Pale skin and make up

Hello there. I am not dead, I am alive and kicking – I have been a bit busy lately and haven't had really time to update or put some make up on.

But today I am talking about a thing that I feel like talking about – about a very, very pale skin and makeup.

My skin has always been tricky one. It is dry as a damn desert and when I stress it breaks out. So I can't just grab the first foundation I find in a shop, though I could not do it even if it was not so dry. I am very confused that we don't really have very light foundations in Finland, even though it's a northern country and people here can be very pale, including me. And as a pale person I really like to have foundation as my skin shows all pimples and everything you would not want to show.

I have heard even some make up artists just say that I should use a bit darker foundation to look healthy. I disagree strongly. Natural paleness does not make you look ill – wrong colors paired with it makes and being ill. I avoid going to a professional make up artist I have faced too many not-so-pretty ending results as they just put the lightest foundation they find on my skin, even though it is always way too dark for me. I had to once go trough the whole city with a spotted, discolored with foundation face. And believe me, people stared. A wrong colored make up base is a horrible thing – too light or too dark. You would not put shop's lightest foundation on a tanned person who just got back from south? No.

Maybelline has this Fit me foundation that people said fit to a very pale person's skin, so I went to try it on. I kinda wanted to cry as it was again way too dark for me. It seems like I can't win. I used to put some Stargazer white foundation into a normal foundation to make it lighter, but it did not really work as well as I hoped for. But the foundation really was nicely pale, I have to say that. My paleness is just on a scale of ”holy shit is she even alive?”.

I was again very disappointed, as I was starting to like to put more make up on. Then I started to look around, if I could find something from the internet.

I found Lily Lolo mineral foundation first, and ordered it. It was perfect – it blended in prettily. But if you wanted to do a more dramatic make up it would not fit it so well – it was not that covering, and especially with bad skindays it was not enough.

Then I found Illamasqua. Again, a perfect shade, but a bit too expensive (around 40 euros) and it made my dry skin go even more dry, even when I mixed it with some lotion. So again, hit and miss. Damn my dry and irritating skin.

Then I went to look around Grimas, as I heard someone saying that their ”gothic” light color was pale enough for goths to use instead of a pure white. I went to Punanaamio, asking for a small sample that I could put on my jawbone. And tadah, perfect! And the price was wonderful too, only 12 euros! The consistency is so thick that I still put some lotion in it, but it has worked wonders.

For pale people I can recommend Illamasqua, Lily Lolo, Maybelline's fit me and Grimas's foundations.

Enter some herpderp pics. See my hand's redness : D Snow White pics by RR and selfie by me.

I know that many dark skinned has the same problem as I have – finding a good foundation is a pain in the ass. But Illamasqua has some amazing dark foundations. They are expensive though. I hope that someday there would be a wider collection of colours in foundations – because there is a wide scale of beautiful skin colors, from light to dark. If I someday somehow make my own make up brand, I would want it to have as many foundation colors as possible.

See ya soon again!