It can happen to the best of us: you painstakingly apply your makeup in the morning, but just a few minutes outside turns your face into an oily pancake. It's all about sebum regulation disorders - a problem that even happy owners of normal and combination skin face in the summer.
Glitter in the T-zone, on the sides of the nose and on the cheeks spoils not only your appearance, but also your mood, which means you definitely need to do something about it. Flawlessly matte skin all day long? The right approach will help you achieve what you want—and here are eight tricks you should know.
Give up your usual foundation
In problem areas, where oily sheen actually shows up, this is a taboo! Any foundation has a greasy base, which will only aggravate the situation and the face will shine even more. But you can use either a foundation serum or special complexion-correcting products with a mattifying effect. They will even out and remove oily shine.
“Nowadays stores sell various mattifying products that are suitable for caring for skin prone to oily sheen. These can be SPF creams and various powders. Many of them have mineral suspensions that absorb sebum and sweat. Such products work effectively on the face for about 4-5 hours.”
In problem areas, where oily sheen actually shows up, this is a taboo! Any foundation has a greasy base, which will only aggravate the situation and the face will shine even more. But you can use either a foundation serum or special complexion-correcting products with a mattifying effect. They will even out and remove oily shine. “Nowadays stores sell various mattifying products that are suitable for caring for skin prone to oily sheen. These can be SPF creams and various powders. Many of them have mineral suspensions that absorb sebum and sweat. Such products work effectively on the face for about 4-5 hours.”
How to make skin matte. How to achieve perfectly matte skin? 7 tips
Do you dream of matte skin without oily shine?
We tell you what to do. And no, it’s not limited to choosing the right powder Text: Veronika Gnezdilova
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Tea tree oil
How to make your skin matte with oil? Easily! Use tea tree oil on your T-zone for a matte finish every day before applying makeup. This oil not only reduces sebum production, but also fights the signs of acne. We have already talked in more detail about makeup for acne in this article.
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Mattifying moisturizer
Don't believe rumors. Oily skin, like dry skin, needs a lot of moisture. Keep your skin hydrated with a mattifying moisturizer. This will help you maintain matte skin without unnecessary makeup.
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Remove unnecessary things
After applying moisturizer, blot your face with a mattifying tissue to remove excess moisture. If you don’t have matting napkins on hand, then regular paper ones will do. This trick will help give your skin a more matte appearance before applying makeup.
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Mattifying primer
Say no to shine with a mattifying primer. This primer will help visually reduce pores, moisturize the skin, and also prepare it for applying makeup.
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Watch your diet
Proper nutrition will help make your skin matte at home without using any cosmetics. Spicy foods and alcohol can dilate blood vessels, causing increased sweating. Increased sebum production prevents you from achieving the perfect matte finish. It is worth paying attention to foods such as spinach, carrots and melon. They regulate the functioning of the sebaceous glands well.
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Applying foundation
How you apply foundation can also affect how matte your skin stays. Apply foundation using a circular, flat-topped brush to distribute the foundation evenly and create an airbrushed effect. We talked about the best matte foundations here.
How to make jacket leather matte. How to make a leather jacket softer at home
You can, of course, try to walk around in the new product right away without doing anything with it, but the pleasure will be dubious.
A hard collar and cuffs will unpleasantly rub your wrists and neck, and you will not feel the softness and comfort of natural leather soon, only when the material stretches a little and “sits” on you. Special jackets (for example, those designed for bikers or just men's rough styles) will be noticeably heavier and harder at first. You don’t have to put up with this - you can treat your jacket right at home.
The first method is mechanical processing
Leather is an elastic and environmentally sensitive material, but its durability should not be underestimated. Place the jacket on the floor (preferably on a clean surface - a carpet or some kind of fabric), cover it with, for example, a sheet. Now stomp on the jacket for about five minutes. The greater the weight, the faster and more noticeable the result will be.
Important!
If clothes are decorated with spikes, plates, rhinestones, etc., this method may not be suitable.
The second method is heat treatment
Everyone knows that leather shoes stretch when exposed to heat and, as a result, fit much better on the foot. You can do much the same thing with a leather jacket.
- First, steam the product - a battery or an electric heater turned on at full power is ideal for this if it is not the heating season. Ten minutes is enough.
- While the skin is still warm, take a cotton swab, an unnecessary rag or a bandage folded into four, first preparing a lubricant for the jacket. This can be any product intended for skin care: mink oil (and creams based on it), castor oil or regular Vaseline. Apply it evenly over the entire surface of the jacket.
- Now all that remains is to hang the clothes on hangers and leave them like that overnight. This way the lubricant will be absorbed, and the skin will not wrinkle under the influence of gravity.
By following the steps in accordance with the presented algorithm, you will make the jacket soft for a long time.
