3 Quick Face Tips!
Today I am bringing you 3 quick tips to fix common problems when applying your face products! These have all dramatically helped my makeup, so I figured I would share.
Using a damp beauty sponge to set concealer
This trick is great for addressing concealer under your eyes that seems to slip around a lot. You may set it with some loose translucent powder (my personal favorite way to set it) and a brush, but it just isn’t staying put. Dampen your beauty sponge, squeeze out excess water, and LIGHTLY dab it into your loose powder. It is very important not to pick up too much powder, this can cake up very quickly under your eyes. Tap the powder in back and forth motions under your eye, making sure to never drag the sponge. If you drag, you will move or remove product, which is not what we want. I find this trick thoroughly sets the under eye, while giving it a bit of hydration from the damp sponge.
Setting your whole face with powder
Do you have a problem with your bronzer or blush blending in smoothly? Sometimes it may skip on the skin, or it just seems impossible to blend out harsh lines of color. This is the tip to help with that! After you have applied foundation and concealer as well as any other cream product you want to use on your face, set your entire face with a light layer of powder. It is very important you do this AFTER all cream products are on, because cream products cannot go on over powder, this will cause your makeup to breakdown. You will find it much easier to blend a powder blush and bronzer over the powder you put all over your face, plus it helps your makeup stay put all day!
A favorite powder of mine shown above is the Rimmel Stay Matte powder, for those of us with oily skin.
Blending harsh lines with a dense synthetic brush
Sometimes we accidentally put a little too much of something on. Maybe it was a very pigmented blush, or a new bronzer that is just way too much, but now it’s on our face. What do we do? This trick involves a synthetic bristled brush that is densely packed. Use this brush with either nothing on it or a light layer of translucent powder and blend in small circular motions over the excess product. The synthetic bristles are softer and I have found they move the product better without moving my whole face around. The density also helps make sure the color gets diminished.
The one shown above that I love is the Morphe E1 face brush.
I hope these tips are as helpful to you as they were to me, see you back here on Friday! Have a great week!
Tayler