How to Make Your Makeup Last All Day: A Complete Guide

Makeup has been the perfect way to enhance our natural beauty. But the biggest challenge we face while wearing makeup is making the original glow last all day. Keeping the makeup's original finish is tricky, whether it’s oily skin, humid weather, or just a long day of wearing makeup. But with the right products, tricks, and techniques, you can ensure your look stays flawless from dawn to dusk. In this guide, we’ll tell you everything you would need to know to make your makeup last all day.

10 Interesting Makeup Facts You Should Know

1.Your Skin Type Matters:
Knowing your skin type is important in understanding its needs and which makeup products suit it. For example, a mattifying powder works perfectly well for oily skin, eliminating shine and grease, while hydrating products give dry skin a dose of healthy moisturization.

2.The Primer Power:
Primer is an unskippable step for long-lasting makeup. Primers such as PAC Aqua Grip Primer create a smooth canvas so that makeup will hold better on your skin for a long time.

3.The Wonder of Setting Sprays:
A good setting spray, especially one with a long-lasting formula such as the PAC Makeup Prime and Setting Spray, can keep makeup fresh and intact all day.

4.Layering is Essential:
Applying your makeup in thin, buildable layers rather than a single coat increases its durability. It also provides a more natural finish to your makeup, effortlessly enhancing your natural features.

5.The Power of Translucent Powders:
A light dusting of translucent powder, such as the PAC Translucent Powder - (01 Anti-Shine), sets your makeup and controls the shine on your face without altering the color or making the makeup look cakey.

6.Get Long-Lasting Formulas:
Long-lasting or waterproof alternatives of your favorite makeup products are a great way to ensure that your makeup stays strong against the onslaught of moisture, heat, and time.

7.Perks of Eyeshadow Primers:
Eye makeup is one of the most important parts of face makeup and hence, it must be intact throughout the day. This is where Eyeshadow Primers come in. A swipe of eyeshadow primer like PAC Eyeshadow Primer on your eyes before applying eye makeup products will make them stay in place throughout your makeup wear time, keeping it crease and smudge-proof.

8.Prep your Lips:
Prepping your lips with a lip balm before applying makeup will not only keep your lips hydrated but also increase the lip products’ staying power. Thus, always remember to swipe a lip balm across your lips before makeup.

9.DO NOT Neglect the Neck and Ears:
Include your neck and ears while applying makeup on your face as not applying it would make your skin tones look mismatched and hence, look artificial. Thus, for a more natural look and to avoid creases or fading, apply makeup to your neck too.

10.Proper Makeup Removal:
At certain times, long makeup wear can weigh down both your face and its skin quality. Thus, removing the makeup properly with makeup-removing wipes like PAC Travel With Me Charcoal Wipes, liquids, or cleansing balm like PAC Total Cleansing Balm would ensure that makeup is completely removed from your face, giving time to your skin to breathe and in turn ensures that your makeup looks better the next day.

15 Ways to Make Your Makeup Last Long:

1.Exfoliating Regularly:
There are a lot of dead skin cells on our face that need to be removed for a smoother face for makeup and hence exfoliating your face with products such as PAC Lemon Squash Exfoliator 2-3 times a week will go a long way to keep your face clean and refreshed.

2.Always Moisturize:
Prepping your face before applying makeup is very important for the makeup to last longer. Washing and cleansing your face isn’t enough. Thus, applying moisturizer after cleaning your face would keep the skin hydrated. One of the main reasons for makeup fading is that it pulls moisture from any hydration source available and hence, the skin dries leading to flaking or creasing of makeup. Using a lightweight moisturizer like the PAC Aqua Blast Moisturizer, that goes well with your skin type too, would keep your makeup durable.

3.Use a Hydrating Mist before Makeup:
A few spritz of hydrating mist like rose water or lightweight mist sprays would help the skin retain moisture which in turn, would hold the makeup products better.

4.Use a Foundation Brush:
Applying foundation with a brush in small, soft circles (buffing technique) would give a seamless finish, that would not just last longer but also make your skin look effortlessly evened out.

5.Use Eyeshadow to set your Eyeliner:
Take a small, angled eyeshadow brush to apply eyeshadow in the shade that matches the color of your eyeliner so that the liner sets properly on the eyes, without the worry of smudging or transfer. Works especially well for people with oil eyelids or hooded eyes.

6.Baking your Makeup:
After applying a concealer, press a good amount of translucent powder under your eyes and other high points of your face such as the center of your chin and the nose bridge. Let the powder sit (or “bake”) for a few minutes so that it settles and fixes the makeup in place.

7.Blot Excess Oil Before Touch-ups:
Before touching up your makeup, blot or dab your face in areas containing sweat or oil with blotting paper or tissues to remove them. This prevents the makeup from becoming cakey or patchy and ensures that your touch-up applies smoothly.

8.Set Cream Products with Matching Powders:
After applying cream products like blush, bronzer, or highlighter, and then set them with powder products that match their shades. This would boost their staying power.

9.Tightening your Eyes:
Swipe a bit of eyeliner/kohl/kajal on the waterline of your upper lash line (a technique known as tightening). This would not only make your eyelashes look fuller but also keep your eyeliner in place.

10.Use a Finishing Powder:
After your whole makeup application routine is done, lightly dust a finishing or setting powder on your. This would blur any imperfections, fix everything in place, and increase the wearing time of your makeup.

11.Apply Lip Stain under Lipstick:
Dab a lip stain on your lip as a base before your lipstick. That way, the stain would keep your lip looking vibrantly colored even if the lipstick fades.

12.Set Your Brows:
Use a tinted or clear brow gel like PAC Quick Fix Brow Gel after applying your eyebrow powder or brow cream. The gel would lock in the color and texture, giving it a better hold. For better performance, opt for a waterproof gel.

13.Apply Makeup in Natural light:
Of course, the lights on your vanity are super helpful but the makeup you applied might look different in natural light. Hence to avoid any hassles, apply your makeup in natural light so that you have a clear idea of which shades of makeup products suit your skin.

14.Prime your lips:
Just as priming your face is necessary for the makeup to stick and hold your makeup in place, the lips require it too. Thus, applying a coat of lip primer such as the PAC Lip Primer would create a smooth base for lipstick application. The lipstick won’t crease, feather, or fade and stays for a long time too. But the best part? It makes your lip color look super rich and pretty!

15.Always use a Makeup Fixer:
Spraying a hydrating makeup fixer such as PAC Micro-Finish Makeup Fixer would seal all the products and their formulations in, retaining their stay-time and ensuring that your makeup is intact for a long time.

Following and adapting these steps and tricks in your makeup would give you the desired duration of makeup wear, keeping your makeup fresh for a long day without any worries of it fading away! So say goodbye to worries of your makeup fading and dazzle away!