MAKE UP FOR EVER HD Invisible Cover Foundation Is a Hit on Camera, But How Does It Handle Oily Skin in Real Life? - Makeup and Beauty Blog

Written by Sam

Lights, camera, action! Today we're filming on location, and the testify is in Hard disk drive. Permit's take a closer look at a mammoth makeup all-star in today's guest post from Sam.

Within every category of cosmetics are those products that nigh everyone adores simply all the same for one reason or another I but haven't tried. Maybe I had my nose stuck in a novel, or perchance I was busying myself on a different bandwagon at the fourth dimension.

Whatever the reason, I e'er seem to be hopping on some bandwagons late, like this ane, which collection by me like a lumbering, metallic makeup truck with the words, "Brand UP FOR EVER Hard disk drive Invisible Encompass Foundation" plastered across its side.

Really, I'd latched onto the rear bumper of this pop foundation about three years ago, only I was but getting into makeup at the fourth dimension and rarely stayed with the same products for more than a month, regardless of how adept or bad they might take been. Information technology wasn't long before I lost interest in Invisible Cover Foundation ($40 for a one.01-oz. bottle; exclusive to Sephora) on my countless quest to find bigger and meliorate things.

And so, a few months ago, I decided to try it once more, so I grabbed a new bottle of this four-star-rated product and gave it a whirl.

My pare is pale (think Elmer's Glue), with xanthous undertones, which few cosmetic companies seem to recognize every bit an actual skin tone, as if they think that if you lot're pale, you lot've gotta be pink. Color me surprised and excited to learn that Invisible Cover comes in 26 shades!

That's pretty impressive for a consumer line, and the colors run the gamut from pale, to stake pink, to deep ebony, meaning that about people, including me, should be able to find a lucifer. In my case it's Marble 117, for "lite skin with yellowish undertones."

The product comes in some of the most stunning foundation packaging I've always seen. A completely transparent outer plastic bottle has the information and product name printed on it in Make Upwardly FOR EVER's signature font, and the actual product is housed within an inner vial inside the outer shell.

Under the glossy black cap sits a pump (thank god, a pump!). I've really come to despise bottles of foundations designed to exist poured because no affair how hard I effort, they always brand a mess. And I can never get that terminal bit of product out that sticks to the sides of the canteen without getting Medieval on the packaging.

My elation with this pump, however, faded within the start few days. I find it extremely messy and quickly got product all over the top of the bottle. Plus, I remember information technology leaks ever and then slightly, which is odd because the bodily pump-action works perfectly fine; information technology's both controllable and smooth. I wonder if at that place's not something faulty with this item bottle.

The product itself, which is touted for its power to be used in Hard disk drive video, is touted every bit an oil-gratis medium-to-full-coverage liquid foundation that covers skin imperfections flawlessly while remaining invisible on-screen and in real life. For the record, it's silicone-based, which ways that those with allergies to silicone should steer articulate.

The showtime fourth dimension I applied it, I used a dense stippling brush (the Sigma F80), and almost two pumps worth of foundation to embrace my entire face with a single layer.

The first matter I noticed: the finish. Sephora lists this as a medium-to-total coverage foundation (the blazon I e'er employ), so I wasn't expecting to see the end I saw.

It was glowy, dewy, and…transparent. Although it had evened out some of the ruddiness naturally occurring in my cheeks, I could still clearly encounter every blemish and spot, and the night area underneath my eyes.

Hmm…

My pare wasn't fantastic at the time, only it wasn't in terrible shape, either. I nigh never utilize concealer, so I usually rely on my foundations to do the work (unless I have a actually prominent blemish or unusually dark circles), so I stippled on a 2nd layer.

Better, but it yet wasn't cutting it, and I felt that a 3rd layer would start to expect cakey. Instead, I set it with my normal powder and headed out the door.

Most two hours later I popped into a restroom to check out how Invisible Encompass was holding up to my ridiculously oily skin.

Permit's merely say it wasn't faring well. Shine was get-go to testify through on my nose, cheeks, and forehead. Unremarkably, when I use an oil-decision-making foundation, I can usually eek out four to six hours without having to blot.

I was surprised that people hadn't been using my face as mirror! It was literally a reflective mess, simply already mortified, I chanced a closer expect. The foundation had sunken into my pores, creased in places I didn't even know had lines, separated on my cheeks, and made my few blemishes more than credible than they'd been on my clean confront.

Past the end of the day, almost of it had disappeared, and I was left with a patchy, greasy finish for all my difficult work.

Determined to requite a fair milk shake to a product that so many people refer to as their holy grail foundation, I tried it repeatedly over the balance of the calendar week. I tried it without primer, then with a silicone primer, then with a dampened brush, a paddle castor — no luck for me. My best results, which still weren't very good, were probably when I practical it with a silicone primer and used a dry stippling brush.

On the positive side, Invisible Cover Foundation does photograph beautifully. In that way I think it is "HD gear up," only that's probably because it's so sheer. If you lot spend much time in front of a camera and have nearly perfect, normal to dry skin that's blotch-, wrinkle-, and texture-gratuitous, lucky y'all.

Written by Sam

Sam is a 17-twelvemonth-old, oddly tall guy whose dearest of all things skincare, makeup, and fashion started when he entered the modeling earth at xiv. Since and then, he's established himself as a freelance makeup artist in the theatre and way worlds, and started his own weblog to preach the wonders of orange eyeshadow, Asian skincare, and designer fragrances to the masses.

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