YSL Touche Eclat Le Teint Awakening Foundation Review
Foundation is probably the one thing that people ask me for recommendations for more than anything (mascara is right up there too). But choosing a foundation is a very personal thing, so I would always say go to a counter of a brand you like, and ask to try a few.
The beauty market is flooded with foundation these days. There are so many types, from so many brands, it is confusing. Things to remember when choosing a foundation are your skintype, and the type of coverage you want – the amount and finish. I have quite a few different foundations, for different occasions, and different coverage levels – and finishes. Much like paint comes in matte, gloss, eggshell, satinwood, etc, foundations come in matte, dewy, sheer, radiant, and so on!
YSL’s latest foundation is Touche Eclat Le Teint Awakening Foundation Weightless Radiance Flawless Coverage SPF22. Phew! It’s not that new – it has been around since February, but I’ve just got round to trialling it recently.
I do like YSL foundations. I’ve used a few different ones over the years, the last being Le Teint Encre De Peau (Fusion Foundation)which was launched two years ago. I wasn’t completely in love with this one, I felt it sat in my pores a little bit. Before that, back in 2011 I included a YSL Teint Resist LongWear Foundation in my 40 for 40 beauty feature on my then blog, Beauty Bomshells. I loved that foundation, but it seems to have disappeared. In 2012 Le Teint Touche Eclat came on the market, 23 years after the launch of the Touche Eclat highlighter, bringing all of that technology into a foundation.
The new Le Teint Awakening Foundation replaces that one, bringing an advanced formula with it, ready to diffuse light to the skin, giving soft radiance with no shine, banish shadows, and disapelling dullness.
The effect is a decent coverage foundation with a little bit of luminosity, but not too much of that dewy look that I am not overly keen on. YSL have also launched a brush with a Y shaped well in it to use with this, but I am sticking with my Bare Minerals Perfecting Brush (£24) with its well – the original and best!
You don’t need a lot of this foundation at all – a little goes a long way, and it’s buildable, so you can add more if you feel the need, and concentrate on just specific areas of the face. I always add a little more to my chin, and around my nose, for example.
It has a light feeling, for a foundation that gives a decent coverage, possible thanks to technology I am not even going to go into here. Suffice to say it allows light to radiate through the foundation, so you never feel that you have a thick, heavy layer on.
I do love a matte founation look the best though, and even this at times is too radiant for me, but it’s on my rotation of ‘go-to; foundations for the moment, in shade BR20 Cool Ivory, a perfect shade match. It comes in LOADs of colours across various colour spectrums, so you really do need to get into the counter, and get your best shade.
YSL Touche Eclat Le Teint Awakening Foundation, and Y Brush, both £32.50, yslbeauty.co.uk
