Question:
What type of foundation is best suited to each skin type?
Jessica Rox, via e-mail.
Answer:
When it comes to a foundation question, there’s no better person to answer it than Australian make-up artist Rebecca Morrice Williams, who devoted six years to creating her comprehensive range of correcting, perfecting and enhancing foundations and concealers in her Becca make-up collection.
Here she gives the definitive guide to foundation and skin-type matching.
If you want long-lasting sheer coverage and have:
Oily skin:
Sheer liquid-to-powder products are suitable as well as sheer non-greasy stick foundations and sheer pressed powder types. Water-based foundations (which are generally the sheerest) can be used if a mattifying primer is used underneath and loose powder is used to set it.
Dry skin:
Choose a water-based or sheer creamy stick foundation, with added shimmer pigments.
Normal to combination skin:
Choose a water-based liquid foundation that contains some oil or a sheer stick foundation.
If you want long-lasting full coverage and have:
Oily skin:
Choose pressed powder foundations, matte (oil-free) liquid foundations or full coverage stick foundations with a matte finish.
Dry skin:
Choose oil-based foundations, full coverage liquid foundations or full coverage sticks with a creamy finish.
Normal to combination skin:
Cream-to-powder foundations, pressed powder foundations or full coverage liquid and stick foundations.
The AWW Beauty Team
