{"id":5212,"date":"2019-08-18T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tilibeauty.co.uk\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2019-08-18T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T06:00:56","slug":"isobel-lewis-embracing-my-sweaty-faced-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/beauty-insider\/josie-e\/isobel-lewis-embracing-my-sweaty-faced-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Isobel Lewis: Embracing my sweaty-faced self"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IsobelIsobel Lewis is a freelance writer, specialising in pop culture and lifestyle for publications including The Atlantic, i-D and HELLO!. You can find her tweeting <\/span>@izlew<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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I am a sweaty person. A clammy face, clammy hands person. A roll on AND spray deodorant person (who somehow still finds herself fanning her armpits throughout the day).<\/span><\/p>\n

Being a sweaty person is a pretty fruitless experience. Besides men recoiling in horror when they try and touch your arms to \u201cget past you\u201d in a bar, there really aren\u2019t many perks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I was constantly embarrassed about my sweatiness, in particular my face. Now I know dewy skin is \u2018in\u2019 right now, but my face is far more \u2018shining moon emoji\u2019 than \u2018<\/span>Becca highlighter glow<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u2019. Desperate to dampen the sheen, I would wear layers of coverage, powders and setting sprays, endlessly topping up throughout the day as my pores gobbled up the product and the shine kept coming.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wore full coverage foundation every day, whether on the beach or popping to the shops. The sticky club nights that came when I turned 18 were the worst of it though, when the surrounding mess of bodies left me uncomfortably sweaty and unable to wipe, or even dab at, my face for fear of shifting the layers I\u2019d carefully built.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then one day, in my first year of university, I just\u2026 stopped. I was sat on the single bed in my tiny halls room, getting ready for a night out in the unbearable heat (thanks to a radiator which would turn on at random moments) and decided against wearing foundation. I wasn\u2019t thinking that I would never wear it again, just that I didn\u2019t want to now.<\/span><\/p>\n

The liberation I found that night is something I can\u2019t really explain. Foundation is a foundation, the base of our entire beauty routine and the maker of flawless faces. With only concealer under my eyes and covering a particularly nasty chin spot, I felt self-conscious, but completely lost that once I was dancing.<\/span><\/p>\n\"\"\n

Realising that I had nothing to maintain or upkeep, no base products to prevent moving around, I truly let go and felt comfortable in myself. I was hot and sticky and wiped my face on the sleeve of my jumper, realising that nothing would happen if I did. When the careful constructed zit camouflage was wiped off, I didn\u2019t care.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be stupid not to acknowledge my privilege in this story: what I make up for in large pores and shine, I now lack in acne and scarring. Of course, there are days when hormonal spots overtake my chin (and life), but I usually don\u2019t bother concealing them. Maybe it was the years of teenage acne spent smothering my skin in cheap, heavy foundation, but I\u2019m just over it. A touch of <\/span>pore minimising primer<\/a><\/span><\/span> on the nose and a dusting of powder on the T-zone and I am done for the day, with the products staying at home. <\/span><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t looked back since that university night out. I love a bold lip and a neon eyeshadow (preferably in a colour my mum would\u2019ve rolled her eyes at when I was a teenager), but I haven\u2019t worn foundation since that day: not for my university balls, Christmas or graduation. When I look at those photos there I am: face a little shiny, but happy and comfortable at last.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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