All about the base #1

Ok, so I couldn’t really help it with the title but I’ve finally found the dream team for base products! The Nars all day luminous and soft matte concealer have been my go to this past month and I’m very happy with the two. I’ve been struggling with foundations ever since I got into makeup during the beginning of uni, makeup artists have the tendency to colour match me to red-orange undertone foundations. Partly due to the fact that foundation shades for black women are horrible there seems to be this one size fits all approach by brands to just add 3 darkish shades and call it a day.

I got the shade Tahoe after wrongly colour matching myself to Cadiz *sighs* it was truly a waste of money the first time round that I was a bit hesitant to go back to Nars and had my heart set on the Milani 2in1 which seems to be great for us yellow toned girls. But a random stop with a friend made me want to give Nars another go I wasn’t interested in the sheer glow which I got the first time round (too thick for my liking) so I opted for All day luminous. The foundation is very watery which is great for me or anyone who hates feeling like they have foundation. The coverage of the foundation I would say is medium the reason I don’t agree that it’s full is because I could still see some scarring and hyper pigmentation around my mouth peeping through.

 The lovely lady who matched me also asked me if I wanted to try the matte concealer which newly launched. Now I hate pot concealer for hygiene purposes but this concealer; wow is all I can say I have pretty deep dark under eyes so naturally have to colour correct but the shade caramel which is quite yellow did a good job on its own. As for the consistency it’s not as thick as your typical pot concealers so it’s pretty easy to work with and the coverage is great. Naturally I was worried about creasing but my under eyes are deep with fine lines so its unavoidable, my left eye which is not as sunken seemed to not crease as my right.

I don’t wear foundation every day or for long hours but after about 8-9 hours I could see it was starting to wear off. Probably with a primer and setting powder it would last longer but like I said I don’t wear foundations long enough to test its durability. All in all I’m pretty happy with my purchases and don’t think I’ll be needing a new foundation for a while.