How to Stop Your Makeup From Melting
If your foundation can't stand the heat, get it out of your makeup bag.
— me, five minutes ago
To be brutally honest, I'm not a summer person. I hate being warm. When the temperature gets over 75 degrees, who I am fundamentally as a person is compromised. It's harder to pick outfits, my hair poofs immediately when I walk out the door, and my makeup will literally melt off my face by 11 am. Austin is truly an incredible city and I love living here, but it's like being on the surface of the sun for nine months of the year.
Until I figure out how to get myself to Seattle or somewhere with an abundance of cloud coverage, I have to find little ways to counteract the effects of the extreme heat plaguing me. The easiest thing I've found so far is getting a foundation that can hang with the heat all day.
When I got Maybelline's new answer to powder, I was a tiny bit skeptical. Two-in-one products have never worked for me and I didn't think relationship would change with a product for my face. After struggling with acne for over ten years, I have a lot I need to cover when it comes to foundations to feel comfortable and confident enough to leave the house. However, I gave this a try for a week and I'm actually super surprised by how much I liked this powder-foundation combo.
The first day I used it, I was impressed with how well it covers. I was expecting to still have to use a ton of concealer and a sealing powder, but I didn't... I felt lost. Like when you realize you've been taking the longest route home from work and then one day you're friend is like "oh, you didn't know about this road that cuts the commute in half?" No, friend, Google Maps didn't show me that.
During the week, I found my makeup time was cut by a third using this product. Instead of doing my usual foundation-powder-concealer-powder routine, it became BetterSkin Powder-concealer. That was it. It was honestly insane to me that I was basically wasting all that time, and my skin looked and felt better than before.
It's super light-weight and lasts all day. Usually, by the time I come home from work I've rubbed off all my foundation just because I touch my face a lot during the day (you know, the usual frustration things like putting your head in your hands and sighing). When I washed my face getting ready for bed, it was almost gross how much makeup was coming off. The water would be so brown, sometimes I would wash my face again just to make sure everything came off.
I actually really do love this powder + foundation. It's quick, it's easy, and it holds out better than any other foundation I've tried.
Thank you to Maybelline and Influenster for sending me the complimentary Better Skin VoxBox for testing purposes.