As a relative newcomer I feel bad mining you guys for advice/recommendations but I really bloody need it. I don't normally wear much make up at all, I have zero skill, am more interested in the hair/skin care sides of beauty. But I'm a bridesmaid for my SIL in two weeks and she's decided only to get the make up artist to do herself, not the bridesmaids, which is fine but I haven't got the funds to pay the artist to do me too after getting myself shoes and jewellery and an entire outfit for my son. I've just had a practice run and it was bloody awful. I haven't used foundation since I started using tretinoin (dermatica) because of the peeling. I thought I had little to no peeling now with a bare face but just tried a full face of make up and it looked horrific, suddenly I did have loads of peeling that wasn't visible before and I looked like a snake mid-shedding. I do feel I need some sort of base as my chin is redder than the rest of my face along with a kinda ugly moustache-shape red patch under my nose. I feel ok without day to day but not when I'm gonna be photographed and probably looked at a fair bit as my dress is the only bright orange one.
So are there any of you using tret who have found a round this? I'm thinking I'll have to stop using it for a couple of weeks and hope the shedding stops by then. Or maybe the nars tinted moisturiser people here were talking about, that looks to have a decent shade range, but has anyone also using tret tried it? I took the foundation off and put some number 7 tinted moisturiser on which hasn't done the same thing, but the shade is too dark and orange on me and they don't do a lighter one.
I'm panicking now as have barely an hour of free time between now and the wedding!