 I am so excited to be able to bring you my flawless foundation routine that I've been doing lately It is a routine that lets your own skin show through, but you are able to cover all of your flaws Please keep in mind that this is not a five-minute routine It is one that does take a little bit of extra time, but if I am doing my makeup I know which steps I'm going to next I can usually do my Foundation concealer all of my cheek products powder all lipstick everything I can usually do that in approximately 10 to 15 minutes It does take me another 10 to 15 minutes to get this intricate of an eye look just so you know So I'm talking that on a normal day. I normally do my makeup and it's going to be 30 to 40 minutes to do my makeup Yes, I know that does sound like a long time for most of you guys But again, this is what kind of is like my creative outlet. It's obviously my job It's what I like to do for a living and it's obviously something that brings me a lot of joy So I kind of relish in doing the makeup every day I am using the number seven Protect and perfect advanced all-in-one foundation This is pretty much a dupe for the it CC cream that everybody loves But I really like it. It does have the sunscreen like the other one does This is an SPF of 50 plus just like the original it CC cream but this is flawless foundation for a woman that is mature over 50 years old and beyond and it seems to work Really good because it still lets me have all of my skin show through it still looks like skin But it looks very finished and very dewy and glowy So I hope that you do enjoy this Please give it a thumbs up and let's get into the tutorial right now for you guys Okay So first thing we're going to do is always make up prep steps and when I talk about that I'm talking about making sure that everything is prepped the way you need it to on your face before you ever go in with foundation and For me that is really important now one of the things that I have found because I use such an extreme amount of Moisturizer on my face because I've such dry skin is I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna rub every last bit of it In with my fingers right before I get started and then I'm gonna take a tissue I'm gonna blot Everywhere all over my face to get any excess oils any excess You know of that moisturizer that SPF that's just kind of sitting on the top But it hasn't sunk in yet So you really want to let your SPF set in for at least about five or ten minutes before you do that So do your morning skincare put that SPF on let that all soak in and then if there's any breakthrough Anywhere that you notice that you can't rub them with your fingers then go ahead and blot just a little bit all right next I'm gonna put on my catrice under eye primer and This is just a moisturizing under eye primer that I love a lot It just gives that little added boost of plump up effect underneath my eyes that I need and that seems to sink in Really quickly and then I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna go in with my elf putty primer So I'm going and I'm pressing this into the places where my pores are the worst which is across my nose and Across my cheeks up here into the forehead area. I really have a lot of gucky pores in there and Then my chin and I really make sure that I'm pressing that in and making sure that it really Gets those pores blurred out. That's what primer is for most of the time Is to create a barrier between your skin or your moisturizer and your foundation So that's what I'm doing and then I do put a little bit down here on my neck and my decollete not a lot And I also go ahead and I do it up around my eyes here Just a little bit not all the way up But that does help to create a barrier between that moisture from the catrice under eye primer that I just put on and The concealer that I'm gonna put on here in a second and then the next step I do is I go in with my color corrector If you don't need a color corrector, if you don't have super dark circles, don't worry about this part This is just a part that I do because I absolutely have really dark circles and they don't get covered with regular concealers So I just put a line right here. My circles aren't as bad as they used to be but they're definitely still there So I just put a line right there and then I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna tap that in and Then the next prep step again, if you have really good skin, you might not need to do this But for me, it's essential because if I want my foundation to look natural at my age I don't want to cake my foundation on so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take some sort of Whether you need a little bit more yellow if you have yellow tone or whether you need a little bit more pink If you have pink tone mine is the elf Camel concealer I'm gonna take just a little bit of concealer and I'm gonna go around those spots on my face where I feel like I have Extra problems and you can see right here. Hopefully you can see right here. I have a bit of redness and some Freckles or dark spots. I have a few dark spots right here. These never really get covered by my foundation a hundred percent because they are such bad spots and then I actually do just kind of do a zip across my neck right there because that's where I have the worst part of my Discoloration or my melasma through there, so I just go and I tap all of that in with my fingers I'm gonna be really careful about kind of switching fingers here because I don't want too much of that on there I'm just patting it all out I don't want to have a lot of extra makeup here and that is really the point of just Spot concealing it just helps out so much to be able to not have all of those brown spots all of the red The red stuff that I don't want to break through around your nose is where a lot of women get a lot of hormonal breakthrough with little Petitial veins in there, so I do around my nose with what is ever left on my fingers Okay, so the star of this show is the number seven protect and perfect advanced all-in-one foundation This it has age-defying ingredients. It says this is medium coverage and it has a sunscreen So I really believe that they're trying to dupe the It Cosmetics CC your skin bit better CC cream, which I absolutely love but I really like this one too a lot You guys I feel like it does the same thing I do feel like it is a pretty darn good dupe for it so we are going to use this today and I'm just gonna squeeze some out on my hand and We're gonna start out with one coat because that is so important just one coat And I'm just gonna put a couple of dots around my face I'm gonna do one side with a brush and I know I'm gonna do the other side with a beauty blender So you can see I know a lot of you prefer to do either or this is the Smashbox primer water I like to spray my tools that I use for my foundation with some sort of a primer water Because I feel like it just distributes everything a little bit better So I'm just gonna put one two sprays on the end of that brush And then I'm going to do my right side here with the brush And I'm just kind of gonna do stippling motions here And we will see how well that covers up and it does do such a good job Especially since I already kind of went in and did some spot concealing It's gonna do a good job with just one coat instead of having to have multiple coats on to cover up your face That's kind of where we can get into trouble as aging women We can find that it's a little bit harder to cover everything So we end up putting more on more foundation on and really that's not what we want to do We want to have as thin a coat of as possible of foundation Otherwise it can age us because it can end up looking really really cakey So I'm just going around here and I'm doing all that and then I'm gonna push that down my neck And I'm going to pick up what I had down there on my chest And I'm just going across and I always go all the way down my decollete with my foundation And yes, it does transfer onto my clothes, but I've been bringing my makeup down here for years So I'm kind of used to the transfer that you do get from that. It doesn't bother me that much Okay, the next one we're gonna do is we're gonna do the sponge And again, I'm gonna take my primer water and I'm gonna spray the tip of that sponge really well And then I'm gonna do this side This sponge by the way was already wet Damp not wet, but it was already damp Now you're gonna find that I don't know if you're gonna be able to see this that well on camera But I can that this does not cover as well with the sponge as it did with the brush I like the finish with the sponge But more than likely what's gonna happen is I'm gonna have to put another coat of this on in order to cover Everything on this side with the sponge and that just happens for two reasons one when the sponge is already wet It kind of you know, shears everything out a little bit more and to the sponge soaks up a little bit So that kind of happens as well So I can see as I'm looking at my face right now That there needs to be just a little bit more through here Maybe a little bit more through my decollete from the sponge My nose didn't get covered that well, but I've got a lot right here that didn't get covered because of using this sponge So on that side I'm gonna go ahead and put a little bit more foundation on maybe about well about a quarter of what I did before So I'm just gonna dot that on places that I feel like it didn't cover completely And did you notice that I didn't bring that foundation all the way up my eyes when you do your concealer in a minute What you're gonna find is that if you had you're gonna just create another layer up there And that can really contribute to having really cakey under eyes as well So I'm gonna just go in and I'm gonna pounce this or bounce this around to get this taken care of on a second coat So to have one or two coats on your face instead of having You know just put a bunch on there and then having to blend it out It just seems to work better Because for one you can just put it on the places where you really need it like I showed on my nose And then right there on my cheeks now you can see how much better that's doing and for another You're gonna have more breakthrough during the day because you have a thicker coat on there So I feel like that worked out really pretty what I'm gonna do now though is the side that had the brush on it I am gonna just bounce this sponge all over just to make sure that I pick up any excess product And I like the way that the sponge finishes even if the actual brush Does lay down more product. I do still like the way the sponge finishes. All right So now we're gonna work on that under eye area and we're gonna do the concealing on it now the Creaseless concealer ultimate creaseless concealer from Revolution Pro is a dead-on dupe for the it by by pours Full coverage anti-aging waterproof concealer. These are like Identical products you guys and the biggest thing that I want you to take away from here is that you can only need a teeny tiny Amount of these products I mean the smaller the better because again, we're talking about if you need extra coats That's fine But this stuff goes such a long ways and it's thick and it's hydrating And so if you get too much on there, you're gonna get creasing Especially if you have deep creases like I do underneath your eyes. So this one is in C6 That's the color and this one right here is in the light cool So I'm going to mix these because the light cool is much much too light And then the C6 is just a little bit too Yellow for me. So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna put the littlest amount I can possibly get on my finger and squeezing this out And what's really nice is these tubes are a little bit hard to squeeze out So can you guys see I mean hopefully the camera is picking that up good enough that I just Barely got a tiny tiny bit out amount amount out of both of those tubes So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna put one dot on that side I'm put one dot on that side That should be enough to do everything and I'm just gonna kind of bounce that around a little bit with my finger I feel like the warmth of your finger will warm up the concealer And I'm just going to go over to the other side and I'm just gonna let these set for a second Because if I let them set for a second what's gonna happen is they're gonna start to mix with the warmth on my skin And yes, I am shaky today you guys please remember that I have a disability my handshake I'm not nervous doing the tutorial. It's just the way things are for me Unfortunately, but I'm gonna go up here I'm gonna go clear under and I'm gonna go into that corner on my eyeball because that's where We get all our darkness that and then I'm gonna take this side down just a little bit Because I didn't completely get that redness taken care of and that is bothering me just a little bit So I'm gonna let that set for a second And I'm not gonna mess with it for a second and then I'm gonna go back in with my dampened beauty blender And with the beauty blender, I'm not wetting this anymore So this is fairly dry now all I want to do with this at this point and I keep trying to push my hair out I should probably should have put my hair in a ponytail All I'm trying to do with this beauty blender is I'm just trying to blur everything out very very easily So I'm going in with the very lightest pressure that I can and I'm starting out here on the outside And I'm gonna do this on both sides first and then I'm gonna go down Here that way I'm blending all of this area out and I'm starting that way so that I can continue to work with product And then the most product is gonna be up in here where I really need the coverage You can do this with your finger if you want to like I said the warmth of your finger will warm up the product But I have found that either way works really good You might want a tendency to look up so that you're getting Every little wrinkle pressed in the other thing that the sponge does at this point is it picks up extra product Which is really awesome. Okay, so now I'm all set What's gonna happen is this is gonna start to crease if you're not careful with it So what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna take some of my seal the deal hydrating setting spray And I'm going to spray this very lightly on this tip Just very lightly and I'm going to set my under eyes with that and I am not Touching this hardly at all So I'm just gonna kind of just touch and roll just a little bit to get some of that setting spray on there Just ever so slightly and I barely put any on there So I am going to put enough to use it on the other side and just touching and rolling that a Little bit. All right, so I set that now. What powder do I use? What do I go in next? What do I do? So what I'm gonna do because this is another tutorial that I'm gonna do right now For another video. I'm gonna go off camera I'm going to do all of my color makeup on my face and then I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna show you powder and Spray and all those good things because those are the things that I do after I have done all of my blush Contour all that good stuff. So I will see you in just a minute with a completely done face Okay, guys, so I have my face makeup done now. You're gonna think I'm a little bit crazy I actually got this tip from my sister-in-law high Donna. I love you if you're watching I got this tip from my sister-in-law and it seems to work really really good for me as an aging woman And that is before powder after you've done all of your face color your blush your highlight contour all that good stuff You put on a coat of setting mist onto your face and your decollete in order to set it before you put on your powder So we're gonna do that. This is the hydrating seal the deal from Flower Beauty and I love this stuff and I'm putting on quite a little bit not a ton But quite a few sprays there my face isn't soaked But it's wet and if you have one of those nice electric fans go ahead and do that I just have a handheld one that seems to do the purpose just as good and I'm gonna go ahead And I'm just going to fan my face until it's dry All right, and then I'm going to take my elf sheer tint finishing powder. This one is in fair light I love this powder you guys and I'm going to take my elf big powder brush And I'm just gonna load that powder brush up first and then I'm gonna tap off any excess I can get off and I'm going to go into the parts that have breakthrough a lot I'm going to be staying away from my cheeks The top of my cheeks this area where I put all of the color I'm gonna be staying away from there just because I feel like what happens is that the setting spray takes care of that For me, so I'm staying away from those what I'm wanting to do in these areas where I'm putting extra powder is Refine those my pores are a little bit bigger I have a little bit extra texture there because of being older and having a few scars and whatnot and these areas are Are areas that I can get breakthrough with my hot flashes or my little power surges as I call them And then I'm gonna go along and do my decollete to set that down and to make it look really finished And really pretty so I'm staying away from that cheek area I can go underneath it right down here, and I'm doing the nose I'm not doing under the eyes as you guys kind of see I kind of hardly ever do that underneath my eyes I don't hardly ever set it unless it's gonna be super hot I just set it with that setting spray now I'm going to take as you're gonna think this is weird, but I'm going to take a finishing powder So that was our setting powder. This is our finishing powder minus the Lancome absolute And this is an absolute golden and I just take my big humongous fluffy brush from it cosmetics By the way, I think this brush is gonna go on sale at Ulta for half off and that's how I originally got mine So check that out. I kind of loaded it up not a ton But again, I'm going to shake off any excess I can get and now I'm gonna hit the high points So that my skin looks finished. I'm gonna go across my forehead. I'm gonna go across my cheeks This is a very light touch. I'm using down my nose my chin Down my neck and across my decollete and that was just a light dusting all over of that powder And that just finishes it so nicely. Lastly, I'm gonna go in with a radiant spray Now this is an alginist bottle But there is the radiant setting spray from Nick's in here because that bottle was spitting at me So I love this bottle because it doesn't do that all it just gives a really fine mist and I'm just gonna really lightly spray and That's it. That is everything I do for my complexion Keep in mind. I realize that is a lot of steps, but when I get into my routine I can do my entire complexion part my eyes usually take the longest between eyebrows Mascara and eyeshadow. They take a long time for me to do all the rest of this stuff 10 minutes maybe to do everything else including all of the colors that I put on my face. Okay, so now I get to go Off-camera. I'm gonna do my lips and my mascara and I'll be back to talk to you Okay, guys, this is the finished look on a flawless face of foundation For older women gonna pan out just a little bit so that you guys can see this on a little bit more of a distance So this is about how far I would be standing away from somebody if I were just talking to them on a regular Basis so you can see how well this does you know all the added factors in as far as the contour and everything It does really well and it adds to the flawless foundation But the powders and the sprays those are all things that you need for your foundation to last a long time for it to Give that seamless blurred out effect that you get when you do your foundation So I hope this was helpful to you guys This is a really easy routine and you don't have to cake makeup on but it does look like You have a very finished skin even though you guys saw I had all kinds of spots all kinds of redness You have very finished skin, but it still looks very skin like and that's what I love about doing this foundation routine So I hope that you did enjoy it. Please give it a thumbs up if you did I hope that everybody is staying happy and healthy and everything is going well for everyone Everybody, please take care of yourselves. I love you all so very much and I'll see you all in my very next video. Take care guys. Bye. Bye