The several minutes (or hours) it takes to apply a full face of makeup can be considered me-time. In fact, for people constantly on the go, that might be the only downtime they get. And while we’re all for savouring the process of getting the day’s face on, most mornings are a chaotic mess. It’s a fine balance of complex calculations between snoozing alarms and getting to the office in time to meet your looming deadlines. 

Thankfully, we live in the golden age of beauty. This means hybrid makeup products that work harder than your Monica Geller-like colleague. These beauty investments will spruce up your on-the-go makeup bag while making it ten-fold lighter. 

Keeping that in mind, we rounded up a list of multitasking luxury beauty products that every woman on-the-go needs. 

Estee Lauder's Brow Multi-Tasker  

If your eyebrows are not in place, no amount of makeup will give you the sizzling yet natural look everyone is aiming for nowadays. Thankfully, Estee Lauder’s Brow Multi-Tasker is a product that sculpts, fills, and defines your brows all in one. 

On one end is a unique triangular tip pencil that shapes and contours. While the centre portion opens up to a sponge applicator filled with a brow powder that fills, the other end has a spooled brush that defines and styles the brow. It’s the 3-in-1 beauty tool your vanity bag didn’t know it needed. 

₹2,500

Anastasia Beverly Hills Stick Blush 

For all those days when you don’t want to put on your entire face but still need some colour, the Anastasia Beverly Hills Stick Blush is the product to reach for. It’s a lightweight cream colour that leaves a natural, flushed tint behind on your lips and cheek. The intensity is customizable and gives an almost seamless finish. This means you can go from sunkissed to popping in seconds. The product also has a small brush on the other end to help you blend the colour perfectly. Convenient, isn’t it? The stick blush comes in 5 different shades that flatter all skin tones. 

₹3,200

Too Faced's Hangover 3-in-1 Setting Spray

A weightless coconut-water-infused primer, setting spray, and refresher, this Too Faced spray is the easiest way to touch up your makeup and revive tired skin. It hydrates, brightens, and keeps your makeup in place on the days your energy levels are down in the dumps but you still have to bring your face A-game. Basically, it’s the beauty hangover cure. 
To apply, shake well and hold the bottle 6-8 inches away from your face. 

₹2,750

Charlotte Tilbury's Nudegasm Face Palette

For the days you need a little extra glitter and glow, the Charlotte Tilburt Nudegasm palette is at your rescue. A combination of the four shades—Super Glow, Multi Glow, Sculpt, and Super Sculpt—will you a snatched, luminous look in a matter of minutes. 

What makes this product nothing short of a real-life filter is the flexibility of the products. For instance, the shade Super Glow can be used as a highlighter and as an eyeshadow or eye primer. Whereas Sculpt can be used as a face contour and an eyeshadow to achieve the smoky-eyed look. Who said runway-worthy looks took hours? 

₹6800

Bobbi Brown's Pot Rouge For Lips & Cheeks

A cult-favourite, the Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge should be a staple in your carry-on vanity bag. It’s a multitasking cream colour for your lips and cheek (and when you’re in a pinch, a light eyeshadow as well). 

Blend a little product with your fingers, or a brush, on the apple of your cheek in an upward motion for a sun-kissed look. It’s also one of the best products to have around when you don’t feel like wearing lipstick. It leaves behind a tint so natural, you can put it in the no-makeup makeup category.  

₹3550

Dior's Hydra Life Triple Impact Makeup Remover 

There is nothing more satisfying than taking your makeup off after a long day. Well, okay, maybe removing your bra, but that’s a whole other story. 

For all makeup maniacs, a cardinal rule is to get all your makeup off before hitting the bed. And what better product to use to do that than one that not only effortless removes makeup (yes, even waterproof products and industrial-level pigmented lipsticks) but also cleanses every pore to rid it of impurities, hydrates skin, softens, and soothes the undereye and strengths eyelashes. It leaves the skin looking supple and radiant. And, at the end of the day, isn’t that what we want? 

₹3300

Charlotte Tilbury's Instant Look Of Love In A Palette 

Inspired by the flushed look of new love, this palette is the only product you need in your on-the-go beauty bag. In just 7 fool-proof steps (it’s essential colour by number), you can get a full face of glowing makeup. 

The must-have palette contains 7 products—everything from a smoky eyeshadow (which you can also use to line your eyes) and a cheek pop to a setting powder. But that’s not what makes it so coveted. It includes three of Charlotte Tilbury’s cult favourites—the filmstar Bronze & Glow highlighter and bronzer and Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder. 

₹6500

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