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Makeup That Doesn't Melt in the Heat
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items If you live somewhere hot, you already know the problem, you do your face at 8am and by noon it's slid off. These are the products that hold up in real heat and real humidity. Mostly for oily and combination skin. Nothing here is a guess, it's all st...
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Clean Skin
Sunscreen That Doesn't Fight Your Makeup
Primer, The Step People Miss
Foundation Built For Heat
Powder Where It Counts
Lock It Down
Clean Skin
Everything else on this list works better on a properly cleaned face. If you're oily, the temptation is to scrub hard and strip your skin that backfires and makes you produce more oil. These two clean without doing that.
Start here if your face gets oily by midday. It's a gel-to-foam wash for oily and combination skin that takes off oil, dirt, and makeup without leaving your face tight. Cheap, fragrance-free, and you'll finish the bottle before you get bored of it.
12.0 oz Foaming Facial Cleanser - CeraVe | Ulta Beauty
If heat makes you break out, this is the same brand with 4% benzoyl peroxide in it — it clears pimples and blackheads without stripping you dry. Use it at night, not both times a day, or you'll overdo it.
Acne Foaming Cream Cleanser - CeraVe | Ulta Beauty
Sunscreen That Doesn't Fight Your Makeup
Most people skip SPF because it pills, greases up, or leaves a grey cast on brown skin. These don't. Both sit under foundation without ruining it.
Sunscreen is non-negotiable and this one doesn't fight your makeup. It melts in fast and leaves no white cast, which if you're brown-skinned you know is the whole battle
Day Dew Sunscreen Lightweight SPF 50 - Beauty of Joseon
Tinted version. Gives you up to 12 hours of light base coverage so on lazy days you can skip foundation completely.
Dayscreen Lightweight Tinted SPF 30 Mineral Sunscreen with Ceramides - Beauty of Joseon
Primer, The Step People Miss
This is where the whole thing is won or lost. Primer is what stops your foundation sliding into your pores by midday. Pick a gripping one if your face slides, a mattifying one if you get shiny.
Try the small one first before committing. Also the size you keep in your bag.
Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Gripping Primer
Oil-free, blurs pores and kills shine straight away. If your T-zone is the problem area, put it there and skip the rest of your face.
Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Primer - Fenty Beauty by Rihanna
The pore blurrer everyone talks about. A little goes far — don't overdo it or it pills under foundation.
The POREfessional Pore Minimizing Primer - Benefit Cosmetics
Same idea, mattifying version. This is the one for humid days.
The POREfessional Matte Pore Minimizing Primer - Benefit Cosmetics
Foundation Built For Heat
Longwear means longwear. Both of these are made to hold through sweat, and both come in 50 shades so finding your match isn't a guessing game
Built to handle heat, sweat and shine, which is the whole point of this list. 50 shades so there's an actual match for deeper skin, not just three brown options.
Fenty Beauty by Rihanna Pro Filt'r Foundation
If matte makes you look flat, this is the same shade range with a natural finish. Better if your skin is combination rather than fully oily.
Sephora Pro Filtr R Hydrating Longwear Foundation
Powder Where It Counts
You don't need powder everywhere, just your T-zone and under your eyes. Do that and you'll cut your blotting down to once or twice a day instead of every hour.
A classic for a reason. Blends in easily and holds makeup for up to 12 hours. Bake your under-eyes and T-zone with it and you'll blot far less.
Translucent Loose Setting Powder - Laura Mercier
The pressed version, easier to carry and less messy than loose powder. Talc-free.
Ultra-Blur Talc-Free Waterproof Translucent Pressed Setting Powder - Laura Mercier
Lock It Down
The last step and the most important one in this weather. Waterproof, sweat-proof, transfer-proof — all three, not just one. If you only buy one thing off this whole list, take it from here.
If you buy one thing off this list, buy this. Sixteen hours, waterproof and sweat-proof. It actually absorbs oil instead of just sitting on top of it.
On 'Til Dawn Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray - ONE/SIZE by Patrick Starrr
Same spray with sunscreen in it. Solves the problem of reapplying SPF over a finished face, you just spray.
One Size By Patrick Starrr Mattifying Sunscreen Makeup Setting Spray SPF 28
Travel size. Keep it in your bag.
Mini On 'Til Dawn Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray - ONE/SIZE by Patrick Starrr
24 hours, matte, waterproof. My pick when I'm out from morning till late.
All Nighter Waterproof Matte Setting Spray with 24HR Wear - Urban Decay
Eyes That Stay Put
Regular mascara ends up under your eyes by the afternoon. Waterproof isn't optional here, it's the baseline.
Waterproof matters more than you think in this weather — regular mascara ends up under your eyes by 2pm. Thickens and holds the curl.
Better Than Sex Waterproof Mascara - Too Faced
Same thing at Ulta if you'd rather buy there. Worth checking both for price.
0.27 oz Better Than Sex Volumizing & Lengthening Waterproof Mascara - Too Faced | Ulta Beauty
Lips That Survive Lunch
Gloss slides off the second it's warm. Stains sink in and stay through eating and drinking, which is the only thing that matters on a long day.
A stain, not a gloss, it holds through eating and drinking. Twelve shades, twelve dollars. Gloss just slides off in the heat.
NYX Professional Makeup Lip Stain - 2 Products | Ulta Beauty
Works on lips and cheeks so it's one product doing two jobs. Good for days you don't want a full face.
Lip Stain - Makeup - 75 Products | Ulta Beauty