I’ve been using Georgio Armani Luminous Silk foundation in shade 5 for several months. You can see it on my skin in this post!
It agrees so well with my skin, provides a buildable medium coverage and evens out my skin while still looking like skin and letting my freckles peek through. I realize it’s a high end foundation with a high end price tag, so I wanted to try to find a few drugstore options that could come close to it that I could recommend to you!

First up, Revlon Photoready insta-filter Foundation in shade sand beige.

Wearing Revlon Photo Ready insta-filter Foundation in shade Sand Beige.
I can’t start this review without pointing out the absolute worst feature of this foundation before I jump into the good stuff. And there is a lot of good stuff, and we will certainly get to that. . .
The attached sponge at the top of this foundation container is what my nightmares are made of. I get it, I really do, but I would enjoy this foundation so much more if I didn’t have to bypass this dirty sponge every time I used it. I attempted to rip it out but I’m not sure what I’m going to be left with so I just left it. In order to apply it, I twist the bottom of the container until foundation bubbles out of the center hole and then swipe that onto the back of my hand so I can apply with whatever tool I choose.
I get that the idea is that the user will simply use the sponge attached to the container, but not only is that not sanitary and could...