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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Lollie King

Best foundations for dry skin that provide hydration and glow

The combination of dry skin and face makeup can occasionally lead to disaster. From caking to flaking and general discomfort, sometimes it just doesn’t work out.

Foundation is the base of all our makeup and most of us don’t quite feel complete without it, whether you prefer a light tint to blur imperfections or something a little heavier. But for those of us with dry skin it isn’t so straight forward. Foundation can make dry skin feel tight which can lead to peeling, pilling and balling, and then comes the desperate need to cover said flakiness with more foundation - a vicious cycle and far from the luminous glow we had set out to achieve.

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