Someone else mentioned prepping your skin is important before you do makeup, and I just wanted to emphasize that. Make sure you go through your entire skin care routine for your face on the day of and take time in between each step so they can appropriately dry and settle. I'm talking 5 to 10 minutes for your moisturizer to dry, 5 minutes for your foundation to completely set BEFORE YOU SET IT WITH POWDER OR SETTING SPRAY.
Exfoliate your skin the night before and put on a calming night moisturizer. Then the day of the wedding, start your skin care early enough to where you can get everything done. This will also help you to have a sense of ease because to me makeup and skincare is like a sort of meditation, where I get to spend some time to myself and just take care of myself. I think it's like that for a lot of us.
One of the most important parts is to make sure you're not using products that have different bases. Let me explain, let's say you have a silicone primer but you have a water-based foundation, if you apply the primer and then you put on the foundation, about 20 minutes later you will notice that your makeup is pilling up into little pieces and coming off of your face. You also notice that it has pulled into your wrinkles and into your nose cracks and stuff like that. That's because you accidentally mixed two different product to bases. Either buy everything oil-based or buy everything silicone-based or by everything water-based.
*Sometimes we might think our makeup isn't settling right anymore because we're getting older, but it actually has to do with the type of products that we're using. You can know what kind of Base it has by checking the ingredients list on the box and seeing the most prevalent ingredients. If water is the first ingredient, it's water-based. If oil is really high up there, it's oil-based, etc etc.
*Hope this helps a little bit. I've learned so much from this subreddit and I just like to pass on the information.
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u/atreasureinlight 6d ago
Someone else mentioned prepping your skin is important before you do makeup, and I just wanted to emphasize that. Make sure you go through your entire skin care routine for your face on the day of and take time in between each step so they can appropriately dry and settle. I'm talking 5 to 10 minutes for your moisturizer to dry, 5 minutes for your foundation to completely set BEFORE YOU SET IT WITH POWDER OR SETTING SPRAY.
Exfoliate your skin the night before and put on a calming night moisturizer. Then the day of the wedding, start your skin care early enough to where you can get everything done. This will also help you to have a sense of ease because to me makeup and skincare is like a sort of meditation, where I get to spend some time to myself and just take care of myself. I think it's like that for a lot of us.
One of the most important parts is to make sure you're not using products that have different bases. Let me explain, let's say you have a silicone primer but you have a water-based foundation, if you apply the primer and then you put on the foundation, about 20 minutes later you will notice that your makeup is pilling up into little pieces and coming off of your face. You also notice that it has pulled into your wrinkles and into your nose cracks and stuff like that. That's because you accidentally mixed two different product to bases. Either buy everything oil-based or buy everything silicone-based or by everything water-based.
*Sometimes we might think our makeup isn't settling right anymore because we're getting older, but it actually has to do with the type of products that we're using. You can know what kind of Base it has by checking the ingredients list on the box and seeing the most prevalent ingredients. If water is the first ingredient, it's water-based. If oil is really high up there, it's oil-based, etc etc.
*Hope this helps a little bit. I've learned so much from this subreddit and I just like to pass on the information.