FOUNDATION REVIEW WEEK: L'OREAL NUDE MAGIQUE CUSHION FOUNDATION FIRST IMPRESSION

Hello Everyone and Happy Monday! For just over a week now, i have been putting a few new foundations to the test. So i thought for this weeks set of posts i would share with you my first impressions/product review on them all, the first being the new L'Oreal Nude Magique Cushion Foundation. I was super intrigued to give this foundation a go ever since i first spotted it was out in the states, now it is available in the UK...

So this is the packaging for the foundation, i really love the concept of it as well it is super compact and good for travelling. As it isn't a glass/bottle form foundation it is obviously a lot less likely to leak or smash. The foundation is available at Boots and Superdrug in the UK and it retails for £9.99 (usual price £14.99), which is the standard pricing for most drugstore foundations. The foundation comes in 7 different shades: porcelain 01, vanilla 03, rose vanilla 04, rose beige 06, golden beige 07, beige 09, golden amber 11 and they all have an SPF of 25.
(I have the shade 06 and it matches me perfectly)

So this is what the foundation looks like once you open it up. It comes with this little "powder puff" type sponge, which you could use to apply it with but down to personal preference i don't tend to use tools provided with a product. When you remove the sponge you can open the interior lid and you have the actual product itself. As it says in the title of the product this is a cushion foundation, which is very similar to the one by Lancome but obviously a lot more on the affordable side.

Moving on to the actual application of the foundation i put it to the test using two different method's of application, with a real techniques miracle complexion sponge and then a zoeva 104 buffer face brush. The foundation is definitely a light to medium coverage but it is very build-able and out of the two different methods of application, using a brush definitely has a fuller coverage to it over a sponge. The finish of the foundation is very fresh looking with a natural glow and it actually feels like you aren't even wearing any foundation, as it is super lightweight feeling. A great thing i have noticed about this product is that any other product applied on top such as powder/bronzer/blush etc, applied really nice and didn't slide product around or anything. Moving on to the staying power of the foundation, i first applied it at about 8am and wore it until around 7pm so 11 hours and i was super impressed at how well it lasted for. I didn't touch up at all throughout the day, considering that it is a glowy foundation and it was a quite warm day i didn't look overly shiny at all. The only thing i would say is that it did transfer off a little from whenever or where i touched my face, like if you have an itch of something. So my overall opinion on this foundation is that once again L'Oreal have done good with another foundation release. The only thing i am not sure on is whether this product would last you as long as a normal liquid foundation would and would the product dry up quickly, that is something i will definitely have to report back on.

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