By The days of overly powdered and mattified makeup are long gone. Matte makeup is coming back with a softer and more natural approach. If you live in the beauty world, you’ve probably heard of cloud skin recently. It's taken the beauty community by storm with a new technique for matte makeup. Cloud makeup allows the skin to shine naturally, giving a velvety, diffused finish instead of the flat, overly mattified look of the past.
This time around, we’re allowing a subtle glow to peek through the matte makeup to create a soft, skin-like appearance. It’s all about creating a balance between a matte finish and a natural glow. For this look, finely milled and lightweight formulas are a must. To perfect this trend, we’ll show you what products to use and techniques to effortlessly recreate the look yourself.
What is cloud skin?
One thing about matte makeup is that it always puts in a full day’s work. However, this is a new chapter for matte makeup called cloud skin. Don’t worry; we’re keeping our velvety matte finish that we’ve learned to love but learning to create a softer skin-like appearance to this trending makeup look. The key to nailing the look comes down to your skin prep and makeup. Bring forth your finely milled and lightweight formulas that seamlessly blend into the skin and say goodbye to flat and cakey makeup. With the right techniques you can learn how to effectively mattify the skin while still allowing a natural glow to shine through – balance is everything to creating the cloud skin look!
What products do you need for cloud skin?
We’re blurring the lines between matte and glowy makeup with cloud skin! To create and achieve the coveted cloud skin look, you must begin with a well-prepped base. When it comes to your skincare prep, reach for your preferred hydrating skincare products. Next you’ll want to create a smooth canvas with a pore-blurring primer – minimizing pores will help to make that final finished blurred, soft-focus complexion. Controlling shine is a vital part of matte makeup looks, while we still suggest using a matte foundation for a base look for a formula specifically labeled “soft matte.” In addition to your complexion products, finding lightweight blushes, bronzers, and setting powders will help create a diffused finish and add a natural flushed look and glow to the skin. Mimicking the skin through a soft filter gives off the illusion of a soft-focus airbrushed appearance. The goal of cloud skin is to bring out your natural texture and skin’s luminosity without overly mattifying the skin.
Powder Blush
The perfect blush doesn’t exi—meet Superpowder Blush Powder! From earthy to pretty in pink, our four perfect universal shades are lightweight, blurring, buildable, and designed for all skin types, tones, and ages. For many beauty lovers, blush is a favorite step in most beauty routines. This hydrating blush powder is perfect to help achieve the cloud skin aesthetic. With a fluffy blush brush, lightly dust and diffuse the blush powder onto the high points of your cheeks to bring back color and warmth to the skin. This unique plant-powered blush with olive-derived squalane and magnolia bark will help calm and keep the skin hydrated. Its semi-matte finish helps control excess oil while adding radiance to the skin. When trying to achieve a cloud skin makeup look, blush is essential to giving your cheeks a natural flush of color and bringing out your radiant complexion.
Powder Bronzer
Healthier-looking skin begins with a clean beauty community favorite bronzer. With every swipe, it’s always golden hour with the Superpowder Bronzing Powder. Lightly dust this bronzer across the areas where the sun naturally hits your face to enhance a natural sun-kissed glow. This lightweight bronzer will help to make your skin look perfectly balanced and bronzed when swept along the forehead, cheekbones, and jawline. Its plant-based ingredients include organic squalane to hydrate the skin, organic corn starch to control excess oil and prevent creasing, and mica to smooth out any texture.
Similarly to the Superpowder Blush Powder, this bronzer is semi-matte and delivers a soft-focus finish. They are perfect when paired together. Achieve cloud skin makeup in a few sweeps with a glow that lasts all day, making your skin look naturally radiant from within. With a subtle glow and a bit of color, you can never go wrong with a bronzer.
Setting Powder
No Instagram filter needed for this cloud skin look. In the final step, seek a finely milled, lightweight powder for a diffused finish when setting your face. Our go-to creates a photo filter's perfect blurred, soft-focus effect. This translucent setting powder is the key to perfecting this trending skin makeup look by smoothing imperfections and skin. Its brightening effect leaves a barely-there finish for a healthy, radiant look that lasts all day. Make your cloud skin look a reality with this essential setting power. Now that we’ve painted the town matte, get everything you need to create your cloud skin look here. Brightening Powder creates a photo filter's perfect blurred, soft-focus effect. This translucent setting powder is the key to perfecting this trending skin makeup look by smoothing imperfections and skin. Its brightening effect leaves a barely-there finish for a healthy, radiant look that lasts all day. Make your cloud skin look a reality with this essential setting power. Now that we’ve painted the town matte, get everything you need to create your cloud skin look here.