Hello people,
They say save a bit on your cosmetics but when it comes to the foundation, do not mind splurging a heavy amount! Do get the best one because it has the power to completely transform the look of your skin. But finding the perfect one is difficult task since there are so many options available. Hence I am listing down 30 best options to choose from, so have a look!
Note: I have arranged them in the ascending order of their prices to make it easier for you guys and the prices might fluctuate a bit depending upon the currencies.
1. Essence Soft and Natural Long Lasting Make-Up
Price-Rs 349
The foundation gives you a perfect, smooth complexion and looks wonderfully natural. Its silky formula spreads evenly to reliably cover any impurities or redness. For a pleasant feeling on your skin and a fantastic, fresh complexion! Dermatologically tested.
Rating : 4.5/5
2. Essence All About Matt! Oil Free Make Up
Price-Rs 399
The new all about matt! Oil free make-up gives your complexion a matte effect to make it smooth and silky-soft. The long lasting formula lasts up to 12 hours and the oil-free texture would not block your pores. The new addition to the successful all about matt! Range comes in a matching cool matt packaging.
Rating : 4/5
3. Essence Soft Touch Mousse Make-Up
Price-Rs 499
The make-up range with a super delicate mousse texture gives your face a smooth and natural-looking matt complexion while allowing your skin to breathe freely.
Rating : 4.7/5
4. Maybelline Fit Me! Matte + Poreless Foundation
Price-Rs 575
Fit Me! Matte + Poreless from Maybelline New York goes beyond skin tone matching to fit the unique texture issues of normal to oily skin for the ultimate natural skin fit. While some foundations can exaggerate pores and oily skin, only Maybelline’s pore-minimizing foundation contains their genius blurring micro-powders that erase pores and absorb oil for a naturally matte and poreless-looking finish. Dermatologist and allergy tested. Does not clog pores. Oil-free.
Rating : 4/5
5. Lakme 9 to 5 Weightless Mousse Foundation
Price-Rs 575
Lakme 9 to 5 WEIGHTLESS Mousse Foundation is your answer to a workings women’s barrier to using foundation. It is a lightweight foundation meant for everyday use. It is so lightweight that you won’t even feel you are wearing foundation. It not only blends in effortlessly, but gives a matte finish that lasts through the day. It is available in 4 shades and it extremely convenient to carry.
Rating : 4.25/5
6. Coloressence HD High Definition Foundation
Price-Rs 590
High-Definition Foundation makes skin smooth and flawless. Its active ingredients help the skin in revitalizing and correcting visible signs of ageing. Ideal for everyday use. With SPF-20, it covers skin imperfections flawlessly while remaining invisible.
Rating : 4/5
7. Lotus Herbals PURESTAY Nourishing Foundations
Price-Rs 595
All day wear, non-oily foundation that gives skin the ultimate weightless coverage. This new luminous formula hydrates skin, diminishes appearance of fine lines without clogging pores, delays ageing and offers broad spectrum UV protection SPF 20.
Rating :4.9/5
8. Colorbar Full Cover Makeup Stick SPF 30
Price-Rs 675
A non greasy oil free formula Colorbar Full Cover Makeup Stick is ideal for women who hate the long process of applying primers and concealers. The easy to apply makeup stick is a concealer cum foundation. The non greasy formula gives a matte look without drying out the delicate facial skin. It nourishes skin and after application skin feels smooth and soft to touch.
Rating : 4.8/5
9. Revlon Nearly Naked Makeup Foundation with SPF 20
Price-Rs 690
Revlon’s breakthrough nearly naked makeup balances skin and makeup so they work in perfect harmony. With buildable coverage and seamless blending, you are sure to cover flaws and perfect your skin’s tone and texture. No heavy, cakey or greasy mess. Available in 16 true to tone shades.
10. Za Perfect Fit Liquid Foundation
Price-Rs 700
SPF17・PA++. Oil Free and Water Based Formula For pinkish white skin with a natural pinkish glow and translucent finish.
Rating : 4/5
11. Rimmel London Match Perfection Light Perfecting Radiance Foundation
Price-Rs 700 to 900
Traceless coverage foundation with Advanced Smart-tone Technology for perfectly flawless skin under any light. Enhanced with Sapphire Radiance for an illuminating glow. Last all day.
Rating : 5/5
12. Chambor Sheer Delight Ultra Matt Oil Free Foundation
Price-Rs 745
Discover the sheer delight of perfection with Chambor’s Sheer Delight Ultra Matt Foundation. It‘s Oil Free Long-wearing formula will keep you looking beautiful for 10 hours without clogging your skin pores. Gives a ‘no makeup applied’ feeling with minimizing skin imperfections. Finish is Velvety, Natural, & gives an Even toned result.
Rating : 4.9/5
13. L’Oreal Paris Infallible Pro-Matte 24-Hr Foundation
Price-Rs 860
Achieve a matte finish that won’t fall flat with this air-light, long-wearing liquid formula. Lightweight and creamy, foundation goes on smooth with a semi-matte finish that lasts up to 24 hours—hiding imperfections for a smooth, clear complexion.
Rating : 4/5
14. L’Oreal Paris Magic Nude Liquid Powder
Price-Rs 875
The first liquid powder foundation from L’Oreal Paris.
Flawless nude look. No-makeup feel. Revolutionary liquid transforms on contact, leaving a fresh powder-like finish. This foundation is so amazingly lightweight it’s like wearing no makeup at all. Just shake and apply – it’s like magic!
Rating : 4.8/5
15. L’Oreal True Match Super Blendable Foundation
Price-Rs 975
True Match Super-Blendable Makeup precisely matches your skin’s tone and texture and coordinates perfectly with True Match Powder, Blush and Concealer. Formulated with Precise Match Technology, so you can control coverage and fine-tune it. Ultra-pure formula contains no oils, fragrances, or pore-clogging fillers, so all you see is beautiful, radiant, flawless skin.
Rating : 4/5
16. Colorbar Timeless Filling and Lifting Foundation
Price-Rs 1050
Smoothing lightweight Anti-ageing foundation enriched by a biological anti-oxidant pocket that provides a protective, re-chargeable anti-oxidants network. The functional structure of our network allows this action to last in time without exhausting itself and making it long lasting
Enhanced with Hyaluronic Acid which deeply hydrates the skin, fills lines and provides Skin lift for flawless firm even skin.
Rating : 4.75/5
17. Revlon Photoready Insta-Fix Make Up Spf 20
Price-Rs 1325
Revlon creates the instant skin retouch-er. Light-Filtering Technology gives skin an instantly perfected, retouched look. Use all over the face, to conceal flaws, or for touch ups Anytime, Anywhere.
Rating : 4.25/5
18. Bourjois Radiance Reveal Healthy Mix Foundation
Price-Rs 1400
Give your skin a radiance boost and leave it looking flawless for up to 16 hours! Bourjois’ new Radiance Reveal Healthy Mix foundation is enriched with a fruit therapy formula to enhance your complexion.
Rating : 4.5/5
19. Chambor Orosa Skin Fusion Foundation SPF 15
Price-Rs 1495
A ‘complexion perfector’, improves elasticity and firmness while visually minimizing the pores.
Just a few drops gives the skin a diffused luminosity, veiling any imperfections. A feather weight fluid texture ensures a suede matte finish with a breathable second skin effect.
Rating : 4.25/5
20. Bourjois 123 Perfect Foundation
Price-Rs 1695
Corrects and conceals all blemishes. Correcting pigments, zero imperfections. Tested and approved by 97% of women,* the “new generation” foundation for a rested yet radiant complexion and a flawless, even result for up to 16hrs.
Rating : 5/5
21. MAC Studio Waterweight SPF 30 Foundation
Price-Rs 2200
Introducing an innovative foundation that delivers colour in an ultra-fluid, elastic gel-serum formula. With a virtually weightless feel, this hydrating formula is extraordinarily comfortable, lasting for hours. With stay-true colour and sheer medium buildable coverage, it softly blurs imperfections such as pores and fine lines. The unique dropper provides you with a drop of perfection. Use the new 196 Slanted Flat Top Foundation Brush for a naturally flawless finish.
Rating :4.7/5
22. MAC Pro Longwear Foundation
Price-Rs 2200
MAC Pro Long Wear Foundation is a long-wear foundation that gives up to 15 hours of wear in any environmental condition. Lightweight and creamy, applies smoothly to provide sheer to medium coverage. Even in hot and humid conditions, controls oil to keep skin fresh, natural and flawless. Provides everyday SPF protection.
Rating : 4/5
23. Make Up For Ever Ultra HD Invisible Cover Stick Foundation
Price-Rs 2900
Ultra HD Invisible Cover Stick Foundation creates a flawless complexion on camera, and to the naked eye. Developed specifically for the film and TV industry’s most advanced technology, it is completely invisible under the latest, super-focused 4k lens.
Rating : 5/5
24. Estee Lauder Double Wear Makeup To Go
Price-Rs 3000
Makeup that’s going places. Gives you 8-hour wear at the push of a button. This luminous and hydrating makeup is different formula than our original Double Wear Stay-in-Place Liquid Foundation. Enriched with an intense tri-moisture complex, it leaves skin looking smooth and natural.
Rating :4/5
25. NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation
Price-Rs 3175
Achieve full-coverage, lightweight foundation that leaves a natural finish. Highly pigmented and perfectly balanced, this breakthrough, full-coverage formula builds and blends effortlessly. Its Even Tone Technology instantly neutralizes redness and dullness, while it works to reduce discoloration for more even, uniform skin. Perfect for all skin types, it features Weightless Long-wear Technology, an exclusive blend from NARS with flexible polymers and treated pigments that move with the skin while providing 16 hours of staying power.
Rating : 4/5
26. Diorskin Star Fluid Foundation
Price-Rs 3295
Inspired by the professional illuminating techniques and expertise of its makeup artists, Dior offers its first brightening foundation. This weightless fluid makeup is capable of recreating the spectacular and perfecting light of Dior’s studios. Infused with hollow silica beads that capture and diffuse light in a correcting halo that doesn’t leave skin looking shiny, the color-filter pigments neutralize skin tone imbalances, and the anti-“light-trap” skincare ingredients help reduce the appearance of dark areas, pigment spots, and redness.
Rating : 4.5/5
27. Make Up For Ever HD Foundation
Price-Rs 3400
The MAKE UP FOR EVER HD Complexion products use innovative formulas to create a new generation of makeup which is both invisible on HD cameras and to the naked eye. The Make Up For Ever HD Foundation is an oil-free medium-to-full coverage liquid foundation which covers skin imperfections, while remaining invisible on-screen and in real life. Its extremely fine texture is supple and easy to apply. Enriched with moisturizing agents, it leaves the skin soft and radiant. It is available in a wide range of shades to suit all skin tones.
Rating : 4/5
28. Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation
Price-Rs 4085
This award-winning foundation is formulated with micro-fil technology, producing a low-density product that pairs high-impact pigments with weightless texture. Inspired by the silk shantung worn by kings and emperors, this foundation glides seamlessly onto the skin leaving a finish that’s reminiscent of charmeuse silk.
Rating : 4.5/5
29. Guerlain Parure Gold Fluid Foundation
Price-Rs 4825
A symbol of light and energy, gold is synonymous with eternity. Parure Gold was created from Eclat d’Or Pigments that instantly light up, smooth and correct the complexion. To make this burst of radiance last, Parure Gold adds luxurious treasures: the ultra-nourishing benefits of Oil of Myrrh to revive the youthful radiance and vitality of the skin. Under the caress of Eclat d’Or Pigments, dark areas light up, fine lines fade away and imperfections seem to disappear. Even, rested and enhanced, the complexion is illuminated. The face glows with new youthful radiance.
Rating : 4.5/5
30. Clé de Peau Beauté Silky Cream Foundation
Price-Rs 8160
Indulges skin with exceptional humectants for lasting hydration. Formulated with a luxurious infusion of treatment ingredients to optimize the condition of skin with continual use. Contains Revitalizing Moisture Complex. Provides flawless coverage and a beautifully lightweight texture.
Rating : 4.8/5
Hope you find some good ones from this list! If you want more such compilations, do let me know in the comments section!
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