How to Pick a Foundation

Video Transcript

"After you have applied the moisturizer, the next thing I'm going to show you is how to pick the right foundation and apply it to your skin. There's a couple of things that you want to keep in mind when you're picking a foundation. The first is you want to apply the foundation to the area of your face where you're actually going to be using it. A lot of women will match foundations to the back of their hand when trying them out or to maybe their neck area and this isn't quiet the best place to test it, because the back of our hands get quiet a bit more sun often than what our faces and necks do. The same thing can be said with our necks, often our necks are a different color than the face is. So the best area to test foundation is actually right along your jawline. What you want to do is go in there with absolutely no makeup on. If you have any powder or old foundation from earlier in the day and then you test the foundation it's going to end up looking a little different, so go in with bare skin. Then what you can do is just try a little bit of the foundation along the jawline here. Now don't be mislead when you first put it on, a lot of foundations especially water back base foundations will look a little light when you first put them on and then as they dry the shade will darken just like this one did. So see if it's a good color match for you and then my recommendation is to go outside and take a look at it in natural light, because you can never tell indoors with all the florescent lighting and everything else going on, you don't really know how it's really looking on your skin until you're out in the sunlight."