Pulling Double Duty: Makeup With SPF

With sun season right around the corner, it’s important to protect your skin from the harshness of UV rays. Our skin has endured a long winter and will be especially sensitive as the sun gets warmer and stronger, so now is the time to ensure your beauty regime takes sun protection into consideration. Here are 10 makeup products that also have an SPF component, giving you both beauty and sun safeguarding. —Jennifer Cox

Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm in Sienna Rose, $7, available at Amazon Canada

Nourish, replenish, and add a splash of rosy colour to your lips. This lip balm is formulated with mineral sunscreen that provides Broad Spectrum SPF 30 protection, while a hint of colour beautifies lips. It’s made with shea butter, responsibly sourced beeswax, and other botanicals, plus a softly tinted colour to flatter and nourish your lips every day.

Ciele blush & PROTECT SPF 50+, $49

This hydrating liquid blush gives your cheeks the perfect flush of colour. It’s not only lightweight but has a buildable burst of colour in a natural finish that melts into the skin. It also contains non-nano mineral-based broad spectrum SPF 50+.

Colorescience: Sunforgettable Total Protection Color Balm, $62, available at Beautysense

Protect and hydrate lips, cheeks, and eye lids with a pop of colour. Each shade is designed with EnviroScreen Technology to provide all-mineral protection from environmental aggressors like UVA/UVB, pollution, blue light, and infrared radiation. It hydrates and conditions for healthier-looking lips, and the buildable lip and cheek colour is available in three shades.

Kate Somerville UncompliKated SPF 50 Soft Focus Makeup Setting Spray, $62, available at Sephora Canada

UncompliKated SPF Soft Focus Makeup Setting Spray delivers broad-spectrum sun protection that can be applied throughout the day on top of your makeup without disruption. The fine-misting aerosol spray dries quickly to set makeup, reduce shine, and provide a matte finish and soft-focus effect. Hyaluronic acid provides lightweight hydration while light-diffusing silicone powder blurs and softens the appearance of lines and wrinkles. It’s the perfect solution to set your makeup and protect from the harmful effects of the sun.

Clinique Even Better Clinical Serum Foundation SPF 25, $62

This 24-hour full-coverage serum foundation instantly perfects with a matte finish. Plus, it visibly improves skin with 3 serum technology. It offers 24-hour wear with SPF protection to deliver full even coverage all day long.

It Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Illumination with SPF 50+ Cream, $64

Developed with plastic surgeons, CC+ Illumination delivers full, flawless, perfect coverage and protects your skin with SPF 50+ UVA/UVB broad-spectrum physical sunscreen. Clinically shown to give you 179% of skin hydration, improve skin texture, and enhance skin brightness without glitter or shimmer, this breakthrough color-correcting cream never creases or cracks and instantly camouflages imperfections including dark spots.

Nudestix Nudescreen Blush Tint, $36

This product multi-tasks as a soft, fresh colour tint for the cheeks, eyes, and lips, while protecting from daily UV damage. Clean and containing no chemical sunscreens, this blush tint comes in a liquid formula that provides sun protection and is perfect to-go. It’s formulated with 100% mineral non-nano zinc oxide, protects against broad-spectrum UVA/UVB, reduces the visible signs of aging, and is recommended for daily use by the Skin Cancer Foundation.

ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint SPF 40 Foundation, $65, available at Sephora Canada

This clean skin tint combines makeup, skincare, and SPF into one fool proof step. It’s clinically proven to moisturize and improve the appearance of pores, fine lines, and wrinkles with every wear. Choose from 30 shades that blend in seamlessly with a dewy finish for skin that looks and feels alive.

Sheen Hydrating Lip Balm SPF 50 from Ultra Violette, $29

Ultra Violette has created the ultimate everyday lip balm. This product is your lightweight layer of daily hydration and SPF 50 protection for the lips, with three super-cute shades and a fresh minty scent. The deeply nourishing formula is suitable for all skin types, leaving lips feeling soft and looking juicy. And because nobody likes weird residue, the applicator is designed to sit snugly against the lips to deliver a precise, non-sticky pout.

Jane Iredale Amazing Base Loose Mineral Powder SPF 20/15, $72

A loose mineral foundation that gives sheer to medium coverage, this powder is made from micronized minerals, it’s oil free, and it’s weightless. It’s an SPF 20/15 foundation, powder, and concealer with broad spectrum (UVA/UVB) sun protection, all in one product. And it’s not only water resistant, but it conceals redness and diffuses the appearance of fine lines and pores with a soft-focus effect.