sheer/light: one, two*, three*, four  medium: five, six*, seven*, eight, nine*  full: ten*, eleven
Now that I’ve been using a brush daily for foundation, my eyes have been opened! Brushes make foundation so much more effective! And while I used to be a full coverage type of gal, I’m now jonesin’ for a medium/natural coverage that is a little more “casual and everyday”.
I still use, and love the look of, full coverage especially during shooting days, but I’m looking for a lighter coverage that makes my skin a little luminous and more natural.
So here’s the deal, what you put on your skin before applying foundation and how you apply foundation makes an enormous difference in 1. the final look and 2. the longevity of the product. So, if you’ve tried a few foundations and continue to have the same issues (for example, your face always looks oily), you need to back up a step and look at your moisturizer or primer. Once you’ve found the right products to prep your skin for foundation, it’s time to pick your foundation. When looking for sheer foundations, I kept coming across tinted moisturizers. Those will give you the lightest, sheerest coverage before you are bumped into the medium coverage category. Along with tinted moisturizers, other sheer coverage foundations would be BB cream or CC cream. Lastly, you can just add a pump of any foundation to your daily moisturizer or primer to thin it out and make it mor...