The no make-up make-up look. Your skin, but better. The newest codes of beauty dictate a clear and particular direction. To appear like you tried, but not too hard. The brief may be au naturel, but any beauty aesthete will know that it really takes a village to achieve said look. Yet to actually get that much-desired satin, blurred finish, what gives? Beyond a good night’s sleep, plenty of water and a ritualised skincare routine, some judicious top shelf pickings are par for the course. A base that illuminates your facial features and offers minimal coverage. Enter: the newest crop of skin tints.
We may love a full beat on occasion, but long gone are the days when full coverage was the preferred armour of choice for a regular day under the sun. To replace our heavy foundations, moisturising skin tints were the ultimate disruptors to the beauty market. These sheer, lightweight darlings doled out just enough coverage to feel like second skin; each one designed to soften our imperfections, but never completely conceal them. It was all about embracing the self, and more importantly, letting our skin breathe. Especially with most skin tints being based in moisturiser or SPF formulations, these formulations were often also filled with antioxidants or hydrating ingredients such as squalane and hyaluronic acid.
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In 2025, skin tints are taking the beauty world by storm. Kylie Jenner certainly earned herself brownie points with Kylie Cosmetics’s Skin Tint Blurring Elixir Foundation, with its medium coverage and melt-into-skin finish achieving raving reviews all over the internet. As far as luxury houses go, Chanel Beauty has constantly sought to improve its certified favourite: the Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint that settles into a light, dewy glow. Of course, we can’t talk about base make-up without bringing Fenty Beauty into the conversation; the shade range and long-lasting promise of its Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint Foundation being one we can’t possibly deny.
All things considered, we’ll concede that the duty falls upon us to advise you—Vogue Singapore’s beauty-obsessed readers—on the most worthwhile options in the market. Without further ado, a bird’s eye view of the best skin tints to cop this summer, to score a natural, second-skin like glow for yourself.
