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If you're looking for the perfect five-minute makeup hack this summer, then we may have found just the product from Laura Mercier, coined a 'holy grail' product by impressed users.
Designed to offer sheer-to-medium coverage with a blurring, soft-focus finish, the new Laura Mercier Tinted Blur Balm is the perfect choice for lightweight summer looks, and after testing it for a few weeks, I can count myself a fan.
Laura Mercier Tinted Blur Balm
Set to become your go-to base in a compact, the Laura Mercier Tinted Blur Balm boasts a balm-to-powder finish that adds a lightweight tint to the face, keeping coverage on the more natural side while helping to smooth and hide imperfections.
With a natural-matte coverage that looks like skin, the innovative balm visibly refines and smooths the skin, blurring pores and texture with light-diffusing pigments.
The result is a 'your skin but better' look in a matter of minutes, remaining lightweight on the skin thus making it excellent for summer looks.
When it comes to summer makeup application, many beauty buffs are on the hunt for a base product that packs a punch in seconds, delivering lightweight coverage that lasts all day in just a swipe.
Perfect for fast, five-minute makeup looks, the brand-new Tinted Blur Balm delivers everything you could need in a summer base, leaving the skin smooth and perfected in just a matter of seconds.
Set to become your go-to base in a compact, the Laura Mercier Tinted Blur Balm boasts a balm-to-powder finish that adds a lightweight tint to the face, keeping coverage on the natural side while helping to smooth and hide imperfections.
Because, truly, this is so much more than a light-skin tint. With a natural-matte coverage that looks like skin, the innovative balm visibly refines and smooths the skin, blurring pores and texture with light-diffusing pigments.
With a natural-matte coverage that looks like skin, the innovative balm visibly refines and smooths the skin, blurring pores and texture with light-diffusing pigments.
The result is a 'your skin but better' look in a matter of minutes, remaining lightweight on the skin thus making it excellent for summer looks, while the buildable formula means it can stretch for any occasion.
And it doesn't just leave your skin looking fabulous in the moment, but works to help it look better over time, too.
Thanks to its skincare-infused formula that includes peptides, vegetal squalane and camelina sativa seed oil, the balm helps to improve skin texture, elasticity and tone over time while soothing and protecting the skin barrier.
In fact, in a clinical study on 30 panellists over 14 days, 100 per cent of users had smoother skin texture and a visible reduction in pores while 96 per cent had a reduction in fine lines.
You're left with a sheer veil of coverage, a soft-focus finish, a base that lasts all day and even more gorgeous skin when you take it off in the evening.
Better still, darker colours of the ultra-blendable balm can be used to sculpt and bronze the complexion for an even more flawless base.
My thoughts:
As soon as I heard about this new release, I was excited - I'm a light coverage gal and always tend to lean towards more sheer products for my dry and sensitive skin.
You can imagine my shock when I swiped on this new balm to discover a skin-like, lightweight finish without cakiness that left every imperfection on my face blurred.
Whether I'm doing a five-minute makeup look or spending time on a gorgeous base, the Laura Mercier Tinted Blur Balm has become my everyday favourite.
Buildable, effortlessly blendable and totally weightless on the skin, it's truly a lightweight wonder for burring and perfecting the complexion.
My dry and sensitive skin loves the formula, too. The finish is a soft matte that doesn't look or feel drying on the skin, and while I always tend to set my makeup with a dewy setting spray, the gorgeous formula hardly even needs setting at all.
The packaging is absolutely stunning, too; presented in a gorgeous rose gold compact with a handy mirror inside.
I also just love how easy the balm is to use; doing away with messy liquids and chunky bottles in favour of a cream-to-powder compact balm. I need to simply grab my brush, swipe into the pan and apply. It truly is a time saver that gets you from flat to flawless in under a minute.
I'm shade 00, but I've used shade 02 to sculpt and add dimension to my face; gorgeous as a cream bronzer for a bit of extra colour.
It leaves my skin looked blurred with a soft-focus veil; covers imperfections while remaining lightweight; and leaves my skin looking, quite simply, flawless.
In short
I absolutely love the Laura Mercier Tinted Blur Balm. It leaves my skin looking blurred with a soft-focus veil; covers imperfections while remaining lightweight; and leaves my skin looking, quite simply, flawless.
And I'm not alone as beauty buffs have already fallen in love with the new balm; calling it 'blurring' and adding that it 'feels like wearing nothing'.
'I'm absolutely obsessed with the Laura Mercier Tinted Blur Balm!' raved an impressed five-star reviewer. 'If you have oily textured skin this blurs and evens everything out in the best way.
'The coverage is buildable which I love for everyday wear. It's officially my new go-to for quick everyday makeup and it actually wears really well on oily skin.'
Another added: 'I have been searching for a foundation that has a lightweight feel on my skin and a colour that doesn't make me look like a clown. Thanks to Tinted blur balm I'm back. I absolutely love the match and feel.'
'This product is nothing like heavy foundation it's lightweight and you don't need much to enhance your look. I actually look little younger when I wear it.'