Thinking back to my high school days, which was a while ago, I remember the foundations that were available to us teenaged girls back then. It was the days of Cover Girl popularity, when foundations were heavy, had a lot of mineral oil in them, and often smelled of menthol, like the Cover Girl products that were supposedly noncomedogenic did. They were cheap, heavy and mask-ish foundations.
And not only did they help to clog pores, but they didn’t let the natural beauty of the skin show through, and God forbid you had a blemish, they usually made them look worse, highlighting their raised nature and not doing much for their darker pigmentation either, accentuating the very things that were wrong with acne blemishes.
Today, we are lucky enough to have relatively inexpensive access to excellent, non-heavy, noncomedogenic (non pore clogging or acne causing) types of foundations that not only help us to maintain healthy, acne free skin, but also help protect our face against UV rays and sun damage, and also happen to make our skin look great, playing up the natural beauty and luminosity of our skin.
After all, those of us that have acne are blessed with very moisture-heavy skin, we almost never suffer from dehydrated skin, and once we get those blemishes cleared up, one of the great things about naturally oily skin is that it also tends to look warm and glowing because of it’s moisture rich nature.
Heavy and cheaply made foundations often magnify the appearance of acne. Another important note when picking a foundation if you have acne is to choose colors that play up your natural skin tone and tone down acne blemishes, which are red. This means that you don’t want to go with too many yellow undertones, but you also don’t want to go with red or purple undertones either.
I’ve found one of the most perfect foundations and colors that is universally flattering is Revlon Color Stay foundation for either combination skin or normal skin in “Buff”. Buff is a very flattering color to a lot of skin tones, and it isn’t overly pink or purple, nor is it overly yellow or orange in tone. Revlon Color Stay foundations provide excellent coverage, but I never find they look to heavy on me, or mask my skin’s natural glow.
I make sure I water it down enough by using a water soaked pad to apply it though, so that it doesn’t come off as heavy, and I often will mix either lotion with it to add a nice warm glow, or a luminizing cream to dilute the heaviness.
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