What Happens to Your Skin When You Wear Makeup to the Gym?

Whether you covered up your under-eyes because of your crush on the personal trainer or you hit the gym at the end of the day and forgot your face wipes, you’ve probably worn makeup to the gym at some point or another. Gym makeup gets a bad rep, but sometimes you need a little confidence boost before your workout, right?

Tarte just launched an athleisure-inspired makeup collection that it’s calling “the yoga pants of skin care,” designed to wear on your errands, then to the gym to get moving. “Do you know the feeling you get when you slip into a pair of great yoga pants? You have this quiet confidence — you know you look good and pulled together when you run out of the house. It’s totally effortless and comfortable, but still cool,” Maureen Kelly, Tarte’s CEO and founder, told Popsugar. “I read somewhere recently that sporty is the new sexy, and that’s so true. This fresh-face, no-makeup, woke-up-like-this effortless look is so powerful. It’s also how women really live. They don’t just go out to events and parties and need looks that bring them there. They go to the gym. They go do errands. If they’re like me, they go out for multiple lattes. It’s about getting real — it’s the look that you feel comfortable putting on so you feel 100 percent confident in all of these real-life moments.”

The collection includes tinted moisturizers with SPF, a highlighting moisturizer, a pressed powder and blotting paper compact to mattify on the go, a sweat-proof mascara, and a tinted lip balm. Tarte is among the first mainstream brands to create makeup designed to hold up against your sweat, and they’re using naturally derived, cruelty-free, and vegan ingredients to do it.

But even with clean ingredients, is it safe for your skin to hit the gym in makeup? “Sweat will mix with the makeup, oils, and impurities on your face and potentially clog your pores and result in acne,” Dr. Sejal Shah of Smarter Skin Dermatology tells Yahoo Beauty. “It really doesn’t matter if it is a natural, vegan line versus your everyday makeup.” Shah recommends forgoing the safety blanket of concealer and mascara before the gym, and washing off your makeup before sweating if you exercise at the end of the day. “It’s also a good idea to cleanse your face before working out even if you don’t wear makeup since oils, dirt, and other impurities may be on the skin and can mix with sweat to clog pores,” Shah adds. “It’s also important to always wash your face after your workout, whether or not you are wearing makeup.” But don’t leave your skin completely bare. “I do recommend wearing a lightweight, oil-free moisturizer, and if you are outdoors, a mineral based SPF. When you exercise, you sweat, and as this sweat evaporates it leaves the skin dry.” If your skin is acting up and you don’t know why, try ditching your gym makeup.

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