Editors Swear By This Product for Glowing Skin Year-Round

This lightweight, full-coverage foundation also multitasks as sunscreen, a brightening color corrector, a hydrating anti-aging serum, a smoothing primer, a dark-spot concealer, and a moisturizing day cream. In just one step, you get the look and feel of a full skincare, foundation, and concealer regimen. Whenever I ask my fellow beauty editor, Erin Jahns, for her favorite foundations, this one is always at the top of the list.

These liquid drops are super light and airy on the skin, so it's hard to imagine how Catrice has managed to pack them with such full-coverage pigment. Celebrity makeup artist Mai Quynh has been known to keep it in her rotation, too.

Celebrity makeup artist Georgie Eisdell is a fan of this foundation and has been known to use it on her A-list clientele including Gwyneth Paltrow, Florence Pugh, and Anya Taylor Joy. This oil-free gel-cream formula is bold and bouncy to the touch. The tiniest bit of product goes an extremely long way, so you can stretch it super thin for medium coverage or layer a bit more for a weightless full coverage.

This silky-smooth, organic, cold-centrifuged, coconut oil–based foundation is lightweight, stretchy, and, best of all, totally clean. 

We love when a foundation touts its best qualities right in its name and lives up to it. This foundation is indeed weightless and leaves your skin luminous, as promised.

Here's another all-natural option that delivers a blurred, velvety finish that looks more like perfect skin than makeup. Its coverage is so subtle that celebrity groomer Marissa Machado has even admitted to using it on her male clients Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas. 

I've said it before but will say it again: This affordable foundation holds its own against the more expensive formulas. It's buildable, soft, glowy, and completely weightless. I can't say enough good things about it.

I've never met a Kevyn Aucoin foundation I didn't like, and this one is no different. The name says it all. It offers the most gorgeous, weightless medium coverage; feels hydrating on the skin; and delivers an ethereal glow that stays put all day long.

Beauty editor Erin Jahns is a bona fide foundation encyclopedia (trust me—I've picked her brain more times than I can count), and this is another lightweight foundation she always calls out for its soft, dewy effect on the skin. It's formulated to leave your skin looking as if you just treated yourself to a luxurious facial.

Fenty Beauty's Blurring Skin Tint provides lightweight coverage that's somewhere between a tinted moisturizer and a foundation. Its flexible formula is easy-to-apply and seamlessly blends to even out your complexion.

Added pseudo-ceramides ensure this formula stays soft and hydrating on the skin for up to 18 hours. You won't catch it cracking or drying out, and you can apply it anywhere on the body that needs a little refining.

I'm no drugstore foundation snob, but it still has to be said that Revlon continuously gets it right with its formulas. This one has prickly pear oil for an extra hydrating, glowy finish.

This hydrating skin tint feels like a thin oil at first, but as soon as it dries down, you'll forget it's even there. It softly blurs imperfections while still letting your skin shine through. I love it (and so does Erin!) for those days when you just want glowy, hydrated, smooth-looking skin. See above for proof that it delivers on all those fronts, no filter required.

This cream foundation is probably the easiest you'll ever use. All you need is warm, freshly-washed fingers to get going. It's stretchy and sheer at first, but you can also build it up to full coverage if you're feeling led to do so. The best part is that the sleek metal case us re-usable, so once you make your way through the product, you can keep refilling it instead of tossing in the trash.

When we recently met Chanel Makeup Artist Kara Yoshimoto Bua, she couldn't sing enough praises about this lightweight foundation that she used to create Saoirse Ronan's Oscars makeup look. She loves the buildability and the blurring effect of this liquid formula and said that it helps her cover all sorts of pigment and texture on all skin types.

This bottle has been part of my beauty consciousness for a long time because it's one that my mom fell in love with early on and still uses to this day. It dries down to the most beautiful demi-matte and can be used on the face as well as anywhere else on the body that might need a little color correcting.