Miracle Foundations

by Becky

I spent a ton of money looking for a good foundation for a "mature" face – one that would camouflage the wrinkles and sagging, but would still be light enough for an older skin. Then about six months ago I read a Good Housekeeping review of lifting/firming foundations that said the two that really did what they said would Cover Girl Advanced Radiance Restorative and Estee Lauder Resilience Lift Extreme. I tried both and here's what I found:

The Cover Girl does look very nice (especially for the price) – gives your face a very youthful glow. I don't have the ingredient list but it's made in conjunction with Olay and contains its "glucosamine complex"; you need to be careful with shades however - the 130 series tends to be on the yellow side and if your base color is yellow, like mine, it makes you really really yellow, but the 120 series seems to be okay. This costs about $10 for just under an ounce.

I then tried the Estee Lauder Resilience Lift Extreme (saved it for last because of the hefty pricetag - $35 for 1 oz; but a little goes a long way especially with a foundation brush). The list of ingredients is way too long to put here (they don't list their ingredients on their website but they do on the boxes the products come in) but I'll list a few I recognize as good anti-aging treatments and/or "smoke and mirrors" - acetyl glucosamine, hyaluronic acid, caffeine, acetyl hexapeptide-3,palmitoyl oligopeptide, palmitoyl tetrapeptide-7 and hydrolyzed wheat protein. This product looks fantastic and really does minimize the look of wrinkles.

And I just found out that in September they will be coming out with this same formula in a compact form (I assume it will be similar to the Mary Kay cream to powder foundations and by the way, I too sold Mary Kay at one time!).

This is the foundation I stuck with - a little expensive but while the Cover Girl product does minimize the look of wrinkles, pores, and gives a nice glow, the Estee Lauder does all this and also gives a firmer, more lifted look, which was primarily what I was looking for - just enough added benefit to make it worth the price for me.