Dream Matte® Mousse. This long-lasting and lightweight foundation leaves skin looking smooth, flawless, and with a matte finish. Step 5: Some products can be blended onto your skin using just the fingertips. If so, gently even out the product with circular, upward movements. Use the ring fingers to blend at the eye area and the middle fingers to blend at the contours of your nose. You can skip Step 6 after that. Let’s cut to the chase and put it to the test. The characteristic feature of the Essence Soft Touch Mousse Foundation is its velvety whipped look and feel. It is ultra-smooth (and incredibly soft. Think, slightly pigmented whipped cream). It glides on as smoothly as a body lotion. The Essence Soft Touch Mousse foundation gives you a glowy but not shiny appearance and an airbrushed look due to its light consistency, i.e., it gives you a bright and polished look. So if you are ready to combine it with a bit of concealer for your problem areas, it is your perfect everyday wear. This long-lasting foundation features exclusive silky matte powder spheres that glide evenly onto the skin for a flawless, soft-focus 16-hour matte finish.

Staying Power: Get your hands on a foundation that is long-lasting and can withstand sweat, oil, heat, and humidity without dissolving. Otherwise, you’ll have to keep reapplying your base makeup throughout the day.See, some people prefer a brush or sponge for applying their makeup. But when you use your fingers, you can easily know the amount of product you are applying. Also, it is way easier to apply and blend.

So one day, I’m walking down the makeup aisle (I search more than I shop!), and I stumble upon mousse foundation. The only mousse I knew was a bowl of freshly whipped chocolate mousse. So this foundation got me quite curious. A definitive plus is that it doesn’t have much of an odor– just a faint smell. Now you must know that you don’t want your products to have any scent unless it’s a pleasant smell. Step 6: If your product cannot be blended with fingertips, then take a soft-bristle foundation or a dampened beauty blender.Ingredients: Ensure that the foundation is free from parabens, sulfates, triclosan, petroleum, phthalates, overpowering fragrances, etc. so you can indulge in a safe beauty regime. While these are not a given for makeup products, nourishing ingredients like vitamins C and E, hyaluronic acid, glyceric, aloe vera, and soothing botanical extracts are always beneficial. Mousse foundations are often confused with cream-based foundations. However, there is a major contrast between the two as a cream foundation has a pomade-like consistency, is dense like a concealer, and gives a dewy finish. On the other hand, a mousse/whipped foundation has a souffle-like consistency, wherein the microbubbles burst as the product is blended onto the skin, and you get a weightless, matte finish. And to top it off, these products give a dreamy, natural finish, which makes them ideal for no-makeup makeup looks. I’m not much of a foundation person. For the last couple of years, I have been using Garnier BB cream. It gave me light coverage and more of a highlighter effect. So I decided to switch to something that offered more coverage, but I was dubious about the liquid foundation. Ingredients: Aqua (Water), Cyclopentasiloxane, Butylene Glycol, Cyclohexasiloxane, Bis-Peg/Ppg-14/14 Dimethicone, Sodium Chloride, Boron Nitride, Sodium Potassium Aluminum Silicate, Caprylyl Glycol, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Propylene Carbonate, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Mica, Silica, Parfum (Fragrance), Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Salicylate, Citronellol, Coumarin, Limonene, Linalool, Ci 77491, Ci 77492, Ci 77499 (Iron Oxides), Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide). Essence Soft Touch Mousse Foundation Review About the product: Get the ultimate smooth and flawless complexion using the Essence mousse makeup. Its super delicate mousse texture gives you a natural-looking matte finish. The lightweight formulation provides you with the necessary coverage while allowing your skin to breathe freely.

It was a brand called Essence. I have tried their eyeliner and mascara, and they were pretty good. So I had a good feeling about the brand. I tried a little of the foundation on my wrist. And guess what? Love at first sight. It was Essence Soft Touch Mousse Foundation in the shade Matt Beige. If you’re using a damp sponge, start by gently dabbing near the eyes, and continue outwards. For the high-coverage finish, it is best to first even out the foundation gently with a brush, and follow it by dabbing with a sponge blender. Easy application using fingers. Brush or sponges not necessary, but you can use a round brush for blending in. Blendability And Finish: The product should have a silky and smooth texture, which glides easily and blends effortlessly. Then, depending on your skin type, you can look for specific features. If you have oily/combination skin, you can opt for a non-greasy, matte foundation. If you have dry/normal skin, then look for a non-drying luminous foundation with a dewy finish.

Step 3: If your product comes in a jar, scoop out a small amount with your fingers or with a clean makeup spatula. If your product comes in a tube/bottle, then squeeze/pump out a small amount on your palms. The best part about mousse foundations is application– you can easily apply it using your fingers. When you use a liquid or powder foundation, you are going to need an applicator. If you still feel the need for a brush, apply it with your fingers and use a round brush or flat top kabuki brush to blend it in. Personal opinion, a basic flat brush is not a great idea for a mousse foundation. Also, considering the size and shape of the container, it won’t be easy to use a standard foundation brush to take the product from the container. Plus, i t stays on for a generous amount of time. I have had it on for 8-12 hours. You might need to touch up a bit on oily areas, such as your nose, after a while. Or go the extra mile and use a makeup setting or finishing spray. I usually moisturize my face before applying foundation. But I do not use a primer. And for this mousse foundation, it is not a necessity. The matte formula holds on even without a primer.