When you’re trying to get your makeup to appear flawless, it can sometimes seem like the world is against you. Sometimes you leave the house feeling fresh, but by the time you get home, your makeup has moved around, and you look like you’ve been on a bender. Other times your makeup looks great in your bathroom mirror with your bathroom lighting, but then you show up to an event, and the photos taken reveal that the lighting there didn’t work with your makeup. The following will explore a few useful tips that will help you achieve a flawless makeup look.
Experiment With Ingredients And Textures
Most makeup providers will allow you to take samples home with you to try out. Do this, but do it with awareness. Foremost, you need to be trying something for about a month to see the true results of it. Your skin cells turn over every month or so, and this means you might not know if a product breaks you out unless you’ve been using it for a month. Secondly, you want to be trying different ingredients and textures as you might find that a vegan liquid foundation works best with your skin or a mineral powder works best with your skin. Thirdly, you want to be aware that what works might change depending on the season or during different stages in your menstrual cycle if you menstruate.
Keep A Skin And Makeup Journal
All too often, you don’t have a complete understanding of how your makeup fared until your friends post photos on Instagram several days later. At that point, it can be hard to remember exactly what you did that worked or didn’t work. You can simply flip through your pages and see what you did that day to your skin or makeup routine. You might also want to include how long you slept, what you ate and drank that day, any exercise is done, and a line or two about how you felt that day. All too often, people think makeup is the problem or solution to how their skin appears, but it might not be the culprit. Perhaps your makeup looks cakey every time you didn’t drink water the day before. Maybe your under-eye makeup looks stellar on days when you had enough sleep.
Less Product, More Blending
When it comes to makeup application, one of the most common mistakes is too much product and not enough blending. Start with the smallest dollop of whatever it is you like to use and blend it to perfection before applying any more.
Communicate With Your Skin
It’s important to realize that your skin is always communicating with you. If you don’t listen, it’s going to get louder. Never simply treat skin problems topically. Yes, this can help, but dry skin, redness, breakouts, and rough texture are all symptoms. Figure out what your skin is saying to you and make adjustments. No matter how perfect your makeup application is, if your skin is really struggling, that’s going to show through.
The above tips should help you create a flawless makeup look. Remember, it’s important to let your skin breathe, and this means removing your makeup at night before you go to bed.