10 best multi-tasking beauty products that save time and money

#1 For Beloved One Melasleep Brightening Daily Defence Cream SPF30**, $53 (three shades)

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The tinted cream gives light coverage, and wears like a sheer foundation. The hydrating formula also has a protective effect against pollutants, and works to replace makeup base and sunscreen as well. The pink adds a rosy glow, peach balances out an uneven skin tone, and lavender corrects sallowness.

 

 

#2 Etude House Play 101 Blending Pencils, $16.90 each

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The multi-tasking pencil – it can be used as a blusher, a concealer, an eyeliner, an eyeshadow and a lip colour – comes in 25 highly pigmented hues and four finishes, two of which are waterproof. 

 

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#3 Nudestix Lip + Cheek Pencil, $37

3/10

A pencil makeup suitable for use on the lips and cheeks.

#4 Percy & Reed Perfectly Perfecting Wonder Cleanse & Nourish, $40

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A cleansing conditioner that cleans and hydrates hair with a hair-strengthening cocktail of aloe vera, avocado, camellia oil, jojoba oil, and essential oils of rose geranium, lavender and peppermint. Perfect for days where you are running late, or when there’s a toddler banging down your bathroom door.

#5 Trilogy Everyday Balm, $68

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A balm infused with extracts of rose hip, echinacea and pawpaw, to moisturise cuticles and chapped lips, and for soothing dry, itchy skin.

#6 Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Skin Protectant, $41

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This all-rounder moisturising skin saver can be used to calm skin irritation, zap skin redness, condition cuticles and even sculpt unruly brows.

#7 Dermalogica Skinperfect Primer SPF30, $108

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This makeup base helps to smooth out fine lines so that makeup goes on smoothly and flawlessly. It also works as a sunscreen, protecting your skin against skin damage caused by the sun’s UV rays.

#8 Lancome Energie De Vie Smoothing & Glow Boosting Liquid Care, $160

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A one-step skincare that boosts radiance and hydration in the skin. This lotion, serum and moisturiser has a lightweight formula that deeply moisturises the skin, and is perfect for busy women who would like to minimise the number of steps in their skincare regimes.

 

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#9 Hada Labo Super Hyaluronic Acid Hydrating Lotion, $22.90

9/10

Used as a lotion after cleansing, this lightweight hydrating lotion that is said to increases skin’s moisture level. Soak a sheet mask with this lotion and leave it on skin for 10 minutes for an added boost of moisture.

 

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#10 Dr Ci:Labo Aqua Collagen Gel Super-moisture EX, $130

10/10

This five-in-one formulation comes to you as a fast-absorbing gel moisturiser that replaces your skin-prep lotion/toner, emulsion, serum, moisturiser and makeup base.