A word from the makeup artist: how to hide skin imperfections with makeup?
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Clients with perfect skin are the dream of every makeup artist, but in reality, artists have to deal with completely different problems, which are important to be able to properly hide.
Makeup is an ideal tool if you need to quickly hide all imperfections on the skin on the eve of an important event. After all, a bride, graduate or birthday girl wants to look beautiful on her important day, even if a pimple has popped up on her face and there are dark circles under her eyes due to lack of sleep.
In this material, together with makeup artist Svetlana Petrenko, we figure out how to properly hide skin imperfections such as acne, pigmentation, dark circles under the eyes and redness with makeup. What products to use, what textures to give preference to and what features of applying products are important to take into account - the expert talks about all this.
Svetlana Petrenko , professional makeup artist (Kiev)
What you need to know about makeup for problem skin?
One of the basic rules is not to overload it. Avoid dense, heavy textures and correct imperfections precisely!
When creating makeup, be sure to use a makeup base. What will this give you? It will give problem skin a more well-groomed appearance, the face will become moisturized and radiant, pores will become less noticeable, and the texture will be smoothed out.
How to apply foundation correctly if you need to hide skin imperfections?
The difficulty lies in the fact that you have two tasks at once: firstly, to disguise imperfections, and secondly, to maintain a natural look. For overall coverage, choose a light foundation! And hide redness, pigmentation and hated pimples locally, doubling them with a denser concealer.
What cosmetics are needed?
Pimples. If you need to hide blemishes, you have two options: you need either a green concealer that can neutralize the redness, or a thick, creamy concealer stick that is enough to cover one layer.
Dark circles under the eyes. In this case, a pink or reddish shade corrector will help. After it, be sure to use concealer to even out the overall tone.
The second option is to immediately apply a concealer, preferably with reflective particles, which will also illuminate the skin and visually make it fresher, and your face more alert and rested.
Pigmentation. To lighten pigmentation, a yellow corrector is most suitable, which should be covered with foundation on top for the most even and natural result.