It can be hard to define what “expensive-looking skin” looks like but, for me, it’s the kind of skin that looks like it spends many an hour being massaged by the hands of an expert facialist, is quenched by glasses of filtered water and green juices (never, ever, coffee), and has had SPF painstakingly applied to it each and every day of the year since childhood. It’s smooth, bright, juicy and free of dehydration lines and sun spots. And, for me—a coffee-guzzling, perpetually tired, acne-prone beauty editor—feels almost entirely out of reach.
However, I’m also a firm believer in beauty products being a wonderful tool that allow you to enhance the best bits about yourself, turn the attention away from the bits that you aren’t so fond of, and sometimes altogether fake a brighter, better version of yourself until you can achieve it for real. And, luckily, make-up artists are in agreement that you can easily achieve expensive-looking skin without having the bank balance to match.
