We know that choosing the ideal make-up foundation, which works as a second skin, is not always an easy task. Among brands, colors, textures and finishes various ... is always a tricky to hit. Moreover, if you are a fan of online shopping.
So, we leave you with some tips and suggestions, just in time for you to find the foundation of your dreams!
1st CHOOSE THE BRAND
First, you must choose the brand. Just because you love a certain brand or because you have more affinity with it , choosing the brand is halfway to find the perfect foundation.
2nd FINISHES & TEXTURES
In a second phase, choose the finishing. You should, for this, think about the type of skin you have and how you want the foundation to let it. Fresh? Matte? Natural?
Learn about our suggestions!
If you have oily and combination skin, if you're looking for porcelain finish and long-lasting, you should look at the packing words such as oil-free, matte, longwear. If this is the case, these are two in our sugestions:
1. Clinique - Stay-matte oil free makeup
This foundation guarantees impeccable coverage and keeps skin matte all day since has been specially formulated to control the brightness of oily skins.
The lightweight formula Stay-Matte Oil Free Makeup contains a patented technology that allows you to control oiliness and shine as well as resist perspiration, so the makeup stay fresh and comfortable all day.
2. Estee Lauder - Ideal matte refinishing makeup
Due to the mousse texture, which in contact with the skin turns into a powder, gives a perfect finish where the pores are tuned, attenuated lines and imperfections camouflaged. Leaves the skin smooth, natural and perfectly smooth.
If you have dry, mature skin, or lack of luminosity in general, you must find richer formulas and so, look on the bottle for designations as luminous, rich, or glow. And if that's your case, these are our elected:
1. Yves Saint Laurent - Touche éclat le teint luminous foundation spf22
This foundation provides a lightweight and flawless finish, lighting up your complexion with all naturalness. Provides an illuminating look, rested, fresh and revitalizes the skins more tired and dull. This fiundation has a SPF22, which helps conserve the health and radiance of the skin, vitamin E, an antioxidant of excellence; but also extract of ruscus, which stimulates skin microcirculation, acting like this about the signs of fatigue that the skin can present.
2. Shiseido - Synchro skin glow luminizing fluid foundation
This foundation is ideal for dull skin looking for a soft but vibrant color finish, since it fits your face to a luminous make-up effect. A make-up foundation with moisturizing benefits synchronizes with your skin to give you a bright and healthy aspect, as if it belonged to his own skin!
If you have a normal skin or combination, like a natural and invisible coverage finishes, look for lighter formulations based on water. Words like nude, air, light, aqua, are usually indicative of that naked skin effect finish. Our suggestions are:
1. Dior - Diorskin nude air serum
This base is ultra-fluid and gives a super natural finish! Incredibly thin and with an exceptional texture, Dior Nude Air is formulated with oils wich evaporate instantly on contact with the skin, leaving a noticeable film on the skin.
2. Lancome - Miracle cushion fluid foundation
In a compact and easy to carry, this light, fluid and ultra moisturizer foundation is enriched with an illuminating molecule, with the innovation of a sponge aplicator.
3st CHOOSE THE TONE
After choosing the formula of your preference, comes the most difficult: choose the tone!
The skin is composed of various colors, which, because they are in different proportions, determine if the skin is darker, lighter, warmer, cooler, or neutral. There are several ways to know if you have a warm, cold or neutral undertone. A quick tip is to look at your wrist veins. If you see more green, you have a warm undertone. If you have more bluish, you have a cold sundertone. If they are indistinct, have a neutral undertone.
How to find tom at each brand?
It is best to start with a little research on the brand in question and realize what kind of numbering is that it offers. Because, even within each brand, in different ranges, the numbering can vary. Sometimes, the own color name or code, helps to understand. Names like golden, doré, warm indicate warm undertones. Name as rosé, cold, indicates cold undertones.
* Chanel, the number that ends in 0 (10, 20, 30, etc.) are suitable for warm skin tones. The ones that with 2 (22.32, ...) are for cool undertones.
* In YSL, codes with BD are indicated for skin with warm undertoneand gold. BR are more for the cool undertones and the B will be for the moderately warm or neutral tones.
* In Dior, numbers that end in 0 (10, 20, 30, ...) are of neutral undertones. If it finishes in 1 (31, ...) will be more yellowish and so suited to warmer undertones skins. If it finish in 2 (32, ...) the undertone is pink andcif it finishes in 3 (23, ...) will be more peach so, more suitable for warm of medium to dark tones.
If you purchase the foundation online, we suggest that you consult a free online tool : the FINDATION. The FINDATION, allows, from one or two foundation references , to find the equivalents in other brands of the marked. This makes endless base purchases online possibilities, with minimum margin of error.
Final trial? Check these pratical examples.
Do you have more than 50 years, very dry skin and like natural finish and light? And have a warm undertone?
-our specifications would be Lancome-Teint visionnaire makeup duo that also includes a concealer. The color would be the beige doré.
Do you have dry skin, like average coverage, luminous finish and have a neutral undertone?
-our elected would be the Dior-Diorskin nude medium beige in color.
If you have any questions, we're on this side for help. Contact us by emailing us at suporte@sweetcare.pt or at our chat!