I have oily skin and also had bad acne (now that I’m getting into my late 20’s it’s calming down!) I have the same thing with makeup “pulling apart” right by the creases of my mouth/nose area!!

Definitely moisturize! The neutrogena gel moisturizer (or TJ’s dupe) are great, cerave and vanicream break me out. So does salicyclic acid for some reason so I use the cerave gentle foaming cleanser! Niacinamide as an ingredient also really helped me to reduce oil production.

For concealers, you may want to look at makeup by mario (it can be drying on some people, and it dries down super fast so you gotta move quickly) or a hydrating concealer (ilia, kosas, tower28). Weirdly, kosas worked phenomenally on me. It’s so lightweight that it doesn’t break apart the same way some other concealers do on me.

For me there are two ways to make my makeup last: go hard or go sheer. Going hard for me is using niacinamide under my makeup, mattifying primer, matte makeup, matte setting spray, and then touching up with a pressed setting powder during the day. I use this for carnaval/long events where I need a full face. For everyday, going lighter with my makeup is actually what works best (ends up less cakey overall) - I use a skin tint and barely set it with loose powder. Thenn during the day, I buff out any cracks with a beauty blender and it kind of re-melts into my skin.

Also - the rare beauty liquid blush does not BUDGE on me and lasts all day despite the fact that sometimes I am just a greaseball.