PROBLEM: We’ve all gone through it, those days when your concealer & foundation tend to highlight wrinkles more than actually conceal them. Especially in the winter, when whipping winds, dry indoor heat and squinting through blizzards create a less than youthful appearance. Thankfully, Dimitri James, founder of Skinn Cosmetics, gave us the kind of DUH solution that I needed. — to make our make up with with us, rather than against us, this winter.
SOLUTION: Keep skin super hydrated during the colder months. First, thoroughly cleanse and exfoliate skin. Then fill a clean sink or large bowl with hot as you can take it water. Add two tablespoons of sea salt to the water and two tablespoons of glycerin. Then splash the skin with this hot sea bath mixture 30 times and you will see even the driest of winter skin look super hydrated and plumped-up smooth!
Then, add just a drop of rose hips oil to your moisturizer before applying to your face. Adding a drop of essential oil to your moisturizer rather than to your foundation will work better because moisturizer mixed with foundation may conflict with he foundation’s emulsion system and create a less than perfect deposit of pigments on the skin which can create a blotchy look.
The same holds true for concealers – adding a little rose hips oil to your eye cream will soften those little dry lines around the eye and prevent concealer from looking lined. Plus the oil will eventually seep into the concealer and keep it smoother looking all day.
Where do you get glycerin?
you should be able to find at any natural foods store (i’d recommend the vegetable glycerin) or in a baking/restaurant supply store (it’s used to make creams & frostings!)