It can happen to the best of us: you painstakingly apply your makeup in the morning, but just a few minutes outside turns your face into an oily pancake. It's all about sebum regulation disorders - a problem that even happy owners of normal and combination skin face in the summer.
Glitter in the T-zone, on the sides of the nose and on the cheeks spoils not only your appearance, but also your mood, which means you definitely need to do something about it. Flawlessly matte skin all day long? The right approach will help you achieve what you want—and here are eight tricks you should know.
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Checkmate: how to achieve a matte skin effect
Checkmate: how to achieve the effect of matte skin Makeup artists who worked at the autumn-winter shows of Victoria Beckham, Balmain, Chloe, Stella McCartney, Rick Owens, Proenza Schouler, Emilio Pucci, Giorgio Armani and others, paid special attention to the tone of the face, trying to make it is ideal, and the skin is smooth, matte, porcelain. Pat McGrath used the new Perfect Matte Liquid Foundation Dolce & Gabbana and in Paris the famous makeup artist successfully experimented with another new product - Whipped Creme Foundation Max Factor from Max Factor, New York Week fashion became a kind of test drive for the new long-lasting 24-hour mattifying foundation AffiniMat from Maybelline NY... And judging by the forecasts of makeup artists and the number of mattifying new products, the fashion for porcelain-matte skin will continue in the spring!
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Perfect Matte Liquid Foundation, Dolce & Gabbana Make Up (about 3,000 rubles).
New generation mattifying products have a wide variety of textures - from dense to weightless-airy. Creams with a liquid, fluid texture are easy to apply without creating visible boundaries. They are easy to shade, can be applied with your fingertips, and the coverage of such products is usually very light and translucent. Creams, cream-mousses, CC-creams are denser and can well mask various skin imperfections, but they can be more capricious during application (the “volatile polymers” that give them durability evaporate quickly, so you need to shade the products quickly), it is more convenient to apply them using a sponge or flat brushes New textures - melting, mousse-powder and gel-powder, a little reminiscent of whipped cream, allow you to achieve a super-fashionable demi-matt effect: they mattify the skin and at the same time practically merge with it. Matte makeup makes the skin flawless. However, to achieve this effect, you need to know some tricks.
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Mattifying foundation for oily and combination skin AffiniMat, Maybelline NY (about 315 RUR).
“If you want perfectly matte skin, you have to start with skin care,” reminds makeup artist May Qing, who works with Ashley Greene and Emma Stone. Mandatory preliminary steps are cleansing and moisturizing. If you apply mattifying products to poorly cleansed or insufficiently moisturized skin, they will lie unevenly and will look unnatural.
Be sure to pause after applying each cosmetic product to allow it to absorb. That is, first we apply moisturizer or base, wait 5-7 minutes, then apply foundation and after 5 minutes powder.
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Mineral mattifying loose powder Amazing Matte Loose Finish Powder, Jane Iredale (about 1,400 rubles).
For very oily skin, first apply a mattifying base to the T-zone (forehead, nose, chin, where oily shine appears most quickly): the durability of the makeup will increase. Instead of a primer, you can also use a mattifying moisturizer with an oil-free formula and sebum-regulating components that reduce the activity of the sebaceous glands: zinc, sulfur, willow extract, etc.
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Foundation , Stellary (about 375 RUR).
Pay attention to the composition of cosmetics. Effective mattifying ingredients most often include clay, corn or rice starch, magnesium hydroxide, protein proteins, and polymer particles that act as microsponges that absorb sebum. Avoid alcohol if it is high on the list of ingredients: in large quantities it can cause drying of the skin, increased activity of the sebaceous glands, and after an hour or two the skin will become unattractively shiny.
If shine does appear during the day, do not rush to use mattifying powder: even transparent powder, applied in a thick layer, becomes noticeable on the skin. Therefore, it is better to powder no more than a couple of times a day. The most convenient way to mattify your skin during the day is to use special wipes that absorb sebum.
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Mattifying wipes Oil-Control Blotting Paper Pureness, Shiseido (about 900 rubles).
Carefully blend mattifying products on the skin: this determines how natural the makeup will look. You can use a trick: to apply a thick foundation, take a large brush, and then use a damp sponge to blend the tone at the hairline, on the chin and neck. “This technique avoids the mask effect,” explains celebrity Hollywood makeup artist Gemma Kidd.
Leaving your face matte and pale will make it look sallow and flat. Take the advice of Giorgio Armani makeup artist Linda Cantello to highlight your cheekbones with sculpting powder or a darker shade of foundation. A little matte blush on the “apples” of the cheeks or the most prominent parts of the cheekbones wouldn’t go amiss.
Be careful when using mattifying products when it comes to the skin around the eyes: they often dry it out and emphasize expression lines. Famous American makeup artist Kevin Aucoin advises those with dry skin to be especially careful with mattifying foundations. He also does not recommend them for mature women: if you overdo it even a little with such cosmetics, especially with mattifying powder, your face immediately looks older, and wrinkles and other skin irregularities become more noticeable.
Carry emergency supplies with you
Carry matting wipes with you and wipe your face with them as needed. Thermal water, but designed specifically for oily skin (it has a special mineral composition), will also help get rid of oily shine.
“Among the natural remedies that will help get rid of oily shine are tea tree oil and a variety of citrus fruits. But the problem is that all these natural components are strong photosensitizers (increase the skin’s sensitivity to UV rays). In the summer it is better not to use such products, and in general, experiments with hand-made cosmetics in the case of oily skin are extremely undesirable.”
Carry matting wipes with you and wipe your face with them as needed. Thermal water, but designed specifically for oily skin (it has a special mineral composition), will also help get rid of oily shine. “Among the natural remedies that will help get rid of oily shine are tea tree oil and a variety of citrus fruits. But the problem is that all these natural components are strong photosensitizers (increase the skin’s sensitivity to UV rays). In the summer it is better not to use such products, and in general, experiments with hand-made cosmetics in the case of oily skin are extremely undesirable.”
Gel face creams
Using modern gel creams, you can achieve a fashionable effect called demi-matt; gel cream is considered the most fashionable cosmetic product of the new generation. The cost of gel cream starts from a thousand rubles. The rest of the listed creams start from 300 rubles. But even using modern creams, it’s worth knowing a few tricks that will help you get not just results, but the effect of perfection. Before applying any of the creams, you should definitely degrease the skin with special wet wipes, so the cream will lie more evenly and will not roll off. As is clear, if the cream rolls off, it will be very difficult to achieve naturalness. Be sure to take a certain pause when applying the cream before applying the next layer; the cream needs at least a few minutes to settle. If your facial skin is oily, be sure to use a mattifying base, as excessive shine will not create the desired result. After applying the cream, carefully inspect the evenness of the application; if you are not satisfied with something, simply apply a dry cloth and apply a layer of cream again; in any case, it will merge with the previously applied one, and there will be no layering effect. An important point is that removing creams of this type is done only with dry wipes, and after removing all the cream, the face is wiped with lotion. Becoming beautiful is not difficult, the main thing is to really want it, and modern cosmetics will help you in this, at first glance, difficult task.
