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.

Pros: Formulated with skin-loving ingredients for visibly healthy, smooth skin

Cons: Has a tendency to oxidize with all-day wear, which shifts the color

Product Specs: 1.08 oz tube

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.

Pros: Provides a second skin, airbrushed effect finish to the complexion

Cons: None

Product Specs: 1.01 oz bottle

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.

Pros: Uses an innovative lightweight, gel-free formula crafted with 60% water

Cons: Offered at a luxury price point

Product Specs: 1.0 oz jar

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

Pros: The rich, creamy formula melts into the skin for natural buildable coverage

Cons: Not ideal for individuals who have oily skin and/or frequently have clogged pores

Product Specs: 1.0 oz jar

We love it 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.

Pros: Builds and blends effortlessly with up to 16-hour of full coverage wear

Cons: Limited shade availability across several retailers

Product Specs: 1.06 oz bottle

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.

Pros: Blurs imperfections and helps balance skin tone while smoothing out texture

Cons: Reapplication of product may be required for all-day wear

Product Specs: 0.32 oz bottle

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.

Pros: Hydrating formula with SPF is ideal for use on normal to dry skin

Cons: Formula settles into fine lines and oxidizes slightly after a few hours

Product Specs: 1.0 oz tube

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.

Pros: Blends effortlessly with light-diffusing particles for a shine-free, comfortable wear

Cons: None

Product Specs: 0.95 oz bottle

Beauty Director 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.

Pros: Use skin-conditioning emollients to improve the hydration and health of the skin

Cons: Offered at a luxury price point

Product Specs: 1.01 oz bottle

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.

Pros: Has a HydraBlend complex-infused formula that layers well with primer and skincare

Cons: Can occasionally look patchy on dry spots

Product Specs: 1.08 oz bottle

Added meadowfoam seed oil, hyaluronic acid, and plant-based squalane ensure this formula stays soft and hydrating on the skin for all-day wear. You won't catch it cracking or drying out, and you can apply it anywhere on the body that needs a little refining.

Pros: Instantly boosts the skin's moisture levels by 52% for a dewy glow

Cons: Not ideal for covering hyperpigmentation or redness

Product Specs: 1.1 oz bottle

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.

Pros: Has nourishing ingredients like plant-based squalane, niacinamide, and hyaluronic acid

Cons: Not ideal for those sensitive to strong fragrances, as the formula has an odor

Product Specs: 2.0 oz bottle

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 is reusable, so once you make your way through the product, you can keep refilling it instead of tossing it in the trash.

Pros: Can be used to conceal, correct, contour, and cover any imperfections

Cons: Foundation may appear flaky on dry patches of skin

Product Specs: 0.28 oz compact

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 dewy finish and can be used on the face as well as anywhere else on the body that might need a little color correcting.

Pros: Has an ultra-light, waterproof formula that delivers all-day comfort and wear

Cons: Appears oily upon application until thoroughly set with powder

Product Specs: 1.7 oz bottle

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.

Pros: Features anti-pollution, antioxidant, anti–blue light ingredients in its unique formula

Cons: None

Product Specs: 0.75 oz tube

When we recently met Chanel Makeup Artist Kara Yoshimoto Bua, she couldn't sing enough praises about Chanel's Ultra Le Teint Velvet foundation 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. While it has since been discontinued, the brand's Ultra Le Teint offers the same result.

Pros: Features plant-derived glycerin helps keep skin hydrated all day

Cons: Offered at a luxury price point

Product Specs: 1.0 oz bottle