by Elisa Jackman

Getting the most from your cosmetics requires learning a little medical lore. That’s because cosmetics are used to enhance your face, which is covered with skin - the largest organ in our bodies.

The first step in using cosmetics properly is to learn your skin type. Skin can be dry, oily, normal or combination. Knowing your type of skin is essential because that’s how you select the kind of cosmetics best for you.

Speaking of intelligence, you can improve your cosmetics confidences by taking good care of your skin. It’s the largest organ of our bodies and serves important purposes to keep our internal workings inside us, and to protect us from outside hazards such as bacteria. So it deserves our best attention.

So you skin is clean and glowing, what’s next? Foundation! A good foundation is essential no matter what kind of skin you have, and it’s especially important if your skin is dry or oily. Dry skin should have a creamy foundation for extra moisture, while oily skin should have water-based foundation to avoid adding more oil. Normal or combination skin can choose whatever works best.

Then comes the part that always makes women a little nervous: selecting the right shade of foundation to wear. Somehow those shades that can look so beautiful in the bottle in the store just don’t match well when we use them. Ever wonder why? Chalk it up to two things.

First, most stores use overhead fluorescent lights that wash out skin tones. This can lead you to choose a foundation that’s too light, making you look like Casper the Friendly Ghost. On the other hand (literally), we tend to test foundation shades on the backs of our hands. This is also a bad method because our hands get more tanned than our faces, leading us to choose foundation that’s too dark for our facial skin.

What to do? It’s easy. Test the foundation shade on the skin inside your wrist. That’s where likely to be closest to your facial tone. Then, if it’s possible, go outside to see how the shade looks in natural light. If an outside trip isn’t possible, see if the cosmetics counter has a “natural” light that can help you choose.

You can choose cosmetics to match the colors of your wardrobe, or you can follow the latest fashion each season. Whatever your color choices might be, always buy the best cosmetics you can afford. You and your skin are worth it!

Whatever your choices, have fun with them, because one of the best things about cosmetics is that there’s always something new to try. After all, the greatest artists create many works of art - and so can you.

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