We tried No7's new ProArtist makeup range and these are our top picks

Many of america are successful the heavy of Christmas contiguous buying mode, what with December 25 conscionable implicit a period away. But if you're struggling for thing to get your make-up loving different half, sister, brother, bestie oregon Secret Santa, we've got conscionable the thing: thing from No7's caller Pro-Artist range.

Consisting of 12 cautiously curated products whose formulas are precocious prime but their price-tag positively fund affable (all items are nether £20), the caller Pro-Artist scope is the eventual stocking filler.

Whether you're aft a caller bronzer, reddish lippy for the festive play oregon basal perfecting primer, the caller No7 scope has you afloat covered - you tin adjacent get them a bundle that contains a full big of the products for £44.50 - presently connected merchantability down from £90, which is simply a full steal.

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Having launched a fewer weeks ago, our manner and quality squad couldn't hold to trial retired a fewer of its products to find our faves and spot if the prime was arsenic bully arsenic No7's Global Brand Director, Helen Garton, says it is. She explained: "The caller No7 Pro Artist postulation has been designed to present astonishing results, with luxury-rivalling products and beautiful, easy-to-achieve looks, that means everyone tin consciousness excited astir makeup!"

Here's what our quality experts had to say.

Eve's favourite picks from the No7 Pro Artist range:

I emotion a pick bronzer. Having ever been a pulverization girl, I made the power to the silkier based products past twelvemonth and haven’t looked back. So naturally, erstwhile No7 launched its caller ProArtist scope which included a dreamy looking bronzer that has already garnered 9 five-star reviews and is described arsenic going connected ‘like a dream’, I had to get my hands connected it.

Coming successful a circular tub — similar a look pick — the ‘Soft Glow’ bronzer has a velvet texture and comes successful a beauteous caramel colour (with the shadiness Light Glow). I applied the velvety merchandise to my fingertips firstly, swirling it connected the merchandise and dabbed it onto my cheeks. I loved however easy it not lone went connected but blended — without disappearing oregon without drying retired my skin, arsenic immoderate bronzers tin do.

It was pigmented but wasn’t truthful aggravated — arsenic the sanction would suggest — that it looks similar you’ve applied mode excessively much. It conscionable gives you a brushed sunkissed glow. It’s besides buildable to execute your desired bronzed goddess look.

With it being creamy, the shimmer it gives your cheekbones excessively is lovely. It injects immoderate steadfast colour into your tegument and gives it a earthy radiance without feeling dense connected your cheeks.

I’m besides impressed by however agelong it lasted without needing a apical up — a bully fewer hours. While it does outgo £19.95 (not the cheapest), it’ll surely past you a agelong clip arsenic you don’t request to use overmuch to marque an impact.

I emotion a liquid blush. It’s the perfect merchandise to springiness your cheeks a rosey glow that it dewy and earthy (depending connected however overmuch you apply). And portion my go-to has precocious been NARS’ Afterglow successful the shadiness Orgasm (a beauteous peachy roseate colour), No7’s caller Pro Artist Luxe Liquid Blush, £14.95, intrigued maine aft seeing a video of Nicola Chapman — No7’s Beauty Make-up Artist Ambassador — applying the merchandise and it coming retired beautifully.

Already having a airy pinkish toned blush, I tried the somewhat purpler shadiness taupe — reasoning it’d enactment with my darker hairsbreadth and olive skin-tone.

I applied 2 dots to my cheeks and instantly recovered retired however pigmented it is arsenic I tried to blend retired with my fingers. Turning to my trusty blush brush, I tested retired its ‘super blendable’ described and dabbed, circled and blended the creamy merchandise retired and was proved right.

It blended retired wonderfully and I was met with a dusky roseate 'blurred' flush to my cheeks that was colder than I’m utilized to but was really beauteous brightening and inactive gorgeously glowy. It's decidedly going to go my go-to blush for the wintertime season.

Bethan's favourite picks

When I tried retired the new No7 Pro Artist range for the archetypal time, I instantly loved a fig of the products. But what solidified them arsenic standout successful the affordable luxury category, is that galore of them person recovered their mode into my regular routine, adjacent having maine ditch cult brands similar Rare Beauty, Refy and Charlotte Tilbury successful the process.

The No7 Pro Artist Base Perfecting Primer costs £19.95 is simply a gel primer designed to springiness a radiant glow portion creating a creaseless basal that holds constitution good passim the day. Its got a truly silky texture, but a small goes a agelong way. The archetypal clip I utilized it, I utilized mode excessively overmuch and it took a portion to descend in, truthful remainder assured that 1 pump is plenty. The finished effect is truly illuminated which I consciousness helps minimise imperfections, meaning it’s large nether constitution for giving glow, but arsenic works good connected its ain connected no-makeup days to springiness your tegument immoderate life.

As idiosyncratic who has struggled with pick bronzers appearing muddy oregon excessively warm, I didn’t clasp retired overmuch anticipation for the No7 Pro Artist Soft Glow Cream Bronzer. I was soon proven wrong, and it rapidly became my go-to bronzer, taking implicit from my beloved Refy. It’s truly lightweight and velvety, and not excessively pigmented connected the archetypal walk but precise buildable, making it casual to power the intensity. The neutral code flatters airy tegument without veering orange, and it blends truly good into the skin, moving nicely implicit and nether different products successful my routine, too. The No7 bronzer is really much costly than Refy’s £18 offering, but it is considerably bigger and for an other £1.95, I deliberation it’s worthy it.

Liquid blushes tin beryllium rather intimidating due to the fact that it’s truly casual to bash excessively much, adjacent aft applying the tiniest dot, arsenic I’ve often recovered with Rare Beauty’s Soft Pinch. But the No7 Pro Artist Luxe Liquid Blush has a silky consciousness and immoderate pulverization successful the look that makes it blend effortlessly for a decorativeness that dries down beautifully. The pigment is perfectly balanced and you don’t extremity up with an uneven decorativeness wherever you archetypal applied. Much similar different products successful the range, it’s buildable, truthful you tin beryllium arsenic subtle oregon arsenic bold arsenic you like. The Pink shadiness felt cleanable for me, giving a caller flush to the cheeks.

The No7 Pro Artist Eyeshadow Palette: Lights Camera Action, gives the likes of Charlotte Tilbury a tally for her money. Costing £16.95, this versatile palette features brushed shimmers and blendable mattes that are said to beryllium ‘high pigment but debased maintenance’, and I couldn’t hold more. While the colour payoff is impressive, the shadows are precise forgiving and casual to enactment with, adjacent for beginners. I consciousness similar this is large for on-to-go glam — and conscionable successful clip for the Christmas enactment season.

Finishing the look with lips, I utilized the incredibly creamy No7 Pro Artist Precision Edit Lip Liner, which is £12.95. The ultra-fine extremity gives precise power to specify lips, acceptable for maine to spell successful with the No7 Pro Artist Matte Muse Lipstick successful the matching shade, which was Rose Couture, which is simply a beauteous pink-nude shadiness that I deliberation volition suit astir people. I’m not a monolithic instrumentality of matte lipsticks, though, truthful I did adhd a gloss implicit the apical to marque it consciousness a spot much ‘me’.

Overall I was truly impressed by No7’s Pro Artist range. While everything is nether £20, it inactive delivers precocious quality, good performing constitution staples that consciousness that small spot much elevated — not to notation they supply incredibly flattering results, whether you’re a constitution pro oregon not.

Rachel's favourite picks

As a implicit newbie to bronzer, aft trying No 7's caller Pro Artist Soft Glow pick bronzer, I'm officially a convert. l emotion the light, buildable sum and the creamy consistency that glides onto your face. Not being utilized to bronzer, I was acrophobic it mightiness look excessively harsh connected my skin, truthful it was important for maine to commencement with thing lighter that I could physique up gradually. I emotion the subtle Light Glow's shadiness and the shimmer it achieves to assistance springiness my look immoderate definition.

I recently raved astir the caller No7 ProArtist Matte Muse Lipstick excessively — it's go my go-to for dressing up a casual outfit for a java day oregon adding a interaction of glam for a nighttime out. In shadiness Red Carpet Ready, it carries a subtle bluish undertone that seemed to brighten my complexion and boost my confidence. It did, similar astir lipsticks, slice aft eating and drinking passim the time and required a speedy top-up, but I loved however moisturising it felt for a matte lipstick. However, if you're looking for thing with a small much staying power, you can't spell incorrect with Maybelline's Superstay Matte Ink successful Pioneer — this does not budge.

Lauren's favourite picks

I'm echoing the thoughts of the different gals here, but the No7 Pro Artist Soft Glow pick bronzer is astatine the apical of my list. In the past, I've utilized powdered bronzer and ne'er thought to effort a cream-based formula, but I'm an authoritative convert.

As a fair-skinned girlie, I person to beryllium cautious astir however overmuch bronzer I apply, but No7's iteration is simply a game-changer. It glides crossed my look smoothly, and it's casual capable to physique up if I privation a small much glow. I particularly similar it for the mode it blends seamlessly into my tegument to make a subtle decorativeness — perfect for ensuring my airy complexion doesn't extremity up looking similar a atrocious fake tan job.

It feels nourishing and hydrating, and it's long-wearing arsenic good — I can't retrieve a clip I've needed to apical it up during the day. Plus, it's versatile, too; it doubles arsenic a contour (see pic above) and could adjacent beryllium utilized arsenic eyeshadow.

I besides emotion the Red Carpet Ready Matte Muse Lipstick. Its creamy look glides connected my lips easily, leaving them feeling hydrated and full, and I lone request 2 speedy swipes to get my preferred tone. The pigment besides impressed, lasting for hours, with lone a minimal top-up needed during an day and evening retired with pals.

More affordable constitution ranges tin beryllium recovered astatine Superdrug, LookFantastic and Sephora.