SPF Problem: How Do I Reapply Sunscreen Over Makeup?

This is the third SPF problem in my little mini-catalogue of sunscreen issues and it’s the one that seems to frustrate people the most: how on earth do you reapply sunscreen over makeup?

I have two good options below. My first thought, though, is this:�if you’re doing an worriedness that requires a full squatter of makeup, it’s unlikely you’re going to be in full sun, without shade, for the unshortened day. Of undertow there must be the odd scenario, but I struggle to think of many where your squatter will be getting a full solar battering and�where full makeup is required�and�where it’s not possible to wear a hat. Usually someone who works outside for long periods will be used to protecting themselves with clothing/hat/sunglasses and if it’s an event like a wedding or outdoor party then there will normally be some shade.

However, I’m well enlightened that there’s the impromptu�al fresco�lunch to navigate, or drinks without work in the pub garden, or people who like to spend all day outdoors and hate hats, or have to spend all day outdoors and love wearing full makeup, and for those situations the top-up ideas unelevated are great. Just try and use worldwide sense, protect your squatter physically as much as you can (wear a hat, seek shade) and remember that ultimately sun safety trumps makeup.

SPF Problem: How Do I Reapply Sunscreen Over Makeup?

So here’s the timeworn problem. You thoughtfully wield a full squatter of makeup over your sunscreen in the morning but at lunchtime you quite fancy a glass of wine with friends, outside on the terrace. Do you need increasingly sunscreen? Has your initial using still got any life in it? You’re not sure. But in no way, shape or form are you going to take off your makeup, reapply sunscreen and do your squatter all over again. Just not feasible. So how do you top up your sunscreen?

1 – With a mist.

La Roche-Posay’s Anti-Shine SPF50 Mist* is brilliant. It was one of the first mists of this kind to the market and is still one of the best. It truly is invisible on the skin and acts as a sort of setting spray for sweaty makeup that’s started to move. So if you wanted to revive a full squatter of makeup that’s had a bit of a party on your squatter then you could requite it a vitrify with a big foundation brush, maybe add an uneaten soupcon of bronzer and then spray the whole thing liberally with the LRP Mist.

Kate Somerville’s Soft Focus Makeup Setting Spray SPF50 (here* online) is the pricier, slightly increasingly glamorous older sister – note that it’s marketed as a makeup product and not as a defended SPF. I think that this is wise considering you unquestionably have to spray a�lot�of these sunscreen sprays onto your squatter to get the stated protection…and most people won’t do that. Most people will do a skin-deep spritz and be done. (Also, I do finger that a lot of sunscreen mist ends up in the air. Or your hair. Or on your office chair, or bed, or carpet.)

Read: Sunscreen Stings My Eyes

Which is why I wouldn’t rely on a facial SPF mist for my full sunscreen application, I only use it as a top-up if I finger as though the protection of my defended sunscreen might have waned a bit and I want to be uneaten sure I’m not going to burn.

But it’s invaluable as this bit of uneaten insurance if you find yourself having an impromptu bit of frolicking in the sunshine. It doesn’t mess with your makeup – if anything it keeps it in place – and it’s quick and easy to apply.

Buy La Roche-Posay Anti-Shine SPF50 Mist*

2 – With a tinted sunscreen.

If your SPF�is�your makeup wiring then there’s no issue with reapplying it. You just bosh your tinted sunscreen on over the top of the last stuff, with the widow bonus that your new makeup looks fresh and dewy and just-done.

But tinted sunscreen hasn’t been that unconfined an option until recently. Shades have been limited and usually the coverage isn’t quite unbearable to replace wearing a makeup base. If you go lanugo the CC Cream or tinted moisturiser route then it’s often difficult to wield unbearable of that sort of product to get the stated SPF – you naturally use a much thinner stratify of it because, well, it’s makeup.

Australian sunscreen trademark Ultra Violette have an spanking-new new tinted sunscreen tabbed the Dream Screen Tinted Veil�(here online*)�– I personally think it’s quite a gamechanger. Firstly, you can hands wield the recommended value to get the stated SPF50 protection (1/4 teaspoon for face, or 1/2 teaspoon for squatter and neck) and plane in quantities increasingly than this it never looks claggy or overdone. Secondly, it layers up beautifully and unquestionably gives okay coverage. It’s light, it won’t obliterate visionless circles, but it does the trick for subtracting some warmth and making skintone slightly increasingly even.

The Tinted Veil comes in fifteen shades (I wear 4 but would most likely be shade 3 through the winter), all of them flexible in that they will sheer out to suit a number of tones. It’s oil-free, fragrance free, suits all skin types and gives very upper protection from UVA and UVB rays. I like everything well-nigh this little SPF50 and have been wearing it daily, no other squatter wiring on top.

Shop Ultra Violette Tinted Veil here*

Any increasingly sunscreen problems? Let me delve through my product hodgepodge and try to find you some answers – just waif me a scuttlebutt below!