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Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint.

Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint

About this product

A sheer, water-based tint with encapsulated pigments designed to create a natural, luminous bare-skin finish with minimal coverage.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

77%

Yay

4 experts · Moderate agreement
4Gurus
3Yay
1Mixed
0Nay

What they liked

  • Radiant bare skin effect, blurry finish
  • Sheer, no-makeup look
  • Travel size available at lower price

What they flagged

  • Very dewy, harder to wear in hot climates
  • Watery texture, takes time to absorb
  • Limited shade range for darker skin tones

What the gurus are saying

This tint melts into skin with a blurry, dewy, juicy finish that reads as bare skin rather than makeup, making it a summer favorite for those who like radiance. The texture is quite watery, so it may feel noticeable on the face until it fully absorbs, and in hot, humid climates that dewiness can make wear time tricky. Shade matching matters since the sheer formula shows undertones clearly as skin tone shifts with sun.
Synthesized from 4 expert reviews · most recent take January 2025

What the gurus are saying.

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Yay
"I'd wear my Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint. [...] I love Les Beiges. Give anything that makes me look like I haven't just been dug up because in the morning I look this color. When [...] you get to a certain age and you wake up and you're yellow, if you're a Caucasian color right, it goes from your cheek."
All 2 takes from Caroline Hirons
Glad We Had This Chat Takes New York - The Lipstick Lesbians
"I'd wear my Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint. [...] I love Les Beiges. Give anything that makes me look like I haven't just been dug up because in the morning I look this color. When [...] you get to a certain age and you wake up and you're yellow, if you're a Caucasian color right, it goes from your cheek."
S2 Ep21: GLAD WE HAD THIS CHAT TAKES NEW YORK - 'The Lipstick Lesbians' Alexis and Christina Andr...
"I'd wear my Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint. [...] I love Les Beiges. Give anything that makes me look like I haven't just been dug up because in the morning I look this color. When [...] you get to a certain age and you wake up and you're yellow, if you're a Caucasian color right, it goes from your cheek."
Yay
"This is Chanel's Water-Fresh Tint, also known as Les Beiges Eau de Teint, and it has these micro droplets of encapsulated pigments that melt into the skin on contact and it creates this sort of radiant bare skin effect. It is so pretty. It doesn't actually look like I'm wearing makeup, it's just this fuzzy blurry juicy kind of finish, which is just perfect for summer. I only use this in the summer. I purchased this in the wrong color, the 90, which was too dark for me, even though I've continued to wear it and can generally only really use it as I get tan throughout the summer. I've ordered it in the 60, which is more of a medium with a neutral undertone, so I'm looking forward to trying that out. There are times when I don't even want to wear this because it has a serious texture to it, so if I'm in a really hot climate it makes it harder to wear because it's quite watery. You can sort of feel it on your face until it absorbs."
Mixed
"It's really beautiful, very fresh, no makeup makeup like your skin but insanely better type of a product. So if you're looking for something to put all over the skin to just even out the skin tone but you're not wanting a foundation look, I think you would really like something like this. The cons for me are that there's fragrance in this which I don't love, however I didn't notice it lingering on my skin which is really nice. I'm going to give this a yellow because of the price tag. I feel like it would potentially be a yellow green, but I think I'm going to have to work with it a little bit more. The initial feel of this is kind of funny. If you've tried this and it's not working out for you, ask yourself if you've used a brush because I feel like this blended out with my fingertips was not as seamless. I feel like this would really really help if you have a dense flat top brush to kind of break up those beads a little bit more. It just didn't melt into each other the way that I would have wanted, but the brush helped that."
Yay
"I've loved for years the water-fresh tint which just makes your complexion look better somehow."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Sunscreen filters

Sun protection is the best evidenced way to slow visible ageing, and the filters are what does the work. Mineral and chemical filters both protect when a product is applied thickly enough and often enough, which is where most people fall short rather than on the choice of filter.

Source: DermNet

Frequently asked.

What is Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint?

A sheer, water-based tint with encapsulated pigments designed to create a natural, luminous bare-skin finish with minimal coverage.

Is Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint worth it?

Mostly yes. 3 of the 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 77%.

What is Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint's Guru Score?

Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Tint holds a Guru Score of 77%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.

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