I have been looking for that ultimate foundation for every occasion and have tried a handful of brands. I started with drugstore brands and progressed to designer and dedicated cosmetics brands.
I am very impressed with Revlon foundations but one has to be careful with choosing the right product depending on the skin type. Interestingly I have dry skin but somehow the dry skin formula was not my favourite at all. Somehow I found it to be too dry and difficult to work with and on contrary the one with the combination/oily skin was my favourite, however I had to wipe of the excess oil from my face. Very nice colours and very creamy texture makes it pleasant to wear. But this was not my ultimate foundation yet…
Unfortunately non of the other drugstore brands could come even close to the Revlon hence I am not even mentioning them here. I had to move on to designer brands and dedicated make up and cosmetics brands to find out if I could find my ultimate product.
Of course first brand, which springs to your mind, is Mac, but there I could not find anything what could impress me. Nice colours and quality products, however too heavy coverage not something I could imaging wearing all day long. However I found a very nice contouring product, but it’s a different story…
My next brand was Bobby Brown I though well maybe this is it and tried a couple of their products, but somehow what was recommended by the sales person was not suitable at all for my needs and ending up in an awkward situation I decided to leave very quickly. By the way their very tinted moisturising balm, which is a combination of day cream and foundation, did not work at all. It did not cover my uneven tonality and accentuated my blemishes and not that I have a lot but it felt like…
Well this brought me to Chanel and I loved it! Amazing colours very creamy very fluid and make such a difference on your skin, covers all uneven skin tones and brings to your face, that so desired glow, which you will find in those magazine ads…(I tried Pro Lumiere Foundation) I absolutely loved it but it was not the end of my search…..
I went over to NARS stand and I think found my ultimate beauty the Sheer Glow Foundation. It is foundation and treatment in one, improving and brightening the skin Seer Glow works while wearing it and makes your skin looking amazing after it’s washed off…is not it fantastic! ….I absolutely love it makes the skin so even and not shiny at all (well it’s for dry and normal skin type only) Also I have noticed that it behaves very nicely in flash photography and there is no need to apply different product under your eyes, of course prior moisturising is a must.
Sorry Chanel I love you, but the pedestal is taken by NARS 
At this moment this is my ultimate foundation and I will write an update once the situation has changed.
P.S.: In my search I came across an amazing compact powder by Illamasqua but I have so many compacts by other brands so I decided to rest my shopping mania for powders…plus I was so much impressed with NARS so I decided to end my search then. Also I have heard that Armani has quite sophisticated foundation, range which hounestly I have not tried yet. So your opinion on these or other brands not mentioned here will be very highly appreciated. Comment…comment…comment….
I would like to update this article since I have tried a couple of more products, well literally a couple.
My new trophy is Gosh’s “Lift me up” with Sepilift DPHP technology. Sepilift DPHP is a mixture of Collagen-specific aminoacid and Palmitic acid. Tests in vivo of the 1% product suggest wrinkle correction and moisture improvement by 18% against placebo tests. Unfortunately can’t yet contribute with such detailed review, however I liked it straight away after applying on my skin. It has interesting end result; my skin is very even, not dry or shiny, in fact the product contributes very even coverage remaining almost unnoticeable and feels very comfortable on my skin. Minus only five shades….
Another brand, which caught my eye was Clarins Teint Haute Tenue – Everlasting Foundation….The original design and a divine smell win over the browsing shopper. I liked how it looked on my skin, the tone was well selected by the assistant , but I find it too drying. It absorbs very quickly and I almost could feel the stringent feeling on my face . Can’t of course argue , it well maybe suitable for some skin types, but I opt out for a more moisturising solutions.
