As I've gotten older, my skin has gotten more and more dry during the winter. I had been just fine using my normal foundation, Lorac's Natural Performance, all summer and fall long, but in December, things just dramatically changed. No longer did my go-to product give me a flawless finish, smooth and matte, with just a touch of dewiness. Now my skin looked sallow. It was yellowing and scaling. I had a massive problem.
I'm not normally one to complain about my skin. I don't suffer from acne and my skin is rather smooth. I have some fine lines (clearly more than I did when I was 25), but I'm not overwhelmingly wrinkled. My skin, during the winter, was just too dry for a full-coverage foundation. Honestly though, I don't NEED a full-coverage foundation either. Besides its new found dryness, my only big skin problem that I have is freckles (not going to be able to do anything about those) and slightly uneven skin tone.
That said, I found that being extremely pale and freckled put me in a bad position. Given that I'd likely only need a product for a few months, I decided to start off by doing something I've never done before...experiment with the drugstore and Target. I tried a Lumene BB cream in Light (the lightest color that it comes in), but it was too dark for my skin and I had a very noticeable orange line which wasn't going to work. Yes to Grapefruit CC cream in light was also a bust, color-wise, unfortunately. I can't say that either of these products is "bad" since I'm clearly not going to continue to wear something that is not going to at least blend in properly.
I got off lucky, really, as I had purchased both products on sale and I didn't fork over too much cash for them. I decided that I wasn't going to continue to toss money into the wind though and went on to the next logical step...internet research.
I spent hours (and I DO mean hours) reading reviews and searching through published lists of "best foundations for dry skin" or "the best tinted moisturizers of 2014". I locked into one...Jouer Luminizing Tint. Not only were the overwhelming majority of the reviews positive, but I found Youtube video reviews that made me excited about the product as well.
I did have some hesitations. First of all, many of the videos I watched were made by people in their 20s. Secondly, it came with a pretty hefty price tag -- $38. This was precisely $2 more than my normal full-coverage foundation and a whopping $24 more than what my second choice (The Balm's BalmShelter) cost on Amazon. While price is always something to be concerned with, this is also my skin and I made the decision to go ahead and invest in the Jouer product.
I received the product and decided to go head first into testing it. Since it was a light moisturizer instead of foundation, I skipped the usual Beauty Blender routine and went straight to the old school "putting it on my face with my hands" method that served me so well in high school with my Cover Girl foundation.
Out of the tube, it did appear to be a bit more on the yellowish side of the spectrum and I worried if I had made a mistake. It also has a shimmer to it (not overly glittery, just a pretty dewy look) that I don't normally look for in my foundation, but it really wasn't over the top.
On my face though, it did it's job. It felt hydrating and light, but also evened out my skin tone all while letting my freckles poke through to add the illusion of youth. It's shimmery enough to give me a healthy glow without turning me into a Twilight Vampire.
Overall, I'm in love with this product! I'm not even sure I want to go back to foundation when the spring time/summer comes around. I may give BalmShelter a try as well, if only for the insanely cheap price tag associated it with in a "well, why not?" manner, but I'm pretty sold on Jouer's tint.
If anyone reads this and has other suggestions, I'm always open to hearing about them!
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