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BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2022: The Best Face Makeup For A Flawless Base

BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2022: The Best Face Makeup For A Flawless Base

Build the right foundation

It all starts with the base—for a flawless face makeup, count on these powders, foundation and concealers for the perfect canvas.

Hydrating and nourishing, the Vitamin Enriched Face Base from Bobbi Brown preps dehydrated skin and relieves dry patches, to create a smooth canvas for foundation to go on.

The Lightful C+ Coral Grass Tinted Primer comes packed with skincare ingredients vitamin C, coral grass and cherry blossom to promote skin radiance and perfect skin so foundation can be applied smoothly and easily.

This water-based foundation gives a sheer, breathable coverage to even out the skin tone—giving the illusion of good and flawless complexion. Transparent smoothing microspheres diffuses light and blurs away imperfections while coated pigments provide light coverage and long-lasting wear. The result? A bare skin effect, as though you have naturally great skin.

This is everything you would want in a foundation. Its medium to full coverage finish masks out any skin imperfections while feeling ultra-lightweight on skin. It also boasts a 24-hour smudge-proof wear that resists sweat, water and friction so complexion remains fresh even after mask-wearing. The ultra-natural finish is imperceptible, even on 4K cameras, so you're always ready for a spontaneous snap.

Looking for a foundation that gives your skin a natural glow? Charlotte Tilbury's got you covered. Packed with hyaluronic acid and a blend of rose-derived ingredients, the Beautiful Skin Foundation plumps skin to lend it a hydrating and radiant glow.

TikTok made us do it. Social media hype aside, this foundation offers a full coverage, natural-looking fresh-matte finish even though it has a formula that is hydrating and nourishing. Apple extracts and sodium hyaluronate work to plump and hydrate while offering a lightweight, buildable finish that doesn't feel cakey on skin. 

Combing skincare and makeup, this foundation offers a 24-hour matte finish and blurring effect with eight-hour moisturising powers. Lightweight and soft, the formula includes nasturtium extract to promote cellular metabolism, pink clay to soften and purify skin, as well as emollients to keep skin hydrated.

When applied, the Dior Forever Foundation feels like it becomes one with your own—resisting transfers all while feeling lightweight and breathable. Formulated to be resistant to heat, humidity, stress and fatigue, Dior Forever Foundation was tested under heat conditions of 33-degree Celsius weather (just a regular day in Singapore) without budging, for up to 24 hours.

Skincare or makeup? The Plein Air Complexion Balm feels like both—offering a complexion perfector that enhances skin without masking its natural beauty. It melts over skin to form a luminous veil, lasting for eight hours. A hyaluronic acid complex, along with evening primrose oil, Baikal skullcap, and white mulberry hydrates and protects skin from external aggressors.

This BB cream simultaneously hydrates, conceals, smoothes, tones and even out skin tone. Skincare ingredients help soothe any irritation, while brightening skin tone to help it look soft and dewy. Plus, it also has SPF 50+ and PA+++ sun protection, making this the ultimate, must-have in your makeup bag.

The Phyto-Blanc Le Cushion is basically skincare and makeup in one handy compact. The buildable coverage helps conceal any blemishes, while high glow oil offers a dose of radiance boost. Skin is perfected and resists any swear and heat for up to eight hours.

This cushion gives skin a luminous matte finish with up to 12 hours of comfortable wear that not only resists sweat but is transfer proof as well. Active ingredients bamboo powder and silk-cotton tree flower extract mattifies the complexion by rebalancing sebum on the skin without dehydration. Rose damascena, Darjeeling tea leaf extract, and vitamin F imbues skin with antioxidants while protecting it against environmental aggressors.

Inspired by skincare recipes reserved for the royal families of ancient Korea, the iconic Gongjinhyang Seol Radiant White Moisture Cushion Foundation leaves skin looking bright and radiant throughout the day. Thanks to skincare ingredients found in the Gongjinhyang: Seol Whitening Ampoule and also Korean Daisy flower extracts, this cushion works to hydrate skin and diminish the appearance of dark spots and dullness for a luminous glow. 

A cult favourite, this iteration of Laura Mercier's best-selling loose powder grants skin a soft-focus finish for up to 16 hours. The perfectly-balanced peachy pink shade blurs away imperfections and enlarged pores while controlling shine with zero flashbacks.

This lightweight talc-free loose setting powder works to blur away fine lines, and giving it a candlelit glow—like a real life Instagram filter. Hyaluronic acid, Tahitian pear and evodia rutaecarpa help to keep skin hydrated, brighten complexion, stimulate collagen production and boost radiance.

We love this blusher for its versatility—apply it on both cheeks and eyelids for a unified healthy flush. The ultra lightweight powder is infused with shea butter, hyaluronic acid and black rose oil to blend in like second skin while hydrating it.

This liquid blush blends seamlessly onto skin to give it a see-through watercolour flush, with long-lasting pigments that help it last all day. The shade selections (11 of them in total) are all formulated to complement a wide range of complexion tones.

Having glowy, radiant skin is always in fashion—but the trend has moved away from the glittery, disco ball highlighters to natural-looking opalescent glow. The Luminizing Face Enhancer is inspired by the glow of opals, producing a synthetic opal that's chemically and optically identical to natural opals and including them into the formula. This produces an iridescent sheen that livens the complexion, while imparting a prismatic, yet natural glow.

What if a concealer can fade away dark spots as well? Charlotte Tilbury's Beautiful Skin Concealer not only provides a medium buildable coverage, but also skincare ingredients like niacinamide, vitamin C, hyaluronic acid, peptides and collagen to brighten and even out the skin tone, while deeply hydrating it.

Red and inflammed skin can fine relief in the Snow Algae Color Corrector which is specifically formulated to tackle pimples and blemishes. Its light green tint neutralises any redness, while skincare ingredients like viamin E, Japanese blood grass root extract and snow algae extract work to strengthen, hydrate and improve skin healing.

This cult-favourite concealer is truly one that lives up to its fame. With a medium to full coverage formula, it helps to diminish the appearance of fatigue and imperfections with a finish that looks natural. Fun fact: someone on Reddit actually used it to conceal her bruises after an accident and it was totally imperceptible after. Amazing!

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