Our beauty expert has some quick fixes for those expensive product fails Louise McSharry's favourite foundation fixes 3ina’s Custom Drops Colour Wow One-Minute Transformation Styling Cream Elf Cosmetics’s Colour Correctors LA Girl’s Pro.Color Foundation Mixing Pigment Bumble and Bumble's Long Last Styling Cream Of all the wonderful beauty products available to us, foundation is one of the trickiest to buy. Finding a formula you love, in the right shade, can be challenging and, given the price of most complexion products, getting it wrong is gutting.
I’ve written about this previously and given you tips to help avoid being in this position (asking for a sample and testing the shade in daylight being primary examples), but what do you do if you end up with an expensive foundation which just doesn’t work for you? When it comes to formula, the fix is usually relatively easy. We all have preferences based on the look we’re aiming for or our skin type. I like a glowy, natural finish when it comes to my complexion.
If I end up with a foundation that feels too heavy or matte, I lighten the impact with skin prep and application. The skincare products you use ahead of putting on your foundation will have a big impact on the finished look. If you use rich, emollient products, they will soften the impact of a matte finish and still result in a lovely glow.
The tools you use to apply it will also have an impact. Applying foundation with a dense brush will result in a heavier, .