Makeup Glow in Baguio: Perfecting the Local Look in Cool Climates

Gleam and glam up this 2024 with the perfect Baguio-inspired makeup glow!

Wondering how Baguio locals often have effortlessly flawless makeup, showing off their warmest smiles you’d ever see, no matter how breezy the weather gets?

Let’s discover a “no-makeup makeup look” to full glam where we’d break down the tips, tricks, and techniques needed to slay the chilly Baguio day!

Which Skin Types Work Best With Which Brands

A perfect makeup look starts with understanding which formulas work best for your skin type and which to avoid. Accommodate your skin concerns with a beginner and budget-friendly skincare routine to start your day anew.

Four-ply Care for Oily and Acne-prone Skin 

Rinse your face and wait for 30 minutes. If your face feels greasy and shiny, you have an oily skin type. It means your sebaceous glands produce excess sebum, making you prone to breakouts and blackheads. Since the Baguio climate can dehydrate this skin type, look for oil-free cleansers and moisturizers, like the Luxe Organix Acne Care Line, to keep your skin matte yet moisturized. 

Dry Skin Protection from Baguio’s Cold Condition

Feeling flaky, itchy, or rough with fine lines and wrinkles? That means your skin type can snap, crackle, and pop due to the Baguio weather. But don’t worry! Opt for hydrating and extra nourishing moisturizers such as Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream to keep your skin soft and supple.

Combo Care for Combination Skin

Wanna know why your T-zone (your forehead, nose, and chin) gets oily while your cheeks feel dry? That’s a combination skin type. Add a toner after washing your face as your second step before using gel lotions or light creams, like the Fresh Tomato Glass Skin set, before ending with their sunscreen during the mornings to complete a balanced and brightened prep before heading out to experience Baguio bliss!

Satiating Your Sensitive Skin

Wash your face and leave it as is. Is it reddening? Then you have a sensitive skin type. This means your skin is prone to breakage within the coldness of Baguio City so refrain from skincare enriched with fragrances since they irritate and worsen your skin’s sensitivity. Focus on gentle and unscented cleansers and moisturizers then finalize it with a light sunscreen that acts as a primer for your makeup.

Feeling prepped and prepared after your skincare? Then let’s look at how to highlight your unique features through makeup.

Embracing Diverse Facial Features and Tones

Which Face Shapes Suit What Makeup Styles

Knowing your face shape can make or break your makeup because different shapes come with various placements. Understanding your face shape helps you mix and match different dimensions accentuating your face length, forehead, cheekbone, and jawline widths.

How Undertones Affect Makeup Hues and Tints

Next, your skin tone, the lightness or darkness of your skin, and your undertone, the color of your wrist veins which classifies you as either cool, warm, or neutral undertone, are your factors to lessen the chances of looking reddish, overwhelming, or dull. However, not everything is set in stone so if you’re a warm-toned girly who can rock a muted nude lip color, go for it!

Curating Your Cold Climate Staples

Layering makeup varies on skin tone and type. Whatever you feel like doing, wherever you are headed, and whichever look you are going for, products may differ in formulation, longevity, usage, and compatibility with you and the Baguio breeze. Incorporating these indispensable makeup items in your kits is a good way to go — even when you’re on the go!

Foundations, Skintints, and Creams — What’s the difference?

When we think of a cosmetic base, it’s comparable to the base of your overall art which subtly or predominantly determines the hues and textures. Thus, understanding which one to choose affects the next steps.

• Skin Tints 
  • Consider this if you’re into moisturizers infused with the sheerest coverage and easy to work with, like Happy Skin’s Blurring Skin Tint or Careline Skin Tint, which works well with Baguio’s cool climate since they’re lightweight, hydrating, and non-greasy. 
• BB Creams or CC creams 
  • These are buildable medium coverage and skin-loving, even during the harshest Baguio -ber months, so long as you know which brand and type works with you. 
• Foundations
  • Choose between liquid or powder foundations for a medium to full coverage base. Explore which works better for your skin type; just know that this base type can crack and cake without proper prepping or layering.

Benefits of Blushing

Add some color to your face by applying a cream, liquid, or powder blush! Ask yourself if you need it to stay or to be reapplied at some point in a day. If you’re overwhelmed by just how much and what to use, follow Filipino makeup artist Paul Unating’s technique which is by balancing — know when to add more and know when to stop.

Locking In Your Looks Under the Baguio Weather

Before moving on to any powder makeup, seal your creams and liquids using setting sprays while wet before applying powdered items like powdered blushes, loose setting powders, and more. This makes it long-lasting: no fuss, no muss!

Mattes, Satin, and Velvety Lip Finishes — Which One’s For You?

Donning statement pieces is easy, but finding your statement lip ain’t. It has to satisfy the texture you want to feel as you apply it on your lips, its opacity at first swatch, and could boost your confidence until it’s loved to its last application. 

Finding your preferred lipstick means searching for a good lip color. You can start either by going for a “my lips but better” shade as a starter or go for that bold statement lippie. After deciding on the shade, explore different brands and check out different formulas to discover that flawless finish.

Mattes are good for their long-lasting and budge-proof power. However, this type highlights the dryness of your lips, especially with Baguio’s frigidness.

Satin finishes are moisturizing but can stain anyone or anything your lips come across. This focuses on the color, not texture, so you may reapply as needed. 

Velvet lippies give off a cottony feeling that combines the longevity of matte and softness of cream formulations which makes this newer formulation type loved and locked in sight every payday sale.

Now that you’ve got the tips and techniques, strut the Baguio streets with confidence and radiance!