Gemma Chan's red carpet foundation is 50% off at Chemist Warehouse
Any excuse to bulk buy beauty products
The Eternals premiere officially kicked off last night in LA and, as is to be expected, Gemma Chan (who plays one of the Marvel movie’s central characters) looked stunning.
Celebrity makeup artist Monika Blunder created a vampy glam look for the L’Oréal ambassador using a slew of L’Oréal goodies – including a foundation which just so happens to be a bloody bargain (score).
The skin-perfecting formula in question is L’Oréal Paris Infallible Fresh Wear Foundation, and it’s currently half price at Chemist Warehouse. Yep, you can forget paying $31.95 for a bottle of this lightweight, long-lasting formula because the discount pharmacy is peddling bottles of the stuff for just $15.97 a pop.
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The key to achieving Chan’s airbrushed, sculpted makeup using the drugstore foundation?
According to an interview with The Zoe Report, Blunder likes to prime the skin with a hyaluronic acid serum first to help plump and hydrate the actress’ complexion (here are some hyaluronic acid serums that’ll get your skin prepped for that budget-friendly foundation).
But when it comes to foundation application, the A-list makeup artist likes to do things a little differently: “To start the base of the skin, apply L’Oréal Paris Infallible Fresh Wear Foundation to ensure the skin is fresh and dewy.”
“Then apply a darker shade to the cheeks and jawline to create depth and dimension,” Blunder explained.
Lucky for us, Chemist Warehouse stocks 15 shades of L’Oréal Paris Infallible Fresh Wear Foundation, so this trick can work on a multitude of skin tones.
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We’ve taken the liberty of hunting them down for you so you can add to cart and breeze on through to checkout: 15 Porcelain, 20 Ivory, 120 Vanilla, 130 True Beige, 140 Golden Beige, 145 Rose Beige, 150 Radiant Beige, 180 Rose Sand, 200 Golden Sand, 220 Sand, 245 Golden Honey, 260 Golden Sun, 290 Golden Amber, 340 Copper, and 355 Sienna.
Just call us the poor man’s Gemma Chan from now on….
Want more budget-friendly base product recommendations? These are the best drugstore foundations that cost less than $40.
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Briar is the Beauty Editor at BEAUTYcrew. Her 'down for anything' attitude has resulted in more than a handful of hair transformations, and she doesn't mind being used as a guinea pig for the industry's most unusual products and treatments. Her work has also appeared on Refinery29, Girlfriend and beautyheaven.
