Find Your Perfect Match: 30 Top-Rated Foundation Formulas to Try
November 12, 2021
Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear 5-In-1 Foundation Stick
This multitasking formula promises up to 24 hours of velvety-smooth, medium to full coverage. It’s oil-free, comes with a built-in kabuki brush and can be used to conceal, contour and highlight as well.
L'Oréal Paris Infallible Fresh Wear Foundation in a Powder
This foundation powder went viral on TikTok for good reason. It goes on like a powder and covers like a liquid foundation for an all-day matte finish and full-coverage look. Get your hands on it before it sells out (again!).
NYX Professional Makeup Total Control Pro Drop Foundation
If you want the option to change up your coverage on the daily, this is the foundation for you. Build your coverage from sheer to medium or full with the easy-to-use pro dropper. The foundation comes in 31 shades and stays put for up to 12 hours without ashiness, cakiness or greasiness.
Urban Decay Cosmetics Hydromaniac Glowy Tinted Hydrator Foundation
With a formula that includes kombucha filtrate to boost skin’s luminosity and marula oil to seal in hydration, this foundation will keep skin looking glowy and fresh all day.
Dermablend Flawless Creator Liquid Foundation Drops
Customize your look with this silky foundation that can be blended into your moisturizer, serums, sunscreens and more. For lighter coverage, use one drop, but for maximum coverage, we recommend applying up to four drops.
Maybelline New York Fit Me! Matte + Poreless Foundation
Those with normal to oily skin who experience texture issues like bumps, enlarged pores and rough patches will benefit from this offering from Maybelline. Poreless-looking finish? Check!
NYX Professional Makeup Bare With Me Luminous Tinted Skin Serum
If you’re looking for a vegan option, try this tinted serum infused with tremella mushroom for instant and all-day luminous skin. This non-greasy formula leaves skin looking and feeling soft and smooth with a dewy finish.
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IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better Foundation + Skincare
Infused with hyaluronic acid, aloe vera extract, vitamins E and vitamin B5 this skin-loving foundation delivers all-day hydration. Wear it for a fresh-faced finish that’s suitable for all skin types.
Maybelline New York Super Stay Longwear Liquid Foundation
This transfer-resistant foundation sets new standards for drugstore concealers with up to 30 hour wear, all for just over $10. We can’t find a better deal than that for a full-coverage foundation that feels light as air.
Dermablend Continuous Correction CC Cream SPF 50+
For undetectable full coverage without clogging pores, choose this CC cream. It’s a TikTok favorite for its skin-first coverage that visibly reduces the look of redness, discoloration, hyperpigmentation, dark spots and age spots.
YSL Beauty Touche Éclat Foundation
A boost of radiance is just a few drops away with Touche Éclat. The foundation reduces the look of fatigue and creates flawless medium coverage with SPF 22.
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Valentino Beauty Very Valentino 24 Hour Wear Liquid Foundation
The brand’s Light-Lasting Technology delivers buildable, medium coverage that our editors can’t get enough of. Formulated with an extra light powder that can absorb up to three times its own weight, allowing for a hydrated, semi-matte finish of your dreams.
YSL Beauty NU Bare Look Tint
For an effortless no-makeup look, look no further than this multi-tasking skin tint. The water-cream texture leaves skin radiant and hydrated thanks to glycerin, hyaluronic acid, and brightening mallow.
Giorgio Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Foundation
Loved by makeup artists, celebrities and beauty aficionados alike, this hydrating foundation helps sculpt and brighten skin, improve skin texture and blur imperfections. We praise the formula for its ability to illuminate skin without appearing greasy.
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IT Cosmetics Your Skin But Better CC+ Cream with SPF 50+
Here’s a color correcting cream that pulls triple duty as a full-coverage foundation, hydrating anti-aging serum and SPF 50+ physical sunscreen. The formula is packed with powerhouse ingredients — hydrolyzed collagen, peptides, niacin, hyaluronic acid, antioxidants and vitamins — that address a variety of skin concerns.
L'Oréal Infallible 24HR Fresh Wear Foundation
Infallible may be L'Oréal’s most advanced formula. The formula's three oil absorbers resist sweat, water, and transfer. Plus, it’s Infused with SPF 25.
NYX Professional Makeup Total Control Pro Drop Foundation
If you want the option to change up your coverage on the daily, this is the foundation for you. Build your coverage from sheer to medium or full with the easy-to-use pro dropper. The foundation comes in 31 shades and stays put for up to 12 hours without ashiness, cakiness or greasiness.
Urban Decay Stay Naked Foundation
Stay Naked comes in 50 shades that not only match skin tones but undertones, too. If the options feel overwhelming, use the brand’s Foundation Finder tool before you hit “add to cart” to make finding your shade a breeze.
L'Oréal True Match Super-Blendable Foundation Makeup
With 45 true-to-you shades, you’ll be able to match not only your skin tone but your undertone — warm, neutral or cool — as well. Skin-loving ingredients like provitamin B5 and vitamin E keep skin looking radiant and healthy.
Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Foundation
This lightweight, full-coverage foundation provides a natural matte finish. It’s available in 50 shades with color that stays fresh all day without oxidizing or fading. For a more in-depth look at the formula deemed comfortable by one editor, read her review here.
Huda Beauty #FauxFilter SkinFinish Buildable Coverage Foundation Stick
Whether you prefer full or light coverage, this versatile formula will let you take total control. With its quick stick design, you can swipe it on the go.
Il Makiage Woke Up Like This Flawless Base Foundation
It’s no wonder this formula found Instagram fame for its streak-free finish. Light-diffusing spheres deflect from skin imperfections in the ultra-fluid formula available in 50 shades for all skin tones.
Pat McGrath Skin Fetish Sublime Foundation
Legendary makeup artist Pat McGrath has harnessed her 25+ year career into this luxe bottle. Her critically-acclaimed foundation wears more like a sheer, second-skin tint that boasts comfortability for up to 12 hours.
Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint
Formulated with actual diamond powder, Glossier’s formula creates a smooth, dewy finish that won’t hide your freckles or cake your pores.
UOMA Say What? Foundation
This game-changing foundation is available in 51 shades that feel like a second skin. Those with melanin voice appreciation on social media for the inclusive shade options the brand offers. It doesn’t hurt that you’ll be supporting a Black-owned brand with a purchase.
The Ordinary Serum Foundation
The Ordinary offers this moderate semi-matte coverage that looks natural on the skin. Its serum texture resists caking and settling in fine lines.
When Life Gives You Lemons Foundation
Foundation lovers with blemishes will appreciate this formula infused with niacinamide — the world's first to contain the acne-fighting active ingredient. The formula also contains a blend of nine botanical adaptogens that soothe stressed out skin and help reduce redness.
Trinny London BFF De-Stress Tinted Serum
This innovative tinted serum contains stress-busting neurophroline to tackle the short and long-term effects of cortisol — the body's main stress hormone — for more energized skin.
Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Flawless Filter
Flawless Filter is a complexion booster that blurs, smooths, and illuminates due to its unique moisturizing oil. Porcelain flower extract, which visibly brightens and moisturizes skin, will give you that lit-from-within look.
Rare Beauty Liquid Touch Weightless Foundation
The liquidy texture of this foundation makes it easy to build and blend your coverage, sans clogging and caking. Plus, the inventive applicator lets you apply one dot at a time, for custom coverage for every application.
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