Darlings, Christmas is coming! Yes, Charlotte Tilbury’s Hollywood-inspired gifting collection has just landed and Good Housekeeping has been given an exclusive lowdown by the iconic makeup artist herself. Want to gift the exact lippy, mascara or skin cream worn by some of your favourite celebrities? You’re in the right place.
Because Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Holiday Wonderland isn’t just inspired by the A-list from afar, but also up close and personal from the global icons that rely on Charlotte’s red-carpet magic. The makeup artist counts some of the world’s most famous faces among her closest friends and brand ambassadors, and even uses them as very glamorous guinea pigs to test her latest products.
Charlotte is especially renowned for making her mature superstars look utterly breathtaking, and she tells us that her products do that for real women, too. ‘The skinification of makeup is massively important for me,’ she says. ‘When I’m creating my products, I'm always thinking of older women. If it looks great on them, you’re off to the races. If you’re 18, you’re going to look like an AI superstar. But if it works on older women, that’s the bar. It’s all about the blurring, the lifting, the contouring.’
To help inspire our beauty gifting this year, we asked Charlotte to talk through some of the iconic products within her festive sets, and share which ageless celebrities love to wear them.
Magic Cream
Ageless icons: Amal and George Cloooney
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‘I had Magic Cream before I had the brand, and it’s partly why I’ve been so successful,’ says Charlotte, who created her iconic cream as a hand-mixed backstage secret and has refined the formula ever since. ‘We’ve got all the celebrities in Hollywood who love it. It has that plump-and-lift mesh technology that changes the matrix of your skin instantly, so the makeup sits very differently. I’ll never forget Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston and everyone being like, “Oh my god, she gets the glow on your skin!”
Amal Clooney is a superfan who’s used the cream for years. ‘She’s like, “I never ever skip Magic Cream, I so notice if I don’t have it,’” says Charlotte. ‘She says that it always makes her skin and makeup look fresh and young and glowing, even if it’s a heavy glam look.’ Charlotte reveals that Amal has even converted husband George to the cause. ‘He’s addicted as well,’ she shares. ‘He’s like, “I never use a moisturiser.” But even he got into it! He’s sixtysomething, but looks insanely amazing. A good advert for me. Thank you, George, for loving it so much!’
Gift pick: Charlotte’s Iconic Magic Skin Duo
Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte's Iconic Magic Skin Duo
Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte's Iconic Magic Skin Duo
Pillow Talk Matte Revolution lipstick
Ageless icon: Twiggy
Pillow Talk is the iconic nude lipstick shade that mimics a youthful lip’s natural flush, and one Charlotte created for an instantly ageless look. ‘You lose volume and colour in your lips as you get older,’ notes Charlotte. ‘Pillow Talk just puts it back in a very natural way.’
Kate Moss picked Pillow Talk as her bridal shade, and it’s also a must-have for the original London supermodel: Twiggy. ‘Twiggy loves it because it naturally makes her lips naturally defined,’ says Charlotte. ‘Twiggy’s got the most incredible eyes, so she doesn’t need a big statement lip. You’d hardly know she’s wearing it. It just puts back what nature blessed you with. People like that. You don’t feel like you’re done up for a first date – you just look the most beautiful you, with how your lips were before.’
Gift pick: Pillow Talk Iconic Lip + Cheek Kit
Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Iconic Lip + Cheek Kit
Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Iconic Lip + Cheek Kit
Exagger-Eyes Mascara
Ageless icon: Penélope Cruz
There are volumising mascaras, and then there’s Exagger-Eyes. Charlotte says the thickening formula gives ‘nine times more volume – boom’, and is a must for any of her red-carpet celebrities, especially the older ones. She name-checks Venus Williams, Céline Dion and Sofia Vergara as Exagger-Eyes fans, and says it’s a can’t-live-without product for Penélope Cruz. ‘Penélope Cruz won’t leave the house without that one. She likes an eye; I like an eye. Penélope looks gorgeous neutral, but she needs an eye,’ says Charlotte.
Charlotte squashes the myth that a dramatic mascara is unflattering on an older face. ‘A great mascara opens up your eyes. So it’s not ageing. As you get older, your eyes drop, and then you look more tired all the time. What I love about Exagger-Eyes Mascara is you can still look very Bambi-eyed and fresh. It actually opens up the eye and cheats a lift on a sagging eyelid.’
Gift pick: Charlotte Tilbury Exagger-eyes Volume Mascara Kit
Charlotte Tilbury Exagger-eyes Volume Mascara Kit
Charlotte Tilbury Exagger-eyes Volume Mascara Kit
Big Lip Plumpgasm
Ageless icon: Kate Moss
Another part of the Pillow Talk franchise, Plumpgasm is Charlotte’s signature nude lip look with a sexy, wet-look finish. The gloss’s hot-meets-cold sensation adds fullness instantly, while volume-inflating ingredients promise to plump pouts for real over time. ‘Again, as you get older, your lips do thin a little bit, so it’s great having something that just naturally plumps them up, and also gets rid of fine lip lines,’ says Charlotte. ‘We’re ageing faster because of blue light and dehydration, so having something that’s a smoothing oil and a gloss in one is very youth-boosting.’
It’s become a firm favourite with A-listers since launching in 2024: ‘Demi Moore is a a big one for Plumpgasm,’ says Charlotte. ‘Helena Christensen and Elle Macpherson, too – they all love it.’ But for its ultimate icon, Charlotte plumps (sorry) for Kate Moss. ‘She likes this kind of healthy look, especially when she’s on holiday. She’s got the most amazing lips, but this just plumps them out a little bit, and still looks very natural.’
Top gift pick: Big Lip Plumpgasm Mini Trio
Charlotte Tilbury Big Lip Plumpgasm Mini Trio
Charlotte Tilbury Big Lip Plumpgasm Mini Trio
Unreal Skin Sheer Glow Tint
Ageless icon: Sienna Miller
Charlotte calls her Unreal foundation stick ‘an Instagram filter in real life’, explaining that it nourishes skin and also has a smoothing, blurring glow. ‘It covers sunspots, and any kind of exhaustion, so you just look healthier,’ she says, ‘You’ve got fine lines, a bit of blue under your eyes, a bit of redness around your nose – gone.’
Sienna Miller sees it as some sort of beauty witchcraft: ‘She’s always like, “What did you put in that?!”’ laughs Charlotte. While the foundation itself isn’t in the gifting kit (it would be tricky, with 17 shades in the line-up), there’s an exclusive mini version of Unreal’s sister highlighter, which her celeb fans adore. ‘Jennifer Aniston loves Unreal Skin, and they’re all obsessed with the highlighters. Rita Ora constantly has that glow with the highlighter,’ says Charlotte.
Gift pick: Unreal Blush + Glow Mini Trio
Charlotte Tilbury Unreal Blush + Glow Mini Trio
Charlotte Tilbury Unreal Blush + Glow Mini Trio
Pillow Talk Blusher
Ageless icon: Demi Moore
Demi Moore loves wearing Charlotte’s creamy Unreal Blush Healthy Glow Sticks, but she’s also a fan of the Pillow Talk blusher, which is back for Christmas in a compact that pairs it with a colour-correcting Airbrush Flawless Finish powder.
Charlotte tells us it’s the perfect pairing for Demi’s complexion. ‘Because she’s got more oily skin, she likes to brighten, but she always says, “I need that blue-pink tone to cut through the sallowness.” She feels she looks quite drained, so she loves the pink,’ reveals Charlotte. ‘She and Elle Macpherson like it to just lift their skin. Salma Hayek is another one. When they’re a little bit more medium skin tone, they always feel that their sallow green undertone comes through, and that this blusher brightens them up.’
Gift pick: Soulmates Face Palette
Charlotte Tilbury Pillowtalk Beauty Soulmates Palette
Charlotte Tilbury Pillowtalk Beauty Soulmates Palette
Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder
Ageless icon: Jerry Hall
Powder for women who don’t like powder. Charlotte created her Airbrush formulas to take away shine but put youth back. ‘You can put them on very finely and they give you that hyper-blur, but they never sit in the pores,’ she says. ‘They blur and lift marionette lines and under the eyes. It’s a bit like an Instagram filter. You just, vroom – you just Photoshop it out.’
Her skin ‘retoucher’ is available in a powder format and a new ultra-fine loose version. ‘Cher’s obsessed with the powder – she went nuts for the powder,’ says Charlotte. ‘And Jerry Hall. I cannot tell you how different she looks with this on! I just couldn’t get over how much this worked on her skin!’ The ageless supermodel has even become the face of the new product, saying it’s about ‘best version of yourself’ beauty.
Gift pick: Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder Limited Edition
Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder
Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Powder
Beauty Light Wands
Ageless icon: Céline Dion
One of Charlotte’s most viral products, the Beauty Light Wands, give glow with a soft-focus finish, not a sparkly smear. ‘Having a gel technology was really important, because so many highlighters show up all the texture around the eyes that none of us wants to see,’ says Charlotte.
‘Céline Dion loves them because they’re very smoothing and blurring,’ she adds. ‘She loves that they don’t sit in the lines around the eyes. You literally look like you’re walking around with a candlelit glow the whole time.
‘And you get that “Hollywood spotlight” effect where you’re lifting the face with strings of light. I do that a lot to Amal and to Céline, just to accentuate the cheekbones or top of the eyebrow, but very subtly. It’s just these subtle little light tricks – they really snatch and lift.’
Gift pick: Hollywood Superstar Glow Kit
Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Superstar Glow Kit
