L'oreal True Match Foundation: Review

I have wanted to do this review for SUCH a long time. The L'oreal True Match foundation is one of those foundations that people rave about whether its on YouTube, Beauty Blogs, Instagram, wherever. My question is: WHY?!

Don't get me wrong. I have most certainly tried worse foundations in my time, and though this is not one of them, I don't think it deserves the credit it gets.

Lets begin with my main bug bear, so we end on some sort of a high.

The Colour Range. Seriously, all those colours, and not one of them runs truly yellow?! My understanding was that this was a foundation to cater for ALL colours and undertones, and I honestly thought L'oreal was going to deliver. If you look online, you'll find shades that are labelled "C", "W", or "N", basically Cool, Warm and Neutral. Being an NC42, I went with W7, Golden Amber, assuming it would be a beautiful yellow, golden colour.

Sadly, I was wrong. Though L'oreal have churned out 23 shades (don't get too excited as you probably won't find all of them in store) they did NOT get the yellow toned shades correct at all, a true bummer. W7 was runs way too red for me. I went with it though.

It's okay. It's not great, it's not exceptionally bad. I feel that this foundation is anything but natural looking, and I have tried to apply it many different ways, with a sponge, with a dense stippling brush, with a buffing brush. Whilst it doesn't look exceptionally cakey, it doesn't look as natural as I would like. L'oreal don't claim that it will, but even so. Perhaps thats due to the fact that I am simply not happy with the colour on me, I don't know. As it is super blendable, it moves around on your face when you apply it which isn't fun. I also found that it oxidised a little bit.

Now the good stuff. It has a pump, and being a Nars Sheer girl, thats an ultimate whoop-ee! It IS blendable, as L'oreal states. If anything its a bit too blendable when you're trying to work it in as it is a thin, runny type liquid.. It does last a good while for a cheap foundation, but only when you set it with a powder. I wouldn't recommend using a spray, as the foundation itself is pretty dewy. And hey, it was pretty cheap at £9.99. 

I won't ever buy it again, simply because the colour is awful, and I don't like how I have to wait a good 10 minutes for it to dry on my face before I can add powders. I prefer a foundations with a thicker consistency and less dewiness. Sticking to other foundations for the time being. 

So, that's that. If anyone loves this foundation, feel free to argue that its great in the comments below.