Face Primer

Best primer is Nivea' s Daily Essentials Express Hydration Primer. Costs under 4 quid. I read about it in one of those 'best kept secret' beauty articles and have never looked back.

That sounds good.

I had never heard of primer either, until my daughter aged 11 months was in her pushchair in the village chemist doing a spot of shoplifting, while I paid for flu treatments. The shopkeeper spotted her and almost shouted 'Put That Back!' upin which my daughter dropped it and it was in a glass pot with a plastic lid. The lid broke and the glass cracked. So I started to use the stuff, and it was wonderful, as I have quite large pores. It's basically a polyfilla for the skin, let's face it!

Nankate that sounds about right for me, thank you. I have fairish hair with a lot of red in it, strawberry blonde when little, so yellow against that looks too dreadful to describe. Jaundiced, my mother said once.

I always wear make-up, especially as I am fair skinned, blondish hair courtesy of Nice 'n Easy Honey Blonde, always have mascara, smokey liner, and eyebrows done because they are so blonde.
Having read through this thread and followed a few links, and also having seen This Morning where they did a make-under.... i.e. don't use too much slap !! .... I might just take myself in hand. They say that 'less is more'.

So I've ordered Clarin's Flash Balm as a primer (first time ever).

Thing is, I've used Elizabeth Arden Flawless Finish foundation for about 20 years. Does anyone else use this. Sometimes It can appear a little heavy but my skin definitely needs evened out. Has anyone gone from Flawless Finish to another foundation with success.
Fair skin with freckles and always a touch of false tan.

Coolgran I always used to have Max Factor Panstick in Nouveau Beige, perfect colour for me, but it just didn't last all day. The Estée Lauder Double Wear definitely does but is not quite as perfect a colour match as MAx Factor.

I have just put on the Clarins Flash Balm bought today and it smells lovely and I can feel my skin tighter. I look forward to seeing how it is with Foundation on top tomorrow. The price is very steep though at £29, so I think I will also buy the Nivea Primer recommended by Grannyknot as an everyday one and will report back.

I will investigate your Elizabeth Arden foundation too.

One or two of my contemporaires do not wear makeup and I think a light make over would improve things, but I don't say anything.

I love make up and used carefully I think it can enhance us oldies.

Thanks All. I'll break myself in gently with Nivea. Perhaps I should investigate wrinkle creams too!

I use the Honey Beige colour in Flawless Finish.... but would love to look 'dewey'. I ordered my Flash Balm off ebay. Much cheaper.

A little flash balm goes a long way though.

I used to use the flawless finish, but I found it too drying and thick. I ended up mixing it in the palm of my hand with I think it was L'Oreal's 50 SPF cream, because it came out white when you put it on and I had bought a shade that was too dark of the flawless finish. The two combined worked perfectly until the makeup was finished.

In fact, I would recommend that mixing of heavy foundation with a bit of high factor sun lotion to anyone. As long as you mix it well it spreads on really easily and I suppose is really a homemade BB cream.