Merit launch The Summer Set with the only four essentials you need this summer -and it’ll save you £20
WIND the clock back a few years, and no one had heard of Merit Beauty.
But nowadays, the American label is one of the world’s most coveted make-up brands – and here’s a bargain on a Merit Summer Set.
Merit Beauty The Summer Set £132 £119
Brainchild of Katherine Power – a wine, fashion, and skincare brand entrepreneur – Merit Beauty takes a chic, minimalistic approach to makeup – and the results are dreamy.
Merit Beauty launched in the UK in 2021, and quickly found its way into the make-up bags of beauty editors, make-up artists and celebrities alike.
Initially mesmerised by its golden packaging and cult status, I took to Merit like a moth to a flame – and have been swatching, patting and brushing its products onto my face ever since.
Excitingly, the brand has just dropped a limited edition set, The Summer Set, starring all the essentials you need to fake your way to glowing skin.
Whether you’re new to Merit, or a loyal brand follower, this kit is the perfect way to dip your toe into the make-up brand – but beware, this stuff is highly addictive.
Merit Beauty The Summer Set £132 £119
Featuring four of the brand’s bestselling products, spanning from a serum to a lip oil, you can get your hands on The Summer Set for just £119 – saving you £13.
Included in the set is the Day Glow Highlighting Stick, one of Merit’s latest releases.
Typically £34, this buttery, melting-touch balm sinks into your skin, leaving your complexion glowing and illuminated.
Its mess-free, precision tip makes application easy, and its balm formula can be blended with fingers.
Whilst so many bronzing products are overly glittery, Day Glow has a pearlescent finish that captures and reflects light, without looking sparkly.
Merit Beauty The Summer Set £132 £119
Talking of sparkle-free bronzers, Bronze Balm is possibly the easiest contour I’ve ever used.
I’ve got no time for bronzers that take three hours and half an army to blend and instead reach for melting, silky-smooth balms like this one.
Toss aside your patchy, sparkly bronzing powder for this sumptuously sheer bronzing balm, which contours and bronzes in moments.
I love swiping Bronze Balm across my cheekbones, nose and hairline for an instant, just-back-from-hols look.
Merit Beauty The Summer Set £132 £119
We all know that primed, prepped skin is key to make-up that sits well and looks good, but so many priming products are heavy, greasy or ineffective.
However, The Great Skin serum has a nourishing formula, for promoting skin that looks great under make-up and beyond.
Starring calming, smoothing niacinamide and glow-stimulating cacao seed extract, the serum instantly plumps and brightens skin.
Whilst I’ve found the serum to be quite watery and messy, it’s lightweight and non-greasy – so you’ll forget it’s even there.
Merit Beauty The Summer Set £132 £119
Think of lip oil as the bigger, cooler cousin of lip glosses.
Lip oils are a lighter and more hydrating version of sticky, gloopy lipglosses, and provide lips with a plumped, bitten look.
Merit’s Shade Slick is a brilliant example – I love its tinted, hydrating formula which floods chapped lips with moisture.
Formulated with shea butter and grapeseed oils, the formula softens and conditions lips, and is the perfect size for tossing into a handbag.
I’m obsessed with The Summer Set – so I’ll be stocking up quickly before it goes.
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