L’Oreal Visible Lift Foundation Review
Well, I know that I generally really like L’Oreal products, and their foundations seem to work very well together with the Revlon Skinlights illuminators. And yes, I did end up buying the last of someone’s stock online as soon as I found out they were discontinued - I love it that much, and hope that it will come back because I know from other women’s comments online that it was also their favorite tool for brighter, more illuminated skin.
Well, I was in need of some new foundation to replace my now year old Revlon anti aging foundation, which hadn’t been used for my hiatus from liquid foundation and switch to Bare Minerals for several months. I knew that if you have foundation for a year or so, you should definitely be getting a new bottle, so I went to my local drug store to search out my latest “experiment”, since with some things I don’t try them twice, foundation being one of them because I think there are so many good ones out there worth trying.
I ended up settling on a L’Oreal foundation called Visible Lift Line Minimizing and Tone-Enhancing makeup, since I was looking for something that would soften the lines on my now thirty-something face, instead of allowing things to settle into those lines to make them more obvious. The Visible Lift makeup also has an SPF of 17, so that was an added benefit in my eyes.
The costs was a little over ten bucks, which I thought was totally fair for a decent drugstore brand of foundation these days. I picked the “buff” tone, number 110, because I thought it would best downplay any redness in my skin due to it’s muted tone. I also noticed that it contains something the label proclaimed as a “new” ingredient, Pro-Xylane and Hyaluronic.
Now I have no idea what Pro-Xylane is, but I do know that hyaluronic acid is an excellent ingredient in any anti aging skin care product, as it tones down lines and helps plump out wrinkles. By the way, hyaluronic acid is also the principle ingredient in skin plumpers that are injected like Restylane and Juvederm. It’s either a component of, or stimulator of collagen in the skin, so anything with that listed as an ingredient is excellent to achieve younger looking skin in short.
My review of this product is that I like it, overall, but I do have one complaint. It’s a very watery texture, so it feels as though it may not be giving as good coverage as some of the thicker foundations. However, this is twofold, because if it were thicker, it would have the potential to look cakier, and thereby make the person look a little older by settling into lines.
This is a tricky one with foundation, because both watery and thicker consistencies have drawbacks, you just have to figure out which works better for your skin and also for the time of your life, ie if you have aging skin, dry skin, younger skin with more oil, and so on and so forth. The foundation does work well in tandem with the Revlon Skinlights skin illuminator though, and I will keep using it until it’s gone. The color of the foundation is excellently matched to my skin, so it does give a very natural finish.
A tip to figure out the right tone for you is to open the bottle and hold it up to your face, next to a mirror. There are a lot of people who say to use your hand as a guide, but I’ve never found this to be useful for me since my hands have a very different color and texture than my facial skin.
