As if religiously sticking to a beauty and skincare regimen wasn’t enough, the challenge to find the best products to use in this heat and humidity is also there. Ladies know that working hard to stay pretty can be a pretty tough battle to wage!
We at PeopleAsia show you the best weapons to combat these longstanding beauty concerns with this list of tips and the newest makeup products and skincare brands made especially for tackling these beauty woes head on — and coming out victorious!
Priming
Imagine a beautiful painting whose details, brush strokes and colors were all perfectly blended together to create a work of art. Before it turned into a masterpiece, its blank canvas was prepped for the artist’s use, making sure it was clean, smooth and taut before any paint was applied. Our faces aren’t any different!
Unfortunately, prepping and priming are often an overlooked steps in makeup application. Perhaps it’s because many women see them as additional time-consuming steps in their makeup routine they can live without.
What they don’t realize is that prepping and priming are, quite literally, what holds a look together. Foundation, blush, highlighters, bronzers and everything else we put on our faces are mostly likely to move around, get oily or look chalky without a proper primer to start with.
Now turn your heads to Covergirl’s truBLEND truFLAWLESS Primer that lets you achieve a polished look as easy as one, tru, three! While it doesn’t promise coverage, the product is all about minimizing pores and masking color imperfections. The best part about it is that it’s formulated for all skin types, ensuring its suitability for the most sensitive skin.
Also keep in mind that this primer is from Covergirl’s truBLEND Collection that celebrates natural beauty. The less makeup we pile onto our faces, the better! When using this primer, a pea-sized portion spread over the forehead, cheeks and chin is all you need.
Beautifying
Now that you have the base ready, the real fun can begin.
Luckily, for women in the Philippines, they’ve been enjoying a steady influx of new makeup products and brands being brought to Manila that give them a seemingly limitless beauty options.
While it’s tempting to always wear a full face of makeup thanks to all the awesome products there are to try, it’s not always the practical choice as Manila’s heat and humidity often wreck havoc on a fully made up face. (Cue: blotting paper and tissues).
We offer two solutions: either you pick out just a feature or two to emphasize and highlight (like your eyes lips, or cheeks) to allow the rest of your face to breathe, or — for the ladies that really just cannot live without a fully painted face — carefully pick out the best products for hot climates. Remember that many beauty products were formulated for cooler and temperate places and may not always wear as well when worn in searing heat!
Canadian cosmetics brand Cargo knows this all too well, and so came up with their Swimmables Collection of eyeliner, lip liner, bronzer and blush.
Guaranteed to be transfer-resistant, hold up to 14 hours, withstand perspiration and be highly pigmented while staying soft and comfortable, the Swimmable products are every woman’s best friends on days when the humidity index is at its highest.
Cleansing
Maybe in a perfect world women would only have to apply makeup once or twice in a week, with the look lasting overnight and a few hours after that. Taxingly, women’s hard work must be wiped and washed away at the end of the day, only for them to start all over again the next morning. Looking pretty is hard work sometimes!
Just as prepping and priming are necessary steps in the beautifying process, so is your cleansing regimen. Makeup residue is a no-no as it can cause breakouts and allergic reactions if not thoroughly cleansed, especially when combined with natural oil build up from the day — a universal nightmare for all women!
This new skincare brand’s name suggests that this step is all but complicated. Simple — the UK’s number one face care brand — is all about “the belief that face care is not just about how skin looks from the outside. Rather, it is about how it feels—because it is always about how women feel about their own skin that truly matters.â€
Their product range includes Micellar Cleansing Water, Micellar Facial Cleansing Wipes, Moisturizing Facial Wash, Hydrating Light Moisturizer and Dual-Effect Eye Makeup Remover — all of which are gentle on the skin and use sustainable products that are also kind to the earth.
All of those are free from color, fragrance and other harsh ingredients while still leaving skin thoroughly-cleansed without that tight or dry feeling. According to Simple, “at the end of the day, face care should always be as fuss-free, gentle, and as effective as that.â€
And we agree!
CaringÂ
On top of a simple yet thorough beauty and skincare regimen, women who want to go the extra mile can also care for their skin from the inside out.
Ladies can ‘yllume-minate’ their natural beauty with Yllume Skincare — a high performance, clinically proven skin whitening and brightening skincare brand that promises to treat our most frequently experienced skin concerns such as hyperpigmentation, sensitivity, acne and dry skin.
Yllume was founded by Hossay Moma who, for years, had suffered from severe acne and was troubled by extremely sensitive skin. As a woman who understands that confidence is greatly affected by the way we look, Yllume is her way of helping other women surpass any and all insecurities and anxieties brought about by skin problems.
All of Yllume’s products use colorless carotenoids extracted from unripened white tomatoes. This potent ingredient absorbs light in the UV range, slows melanin production and acts as an overall internal skin shield, resulting in a fairer and more even complexion — something women in sunnier climates highly prize.
