The best Refy beauty products you need in your make-up bag, from lip liner to brow gel

This cream bronzer was our beauty editor’s favourite Refy product, and it has certainly earned a spot in their everyday make-up bag. It’s soft, creamy and blends seamlessly into skin, delivering a sunkissed flush of colour that looks incredibly natural.

Athough the brand suggests using the duo brush to apply the product, our tester found it actually works best when warmed up with your fingers then blended out with a brush later. This ensures a more natural golden glow that can easily be layered, depending on your look. It’s available in four shades, from a lighter-hued dune to a deeper shade of onyx.

The Refy face primer has racked up a whole host of fans, with many taking to social media to rave about the product. But what makes it stand out among countless other similar items? Well, it’s all down to an innovative applicator.

Unlike your regular pump or pipette, the Refy primer goes on with a roller. This not only rids the need to touch your face with your fingers but also gives you a Gua Sha-like treatment, slightly sculpting the face to lift the muscles as it lacquers the skin with product. Although this isn’t quite as massaging as the social media videos make out – it’s more of a gentle stroke than a skin-pulling procedure – we did notice it helped to de-puff our face in the morning.

As for ingredients, it will flood the face with moisture and is suitable for sensitive skin. Niacinamide, glycerin and camellia seed oil are the three key ingredients, helping to reduce redness, hydrate the skin, and stimulate collagen production. So, not only will it help to make make-up last longer, it actually has a whole host of skincare benefits, and our tester really loved the dewy finish.

Now, this product has us torn. Unlike a regular lip balm or a sugary lip scrub, it uses a soft plastic bristled brush to apply the product, physically exfoliating in the process, for soft, supple lips. It doesn’t hurt in any way, nor does it tug or scratch, but we wouldn’t exactly call it a soothing sensation, either. That said, our lips have never been softer in such a short amount of time.

However, it doesn’t seem like the most sanitary of products, as, although it scrubs away dead skin from your lips, you can visibly see everything that was removed among the bristles. This, for some, will only make the product more popular but, for others, it can be a little strange. So, to combat this, you really need to keep it clean, and please don’t go sharing it with your friends.

Looking at the ingredients, a plumping agent helps to provide a fuller pout; amino acids help boost the skin barrier; and aloe vera helps to lock in more moisture.

Unlike most face powders, which soak up oil and stamp out shine, the Refy skin finish actually feels like it helps with hydration and leaves no chalky, matte or powdery finish. Interestingly, it’s water-based, with moisture-boosting glycerin and caprylyl glycol included as two core ingredients. This means it instantly blends into the skin for a very natural finish, instead of just sitting on top, and the result is a beautifully blurred, soft-focus face. Although, you will need a very fluffy brush to apply it evenly, as it can blend rather quickly. For yellow or warm undertones, opt for shade one, for pink and cool undertones, go for shade two.

If you’re after thick, heavy-set eyebrows, you’re sure to be taken by Refy’s brow tint. Lasting around 12 hours or simply washing off when you wet your face, this product is perfect for creating both a more colourful brow and pulling hairs into place. The unique, round brush catches on to every hair, without touching the skin, unlike most longer-shaped applicators.

The water-based tint colours the brows while helping them to feel stronger and nourished, thanks to a blend of peptides and camellia japonica flower extract. It really does do a bit of everything in the brow department.

Just like we loved the cream bronzer, we also think this Refy product is rather fabulous. In keeping with the brand’s creamy-based products, this one is made from a mix of oils, including sunflower, coconut, linseed and avocado, which lend it its high blendability while helping to hydrate and add a high shine to the skin.

Currently, only one shade is available, and, although we would love to see more, the soft golden glow is just gorgeous. However, it isn’t the most impactful, so you either need to layer it up quite generously or go in with a shimmer powder on top, if you’re after a high-impact look.

A good make-up brush is a must in any beauty buff’s arsenal, and this two-in-one style certainly does the trick. On one side, a small curved buffing brush picks product and gets into hard-to-reach areas. On the other, a white-tipped stippling bronzer brush helps disperse products across the face. This works incredibly well with the cream blush, bronzer and highlighter, although isn’t the best when used with powders. It’s completely vegan and washes up well in soap and water.

This creamy lip colour sits somewhere between a lipstick and a lip balm, with a beautiful shade payoff that truly nourishes the lips. Coconut emollient and tocopheryl acetate help to hydrate a nourish the skin, while a blurring technology reduces the appearance of fine lines, creating a fuller-looking pout.

It’s soft, creamy and delivers all the best bits of your favourite lip balm, as well as being in a chunky stick-like shape that’s easy to apply.

Six shades are available, offering a veil of colour that’s slightly more sheer than a lipstick, with a natural-looking finish. If wanting to make your make-up stretch even further, we also found it works pretty well on the cheeks.

Cream blush is a great product for adding dimension and a healthy flush to the face, and the Refy version is a fantastic find. Available in five shades, it stretches from a light-toned rose to a deep, dark cherry, although the orange-hued peach is probably our favourite.

Similar to the cream bronzer (£18, Refybeauty.com), synthetic beeswax lends it its texture, while ensuring all products are still vegan. As it’s so soft, it blends seamlessly into skin with just your fingers or a brush, and a little really does go a long way.

Although most Refy products sit within the no make-up make-up look, lip sculpt is probably the most potent product of them all. This two-in-one lip liner and setting gel will, according to the brand, allow you to outline your lips with a crisp edge of colour while setting it for up to 10 hours.

Although we liked the liner, we found the setting gel actually pilled quite a lot before locking in the colour, so, sadly, it wasn’t our favourite product.

If you’ve used and loved the Refy highlighter, you may also be a fan of the brand’s body glow. We love that it’s fragrance free and leaves your skin looking like you’ve just come back from the beach, thanks to key ingredients such as argania spinosa kernel oil and tocopheryl acetate, which not only make your skin glisten but help to hydrate it, too.

We also found this product stays on your skin for a full day, so is the perfect finishing touch if you want an added glow before you head out. The one downside, however, is you need a good amount of product to achieve a pearlescent finish, as it is a lighter cream.

Alice Carter