Aloha ! Long time no see ! The past few weeks have been hectic quite literally; a new exam session is dangerously approaching and I've been to New-York for my birthday. Yep, you read well. NEW YORK. N-E-W Y-O-R-K. Oh dear. Let me tell you, my credit card will remember that one. New York has always been a big dream of mine, but I was pretty excited about going to the U.S in general as the last time I went I was a ten year old kid. Damn long time ago. Ever since I started following beauty Vloggers on Youtube I've been fascinated with Americans and their oh-so-enviable CVS/Walgreens/Ulta hauls. Actually, I was so excited about american drugstores that Walgreens was our first stop and my birthday-mood not helping, I did one of my biggest haul ever...
Enough rambling, you've probably guessed by the title that this post is all about the over hyped True Match foundation. Again, I'm very late on this one, but I have my reasons (kinda?). First of all, if you're a Swiss fellow like myself, you'll know that we only have a few shades available around here - and by "a few shades" I mean the lightest one is three to four shades too dark for me... Second of all, the prices here are ridiculous in comparison to American prices; 20 something swiss francs (= more or less 22$) for a drugstore foundation that might break me out...yeah, let's address that issue; I'm a total foundation snob as some will say. Not that I love spending way to much money on those fancy high-end glasses bottles, but I've always had the (wrong?) idea that drugstores products are more likely to break you out (which isn't entirely wrong really, but hey, let's play fair). That's when I spotted the True Match, in no less that around 6 shades in THREE different tones (warm, neutral and cool). I've never come across anything like this before, it was quite overwhelming. Of course, I went for the lightest shade, in the warm category - the so called W1. Let me tell you it is a true match.
I've once heard someone say it was a pretty good dupe for Giorgio Armani Luminous silk foundation and that's exactly what it is; a buildable medium to full coverage, a glowy satin-y finish not too shiny but not flat either and well, take it from an oily gal', it doesn't move. I barely had to set it and as I didn't want to ruin the finish I simply added the tiniest amount of Hourglass Ambient lighting powder on top and that was it. I'd say it's one of those foundations that get better and better throughout the day - always glowy, never greasy. Plus, as it says on the bottle, it is super blendable so you can totally wear it during the day or build it up for a flawless night-time look. That babe just does it all.
I haven't anything bad to say about it really, except that I wish they were all sold with the pump (have I miss something here ? Are you supposed to buy it separately or something?) and that I could find my shade in Switzerland but hey, that'd be too easy 'ha? I'd say if you manage to find the right shade for you (which shouldn't be too much of a problem if you're from the UK or US) go and get it. Yeah, you'll thank me later.
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