Andie MacDowell looks incredible, doesn’t she? The actress and model, 67, took to the 78th Cannes Film Festival red carpet this week wearing a slinky slip dress, but what caught my attention was her glowing, natural-looking skin.

She attributes her youthful complexion in part to wearing a high-factor sunscreen. “Because I’m always outdoors, I slather the stuff on. I am so conscious of it and I try to protect my skin every way that I can,” she said in an interview with Sheer Luxe.

She wears L’Oreal Paris Revitalift Clinical Vitamin C UV Fluid SPF 50+. “I love the texture – it’s dense and really covers you, but it doesn’t look ghostly, nor do you see it on the skin.” 

Shoppers who want to try the product for themselves can currently get it for less than half price. At the time of writing, it's £9 at Amazon and Superdrug, down from £19.99.

The formula contains a high SPF and vitamin C, an effective, glow-giving antioxidant. This type of formulation can sometimes have a bad rep for being overly greasy. However, I've tried the SPF, and I found it to have a featherlight texture that disappeared into my skin quickly, with no slick residue.

The Four Weddings and a Funeral star has been a Loréal ambassador for nearly 40 years, but the product has garnered rave reviews with shoppers in the UK  “I love that it contains SPF 50+ so it's protecting my skin as well as restoring it. I can already see a difference in my skin's tone, and my makeup seems to last longer,” said one customer. 

Another said: "I keep going back to this!! I love it, gives my face a glow without too much shine and provides excellent moisturising whilst protecting from the harmful effects of the sun."

However, one shopper was less impressed: "It's fine, it seems to pill a little bit even on bare skin so I'm not overly impressed with it. The bottle is also teeny tiny! Wish I'd have just stuck to normal suncream."

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Andie has also said that she uses Loréal's Age Perfect Le Duo Age Defying Serum, currently down from £37.99 to around £20 on Amazon. It houses two serums in one pump, which claim to tackle fine lines, even-out skin texture and revive dull complexions.

She joins a growing number of celebrities who are completely unapologetic about ageing in the spotlight. “There is a beauty to ageing that we don’t recognise. Often we diminish women because they have lines or wrinkles, which is the normal process of ageing,” she said via her Facebook.

“I’m so grateful to represent women of a certain age,” she continued.