Make up tips

Please help i have the worst skin and it makes me feel so ugly when i wear makeup. i have really dry skin you can’t really tell when i don’t wear makeup but when i do you can see the dry skin literally. it’s all flaky it just looks so ugly i don’t know what to do i put on a face mask every other day esp when i wear make up i always wash my face. i always have a face scrub it’s mild and still nothing has worked i don’t know what i’m doing wrong or why my skin is like this i use a moisturizer every day. do i need to look for the extreme exfoliating scrub or something is there anyone who has really dry skin who can help me out. or things that they use that have improved their skin i also have a bunch of pores that are visible i feel like the primers don’t help you still see it w makeup on.