Blend It Like Beckham! Watch the London Superstar Do Her Five-Minute Face

 

Victoria Beckham has made a career out of anticipating women’s needs. In 1994, that meant female empowerment by way of best-selling Spice Girl anthems. In 2008, it was turning spools of body-confident fabric into hyper-flattering dresses and separates for her self-titled fashion label. Now, with characteristic wit and wisdom, she’s channeling her trademark high-glamour-meets-no-nonsense sensibility into a 14-piece limited-edition makeup collection of pitch-perfect lipsticks, glimmering eyeshadows, second-skin highlighters, and matte bronzers, created in collaboration with Estée Lauder.

Divided into four tightly edited micro collections named for her favorite cities—London, New York, Paris, and Los Angeles—it’s a global road map for getting VB-level polish in a dash. Because when the fashion mogul and mother of four says, “I’ll be five minutes,” she means it. After years spent with the industry’s best makeup artists, she’s distilled what works for her—and just about everyone else—into a few deft moves.

A universally flattering “smoky, dark, quite sexy eye,” for example, can be executed in seconds with a warm wash of sandy nude eyeshadow and a lash-defining sweep of shimmering brown pigment along the top lid; to up the smolder quotient, she works a rich gray liner along the bottom waterline like a pro.

Stealth highlights dusted on the high planes of the face is Beckham’s trick for replacing the signs of jet lag with a healthy glow. (Side note: Her perfectly sized compact mirrors mean no squinting when attending to a touch-up upon landing.) But for true globe-trotters, she’s designed a near-magic illuminating cream that doubles as a brightening primer and moisturizer that also happens to tighten. Because, as she puts it, “Who doesn’t love that?”

Here, she cracks open the door to her powder room and breaks down the secrets to her five-minute morning routine. No touch-ups necessary.

The Limited Edition Victoria Beckham Estée Lauder Makeup Collection will be available September 1 at esteelauder.com

 

Filmed at The Standard High Line, standardhotels.com

 

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