The best way to Do TikTok’s Powder-to-Cream Make-up Hack With out Inflicting Breakouts

Bronzers are a kind of merchandise that you would be able to’t put down when you begin utilizing it. They add heat and radiance to the pores and skin, even after the summer time days are lengthy gone. And so they’re having an particularly main second proper now as a result of TikTok customers are raving over a viral hack that lets you manipulate powder bronzers into cream formulation. 

The method is easy: Spritz no matter setting spray you’ve gotten onto your bronzer, swirl your brush within the product, and swipe in your face. It is a simple solution to experiment with texture and end. It appeared to all begin when Toronto-based consumer Stephanie Valentine, identified to her followers as Glamzilla, shared the hack in an advert for City Decay’s All Night time Lengthy-Lasting Make-up Setting Spray on June 12. After that, a couple of different customers put the tactic to the take a look at to find out if it was definitely worth the effort. 

Within the video, Valentine spritzes the spray onto Estee Lauder’s Bronze Goddess Powder Bronzer, then the MAC Cosmetics Powder Blush in Melba earlier than mixing every on her face. She shared with Attract that she likes utilizing the method each time she needs to play with completely different textures or finishes or to revive merchandise she hasn’t used shortly. 

Spanish TikTok consumer Mari Steffany Siracusa additionally tried the method and fell in love. She used MAC’s Prep and Prime Repair+ setting spray with Profit Cosmetics’ Hoola Bronzer to provide her face a pleasant glow. Like Valentine, she loved the tip consequence and informed Attract that she would take into account including this to her on a regular basis routine.

Not like Valentine and Siracusa, Toronto-based TikTok consumer Alissia Christidis wasn’t impressed by the texture-altering method. She examined it with a bronzer and blush, however discovered that the tactic did not work as nicely with the blush. “I do not know,” she says within the video whereas analyzing the ultimate consequence. “I do not suppose I might do that once more.” She shared with Attract that as a result of the product dried down quick, it was tougher to mix out. So she was left with a patchy consequence.

Whereas not everybody loves the method, mixing powder merchandise with setting sprays or different liquid mediums isn’t precisely new. New York-based make-up artist Joseph Carrillo tells Attract that the method has been round for a very long time and used with eye shadow particularly. Regardless of that, he would not precisely suggest the method. As a substitute, he suggests, “Spray the comb you’ll use, then decide up the product. In any other case, your fave product might be drenched, molded, or ruined.”

Beauty chemist Ginger King additionally warns towards this hack for hygiene causes. “The primary time is cool, however [once] the powder meets water, [it] equals a breeding floor for micro organism development,” she says. A rise in micro organism can result in breakouts, which is essentially why dermatologists suggest therapies with antibacterial elements like salicylic acid and benzoyl peroxide. As a substitute, King says to scrape out the powder and blend it along with your setting spray or one other liquid medium on a separate palette, after which apply.

This TikTok hack will not be the best possibility, however as King and Carrillo each shared, there are different methods to control a powder’s texture. So subsequent time you are low on cream bronzer, you may simply seize your setting spray (mixing medium or distilled water works nicely too, in line with Carrillo) and use one in all their strategies. 

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