What makeup to choose according to your skin type?

Your skin is dry, oily, sensitive, mature or greasy? Keep it with the new makeup products. Almost hybrid, full of clever ingredients, they adapt to your skin better.

Today, most make-up products offer a multitude of benefits to skin. With their light textures, they put to the credit of the natural ingredients, develop anti-pollution complex, UV protection and moisturizing assets, matting or anti-aging.

The make-up does more good to the skin, it also affects morale by improving the image and self-confidence. Carine Larchet, Manager of the La Roche-Posay concealer makeup workshop, adds: "make-up should help change the way we look inward. Its role is to restore value to a pretty mouth, to highlight and enhance what is nice. More we try to hide, more given to others an indication on what one wishes to hide. »

Do not be obsessed with a button, an imperfection... Make-up should reveal more correct. But it is not easy to navigate among all of these new products for the complexion. Find your office

Sensitive skin: opt for soothing tinted creams

Sensitive skin feels tight, reddened, tingling, is prone to irritation or scratching.

What products?

Prefer the makeup with a SPF (sun protection factor). It is recommended in case of broken capillaries or rosacea, aggravated by solar radiation.

"Side ingredients, avoid fragrances and parabens, recommends Joëlle Nonni, makeup workshops and health education to the baths of Avène-les-Bains. Choose formulas containing the Conservatives less possible and stamped "hypoallergenic" that minimize the risk of allergy. »

Prefer the BB or CC creams, less coverage than make-up but to render more natural, more moisturizing, and which can be enriched in soothing ingredients (thermal water, arnica).

What texture?

Prefer creams or fluids. If you are prone to eczema type pathologies, avoid the powder which tends to dry out the skin.

What is the secret of application?

Intensely moisturize the skin. Take a little background of Foundation or cream (BB or CC) and put it by tapping.

The right color?

If you have a rash, use a cream containing green pigments in order to neutralize them in the preamble.

To erase the local redness, you can use a green stick. It applies by tapping, until the material becomes gray. There are only to apply a Foundation (more covering than a BB or CC in this case) the exact color of the complexion

And for the eyes?

Sensitive skin often, rhymes with sensitive eyes. Choose a mascara formulated for these fragile eyes and containing very little conservatives. For blushes, prefer neutral tones - like the beige, the sand, the nude-, often better tolerated.

Dry skin: focus on creamy foundations

Dry skin is rough, prone to dander, and sometimes a bit dull.

What products?

The BB creams may lack a bit of coverage and not be enough hydrating. Prefer so Foundation cream containing a large proportion and water rich in hyaluronic acid which softens the dander. Avoid the formulas at base of parabens, which accentuate the dehydration.

What texture?

Prefer creamy, moisturizing and emollient creams textures to nourish and soften the skin. Carine Larchet advises to not mix Foundation and cream day background, because this might Peel. Side blush too, prefer creams, which merge with the skin.

What is the secret of application?

• "Start by hydrating the skin with a treatment that targets the extreme drought. If the skin is not smooth, makeup may cling to the dander and complexion will not be uniform.

• Then apply Foundation with the tips of the fingers. If you prefer the sponge, moisten it previously with a veil of thermal water. This gives more flexibility and makes the benefits of thermal water.

• Once the foundation laid, bottom with a veil of mineral powder brushed with a soft brush on the forehead, nose and Chin. Avoid the eye contour.

The right color?

Prefer the slightly abricotees nuances. On the skin as on the cheekbones.

Oily skin: prefer lightweight textures

Oily skin is conducive to the newish, pores, and buttons.

What products?

On oily skin, it is better not to put too much material to avoid cosmetic acne.

"Prefer light formulas that evaporate on contact with the air, for example based on volatile oils. Evanescent, they only leave the pigments on the surface of the skin", explains Ludovic Engrand, make-up artist Shu Uemura.

Choose them enriched in powder absorbent matifiantes and make sure that they are stamped "noncomedogenic"

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What texture?

Lightness is the watchword. The right formula, water of complexion, or a background of complexion.

What is the secret of application?

• «After cleaning the skin and applied a moisturizing gel, spray a sprayable make-up base that prepares the holding of makeup without overloading the skin, explained Ludovic Engrand.»

• Then put Foundation on your cheekbones, the rounded part of the face. This allows to optically correct the rest of the complexion and apply less product on the T-zone, where the skin is thinner than on the rest of the face.

• Use the product to apply the least possible and put the sponge to smooth the texture of skin and avoid the material seeps into the pores. Use movements from top to bottom.

• Finishing, DAB the skin with absorbent paper, before sweeping a blush powder brush on the top of the cheekbone.

• If you need to touch up during the day, soak up the excess oil with a tissue or a paper mattifying, and powder only the area that shines with an invisible powder transparent ultra-fine. »

The right color?

Oily skin tend to turn red... So avoid too pinkish hues of blush. Prefer the more yellow nuances: apricot, peach or brown.

Can I make a button?

Yes, according to Dr. Catherine Laverdet, dermatologist, because makeup does not aggravate the button. "He even avoids him fiddling.

• If it is small or healing, cover it with a fluid concealer. Texture evaporates and becomes dull, which avoids the 'package' effect.

• If your button is red, prefer an anti-blemish stick, which corrects while treating thanks to purifying ingredients and sanitizers.

Also read: oily skin with imperfections: what beauty for face and body rituals?

Mature skin: the make-up which rejuvenates

Prone to fine lines, wrinkles and sagging, a mature skin gets a little help makeup.

What products?

To you the formulas with antioxidants and anti-aging ingredients that stimulate the production of collagen. The labs do not hesitate to incorporate into products the same ingredients as in their care: vitamin E, hyaluronic acid, peptides, plant extracts.

Also prefer skin tone satins, funds which catch the light and revive the shine. Some contain extract of oats in the tightening effect. Finally, those with an index of protection are good allies to combat skin ageing.

What texture?

Fluid foundation or, for the more mature skin who are prone to drying out, a texture cream to the effect down jacket. Avoid the powders as dry formulas mark mo

What is the secret of application?

"To not freeze the strokes, apply Foundation on the fixed parts, never on mobile areas, advises Patrick Lorentz, senior artist Estée Lauder make-up. Put it on your finger or with a brush on the nose, Chin, cheekbones and blend. »

Around the mouth, place a substantive Foundation and combleur serum mix to smooth and makeup in one step.

The right color?

More than ever, to choose a formula perfectly adapted to your skin tone, as a color too dark or too intense marks more features.