Yes, Estee Lauder Revitalizing Supreme + Global Anti-Aging Wake Up Balm, you have permission to get aboard my face. And stay there. I have to admit I was sceptical about you (you’re not a makeup product – how much “waking up” can you truly perform on my child-scaring morning visage") but you’ve properly saved my complexion on dozens of different occasions and are now well and truly part of my emergency makeup routine.
The Estee Lauder Revitalizing Supreme + Global Anti-Aging Wake Up Balm (I’ve aged a decade just writing that name out) is a strange one in that it’s not a primer but primes skin brilliantly for makeup, it’s not a serum but it feels as though it has the same sort of potent effect, it’s not a moisturiser yet it instantly plumps and makes the skin more comfortable, it’s not an illuminator but it does (almost imperceptibly but still undoubtedly) add glow. It’s like an all-in-one face fixer, adding radiance, hydration and a layer of – there’s no other way to put this – bounce. You know if you were icing a cake and you were a total amateur (me) and you just mixed your icing sugar with water and started to plaster it on" It would sort of do the job, but it would be a bit flimsy and thin on the ground and not have much “body” to it" Now imagine a proper icing, a fondanty icing with that gorgeous sort of elasticity and fullness – this is what t...