Hello, everyone, and welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
Today we are talking about an issue that affects people
with oily skin, dry skin, whether it be Summer,
Winter... the other seasons,
and that's patchy skin.
I'm going to tell you how to fix
that and how to prevent it today.
It is an incredibly frustrating situation when you feel
you have done everything you can do to
stop patchiness occurring, whether that's prepping the
skin, using the right products, finishing up correctly.
Don't worry, we will get to the point today.
I'm going to point out a few things that could
be causing this so you can use them at your own
will and experiment and see how to stop it.
But most importantly, I'm going to
tell you how to fix it.
So get ready to say goodbye to
uneven coverage and hello to smooth-ish airbrushed-ish skin.
Skin's real, right?
It's never going to be completely perfect.
Okay, so let's start with tip number one, skincare.
There's a few different reasons why skincare
could be messing up your foundation, and
in some cases, not enough skincare.
But we need to experiment with the two.
So it all has to start with prepping your
skin before you even think about applying your foundation.
One of the things I absolutely despise when
it comes to prepping the skin and the
way people use skincare is squirting product onto
the face, dripping it onto the face.
It's unmanageable.
You're not aware of how
much you're using. It's wasteful.
If you want to drop it on the face, start
with one drop of whatever it is on the middle
of the face, and gently start to blend it out.
You will find that in most cases, one drop
is enough for your whole face instead of doing
three separate areas with a lot of product.
Now, why this is important is because sometimes
over prepping your skin can cause the breakdown
of this foundation. There's a point where your skin
is going to be like, you know what,
I don't need all this sh*t.
And it's going to kind of like reject it.
Not always, but in that moment.
And then now you have this barrier skincare and
ingredients in between your foundation and your skin.
And what is your foundation going to do
if it can't grip onto your skin or grip
onto a primer, it's going to kind of like,
melt away with all those skincare ingredients.
Use a small amount at a time.
Allow your skin to absorb the foundation.
Do what it needs to do, whatever skin does.
My second tip is primer and not necessarily using it.
I always say primers are for
extreme cases, extremely dry, extremely oily.
Then go ahead and use a primer on that day.
You know what I mean?
Our skin can sometimes be temperamental, and
it can change day to day.
Your skincare and your primer can be the same thing.
A basic Hyaluronic Acid based serum makes excellent primers
cause it makes the skin nice and bouncy.
It smooths out the skin, it makes it
plump, it just makes a perfect canvas.
And ideally, what we want to do when
foundation is breaking down is use as little
product underneath our foundation as possible.
My next tip, the tool that you are using.
A lot of the time people find with a
damp Beauty Blender that their foundation doesn't quite go
on as well when any kind of water from
the Beauty Blender gets involved with the foundation.
If you're going to use a Beauty Blender, a
beauty sponge, anything you have to dampen before or
anything you want to dampen before you use your
foundation, make sure that sponge is fully wrung out.
The point in the Beauty Blender being damp
is so it can puff up and so
it becomes spongy and it gets that bounce.
It's not so it can be wet.
I would highly recommend squeezing that Beauty Blender in a
towel just like this to get out all that water.
Make sure none of it is going to
congeal with your foundation and ruin the formula of the foundation.
In some cases as well,
some brushes can actually just drag
your foundation around the skin.
So things like flat foundation brushes, some
stippling brushes, if you're not using them
correctly, you're kind of giving yourself an
uneven layer of foundation, moving everything around.
And some patches can occur where perhaps you haven't
given enough thought and enough time to that area.
You can never go wrong with
a powder brush for foundation.
You can use it for liquid, you can use
it for powder, you can use it for creams,
you can use it for like thick creams.
This way what you can do is kind of...
have one right here. Tap onto the face like this.
You're kind of pushing the product into the skin and
making sure that it's becoming part of your skin.
Again, don't squeeze your foundation everywhere.
Do a bit, a tiny, tiny bit on the back of the hand.
Take a little bit at a time and
really work that foundation into the face.
We don't want layers sitting on top of our skin.
So a layer of foundation, just like we
don't want a layer of skincare, a layer
of foundation isn't that helpful or useful.
Work it into the skin, make
it become part of your skin.
You know, you're going to wash it off later, hopefully.
And it's not just sitting on top like a layer.
If you can do this and your foundation
comes off, you haven't worked it in enough.
Talking about foundation, less is more.
We often make the mistake of
applying way too much foundation.
If that's from plumping it on the face or
if something is full coverage, we tend to use
more for some reason, thinking it will give us
more coverage when it's already a full coverage.
However, pilling on those layers can actually
contribute to the patchiness of your foundation.
So start with the smallest amount.
Like I said, build up gradually, focusing
on those areas that need more coverage.
The center of the face tends to be the
hotspot for everyone, where it's a little bit of
redness on the nose and the cheeks.
Start on the center of her face with more
product and work that product outwards to kind of
fade out as we get to the hairline.
I don't mean it stops here and it's gone,
but we're using less product around the hairline, around
the jawline, and down to the neck.
Wherever you take your foundation.
You can always add more, but once you're done, you can't
really take away unless you want to take
the whole thing off and start again.
Powder. Let's talk about powder.
The powders you can be using
can be contributing to the pilling.
I prefer really smooth powders
that are finely jet milled.
They tend to look a little bit smoother.
The only thing with that is you really
need to work it into the skin.
Otherwise, in pictures, it looks like, you know, when
all the celebrities look like they've taken a load of...
it looks like that sometimes, but you just
make sure you really blend it in.
If you are using too much powder on top of
a foundation that you haven't really pushed into the skin,
it's got water from your Beauty Blender in.
You're kind of creating this texture that almost separates
from the skin and starts to get that separation.
Oatmeal, cottage cheese, scrambled eggs.
You know, that kind of...
If you're using a puff, make sure it's really pushed into the skin.
You don't want, again, a layer.
It's all about layers and making
sure we don't have too many.
Alternatively, you don't have to use powder.
If anything on your face creases or gets
like textured, try not using powder for a
day and just see the difference. It might help.
In terms of repairing patchiness when it
happens, there's two things you can do.
You can take a hydrating mist around with you and
a Beauty Blender and just hydrate your whole face.
Give it a few minutes and
tap that foundation back into place.
It's not going to look perfect, but it's
going to hydrate all the products that are
kind of like getting all mushy and horrible.
In my opinion, the best thing to do
is to find a mineral powder, a pressed
mineral-based powder that is your skin tone.
Not necessarily a foundation powder, but one
that has a little bit of coverage.
That is your shade, and that is your touchup powder.
Something about mineral powders, they just glide
effortlessly on top of skin texture.
I always remember the time I was doing prom makeup
for someone and she had spent the whole day before
in the sun trying to get a tan, and it
kind of just turned out to be redness and her
skin was peeling all along her hairline.
Should we have put makeup on top of that?
Absolutely not. Did she want to
because it was her big day. It was prom.
She'd been waiting for this for years. Yes, we did.
So I used it was MAC Mineralize Skin
fFnish at that time, in her shade.
And we just did quite a heavy dusting of that powder
over the top of all that texture.
The skin peeling off, the dry skin, and it looked flawless.
And I have used that technique throughout my time
doing weddings, brides, touch-ups on whoever it
may be, and it has worked flawlessly.
So if patchiness is a big thing for
you, I hope those methods help you out.
Remember, it's going to take
a little bit of experimenting.
See what products do work.
Do I use less skincare?
Do I use more?
But you have time.
Just in a week, a day, use less skincare.
One day, use more. Don't use powder.
Do you use powder.
To get these results.
So don't get discouraged.
Have a little bit of patience with yourself and
you will never have to deal with patchiness again.
Trust me.
Don't know what that was.
If you have any techniques that you've learned along
your way, because all our skin is different and
we all learn different things, leave them down below.
I would love to help other
people out with your personal experiences.
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