Contents
- What is a lifting foundation
- Properties of foundation lifting cream
- How to choose the right tool
- Review of tonal creams with a lifting effect
- Foundation Weightless Ultra Definition Liquid Makeup Naked Skin, Urban Decay
- Foundation Designer Lift, Giorgio Armani
- Tonal duo for skin perfection Teint Visionnaire, Lancôme
- Anti-aging foundation Youth Liberator Sérum Fond de Teint, Yves Saint-Laurent
- Foundation with lifting effect Liftactiv Flexilift, Vichy
- Anti-aging BB cream, Garnier
- How to use the foundation lifting cream
No, this is not a fantasy of futurologists. Cosmetics developers have indeed managed to combine the ingredients of lifting creams with pigments to create multifunctional tonal products. Let’s talk about them in more detail.
What is a lifting foundation
It is clear that any foundation evens out skin tone and visually smoothes it. But the transformations don’t end there.
- On the one hand, tonal products have been enriched with useful caring substances – from vitamins and antioxidants to various components that can really create a lifting effect. However, these products do not replace care.
- On the other hand, scientists have added pigment to some creams and stabilized it. Thus, BB and CC creams came into our everyday life, which combined the functions of complete care and toning.
The hint is in the names. If the product is called “lifting foundation” or “anti-aging foundation”, then you have a wonderful modern makeup product in your hands. It perfectly complements the usual day cream, but does not replace it.
This is exactly the foundation, which, in addition to a well-groomed look and the visual effect of a tightening, will give the skin a lot of bonuses.
If the product is called “lifting cream with tinting effect” – this is an independent care product that does not require prior application of a daytime moisturizer.
Starting from the age of 35, anti-aging foundation can become another link in supporting anti-aging therapy.
Properties of foundation lifting cream
- Ideally fits on aging skin, cares for it, while providing an instant visual effect. Pigments, reflective particles and silicones are balanced in the composition in such a way as to successfully mask wrinkles. Whereas the usual tonal remedy can clog into the creases of the skin and emphasize them.
- Excellent support for daytime lifting care.
- Enriched with moisturizing ingredients. And there is no such thing as too much moisture.
- Thanks to its enhanced composition, it protects the skin from external negative influences more actively than a regular foundation.
- Contains SPF.
Ekaterina Turubara, Vichy medical expert:
“Tonal cream will not replace anti-aging. That is, it will fight wrinkles, but the result will never be compared with anti-age cream. It is purely technologically impossible to “place” as many active ingredients in a foundation as in an anti-aging one.
It is also known that even the most expensive and effective ingredients practically do not work on dehydrated skin, therefore, before applying a tonal lifting cream, you need to apply a foundation with a rejuvenating and moisturizing effect.
Age makeup products often include:
- hyaluronic acid;
- antioxidants (vitamins C or E, plant extracts);
- adenosine;
- mono- and polysaccharides;
- algae extracts;
- amino acids.
Also, their composition almost always contains light silicones and reflective particles, which allow the product to lie down as evenly as possible, without clogging into wrinkles, and visually even out the skin.
When choosing a foundation, you need to focus on your skin type.
How to choose the right tool
In this matter, the right choice is timely.
Up to 30 years, foundation with a lifting effect is simply inappropriate.
Starting from the age of 35, anti-aging foundation can become another link in anti-age supportive beauty therapy.
After 45, it is better to switch to multifunctional tonal products. Of course, this does not cancel the remaining stages of care. When choosing, you need to focus on your skin type.
Lifting foundations are more often designed for skin prone to dryness, this is the most common age-related problem. Therefore, owners of oily skin should be especially careful to choose a cream.
Lifting cream with tinting effect is an independent care product.
Review of tonal creams with a lifting effect
Foundation Weightless Ultra Definition Liquid Makeup Naked Skin, Urban Decay
In addition to a rich palette of shades, the Matrixyl peptide complex, which fights wrinkles, deserves special interest. Also in the composition – hyaluronic acid, vitamin E and green tea. All this works for a lifting effect.
Foundation Designer Lift, Giorgio Armani
Thanks to Armani Micro-fil technology, wrinkles are reduced by 87%, the skin is strengthened, imperfections are masked. The tool moisturizes the skin, evens out tone, tightens, gives radiance, protects from the sun.
Tonal duo for skin perfection Teint Visionnaire, Lancôme
In one bottle (though in its different sections) there is a corrector and a tonal fluid. The working substance of the fluid is the LR 2412 molecule, a jasmonic acid derivative designed to slow down the wilting of plants. The lifting effect is noticeable after a month of regular use.
The combination of two products allows you to adjust the consistency: the fluid can be turned into a cream if mixed with a small amount of corrector.
Anti-aging foundation Youth Liberator Sérum Fond de Teint, Yves Saint-Laurent
Contains serum from the innovative Youth Liberator line of the same name. The tightening and rejuvenating effect is provided by the Glycanactif complex (includes polysaccharides, proxylan, rhamnose), which stimulates the synthesis of collagen and elastin.
Foundation with lifting effect Liftactiv Flexilift, Vichy
Designed for mature skin. It does not accumulate in wrinkles, thereby not emphasizing them, provides a fresh complexion, and remains resistant for 8 hours.
Anti-aging BB cream, Garnier
Anti-aging and foundation in one tube. Due to the action of proxylan, it restores skin elasticity, reduces wrinkles, maintains moisture and, of course, evens out tone. Grapefruit extract saturates the skin with useful substances, and mineral pigments give a healthy color.
How to use the foundation lifting cream
It should be used only after competent cleansing of the skin and preliminary care (washing with a gel or foam, using a tonic, then applying serum and / or day cream).
Warm a little foundation in the palm of your hand so that it is better distributed over the skin.
With the fingertips of both hands or with a brush, with a light dotted line or a solid line, mark the forehead, cheekbones, and lower contour of the face.
Blend the foundation, moving along the massage lines from the center of the face to the periphery. Avoid the area around the eyes. Such self-massage, stimulating blood and lymph flow, will enhance the lifting effect.
Don’t forget the neck. Here, too, a tonal cream and a tightening massage are needed.
At the end, gently “drive” the product into the skin with a sponge (beauty blender) for a more even result.