Best lighting for makeup??

Jan 21, 2016

Vanessa L.

I don't have a vanity mirror with lighting yet and was wondering if there is a special lighting I can use for my room where makeup application will be most natural looking while I'm applying it. sometimes I finish applying all of my makeup and then go to another room and its like I look like a ghost lol.

Jan 21, 2016

Alexis C.

I agree with Melissa, natural lighting is best. When you do get lights for your vanity I believe there are natural lighting bulbs.

Jan 21, 2016

Vanessa L.

I wanted to get the bulb for the main light in my room until I get one for my vanity. are daylight bulbs as effective as natural lighting itself? the window is nowhere near my vanity lol

Jan 21, 2016

Aleena P.

Natural lighting is always best. of course it's not always available. lol. they make natural daylight leds that replicate daylight. I switched to those from my incandescents and have been very happy. I would avoid yellow lights, direct overhead lights, and ultra white lights. something between 70 - 100 watts with like 3200 lumens (warm white lights will usually have about that). a lot of people favor 60-80w incandescents because they give steady light, and I was happy with mine for a long time. I just wanted to try something new when I got the daylight leds. you also want to look at the color index, it's usually somewhere on the box. it tells you how true the bulb with make colors show, some bulbs are made to filter out certain colors.

Jan 21, 2016

Aleena P.

I picked up two power strips from lowes and made my own vanity mirror lighting. recessed lighting really is worse than badly colored lights in my experience. so I got one for each side of my mirror. they are these strips that you plug in and you can attach and detach light fixtures that are sold seperate for it. the whole setup with the bulbs cost me about 75 bucks.

Jan 21, 2016

Aurora S.

"Natural lighting" isn't always the best. Daylight changed tone throughout the season and isn't always consistent. In the winter there's more grey/blue tones. In summer it's more of a white sort of tone.

I'd rather use one specific bulb and use that synthetic light to always have consistent color throughout the year for photos.

You can pick up a regular LED light bulb that says "natural light" which are PERFECT.
They'll make everything true to color.
Incandescent light=too yellow.
Fluorescent light=too blue toned but they do have "natural light" fluorescent bulbs which I've tried and they sort of... Over saturate everything like it made me look more tan and when I put on shadows they looked darker but then when I when into natural light my eyeshadow looked natural/sheer due to the lighting making the color look darker/more pigmented than what it really was

Jan 23, 2016

Sheslay F.

I agree with the ladies above. Natural lighting is seriously the best way to go. I learned that the hard way. (;