75%
would repurchase
3.5/5
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ingredients

Active Ingredients: Zinc Oxide-7% & Titanium Dioxide-2.4% Ingredients: Deionized Water, C-12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Iron Oxides, Glycerin, Cetyl Dimethicone, Cetyl PEG/PPG-10/1 Dimethicone, Styrene/Acrylates Copolymer, Panthenol, Magnesium Sulfate, Isopropyl Titanium Triisostearate, Alumina, Benzalkonium Chloride, Polyhydroxystearic Acid, Silica

Reviews

Reviews


5.0
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14 years ago

This product has totally changed the way I feel about foundation. I stumbled accross it here on MakeupAlley, was curious and ordered the sample pack from Illuminare's website. I was suprised that...

About reviewer (17 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinAcne-prone, Fair-Medium, Not Sure

HairBlond, Other, Other

EyesHazel



2.0
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14 years ago

I am a BE user but got bored so I started searching around. I thought a cream based foundation for the winter sounded good so I purchased the Illuminare foundation sample package. I could not find...

About reviewer (36 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium

HairBrunette

EyesHazel


4.0
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14 years ago

I am really enjoying this foundation and I want to say right off that this base goes further than any other one I have ever tried. I was not sure what color or what version I wanted from this brand...

About reviewer (123 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinDry, Fair

HairBrunette

EyesGreen


4.0
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15 years ago

I tend to careen around in my foundation use for no particularly good reason except that I get bored, and this foundation had languished in my makeup basket since last winter. I pulled it out...

About reviewer (89 reviews)

Age44-55

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium, Not Sure

HairBrown, Straight, Medium

EyesBlue


5.0
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15 years ago

After applying this today, I realized I never wrote a love letter to my sweetheart, Illuminare Foundation.....I have been using this exclusively since I tried it about two years ago. I have tried...

About reviewer (57 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinDry, Fair, Cool

HairRed, Wavy, Medium

EyesBlue


5.0
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15 years ago

I've been using Illuminare for probably the past six years or more, and it's my holy grail foundation, for sure. Every once in a while I get the urge to be more "natural" and use only powder...

About reviewer (18 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinAcne-prone, Fair-Medium, Warm

HairBrunette, Wavy, Other

EyesBrown


2.0
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15 years ago

How frustrating. This applies beautifully - and looks so gorgeous for about 30 minutes after application. But my face turns into an oil slick about an hour after I apply it, and 2 or 3 hours...

About reviewer (22 reviews)

Age25-29

SkinOther, Other

HairOther

EyesOther


4.0
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15 years ago

<html> <body> <p> This product is more like a tinted moisturizer (on the more pigmented end of the spectrum) than a foundation. On my oilier days I don't require a separate moisturizer (which I...

About reviewer (34 reviews)

Age25-29

SkinCombination, Fair, Warm

HairBrunette, Wavy, Medium

EyesHazel


5.0
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15 years ago

Bought the sample package, it is by far the best foundation I've ever used (believe me, I've tried a lot). First of all, the most critical for a fdn is the colour matching. I mixed equal amount of...

About reviewer (778 reviews)

Age44-55

SkinDry, Fair-Medium, Warm

HairBrunette, Straight, Coarse

EyesBrown


1.0
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15 years ago

I wanted so much to love this product, but unfortuately it did not work for me. It caked off my skin and showed large dry patches. In the beginning I thought it was because my skin was too dry. I...

About reviewer (52 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinSensitive, Fair-Medium, Neutral

HairBlack, Straight, Medium

EyesBrown


5.0
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15 years ago

This is the first foundation that I can used daily without breaking out. I have tried all department store foundations: MAC, Estee Lauder, Lancome, Christian Dior, Shisedo, Too Faced, Stila, Laura...

About reviewer (11 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinAcne-prone, Fair-Medium

HairBrown

EyesBrown


2.0
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15 years ago

If you have sensitive, acne prone, or oily skin do NOT use this foundation. I have no issues with the coverage or the colour. Nor do I have any qualms about their customer service. (They shipped...

About reviewer (8 reviews)

Age19-24

SkinOther, Fair-Medium

HairBrown

EyesHazel


4.0
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15 years ago

I had been looking for something to reduce the redness in my cheeks because I have alot of pick in my skin tone, this does a pretty good job at covering the redness and keeping my skin even...

About reviewer (3 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium

HairBrown

EyesBlue


4.0
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15 years ago

I have been using this for a week now and I love it. I had been using Alima powder mineral makeup and just found that it was too drying, and pooled and caked in my oily t-zone by midday. I have...

About reviewer (27 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinCombination, Fair-Medium, Warm

HairBrunette, Straight, Medium

EyesBrown


4.0
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15 years ago

This is nice. The coverage is good and but not so heavy that you look embalmed. The tube pkg is ok but sometimes you have to "massage" the tube so that this oily residue doesn't shoot out first. ...

About reviewer (57 reviews)

Age44-55

SkinNormal, Fair-Medium

HairBlond

EyesBrown


1.0
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15 years ago

this is not for me, i became extremely oily in an hour or two. and my skin is unable to breath. not for combination skin!

About reviewer (121 reviews)

Age30-35

SkinAcne-prone, Fair-Medium

HairBlack

EyesBrown


5.0
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15 years ago

This is a really great product. Mineral makeup is the only kind that doesn't break me out if I sleep in it... not that I do that ;) If you are sick of the powder kind like me and want a dewy finish...

About reviewer (116 reviews)

Age19-24

SkinAcne-prone

HairRed

EyesGreen


4.0
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16 years ago

This makeup does stand out in terms of not clogging pores but their color selection is so poor and there is a lot of gray tones in this formula. On oily areas this will need touch ups , I wish this...

About reviewer (154 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinCombination, Fair, Warm

HairBlack, Straight, Other

EyesOther


3.0
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16 years ago

I'm having a hard time finding a foundation that matches my very pale NW10/15 complexion. Also I do have very sensitive, dry skin so it is really hard because a lot of foundations make me break out...

About reviewer (259 reviews)

Age36-43

SkinSensitive, Fair, Neutral

HairBlond, Wavy, Fine

EyesGreen


4.0
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16 years ago

I am not a foundation girl, I hate the look of foundation, its like an obvious, un-natural coating over a woman's skin. Even the best foundations, a beautiful coating they might be indeed, but...

About reviewer (12 reviews)

Age19-24

SkinOther

HairBlond

EyesBlue