13 Multi-Use Makeup Products to Simplify your Life

The perfect dual action makeup come skincare item, Elf’s Blemish fighting putty primer is the perfect product for those on the acneic/oily prone skin side. Designed to tackle blemishes while they blur them, this paste-like primer works like an absolute dream underneath makeup.

Formulated with oil attracting and sebum-busting ingredients like salicylic acid, this Elf primer actually treats and helps prevent more pimples from forming. For the breakouts already present, actives such as zinc and kaolin clay help to reduce inflammation and soothe the area.

Due to its perfect velvety formula, pores will appear to shrink in size and imperfections will blur beautifully prior to applying your base. Perfect for those who get especially oily in their t-zone, the Elf Blemish Fighting Putty Primer will ensure your makeup won’t go anywhere and shine through is absolutely not going to happen.

e.l.f. Cosmetics Blemish Fighting Putty Primer, $15.25, Beauty Bay

Another one of our favourite iterations of the multi-use cream stick is by brand Ilia. Thus multi-tasking beauty must-have promises to save space in your makeup bag as it can be used on the lips, cheeks and eyes.
Available in a cohort of shades perfect to douse your high points in pigments of bronze and blush, this subtle yet shimmering balm is adds such a beautiful flush of colour to your glam.

Boasting a super hydrating formula incorporating shea butter, this sheer yet buildable formula is ultra-nourishing and glides on seamlessly over prepped or unprepped skins. Ilia’s range of Multi Use Sticks also harness the protecting powers of Vitamin E, an antioxidant which works hard at fighting free radical damage throughout the day.

Proudly created with up to 85% organic ingredients, you can be confident that the Ilia Multi Use Stick is giving back to your skin whilst defining the areas which you choose to apply it!

ILIA Multi-Stick – At Last, $64.66, Net-a-Porter

For the rouge enthusiast, Benefit has created a multi-use product that delivers the most amazing flush of colour to the cheek and lips, that promises to stay. Benefit’s Benetint Cheek & Lip Tint Blush is a liquid stain that is super rich in colour and has the ability to stay put for hours and hours.

The difference between a lip stain to any other lip product is that the formulation itself is very watery and packs an absolute punch when it comes to the strength of colour. Highly pigmented, it effectively tattoos the skin where you place it temporarily, so that your skin actually changes colour. Without a finish or sheen added, it’s more like adding colour directly to the skin and you can place your desired finish over the top.

Beautiful when applied to the lips, cheeks or eyelids in a symphony of rosey flush, this stain promises to be smudge proof, kiss proof and budge proof.

benefit Benetint Cheek & Lip Tint Blush, $33, MYER

For a product that helps perfect the base 3 different ways, we couldn’t help but include the NYX 3c Palette to our ultimate list of multiuse makeup products.

For friends out there who may be concerned with uneven skin tone, colour correcting is a phenomenon that helps neutralise colours in the skin, by dredging certain areas with its opposite colour in the colour wheel. For example, green diffuses redness or vascularity concerns, purple helps to brighten darkness, yellow neutralises pigmentation/browns and peachy tones help to lift purple or blue areas like the under eye.

To effectively harness the power that is colour correction, apply a small amount of the opposite colour to the area of the skin affected, with either your fingertips or a small concealer brush, then follow with your foundation.

The beauty of this palette is that there are also options for to use as a concealer and contour, which help define the face after your foundation has already been applied.

NYX Professional Makeup 3c Palette Conceal Correct Contour, was $22 now $17.75, ASOS

You’ve heard of 2-in-1 and 3-in-1, but what about 4-in1? This next product combines 4 different uses into one cosmetic beacon of light, and we are beyond impressed.

The Quick Flick’s SPF 50+ Prep Moisturiser acts as a moisturiser, sunscreen, primer and protectant from pollution and blue light, all in one. Packaged to us in a superlight formula, this ultra-moisturising and protecting facial lotion is so unoffensive, it will feel beautiful on most skin types. Leaving your skin with a velvety finish, it acts as the perfect base to prime your skin before your foundation of preference.

Perfect for those who are time poor or often forget to adequately protect their face from the sun and daily aggressors, simply apply this formulation in the morning after any serums, whack on a lick of makeup and you’re ready to run out the door.

If you’re a believer in the harsh effects blue lights of computers and screens have on us and our skin, you’ll be happy to know that this product filters chemical flashback.

The Quick Flick SPF 50+ Prep Moisturiser With Blue Light Defence, $44.99, THE ICONIC

Just like a stick of creamy pigment-rich product perfect to glide over your cheeks, eyelids and lips, the wonderful world of makeup also offer pigment in its loose form to adhere to our faces wherever we like. Anastasia Beverly Hills, a cult brand known best for their eyebrow products, bring to us a refined loose glitter heavy in pigments, that deliver a pearlescent metallic finish to anywhere on our skin.

Anastasia Beverly Hill’s Loose Pigment powders are available in 5 delectable hues, and can act as eye shadow, blush, highlighter, body glitter and to wherever else you think needs a total glow-up, perfect for festival season.

This hypnotic product allows you total control of where you’d like to shine. To apply, simply add some cream or liquid-based primer or foundation to the skin, before brushing on the light-reflecting, multi-dimensional pigment. Build upon the amount used to create more intensity, remembering not to be shy! The more the merrier here.

To add to the body, mix in with your favourite body moisturiser or sunscreen.

ANASTASIA BEVERLY HILLS Loose Pigment, $45, Cult Beauty

For a product that has been designed to help define your eyes in a more natural colour than the more inky black, this liquid eyeliner pen by Charlotte Tilbury also doubles as an amazing freckle pen. If you’re unsure what a freckle pen is, check out our recent article about the phenomenon here.

Basically, if you’re unable to produce your own natural freckles but love the freck look, the best options to create them via the magic of makeup is with eyeliner pens. The Feline Flick Super Brown Pen by makeup luminary Charlotte Tilbury is the ultimate tool to nail the fake freckle at home.

Simply dot small freckles with the tip of the pen over the top of your makeup over the nose and upper cheek area, then dot your fingertips over the solution whilst wet to diffuse and stamp the dots around.

To use the pen as it was originally designed, line the upper lash line as thick or thickly as you like to define your eye shape, you’ll notice a muted effect which comes up more natural than of you were to use black.

Charlotte Tilbury The Feline Flick, $47, Charlotte Tilbury