Makeup tips for cosplayers: Taking care of your skin leading up to a convention!

Now during a convention your skin will suffer under the immense amount of makeup you will be needing during the convention. Now not to worry, you just have to make sure your skin is in good shape leading up to the convention! Or at least clean enough. So to make sure you don't upset your skin I recommend you go with mostly natural diy treatments!

But its important to use any prescription creams but if you do use them or any other acne washes make sure you are moisturizing like crazy. Really i'm talking at least twice a day so you don't dry out your skin and create a lot of dead skin. I recommend Neutragena's oil free, fragrance free, spf 15 moisturizer.

Next make sure you are exfoliating  If you have dead skin you really need to be doing this often. I have a lot of dead skin so I do this often. I like to go natural with this step and I love bubz's video on it so here it is! Not to mention this is very lovely on your skin and it is cheap. I also recommend the neutragena wave cleaner thing with exfoliating scrub pads if you need that extra help like me. If you really need extra help with exfoliating i recommend you use heavy duty ones like from neutragena and clean and clear and moisturize right after. But always rinse with cold water to reduce pore sizes!

I also recommend you save the rest of the green tea and cool it in the fridge to put on your skin later. This will help shrink pores since its cold and it will reduce redness.

Also make sure you use some diy pore strips since again they are cheap and easy to make and not to mention kind on your skin.

Now my last tip is to use a china clay mask. These are miracle workers in my opinion. I really love the one from proactive and if you ever invest in their products this is the one i recommend since despite its size it is worth the $20. But in the span of 2 years I used it all up I now use one from Jafra that came with a kit but it still works very well. Do some research on them on youtube to see if you'd like to try one or which ones you can buy in store since so far I've seen they are really worth it. 

Also some parting wisdom about the actual weekend of the convention. Make sure you are removing the makeup with either actual wipes or makeup removers or my personal cheap favorite(any type of hand lotion or facial moisturizer, yes it works). 

Have fun with your makeup that weekend know that your skin will be up to the challenge.!

~Lulu