Vanity Fare: Achieve perfect coverage with these makeup products

The right foundation can help conceal imperfections and blemishes, while still allowing your skin to breathe. Photo: Sephora

Whether your skin is oily or dry, or you want lightweight or full coverage, there is something for you from the latest range of makeup offerings.

Choose what’s right for your skin from these foundations, tints and concealers.

Natural finish

Sephora Malaysia introduces the Best Skin Ever Matte Powder Foundation – a new generation of compact foundation for an instant, fresh matte complexion.

It has a smooth and lightweight texture that effortlessly matches skin tone while letting it breathe, and just one application is meant to even out skin, making pores and fine lines less noticeable.

Available in 24 different shades, it delivers medium to high coverage without feeling heavy and has a light, natural finish.

Crafted with natural adaptogenic plants, this compact foundation aims at giving skin a flawless look while also helping skin control excess shine over time.

With each use, it soaks up extra oil, making your skin smoother and better-textured.

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Radiant glow

Shiseido’s new Revitalessence Skin Glow Foundation SPF 30 PA+++ delivers luminous results meant to last long after makeup comes off.

Two potent prebiotics – fermented kefir+ ( an antioxidant and prebiotic made from Japanese rice) and niacinamide – fuel the ability to maintain a healthy microbiome for a naturally vibrant and glowing complexion.

Housed in a bottle made from post-consumer recycled materials, this weightless formula feels like skincare while providing 24 hours of hydration and 12 hours of buildable, medium coverage with a radiant finish.

Choose from 30 shades named after materials commonly found in nature, architecture, or design throughout Japan.

The easy-to-navigate numbering system is designed to migrate across formulas and categories, and one can even use a slightly deeper shade to warm up skin and achieve a sun-kissed effect.

Light and bright

Tarte’s Shape Tape Radiant Concealer offers featherlight, medium coverage which wisps across skin for an effortless “no-makeup makeup” look that won’t hide your freckles or cake your face.

Powered by nature’s beauty fruit, seaberry, wildly harvested in the Tibetan Plateau, the formula is full of omega-7, vitamins and antioxidants for healthy-looking skin.

A photoluminescent complex converts UV light to blue light to neutralise darkness and illuminate for a soft-focus glowy effect, while triple hyaluronic acid blend plumps, smooths and hydrates. A formula called Tape technology smooths and lifts.

All-day hydration

Hourglass Cosmetics’ Veil Hydrating Skin Tint, a hydration-boosting lightweight formula bestows a dewy, healthy glow – instantly melting onto the skin, offering all-day comfort and sheer coverage for a flawless complexion.

It also visibly plumps the skin as it is formulated with 94% naturally derived ingredients including hyaluronic acid, and is infused with plant-based squalene, meadowfoam seed oil and a naturally derived rambutan blend.

Available in 18 shades, this non-comodegenic skin tint is perfect for sensitive skin which helps enhance natural skin radiance through innovative light-reflecting technology and high-quality ingredients.

It is also 100% free of mineral oils, parabens, alcohol, GMOs and is vegan and cruelty-free.

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Weightless coverage

Dear Dahlia’s Skin Paradise Sheer Silk Cushion is a weightless, fresh formula which provides a natural, radiant finish.

The soft-focus powder provides weightless, natural coverage and is designed to leave a radiant and velvety finish.

Featuring a mesh filter to deliver the perfect dose of foundation for balanced and flawless application, it is infused with dahlia variabilis flower extract, which has skin-conditioning properties known to help protect the skin and provide long-lasting benefits to promote healthy-looking skin.