It's like an IRL filter.
This Easy Foundation Hack Is the Secret to Glowing Skin
If only no-makeup makeup were as easy as it sounds. But unless you have an exemplary diet, a 28-step skin-care routine, or some seriously smug genes, it's pretty hard to make skin look deliciously fresh, dewy, and notably “natural” without foundation giving the game away.
One woman leading the way, though, is TikTok user @milly__chan. Her “very long foundation routine” (DW, it's not that long) is the secret to skin that looks, as Chan puts it herself, “smooth as a baby’s 🍑.” It's ultra glowy too.
To replicate, Chan preps her skin with E.L.F.'s Mint Melt primer. Then she tells followers to mix their foundation on a makeup palette—she uses L'Oréal Paris Infallible 24 Hour Fresh Wear Foundation mixed with Nars Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation—then spritz it with a setting spray to water it down (we like Morphe's Continuous Setting Mist).
Spray your face with the setting mist too, then bounce a makeup sponge in it like the Beauty Blender and use this to spread your foundation on thin.
Use the palette trick again with your concealer. Spread it on—try L'Oréal's Infallible Full Coverage Concealer—and water it down with setting mist, like the foundation. Then use a sponge to apply it by bouncing “a lot,” Chan says.
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To blend the whole lot together, bounce a clean sponge over your entire face to push the product into skin more imperceptibly. It's a trick that's loved by A-list makeup artists too.
Chan recommends powdering your skin only in specific spots, e.g., on the forehead and chin and under your eyes, then using the other powders you'd normally apply, like blush and highlighter, to set your foundation elsewhere. “This way you reduce the amount of powder on your face, which makes it less cakey,” she says.
She takes Physician's Formula Butter Bronzer and applies it to her forehead, jawline, cheekbones, and either side of the nose to lightly contour, then uses Milani's Baked Blush across her cheeks and the bridge of her nose. For a lush glow, she uses Wet N Wild's Megaglo Highlighting Powder and a fan brush to tactically apply it over the high points of her face like her cheeks and nose.
To finish? Spray your face with—you guessed it—more setting spray, then use a fan to dry it (cute electric fan optional). Repeat the spritzing and fanning a couple more times to set and refresh and the end result looks like a walking IRL beauty filter. Magic.
This story originally appeared on Glamour U.K.
This story originally appeared on: Glamour - Author:Condé Nast
