Sam Donald

Never having been a fan of airbrushing, either on overphotoshopped portfolio pictures (what’s the point of that – doesn’t show your talent, it shows the photographer’s airbrush skills!), or on faces.

I’ve come across some pretty ropey products in the past and observed some apalling application techniques, so I’d not really investigated it all that far, not beyond the few ocassions when I’d seen it at work in salons, and cringed to myself at the patchy face and messed up hair.

I recently got my hands on a couple of bottles of the Airbase foundation from TheProMakeupShop.com and decided to have a play.

Now I’ve been using this without the compressor, just my regular favourite foundation brush, but rather than using the traditional method of foundation brush application, I’ve been buffing it into the skin with the very tips of the bristles, in quite a fast, random action.

Oh my word!  I’m in love!

It is stunning!  It really does airbrush your skin, but without making your skin look caked in makeup, infact, I used it on a client recently who really wanted her freckles to show, but did want the underskin to be smoothed out.  Bless her, she kept looking in the mirror at herself, she was that surprised at the look and finish of it, and that she really couldn’t feel it (this was a client who never wears makeup, so really does notice it when she’s wearing it!)

I’ve had plenty of opportunites over the last couple of weeks to use it on various different faces, skintones and skin types, and it’s getting a unanimous thumbs up, not just from me,  but also from the ladies I’ve been working on.  Their ages have ranged from 20 upto 60+ and all have been delighted with the results, and the feedback coming in to me from them is that it really does last very well (particularly over the top of a primer) and does withstand the tears of a wedding day!

For me, aswell as being a staple in my kit, it is now a firm favourite in my own makeup bag, and being a ripe old age of 35, I have one or two crinkles around the eyes, and I’m hereditary blessed with a patch of broken capiliaries on one cheek.  Gone!  both are erased, even the crinkles which are often there, particularly thoes under my eyes.  Okay, so they aren’t actually erased, that would be too good to be true, but they aren’t magnified, whcih a lot of products can do.

So bascially, I have been converted!  Something that rarely happens.  I’ve been involved in makeup and cosmetics for too many years now to be swayed by whim and fancy and what initially seemed hype, but I will hold my hands up and say that yes, I love this stuff!

Now to get my hands on a compressor to really go to town…!