Product watch: Must have beauty buys for May

May beauty is high-brow and low-maintenance, featuring a Basquiat collaboration, a paint-by-numbers makeup book and Chanel’s most effortless colour collection. Rachel Marie Walsh reports.

Chanel “The Summer Essentials” Collection, available May 19

Gabrielle Chanel branded a kind of relaxed elegance in fashion that is hard to emulate in beauty. The natural look, when it’s flawless, can take quite a lot of time and care.