Foundation & Concealer

Base makeup lives or dies on two things – the shade matching your skin in daylight, and the formula surviving the day you are going to have.

Foundations here run from sheer tinted moisturisers to full-coverage liquids and long-wear sticks. Concealers cover the separate jobs of brightening under the eye and spot-covering blemishes, which rarely want the same product.

In Gulf heat, oil-free and transfer-resistant formulas hold better, and a setting powder through the T-zone buys hours. Test a shade along the jaw in natural light, never on the back of the hand.