Koh Gen Do

Very disappointed. I used to love this foundation but not since it’s been reformulated. Horrible coverage.

To me this is nothing more than a tinted moisturizer and not a very good one at that - it doesn’t hydrate all that well and I’ve had much better results evening skin tone with other tinteds (Physicians Formula, Laura Mercier) I purchased this months ago on sale at Alcone and keep going back to it thinking I must be missing something considering the amazing reviews it receives. Due to the fact that so many seem to really love this, I’ll spare you the “highway robbery” rant.

My HG foundation is the Koh Gen Do Moisture foundation. When I saw this reformulated with more coverage I was super excited to try it. Let me start by saying, I have mature, dry skin. I’ve tried this multiple ways with different primers and no primer - alway moisturize well underneath. I even tried to mix some in with the Moisture foundation. No matter what I did, it left my skin looking like a parched river bed. You know that look where every crease, pore and wrinkle is super defined and obvious? Well that was the look I got with this foundation. And an hour or so after application, it even looked worse and dry patches started popping up. Maybe this works well for those with oily skin but it was awful on me. It’s so bad that I’ll be sending it back as I know I’ll never use it.