FACE PRIMER

 

Try A Tinted Primer:

If your face is looking dull:

Try using a light pink primer like Benefit That Gal Brightening Face Primer. This will add a glow to your face to make it more healthy looking.

If you have sallow skin:

Try using a lilac shade primer like Smashbox Photo Finish Colour Correcting Primer {Lilac}. This will brighten sallow looking skin.

If you have redness:

Try using a green primer like Smashbox Photo Finish Colour Correcting Primer {Green}. This colour neutrilizes redness caused from acne, rosacea and sunburns.

Less Is Always More:

 Don't feel like you have to apply a tone of primer to your face for it to work. Over applying will actually pill under your foundation. Add a small pea size amount to the face by gently rubbing it in for an all even coverage.

Apply To Your Eyes:

Gently pat primer around the eyes and a little on the lids. This will prevent eye makeup from creasing and smudging and it also helps smooth out fine lines around the eyes as well as counteracting redness.

Prime Those Lashes Of Yours:

 For thicker and longer lashes, apply an eyelash primer under your regular mascara. These primers contain Vitamin E or glycerin to condition lashes which helps amplify those sparse lashes. Two coats of mascara is sufficient enough when applying primer.

Take It Easy If You Have Acne Prone Skin:

If your primer already has anti-acne ingredients such as salicylic acid, you will want to skip your acne spot treatments. Using both primer {for acne prone skin} and acne spot treatments will make the acne more irritated and inflamed. A great primer for acne prone skin is the Smashbox Photo Finish More Than Primer Blemish Control.

Prime Your Lips:

Dab on a lip primer before applying any lipstick {especially to prevent lipstick from settling into fine lines/ smudging}. If you don't want to purchase a lip primer, then use the primer for your face instead.

Apply Primer To Your Neck and Décolletage:

This will help smooth out fine lines on your neck and décolletage. 

Complete With Powder:

By following this order:

Primer, liquid foundation or tinted moisturizer and translucent powder.

If you skip on the powder whether it's tinted or translucent, the silicon in the primer and the water in your foundation will react together and once you touch your face or sweat, it will come right off. Powder is a must when using primer!

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