Dermatologist Shereene Idriss explains why makeup wipes smear foundation deeper into pores instead of removing it. After 40, sleeping in makeup accelerates skin damage. She recommends proper face washing, though wipes work for travel or when water isn't available.
Imagine an orange, right? And it has all these tiny little pits that are your pores. Now let's cover that orange with foundation. Yep. You take a makeup wipe and you clean that orange.
What are you doing? You're basically smearing it. I'm ramming it into the pores.
And what's happened is that when you look at this orange, it might have shades of orange come through, but you've really just kept the stuff in the pores. So you haven't gotten rid of anything. You've just smeared it across the board.
Well, and you feel like you've gotten rid of it because it's all right on the thing. But the truth is, you're right. I wake up in the morning and there's probably a little residue on that pillowcase. And my eye makeup is smeared underneath my eyes.
You're right. And it's funny when I mean, I've been guilty of this, right? There are nights when I haven't washed my face. No one's perfect. But in your 20s and 30s, it's not that big a deal. Once you turn 40, if you fall asleep with makeup, you look like the Crypt Keeper overnight. The next day, it's like your skin quality goes to crap. You can't bounce back as fast. It just, you see the impact immediately. And so I think being in the habit of actually washing your face is huge. And makeup wipes, again, there's a certain subset of the population who turns to makeup wipes. Maybe they have a disability. Something is better than nothing.
Yes. And that's why I said they're not bad. Or you're on a plane. Fantastic. Or it's a late night. Fantastic. But if it's your main way of washing your face, no.
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