How To Prep Your Skin Before Makeup

To make makeup last longer and preserve the radiance of the complexion, you have to take care of your skin on a daily basis. Here is how to prep your skin before makeup to have a good beauty routine.

Make-up every day without taking care of your skin beforehand? There is nothing worse and yet… At a time when make-up tutorials abound on the internet, we tend to spend the majority of our beauty budget on make-up products and not on skincare products.

Consequence: under an excess of foundation, blush or powder, without an adapted care routine, the skin suffocates, the pores become clogged, it loses its radiance. As a result, it becomes the scene of acne breakouts. Worse still, the skin aging process begins, wrinkles and fine lines set in. Also spots appear and the oval of the face sags.

So, to reverse the trend and repair the damage, no secret. Adapt your beauty routine with ultra-simple (10 minutes is enough) but really necessary gestures.

Without further due, here are is how to prep your skin before makeup.

STEP N°1: Cleanse your skin

It is out of the question to apply make-up on skin that has not been cleansed beforehand. In the morning when you get out of bed, you clean it with a product (gel, foam, cream, etc.) adapted to your skin type (dry, normal, oily, acne-prone).

Then rinse with cold water to boost blood circulation and complexion radiance. Gently dry the face, dabbing rather than rubbing.

For those whose face is washed twice (morning and evening): a cotton ball soaked in micellar water in the morning can also do the trick.

STEP N°2: Awaken your skin with a tonic lotion

In addition to being a very good complement to cleansing the skin (it allows you to remove small stubborn residues, in particular those of limestone), applied in the morning on waking, the tonic lotion energizes the skin of the face and boosts its radiance.

As it deeply cleanses the skin, it facilitates the application of make-up and prolongs its hold.

STEP N°3: Apply a combo serum+moisturizing cream

To prepare your skin to receive makeup, you apply before your day cream, a small dose of smoothing and unifying serum to precisely increase the effects of the cream tenfold and hydrate the skin even more.

Warm a few drops in your hands and then apply it to the face by tapping with your fingertips or by exerting light pressure.

A day cream can be anti-wrinkle, anti-aging, anti-dark spot, anti-acne… but above all it must be moisturizing!

We do not joke around with the hydration of the skin, it is an essential gesture before make-up and after make-up removal, even on oily skin. Beautiful skin is hydrated skin!

STEP N°4: Don’t forget the eye contour

Camouflaging your bags and dark circles with makeup is sometimes not enough. So to put an end to these little hassles and boost the effectiveness of your make-up, choose a good eye contour, to apply after your day cream.

In cream, roll ‘on or balm, it prevents wrinkles and fine lines and refreshes the eyes. Apply the treatment by massaging the eye contour with your fingertips to stimulate circulation and decongest the area. Concealer is applied before or after foundation, depending on the desired coverage.

STEP N°5: Apply a primer before foundation

More than just a make-up enhancer, the primer helps take care of your skin. It is applied before foundation to unify and smooth, but above all it has the superpower to adapt to each type of skin.

It can both mattify shiny areas and camouflage redness and dark circles. Some of these bases even exist with an SPF: ideal for protecting the skin from the first rays of the sun during a lunch on the terrace for example…

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