Integrating Your Makeup Palette Into Your Skincare Makeup Routine

In the realm of facial beauty it can be easy to mix up the very important and separate categories of makeup and skin care. Yes, while one enhances, spotlights, paints and tints, all towards the purpose of an immediate look, the other smoothly caresses and sinks into the skin, producing a longer-term protection for your skin. One is like the armor, the other is like the inner robe – and both work towards the production of an even, healthy, glowing face to be framed as you please with color and contouring.

Though the two work in tandem in ideal combinations, the makeup palettes and skincare makeup are not inherently similar products. Palettes, with combinations of eyeshadows, blushes and lip colors, allow for exactly what their name suggests: a "palette" or colors to implement lovingly, artistically and precisely for your desired look. Skin care, on the other hand, falls into categories of cleansers, exfoliants, toners, serums and moisturizers, all playing their own role in maintaining the balance and cleanliness of your skin. While makeup dresses your face up, skin care removes any dressing: taking care of removing all outside agents, restoring a feeling of hydration and pleasant relaxation in its ultimate goal.

Skincare Makeup: The Basics of Integrated Skin Care

Integrated skin care is the term referring to the integration of makeup products with your skin care routine. The basics of integrated skin care lie in a scientific roundup of causes for damage to the skin and implementing both lifestyle enhancements and responsibly-sourced products to strategically reduce that damage.

In your diet, you can practice integrated skin care by eating more ‘colors,’ particularly in fruits and vegetables. Eat all of the colors of the rainbow and do your LGBTQ friends proud. The foods which are of particularly rich color provide many natural antioxidants necessary for your diet including carotenoids and polyphenols. Next, if you can buy locally-made, organic or vegan foods, you will reduce chances of eating pesticided or manicured vegetables. Special power foods include broccoli, red cabbage, citrus, tomatoes and even a little red wine can perform antioxidation on a small scale to some of the free radicals floating around your skin. Also, fresh juice and freshly-brewed green tea leaves can also help settle the surface of your facial skin.

Makeup Palettes: Your Face as the Easel

With makeup palettes, you will have the chance to match the color of your diet to the color of your face. Can you imagine an Instagram where you’re holding a makeup palette and a vine of grapes, the transparent green of the fruit matching the color of your lip and the color of your opened palette?

In order to select the right palette, you will want to verify that this palette has the colors that you are looking for. Be sure to spot the base skin tone in the palette, even if it’s a very colorful one, in order to compare it with the tones of your skin complexion. Even if the colors don’t match perfectly, close inspection of the colors in comparison with your clothes and skin will help you get a sense for if the palette fits the ‘palette’ of your overall look. And finally, choosing a makeup palette compatible with skin-care oriented makeup will help you nail your wellness look.