5 Best Budget Friendly Foundations for Daily Use

Hello Guys!

This is my very first beauty blog and I am really excited for it.

So today I am reviewing some of the foundations I recommend to be used for makeup and are also budget for the college going girls.

So lets start...

What is a foundation?

Foundation is a skin - coloured makeup applied to the face to create an even, uniform colour to the complexion to cover flaws and sometimes to change the natural skin tone. I feel foundations at the base of a makeup if we choose the wrong one, bam our whole makeup looks not so unnatural.

The first step for buying a perfect Foundation, is to know your undertone.

Pink foundation suits those who have a cool skin tone, and yellow looks best on people with a warm skin tone. If you use the wrong foundation for your skin tone, it might make your face look ruddy or ashen. The right foundation tone blends in perfectly with your skin for a seamless and natural look. You can perform a few tests to find out what foundation tone suits you best.

Here are some hacks to know your undertone:-

1.Stand under a bright light and look at the underside of your forearm. If the veins in your forearm are olive or yellow, your skin has a warm, yellow tone. If they're bluish purple or blue, you have pink, cool undertones.

2.Look at the complexion of your skin. If your skin is pale, pinkish red, olive, brown with a pink undertone, or dark brown with blue or red undertones, you need a pink-toned foundation. A yellow-toned foundation complements skin that is tan, brown, dark brown or pale with golden undertones.

3. Look at your eye color. People with yellow-toned skin often have green, hazel, amber or golden-brown eyes. If your eyes are dark brown, black, gray or light blue, you probably have pink-toned skin.

4. Examine your natural hair color. If your hair is dark brown, black or ash blonde, you may look best with pink-toned foundation. People with black, red, golden brown, reddish brown or strawberry blonde hair typically have yellow-toned skin.

5. Hold up gold and silver jewelry against your skin. If you look better with the silver jewelry, you probably have pink-toned skin. People with yellow-toned skin look better with gold jewelry.

6. Think about how you tan. If you tan easily, your skin likely has yellow undertones. If you have trouble tanning and usually burn instead, you probably have pink undertones in your skin.

7. If you have a mixture of these traits, you might have neutral-toned skin. People with neutral skin tend to look good in both pink- and yellow-toned foundation.Warm skin tones benefit from makeup colors such as bronze, gold, copper, peach and earth tones. Cool skin tones go well with silver, jewel tones such as blue and green, and magenta and grey.

Let's move to the next step i.e to determine the skin tone. When determining your skin tone, you actually need to figure out two things:

The surface color of your skin.Your undertones.

The surface color is what you see first when you look in the mirror. You probably already have an idea if your skin is light, medium, or dark, for instance. This is all about how much pigmentation you have in your skin.

Fair – You’re very fair, and burn easily.

Light – You have generally light-colored skin, but you have more yellow or beige undertones than fair skin. (More on undertones below.)

Medium – Your skin is a more medium color, with potential olive undertones.

Dark – You have dark skin and/or a deep complexion.

The surface color can change depending on a lot of things. If you tan in the summer, for instance, it will get darker, and then lighten again in the winter. It can also be affected by redness, rosacea, hyperpigmentation, dryness, and dullness. These are things you try to keep constant by taking good care of your skin, and things that you work to hide or smooth out with makeup.

Many foundations are available in the market and thus we get confused as we seek for the best one which suits our skin perfectly and is budget friendly. Here I have listed some of my personal favourite budget-friendly foundations which every college student can afford :-

1. Lakme Perfecting Liquid Foundation

Lakme is probably the oldest surviving makeup brand in India which is still going very strong with its amazing range of quality products and frequent new launches. This used to be the only foundation i used to find in my mothers pouch a few years back.Foundations used to come only from Lakme.

An integral part of your face makeup, this liquid based foundation spreads evenly to cover spots, blemishes, dark circles and patchy skin tone.

It is formulated to be water resistant, smudge free and long lasting.

The Vitamin E and silicones enrich the skin rejuvenating, replenishing and nourishing it on application.

This foundation is available in a small bottle that’s easy to carry.

Get that instant perfection right away!

Features:

•Vitamin E

•Silicones

•Oil-Free

•Water Resistant

Cost :-INR 145

2. Lakme 9 to 5 Weightless Mousse Foundation

This formula feels soft and incredibly weightless and provides the desired coverage for daily use. It blends effortlessly onto skin to conceal imperfections with a matte finish that stays throughout the day. A foundation so lightweight, you may forget you are wearing any foundation at all! Suitable for all skin types.

Features:

Cost :-INR 575

3. Colorbar Amino Skin Radiant Foundation

A revolutionary high coverage formula dedicated to all skin types. it is characterized by the presence of Lysine, an essential amino acid to maintaining the protein layer of the skin by improving hydration actively. it's also enriched with sophisticated treated Japanese pigments which ensure a colour fertility and uniformity in application. this Perfect second skin Foundation acts as filler to provide face a smooth and satin finish with the presence of Silicone Elastomers.

Features:

•Satin Finish with Silky Touch

•Water-resistant

•Fragrance free

•Allergens free

Cost:- INR 1200

4. LAKME ABSOLUTE Matreal Skin Natural Mousse

Feather-light mousse from the Lakme Absolute range that easily blends into your skin to give you an even toned skin. The Lakme Absolute Mattreal Skin Natural Mousse also keeps your skin healthy and protected with its new SPF-8 formula that gives your peachy-soft and naturally flawless skin for up to 16 hours. The Lakme Absolute Mattreal Skin Natural Mousse is extremely light with a natural matte finish that lets your skin breathe.. The Lakme Absolute Mattreal Skin Natural Mousse is available in 6 different shades to suit all skin tones. It's great for occasions as it gives you a naturally even tone and does not need touch ups.

Features:

• Feather light

• Blends Easily

• Stays upto 16 hours

• Matte Finish

Cost :- INR 525

5. Maybelline New York Fit Me Foundation

Last one but not the lesat. This one tops the list of my favourites. Ideal for normal to oily skin, exclusive matte foundation formula features micro-powders to control shine and blur pores.

Features:

• Even tone

• Blends perfectly

• Matte Finish

• Light weight

Cost:-INR 500