How To Get Full Makeup Coverage

Celebrity makeup creative person Romy Soleimani takes us pace-past-pace through the best practices for applying foundation and concealer for a calorie-free, dewy result, medium coverage and a completely airbrushed cease. Picket the how-to video, and follow along with the steps below.

LOOK 1: Calorie-free COVERAGE

Stride 1: PREP

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Whenever you're applying whatever amount of foundation, it'southward crucial to prime your pare with moisturizer showtime. This ensures the foundation glides on and "hugs the pare" for the most natural-looking finish, explains Soleimani. For a dewy complexion, focus on the areas you want to reflect calorie-free: the cheekbones and the lower corners of your eye.

STEP 2: APPLY

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Start in the center of your face blending the foundation around your nose, forehead, and chin since that's where you have the about discoloration, says Soleimani. Use the excess foundation on the remaining areas. She advises starting with a brush, then using your fingers to press the formula into the skin. "You don't desire to see the foundation, you lot want it to become role of your pare," she says.

STEP 3: CONCEAL

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To cover-up nighttime shadows in a natural style, Soleimani suggests using concealer instead of foundation. Dab it in the inner corners of your eyes and along your cheekbones, she says. "Non only does it add a gleam and a glow, but you become a lilliputian extra moisture exactly where you need it."

Look 2: MEDIUM COVERAGE

STEP 1: PREP

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With medium coverage, focus moisturizing around your center area since this skin tends to exist the driest, advises Soleimani. When properly hydrated, your product is less likely to sink in to fine lines or cling onto parched areas.

STEP ii: Use

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For a seamless, medium-coverage cease, Soleimani recommends applying foundation with a damp BeautyBlender sponge. Try her technique: wet the sponge, clasp out the excess water, and dab it onto a newspaper towel. Dip it into your foundation and coil it onto the skin, gently pressing down the sponge into the skin. "That really covers the pores," she says.

STEP three: Conceal

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When applying concealer start in the inner corners of the centre. "That's where you're darkest, and then that'south where you want to concentrate the almost of the product."

LOOK iii: Full COVERAGE

STEP one: PREP

For high-definition, full-coverage makeup wait, start with a pore-minimizer. "That's going to give your skin an airbrushed quality," says Soleimani.

Step 2: Use

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Use a castor to alloy the production starting in the center of your face, (that's where the most discoloration is), blending out. To ensure your makeup doesn't get likewise heavy, Soleimani advises dabbing on concealer after your foundation is already in identify—this way you tin can come across where you need it the most. Choose a shade that closely matches your skin. When in uncertainty, go a little lighter. Press information technology into the inner corner of the eyes, the upper-cheekbone expanse, and down the bridge of the nose.

STEP 3: Prepare