Meghan Markle's go-to concealer pen for her ‘five-minute face' makeup lands on sale
The Duchess of Sussex is known for her understated makeup, which she has cultivated to enhance her natural beauty without concealing her favourite features - like her freckles.
Relying on lightweight and light-coverage picks for her go-to everyday makeup look, one of Meghan's firm favourites is this Yves Saint Laurent Touche Éclat Illuminating Pen, which she uses to keep her makeup routine short, sweet and simple. And right now, not only can you bag Meghan's go-to complexion product, it's also on sale at Lookfantastic.
Retailing for £32 from Boots and £25.60 from Debenhams, the YSL Illuminating Pen is up for grabs for the similarly discounted price of £25.60 thanks to Lookfantastic's sale.
According to her online 'make-up bag' where she lists her favourite products for fans to buy, Meghan describes her beauty routine by saying: "[my] routine is very simple — I call it the five-minute face.' She tells Allure, 'It's just Touche Éclat, curled lashes, mascara, Chap Stick, and a little bit of blush."
This multi-purpose highlighter pen shapes, highlights, and contours the face, creating a sculpted visage with a natural glow that doesn't leave a cakey finish or too much coverage. Perfect for brightening the centre of your nose, masking under-eye circles and accentuating the cupid's bow, brow-bone and cheekbones, this multi-purpose highlighter pen helps to create the illusion of sculpted features by illuminating the high points of your face.
Securing Meghan her lit-from-within luminosity, this makeup pen is described as 'eight hours of beauty sleep' in a pen. Boasting a lightweight fluid that expertly lightens the appearance of pigmentation for a more unified complexion, the light-diffusing technology helps to blur the look of expression lines and crow's feet, for a seamless and younger-looking finish to disguises lines and discolouration.
Free from any shimmer or glitter, differing from alternative illumanating products, the Touche Éclat Highlighter offers a sheer to medium coverage that looks flawless and completely natural. This pen comes in a diverse spectrum of different shades for a perfect match to your natural colour and tone.
Enriched with Calendula extract and antioxidant-rich Vitamin E, this skincare-infused makeup gem offers moisturising benefits and helps to shield skin from external stressors while lightly concealing imperfections for a rejuvinated and restored complexion that won't take more than a few minutes.
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EXCLUSIVE Royal fans say Donald Trump is 'throwing shade' at Harry and Meghan as he reveals royals he thinks are 'great people' during Keir Starmer press conference
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And in words some on social media believe are linked to the Meghan and Harry and their decision to emigrate, he said: 'And in that sense I think the UK is very lucky, you could have people that weren't great people. I don't know if I can say that, but you could have people that weren't'. There is no love lost between Donald Trump and Prince Harry and his American wife. One social media user said of Trump's words yesterday: 'I love the shade President Trump throws at Prince Harry & Meghan Markle'. Another wrote they were sure that Trump was 'calling them out'. In February Prince Harry took an apparent swipe at him after the President called his wife 'terrible'. The Duke of Sussex used his speech to 40,000 attendants at the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games in Canada to bemoan 'weak moral character in the world' - before thanking veterans - in comments widely viewed as a dig at the US President. 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