Beginner at makeup

I used to wear makeup about 3 times a year and now I’ve just stopped all together. Whenever I did my makeup, it would come out looking different each other. Sometimes it looked fine, other times it looked a hot ass mess. I want to start wearing a light, natural look makeup on a daily basis. The most I want to do is foundation, lashes, gloss, highlight, wing liner, etc. Just very minimal and simple. I wanted to get advice on how to have a flawless foundation application. I have combo skin and I don’t want my makeup to look dry or cakey