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How to Apply Foundation - Best Foundation Makeup Tips

Choosing Best Perfect Foundation

Choos a foundation to match your skin tone. Using the right foundation makes your skin look flawless and smoot. choos the shade closest to your skin tone by testing it on your jaw line. The crrect shade with look natural when compared with your neck.

Types of Foundations

There are several types of foundation.

Liquid Foundation - which comes in bottles or jars, gives a light coverage and is easiest to use.
Cream Foundation - which usually comes in tubes or sticks, are best for skin that is blemished or very uneven in tone, since they are much thicker.
Mousse Foundation - Again these are quite moisturizing and ideal for drier skins. To apply, dab a little onto the back of your hand, then dot onto your skin with a sponge.
Compact Foundation - These are all-in-one formulations, which already contain powder. They come in a compact, usually with their own sponge for application.
Stick Foundation - These are the original foundation, dating back to the early days of hollywood. They are best confined for use on badly blemished skin.

Applying Foundation

Step 1 Apply moisturizer to your face.

Step 2 Using the flat, smooth surface of round synthetic sponge, pour some foundation on the sponge and apply it in dots and dab all over the face. You can use your finger to apply it.

Step 3 Blend the foundation in upward and downward direction.

Step 4 Don't forget to cover the small areas like creases of nose, under your eyebrows and along the jaw line.

Step 5 Blend well around the hairline, avoiding any harsh lines.

Step 6 To soak up excess oil and for a natural look, blot the face with a tissue after applying the foundation.

How to Buy a Make up Foundation

• Test foundation on the inside of the forearm-skin tone is closest to neck colour there, because it's protected from UV damage. Makeup should blend with the skin colour of the neck, not the face.
• If any doubt then buy one shade lighter than your facial skin tone.
• Don't make up your mind instantly. It takes about a minute for colour to dry and interact with the chemicals in your skin. The red pigments develop first so it will appear the pinkest at the beginning.
• Then go to the nearest source of natural light. (Even the most flattering uplit cosmetics hall tends to have colour-distorting fluorescent lighting.) If you have chosen the right colour, it will disappear into the skin.