Re: Advice on what to use for oily skin
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Hello! I’m also extremely oily, and while I am still searching and doing trial-and-errors for some products, I have found a couple
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Hello! I’m also extremely oily, and while I am still searching and doing trial-and-errors for some products, I have found a couple makeup products that are my holy grail go-to products. I will just speak to makeup products at the moment since I’ve yet to really find a good cleanser or moisturizer that helps me with oil control.Primers (very important for oily skin):I have tried TONS from drugstore to high end, and I do have a couple of favourites and they include the MILK MAKEUP Pore Eclipse Mattifying + Blurring Makeup Primer with Niacinamide Translucent or MAKE UP FOR EVER Step 1 Primer Shine Control Shine Control. I definitely find a good primer for oily skin is key, and a step I refuse to ever miss! Foundation: I usually choose a foundation meant for oily skin, and I don’t wear foundation every day; when I don’t it’s usually a CC cream designed for oily skin, (like Covergirl’s) and there is also a great CC cream which I find has even better coverage, which is IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream Natural Matte Foundation with SPF 40. Since this one also has SPF, many days I will put on that and then some powder overtop and it‘s actually quite good coverage, especially when I am just out running errands or whatever.For foundation though, you can find usually at least one from every brand that has a matte finish, but from personal experience, my go-to brands are tarte Amazonian Clay 16-Hour Full Coverage Foundation or their tarte Amazonian clay blurring powder foundation. I‘ve also in the past liked NARS Soft Matte Complete Foundation Oslo and MAKE UP FOR EVER Matte Velvet Skin Full Coverage Foundation Y225 Marble!Oh and I MUST mention the compact powder foundation that I keep in my purse and apply as needed: MAKE UP FOR EVER HD Skin Matte Velvet Blurring Foundation & Setting Powder !! That one is my absolute favourite holy grail product that I own! It reduces shine and blurs my pores like nothing else! My app’s been screwy and it just took me 15 mins to properly link that one, but I hope that helps someone as it is AMAZING!!I’ve been hoping and planning to tryHUDA BEAUTY #FauxFilter Luminous Matte Foundation. Other ones I haven’t personally tried but have heard a lot of hype about, for oily skin, are Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Medium Coverage Liquid Foundation with Hyaluronic Acid and Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Pro Filt’r Soft Matte Longwear Liquid Foundation; they also have a powder foundation I’m rather curious about.Makeup setting:This step, or steps, in my routine I find probably the most important. Everyone differs as to whether they use powders that offer some more coverage, finishing or setting powders, and finishing or setting sprays. I tend to go with finishing powders and setting sprays. I do have a couple favourites, which are: tarte Amazonian Clay Finishing Powder and Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Setting Powder. Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder and HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA Bio-Blurring Talc-Free Loose Setting Powder are my runners up. For setting sprays, Urban Decay De-Slick Oil-Control Makeup Setting Spray 4 oz/ 118 mL is my absolute holy grail, ride-or-die!! I do have some cleansers/moisturizers I could recommend but I just spent like an hour on this post because it was giving me issues with linking the products. And it’s late, lol. So I can always come back to this or write a new answer about those.I also tend to use concealer most of the time; haven’t found one I love yet but I tend to avoid the ones that say glassy finish and all that.I also find using an eyeshadow primer on my lids makes my eyeshadow last way longer. I know it does for most people, but I have read that having oily skin makes it even more crucial. Anyways, sorry this is so long. I really honestly hope this helps you, or someone coming across reading this, and maybe I can get a “like” (or two or three, haha) just for all that effort! 😊😅😀