Correct Foundation For Your Skin Type

So, which foundation should you be using and why? Here's a breakdown of the three different Adorn Cosmetics Foundation formulations to help you find the right foundation for your skin type.

Cream Mineral Foundation Stick

With a harmonising blend of organic Jojoba and Shea Butter, Adorn Cosmetics cream stick foundations are perfect for women who adore a dewier complexion and want a long-lasting, full, flawless coverage.

This popular windup foundation stick also has skin care benefits by helping to soften, soothe and hydrate the skin without clogging the pores, and antioxidants (Vitamins A & E) protect and help fight free radical damage. Suitable for most skin types and perfect for dry, dehydrated, mature skin, or those who suffer with skin sensitivities. 

Liquid Mineral Foundation

Adorn Cosmetics Liquid Mineral Natural SPF Foundation gives a beautiful lightweight, long-lasting natural finish that looks like your very own skin. Normal combination or oily skin types will adore this liquid mineral foundation, as it's non-greasy and is perfect for humid/hot climates.

Refillable Loose Mineral Foundation SPF 20+

Our award-winning lightweight, yet full coverage mineral foundation has both UVA & UVB SPF 20+ sun protection, and is both sweat & water-resistant - requiring little to no need for touch-ups! Adorn Cosmetics multipurpose mineral foundation offers buildable coverage that can be as light as a tinted moisturiser, or flawless with a camera-ready finish that lasts all day long.  

Suitable for most skin types, including mature and sensitive skin, Adorn Cosmetics mineral foundations are non-comedogenic (won't clog pores) and calm redness due to the high concentration of Zinc Oxide in our formulations. Our certified toxin-free mineral foundation effortlessly helps cover: pigmentation, psoriasis, scars, rosacea, bruising, blemishes, veins and even birth marks and is gentle enough to wear after most cosmetic and facial procedures. The purity of Adorn Cosmetics premium-grade, pure mineral pigments also means you will use much less product to achieve a perfect finish.

What's more, it's refillable - saving unnecessary landfill and saving you money! Now that's something to feel good about.

 

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Choosing the Right Foundation Type

Okay, so what foundation should you be wearing? Colour matching aside, what type of foundation should you be looking for? The good news is most of the foundations in the Adorn Cosmetics range do suit most skin types. It depends on what you put underneath your foundation and what you set it with that will give you the finish that you're after. I'll discuss that in a moment. But if you're looking at the preference for your skin type, I'm going to go through each foundation type, including our BB cream, as to what may suit you.

Tip: Two Foundation Types and Colours

Now, my first tip is this: I do recommend that you have two foundation types in your kit, and I do recommend that you have two colours. For example, you can have a light to medium shade in the loose minerals and a medium olive shade in the cream foundation. I can use either the cream foundation stick or the loose mineral foundation depending on how dark or light I am, and if I'm somewhere in between I can mix the two foundation shades together by layering the loose mineral foundation over the top of the cream foundation. There are so many different things that you can create with Adorn Cosmetics foundations; it's really about having a little bit of a play. Just make sure that you get the right colour first.

My top tip is definitely to have two foundation shades as well as two foundation types as your skin is never the same from one day to the next.

Adorn Cosmetics Cream Mineral Stick Foundation

Our cream foundation stick is a really beautiful foundation for those that want a camera-finish flawless look. You can also create a barely-there finish with a stick. Who would have thought? All you need to do is put a little bit on your face and blend it with our vegan Kabuki Brush.  If you want a full coverage put more on and just keep blending it with the Kabuki Brush building it up. All of Adorn Cosmetics natural foundations are buildable. You can also use our loose mineral foundation over the top of this. So when I'm going out or I've got an event or I'm shooting on some set I will put my medium. I'll leave on the first for a bit of warmth because I'm quite fair and then I use the loose minerals over the top and I just get a super flawless finish. So there you can use the two together or separately. This foundation type is, however, really great for people who have dry or dehydrated skin because it has shea butter, jojoba oil, and some beautiful botanical oils in it that emulate the natural sebum in our skin. So what that means is it's able to hydrate the skin, nourish the skin, and not make it look flaky. So if you have dry dehydrated skin this is probably the best foundation for you. You may like to try this with the Hydrating Primer Moisturiser first and if you still feel dry or dehydrated then you can mix this skin primer with one of our face oils like our Rosehip oil or the day oil. All of Adorn Cosmetics face oils can be mixed with the foundation primer. But here's a note, if you have dry, flaky skin then no foundation is going to conceal this, unfortunately. You're best off on the days that you have got maybe a dry or flaky nose putting less foundation on those areas. A tip:  If you have a dry nose, pop your foundation on and then pat a little bit of our skin primer on over the top of the dry areas to spread and minimise the foundation coverage and therefore taking the attention away from that dry skin. 

Adorn Cosmetics Liquid Mineral Natural SPF Foundation

Moving onto the Adorn liquid foundation, this liquid foundation suits most skin types, but if you are a more dry or dehydrated skin it's probably best to go with the Adorn Cosmetics Cream Stick Foundation. You can however still use this, it's all about what you put underneath it. If you want to use the liquid foundation but you have dry or dehydrated skin, definitely use our skin primer underneath. Adorn Cosmetics liquid foundation has a natural SPF that's derived from non-nano titanium dioxide and safe to use on the skin.  We also use zinc oxide as it's the most natural form of sunscreen and better for the environment as well as our waterways. If you're going to the beach it's not an SPF that I would like to make any claims about as it is only about a 6 - 8 + SPF If you're just getting intermittent little bursts of sun it's just going to protect you from that. You do need some sun for vitamin D otherwise your bones can end up brittle so the sun is not completely the enemy but if you're wanting a little bit of sun protection the oil control liquid foundation is awesome for that now if you do choose this one and I do recommend - recommend that all foundations you try a sample first please don't buy a full-size product it upsets me because I feel like you're probably ending up with the wrong colour anyway and then it ends up in landfill. Our liquid foundation is packaged in an airless pump so that means that there is no internal dip tube so when you first start pumping it you may find that it takes a few pumps to get it to work that's because the vacuum seal inside needs to kick-start and eliminate any air bubbles that may be at the top so give it quite a few pumps. If it's still not working which is very rare tap it upside down to get the foundation right to the top pump it away and then it'll start dispensing. The beauty of airless packaging is that we don't need to use parabens because there's no air in there bacteria can't breed and what I also love about airless pumps is you get full use of the product. As a consumer you're not scrapping around trying to get any excess product that's stuck in there, you get full use of the 30 grams of product that's in there. You'll see the little vacuum start to move up and I've got one here to show you so you can see that the vacuum has started to push the product up so you get full use of it and you can see there's no internal dip tube so it's not faulty some people say to us oh I think it's faulty because I can't see the tube it's not it's an airless pump as is all of our liquid products okay so now if you are someone who's got a really oily complexion again you can use the the liquid foundation maybe a preference for you again anybody can use it but that may be something you want to try you do apply this with the Kabuki brush I find that because it doesn't have any oils, silicones or any nasties in there the Kabuki brush is the best way to apply that foundation as it sreads it really nice and thin and skin like rather than thick because it does dry fairly quickly. okay if you do have an oily complexion in particular the loose mineral foundations are going to be your favourite friend. okay the minerals will help absorb some of that oil flow a little bit for you as well it's going to stay on a lot longer and it's going to look more natural and will not slide off your face halfway through the day which you don't want. In saying that though the loose mineral foundations do suit all skin types I don't care how old you are, how young you are, or what skin type you have, unless you have really dry peeling off skin there is no reason why you cannot use this because we do not use any fillers there's no talc, there's no bismuth oxychloride, there is nothing in our loose mineral foundations that will dry out the skin, clog the skin, or make the skin look aged. I guess so the loose minerals if you have an oily skin again it's all about what you put underneath it if you have an oily skin then I recommend just using our skin primer day moisturiser as your skin prep it'll help regulate your oil flow but it'll also hydrate the skin as well. okay then you put your loose mineral foundation on okay so you just dispense a small amount into the lid use your kabuki brush and buff it on it now you can layer this the loose mineral is a foundation in its own right and that's what I have on today just loose minerals this is super flawless and I promise you I've got you got this look all from the loose minerals. okay I have a normal combination skin type I love this product simply because it has an SPF 20+ and is a natural sunscreen. I can't stand the feel of those synthetic sunscreens on my skin that congest it and end up getting breakouts from. They feel disgusting, it's not great for the beaches or the waterways either, so I feel better knowing that this is a natural ingredient that's not going to harm waterways. They're not going to harm my skin, but it's also going to give me enough sun protection that I don't have to worry about sun damage. Which you can see from using this mineral foundation for over ten years, I don't have any. So if you've got oily skin, just use the skin primer underneath. Buff this on with the kabuki brush in small amounts. If you want a really light tinted moisturiser looking coverage, you can do that. If you want a heavier coverage like what I have on today,  stipple it like this, so you're pressing the foundation in. If you buff it in, it spreads it and makes it thinner. If you press it in, you get a heavier coverage. Again, if you want super super flawless coverage and you want it really quick, as you're time poor, you can use this over the top of the cream or the liquid foundation. And then that's true, to get out the two foundations together will marry up. They'll work in synergy together, and they'll give you flawless camera-ready skin.

 

 

2021-09-11 04:33:00
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