🌡🌞 How to incorporate sunscreen into my daily routine 🏖🌝

[GG84]

I'm fairly lucky that I get to be inside and outside for my job and a lot of my clients are by the lake. I always wear sunscreen on my body, but when it comes to my face, it gets confusing. I already feel like I layer a lot on my skin (serum, moisturizer, eyecream, primer) then my make up routine on top of that... My question is, where does a facial sunscreen fit in?

[darlyndar]

@GG84 First off...hiiii my friend!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Second, I have about 8 steps in my daytime routine and my SPF is the last one. I use Missha Sun Milk with SPF 50. It never pills on me and leaves a velvet finish on my skin. Or, I use my Holy Grail primer...Cane&Austin Prime+Protect with SPF 50. It has a tint but blends out to match any skin tone. I just feel like I don’t use enough primer to get the needed amount of SPF on my face, so I top it off with either Pixi’s sun mist with SPF 30 (that lives in my bag) or PTR powder with SPF 30.

[sparkles0913]

Kate Sommerville makes a sunscreen setting spray that I recently bought and am in love with! It is SPF 50 and can go over all of your makeup. I use it on top of my regular setting powder.

[SoraDixie]

I feel ya. When I first started incorporating sunscreen I was soooo goopy. Murad has an “invisiblur protecting shield” that’s SPF 30, PA+++. Makes a great primer. I use that or farmacy sunscreen plus a mattifying primer (dr. Brandt pores no more is my favorite) on my T-zone. Remember that before primers were a big thing people just used moisturizers under makeup and it got really great results! A lot of it is finding the right type of primer/moisturizer/sunscreen for the foundation you’re using.

[Lisaaa86]

I've always used a Moisturizer with sunscreen protection that way I didn't need that extra step. I also use a powder foundation from IT cosmetics that has SPF 50 So whenever I touch up I'm essentially reapplying sunscreen

[Anastasiya13]

I am loving the super goop setting spray/ sunscreen. Its 50 spf and it feels super light and refreshing on the skin.

[PrettyPaint]

@GG84 The first sunscreen I have consistently worn has been coola’s full spectrum 360 sun silk drops. You can just blend it with your other products, and it goes on very smoothly because they are liquidy drops. I love them because they basically add no time to my makeup routine. I got a bad sunburn last weekend (and was wearing a different sunscreen on my body), but my face didn’t burn at all and I was wearing the coola drops. 

[GG84]

@PrettyPaint Those sound great, but sadly aren't available in Canada either. 

This one IS available in Canada, anyone ever try it? 

[6come6]

Hi there @GG84! Personally, I apply sunscreen after my moisturizer and before my primer. It is my last step of skincare before makeup. I like to reapply every few hours with a spray. Hope this helps!

[melissabt]

@GG84,

I know what you mean! I used to feel the same way. I noticed that I only like sunscreens that have thinner type of texture, since it sits better underneath my makeup. I highly recommend the one by Tatcha, it is a primer and sunscreen in one!

https://www.sephora.com/product/silken-pore-perfecting-sunscreen-broad-spectrum-spf-35-P408206?skuId...

[GG84]

Tatcha sounds great @melissabt but it appears that particular product isnt sold in Canada grr

[didifoolyou]

I've felt the same way for years! my best results are with minimizing what I use on the skin in the AM and using a moisturizing sunscreen! Depending on the formula, a lot of times this doubles as my primer as well. I still use one for pores in specific areas and a light coat of Matte Rescue and I'm set for makeup. I really like Coola and find that it sits wonderfully under makeup.

[GG84]

@didifoolyou Which particular one from coola are you using? 

[sandykat79]

Coola now has Daydream Mineral Primer, it's SPF 30 and does double duty as primer and sunscreen. I've been using it for a few weeks now and no clogged pores or reactions. Highly recommended.

[didifoolyou]

I've been using the Classic Face SPF 30 Cucumber. There's also an unscented version as well as a mineral matte version, but I haven't tried those. Algenist is bomb, too, but it's strictly mineral sunscreen.