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The Best Light to Medium Coverage Foundations to Achieve a Fresh Finish
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Looking for a foundation that gives you your skin but better vibes? While we love a full coverage foundation — especially for special events — our everyday base products are more geared towards light to medium coverage foundations.
Just because these base products are on the more lightweight side, doesn’t mean they don’t do a lot. In fact, these products offer a more blurring finish, letting your natural skin shine through while offering a more diffused look. Here are some of our favourite light to medium-coverage foundations:
Fenty Beauty
Fenty Beauty Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint
The latest release from Fenty Beauty, the Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint ($46) is the brand’s first light-to-medium coverage complexion product softly blurs skin to leave a natural finish. This product nourishes skin while diffusing the look of pores, wrinkles and blemishes. With 25 flexible shades (which covers all 50 shades of the Fenty Beauty Pro Filt’r range), this formula doesn’t block pores, cake or settle into any fine lines.
The Ordinary
The Ordinary Serum Foundation
The Ordinary doesn’t just create high-quality skincare products, but it also nails it when it comes to makeup. The Ordinary’s Serum Foundation ($12.70) is available in 21 shades and offers light to medium coverage and has a lightweight serum feel.
NARS
NARS Sheer Glow Foundation
The ultimate foundation chameleon, the NARS Sheer Glow Foundation ($71) goes on sheer but is buildable, which means you can take it from a light to medium finish all the way to full. It leaves skin feeling hydrated while brightening your complexion and improving the look of your skin’s texture.
Ere Perez
Ere Perez Quinoa Water Foundation
Formulated with quinoa and blackcurrent, Ere Perez’s Quinoa Water Foundation ($46) is a light coverage foundation that melts into your skin for a flawless, natural finish. Quinoa, the namesake of the foundation, is filled with vitamin B, E and A, which are effective in reducing fine lines and pigmentation.
Maybelline
Maybelline Dream Radiant Liquid Hydrating Foundation
Maybelline’s Dream Radiant Liquid Hydrating Foundation ($24.95) is a lightweight formula that offers up to 12 hours of hydration thanks to the addition of illuminating pigments. Formulated with hyaluronic acid and collagen to visibly plump skin, this offers the perfect medium coverage.
