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What's the Best Skin Tint and Is the Answer None of Them?
They're tinted moisturizers that don't moisturize and I tried them all
By Claire Carusillo Feb 22, 2016, 11:00am EST
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I've always been obsessed with makeup, and obsessed with the idea of not wearing makeup. When makeup brands began retailing "skin tints" in the past few years, I thought I'd found the solution for girls everywhere looking to secretly wear makeup while telling people in their nine person seminar classes they don't capitulate to hegemony, or something. Skin tints promised to deliver a better version of my skin.
Unlike chalky, sometimes-brown-and-sparkly BB creams or foundations, skin tints are light and sheer, allowing one's pores and skin texture to show through the makeup. If this sounds suspiciously like tinted moisturizer, it mostly is because it is. After posting in an online forum where a community of cosmetic chemists talk about dweeb stuff (I called myself a "journalist looking for answers" like I was cracking a decades-long murder case), that was the the consensus.
So basically, they're a less effective tinted moisturizer.
But Bob Zonis, the senior formulating chemist at Beaumont Products and a cosmetic chemist who hasworked on color cosmetics for Estee Lauder, Maybelline, and Elizabeth Arden, told me that the phrase "skin tint" isn't just a marketing trick. "If someone sells a 'Tinted Moisturizer,' they still have to prove that it moisturizes," said Zonis. "Otherwise, both the FDA and the FTC could go after them for violations. A clinical test to prove moisturization is expensive, and only gets more so every year." Skin tints don't have to prove they moisturize, and thus require no expensive test. So basically, they're a less effective tinted moisturizer.
Obviously, though, I'm a slave to capitalism and have tried dozens of skin tints in the hopes of a more fulfilling social, professional, and sexual life. I have some answers. For a dewy look (I like to call it That Wet Look) I mixed these with Glossier's Priming Moisturizer. For a more matte look, I mixed these with Garnier's 5 Second Blur. That might be off-label advice because you're supposed to use the 5 Second Blur under makeup, but I've done it a ton of times and didn't die or even contract a virus.
Cover FX Custom Cover Drops, $44.00
The marketing rhetoric surrounding Cover FX Custom Cover Drops is entrenched in a narrative myth of customization and free will, kind of like Chipotle. The intention of this product is that the consumer can add one to four drops of it into any primer or moisturizer to build a custom amount of coverage. The idea, I think, is smart. In execution, it's just gloopy as fuck.
Which begs the question: do I look like an apothecarist to you? Oh I do?
The packaging of the Cover FX Custom Cover Drops (redundant!) is the worst I've seen in my many centuries of applying viscous peach-hued broths to my face. Because the CFCCD concept is so caught up in the concept of "choice" and "blendability," it comes in a vial with an eyedropper. Which begs the question: do I look like an apothecarist to you? Oh I do? Well in that case, thank you. I'm thinking about opening up an apothecary/coffee bar in New Buffalo, MI called Old Wives when I turn 42.
This is just thick foundation. But it's a nice thick foundation, and it's one that comes in 25 shades.
I haven't worn this alone, only blended into moisturizer and primer. One drop gives full coverage, but I've cranked it up to four on particularly acne-riddled days. Once, I was sitting in a businesswoman's office while wearing this and she told me that I had beautiful skin, which literally has never happened before. Neither that compliment nor the sitting in the businesswoman's office.
Lush Colour Supplement, $17.95
On the night I would receive Lush's Colour Supplement via messenger for this article, my roommate and I were waiting for a pizza. We had dangerously low blood sugar. To stave off our hunger, we were eating three-week-old apples and a tin of Jordanian Maamoul cookies we received as a gift from her boyfriend in October and forgot about until that moment. After an hour of waiting, the doorbell rang. When we answered the door, however, the delivery person wasn't holding a pizza, but a 0.6 ounce pot of vegan foundation.
I will buy this product even after this hyper-intense, Gonzo skin tint experiment is over.
I don't want to belittle real suffering by saying we were devastated, but really we were devastated. But here's the thing, this "colour supplement" (Oukay, Canada, I'm not here to police your language, buttttt) works so beautifully it almost made up for the fact that it wasn't our cult-favorite pizza at the door when we needed it most. I will buy this product even after this hyper-intense, Gonzo skin tint experiment is over. Plus, it's the cheapest of all the tints featured here! Five out of five iPods!
Unlike most skin tints, this product is a whipped mousse with a velvety finish instead of a liquid. It doesn't make your face look mossy or furry, as some mousses do, but sort of dewy (a tip for free: you always look dewy if your mirror and phone case are constantly covered in finger grease). Mixed with moisturizer or primer, the pigment in this product goes far, and the texture changes, too. It's almost milky, but not in a gross way. Even alone, the coverage of this little pot of goo works well on discoloration (I have a perpetually chapped chin from weather and over-exfoliation). It works less well plastering over pimples, milia, or other 3D blemishes. The Colour Supplement comes in seven shades, and if you're looking for an added air of That Wet Look and have rabid brand loyalty, Lush also makes a bronzing skin tint and a highlighting skin tint to build on top that people on the internet seem to like.
Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint, $26.00
I'm a ride or die bitch for Into the Gloss and its start-up skincare/cosmetics branch Glossier, and I ordered this stuff legiterally the second it went live last year. Glossier has a "makeup as skincare" approach and usually it works. I love Glossier's spirit of female entrepreneurship, love its packaging, love its Instagram, but I only kinda like its skin tint.
I love Glossier's spirit of female entrepreneurship, love its packaging, love its Instagram, but I only kinda like its skin tint.
I find the Perfecting Skin Tint impossible to apply evenly with my fingers, which defeats the point of a breezy, face-forward product. The Perfecting Skin Tint is a thin, sheer liquid and instead I have to blend the shit out of it onto my face with my dirty, gnawed-on Beauty Blender. When mixed with the Priming Moisturizing the tint looks pretty, but I wonder why these two separate products don't just exist as one, premixed. I experimented with full coverage using this product, and I found I needed 14 drops to cover up normal chin and cheek redness.I was disillusioned with it all. Is "customization" really all that? Can the available five shades satisfy all skin tones? Can women have it all? Should I go to grad school? Do overnight oats even taste good or do I just like the lifestyle concept of eating out of a mason jar? I don't have the answers, but check back with me in a month or so. I feel as if all will be demystified by then.
Dr. Jart+ Ceramidin Day Tint, $48.00
I'm a sucker for stylish Korean packaging and pretending to understand scientific breakthroughs in skincare, which is why I spent $48 this summer on a tube of tinted moisturizer. I got hot and bothered by the concept of "time release microcapsule ceramides" inside this tint, which are apparently tiny particles that rebuild the skin barrier after damage from scrubbing, scarring, and chafing (all gerunds I am overly familiar with). I like the rest of the Dr. Jart + Ceramidin line (particularly the Oil Balm, though not anymore than I like Vaseline, to be truthful), but this product is useless to me. Except for the SPF 15 in it. Wear sunscreen if you remember. I know it's so hard to remember, especially in the darkest days of winter.
I'm a sucker for stylish Korean packaging and pretending to understand scientific breakthroughs in skincare
The Ceramidin Day Tint comes in only one shade, which I can't pull off. It's yellow, but doesn't even try to color correct my skin's redness. I look jaundiced. As an experiment, I wore this over a color correcting green concealer on red spots and this is so light, the green shone through. This is the skin tint that made me lose my childlike innocence about skin tints. It's indistinguishable from a tinted moisturizer. Maybe the ceramides are real, but I don't see Dr. Jart giving any Ted Talks about it, so I'm not convinced.
Perricone MD No Foundation Foundation Serum, $60
I'm always 35 minutes early to everything because I have a pernicious anxiety disorder, but it's really a boon whenever there's a Sephora within a two mile radius. I used to take a fiction workshop that was three blocks from an extremely good Sephora (Wow, I hear you thinking, she writes both hard-hitting pieces on fleshy goos AND literary fiction?!?! Let's hire her to do freelance work!). I used to go before class every week and subtly mist myself with SK-II Facial Treatment Essence and redo my eyebrows. But then my brother's girlfriend told me that Perricone MD No Foundation Foundation Serum changed her life and I was like, okay, got to use my precious little time at Sephora and purchase this product because I trust Ani. (Her name is Ani; Hi Ani!).
The guy at the register told me this was his go-to gym makeup.
Like a damn fool, I bought Perricone MD No Foundation Foundation Serum without really testing it or doing any research. The guy at the register told me this was his go-to gym makeup. It made me feel better that someone else in the city in which I live has similar hang-ups with facial upkeep, but I don't agree with him at all. Wearing foundation to the gym is even beyond me, mostly because I sweat exclusively out of my forehead rather than my armpits.
This only comes in one color, and it doesn't work with my face. It's orange with a semi-matte finish. I first tried applying this to my dry face, and it was impossible to spread and blend. Then I washed it off and started over, diluting the serum with primer. I will concede this: a little pigment goes far. But at that point, I was just wearing a foundation I made myself rather than a "no foundation" serum. I've tried to love this product because I paid so much money for it and it's a good product to talk about when pleasant conversation comes to a stand still, but I couldn't get away wearing this without it looking orange in dark lighting, much less to the gym like the well-groomed fellow at the Downtown Brooklyn Sephora.
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Singing Lithuanian civilian defenders flash victory signs at Soviet soldiers preparing to occupy the Vilnius Press Center, January 11, 1991. Photo by Paulius Lileikis. Courtesy of the Central State Archives of Lithuania, LCVA 0-1-8094. Photo Credit: The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution (Seattle and Copenhagen: University of Washington Press and Museum Tusculanum Press, 2014), p. 301.
Twenty five years ago, in September 1991 the Soviet Union recognized Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as independent countries. This was the dramatic conclusion to years of public activism. These events began in 1987, when Balts reclaimed their rights to free speech and public assembly, and reached its climax in March 1990, when they elected governments that declared renewed independence. Over four long years of struggle, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians proved that determined nonviolent political action could accomplish seemingly impossible feats. Never before had three small nations achieved such dramatic political success in a nonviolent political struggle against a nuclear superpower fifty times their size. A popular Latvian proverb expressed their movement's ideology: Ar garaspēku pret karaspēku (With spiritual power against military power). Gene Sharp, historian of nonviolence, remarks that what the Balts did a quarter century ago "stands as a major milestone in the history of the modern world."
The Singing Revolution was so named because Balts identified songs as the unifying symbol and nonviolent weapon of choice in the struggle for national self-determination. "A nation who makes its revolution by singing and smiling," wrote Estonian artist Heinz Valk in 1988, "should be a sublime example to all." That summer, the ice of Soviet censorship was broken when singers at political demonstrations and concerts revived the illegal National Anthems of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Only a few months earlier, persons who dared to publicly carry the flags of the independent countries were arrested, but by July of 1988, police were powerless to stop thousands of persons who displayed flags. Mass euphoria prevailed as the Baltic public learned many more long-repressed rock, choral and folk songs that gave voice to their patriotism, religious belief and the simple joy of free speech. In 1989, when a million Balts joined hands in a well-publicized human chain from Tallinn to Riga to Vilnius, a group of rock singers from all three nations created a trilingual smash hit about three sisters – the Baltic nations – awakening to defend their rights. And in the summer after the March 1990 declarations of independence, Balts placed independence on display at three national choral song festivals. These were public displays of self-organized, participant democracy: Tens of thousands of singers from all parts of each country merged in happy processions through the streets of the reclaimed capital cities, congregating on stage to sing in harmony. Step by step, Balts steadily moved forward. "Is liberty coming?" asked a speaker on Estonia's stage. "No, liberty is not coming," came the answer, "We are going towards liberty. And we know that someday we will reach it."
The Soviet crackdown came in January 1991. Armored vehicles and soldiers patrolled the streets, first occupying the portals of free communication – telephone switchboards, printing presses, radio and television broadcasting facilities. At the Vilnius television tower, Soviet troops forced their way through a wall of civilian defenders, killing fourteen and wounding hundreds more. Balts set up human barricades around their elected national parliaments to defend their last bastion of democracy. President Vytautas Landsbergis urged Lithuanians to suppress anger, and not to engage the violent tactics of their adversary: "Look into the eyes of the person who is close to you, and sing. Song helped us for many centuries…. But let us leave the evil feelings and crimes to them…. Let's not pay attention to that shooting, let's sing!"
Nonviolent tactics give the adversary a choice: Public singing events, and civilian defenders singing and smiling on barricades pose no physical threat to the armed soldiers they face; each soldier must choose between attacking or not attacking, between obeying and disobeying orders. Soviet leaders, both local military officers and commanders in Moscow, were offered a choice between a civilian bloodbath and peaceful resolution. The better angels of their nature prevailed, and they chose to withdraw from the city streets. From January to August 1991, Soviet special forces units targeted Baltic border posts, killing border guards in brutal displays of power, but they failed to provoke a violent response from the Baltic publics and governments. And in December of 1991, the Soviet Union was no more.
Baltic success entered the international narrative of nonviolent resistance, passing to future people a glimmer of hope that seemingly impossible political change is nevertheless possible. Today, remembered at commemorative concerts, the Singing Revolution's folksongs, rock songs, and choral songs still carry the spirit of that resistance, as an audible (and singable) window into the world of brave humans who confirmed that spiritual power can overcome military power.
Military defense of independence and democracy
Disengagement from Soviet military structures began in 1989, when Lithuanian men supported by Sąjūdis boycotted Soviet conscription. Soon after declaring independence in spring of 1990, the Baltic governments ended shipments of supplies to Soviet military bases that remained on their territory.
During the Soviet military attacks in January 1991, the Baltic governments organized civilian-based defense programs that would soon transform into ministries of defense. Later that year they established armed forces; Western advisers helped craft legislation and administrative structures to ensure civilian control. Starting in 1993, bilateral training programs built interoperability of Baltic and American non-commissioned and regular troops. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia embarked on a determined path to membership in the NATO alliance: They joined Partnership for Peace in 1994, completed Membership Action Plans in 1998-2002, and entered the alliance after treaty ratification by NATO member states in 2003-2004. Public support for the armed forces did not waver after the first Baltic casualties in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. Today in Estonia and Lithuania, most of the population and nearly all elected political parties support policies of military conscription, and in Latvia, voluntary participation in the National Guard (Zemessardze) increased after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Have the three national cultures, and along with them national identities changed since the Singing Revolution? No. It may seem a paradox that even at the height of the nonviolent movement, a core repertoire of songs were war songs – Lithuanians sang about glorious 15th-century battlefield victories of Grand Duke Vytautas, keeping alive memories of the post-WWII partisan resistance fighters who also sang them; Latvians recalled the famed WWI Latvian Riflemen's songs; Estonians, too, sang pledges of bravery and loyalty unto death. Singing mustered courage and affirmed unity in struggle.
Balts most certainly were not and are not pacifists who would reject armed defense of their nations. They did, however, believe that in 1988-1991 nonviolent tactics could accomplish more than violent action. Nonviolent resistance can, and did, erode the power and will of an occupying force. Nonviolence affirms public norms for political action that may continue after the political objective is reached, laying foundations of peaceful democracy and rule of law.
But civilians cannot repel a foreign invasion. Preparing for the worst, Balts also worked to acquire the combat training and access to weapons purchases that are available to NATO members; potential invaders (conventional or hybrid) may be deterred as much by the costs of occupying territory as by the counterattack of NATO allies. Dainis Īvāns, a leader in the Latvian Singing Revolution, writes, "Even if one imagines for a moment that Russia's tanks might arrive in Riga and our military forces, together with our allies, might retreat, the greatest challenge for the invaders would be holding ground the next day in face of general nonviolent resistance, which I'm certain would happen regardless of KGB-style repressions."
The power of songs
Threats of violence against the Baltic people continue today in hostile military exercises on their borders. Balts are prepared for both military defense and nonviolent resistance.
And they continue to sing, not only as a means to independence or a response to violent threats, but as an end in itself. Singing is at the heart of the national mission, a core objective when Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians created their independent republics in 1918 and renewed them in 1990. Song festival traditions that began in the 19th century blossomed upon the end of Soviet power twenty five years ago, and flourish in the 21st century. In 2003, Baltic song celebrations were inscribed in the UNESCO list of masterpieces of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
In July of 2014, the international organizing board of the World Choir Games announced the first-ever award of the World Choir Peace Prize to the three Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Accepting the award, Latvia's Minister of Culture reiterated: "The Baltic Singing Revolution demonstrates that nations can fight for freedom and independence without violence and bloodshed. The power of song against the might of arms." That month, Latvia hosted the World Choir Games, attended by 27,000 singers from seventy countries. The biennial event stresses the importance of international friendship in song; and yet, one of the choirs representing Russia marched in the festival procession holding high Imperial Russian flags: one displaying an attacking bear, and the second a slogan, "We are Russians. God is with us." The specter of war loomed even at this peaceful gathering of singers from around the globe.
July 15, 2014, World Choir Games, Riga, Latvia. Choir from Russia displays imperial flag with inscription, "We are Russians. God is with us".
An Estonian Singing Revolution song retains its poignant edge at concerts today, asking, "Can this song continue to hold us together?" Can another miraculous turn of history once again prove the truth of an 1873 poem that lives on in the Latvian repertoire, "The power of songs drove away war"? Balts seem to believe it is possible. At the dress rehearsal of the 2014 Estonian National Song Celebration, the conductor urged the choir to enunciate a new song in its premiere: "Sing it clearly, sing it so that it can be heard all the way to Lasnamäe!" (a Russian-speaking neighborhood of Tallinn). The song, titled Touch, speaks gentle words of love: "I will touch you with the peace and joy within me; Touch me with the power of your goodness! Heaven's highest roads open up before us when we come together; leaving our troubles behind we can sing."
Guntis Šmidchens, Associate Professor of Baltic Studies in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington, is author of The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Traditions in the Baltic Singing Revolution (Seattle and Copenhagen: University of Washington Press and Museum Tusculanum Press, 2014).
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