L-R: L'Oreal True Match, L'Oreal Infallible Total Cover, CYO Lifeproof
Welcome ladies and gentleman, boys and girls to the Summer Foundation Smackdown! Where I explore three foundations to see how they hold up in this unbearable heat. Hint: It's not well!
Since the end of May we’ve been experiencing a monster heat wave here in the UK, it seems to have passed now, thank God! But it transformed me, a functioning human, into a sweaty, barely functioning oil slick. Which means that my foundation wasn’t sticking around very long at all. So over the past couple of weeks I made it my mission to try out a bunch of foundations to see if there was anything that could last on my sweaty, sweaty face. It turns out there wasn't but let's talk about the results.
(Disclaimer: to be fair to all the foundations I tested them for the same amount of time, three days, and used powder and setting spray to give them all a fighting chance)
Now this I really liked. I hadn't heard much about CYO other than it had replaced Seventeen as Boots in-house brand, so I didn't really know what to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised. Providing medium natural-looking coverage, Lifeproof has a very light texture that can be built up to something with much higher coverage whilst still looking very skin-like. It also applies really nicely and stays in place well, despite how much I was sweating, which was a lot, I can't stress this enough.
And in first place, L’Oreal completely redeems itself with True Match which, despite being one of my all time favourites, I hadn't used in about 2 years and had totally forgotten about how good it is. It's good skin in a bottle even on the sweatiest days. It offers medium to high coverage, has a light buildable formula and almost mimics the skin so it looks completely natural on. It also stays put really well, despite my sweaty, sweaty face. It was a clear winner, being the only one to still be on past lunchtime.
What are your favourite summertime foundations?
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