Lancôme

Teint Idole Utlra Wear Stick Foundation (250 Bisque W 025)

This was my first time trying Lancome's cream foundations. I bought this in shade 450 Suede Neutral, because the picture on the website looked exactly like my shade. I am a deep medium honey brown tone. Pros: The application and formula is silky smooth and buttery. It feels like cashmere on. It is very comfortable and just glides effortlessly. Highly transfer proof, the color stays on long and strong. And, I was able to easily blend this foundation with other brand foundations to create beautiful tones & colors that matched lovely. So this stick can be used as a base or blender-color if you need to add a Cooler or highly Neutral tint on top of what you're wearing. Cons: The color match is odd and comes off very ashy, pink, and grayed-out. No warmth or natural face appeal. I went in the mall to Lancome to purchase an additional one in my color, but all of these tubes have ill-matching or awkward colors and wrong labels. The consultant gave up after not being able to match me. She would try a shade on me, I would step outside with the mirror from the Lancome counter and see that, Nope, in natural light it would not match. Another con is if you are wearing this foundation alone, your face will look like an orange showing all texture and pits, which you don't naturally have, if you do not blend it completely out until it's no longer really even on your face. No blurring effects or smoothing beautiful set. It doesn't glisten or give a dewiness. It just misses the mark on key levels. This has the potential of being skin-like with a little serum, smoothing agent, or moisturizer added. FINALLY, my biggest complaint is that my tube stank. Like, it literally had an old or outdated product smell.. and that's not fair for what I paid for it. I can smell it on my face. That's upsetting. It smells expired. Oh and the brush is useless. All in all, I rate 2.5-3.0 stars. I would buy this if it was a cream foundation that was improved. As of now, I would not buy this again.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I loved this coverage and foundation! You can add more to build up if you want a more full coverage but this was perfect and matched my skin tone so well! The Kabuki brush was great to use!