The foundation of your makeup is critical to the success of your over-all efforts. Just like a house that is beautiful, made from the best materials, elegantly designed by the best architecture but built on a cliff, quagmire, or fault line, you are a disaster waiting to happen. 

There are some fundamental points to working with a foundation. The first one is to use one – even if you think that means that you have bad skin or are going to look like your grandmother, think again. Foundation now is for healthy skin to smooth and enhance, not conceal, congeal, and generally cake the skin.  

Choose a foundation that matches your neck as well as your face because unless you want to look like a zebra, or two-toned sloth, blending is the key to natural looking foundation.  

When you are testing the color and weight of the foundation, always use your chest for an accurate assessment of how well the foundation will blend with your natural skin tone. Never use the back of your wrist. You need to match your face, not your elbow.  

So the next time you go shopping, say yes to foundation applied properly.