January Foundation Project: Day 6

Today I am retrying the Flower Beauty Light Illusion foundation. This product is reasonably priced and is cruelty free (yay!) in Ivory. This foundation is supposed to have medium coverage and provide the "most flattering soft luminosity imaginable" with a skin-like feel. It has a little SPF but not enough to skin a separate sunscreen.

All of that sounds great and I remember liking this in the past. This time, the coverage seemed to be a little heavy compared to what I would ideally like. The issue here is that it is so glowy that it accentuates all of my texture, and being over 45, I have a good bit. The color match seemed ok, but overall I will have to pass on this one for the long run. I guess I could try setting it down, but the coverage would be even heavier and that is one of my issues with this foundation.

I haven't been great about taking wear test photos later in the day because most of the foundations I have tried lately have really let me down and the photos don't really do the wear test justice. I feel like this one would be best for someone that has less textured skin or can pull off something this glowy without feeling weird about it. Next!

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How I screwed up - January Review

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