Smashbox Color Correcting Photo Finish Primer (Green)
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free skin care · Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:36 pm

I don't know if I did anything wrong when applying cuz I don't see any difference when my foundation is on. And the green can't seem to cover any of my redness. And my foundation doesn't seem to last any longer. So what did I do wrong? Thanks! Sad

free skin care · Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:54 pm

Hi there - I don't think you did anything wrong -- while I LOVE the clear Sbox primer --helps my foundation to slip on like glass, I find the tinted ones to be pretty useless in terms of colour-cutting - ditto for the apricot shade.....the sbox sells a great foundation primer but the tinted versions don't have any concealing characteristics at all (IMHO) Sad

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free skin care · Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:57 pm

but even if it doesn't conceal any redness, my foundation should slip on quite smoothly too..but it doesn't do any of that... >< maybe i should try the clear one?

free skin care · Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:57 pm

You should try Make Up Forever's colour correcting primer. They are good. However, I have never tried Smashbox's.

free skin care · Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:31 am

I love the clear too. I tried the peach coloured one and didn't find it as nice as the clear.

free skin care · Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:23 am

So Wild Cat, u tried the Makeup Forever color correcting primer, right? So does it help in covering anything at all? Does it help to make your foundation stay on longer? Anyway, thanks! Smile

free skin care · Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:56 am

Years ago, when I still wore “traditional” foundation, I used one of those green color corrector primers that was supposed to cancel out the redness in my skin...I can’t even remember the name of the brand I used, it might’ve been “Color Me Beautiful” – this was way back in the early 90s, before there was such a thing as Sephora, which brought all of the hip and trendy cosmetic brands that you’d read about in beauty and fashion magazines but which were only available in NY or LA.

Anyway, I thought my green primer was the cat’s meow and really helped even out my skintone so that it appeared more uniform and not all red and splotchy around my nose and cheeks. I thought I must look absolutely fab now that my redness is gone...until I got a look at myself in a mirror one day outside in broad daylight and realized that – instead of neutralizing the redness in my skin – the stuff actually gave my face a decidedly green cast so that I looked like a corpse or the wicked witch from the Wizard of Oz. That was the day I tossed my green primer in the trash and began viewing any new such products that come on the market place with extreme skepticism, no matter what prestigious brand might make it or which Hollywood celebrity swears by its use!

The moral of the story is: whenever you’re using a so-called color-correcting makeup primer, make sure you always conduct a mirror check outside in natural light to make sure the stuff hasn’t turned your face into some horrible freak of nature color that will frighten animals and small children should you show your face in public!!!!!

free skin care · Thu Dec 15, 2005 3:36 pm

haha Carekate, that's funny......
well I totally get what u mean by looking at yourself in the sunlight. No matter how natural it looks under indoors lights, it always look a bit un-natural in the day light. For example, when I put on my powder foundation, it looks quite natural indoors but under bright day light or bright fluorescent light, I can see the obvious powder sticking to my flakes....which looks horrible...I found it quite hard to find something that will make u look natural in bright lights. Crying or Very sad

free skin care · Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:19 am

Stardustdy wrote:

For example, when I put on my powder foundation, it looks quite natural indoors but under bright day light or bright fluorescent light, I can see the obvious powder sticking to my flakes....which looks horrible...

I actually used to have the same problem...the obviously the remedy for removing those flakes so there is nothing for your powder foundation to cling to is to exfoliate regularly, which I’m sure you already know and already do. But here is something that you might not know:

I was noticing that even after I used the aspirin (salicyic acid) mask, I had this stubborn patch of flaky skin near the top of my nose at the inner corner of my eye that for some reason just wasn’t coming off from the exfoliating action of the mask, or from using DHCC or Dermalogica's Daily Microfoliant, and I couldn't understand why.

I went into to research mode and discovered that while salicylic acid penetrates down into pores to de-gunk them, it didn’t really provide much in the way of removing the very *top* layer of dead cells in the skin’s surface. What I needed was either glycolic or lactic acid, which work to dissolve the “glue” that binds the skin cells together and that’s when inspiration struck and I came up with my DHSBSSFM mask (see DIY Skincare Recipes thread for details)!

What I'm trying to say is that whatever exfoliant that you might currently be using may not be able to get rid of those stubborn flakes on the surface of your skin so you might want to look into using a product that contains both AHAs and BHAs.

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