Make-up: Making a Cream Foundation
The other day, I wrote about making a matt powder foundation. You may remember I saved some of the final color mixture. This is one of the reasons I usually do foundation color only once a year.
Planning is Everything
It's pretty time consuming, but if you make enough, you can quickly and easily make a few different products from the same color mixture.Here's how fast and easy it is to make a cream foundation once the color is mixed.
Prepare Your Workspace
Be sure the equipment you use is sanitized. It's a good idea to have dedicated cosmetics equipment and keep it separate from your kitchen equipment.
Have your pigment blend, chosen cream base and tools ready.
2. Mix until the color is evenly distributed. Less color for less coverage.
Test along the way so you can adjust the amount of color or cream for how much coverage your foundation will have.
3. Transfer the mixture to your chosen (santized) container.
Above: this years powder foundation, cream foundation and a little sample jar with concealer I made.
Make Your Cream Foundation
Put a small amount of cream base into a clean bowl. I use my own Herbal Repair Eye Solution for my make-up bases. It is a light emulsion, takes a fair amount of color, and moisturizes well.
Having a cream foundation that doubles as skin care is win win.
Add a small amount of the pigment blend to the cream.
2. Mix until the color is evenly distributed. Less color for less coverage.
Tip: Start with less color than you think you'll need, then add a bit at a time until you are happy with it.
Test along the way so you can adjust the amount of color or cream for how much coverage your foundation will have.
Test in natural daylight and always where you will be using the color - on your face and along the jawline.
3. Transfer the mixture to your chosen (santized) container.
Above: this years powder foundation, cream foundation and a little sample jar with concealer I made.
The concealer is quick and easy to do. Just add titanium dioxide, zinc oxide or silk white pigment to a bit of your foundation powder and mix for a lighter shade.
When the color is even, mix the lighter blend into a dollop of cream.
Despite how different the colors look in this picture, both the powder and the cream are a perfect match to my skin.
Despite how different the colors look in this picture, both the powder and the cream are a perfect match to my skin.
Comments
It's interesting that your base looks a bit redder than the powder base. How about on the skin?
It really is the weirdest thing. The color is an exact match to my skin for both the powder and the cream when applied. However - the camera is not lying - they really do look different in the containers. I'm not quite sure why, but there you have it. :)
all the best
Regards Bryan
Thanks for your question. This one is difficult to answer without more information from you. Are you asking how to thicken an existing lotion consistency into a cream consistency or how to create a cream consistency from scratch?
If you want to thicken an existing lotion into a cream then I would need to have a look at your formula so I could give you some specific suggestions. My email is on the sidebar of the blog if you want to contact me about this.
If you are not doing your own formulating, but using an existing base product, then you could try and start with a cream that has the desired consistency and add your foundation colors to that.
Hope this was of some help.
You' have a great blog here , very informative it's much appreciated.
Thank you
Tracey
That way you know all the moisture is out of it.
I've been doing my own powder foundation for more than a year now, thanks to your wonderful help and a few other websites. It's amazing to see how we can make an amazing product at home, for a fraction of the cost! And with all the make-up you make, you're a real inspiration!
My sister saw the results and now she wants to make some foundation also. I'm going to show her next week, but she wants a cream. So I'm wondering: do you have any idea about how much of the color base powder we should add to 50g of cream, for instance? I know it depends of how much coverage you want, but where to start? I'm planning to make her a 20g color base powder so I guess it will be plenty, but I wish she could have enough for a cream foundation and a powder one.
Thanks again for all your help!
Marie
(If I remember correctly, you also speak french so: bonne journée!)
many thanks for such amazing recepis to make makeup.
where we can find your eye cream formulation to make liquid foundation.
Have been using my own liquid blend for at least 15 years but am about to run out of the 5 base pigments I use and the source has disappeared. Your posting is enormously helpful and so was Bryan's post. Bryan, would you be willing to post details of your salon? Would be very grateful for that information.
Many thanks,
Jane