Luminiser / Illuminator - should you use it on every client?

Luminiser / Illuminator - is frequently used! Should you use it on every client?? 🤷‍♀️

This is a product that can look amazing - especially when you’ve just finished your makeup, but how does it look in one or more hours time?

It can quickly tip the face into looking anything from a bit too shiny to super oily and even to looking years older depending on the skin texture to begin with 🙈

The trick is a couple of things:

✅ Placement - I tend to put it just where I actually want the shine rather than all over the face - that way I have much more control over how this looks on a client when I’m not there one hour or more later to deal with shine appearing in places I don’t want it.

✅ Skin Type - if the skin leans into being oily, I wouldn’t put luminizer underneath the foundation- the skin will naturally give me luminizer, it’s then a matter of controlling the oil so I have shine where I want it.

✅ Skin Texture - acne, scarring, raised bumps, obvious dryness or crepe like skin (aged skin) - adding luminizer here is like shining a huge torch and yelling at everyone to see that skin is not perfect. Every lump, dent and / or wrinkle is now highlighted and really obvious to any onlooker! It creates the opposite of what we want!

👉 However when I do use luminizer, one of my favourites is @kryolanaustralia Shimmering Event Foundation - I use ‘Pearl’ for pale skins or ‘Golden Beige’ for warm skin tones 😘