Best Beauty Buys 2023: Foundation And Face Products
Our favourite foundations, concealers and blushes to perfect your makeup look even on those busy, hectic days
By guoxiongho -
Best Beauty Buys is The Singapore Women's Weekly's annual round up of the best and most effective products currently on the shelves. This year, we spotlight the skincare and makeup needs of busy mums who juggle children and demanding jobs who want to look and feel good doing it. The products were road-tested by a group of such multi-tasking women, and these are their picks.
Now that we've perfected our skincare routine with the best tried-and-true products, it is time to focus on makeup. While having great skincare is half the battle won, there are days where we need a little pick-me-up that only makeup can offer. Foundations, for example, help to even out the complexion while concealers help to cover up signs of sleepless nights to help us look our best at the competitive workplace. And then there are blushes to help us add back live and colour to our complexion.
Besides nourishing white tea extract and vitamin E, the Hourglass foundation contains both light-diffusing pigments and blurring spheres to give your mien a medium coverage with a naturally radiant, filtered effect. The humidity- and sweat-resistant formula also wears for up to 16 hours.
This Dior foundation touts a no-transfer property with a natural matte, full coverage finish. It is also enriched with a cocktail of extracts from iris, wild pansy, rose and nasturtium to improve the quality of skin texture.
Made up of 70 percent skincare ingredients including Japanese lilyturf that strengthens the skin barrier and cacao peptides and milk thistle that counteract environmental aggressors, Nars' medium buildable coverage foundation provides a natural finish.
Despite its coverage, Kanebo formulated this foundation with a lightweight serum gel texture that perfects the complexion while adding hydration, moisture and lustre for up to 12 hours. The texture also helps it blend and spread seamlessly across the face.
Best Long-Lasting Foundation: Bobbi Brown Intensive Serum Foundation SPF 40 PA++++, $106
The Bobbi Brown creation is another serum-textured foundation powered by 26 skincare ingredients including cordyceps, hyaluronic acid and vitamin E. It offers medium-to-full coverage with a radiant finish that lasts up to 12 hours.
Best Powder Foundation: Mac Cosmetics Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation, $66
Powder foundations make it easy to apply and touch up on the go. Mac Cosmetics' offers medium-to-full matte coverage and touts to wear for up to 12 hours without caking, streaking, settling or creasing. It is also humidity- and sweat-resistant.
Full-coverage, lightweight and waterproof, this Hourglass concealer imparts an airbrushed finish thanks to the microspherical powders within it. The powders also help to blur and brighten for up to 16 hours.
Rare Beauty makes good blushes. This liquid-like cream blush offers a soft wash of colour while being non-greasy, water-resistant and easy to blend even for the newest of makeup users.