Oh thanks for the eye drop recommendation, I’m constantly trying new ones because it’s just so hard to find stuff that’s easy to use as often as I need to use it. At night I use overnight gel and I have some anti allergy drops but unfortunately I do have an autoimmune thing that causes dry eye. It’s also kinda related to the dryness of my skin. But yeah mascara and liner aren’t really options for me. I’m not even sure I would risk getting my eyelashes tinted without consulting my doctor just in case there’s some risk factor I hadn’t considered. My skin used to be way dryer, like flaking off if you rubbed on it, because I had a lupus rash across my cheeks and I didn’t even want to try touching it with makeup after a bit, which is why it’s been so long since I used foundation or even really eyeshadow because sometimes the rash will spread up to right under the eyebrows and I didn’t want to put stuff that could potentially be an irritant on it. I used to wear makeup in high school when my skin was dry but not yet actually a rash and it was probably cakey af back then because knowing 17 year old me I was probably throwing on like some super full coverage foundation with no moisturizer or primer or like moisturizing sunscreen.
When I made this post I had been trying to use a bit of color pop “pretty fresh” foundation combined with CeraVe moisturizer and my skincare routine is cetaphil hydrating foaming cream cleanser (hydrating glycerine, vitamins B3 and B5, prebiotic aloe) trentinoin cream at night, clascoterone cream in the morning, and coola classic face sunscreen 70+ as well as the coola face mist sunscreen 50+ on top of any makeup just to make sure I got sunscreen in as covering as a layer I can because im always nervous I didn’t put enough of the other one on. Plus I can reapply the mist stuff throughout the day without having to rub my face a bunch and make it all red. I’d like to find a powder sunscreen that felt like it was getting coverage but like I’m always worried I’m not getting enough because I can’t really see it. I don’t love the kinda greasy/shiny look you get from using a spray but like I work 12 hour shifts and sunscreen only really lasts 80 minutes so I gotta do something.
For context, lupus is a very photosensitive condition and even just regular bright overhead lights can cause issues so any makeup I do has to keep in mind that I am definitely going to be using sunscreen on top repeatedly and it’ll need to be patted in a bit so I can’t like, contour and stuff.
Anyway I think I saw a comment that suggested trying something lighter like a bb cream and I googled like best foundations dry skin so I ended up grabbing the maybelline eraser treatment makeup octinoxate sunscreen broad spectrum spf 18 and doing more of like lightly dabbing it on so I’m not using as much product, and it did help a lot. I think I’m gonna have to accept that with the eye situation there’s just limitations on my options and I can do subtle looks that don’t involve eyeliner.
I’m on those two prescription creams because I have some issues with acne that have been getting better but I hadn’t really brought up the dry skin with my dermatologist because I had been more focused on the acne and I hadn’t started experimenting with makeup again until like, a month or two ago and it’s not as obvious that my skin texture is dry/bumpy if I don’t put foundation on it
Is eyeliner bad for your vision? I have to use like cleansing eyelid wipes and stuff to prevent allergens and whatever from getting on my eyelids and eyelashes so I guess it makes sense that mascara and stuff would be irritating for your eyes. My eyes are extremely delicate, like I lack a tear barrier and have to go see an autoimmune eye specialist (in fucking may of next year, which is the first appointment they have available which is kind of crazy) so I have to be really careful with these things. I’d never heard of eye makeup being bad for your eyes, is it just mascara and eyeliner or is even adding a bit of eyeshadow away from the eyelashes irritating?