Shit like this is the reason I used to get so stressed over my skin when I was younger because my foundation always looked rubbish and very obvious. These influencers had me thinking my overly expensive Chanel foundation would magically smooth and airbrush away any texture and make me have perfect skin, when in reality they were having the same cakey nightmare as me.
I’ve had to slowly learn that no one really looks good in natural light with half a ton of makeup on their faces, you look like a clown, as evidenced above.
At what point do we just call this false advertising.
Edit: can I just say, no, I was not ‘putting it on wrong’, I wasn’t using the wrong products, and my skin was still young and fresh. I’m an old lady and this started well over 10 years ago when Elle and Blair were the queens of youtube and girls plastered dream Matt mouse all over their faces. I bought so much makeup over the years in an effort to recreate this kind of look, low and high end, and honestly had far too much for one person. I had the sponges, the brushes, the primers, I bought into to all. Nothing ever gave me the result I wanted because faces have pores and hairs and just texture and I dread to think how much of my student loan went to Mac etc. in an effort to achieve it.
You’re never really going to get a full coverage foundation to look like your skin, it’s always going to look like foundation. It’s great for photos and dark night clubs, not so suitable for a day at the office under fluorescent lights. The only positive is some influences understand this and do closeups of what their faces actually look like during reviews now.
Amazing what a difference just the jawline makes. Makes the whole face on the left look more masculine, and much more feminine on the right (more tapered, less square jaw).
yellowkats on February 15th, 2021 at 11:48 UTC »
Shit like this is the reason I used to get so stressed over my skin when I was younger because my foundation always looked rubbish and very obvious. These influencers had me thinking my overly expensive Chanel foundation would magically smooth and airbrush away any texture and make me have perfect skin, when in reality they were having the same cakey nightmare as me.
I’ve had to slowly learn that no one really looks good in natural light with half a ton of makeup on their faces, you look like a clown, as evidenced above.
At what point do we just call this false advertising.
Edit: can I just say, no, I was not ‘putting it on wrong’, I wasn’t using the wrong products, and my skin was still young and fresh. I’m an old lady and this started well over 10 years ago when Elle and Blair were the queens of youtube and girls plastered dream Matt mouse all over their faces. I bought so much makeup over the years in an effort to recreate this kind of look, low and high end, and honestly had far too much for one person. I had the sponges, the brushes, the primers, I bought into to all. Nothing ever gave me the result I wanted because faces have pores and hairs and just texture and I dread to think how much of my student loan went to Mac etc. in an effort to achieve it.
You’re never really going to get a full coverage foundation to look like your skin, it’s always going to look like foundation. It’s great for photos and dark night clubs, not so suitable for a day at the office under fluorescent lights. The only positive is some influences understand this and do closeups of what their faces actually look like during reviews now.
SquirrelAkl on February 15th, 2021 at 12:05 UTC »
Amazing what a difference just the jawline makes. Makes the whole face on the left look more masculine, and much more feminine on the right (more tapered, less square jaw).
justukyte on February 15th, 2021 at 12:18 UTC »
Says a lot about heavy duty makeup that's supposed to make you look better in photos but still requires heavy photoshopping