Your Excellency: how to achieve the effect of wet skin?

Without a doubt, every girl wants her skin to look perfect: to be moisturized, elastic, have an even tone and glow from the inside with beauty and youth. This effect can be achieved not only with the help of care procedures in a cosmetologist’s office, but also with makeup. It’s not at all difficult to create, but how happy your clients will leave!

Whatever one may say, the total popularity of the dewy skin effect in 2020 is a merit of the Korean beauty industry. It was from there that the trend for perfectly smooth, glass-like skin with a dewy finish came to us. For Korean women, this effect is a classic standard of beauty, and this is what most local care products and decorative cosmetics work for. You won’t be able to achieve this result with a regular highlighter or foundation with a dewy skin effect; a special approach is needed here.

One of the important points when creating Glass skin makeup is proper preparation. First, you should cleanse the client’s skin with foam or gel, then apply peeling or exfoliant cream. Then wipe your face with a toner or moisturizing essence (in the best Korean traditions) and apply a cream or primer with a moisturizing effect. Only after the product is well absorbed, use decorative cosmetics.

It is important to apply each subsequent product in small quantities and distribute it well over the skin so as not to get the usual oily sheen instead of Glass skin. Another secret of fashionable makeup in 2020 is the choice of liquid, cream and gel textures. They will help achieve a natural effect. Makeup artist and stylist Evgenia Elisova will tell us how to step-by-step do makeup with a wet finish effect and what products to use.

Evgenia Elisova , professional makeup artist & stylist, works with such stars as Jamala, Laura Marti, Yasya Minochkina, Yulia Magdych, Mira, Maria Yastremskaya

Wet skin effect or Glass skin... This trend came to us from Asia. Transparent, smooth, with moist highlights - this is exactly the kind of skin we are used to seeing in photos for advertising campaigns of famous brands. Cosmetics manufacturers offer us to try this type of makeup. For wearable makeup, I suggest using the following products:

• Chanel Baume Essentiel – presented in the form of a stick in two versions: transparent and with reflective particles;
• RMS Beauty Living Luminizer – presented in the form of a dense gel with small shimmering particles;
• H&M All Over Shine.

All these products can also be applied to the eyes and lips. And now the most important thing is the sequence of application of products to achieve the effect of wet skin:

1. We even out the tone of the face using BB cream or a light water-based foundation. If there are pronounced dark circles under the eyes, use concealer.
2. Then take a drop of liquid blush, mix it with the tone and apply this mixture to the apples of the cheeks. This technique gives us a natural blush, and at the same time the face looks fresh.
3. We treat the T-zone and under-eye area with a light powder, for example, By Terry Hyaluronic Hydra-Powder or Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder. These powders even out the texture of the skin, do not accumulate in folds, and do not unnecessarily matte the skin.
4. And the final touch - apply any of the proposed products with a wet effect to the protruding parts of the face: the upper parts of the cheekbones, the bridge of the nose, the brow ridges, the area above the upper lip, the edge of the chin. A thin layer!
5. For those with large, mobile eyelids, you can duplicate the product to create a moist effect on your eyes.
6. Complete all this with neatly styled eyebrows, tinted eyelashes and moisturizing lip balm. With this type of makeup, it is important to keep the textures of eyebrow, eye and lip makeup light.