This is the Nars All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation. To begin with I will quote what Nars say about this foundation straight from their own website.
Full, natural-looking coverage with unexpectedly weightless, 16-hour wear. Highly pigmented and perfectly balanced, this breakthrough formula builds and blends effortlessly with just one drop—the result of exclusive innovation uniquely designed to deliver long-wearing full coverage, weightlessly. Shake, pump and blend in sections for complete coverage that's completely natural looking.
First of all I would like to mention the packaging. I'm in love! I don't own any foundation that is a square shaped bottle, matte lid and matte textured glass as well. The square shape makes a huge difference to the look of the foundation and I am simply very impressed with the simplicity of the packaging. It is very sleek and looks pretty on show too. Guess what! They have also included the pump.. Wahay! The pump just makes the foundation application alot easier and I can only imagine how ugly it would have gotten if there wasn't a pump. To say the least the packaging itself won me over straight away.
Moving onto the actual product. Now I'm just gona be really picky and give you all the ins about how I feel so far and my experiences. The name states 'All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation'. I got to stop you at luminious there but this foundation I bought considering that it's classed as a luminious foundation but infact it is far from being classed as luminous. It could have also meant luminious as in the natural luminousity you get on your face, the one that's not greasy looking or over-powering but it's not either of those. It just isn't luminous full stop. I really wish it was because this just would have been the most perfect foundation in the world. I would say the finish is matte, not the dry kind of matte but like a velvety matte if you know what that actually means. They do say how it blends effortlessly which I absolutely agree on. Infact I agree with all their statements other than it being luminous Once blended it really does not weigh your face down, not that any other foundations do but this really does feel weightless but when I look at my face it looks as though I have a party face on. When I say party face, I mean when I wear makeup for an occassion etc and I would pile on plenty for a full flawless face but this foundation does that with 1 pump! Am I sounding a bit surreal here!? I'm only telling you what it really is. The full coverageness if phenominal! This is my most highest coverage foundation I have and I always feel that with full coverage foundations I need to work that extra little harder to get it all blended and seemless looking, however this new invention just changed all that. It's super easy to get an even base with this foundation.
When I first used the foundation, I applied Mac mineralize charged water moisture gel. I have used this moisturiser before under my other foundations but never had any issues however this time round my foundation looked awful and seriously patchy. I don't even suffer from dry skin but it patched a little around my mouth area, nose and a little above my brows too and it was not good. It really didn't look pleasing to the eye what so ever. I then used it again with a full exfoliated face and moisturised my face with the simple moisturiser. Once the foundation was applied my face looked flawless. It looked so smooth and velvety. I actually can't wait to make more use of this foundation. Before every application I will make the effort to exfoliate my face with my skin doctor powerbrasion which works wonders by taking a layer off of my skin which contains dead skin cells and totally renews the surface. I won't be doing that often anyways because I think I'm gona keep this foundation for special occassions although I will most definitely give it few more tries before I know for definate which category this foundation will fall in.
A WARNING*** for those with dry skin, bumpy skin or acne.. It's not for you. My advise would be to keep away from this foundation because it will patch and latches onto your dry skin. I really do think you need a good skin for this foundation to work at it's best without any visable patches etc. Just to note this is my opinion and by all means do test it out before you buy because it could be different for you but after my trial I saw how it clinged onto some of my dry skin which has never been an issue for me.
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