The 11 Best Dewy, Natural-Looking Foundations For Mature Skin
by The Candidly Team
It’s a real conundrum.
We get older, our skin gets dryer, slightly droopier, perhaps slightly speckled with signs of previous sun worship or picked-at blemishes, and so our impulse is to start piling on makeup.
And then we notice that our skin looks even worse. Even dryer. Even older.
And this is because as we age, we need to wear less makeup, to feel more beautiful, more natural, more like ourselves.
It’s a catch 22 that so many of us try to fight, but unequivocally, and without exception, if you are over 40, you will feel your most buoyant and bushy tailed, with an extremely minimal makeup routine.
And no part of that minimalism is more important than where all of our beauty-confidence begins: our skin.
A thick foundation just sinks into lines and makes us feel like crypt keepers. Too heavy a hand with even sheer foundations can do the same. But the 11 products below are impossible to mess up, have gorgeously skin-like formulas, and are blessedly forgiving when it comes to choosing your “undertone” since no woman alive knows what the hell that even means.
So pick your favorite. It will be your favorite foundation you’ve ever used. Promise.
At The Candidly, we try a lot of stuff so you don’t have to. We only recommend things we truly love, and that we think you’ll love, too. All products are chosen independently by our creative team, and all details reflect the price and availability of products at the time of publication. If you buy something we link to, The Candidly may earn a commission.
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