Cream or Powder?

When you’re at a makeup counter you can always choose between a cream and a powder makeup product. Whether it’s a liquid foundation or a powder foundation, whether it’s cream blush or powder blush, or whether it’s an eye shadow cream or powder eye shadow. Today I will be explaining what I feel is the best substance (cream or powder) to use for your makeup.

For foundations, I prefer to use a liquid foundation or a cream foundation.  Liquid foundations can do the same, if not better, job to blend into your skin tone while hiding away imperfections you have. Powder foundations can blend into your skin tone, but sometimes either cannot cover up as well or leave a cakey, dry finish to your skin. If you are scared to use foundation because it’s too high coverage, I suggest using a BB or CC cream. A BB and CC cream are foundation and moisturizer mixed into one product. Not only will you get a nice, light, coverage from a BB cream, but also have a moisturizer built in to keep your skin healthy and smooth. If you have really oily skin, I still recommend using a liquid foundation, because after you apply the foundation you can apply some translucent powder to make sure the foundation stays in place. If you have oily skin and use a powder foundation, it will not only get oily later on in the day, the oils will absorb the powder and the coverage will be barely visible anymore. My current liquid foundation is the Maybelline “Fit Me” foundation. This foundation is a medium coverage and I can either apply a lot to get a full coverage look or apply a little to get a more natural look. The Fit Me foundation not only has great coverage, but stays on all day!

For blushes, I recommend using a powder blush. While cream blushes do give off a more natural look to your face, it comes off much easily and then creates a blotchy look to your cheeks. The powder blush stays on much longer and you can really decide how opaque you want your blush to look on your skin. With powder blushes, you can also choose whether you want a matte powder blush or a shimmer blush or a satin finish blush. With cream blush, you only get a satin finish blush. For bronzer, I also recommend a powder bronzer. A powder bronzer really lets you contour your face and have control over how much you want. With a cream bronzer, you can blend as much as you with a powder.

For eye shadows, I recommend using both cream and powder shadows. I recommend using a cream eye shadow for a base, then applying whatever powder eye shadows you would like to use. The cream eye shadow base can let the powder eye shadow stay on longer, but only it allows the powder eye shadow color to be more opaque and apparent. For example, if you apply a gold cream eye shadow base and then apply a gold eye shadow, the gold powder eye shadow will look much more gold than if you only applied only the powder. For eye shadow bases, I recommend the Maybelline “Color Stay Tattoos”, these eye shadow bases come in a variety of different colors and each helps the eye shadow powder stay on all day. As for eye shadow powders, there are so many in the world that there isn’t one that I love more than the other! But I will say, I really enjoy using the Lorac Pro Palate and the Urban Decay Naked Palate.

These are only my opinions of whether to use a cream/liquid or a powder. If you really like using a powder foundation and feel that works better for you, then you do what feels best for you! Have fun experimenting!