I was pleased that the foundation didn’t settle into the fine lines under my eyes or forehead even after wearing for hours and hours. As mentioned it’s definitely not full coverage, and so my freckles and other skin “issues” did come through, but not in a bad way. I didn’t use a primer with it (just moisturizer underneath) and it did do a somewhat good job of helping hide my pores and smoothing out my skin. The foundation felt nice going on it was creamy, had decent medium coverage and was easy to blend in. I did actually wear 2.0 for a full 8 hours or so recently and here are my thoughts. Here are three of the darkest shades, but there is also an 8.5 and 9.5. But here you can see the differences in 2.0, 3.0, 6.0 and 7.0.
The lightest shade I was sent was 2.0 which is a little dark for me. There are also soft focus powders and spherical polymers which help minimize the appearance of pores, lines and wrinkles.Īs mentioned earlier there are 14 shades and the first two are 1.0 and 1.5. This SPF 15 foundation is long-wearing (up to 8 hours they claim) and formulated with Laminaria Saccharina Extract which helps calm skin’s sebaceous glands, which results in less oil being produced. What that does is give a true-to-life shade to your skin while allowing your natural skin color to show through.
This foundation was 15 years in the making for MAC and features some patented pigment technology which encapsulates micronized pigment particles in translucent spheres. This new foundation spans a wide range of colors starting off with 1.0 and moving to 10.0. MAC has a new foundation out this fall called Matchmaster Foundation SPF 15.