{"id":15661,"date":"2015-10-19T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=15661"},"modified":"2018-11-01T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T01:29:24","slug":"la-mer-reparative-skintint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2015\/10\/la-mer-reparative-skintint\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reparative Skintint from La Mer that offers a healthy, sheer, tinted glow to your skin"},"content":{"rendered":"
Do you have something that you wouldn’t necessarily call a favourite, yet find yourself reaching for it now and again, a little more often than you might expect? I’m sort of that way with the La Mer Reparative Skintint SPF30<\/strong>, which is La Mer’s version of a tinted moisturiser-sunscreen thingy.<\/p>\n In fact, if you read La Mer’s description of this product, they don’t really talk about the “tint” of colour, calling it instead, a “healthy wash of colour” which I’ve learned, is marketing speak for “very sheer colour”. So, when you have that in mind, you’d be less inclined to be disappointed when you find out that the product doesn’t offer a lot of coverage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So why bother wearing a tinted product, if you aren’t going to get any coverage on skin? Well, speaking personally, I do, a little more often than I realise. It will depend on what you really need the product to do. Are you concerned about reducing the appearance of redness and uneven skintone on your skin? Or would you prefer something that will cover up imperfections as well?<\/p>\n For the former, I find that soft tints or washes of colour do a pretty decent job. For the latter, go with a proper foundation. It also comes with being comfortable with your skin and realising that there are other ways you can actually wear a makeup base, without a) looking like you’re wearing makeup and b) without having too much product on the skin. I”ll actually show you below how I do this \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But coming back to the La Mer Reparative Skintint<\/strong>, I’d consider this a tinted moisturiser with sunscreen. The reason I say so is because the texture of the product is fairly thick and creamy so I’d hesitate to suggest this to someone who has combination-oily skin. You might find it uncomfortable or that it turns oily. On drier skin, like mine, it does help make your skin feel a bit more comfortable as the day wears on.<\/p>\n Now, some of \u00a0you weren’t sold on my theory about makeup base being good for your skin<\/a> in polluted environments (nothing against you of course! \ud83d\ude00 ) but part of the reason I realised it was because\u00a0I realised that when I wear this particular product, my skin seems to feel softer at the end of the day when I remove it.<\/p>\n Texture-wise, it is fairly thick, and if I’ve one major complaint, it’s to do with the shades. For some reason, the shades of the Reparative Skintint are abysmal and orange. I honestly have no idea where La Mer are getting the idea that people are orange, but there’s that. The shades tend to be warm and orange and honestly speaking, I don’t find them flattering.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The shade I use is Very Fair<\/strong>, which is what you see in the picture. It is light, with a slight pinkish tone. In fact, I think this shade will be worn by most people who have fair to medium skintones, because the next step up – Light\u00a0– is orange. It is, I swear! I tried it and was quite horrified at how warm it was. If you have very deep skintones, the odds are that you’d only be using Medium. A magazine editor I know does, so that’s how I know it’ll work.<\/p>\n The leap in shade from Very Fair to Light\u00a0is a huge chasm. Very Fair blends out fairly transparent, as you can see in the picture above. Light\u00a0will impart a warm, transparent shade of colour. I think that if you’re the sort who wants a “healthy glow” then Light might work, but I’d still caution you about looking orange.<\/p>\n That said,\u00a0despite the sheerness of colour, I do find myself quite happy with this product because for some reason, it seems to even out redness and skintone pretty impressively and makes skin look better than it really is. I treat this as I would a makeup base, so I apply it after skincare and sunscreen.<\/p>\n While I can use my fingers to apply this, I find that this sometimes results in my using more product than I like, so I usually use a brush. This is more so because I find that when I use fingers to apply, the product doesn’t spread out very smoothly on my skin. The texture, as I’ve warned you above, is a little thick so using fingers to spread it isn’t quite the way to go for me, personally speaking. A brush seems to even it out better, and is actually quicker.<\/p>\n Let me show you how it looks in this little collage, and what I mean when I said right at the top, that it works for me by giving me a good base, without my having to wear more makeup than necessary.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The photos are unretouched, so on left is my bare skin. In the middle, I’ve applied a thin layer of the La Mer Reparative Skintint in Very Fair. You may notice how it has evened out the redness and uneven tone somewhat, especially around the shadows of the eyes and nose. You may also notice how the pigmentation I have isn’t really concealed, because it is very sheer. Yet, the skin looks better already doesn’t it?<\/p>\n