Make up in hot country

[TrucksAndDinosaurs]

Help! Have started reading these boards and now overwhelmed by what I'm supposed to be doing with 42 year old face, argh. So much brilliant advice but I live in tropics. Humidity an issue and sun cream essential.

What do I need and what order do I put it on?
At the moment:
Neutrogena rapid wrinkle repair or boots protect and perfect serum on damp face washed in shower with Neutrogena face wash.
Bit of anti age eye cream under eyes (are you meant to use on lids/sockets too?)
Then: Neutrogena factor 50 or 70 face sun cream

Then: bit of Stila BB cream on thread vein/roseacea cheeks and any blemishes with fingers or foundation brush (brush seems to waste lots, how do you brush it on? Or do you pat/press?)

Then: dusting of powder, mascara, lipgloss, bit of blush or bronze with fat brush.

The sun cream makes me all shiny. But I have to wear it. I don't know if its also making everything else slide off.

I clean it off with coconut oil/hot flannel at night and put more wrinkle repair serum on. That's probably wrong as well.

Can anyone sort me out? Tia.

I live somewhere hot and humid too. I don't really have an answer to this, I have basically given up. I wear Sunsense Daily Face Factor 50 (it's tinted, so I don't bother with foundation), and a bit of mascara. I brush a little pressed powder over the top of the suncream. It's not great, but suncream makes me super shiny and just a mess, and there is no real way round this. Daily Face is the best I have found at factor 50+, but very far from perfect. The problem I find is that even if I did go to the effort of applying makeup properly it would be ruined by topping up my suncream.

If I'm going somewhere nice and indoors, I just skip the suncream and do my makeup nicely (hiding under a hat until I'm safely ensconced out of the sun).

I also do oil and a hot flannel at evening, and put on a night cream (although strictly speaking with the oil cleansing method you shouldn't moisturise, but I think putting all of the suncream on basically means that I'm not following it properly anyway).

I will watch with interest. You have my sympathy.

It is a bummer isn't it?
Bumping for different time zone readers who might be able to help...

Will look for Daily Face. Thanks.
It's either wear big hat and have crap hair
Or wear SPF and look greasy.
:(

I've been wondering if I need to keep reapplying BB during the day as summer is starting here. Or will it get to thick.

another is the daily one lighter then a BB cream?

I'm in Oz so wondering about summer beauty routine would really like to do more than just sunscreen and a sweaty forehead this year :)

I am somewhere hot too, at the moment. I use a boots wax cleanser thing with a cloth, and also a fan of the boots serum. I also use argan oil at night and I always do my neck and decotellage too.

I use an SPF moisturiser, boots again, and again all over neck etc.

Make up- lip gloss and Polaroids to protect my eyes. If I wear bbc cream its l'oreal and the cream blusher. I never wear powder, it gets in my wrinkles:)

If there is a chance I might have to take my sunnies off, eyeliner and mascara- boots again:) but the waterproof ones.

I put argan oil on my hair too, the humidity makes it really frizzy.

I too think I could be doing it differently!

Lisa Eldridge does a great tutorial on you tube about applying make up when the weather is very hot... You'll have to search for it because I can't link to you tube from my phone.

I bought this for when I went on holidays. It was boiling hot and this stuff stayed on and made my skin look lovely

www.houseoffraser.co.uk/Dior+Hydra+Life+Pro-Youth+Skin+Tint+3/136637454,default,pd.html

Ooh will look for tutorial, thanks.
Does SPF go on first or last? Opinion seems divided...

And do anti ageing moisturisers go under SPF to protect skin from the SPF? Do you want a barrier from SPF sinking in to skin whilst letting it shield you from external rays, then concealer/BB/ powder/foundation/ whatever on top to counteract greaseball look?

It's a conundrum.

Wonder if HOF ship...

Here's the Lisa Eldrige Video

She says you don't need a moisturizer if you use a good sun block unless your skin is very dry.

Still doesn't explain how you reapply sun cream. Most sun creams last make 4 hours so Say you do your make up 7:30, do you have to do it again at 11:30?

I'm also in a hot, mostly, climaté but not humid. I used to use Lancome facial sunblock, but they changed it and I burnt. I've now switched to Clinicue SPF 50 for summer, 30 winter and their City Block SPF 40 (tinted) when I can't Get the others. I always use the facial ones and they don't show up like other sunblock, I put my moisturiser on first, let that soak in and then do the sunblock.

Do you buy your productos locally? When I was in the tropics I just felt too hot to bother with make-up tbh, was pregnant at the time, but I did find that stuff I bought there worked better than anything I had brought with me as it's formulated for the climaté.

What about a setting spray? I used this Urban Decay one last week when I was at an all day wedding and it really did work. Maybe with it being oil control it would work in the heat too?

I used to live in hot humid country, and never used anything on my skin, as that worked best! I just stayed out of the sun, and used eye make up and lip tint but left skin alone so it can "breathe" and sweat (lovely...)

It worked quite well...and was very cheap!

For nights out at air conditioned places I'd use foundation etc.