2.10.14

Topshop Foundation Review

I've been trialling a lot of foundations recently. Not coz I don't heart my current base of choice (Max Factor Face Finity), but...coz...well, you never know what might change your life until you try. Life-changing? Bitch please. Don't be so freaking dramatic, I hear you thinking. But if you're not blessed with good skin, like me, and have to wear a base every sodding day, then a good 'un can deffo make life 3000% easier (if not transform it). And to be brutally honest- my skin is shockingly bad. It's dry and oily. I've got spots and acne scars, as well as a ruddy pallor that makes the average farmer look like Gisele Bundchen. So I need a foundation to do the work of a pack horse. (Rural ref overload!). So I'm very happy, nay buzzing to report that Topshop's new foundation is the bomb dot com. 
Recently I've tried YSL Fusion, Charlotte Tilbury Light Wonder, Chanel Aqua Vitalumiere Velvet and Bare Minerals Bare Skin. Chanel foundations are so perfumed they make me gag (as does Rimmel's Wake Me Up Foundation), whilst the Charlotte Tilbury base left my face shinier than a metallic clutch bag by the end of the day. The texture of the YSL Fusion is incred (it's got that sort of gel-thing going on) and the Bare Minerals new launch is so nearly very good- but again- oil-slick face was happening by the end of the day. All of these products would doubtless be amaze if you already have beaut skin that's a little on the dry side. But I need more. So when I took home a sample of the Topshop foundation I didn't have particularly high hopes. What a silly auld sceptical div I am. This stuff is sick. Whilst the glass bottle isn't massively practical- it does make it feel like a quality product. There's a pipette dropper so you can (in theory) get every last bit of foundation out the bottle, and the price point is pretty good at £16. (Although I did expect it to be a bit more 'drugstorey' and come in at around the £12-14 mark). Anyroad, let's get to the actual product. It's got a serumesque quality (which I like) and gives a light-medium coverage. Despite not being 'heavy-duty' it was enough to cover all my many and varied issues. (NB I always buff on with a Real Techniques- don't we all?). Best of all though- I wasn't all Shiny McShiny at the end of the day. I now deffo can't wait to try the primer and concealers in the range too. Have you tried any Toppers make-up? What's your base of choice? Hit me up, would love to hear :)
Foundation- Topshop//Rings- Topshop
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  1. I want to try Topshops new foundation now! How did I not know about this?!

    Hannah Rose Williams

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    1. Deffo go try...I think it was only out last week....you can get a little sample pot too :))
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  2. I should try it some time, love the pictures!

    www.julialundin.com

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    1. Thank you :)
      I was lucky with the light the day I shot the pics!!!
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  3. may have to give it a go, I to am a sucker for foundation, hated the bare minerals very true face like an oil slick at end of day. Just had a tester pot of the YSL touché éclat that was nice.

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    1. I haven't actually tried the Touche Eclat....I'll get on it!
      And then give Dior Star a whirl too :))
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  4. this stuff sounds amazing! thank you for such a great review - so honest! i've been using a rimmel cc cream with mineral powder on top but like you I struggle with acne and oil-slicks at the end of the day and I'm desperate to find something better suited to my skin without spending a bomb testing all the different products out there!!! xxx

    Mary
    www.littlefeatherstyle.blogspot.com

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    1. No point sugar-coating a review is there...especially when you haven't been gifted owt haha :))
      I use a lorra lorra mineral powder on top of my base too- be lost without it!!

      Deffo go and harass some over-made-up laydeez at the various counters and cadge some testers :))
      Benefit's Big Easy is really good for our kinda skin (it is a bit expensive though!)
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  5. Really love these photos and the entire look of your blog!

    http://diotima.rs/

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