Makeup Foundation

  Makeup Foundation is a product of makeup that gives flawless look to the face covering all the dark areas, sports, blemishes and dark circles. These foundations are designed in every color to match the skin tone and sometimes to enhance the skin tone. There are few foundations that also work as sunscreen, moisturizer, and other multiple functions. The foundation trend originated from the ancient trend of face painting.

The coverage of these foundations range from sheer, light, medium and heavy coverage. Due to increasing competition, companies are emerging with new and creative ideas. For example, the latest trend is focused on full coverage foundation; such as, Dermacol Foundations that got high attention due to their ability to hide everything on the face. After the rise of this foundation, companies are coming up with total coverage foundations keeping in account customer needs. However, one of the drawbacks of high coverage foundation is that they might end up creating creasing and lines if not blended properly.

There are different kinds of application tools for foundation blending; such as, sponge, brush, airbrush and fingers. There are many makeup artists that use fingers as they believe that the fingers have natural heat that have the ability to blend the foundation properly without creasing. The fingers allow the foundation to blend and mix into the skin. For stick foundations, fingers work the best but for liquids, brushes and sponges are good option.  

There are different formulations with the help of which foundations are made; such as, oil based shakers, oil and emollient, alcohol based, mineral based, powder based, silicon based and water based. The most popular forms in market are stick foundation, mineral foundation, powder foundation, liquid foundation, BB cream and CC cream.

It is an endless quest to search and choose the right foundation for your skin type on the basis of coverage, skin tone, skin type, and other personal needs. Matching skin tone is very important to give even and defined look. In many cases, people opt for extreme lighter foundation than their skin tone that ends up giving them grey and unnatural look. There are cool and warm undertone of skin that helps one choose the right foundation. It is always better to check the color of foundation on the wrist and then leave it for thirty minutes. After sometime, you can get the accurate idea of if the foundation matches skin tone and lasting as well.