![]() ![]() I’ve learned the phrase ” you always want what you don’t have,” is astonishingly accurate when it comes to our personal views on beauty. Moles, over-sized birthmarks, and blemishes are nothing to hide in my book. I know many people born with freckles who have tried nearly everything under the sun to get rid of or conceal them –a cosmetic pursuit that’s always left me puzzled and envious.Īnd while the obvious remark that embracing your natural beauty - “flaws” and all - certainly warrants being addressed here, I find freckles to be an asset, not a flaw. However, my time spent in the sun has never quite mimicked the adorable spots I find ever so charming. I’ve been naturally “blessed” with a couple of large sunspots on my face thanks to a childhood spent growing up on the beach without proper SPF habits. It will be fine.I for one, have always longed for an adorable sunkissed patch of freckles across the bridge of my nose and cheeks. ![]() You’re good enough and the skin you’re in is too. I did worry a lot and with that, but now I’d just say ‘do what you want to do, but it will be fine’.” If hadn’t had tried to fake tan and cover my freckles that way then I wouldn’t know that actually, I didn’t want to do that. Sure, the Insta filtering abounds, but flawlessness is not an uplifting ideal for any of us, and you’d be surprised how powerful you feel after stripping things back for all to see, as freckled #InYourSkin ambassador Polly Ellens asserts: The decline of airbrushing in advertising, emergence of ‘real skin’ in the public sphere (in all of its spotty, stretchmarked, thread veined glory on sites such as ASOS ) and movements such as Missguided’s #InYourOwnSkin campaign are helping to erode the image of curated (read: fake) perfection that is so often marketed to us. You don’t need makeup to make the most of your freckles- it’s there should you want it, and you shouldn’t miss out if you love it, but a big cover-up this ain’t. To ‘seal’ any concealer or foundation you may be wearing, keep powder light and airy too- a translucent loose powder such as Laura Mercier Loose Setting Powder, £29, helps to minimise pores, not freckles, and leaves skin velvety but not blanketed in further coverage you don’t need. This will create the illusion of healthy skin overall, without covering the freckles, keeping the rest of the face looking minimal, fresh and clean.” You want to avoid covering any of the good skin around a blemish and just keep the full coverage concealer to the spot itself. “Precision concealing is important - be as targeted as possible and use a precision brush for application. Keep concealing strategic- Francesca explains how to put a spot in its place without blanking out freckles around it: ![]() “A high-coverage foundation will be too opaque and will cover your freckles up, however, if you only have high coverage formulas in your kit, try mixing it with a bit of moisturiser to help to sheer it out.” Spot apply If you only have higher coverage foundation to hand, you can work with that to your freckles’ advantage too, as celebrity makeup artist and Collection ambassador Francesca Neill details: Because you’re not a fajita, you shouldn’t endure pain to “correct” what genetics and sun exposure has brought about organically, plus the fact that we’re finally culturally appreciating freckles rather than keeping them down, here are the tips, techniques and products that big up your features without blending away freckles. Natural “cures” abound across the internet, including rubbing a red onion across your face to ‘exfoliate’ away freckles to smothering yourself in sour cream in the hope that the lactic acid will ‘eat up’ your unique pigmentation pattern. Freckles were known as ‘witch’ or ‘demon’ marks in Medieval times (generally a bad time to be a woman, let alone a freckled one), and women (because it’s usually women) are to this day presented with all manner of methods to cover or completely obliterate freckles, from camouflage makeup to laser treatments and cryosurgery. ![]() Freckles: splatterings of melanin that occur across all ethnicities and give our face and bodies character, but the sudden surge in interest in freckled skin (‘freckles’ as a search term has seen a 31 per cent increase over the past 12 months according to Google) belies that fact that freckles haven’t always garnered positive connotations. ![]()
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