Ex-Coronation Street star Victoria Ekanoye's go-to £35 foundation that comes in 50 shades

The actress, who is champion known for her relation arsenic Angie Appleton successful Coronation Street, has shared the constitution merchandise she swears by for filming and each day

For histrion Victoria Ekanoye, 1 of the cardinal parts of immoderate acting occupation starts successful the quality chair. From her relation arsenic Angie Appleton connected Coronation Street to The Lion King and The Real Full Monty, the 42-year-old is an inspiration to many, particularly aft sharing her courageous bosom crab journey.

Having flooded the situation of juggling mum-life with enactment and crab treatment, the actress, who has since received the all-clear, precocious filmed caller thriller Falcon other Peter Andre and Noah Huntley. In an interrogation with The Mirror, shared that a captious portion of filming prep is getting her foundation shade matched perfectly, which gives her the ‘confidence’ she needs to ‘concentrate connected lines’ and truly get into character.

While her West End stint saw Victoria opt for heavier, longwearing foundations designed to clasp up nether aggravated signifier lights, specified as MAFS’ Jay Howard’s fave MAC Studio Fix oregon Estee Lauder Double Wear, her go-to for connected surface and each time is the Fenty Beauty Pro Filt'r Soft Matte Longwear Foundation.

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Victoria was introduced to Fenty by constitution creator Pauline Briscoe, who has glammed up the likes of Charlene White, Judi Love and Oti Mabuse. She said: “I deliberation it was astatine the Pride of Britain awards astir 5 oregon six years agone that I archetypal utilized it - and I’ve gone done astir 10 bottles since.”

Speaking connected the foundation, Victoria added: "Fenty has everything down erstwhile it comes to tegument tones," with the Rihanna-owned cosmetics marque having been designed “so that women everyplace would beryllium included.” It comes successful much than 50 shades, with a existent absorption connected traditionally hard-to-match tegument tones, with the ex-Corrie prima opting for a medium-deep shadiness with a yellowish undertone.

She added: "It’s truthful important to person that practice successful constitution and skincare. You conscionable privation to look your champion and that’s truthful important for maine connected set. One of the archetypal jobs earlier filming is consultations with hairsbreadth and constitution who inquire what you usually deterioration and your shades. When you person the close shade, and you cognize you consciousness comfy with your makeup, you tin conscionable absorption connected the lines.”

The fashionable medium to full-coverage foundation offers a brushed matte decorativeness and longwear which makes it cleanable for filming. It adjacent features climate-adaptive technology to ‘fight heat, sweat and shine’, ensuring wearers ‘stay looking caller greeting oregon night’.

Priced astatine £34, the instauration has earned a 4.1 prima standing retired of five, based connected hundreds of reviews. One said: “Love this foundation. Now 1 of my favourite marque to use. The colour lucifer is cleanable for me.”

A 2nd added: “The champion instauration for me. Light value and blends truly good with my skin. Natural look. I person tried antithetic foundations, but Fenty Beauty Pro filt’r Soft is the champion for my skin.” With a 3rd commenting: “This is the champion instauration I person found. It lasts each day. I person operation skin.”

However, due to the fact that it’s a matte finish, it whitethorn not beryllium arsenic suited to adust skin, who whitethorn similar a much satin oregon dewy result. One shopper near a three-star rating, commenting: “This instauration does what it’s marketed to do. It’s dry, afloat coverage, has an airbrush decorativeness and photographs beautifully.

"The lone occupation is it’s not meant for adust tegument girlies. Despite tegument prep and switching primers it inactive clings to my adust spots (forehead country especially). On my sister this instauration looked similar “her tegument but better” due to the fact that she has oily skin. The instauration does not crease and does not look chalky and has a large shadiness range. With galore Fenty products I’ve recovered it’s not for adust tegument girls but inactive a bully product.”

On her days off, Victoria ditches instauration altogether to fto her 'skin breathe’, opting for small much than immoderate Fenty concealer and mascara. She added: "I person a toddler truthful I conflict with acheronian circles, truthful I mightiness usage a spot of concealer and mascara. I usually spell 2 shades lighter nether my eyes to springiness myself a spot of brightness there. I truly similar the concealer due to the fact that it’s not powdery oregon excessively heavy; it’s truly lightweight.”

Another marque Victoria truly loves is Jeunvie, peculiarly their oculus cream. “I've ne'er ever utilized thing that’s effectual truthful rapidly and doesn't person toxic ingredients successful it,” she said. “I’m each good and good now, but since being diagnosed with bosom cancer, I’m truly cautious astir what I enactment successful my assemblage and connected my assemblage and each of Jeunvie’s scope is designed to beryllium utilized for radical similar me.”

Victoria was diagnosed with crab six months aft giving commencement to her archetypal child, Theo, successful 2021, aft she recovered a lump successful her near bosom portion feeding her newborn son. After a bid of treatments, the actress, who is the ninth idiosyncratic successful her household to beryllium diagnosed with cancer, was fixed the each clear.

She went connected to rise consciousness done the ITV programme The Real Full Monty, wherever 10 celebrities bravely bared each to the federation successful assistance of charity. Victoria described the acquisition arsenic 'liberating' and says it gave her 'a caller position connected life.'