Dance Mini - The Face Edition

Continuing on the current theme, I thought I would show you some of the face products I used on the dancers for the Dance Mini shoot. 

There are four products I stuck to over the weekend. Using a range of colours and mixes, I found shades and weights to suit each of the talent at each of the varied locations. 

First, I'll talk about the powder and concealer. 

Using the Maybelline Mineral Power concealer, I coloured the dark circles of sleepless nights, and minor blemishes. Using different colours and weights I worked on a range of people. The consistency is creamy, it brushes on well and has light, buildable coverage. 

Secondly, I used the Rimmel Stay Matte powder in 001, translucent. I was able to use this on most of the dancers. It truly is an amazing product. Being a dance shoot, I needed to use my fair share of this to keep people looking cool, calm and collected. Smooth and finely milled, I find that this doesn't create a cakey look and blends easily into the skin, giving an almost airbrushed finish. 

For foundations, I worked with two products, somehow again from Rimmel and Maybelline.

For the men and some of the girls, I chose to use a BB cream over a foundation, or I mixed the two together to create the right shade and consistency. 

The BB cream I chose was the Maybelling Dream Pure BB Cream. This comes in two options, for oily skin and normal to dry skin and a reasonable colour range (although for me, it doesn't go quite light enough, and at the other end of the spectrum, doesn't suit dark skin). I find that the colour is not too orange - something I have found in many BB creams in the past. The consistency is similar to a tinted moisturiser, with a slightly heavier colour payoff. It blends into the skin like magic.

For foundation, I used the Rimmel Stay Matte foundation in again, a range of colours. This is a pretty heavy foundation, and not one I would recommend for dry skin. But as the shoot was dance themed, the talent were sweating, so anything to keep them looking as healthy and matte for as long as possible was great by me. If the dancer had dry skin, I mixed it with the BB cream and it added some moisture back to the consistency. For more on this foundation, see my march favourites.