Makeup Tips to Help Keep Your Face on in the Summer

You love getting made up, for the way it makes you look all glamorous even when you're really not doing anything glamorous. The only problem with makeup is how it can easily come off. Especially so in the summer, when you're likely to sweat a little bit. What exactly can you do about this? It's hot when you sweat - what is a poor made-up girl to do? Are there any makeup tips you can use to help you handle the weather when it is hot?

Let's start with the mascara. You always suspected that waterproof mascara lasted longer. And you would be right - it does. The waterproof quality that mascara of this kind has, works for sweat just as well as it does for water from outside. That's all okay for the mascara; what you do to not look sweaty in the summer? What you don't do is to use too much powder. Caking on the powder just makes you look overly made up. What you want to do instead is to make the most of what the summers can do, to actually make it work in your favor. If you have to use power, you can use it on your T-zone to absorb any moisture; you can also use a tinted moisturizer for the rest of the face. With a little touch of cream blush and perhaps a little bronzer, you can end up looking pretty un-made-up, natural and glowing. The best makeup tips you can have for summer revolve around one philosophy - less is more.

Summer is a time when your skin really starts to secrete its natural oils. If you are prone to oily skin, you'll find that summer time is a season you really have trouble keeping it under control. Using a few essential oils, you can really help bring a little balance to your skin between the areas that are too oily and the ones that have none. Using oil free makeup can be a particularly good idea in the summer. Oil-free foundation for instance, covers your skin really lightly. It helps your skin keep from sweating. One of the most popular kinds of oil free makeup, Sephora's Some Kind-A Gorgeous works great in the summers.

If you are tempted to use concealer in the summer, you probably want to keep it down to a minimum. You don't want to be blocking your pores. But if you have to use it, keep it down to the areas that really need it - say, to hide under-eye circles or something. Make your cheeks look a little extra blossoming - use a cheek stain. And blend it all in with a bronzer applied strategically at the right spots. Use a tissue or blotting paper to pat everything down and achieve a bit of blend, and you should be fine.