Not Wearing Make-up Makes Your Complexion Bad?

what kind of makeup?? I only use mineral powders and I think it might help my skin??? Plus when I'm wearing makeup, I touch my face less.

Do you wash your face more often when you wear make-up?
Do you use different soaps or make-up removers when you are wearing make-up?

It may be that a product that you use when you are not wearing make-up is irritating your skin?

Just my random thoughts on the matter.

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The only way wearing make-up has helped my skin is that I tend to touch my face less when I am wearing it. Touching your skin is one of the things that make breakouts worse, and I am very guilty of doing that. But overall, makeup has made my breakouts worse.

I think stress has an immediate effect on my skin, also. Are you less stressed on the weekends? Or, the ups and downs of your skin are just by chance.

It depends on the make-up you are wearing. I am a stylist and we learned in a make-up class that the environment can leave toxins on naked skin, so some make-ups help create a barrier between the toxins and the skin. Mineral make-up is supposed to help with that. It is possible your make-up has a skin clearing ingredient in it, such as salicylic acid. Also, the face touching on a naked face like others have suggested.

Maybe the answer is that AFTER wearing make up your skin breaks out. Could be there are ingredients in the make up that aren't good for your skin. You might want to steer clear of anything with propylene glycol in.
There are natural alternatives for makeup . Natural Essentials or something like that.

I wear make-up every few years, can't stand it, and my complexion is fine. I break out when I wear it, I think it clogs my pores or something, my skin is sensitive and breaks out easily.

Since I recently started wearing make-up again, I'm noticing an improvement in my skin but it wasn't really "bad" before. It was dry a lot more than it used to be and I did have the occasional zit.

Then I discovered BB Cream and I think THAT has something to do with it. I also switched make-up brands. I'm using a more "grown up" brand than I used to use. :-)

Could you be washing your face more when you wear makeup? I hardly ever wear it and my complexion is fine. When I have breakouts, it usually has to do with hormones and not washing my face enough.

I have the same thing happen and I wonder if I touch my face more without make up, I do wash it the same, but the feel of a make up foundation seems to be like a lotion to my skin. I have just used moisturizer or I use Reginerist serum. It helps keep it better too.

Same is true for me. VERY true.

It's part of why I consider makeup my 'War Paint', and wear daily.

((Any period I go without makeup my skin just HATES it. Which, I know, is theoretically backwards. BUT my makeup has sunscreen, absorbs oils -keeping blackheads from forming and backing up, etc. being in super hot -100+ degree- dry dry dry heat with no sunscreen and my skin looks even better, without makeup. For ME I think it's the oil issue. I have velvety skin in the heat and sun, because the oils are moisturizing me and are NEEDED. Cold, or hot and damp, and my pores blockade themselves.))

It may simply be hormonal changes that come with kids and age. My skin is much better now without makeup. I wear foundation rarely. Do you moisturize? Do you use different cleansers when you wear makeup? It may be that your skin care routine is different and you should keep doing what works.

Make-up makes my skin horrible. I do break-out at that time of the month, so I may try Pro-active or something, my sister swears by it!

I only wear moisturizer and mascara, but every day. I probably touch my face too much. But make-up makes my skin horrible.