Airy Minerals Loose Powder Foundation (MXMPP)

Airy Minerals Loose Powder Foundation provides soothing and velvety- soft texture which blends effortlessly onto the skin and provides natural coverage flawlessly. While allowing the skin to breathe and protecting skin from the harm of UV rays, it also helps to improve the skin’s clarity and stay fresh all day long.

Foundation

Foundation is a skin coloured makeup applied to the face to create an even, uniform colour to the complexion, to cover flaws and, sometimes, to change the natural skintone. Some foundations also function as a moisturizer, sunscreen, astringent or base layer for more complex cosmetics. Foundation applied to the body is generally referred to as "body painting."

How To Choose And Apply Foundation

Foundation can give you a flawless, even cosmetic base for your face. If your skin has a uniform color, texture, and appearance, the blush and eyeshadow colors you apply will look smooth instead of choppy. If you try to blend blushes and eyeshadows without foundation, they will most likely go on choppily or wear unevenly during the day. Foundation keeps those powdered colors in place.

Finding the Perfect Color

Whether you have red hair and fair skin or black hair and dark ebony skin, the foundation must match your underlying skin color exactly. Do not buy a foundation that will make your face look even a shade or two darker or lighter or change its underlying color in any manner. Find a foundation that matches your skin perfectly and goes on softly and smoothly. 

Traditionally, skin color has been defined by the basic underlying tone, described as olive, when the skin appears ashen or green in color; sallow, when the skin has a yellow or golden shade; and ruddy, when the skin has overtones of pink or red. These categories hold true for all women, including women of color; your underlying skin color will always relate to one of those skin tones.

When you're purchasing a foundation, it is important to identify your overall, exact skin color and find a foundation that matches it, regardless of the underlying tone. For the most part, regardless of your race, nationality, or age, your foundation should be some shade of neutral ivory, neutral beige, tan, dark brown, bronze brown, or ebony, with a slight, and I mean very slight, undertone of yellow.

Why a slightly yellow undertone? Because skin color, more often than not, has a yellow undertone: That's just what the natural color of melanin (the pigment in the skin) tends to be. There are a few exceptions to this rule. Native North American or South American women, a tiny percentage of African-American women, and some Polynesian women do indeed have a red cast to their skin. They need to look for foundations that have a slightly reddish cast to them—but that's only a hint of brownish red, and not copper, orange, or peach.

Although you are attempting to exactly match the skin color of your face when you choose a foundation, in some cases it is more important to match the foundation to the color of your neck. If your face is darker than your neck and your foundation matches the face, it will look like a mask because of the difference in color. The opposite is also true. If your face is lighter than your neck and you put on a foundation that matches the face, it will still look like a mask because of the difference in color. In situations like this, match the foundation more to the neck color or to a color in between the color of the neck and the face.

Once you have selected a foundation color, there is only one way to be absolutely sure it is right for you: Apply the color all over your face and check it outside in the daylight. Check it from all angles and decide if it matches your skin exactly. If you applied it carefully but there are lines of demarcation at the jaw area; or if it looks too thick or too greasy, or gives the face an orange, pink, rose, or ashen tint; or if it looks heavy and opaque instead of sheer and light, go back to the testers. In fact, you may need to test several types before you find the right foundation. 

One practical guideline to narrow down your choices is to test many different colors at once. Begin with several that look like good possibilities and place stripes of each one in a row over the cheek area. The best choice is the one that blends almost perfectly with your skin color. The wrong choices will stand out, with obvious edges that don't disappear into your skin.

This technique is a reliable way to eliminate some choices, but use it only as an elimination process. Still check out the color on your face in the daylight, and blend the foundation shade over a larger area of your face.

Keep trying on foundations until you find the best one. Once you've made a selection you feel good about, apply it all over your face, wait at least two hours, and check it again in the daylight.

Once you know how to go about finding the right foundation color, the next hurdle is figuring out the type of foundation best suited to your skin type. Note that many foundation types have effective sunscreen protection with an SPF 15 or greater and UVA-protecting ingredients of avobenzone, titanium dioxide, or zinc oxide. That means you can rely on these for sun protection if they are applied liberally and evenly all over the face.

If you prefer to wear a sheer, thin layer of foundation or don't want to wear foundation all over your face, then a moisturizer with sunscreen must be worn underneath. To ensure your foundation with sunscreen is protecting you all day, consider setting your makeup or touching up your makeup during the day with a pressed powder that contains sunscreen.

Excerpted from The Complete Beauty Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Smart Beauty by Paula Begoun with permission of the publisher.[pagebreak]

Oil-Free and Matte Liquid Foundations

Most of these contain oils (even though the names don't sound as though they do) or ingredients that act or feel like oils, such as silicones. These oils and oil-like ingredients are not necessarily bad for any skin type. Keep in mind that what most of these foundations have in common when they are well formulated is that they dry to a matte finish, with no shine or dewy appearance whatsoever. On the skin, "oil-free," matte foundations look like a traditional liquid foundation, although they are often thicker in appearance and have no shine.

Pros: These foundations are the best choice for women who want balanced coverage with no shine at all, and who like a smooth, matte look. They last much longer on oily skin or oily areas than most other foundations (except for the ultra-matte foundations), which for some women is a very desirable, if not essential, effect.

Cons: There aren't many disadvantages to using this kind of foundation. Some of them can make the skin look or feel dry and flaky, but this is usually true only for those that contain talc or other absorbent ingredients.

Ultra-Matte Foundations

These are an amazing group of products that truly stay put. Most have a very liquid consistency and are blended on like any other foundation, though precision blending is key. You have to be very careful about using a moisturizer under ultra-matte foundations. If you use too much, if it's too greasy, or if you don't allow it to be adequately absorbed, it can make the foundation gunk up or streak.

Pros: These foundations are a superior option if you have seriously oily skin, have trouble with makeup slipping or disappearing as the day goes by, live in a humid climate, exercise but still like your makeup to stay put, or like a completely matte finish. Ultra-matte foundations will outlast any other foundation, with no slippage or movement. If you have very oily skin, these are an absolute must to try.

Cons: Regrettably there are many disadvantages to using oil-free, matte foundations. Primarily the problem is that most of them go on rather heavy and look masklike, leaving the skin feeling very dry and taut. To get this makeup on evenly, you must blend quickly or it will dry in place before you know it, and then it can be difficult to blend further. This foundation type can also be hard to work over when applying cream eyeshadows and blush. Ultra-matte foundations have less movement than more emollient foundations, which means eyeshadow and blush have a tendency to stick to them; that can make blending and correcting mistakes a bit irksome, but not impossible.

Women of color should be careful when choosing ultra-matte foundation. Even if it is the right color, these foundations can tend to look gray and ashen after being applied to darker skin tones. Ultra-matte foundations are also the most difficult to remove. The number of options for ultra-matte foundations is dwindling, as women have undoubtedly had problems with them. This is unfortunate because these ingenious formulations can work so well for truly oily skins.

Water-Based and Standard Liquid Foundations

Water-based does not mean oil-free, even if the label says so; what it does generally mean is that the first ingredient is water and the second or third ingredient is some kind of oil or emollient slip agent. These foundations look like a somewhat thick liquid and pour slowly but easily out of the bottle. They are perfect for women with normal to dry skin.

·  Apply foundation first

Setting powder should be added after foundation and concealer but before lip and eye makeup

·  Choose the right powder

·  Load the powder onto a brush

·  Dust your face with powder

·  Blend the powder into your face

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