“The Surprising Secret Models Know”
Yes, you can sleep with makeup on! Not only that, you can actually help your skin while you’re doing it. It seems almost too good to be true. Look beautiful going to bed and let your skin reap the benefits of skin nourishing makeup. You might be wondering how this is even possible, especially after you’ve been told your entire life to wash your face before going to bed every night. These amazing makeup tips explain it all.
Sleep With Makeup On
What happens when you sleep with makeup on? Normally, the answer is that it blocks your pores. This is because you’re sleeping and the makeup is rubbing off on your pillowcase along with the natural oils from your skin. Eight hours later your skin has had quite a workout. If you forget to change your pillowcase it makes it extra difficult to keep your skin acne free. Plus, you naturally want to give your skin a rest – or do you?
If you are applying moisturizers or acne fighting ingredients to your skin in the evenings, then you are essentially sleeping with some type of cosmetic product on your skin. Have you ever thought about what would happen if you combined it with a tint of color? Certain cosmetic companies have. The cosmetics combine moisturizers and skin treatment with a tint. So, what you wind up with is a product that’s formulated not to hurt your skin if you have that occasional night when you sleep with it on.
How To Sleep With Makeup On
Let’s take it one step further. Let’s say that there is a night when you know you are going to be out late and probably won’t bother washing off your cosmetics, so you’re asking how to choose the right foundation so you won’t annihilate that beautiful clear skin you’ve worked so hard to get. In order to do that you have to have a foundation with the right ingredients to prevent blocking your pores. That ingredient is usually salicyclic acid. Yes, it’s the same ingredient used to prevent acne breakouts.
Healthy foundation for clear skin often contains salicyclic acid, so it’s a pretty common ingredient for daytime foundations. A foundation for evening also would contain this. In fact, Ramy Cosmetics has made a foundation called it calls “Sleep In Beauty” that contains three ingredients designed to benefit your skin while helping to prevent breakouts:
- 2% Salicyclic Acid – When you need to keep your skin clear this is the ingredient that helps. You’ll find this in a number of healthy foundations for day wear, too.
- Active Peptides – These are the ingredients that nourish your skin and reduce redness. You see these in a number of anti aging cosmetics.
- Matrixyl – This one is the wrinkle fighter. You might not have paid much attention to it in the past, but it basically helps to diminish fine lines with continued use.
Tinted Moisturizers Work Too
There is another way to sleep with a little makeup on and that is to use a tinted moisturizer. It does the same thing, nourishes your skin and hydrates your skin. These foundations typically have glycerin in them and provide a sheer tint. If you have good skin already and aren’t fighting blemishes then occasionally falling asleep with your makeup on probably won’t hurt in the long run.
Makeup Notebook recommends you give your skin a rest at night. Take a few moments and lightly exfoliate with a sugar scrub and then give your facial skin a little hydration with a good moisturizer designed for your skin type…and if you find yourself in an occasional situation where you are sleeping with makeup on, then make a commitment to be extra kind to your skin in the days that follow.