5 Reasons Your Makeup Is Pilling...and how to fix it

We’ve all been there where we rush in the morning and layer on skincare with no wait time in between and we may as well have just mixed it all together and applied it in one go.

You start applying your foundation and your heart drops…you start to see what resembles the residue from a school eraser when you start rubbing out pencil on paper. Your makeup is pilling. It’s incredibly hard to fix once it’s already happened. I’m sorry to say the fix comes from fixing your application.

Pilling is basically product sitting on top of product and not properly absorbing or binding to the skin. Instead of melting in, everything starts to roll and separate. Once you understand why it happens, it’s actually very easy to avoid.

1. Too much product build up

This is the most common reason. When you layer multiple skincare products… serums, moisturizers, SPF, and then go in with primer and foundation on top, you end up with too much sitting on the surface. The skin can only absorb so much. The rest just sits there waiting to move.

How to fix it: Use less. You don’t need as much as you think. Focus on one good serum, a suitable moisturizer, and SPF. Let your skin actually absorb what you’re applying instead of overloading it.