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isn't it better not to wear foundation to allow skin to breathe and restore itself properly?

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and all those chemicals can't be doing any good to the skin...

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but if the air is relatively clean..?

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does skin stay younger looking for longer if we don't put all those chemicals on it? just bottled water and some walnut oil to prevent dehydration...

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i've been using one by Chanel in a stick, and too bad, but after a while it looks as if it were not even there

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Karen wrote:
What kind of make-up should one look for (oil free, water based, every skin type...)

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When looking for the right make-up, you should consider a few things; do you have open pores or closed pores-is? Is the make up for inside, or do you also need to wear it in humid place; where lots of people are and not enough oxygen. Is it summer or winter where you live? What's your age? do you work inside with airconditioning, or outside?
But: not one still looks nice after a short while, if you don't apply some powder. The powder you should use, should be a ‘natural finishing loose powder’ like Chanel has the best; its very light and is only meant to fixate your make-up. The powder should be applied after you have put on your make-up. Use a big powder brush: dap it softly on your skin; you need just a little bit. Never over-do with powder, because that will make your skin look wrinkly, because the powder will suck up all the grease; the combination of 'sweat' (you cannot prevent this)and oil that your skin always produces.
Since your skin is a thin layer of leather that is always in motion with every slightest activity of your face muscles, you will cause that cake to wrinkle anyway.
Not one make-up looks nice if there is not a light fixating powder on top. The perfect make-up (the one you don't see), is applied very lightly and has a light fixating powder over it.

Now when you buy make-up, all the above should be considered.
Whhen it comes to make-up from Chanel; its not a make-up for a healthy skin: If your pores are closed and healthy, meaning: if you don't use chemical peels, didn't have plastic surgery, and you are still under 45 years old, then you should not use Chanel. Especially not the stick; this is make-up for those who visit beauty clinics and have facials (a soft peel-off of the outer skin). When you take treatments like that, your pores are open and because of this your skin ‘sucks up’ the make-up and then the stick is perfect.
So, the stick is not a make-up you should use.

If your skin is healthy, you should never use thick make-up and the stick is just that; thick. That is why your skin gets greasy; because your pores are closed. Just as your skin produces more oil to prevent dehydration, your skin will also produce more oil to get rid of 'a cake' that clogs your pores.
Chanel, especially the Chanel of today, is for old people. It is not the same quality as it used to be. Personally, I do not use it anymore. Only when I was a model doing shows did I use Chanel.
The powder from Chanel is very good; light and soft, but when it comes to the make-up; its heavy and thick, its 'old plastic surgery skin make-up'.

Very important
It is also essential what day cream you use under your make-up, because the stick is very concentrated, and if you have a cream under it that is meant for dry skin for example, then your make-up will 'slide off your face'. It might be that the greasy caky effect you see, is because you use the wrong day-cream and don't use a powder. Not one make-up looks good with the wrong day cream underneath.

So, what is the cream that you use under it? Special day cream for extra sensitive skin "with extra protection for dry skin"?
If so, stop using it under your make-up, because it makes any make-up look greasy after a short while.
Remember that make-up from expensive brands have protective day-cream and a mild sunblock in it as well, so if the above is the case, than you are pilling up grease on your skin and then the best make-up will look horrible.
When using make-up, a light non greasy cream is the only thing that you can use.
You also should not use special skin-gels under your make-up, because after a while the gel becomes greasy.

You need a 'light-weight' make-up.
So, what to do?
Don't think that brands like Chanel are 'it', because they are not. Chanel used to be good, but not anymore.
Go to a store where they have more brands. Go to another counter, not the Chanel stand, and explain what the problem is when using Chanel, and tell them that your skin is perfect, but becomes very caky and greasy when using Chanel. Then try to get samples from different brands; just enough to wear it once during the day and once during the evening/night. And then test which one applies best to your face (we are all different!!! he, you can even re-try the stick)

Step 1:
Apply a non-greasy light day cream. Wait for at least 10 minutes before applying your make-up. Then use a sponge that is slightly moist, dap this on your stick and dap this on your skin, cheeks and eyes first, then the forehead spreading to your temples and some on your chin. Remember to fade the make-up a bit under your chin etc.
Do not put any make-up on your nose. Your nose doesn't need make up, and when make-up is applied well, we do not use make-up on our nose. Not using make up on your nose is called "the natural look". Only for special make-up photos does one apply a bit on the nose when required.

Step 2:
If you think that the make-up is still to thick, then you take a napkin and lay this on your face, and press it softly on your face, thus absorbing the excess grease from your face.

Step3:
Loose natural finishing powder such as "Natural Finish Loose Powder no; 50 Pęche", from Chanel (look at this powder, and you know what I mean, because most powders are much more thick and caky}
Then use a good natural hair make up brush. (synthetic hair make-up brushes are really bad, instead of mixing the powder with the foundation, it lays the powder on top of it, which is not good. So, spend some money on a good brush, just as you need a good powder, like this one from Chanel; it lasts a very long time, and a good fixating powder is way more important than an expensive make-up}
Softly dap the powder on your face.
Gently remove, using a powder puff, the excess powder / make from under your eyes and from the side of your nose/mouth line (yes, that part where one sees this big happy or not happy line), this in order to prevent wrinkles appearing later in the day.
Then wait about 20 seconds, and use a fixating water, such as the one from Evian; every good make-up store has them. Just spray a very little bit, with the sprayer about half an arm-length away from your face. It should feel 'as if your face gets kissed by the morning fog'. Your face should NOT get wet. The make-up/powder base sucks in that little moist, and by this your make-up is fixated; ready to go.

Now, when you feel that, somewhere during the day, your make-up looks a little grease, do NOT apply more powder. Instead, you first use a tissue to absorb the grease on your skin. don't rub; just lay the tissue on top and press it against your skin.
Then use the make-up sponge that has not been cleaned {if you take it with you to work, make sure to contain it so that it 'can breathe', to prevent rotting inside the sponge}, and dap this on that part of your face that needs 'a touching up'. Then, if you want, you can apply a little bit new powder on your face, making you look all fresh and clean again.

OR: If your skin had not become greasy, but just a little bit shiny: Use the powder puff (yes the one that you have used at home to remove the excess powder from under your eyes etc). Dap it slightly on your face; most of the time this way of 'retouching your make-up' is enough.

What I've explained above, is how models do it; and that is why they look fresh and clean all the time, even after having worked all day, and went out with the same make-up. It is not about thick make up, and it is also not about piling up make-up during the day.

Important
You should wash your sponge only once a week or every 2 weeks.
Never lend your make-up stuff to others. No can do.
The powder puff should only be cleaned if its too caky; if it has absorbed too much grease.
Your brush should only be washed once in a few weeks, with mild shampoo. Otherwise the hairs fall out too soon.

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Sanna wrote:
are SPF factors good or bad?

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shoud one use the oil on the skin or moisturiser before make up?
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Before you had mentioned, just to use oil on your skin, but does this aply also when using make up?
I had the feeling, that applying make up after the moisturiser I used to use before was ok, but on oil it felt caky after a while. What do you think??

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So should I use the make up directly applied to the skin?

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I usually put some oil on my skin just after taking a shower, and wearing no make up during the day.

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But whenever I feel like using make up... whatīs up? Moisturizer first?

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What about body skin? Cream or Oil?

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Ryan wrote:
is it ok to just have a bath and put some oil in it.

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rospy007 wrote:
As to your question there is no vitamin E that I can find.The products are botanical and herbal based.

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are these harmful?
-cyclopentasiloxane

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-betaine

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-panthenol

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and what kind of toothpaste should I look for?
All the common brands (pepsodent, colgate etc) contain sodium lauryl/laureth sulfate which is classified as very harmful...isn't that what makes the paste (or shampoo) foam?
I'm worried cos I understood SLS and SLES easily penetrate through skin.

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How harmful is fluoride toothpaste?

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Wai, do you advise against using perfume? As fragrance was also listed as very harmful in the list of harmful ingredients.

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What exactly is glycerin?

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Is there a natural alternative to hair conditioner?

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