Every tutorial I watched growing up was filmed somewhere with weather. None of it survived contact with a Florida August. What follows is what actually holds, worked out over several summers of turning up somewhere with my face halfway down my neck.
Powder is your structure, cream is your enemy
Cream products move. In dry air that takes hours; here it takes twenty minutes. Anything cream — blush, contour, a cream shadow base — needs a powder layer locked over it immediately or it will travel.
The order that works for me is thin base, powder, product, powder again. It feels excessive and it looks flat in the mirror. It photographs correctly and it is still there at 2am, which is the only test that counts.
Liner goes on last, in the coldest air you can find
Liner is the first thing to break because it sits on the one part of your face that never stops moving. I do mine last, after everything else has set, with the AC pointed straight at me.
Waterproof formulas are not optional. Neither is accepting that you will redo one wing at some point in the night — carry a cotton bud and stop treating it as a failure.
Setting spray, then more setting spray
Two passes, from a proper distance, letting the first dry completely. One heavy pass just moves everything into a sheet.
The bottle will suggest a modest amount. Ignore it.
None of this makes the humidity go away. It just means you get to choose when the face comes off.
The rest of the routine, and everything else, is on my page.
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