A suitable foundation can achieve a naturally flawless look without caking, streaking, settling or highlighting pores. Photo: Estee Lauder
From creating a glowing base to providing a smoothing effect, face powders and foundations are able to help give you that perfect finish to your makeup look.
Here's a look at the latest offerings, which can also protect and nourish skin.
Naturally radiant
The Estee Lauder Double Wear Soft Glow Matte Cushion Makeup SPF45 PA+++ Foundation is an all-new luminous matte makeup with 24-hour wear that creates a soft and fluffy finish.
It is also designed to be comfortable and adaptable while helping you achieve a naturally flawless look without caking, streaking, settling or highlighting pores.
Available in six shades, this product ensures your skin is protected and radiant from dawn till dusk, even in hot weather.
For an impeccable, long-lasting finish, pair it a long-lasting liquid foundation.
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Beautifying filter
Givenchy’s Prisme Libre 4-Color Loose Powder is lightweight and ideal for both correcting, mattifying and illuminating the complexion: within each harmony, two shades smooth out colour irregularities, while the other two boost radiance.
All four hues blend together and blur out the skin’s texture in a single gesture, as the product acts like a beautifying filter.
This new formula aims at giving your skin a longlasting matte, radiant finish and a blurring, setting effect that lasts 12 hours.
It can be applied across the entire face using a powder puff or a brush, revealing a completely illuminated and blurred complexion.
You can also use it for touch-ups – ideally using the powder puff – to mattify and perfect areas of the face that may require it over the course of the day.
The matte effect
The No-Sebum Powder Cushion SPF 29 PA++ from Innisfree’s is a fixing powder combined with a handy cushion which contains all the features of the brand’s No-Sebum Mineral Powder while providing 48-hour matte coverage.
It absorbs excessive sebum to control skin oiliness and keep it matte without smudging while its oil and water base contains cover particles that lightly blend into the skin to help cover pores, blemishes, flush and bumps while maintaining perfect coverage.
The micro blurring powder covers pores and bumps to even out skin texture while its double fresh green tea water and panthenol help retain moisture to make skin soft and smooth.
Luminous skin
The Kamelia x JiaOhJia Sea Siren Mini Cushion Foundation is a collaboration with renowned make-up artist and influencer JiaOhJia which has the same formula as the homegrown brand’s Mermaid Skin Foundation.
With brightening and anti-ageing properties and a highly natural, glowy and smooth skin-like finish, it is infused with vitamin C, green tea extract, camellia seed oil and peach flower oil.
Apply the product with the puff applicator provided to give your skin a healthy, plumped and hydrated look, and thanks to its pore-blurring effect, your skin will appear radiant and smooth.
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Protection for your skin
Obsess Cosmetics Treatment Cushion Foundation Tangerine edition gives your skin medium to full coverage and protects against sun damage.
Cover blemishes, scarring and dark spots with the product’s smoothing effect which also gives your skin a glowy finish.
It contains squalane with vitamins E and A that are anti-oxidant rich which softens and hydrates the skin, while tocopheryl acetate helps to reduce skin ageing and lessens the appearance of wrinkles.
Geranium oil reduces dark spots and evens out the skin tone, while bearberry leaf extract, which contains flavonoids (powerful antioxidant agents) fight free radicals that trigger oxidative stress, which can impact the different layers of the skin.
