Revlon Color Stay 24Hrs

Revlon Color Stay is probably one of the most popular foundation on the worldwide web, you see almost every youtuber at one point of another raving about it. I’ve had this one for almost a year now so I thought I should at least give it a little shout out.

First things first this is not my favourite foundation, but I don’t hate it. I have the colour 150 Buff which is the second palest shade (for once not the palest!), and is a yellow based foundation which cancels out the redness I get really well.  This is also the dry/normal skin formula.

This is the old formula so it doesn’t have a pump which means that I often pour too much out, but that honestly doesn’t annoy me that much because I’ve never actually finished a foundation.

 

I got myself colour matched at Myer when I bought this so the colour is exactly right for me and doesn’t wash me out like a lot of foundations do. I do have some trouble around my nose where I have particularly dry skin and very large pores which is why I stopped using this foundation for a long time. I have since found a primer that does a fantastic job filling in those pores and I discovered that using a sponge and rolling on the foundation leave the foundation looking very smooth and doesn’t emphasis the pores as much. I have yet to discover a way to stop this foundation emphasising my dry skin though.

What I do like about this foundation is that you can control the level of coverage. I don’t like high coverage foundations for everyday use. Other than redness, dark circles and the occasional pimple or freckle I don’t have any real problems with my skin. I actually like it when you can see through the foundation to some of the imperfections bellow because it looks for natural and if you don’t cover your pimples they tend to go away faster. That being said this foundation can definitely be full coverage if that’s what you prefer.

This foundation is $34.95 in Australia which is a lot for a brand which markets itself as an everyday brand. That being said if $34.95 for an everyday foundation doesn’t bother you I’d say go ahead, it’s not a bad foundation, if it does bother you (like it does me) then there are a lot of cheaper foundations in the market that do the same as this one.

All in all I think I will finish this product but I don’t think I’d repurchase. Its good, it’s not great, at least not for my skin and for the price I expected more, what more I expected I’m not sure but I’ve got a lot cheaper products in my collection which are just as good as this one.