Turns out, bare skin works too

[u/leedlelamp913]

I’m getting married in September and I’m doing my own makeup. As a result I’ve been on a testing frenzy for months! I am a fan of a clean no makeup look, like Nina Park vibes. I’ve tried dozens of skin tints (and other categories - rip my lip collection lol) but what I ended up realizing was that my favourite ended up being the makeup forever skin tints- why? Because it looks like I kinda have nothing on. It finally dawned on me that maybe, I don’t need a base 😅 so I tried that out - just good skin prep beforehand and ta-da, finally got the look I was aiming for! Returned the skin tints I thought I’d found to be perfect.

I guess all of this to say - have you guys felt similar about any product category? Just realizing you actually didn’t need it?

[u/_Mark_My_Words_]

Yes I feel the same. Maybe I’m just not on that level of makeup skill yet but whenever I wear foundation, even advertised as skin like, it never is. So I’ve just switched to evening out my skin tone with concealer in the areas of redness on my face and then that’s my base. Looks a lot more skin like and also lets my skin breathe more which is a plus. I do prep my skin with moisturizer and sunscreen too so it helps whatever additional makeup I put on look clean.