When you want to be beautiful in five minutes, the multiple steps of a makeup perfect complexion can be scary. Yet, this zero defect complexion is part of an essential gesture: the foundation of complexion! What routine to adopt to succeed every time? Which product to choose, where to apply it? We're nice, so here are our tips.
How to choose my foundation?
The bases of complexion are multiple. Some are colored: green, yellow or mauve, while others are transparent. To each its properties.
The foundations of green complexion can reduce redness and rosacea . They are applied by small keys, only on the areas to be corrected by blurring the finger to avoid a mask effect. The bases of yellow complexion give radiance, so we choose to illuminate certain areas like the top of the cheekbones, to enhance the complexion. The bases of mauve complexion, they allow to pale a face and to give it a powdery effect. As for the bases of complexion without color, they unify, smooth and mattify the complexion while giving it shine.
You can choose to play with it to come to illuminate certain areas of the face, such as the temples, for example. In the T zone, we avoid the bases that will come to light and we prefer bases of mattifying complexion. And if you want a photoshop effect in thirty seconds, we choose the basics of blur , which blur our imperfections leaving the impression of wearing nothing at all. The golden rule to apply your foundation: go from the center of the face to the outside! And above all, blur, fade ...
When do I apply my foundation?
First of all, make sure you have clean skin, make-up removes (yes, yes, even if you did it last night!) And apply your moisturizer . It can be chosen mattifying if our skin tends to shine, it will facilitate the task for our complexion foundation.
To allow a better hold of the concealer, an eye contour treatment is also applied. That's when we apply our foundation. This step is essential because it allows, according to the formulas, to unify, to smooth, to blur or to matify ...
It is only then that we go to the foundation - without applying it in packets, then corrector and concealer, before fixing all with a loose powder and sublimate the cheekbones with blush! For those who love makeup express complexion and for whom the foundation has been replaced for a long time by a simple BB cream, we apply a base of complexion blur and BB cream and presto! Wahou effect guaranteed.
Our basic foundation shopping:
Perfection foundation, Shiseido, 35,90 €
BB cream, Karin Herzog, 36 €
Hangover, Restorative Face Foundation, Too Faced, € 31 at Sephora
Primer foundation, T. LeClerc, 36,60 €
Remarkable Primer, base of makeup perfective complexion, Marc Jacobs Beauty, 39 €
Blemishless Primer, Laura Mercier, 39 €
Smoothing and velvet matifying base, Couleur Caramel, 25,90 €
