The Best Makeup For Oily Skin

Is your skin oily and does makeup feel like it slides off?

We have the solution for you

Is your skin oily and does makeup feel like it slides off? Are you tired of having to powder your face every hour of the day? Fear not, we have the solution for you to help achieve a longer-lasting and more beautiful makeup result. Applying makeup when you have oily skin becomes easier and faster once you apply these tricks.

What is oily skin?
Let's quickly address the 'why' of oily skin? Oil (or sebum) naturally occurs in the skin from the sebaceous glands, but some people have a higher production than others. Often, people with oily skin tend to have acne because the overproduction of sebum can clog the pores, leading to pimples.

If you have shiny skin, you may feel that the skin becomes oily very easily, especially towards the end of the day, even after you have cleansed your skin. The oil is not necessarily bad - although it can sometimes feel annoying - but its purpose is to protect and hydrate your skin (which is the same for your hair if your hair becomes oily).

You can also have oily/combination skin, which means that some parts of your face are oily and others are normal or dry. The techniques we are going to mention apply to both skin types, but you may need to combine or adjust them to better suit your personal skin.

Makeup for oily skin
Let's focus on the makeup you can use and how to apply it to make it last longer and look better.

Mineral makeup is actually perfect for all skin types and conditions, and it is also perfect for oily skin because it balances the sebum and keeps your skin matte for longer. Mineralissima's mineral makeup is very finely milled, so it is ultra-light and does not feel heavy on your skin. The most common problem is staying shine-free for as long as possible, so we will go through the different products you can use and how to apply them in your makeup routine.

Preparing the skin is important!
Preparing your skin for makeup is super important, especially if you have oily skin, because this will help you apply your makeup.

• Cleanse your skin in the morning as you normally would and apply an oil-free moisturizer or a gel cream that does not feel heavy on the skin.
• Follow up with your sunscreen, perhaps a mattifying sunscreen is preferable on makeup days, so it doesn't make your face even more oily.

Something to remember: Do not use aggressive alcohol-based skincare products to eliminate skin oil. Alcohol dries out the skin and disrupts your hydration balance. Avoid excessive rubbing on areas where the skin shines a lot. The friction causes extra sebum production.

If you are acne-prone and a bit afraid of oils, there are all kinds of non-comedogenic (which means they do not clog pores) oils you can try, such as rosehip, squalane, grape seed, neem, and hemp seed oil.

Primer for oily skin
The way you prepare your skin for makeup is very important. In the morning, you might use a gel moisturizer or an oil-free moisturizer that is a bit lighter. You can avoid your T-zone, which is the area above the eyebrows down to the nose (forming a 'T' shape), if you have particularly oily skin.

After your cream, start with the Mineral Rice Primer Shine solution.

 
This primer contains a mixture of rice powder and kaolin. Kaolin is a type of clay. Rice is particularly useful for absorbing moisture. Preferably apply the primer with our mineral powder brush to the parts of the face that tend to shine.

For the truly ultimate shine control, after your day cream has absorbed, dab the T-zone with our oil-absorbing blotting sheets, then apply the Mineral Rice Primer.

The high-quality blotting papers from Mineralissima are made based on green tea, which balances your skin and removes excess oil. Take a blotting paper and dab it over your T-zone, or other oily areas (such as nose, cheeks) that you want to mattify. You can optionally repeat this step twice, each time using a new paper. Once the excess oil is removed, you can then apply your special finishing powder with a fluffy powder brush.
By first removing the oil, you achieve the most natural result possible. Moreover, the pack of 50 blotting papers is compact and fits easily in your pocket or bag and can even be used without a mirror. It may even be unnecessary to powder; you might find that the blotting paper already provides a stunning result.

Do you possibly suffer from oily eyelids? Then you may also experience problems with the longevity of your eye makeup. To prevent this, you also prepare your eyelids with the Mineral Rice Primer and/or the oil-absorbing blotting papers, which makes the eye makeup you apply last longer and not smudge. If desired, you can also sprinkle a little of your foundation over the powder with a small fluffy brush.

Foundation for oily skin
The next step is your foundation and you're in luck, because the Mineralissima Mineral foundations are quite mattifying. You can use the same makeup brush that you used to apply the primer. Start by applying the foundation to the parts of your face that tend to get oilier (such as forehead, nose, cheeks), then blend the foundation over the rest of your face. You might want to apply a second layer on the T-zone.

Our foundations can be built up in thin layers and are made to feel light on the skin, so you can apply more than one layer if you prefer fuller coverage.

Finishing touch for oily skin
If you have oily skin, you are familiar with the need for an ultimate powder and probably always carry one with you!

To keep your face and skin matte for longer, using a Finishing Powder is extremely suitable. Just like our primer, this powder contains a mix of rice powder and kaolin. Both of these ingredients absorb excess skin oil, so you have an oil-free skin for longer. Here too, you can use the same mineral powder brush, and for a more even light coverage, the fluffy powder brush is your best choice. You might want to apply multiple layers, depending on your skin and how oily it gets.

Depending on your skin tone, you can choose the Rice Veil Intense matte or our Oil Control Powder. These finely milled powders are available for skin tones from light to light tinted.

Touching up makeup for oily skin
After you have followed all the steps we just went through with you, it might be a good idea to keep another product in your bag for touch-ups throughout the day.

If you're on the go, you might feel the need to powder your face during the day when it gets oily. We don't blame you! But before you do that—pause for a moment and use the Blotting Paper first! Those handy little sheets we just talked about.

You might be wondering how a piece of blotting paper can help you instead of powder? It's a good question, powder is made to absorb excess oil, but the trick is to use both products (powder and blotting paper), but start first with the blotting paper.

This is the ultimate method to combat stubborn oily skin! These steps will simultaneously ensure that your makeup lasts longer, because the oiliness can break down your makeup! Once you start incorporating these steps and products, you will quickly discover that makeup for oily skin is much easier to achieve than you might have thought!