Holly Willoughby is known for her fresh-faced natural beauty looks, and it turns out the secret behind her makeup is this affordable colour correcting primer
After countless years appearing on our TV screens, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Holly Willoughby would have curated a beauty routine that’s full of expensive products. However, her makeup artist Patsy O’Neill revealed that there’s actually plenty of affordable products she uses to prep Holly’s skin before heading on camera.
As every beauty fan knows, the secret to long-lasting, flawless makeup all starts with your base, which is why we were thrilled to discover that Patsy actually uses a very affordable product on Holly. Whilst doing Holly’s makeup for Dancing on Ice, the MUA shared that she used Super Facialist’s Skin Perfecting Primer, which hydrates, protects, refines and colour corrects skin.
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You can pick up the multi-use primer for £16.98 on Amazon right now, making it the perfect affordable alternative to the cult favourite Stila One Step Correct Primer, which is priced at £28. The Super Facialist primer also comes in two different shades, medium-deep and fair-light, to suit all skin tones.
It’s packed with skin-nourishing ingredients like cica, which helps soothe and calm skin, niacinamide to control oil and improve texture, and hyaluronic acid which hydrates and boosts moisture retention. As well as benefitting your skin underneath, the primer also gets your skin ready for your makeup to be applied, giving you a solid base to let your products shine.
It features blurring technology to help smooth imperfections and pores, as well as a built-in colour corrector thanks to the multiple pigments. This helps balance and even out skin tone, tone down any redness and brighten up sallow complexions, as well as improving all over dullness.
If redness is your main concern, you could also try the Erborian CC Red Correct, which combines green pigments with nourishing ingredients to help neutralise redness and discolouration. To reduce dullness, you could also try out the Huda Beauty Faux Filter Color Corrector which comes in six shades and promises to brighten your skin tone and camouflage everything from dark circles to blemishes.
However, Super Facialist’s Skin Perfecting Primer promises to do all of these things in one, which is why it’s not surprising it’s gotten such good reviews on Amazon. One wrote: “Great product for mid tone to dark skinned women. Evens out skin well and provides a good base for make up. Lightweight and breathable.”
Whilst another agreed: “Really lovely primer,smooth, easy to put on. Best I’ve ever used. Will definitely be buying again.”
Some did find some issues, writing: “Always wanted to try a colour correcting primer like this. Whilst it smooths on nicely, I don’t notice any particular improvement in skin tone and I don’t find it particularly suitable for oily skin.”
However others couldn’t get enough, with one reviewer praising: “Absolutely amazing primer. Make a real difference under foundation and has a lasting effect,” and “It tones my red down and for the price it’s just as good as other more expensive brands.”