Four products, and you are done

A baked powder foundation that goes on creamy and sets demi-matte, with buildable light-to-medium coverage.

The base to choose if you want one product and no difficulty. It is a pan in a compact, so there is nothing to pump, pour or spill, it opens with a thumb, and it applies one-handed with the sponge it comes with. It also gives real buildable coverage and sets demi-matte rather than looking powdery, which is unusual for the format.

A balm-textured stick that buffs out to light-to-medium coverage with a satin finish, built around not dragging on skin.

The alternative base if your skin is dry, where a powder would look flat. A balm-textured stick is rich enough to keep dry skin looking hydrated all day, and the handling is as simple as a compact: no dispensing step, a wide barrel you can hold in a fist, and it draws straight onto the face one-handed.

A hydrating medium-coverage concealer with a satin finish and an unusually large doe-foot applicator.

The oversized doe-foot applicator is the reason, and it is a genuine accessibility feature rather than a marketing one: more coverage per stroke means fewer strokes, less aiming and less blending. The formula is hydrating so it does not dry down and crack, and it is cheap enough to replace before it thickens in the tube.

An all-in-one brow gel that fills, shapes and sets in a single pass.

Brows do more for a face than anything else here and are conventionally the hardest thing to do, because the usual technique is drawing individual hairs with a slim pencil. This is an all-in-one gel — fills, shapes and sets in one stroke per brow — from a range designed throughout for reduced movement and strength.

A smudge-proof tubing mascara from a range designed throughout for people with reduced movement or strength.

A tubing formula in a holder designed around supported grip, which addresses both halves of the mascara problem. The tubing means it removes with warm water and gentle pressure rather than solvent and rubbing — the part that matters most on a thinning lash line — and the moulded handle with a finger rest means your hand is supported while you apply it.

A budget tubing mascara that coats each lash in a water-resistant polymer tube.

The same tubing mechanism at drugstore price, which matters because mascara should be replaced every three months. No flaking into a dry eye, and removal with warm water rather than a solvent and a cotton pad dragged across the lid.

A latex-free blending sponge with a flat edge and a rounded base.

The only tool this routine needs. Held in the palm, so no grip strength and no fine finger control, and because it presses rather than drags it is also the application method least likely to push product into your lines. Rinse by squeezing between flat palms.

A trifold lighted mirror with several magnification panels, including a high-magnification section.

Here because it belongs in the four-product routine as the fifth thing — and arguably the most important. It stands on its own so neither hand holds it, it has multiple magnification panels including a high one, and it is lit, which does more for accuracy than any product substitution if your close vision has changed.