Are you Baking your makeup?

You're already familiar with contouring and are wrapping your head around strobing, but now "baking' or cooking" your makeup is making itself a part of the mix, cropping up on youtube tutorials everywhere.

The term, which as been used in the drag community for years, refers setting translucent powder sit on your face for five to 10 minutes, which allows the heat from your face to set your base foundation and concealer, and then dusting it off your face, leaving you with a creaseless flawless finish.

Here's how you too can pull off poreless, picture perfect skin and brighten your eye area while you're at it:
1. Hydrate your eye area.  Apply instant uplift around your eye area to hydrate your skin and plump it up, minimizing the appearance of any fine lines or crease.  Try http://www.leatherandlashes.com 's hydrating moisturizer.

2.  Apply a thick concealer under your eyes.
While concealer usually contains oils and has a tendency to crease, it won't if it's set right.  Apply it upward from the apples of your cheeks toward your temples all the way underneath your eye.  Then, blend it in with a damp makeup sponge.  Try Moodstruck Mineral Concealer and the Blending Buds.

3.  Coat on more concealer.  At this point, you might be thinking. This is a shit ton of makeup.  and yes. it is.  S you can skip this step and still get great results, but for lasting power, a sheer second coat can lock in the first formula.  After you apply the second layer of smooth out all the creases before setting your concealer in the next step.  Try Skin Perfecting Concealer.

4. Dust on translucent powder.  Us a fluffy eye shadow brush to apply translucent powder over the entire patch of concealer to set the base makeup.

5.  Now. "bake" or "cook" your makeup.  Use a beauty blender or a wedge and dampen it with a setting spray, like Rosewater Toning Spritz Then, dip the wedge into the translucent powder you use in step 4 to pack the loose powder generously over the are where you applied the concealer.  eave the powder on for five to 10 minutes.

6.  Dust it off. Using the same fluffy deluxe eye shadow brush from step 4 and a pressed powder, like Touch Mineral Foundation., swirl the fluffy eye shadow brush over the formula and dust away the powder as you add more coverage to blend any harsh edges.

Now your baking baby!