How to choose and apply foundation

If you have dry skin, your skin is likely to mark during the day. To bring comfort to your skin and avoid this "cardboard" effect, but also boost your skin's radiance, opt for the Super Serum Skin Tint SPF30 Light Foundation Ilia, a featherweight foundation that's easy to apply and leaves a luminous finish on the skin. 

I have normal skin

Powder or cream? Both are suitable for normal skin. The question is which finish you prefer: glowy and satiny or matte and controlled. Our favorite fluid-textured foundation for a luminous finish? The True Skin Foundation Fond de Teint Sérum Ilia, a foundation with a bare-skin effect and adjustable coverage for a finish that looks almost Photoshopped. 

Your skin tone is colour ivory, fair, light, medium, matte or black, but do you know your skin's undertone? Because it's this precise point that will help you find the colour foundation best suited to your skin tone. Pink, golden or neutral? Here's how to determine them: 

• You have pink undertones if: your skin reddens easily at the slightest deviation and the veins on your wrists are rather purplish. Another clue? You sunburn easily.

• You have golden undertones if : the veins on your wrists are green and you tan quite well. You don't have pink undertones, but rather yellow/peach.

• You have neutral undertones if : you can't determine the colour of your veins? They're both purple and green, aren't they? You're neutral ;-)

And when in doubt between two shades, we recommend opting for the darker, more neutral shade. And to find your ideal shade from our foundation selection, visit our shade guide.