The type of foundations for dark skin you use can make or break your look, and especially for women of color, it is even more important to ensure you’re selecting the right shade for your warm skin tone. We went through hundreds of foundations and selected the top six foundations to consider if you’re looking for the perfect addition to your makeup collection.
Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint
In the land between bare skin and makeup exists the imperceptible wash of color that is Perfecting Skin Tint. This breathable, ultra-thin finish is perfect to even out your skin’s appearance for a smooth, dewy finish.
Pro Filt’r Soft Matte Longwear Foundation
FENTY
A soft matte, long-wear foundation that features climate-adaptive technology to fight heat, sweat + shine. Stay looking fresh morning or night with this buildable, medium to full coverage formula that is available in a range of 50 boundary-breaking shades.
Sleek Makeup Crème to Powder Foundation
This foundation formula glides on as a cream and transforms into a matte, velvety powder texture!
IMAN’s selection of powder, cream, liquid, and stick foundations will offer you the shade that fits your skin tone naturally.
Second to None Cream to Powder Foundation
IMAN
IMAN’s selection of powder, cream, liquid, and stick foundations will offer you the shade that fits your skin tone naturally.
Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Foundation
LUMINOUS SILK is a multi-award-winning liquid foundation with a silky, lightweight texture that delivers all-day buildable medium coverage with a satin glow finish for naturally flawless-looking skin and a no-makeup makeup look.
Skin Fetish: Sublime Perfection Foundation
PAT McGRATH
MAC Cosmetics Studio Fix Fluid Foundation
This 24-hour colour-true foundation is available in 63 shades and has buildable, medium to full coverage in a natural matte finish that won’t cake, crease or settle into fine lines or pores.
HD Skin Undetectable Longwear Foundation
MAKE UP FOR EVER
An undetectable liquid foundation for dark skin that blurs and covers imperfections for 24 hours, powered by a micro-skin system that syncs with the skin for true-to-skin finish.
Clinique Even Better Refresh Hydrating and Repairing Makeup
Clinique’s Even Better Refresh Hydrating and Repairing Foundation is a full-coverage foundation with 24-hour wear revitalizes skin for a more youthful look.
Light Reflecting Foundation
NARS
Chantecaille Beauté Future Skin Foundation
Future Skin transfers moisture into the skin without the use of oil as an emulsifier. Made with reflective circular pigments that provide adjustable coverage (medium-to-full) and ease the appearance of flaws, it’s also loaded with natural botanicals including aloe, chamomile and arnica that calm irritation and soothe sensitive skin.
KEVYN AUCOIN
A multi-action balm that blends effortlessly into skin while diffusing imperfections with full coverage.
FF Cream to Powder Skin
FASHION FAIR
This Fashion Fair all-time favorite is back with an improved formula that feels like a silky cream and dries to a thin, elegant, second-skin powder finish. And, like all of the new Fashion Fair products our Crème to Powder Skin is vegan.
InstaBake Aqua Glass Foundation
Beauty Bakerie
Inspired by the elegance and minimalistic approach to beauty that Japan is known for, InstaBake Aqua Glass Foundation delivers extraordinary performance and applies like frosting. Rightfully named “InstaBake”, this full-coverage, poreless, vegan formula covers anything left in its wake from uneven tone to scars and blemishes.
Skin By Mented
MENTED
Mented’s ultra-hydrating formula is lightweight and buildable, giving you the coverage you need with the natural finish you love. Skin by Mented can be used as a foundation, concealer or contour stick.
