This amazing beauty hack will totally transform your summer holidays

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None of us can deny the fact that we love going hell for leather with makeup, but we hardly ever have the time, or energy. It can also be pretty bad for your skin sometimes. This is particularly relevant for the summer months, when the real goal is to avoid sweating, frizzy hair and general dehydration. But we still want to look put together outside the school gates. Foundation is NOT really your friend in the warm weather, as all your skin wants is to breathe. I recently returned from a sun holiday, where I learned an excellent little hack for keeping the skin fresh and dewy. I packed poorly (nothing new there), and kind of had a mini panic attack when I rummaged through my makeup bag before our first evening out. I had spent the whole day baking on the beach smothering myself and the kiddos in SPF 50, and just wanted a light layer of makeup for the evening ahead - but all I had with me was a pretty heavy foundation. Not ideal. So, in what I am calling a FLASH of genius, I basically used a little drop of the foundation, and mixed it with my moisturiser. Simple, and it really worked! Yeah yeah I know, seems pretty obvious, but I just had never really thought of it before. My original plan was to leg it to the nearest shop and drop at least 20 quid on a tinted moisturiser or BB cream. So, not only did this beauty hack save my skin, it also saved me the cost of a bottle of wine - win, win. Now, before you ask, there is absolutely no exact science to this - just squeeze a drop of your foundation into your fave moisturiser and lash it on. You'll be left with a delightful dewy makeup look, where you can still see those gorgeous freckles and that casual tan. However, it will give you the coverage you need and want for evening ahead. I personally used this Vichy moisturiser, with a little drop of MAC Studio Fix Fluid - a delightful combo. Not rocket science - but it works.