Beauty
The Best Foundations From Light To Full Coverage
There's one for every tone & budget
Finding the right foundation shade is a task in itself but then… do you have a cool or warm undertone? What about a dewy or matte finish? Light or full coverage? You get the picture.
Picking a foundation is not always about finding the one, you may want fuller coverage for a night out, perhaps a lighter coverage during the day, and maybe even a darker shade for summer. What we’re getting at is – we need options. Without further adieu, find our selection of different foundations to suit every season and any occasion because we’re here to make your life just that little bit easier.
LES BEIGES Eau De Teint
Chanel
Price: $109.00
THE COVERAGE: Light | THE FINISH: Dewy | SHADES: 3
This lightweight water-based foundation is hydrating and instantly refreshing especially during the summertime.
Created with microfluidics technology, micro-droplets of encapsulated pigments melt into the skin creating a radiant bare-skin effect. The light to sheer coverage allows the skin texture to show through, ensure you use the ergonomic brush it comes with to blend the tint effortlessly into skin for an even and natural radiant glow.
Tinted Face Oil
kosas
Price: $64.00
THE COVERAGE: Light | THE FINISH: Dewy-Matte | SHADES: 16
This lightweight vegan oil-based foundation offers a buildable light to medium coverage.
Infused with hydrating mineral pigments, avocado oil, camelia seed oil and meadowfoam oil to instantly blur imperfections, brighten skin tone, plump and smooth the texture of your skin. For a matte finish, blend the foundation in with a kabuki brush.
Hollywood Flawless Filter
Charlotte Tilbury
Price: $65.00
THE COVERAGE: Light | THE FINISH: Radiant Glow | SHADES: 12
The award-winning Hollywood Flawless Filter is a complexion booster that blurs, smooths, and illuminates for a real-life filter effect.
Formulated with finely milled powders to blur and smooth, Porcelain Flower Extract that visibly brightens and moisturises the skin. Wear it 3 ways: alone, underneath foundation, mixed-with or on top of your foundation!
Luminous Silk Foundation
Giorgio Armani
Price: $105.00
THE COVERAGE: Light-Medium | THE FINISH: Natural-Dewy | SHADES: 40
The cult favourite Luminous Silk foundation is a lightweight oil-free liquid formulation for a radiant, silky smooth complexion.
Known for its high-impact pigmentation and unique weightless texture. The Luminous Silk re-texturises the canvas of your skin and thanks to its buildable nature, it can be worn lightly or build up to medium coverage.
Tinted Cover Foundation
Nudestix
Price: $54.00
THE COVERAGE: Light-Medium | THE FINISH: Natural | SHADES: 15
This vegan natural finish foundation has a water-resistant barrier that allows for long wear, helps improve skin hydration, evens and brightens your skin tone.
Featuring an innovative Korean skincare formula with buildable tinted pigments includes natural active ingredients to protect your skin from environmental ageing and improve overall texture.
Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint Foundation
FENTY BEAUTY
Price: $46.00
THE COVERAGE: Light-Medium | THE FINISH: Natural-Matte | SHADES: 25
A light long-wear foundation has a blurring skin tint that smooths and instantly blurs your skin with only a few drops.
The HydraBlend complex and humidity, sweat, and transfer-resistant formula has a smooth texture that layers well with primer and skincare. Best applied with fingers for a light natural finish or a brush for buildable matte coverage.
Your Skin But Better Foundation + Skincare
It Cosmetics
Price: $63.00
THE COVERAGE: Medium | THE FINISH: Natural-Matte | SHADES: 40
A medium buildable coverage foundation that instantly perfects the skin, minimising the look of pores and imperfections while delivering all-day hydration and wear with a naturally radiant finish.
Formulated with Hyaluronic Acid, Aloe Vera, Vitamin B5 and E to delivers a better-looking complexion instantly and better bare skin in two weeks!
Authentik Skin Foundation
Zoeva
Price: $49.00
THE COVERAGE: Medium | THE FINISH: Natural-Radiant | SHADES: 44
This weightless liquid foundation is enhanced with Rosehip Oil to deliver medium, buildable coverage for a natural-looking, and luminous finish.
The radiant foundation has an innovative lightweight formula designed to maintain the skin’s natural protective barrier while evening out your complexion and allowing your skin’s natural luminosity to shine through. Best applied with ZOEVA 104 Buffer brush for a flawless application.
Bounce Liquid Whip Long Wear Foundation
BEAUTY BLENDER
Price: $61.00
THE COVERAGE: Medium-Full | THE FINISH: Matte | SHADES: 39
The buildable, full-coverage, multidimensional foundation addresses not just tone but also skin texture so your complexion looks smooth and even.
Developed with an exclusive, high-speed HyperWhip™ process, this silky-smooth formula is whisked into a light-as-air texture for unparalleled blendability. Infused with Hyaluronic Acid to help prep skin for a smooth canvas and White Birch Extract to soothes and brightens the skin. Apply with a damp Beauty Blender for a medium finish.
Flawless Finish Skincaring Foundation
ELIZABETH ARDEN
Price: $56.00
THE COVERAGE: Medium-Full | THE FINISH: Matte | SHADES: 40
A long-wear buildable coverage foundation has a lightweight natural matte finish.
Elizabeth Arden’s Flawless Finish Foundation is infused with skin-loving Hyaluronic Acid, Vitamin C, and E to comfort, hydrate, and brighten your complexion all while controlling shine for up to 24 hours.
Luminous Foundation
Anastasia Beverly Hills
Price: $70.00
THE COVERAGE: Medium–Full | THE FINISH: Natural | SHADES: 50
This lightweight, easy-to-blend formula looks ultra-fresh and blurs imperfections including discolouration, redness for a naturally radiant finish.
Free of parabens and mineral oil, the formula is water-resistant and long-wearing. Applies seamlessly to creates a perfected skin-like finish with a comfortable feel. Apply with a damp blender or a brush.
Face Tape Foundation
Tarte
Price: $60.00
THE COVERAGE: Full | THE FINISH: Matte | SHADES: 50
Inspired by their bestselling shape tape concealer, this full-coverage foundation hydrates and mattifies.
The transfer-proof, waterproof, and sweatproof formula keeps you looking flawless all day, delivering long-wearing coverage with a natural matte finish. Infused with skin-loving ingredients such as Snow Mushroom Extract, Apple Fruit Extract, and Hyaluronic Acid.
Everlasting Foundation
Clarins
Price: $55.00
THE COVERAGE: Full | THE FINISH: Matte | SHADES: 23
The ultra-lightweight formula is easily buildable for all-day coverage. The mattifying bamboo powder and a full-coverage finish wears for up to 24 hours is smudge and sweat-proof.
Bamboo powder and natural silica help mattify your complexion throughout the day. Organic Quinoa extract and Organic Oat sugar hydrate and nourishes the skin, for a lighter finish, apply with fingers. Feeling extra dry? Add a pump of Clarin’s Double Serum for extra hydration and a slightly dewy finish.
Photography: Lucy Alcorn
Styling: Vira Anekboonyapirom
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