Your best makeup look yet starts with gorgeous skin. But the products that get you there can change over time — and should change — according to your skin’s needs. Mature skin generally requires more moisture and even the tools that you use to blend your makeup should be reconsidered if they are causing that makeup to just sit still in your pores or, worse, to accentuate fine lines and wrinkles.
Makeup expert Lisa Monique usually shares her best tips for beautiful makeup application, but in this video she reveals the truth about certain products — ones she says won’t do mature skin any justice.
Here are five products Monique warns against if you have mature skin.
Nivea Essentially Enriched Body Lotion
The job of a body lotion is to moisturizer well (of course), but also to blend in well enough that your skin isn’t left feeling tacky. Monique says her good friend recommended the Nivea lotion to her, so keep in mind that one person’s recommendation is another person’s “don’t buy this.” But that she could not get the lotion to blend into her skin. When you skin is at all damp (many apply lotion right after their shower), the lotion simply won’t blend, she says.
Farmacy Green Clean Makeup Meltaway Cleansing Balm
Monique admits this product is excellent for melting away makeup, and she has recommended it in the past, especially for dissolving layers of foundation. But she says she recently realized that using it over and over again for removing foundation while filming makeup tutorials left her skin feeling parched and irritated. She wasn’t sure what the problem was until she began using IT Cosmetics Facial Cleanser — and experienced zero irritation.
That doesn't make this product a "no" though. If you wear makeup occasionally and don't foresee yourself scrubbing your face for hours with this pick, it may be perfectly fine for your needs.
Ofra Absolute Coverage Foundation
We all have preferences when it comes to foundation, but most of us also have one strict rule: our face makeup can’t leave us drier than when we started. Unfortunately, Monique reports that the Ofra foundation does just that to her skin: it makes mature skin look more crepey and does dry skin zero favors. Can it work for oily and younger skin? Yes, perhaps. But mature skin types won’t benefit from it, according to Monique.
Beauty Blender Power Puff
Beauty Blender has a cult following thanks to many of its makeup applicators, but Monique admits she doesn’t understand the appeal of the Power Puff. She says she doesn’t understand the point of the product or what its gel interior is designed to do. Instead, in several of her videos, you can spot Monique applying makeup using brushes and blending it all out with her fingers.
Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream
Yes, even luxury face creams aren’t always worth their price tag. In this case, Monique says she is not impressed with celebrity favorite Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream, which she says lacked the moisture she needed, whether she used it as a day cream or a night cream. She even found herself layering the $170 cream with a much cheaper E.L.F. cream to get the hydration her skin needs. In a nutshell: a cream this expensive should stand on its own two feet — and perhaps it does if your skin doesn’t require as much moisture. But it may not be your best bet for mature skin.
