Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me. Um, hi. Today I
want to talk to you about sunscreen, SPF. I'm not going to get
really technical because I'm not really technical about skin
care and, you know, these products in general. However, I do want to go
through some of the best ones that have worked with me
and makeup. So I'm really fussy and very particular about the sunscreen I use
under makeup, and I bought quite a few a few months back. I went through a kind of
crazy, it's not crazy, I'm so crazy, through a
phase of buying loads of sunscreens to test and to try knowing
that, you know, the hot months were coming up and I really want to keep my skin
protected. So I bought quite a few. I kind of
narrowed it down to the best ones that are gonna work with makeup or give
the appearance of a really kind of like smoother skin
without makeup. So, so that's what I have in front of me today.
Okay, just before we get into that today, if this is your first time here, my name is
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here's what I think makes a really good sunscreen for underneath
makeup, foundation. One, one reason the first, is that it doesn't
interfere with your foundation in terms of being too greasy, too oily,
and it doesn't make you oilier. Reason the, the second... what,
what was I saying? Oh yeah, one that's easy to reapply
on top of your foundation, and one that doesn't leave you with like a white
veil across the skin. So what I want to do first is start with some
sunscreens you can use by themselves, and of course you can put makeup on top. They
sit very well under makeup but I want to show some that give the illusion of
makeup when you're not really wearing makeup,
and I don't mean like full coverage makeup. So, let's start with the Super
goop Glow Screen. This has a really, really nice shine to it and when it goes
on the skin... oh no, I left blush on my hand. Okay, maybe
I'll do it like... you can see it. Oh, my hairy hands. This is
why I never do swatches. I don't know if you can see on my hand how it's
got that shine to it, how it's got that really nice glow to it. Let me just tell
you as well, straight up, I don't like glitter on the face.
It isn't that glitter glow, it's a really nice natural glow from within kind of
look. It's super lightweight on the skin I found as well.
It does have more of a fluid like texture, not very runny but it's not as
thick as a sunscreen or sun cream that you think
of in your head, and it's also not as thick as most face creams either.
My skin type is oily and dehydrated. I wore this just on my face
once by itself, out during the day, unfortunately I had to go out in the sun
and I found it sat very nicely on my skin. My skin looked healthy,
it felt protected as well. It does, it smells like sunscreen but I don't care,
I look quite like the smell of sunscreen I just hate the feeling of it being on
my face. So that has to be one of my absolute
favorites for more of a glow. Now, it does also say it can help prime the skin.
It does also say on the back you can double it up as a highlighter, so what
you could do is use your normal sunscreen and then
use this in the areas where you would use a highlighter,
if you're not planning to wear foundation that day. So next up we have
Hello Sunday The One That's Got It All SPF 50,
and this is a sun primer. Now, it says it's water and sweat resistant, UVA
and UVB. But here's, here's the deal with this one.
I found this more, acted more like a primer, like what you would think a
primer does to the skin. Smoothed it out, it felt like it slightly
had that kind of slippy siliconey texture to it. However I did
find it look like it blurred the skin, so it definitely has that kind of blurring
finish, and foundation went on top of this
really, really nicely. So I don't know whether it's meant to be like this but I did
find you have to really, really shake it up because it kind of had like this
liquidy kind of separation, you know. So I did find out I had to really shake
it up. However, this one was weightless on the skin, I did not feel
this on the skin at all. For me, it was slightly mattifying as well which I
really, really liked. And again, not heavy. I think that'll be really
great for people with oily skin. Having oily skin
I do want, I want a really high protection but I don't want it to be thick
protection. So if I can ever find a sunscreen that has an SPF 50
UVA UVB protection and it's mattifying, then I'm 100%
gonna go for it. Next up is Supergoops Bright-Eyed
100% Mineral Eye Care Cream, eye cream, sorry, and this is SPF 40. Now, I, I'm,
I really like this but I'm in two minds about it. So recently I had this kind of
fascination with, yes I protect my skin but I need to find
something for my lips, my eyes, and my hands because sunscreen around the eyes
can hurt sometimes, it makes my eyes like... Oh, by the way, I have really bad
allergies that's why my eyes are a bit wet. It hurts my
eyes and they get irritated throughout the
day if I use sunscreen too close to my eyes. So when I found
this I was like, amazing, let me try it. Now it does have a slightly brightening
effect as the name suggests, and it actually looks incredible without
makeup, it really does brighten the under eye area.
However, I wore this for a full day... what day is it today? Monday? On Saturday,
and I did find my eyes started to get really irritated at the end of the day,
and I think what the deal was is I used too
much on my eyelids. So I personally, I'm gonna try using it
around the eye here and then just around the brow bone,
and maybe on the inside corner, and then perhaps completely wipe it away
before reapplying it later in the day. But my eyes were so irritated
at the end of the day. But I don't know if it was this because I
put sunscreen on my body and I feel like maybe I wiped my eye at some point,
could have been allergies, I was sitting outside all day so who knows.
And I didn't reapply it, I didn't reapply it throughout the day
so that's on me. But, however it looks incredible and I'm gonna carry on using it.
I'm just gonna be a little bit more careful
with how I apply it personally, on myself, and how I reapply throughout the day. So
let's move away from, from those kind of like
false makeup SPF's and go to a sunscreen that I just think
sits incredibly well underneath foundation, and this is the Hello Sunday
SPF45 The One That's A Serum. Now, when it says it's a
serum, let me just double check here, I believe it's
referring to the texture. It's very lightweight, it's almost like watery and
runny, it's almost like a milk. And this does leave the most incredible
shine on the skin, it's not a shine like
a natural kind of glow, it's definitely a shine looking like, oh you've just
moisturized, if that makes sense? So, this is the one I
would personally choose to wear if I'm not wearing
any makeup, or just want to slap it on my face and not worry about
how I really look. Like I said, it does give a nice glow so your skin does look
healthy. But this is one, say for example if
I'm going to go on vacation, I'm going to take this one with
me for the whole day. I'm not going to worry about
giving my face a glow all day or mattifying my skin all day.
If I want to be protected, I'm going to use this one because it has that high
factor but it's not heavy, it really does feel like a
lightweight serum. Whereas with the other ones I don't want to keep adding a shine to my
skin. I don't know how it's gonna look if I don't have a chance to remove it first,
how it's gonna look if I build it up. And this is one I've been
finding myself wearing every single day almost. It just, it just gets on the skin,
looks good, doesn't look too shiny, I'm protected, I know I'm protected,
I'm not trying to be glossy, I'm not trying to be smooth or matte. I just want
my skin to be protected, that's the best one. And
underneath foundation as well, it also sits really great. The only thing I did
find is that my skin maybe got oilier quicker,
that's fine, it's SPF, it's expected, right? It does sit
fine underneath foundation, you could absolutely
use it under your foundation. I would suggest however, if you are oilier to go
for this one. Whereas as if you have drier skin
you can wear this under foundation, you can wear this one under foundation as
well. Okay, let's move on to the body and let's
start with hands. Because, one thing that I noticed about me is I'm
very conscious of the sun because I, I see it as ageing
now. I used to lay in the sun and bake my skin
and I tan very easily, luckily being part Mexican my skin catches the sun
very well, so I don't have to worry too much about catching a tan. However, one
thing I do worry about with the sun though is now that it's just an
ageing device, device? The sun's a device? That is going to age my skin.
And being in my early 30's that's something I'm very conscious of at the
moment. So when I'm driving I'm like, you know what,
everything's on show, my hands are on show and I can't really do this with
sunscreen because my hands become so slippery, and I try and wipe them and
it's just, it's just not a good time. So, I found Supergoop again. Supergoop Hand
Screen SPF 40. I'm personally not somebody who
likes the thickness of hand cream, I don't like
the feeling of it being too thick on my hands. But at the same time, of course I
want to protect them from the sun. I found that this much is good for one
hand, so I can literally use it on the the top here and all up my
fingers and I'm covered, I'm good. Look, it doesn't look tacky or
sticky or anything like that. And I'm, to be honest with you, Supergoop
have been like a, they filled in all the gaps, for me, when
it comes to sunscreen. It's kind of difficult to get in the UK
for some reason. Now, let's move on to Paul & Joe,
and this is the Sun Protection Body Primer, and this one is
clear. Now, they do do one which has shimmer in
which, actually, the shimmer isn't bad. For somebody who doesn't like glitter the
shimmer is quite nice. That'll be like a nice like in the evening like, oooh,
like, you know, on the neck, and the shoulders, and the legs.
This one I, I personally really like this one. SPF50 PA
++++. It's super, super light weight, it is that fluid feeling
but again, it feels protected. Now, it is quite strongly fragranced, this is my only
issue with this. And when you sweat, fragrance kind of gets a little bit
amplified. It does, it smells like... the only thing I can
compare it to, it smells like coppertone if it was slightly more floral. So that
sun, so that sunscreen smell if it was slightly more floral. So
I don't know, I mean I wouldn't want it all over like my chest and my,
you know, because when I sweat it's just gonna smell so intense.
And it is, again, like that floral smell. I don't mind floral fragrances
it's just a little bit too much. So it is a really, really
nice sunscreen if you don't mind fragrance but I mean, it smells pretty
good. Okay, let's move on to the lips. I know you can
buy SPF for the lips anyway but, and they're quite easy to get. But
I did just want to share two of my favorites with you
and, of course, let's go back to Super goop, the Lip Screen SPF
40. Now, the reason I like this one more than a stick is because I found some
sticks kind of have that white cast as well,
whereas this is more of a gloss. Probably should have put this in the first
category. But if you want that kind of like glossy lip
this is a really nice one to go for. The only thing I did find with that one
is you do get that sunscreen taste in your mouth, it does very much taste like
sunscreen and it is quite close to the mouth to have such a strong taste like
that. But it's not off-putting. The only thing
I think maybe if you're drinking it, it might get a bit,
a bit weird up there. And second of all is the Bondi Sands Lip Balm SPF50, and
this is the watermelon... I was gonna say flavor, I
guess it is a flavor. And this one is more balmy if that makes
sense, so it comes out more like a balm, whereas the Supergroup one came out
more like a gloss. This is the one I personally use a lot
because it tastes nice, and it doesn't look as glossy, like you
could use a tiny bit and it will just feel like a lip balm.
Very light weight as well. And the watermelon isn't overwhelming,
it's definitely that artificial watermelon taste but it's not
completely, like I said, overwhelming. Now, one thing I'd like for you to bear in
mind when you're using your foundation and
SPF, your foundation may say that it has SPF
in but it's not enough to protect you. And there's loads of resources that can
help you look that up online and explain why.
I can't, because I don't know but I know it's not enough protection. I would
always use an SPF along with makeup. Okay, let's talk about reapplying sunscreen on
top of your foundation. Me and my brother did a video last year,
I think it was about how to do this but this is a method that I actually learned
from Michelle Wong. You may know her from LabMuffin.com.
But this is something that she did and I've seen people do it since but it's a
really great way to reapply sunscreen, and keep your
makeup intact. So yes, you can use powders, again, however on deeper skin tones I
really don't think there's a powder that's good enough
just yet. On fair skin tones, yes, you can get away with it. On my skin tone even
it's, it's a little bit risky. So, I want to show you a way to do it for
everyone, and I'm actually going to use the Hello
Sunday one, because it's more of that fluid texture. So I'm going to grab a
beauty sponge, I'm actually going to use it dry, I'm not going to use it damp.
So here's what I'm going to do first, we're going to like pretend I'm halfway
through the day, my skin's a bit sh*t. I'm going to take a refreshing mist, not
a setting spray. A refreshing mist or hydrating mist, the ones from
Colourpop, the Hyaluronic Acid Spray is a good one.
I just use Paul & Joe fixing mist, and I'm just gonna let that settle into the
skin for a little bit. Now, any areas where you find there's a
little, is a little bit cakey or cracking, perhaps it's around the nose,
just go ahead and tap that out with your beauty sponge.
This is the sponge from Luna Beauty, and just fix those areas first before we go
in with it. But by using a hydrating spray you're almost reactivating what
you've done, and you can, and you can fix all that
up. Now, one thing I didn't mention which I
want to just put in here, the sponge I'm using is super
dense so it's not almost like that spongy
texture if that makes sense. The, what you want to do is use the right amount of
sunscreen, so what I'm doing here is I'm building
up bit by bit. But still making sure I'm using
enough sunscreen because it's the amount of product,
you know, that gives you the protection. So, gradually build it up but make sure
you are using enough and that your sponge isn't absorbing all that
sunscreen. And just drop a little bit on the back of the hand.
Now, I'm going to do it bit by bit, gradually, and I'm just going to go ahead
and use it just like you would any Beauty Blender,
starting from the inside of the face out. Now, this is
again, you can use like sprays and things like that but I find
this way you can feel where you're applying that product, and you can almost
guarantee coverage. Whereas with the spray they're quite
sporadic, and it kind of just sprays out anywhere
and they can be quite intoxicating like the fragrance and the smell.
And there's always with, with a mist there's almost like
a level of like an alcoholy smell which isn't the nicest to be spraying in
your face, and around your eyes, you know. So a little bit at a time, I'm very
gentle. We're tapping, tapping, tapping. We're not dragging, otherwise we're going
to ruin the foundation. Now yes, this is going to make you a
little bit shiny but we can give it a few minutes
and go back in with some powder if we want to. So I'm pretty confident I've
covered my whole face, I'm just going gonna let that set for
one second and let my kind of make up deal with it underneath, you know. Now,
here's the only thing, if we're gonna powder our face afterwards, what we don't
want to do is go to our face and then back into the powder,
because we're essentially gonna put that sunscreen into the powder. So,
what we have to do is load up our brush all the way around,
and I'm not even going to tap it off, and go in one application to all the areas
we want to go.
So, now it may not be perfect, it is quite difficult to reapply sunscreen
on top, on top of foundation and have your skin just looking flawless
so, and, but you know you're protected that way, and your skin isn't going to be
flawless if you don't have protective skin anyway, so.
So I hope that helped. If you have any tips on your favorite sunscreens,
what products you like to use then go ahead and leave them below. Thank you
so much for watching. I'll link all the sunscreens I use below for you as well.
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