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Foundation Mapping Is The Secret For Glowing Skin


Foundation is a bit of a beauty Catch-22. It can cover redness and breakouts, but it can also look heavy, cakey, and dry if you’re not an application pro. Luckily, with the right technique, you don’t have to be. Instead of sweeping foundation across your entire face, you might want to try a different technique used for years by makeup artists to get glowing, natural looking skin: foundation mapping. Which, really, is just a fancy way of saying applying foundation only where you need it. Because you’re only using coverage where it’s needed, the idea is that ‘mapping’ gives the illusion of wearing very little makeup at all.

“It’s an effortless way to create your makeup base,” says celebrity makeup artist Tobi Henney, who particularly likes this technique in the summer.

As someone who struggles with acne and dry skin, I’ve been especially curious about this technique since I’d heard about it. No matter how hydrating the formula, foundation always, always looks entirely too visible on my skin, clearly showcasing that, yes, I have a full face of makeup on. But I feel uncomfortable not covering up my acne and refuse to go without foundation.

After prepping my skin as usual, I started by applying Paul and Joe Moisturizing Primer to blur and illuminate, so even the areas I was leaving bare wouldn’t be totally naked. Henney says that the most important step is choosing the proper foundation. It should be a perfect match for your skin, and “should be light to medium coverage, nothing too heavy.” I went with my L’Oréal Fresh Wear 24HR Foundation, as it’s the closest match to my skin tone, and is lightweight with a natural finish.

“Focus on applying the foundation on your T-zone, any uneven skin tone, redness, or blemishes,” Henney says. “Let the rest of your beautiful skin shine through.” I’m dealing with a lot of breakouts right now, so for me I focused on covering my forehead, chin, and some discoloration on my cheeks, leaving my nose and cheekbones bare.

Blending is key for this technique, and Henney recommends using either fingers, a dense brush, or a Beautyblender to really work the product into the skin. I used a Beautyblender as it’s great for picking up any excess foundation. After applying foundation on my breakouts and dark spots, I found it helpful to blend back over my entire face with the damp sponge just to make sure there were no harsh lines between where I had makeup on and where I didn’t.

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Amazon Prime Day 2019: Foreo Skin Care Devices Up to 35% Off


Amazon Prime Day is finally here, and for the first time ever it’s two full days long. Sure we can use this as an opportunity to stock up on cleaning supplies or an extra Amazon Echo, but we’re seeing it as an opportunity to buy every single beauty product and tool we’ve been eyeing instead. And with Glamour Beauty Award–winning brand Foreo offering up to 35% off all its best-selling skin care devices, this Amazon Prime Day might just help us get our best complexion yet.

Foreo’s line of Luna facial cleansing devices may look like something from outer space (their masking tool literally has UFO in the name), but they’ll give you results like none other. Everyone from celebrity facialists to very impassioned Amazon reviewers swear that Foreo makes the single best skin care tool they’ve ever used. Considering they all work in tandem with your skin to give you a customizable treatment while also removing makeup, oil and dirt, it’s not hard to see why.

From the award-winning Luna 2 facial cleansing brush that’ll transform your skin care routine to the smart masking device that gives you all the benefits of a face mask in 90 seconds flat, here are all the Foreo devices and deals you can’t miss this Amazon Prime Day.



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Your Guide to Retinol, Hyaluronic Acid, Vitamin C, and More Confusing Skin Care Ingredients


By now you know the drill: Every few months a new wunderkind skin care ingredient is discovered in some remote locale, and pretty soon it’s everywhere—in your masks, serums, foot creams, insert-step-in-your-beauty-routine-here. But at the end of the day, there are only a handful of ingredients that have stood the test of time and truly become essential. “In skin care, they’re the holy grail,” says Cambridge, Massachusetts, dermatologist Ranella Hirsch.

You’ve probably heard of all these by now. (Retinol, hyaluronic acid, AHAs, peptides, and vitamin C all make the list.) But you may still be a little confused on what exactly each one does—and how you should be using them. Here, we break it all down.



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Reese Witherspoon on How Her Skin Has Changed After Having Kids


There’s perhaps no movie star with more anticipated projects on her plate than Reese Witherspoon. From the upcoming second season of Big Little Lies to Legally Blonde 3, the 43-year-old actress/producer/CEO just keeps giving us one gift after the other. But there’s one project she has yet to announce and would be fascinating if she did: the story of Elizabeth Arden.

Witherspoon has been the face of the iconic beauty brand (or its “Storyteller-in-Chief,” as they call her) for the past two years. Although Arden passed away years before Witherspoon was born, you get the feeling this was a woman the Oscar-winner was born to play. “I love her story,” Witherspoon tells Glamour, which was the inspiration behind the Broadway hit War Paint. “She started a beauty brand [in 1910] before women even had the right to vote. We stand here because of women like her, who were bold enough and headstrong enough to start their own businesses and pave the way for the rest of us.”

So while we wait for a Witherspoon/Arden movie to materialize, the actress found another way to honor the former nurse turned business owner—an intimate garden party to celebrate the launch of two new fragrances from the White Tea Collection and the brand’s most innovative sunscreen to date. Here, she tells Glamour about the essential beauty lesson she’s passed down to daughter, Ava, the city that inspires her look, and the makeup secret that her BLL character, Madeline Martha Mackenzie, swears by.

Glamour: What’s one beauty rule you swear by?

RW: Great skin care. As you get older and start seeing wrinkles and fine lines, it’s so important to moisturize and use great products that really hydrate and take care of your skin. I clean my skin every night.

What’s one beauty rule you think is B.S.?

RW: I don’t think beauty has to be prohibitively expensive. There are great products that are very affordable. You might invest in a more expensive skin care routine, but then also buy a Revlon eyelash curler.

Speaking of, if you had $20 and free rein of a drugstore, what would you pick up?

RW: Probably a Revlon eyelash curler! I like browsing and looking at colors and new developments from different brands. I’m just very curious about beauty.

Fill in the blank: I love my hair when…

RW: I love when I get my highlights. My colorist Lorri Goddard is the best. I’ve gone to her for 15 years, and she’s taken me from brown to blond to red back to blond. I just feel better getting my hair done.

You travel a ton. What city or country inspires you the most?

RW: I love going to Rio de Janeiro. I love beautiful, bronze skin with gorgeous bronze eyes. The women are so beautiful there and the men are so handsome. There’s such a joyful attitude there. There’s music and food, and it’s about really living your life to the fullest.

You’re about to be stranded on a deserted island. What three products do you bring?

RW: Definitely sunscreen. I love the new Elizabeth Arden Great 8 Sunscreen. It’s part of the eight hour product line, and it goes on clear, so you don’t have that white ghost face. After that, I’d bring the Elizabeth Arden serum eye capsules, which I use every day, as well as the night cream, which is really good and smells delicious.





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Why I Never Take Advice From People With Perfect Skin


“Have you tried just using Dove soap? That’s what I use.” That’s the advice my freshman-year roommate gave me after I had complained to her for the millionth time about how my acne was making me miserable and the antibiotics I’d been taking for it for years were no longer making a difference. In the eights months we’d lived together, I had seen her with a pimple maybe once.

Now I open Instagram to a parade of influencers with flawless complexions telling me about the newest life-changing face oil they happen to have a discount code for. Twitter accounts preach how tea tree oil and rosewater are the secret to clear, radiant skin. In every Q&A, models tell me I can look just like them if I drink more water (hot with lemon, only in the morning) and do yoga three times a week.

Clear, perfect skin has long been a symbol of wealth and beauty, but thanks in part to social media and millennials’ skin care obsession, perfect skin has become an even greater signifier. When I was in high school, compliments were always more holistic: “You look so pretty,” “Your makeup looks so good.” Now whenever I meet up with a group of friends, someone will say, “Your skin looks amazing,” or leave a comment on Instagram like “OMG skin.”

At this point, having flawless skin is like social currency. It goes beyond showing you have money (look at celebrities who have been open about acne struggles, including Kendall Jenner and Lorde). Rather, it’s a sort of signal that you belong to an elite club and are someone who takes pride in taking care of themselves. Influencers are posting close-up photos of their skin as if to invite people to comment on how good it is. In fact, one I follow routinely posts stories of herself testing skin care products with #nofilter. She might not be intentionally bragging about her perfect canvas (but I mean, come on), but that’s exactly what it feels like when her content pops up on my phone.

Here’s the thing, though: It’s not the new products that account for the fact she has no pimples or her skin is so luminous she doesn’t need makeup. I’m sure they, along with access to facialists and derms, help. But her genetics are the real star of the show.

In both real life and online, I’m bombarded by people with perfect skin telling me a single product or regimen is to thank. But I don’t buy any of it. The fact of the matter is I’ll never have the skin these women were born with.

“As much as I can laser a patient’s skin or give out prescription medications, nothing can beat good genetics,” says New York dermatologist Joshua Zeichner, M.D. “It’s better to have good genes than a good dermatologist.” Recent studies have also confirmed a deeper link between genetics and acne.

I’m not saying skin care doesn’t matter. When I cocktail and combine effectively, it most certainly does. I have a number of products I rely on to keep my cystic acne manageable and my flaky skin at bay. But no serum, lotion, or oil will ever truly—and completely—transform my face. The closest I can get to good genes is a round of Accutane, which I did last year, and I still struggle with breakouts. Those are caused by hormonal factors that aren’t as easy to fix as a couple of zits that appeared because I used the wrong sunscreen.



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Kylie Skin Review: Everything Worth It From Kylie Jenner's Skin Care Line


We toss around the phrase “break the internet” a lot, but there are few people who truly manage to. The Kardashian-Jenners always do, particularly Kylie. In 2015, she did just that with the launch of her makeup line Kylie Lip Kits (now Kylie Cosmetics). Her signature lip kits sold out in mere seconds, with resellers on eBay charging up to $3,000 for certain shades. Four years and a billion dollars later, Kylie Cosmetics is an empire in its own right, and has branched out into nearly every color cosmetic category.

Now, she’s venturing into skin care, another savvy business move, given that the category is quickly outpacing makeup sales. Fans caught on that she might have skin care in the works back in October, and the formal announcement—and separate Instagram page—came earlier this month.

What’s most notable (besides the very Glossier-esque baby pink packaging) is the price—nothing costs more than $30, which isn’t too surprising since her fan base skews younger. The same can be said for the products themselves. While nothing in it is going to be a potent gamechanger for someone with serious concerns (think acne, discoloration, or wrinkles), Kylie makes good on the basics. The line’s got two different types of face washes: a foaming cleanser and a walnut scrub (which was met with some skepticism on social media when Jenner announced it). There’s also a vanilla-scented toner, an eye cream, a vitamin C serum, and a moisturizer. Or you can get everything in a bundle for $125.

Diehards no doubt will drop the cash for the full line, but for the rest who are curious if Kylie Skin stacks up to her makeup, we recruited Glamour editors to give the products an initial test run ahead of the May 22 launch. Here are our first impressions.





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