiance requests: highlight, multi-glow, blush, and bronzer, even dab the colour on your eyes. Each silky formula is intensely pigmented for a gorgeous sheen. Choose from two alluring shades, fabulously named: Lightgasm stars a pearly gold, golden peach, milky cocoa, and gold-flecked pink; Lovegasm features a pearly gold, pearlescent copper, rich chocolate and golden pink. All housed in the most beautiful rose gold prism packaging.
This limited-edition mini bronzer and blush duo houses the iconic Hoola bronzer and Willa blush. It’s everything you need to warm up your complexion or complement your tan. Pair the smudge-proof, sweat-proof powder together with a swirl of Hoola bronzer on cheeks and all over face. Brush across your lids too. Follow with a sweep of Willa brush onto cheeks to give a healthy flushed complexion, and you’re all set to go!
When a leading beauty and fashion content creator who’s been dubbed “the complexion queen of TikTok, with 2 million followers on Instagram joins forces with a makeup brand, you know it’s going to be good – and a sell-out! This nine-colour curation of warm pink, coral, gold, and copper tones, opens a limitless world of makeup artistry. Use your fingertips or brushes to create different looks. Use the top row as base shades, to sculpt and crease, to line and define, or wear on their own. Use the second row to add a shimmer and glow on areas of the face such as the inner corners of your eyes, under the brow bone for added light, or as highlighters on the high points of your cheeks for a full-face finish
Renowned by celebrity makeup artists for having the best palettes, NARS is always on point with their colours and high-quality pigments. This four-pan palette bejewels the lids with a high-impact wash of colour, while each shade melts seamlessly into the next for a brilliantly vibrant look. Pair the sparkling peach and pink tones, opt for a toasted gold-brown duo, or combine all four shimmers for a customisable creation every time.
This limited-edition collection of luminous, eye-catching shadows is a trio of finishes paired with pearlescent, face-flattering glow for cheeks. Achieve effortless full-face looks with this travel-capsule palette of six Luxe Eye Shadows and a Highlighting Powder, available in two artist-curated shade combinations: Cool Glow featuring ethereal nudes, pale pinks, and icy purples, and Warm Glow with rich golds, sparkling peaches, and rosy neutrals. A brilliant choice if you like that no makeup, makeup look.
If colour isn’t your thing, this treasure chest of blush, mauve, taupe, and beige neutrals, mingled with show-stopping copper, golden and pink glitter jewels is all you need to see you through summer and beyond. Housed in a slimline clutch bag-compatible case. This palette allows you to create endless eye make-up variations with each of the 18 shades that look stunning alone or layered. Dab ‘Bare’ or ‘Play’ on cheeks as a soft blush and ‘Daycream’ to highlight. Top tip: Mix the shadows with some petroleum jelly for homemade coloured lip gloss.
Forget overfilling your make up kit with copious highlighters and bronzers, this palette has it all for complexion perfection. Housing a highlighter for radiance, the brand’s best-selling buttery bronzer that flatters all skin tones (great on lips too), plus two new exclusive blush shades that delivers a warm flush to cheeks with a soft-satin finish. Opt for soft peach tones of ‘Dawn’ or go deep with burnt terracotta and the warm pink hues of ‘Dusk’.
Channel French Riviera chic and get creative with this stunning palette that works just as well on lips and cheeks as it does on eyes. Featuring sun-drenched colours that don’t crease and let you combine multiple looks thanks to their soft, creamy textures. The big hit in the palette is the striking blue shade that looks striking worn as a liner. Simply wet an eyeliner brush and dip in the shadow for an inky finish, draw across your water line for sultry summer eyes. A stunning way to set off your tan.
For the ultimate in customisation and organisation, it’s impossible to beat this iconic palette. Housed in packaging that mimics a portfolio or old-school Filofax, that allows you to create, mix, match, swap and change countless eye, lip, cheek, and base options plus it has an in-built mirror compartment and discreet pockets for pencils, lipsticks, brushes or whatever else you may want to store. The ‘pages’ are magnetised, so you don’t need to worry about makeup spillages, it takes up minimal space and completely portable. It’s no wonder the design and concept has been patented. We’re obsessed!
Inspired by her signature strawberry gaming icon, this juicy line up is part of the limited-edition collection launched with @Loserfruit (Kathreen Belsten), the world’s top female gamer. Featuring a Strawberry Plush Makeup Sponge, Strawberry Surge Lip Mask (great for overnight hydration) and the wonder product, the Strawberry Download Palette. Featuring a range of strawberry shades in matte and shimmer finishes which you can pat over the apples of cheeks and apply to eyes. The perfect choice to create the trending Strawberry Girl makeup look.
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