[Sanne]

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Originally Posted by lara

Sounds like your skin is either too oily (large pores) or not moisturised enough, which is when your skin 'drinks' the foundation because of the moisture content.

Wait at least twenty minutes between moisturising and applying foundation, so your skin can drink up all the moisture without inadvertantly sucking down the foundation as well. If this doesn't help with the pore problem, look at getting a primer - they aren't the be-all and end-all of solving foundation problems, but they can help stop foundation from pooling in large pores.

As for the colour problems, sounds like you're an in-betweener - was the nc 20, regardless of the orange, the right shade for your skin? If it was, you can negate the orange by either mixing in a little of the NC15 to create a custom shade, or add a weeny bit of liquid green colour corrector to your orange foundation. Green cancels red (orange).

Don't be put off by it. Very few people fit an off-the-rack foundation colour, and most people are wearing tints that don't match their skin. More people need to learn the art of making custom foundation mixes, as unfortunately MAC foundations run either very orange, or very pink.

HTH!

Hi lara!!
I really have a dry skin, I feel like my face is tearing up after I took a shower, I need to use moisturiser right after I step out of the shower!
I used the foundation like 20 minutes after I used my moituriser, and it felt like my skin was a bit too dry allready, my foundation looked so uneven that I removed it with a lotion wipe, then wiped my face dry with a tissue, applied new moisturiser and applied my foundation right after that again. what you where telling about my skin drinking the moisturiser makes a lot of sense, and I think that was partially the problem.
the other problem was that this was not my color, it was waaaay to light. I went back to mac today, and I exchanged this bottle for a 27 euro's coupon and a sample of nw20. when this isn't the right color also I want my money back, if this will fix the problem, I'll take this color.
I find these foundation colors really weird, they are soo different!!!

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Originally Posted by bellaetoile

what are you using to apply the foundation? i've found the only thing i can make studio fix liquid look good with is the 187 brush. i put it on the exact way my MA told me to, the way she did in the store--moisturize with studio moisture fix, applying the lotion directly onto the 187 surface then buff into face. WAIT about 10 minutes, then pour some studio fix fluid onto a palette, and gently buff onto face, also using the 187. now i'm an nc42 and i'm, using nc37 foundation, which isn't exactly my skintone, bu we'll get to that in a second. aafter the foundation, spray a couple sprays of fix+ directly ON your 150 powder brush, then run int through your loose blot powder (i'm using medium dark). it gives your skin an AMAZING glow, and i balance the light foundation by using loose blot powder thats the perfect darker shade on my skin. using a brush dampened with fix+ makes it look amazing and it stays on forever. basically, its taken me awhile to get used to the studiofix liquid, too, and i could never wear it alone, its just been a game of figuring out how to make IT work for ME. now that i've figured that out, i LOVE it. hope it works for ya!

the brush was an obvious nono, so I tried my fingers and later the 187 brush, but by then I was so frustrated nothing would work!!


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