Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation

What the experts use it for.

The concerns the experts tie this product to, in their own words. Paid and founder takes don't count.

Breakouts and acne1 expert

“I still have like redness on my cheeks sometimes, I've got acne, so I like to have a little more coverage with my skin tint.”

Allie Glines, watch at 0:37

Redness1 expert

“I still have like redness on my cheeks sometimes, I've got acne, so I like to have a little more coverage with my skin tint.”

Allie Glines, watch at 0:37

What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Caroline Hirons

250k subs

✓Yay

"My favorite foundation is [...] Tint and Protect, which I made myself. It's the only thing I carry in my kit now. [...] It has the natural finish I want, and [...] it has a medium coverage, so you can use less if you need less coverage or add more skincare. Coming from someone who loves skincare and prepping, I can get a nice marriage between skin and glow coming through, and then this on top."

Top Pick: foundation

Allie Glines

829k subs

✓Yay

"This is one of my all-time favorite skin tints. I [...] feel like now people know about the skin tint, but it's been a favorite of mine for years now. Great shade range, great coverage, but somehow undetectable. Literally melts into your skin. Obviously, it's very buildable. So, if you felt like you needed more coverage, you could build this up quite a bit. But the finish always remains so natural looking. I love this. My only thing is the packaging does get quite messy."

Top Pick: tinted serum with spf

All 6 takes from Allie Glines

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"It's just the perfect spring product. This gives like a little bit more coverage than a lot of skin tints that I've tried, which I really like because I still have like redness on my cheeks sometimes, I've got acne, so I like to have a little more coverage with my skin tint. But this just melts into the skin and never feels like too much. I also love that it has more of a glowy finish but it never leaves me feeling greasy, which is important."

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"The Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation is fabulous for like everyday if you're somebody who wants SPF in your makeup. It's a mineral SPF, by the way, which is fabulous. And it also just kind of like evens out the skin tone but doesn't look like makeup at all."

Here's the Makeup I Packed to Disneyland 🤩

"I felt like this would be a great airport kind of a foundation. I wore this on the days where I traveled and this on the Disney days because it was actually a little bit hotter than we were anticipating so the longevity in this was really nice to have."

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"It's their Tint and Protect SPF 50+ tinted serum. I wear the shade 02 fair. This is what I have all over the skin. It has mineral SPF in it, which is fabulous if you have sensitive skin like me. And it's just nice. It's like such a good busy mom like product to have in your makeup routine. It looks like skin, but it still like gives really nice coverage. It's not one of those products that looks so skin-like you can't tell it's there as far as like did it make a difference in my skin."

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"I love how skin-like this Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation is. It genuinely just blends into the skin without looking like too much. [...] I'm going to take my sponge and just press everything into the skin."

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"This is one of my all-time favorite skin tints. I [...] feel like now people know about the skin tint, but it's been a favorite of mine for years now. Great shade range, great coverage, but somehow undetectable. Literally melts into your skin. Obviously, it's very buildable. So, if you felt like you needed more coverage, you could build this up quite a bit. But the finish always remains so natural looking. I love this. My only thing is the packaging does get quite messy."

Dr. Mamina

283k subs

✓Yay

"The CL skin tint has a natural finish, one that I think more people should know about. I have just started playing with this one and I'm obsessed."

Alexandra Anele

1.45M subs

✓Nay

"The formula is just a little too oily for my skin. [...] The color is not quite there either. If you are someone who is more dry, you're probably going to love it. But if you're like me and you tend to get very oily in your T-zone, I would skip it. I want to love it, but it's just not quite there. If CL extended their range [...] to include more olive tones, I think I might be obsessed with them because I love their whole ethos. But [...] personally I would skip it."

Dr. Shereene Idriss

1.73M subs

✓Yay

"Ciele, founded by Nikki D. Roast and Siri Francis, has an SPF first approach to color, which I think is really interesting given that you can always add an extra layer of SPF. Ideally, you're wearing it under your makeup, but why not make sure you are fully protected? Their Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation is a mineral SPF infused foundation that embodies the brand's core promise of protection and coverage."

Dr. Sam Ellis

900k subs

✓Yay

"This is gorgeous. What I like about it is that it also falls into that makeup for dummies category where you can put it on anyway. You can put it onto a brush, you can literally take it out of the tube and dab it on your skin and it will blend out into perfection. So it's just a very easy blush to work with and looks so natural. This is one of my favorite colors that they have, shade Bahadi. The colors that they have are also just so beautiful."

All 2 takes from Dr. Sam Ellis

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"This is gorgeous. What I like about it is that it also falls into that makeup for dummies category where you can put it on anyway. You can put it onto a brush, you can literally take it out of the tube and dab it on your skin and it will blend out into perfection. So it's just a very easy blush to work with and looks so natural. This is one of my favorite colors that they have, shade Bahadi. The colors that they have are also just so beautiful."

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"This is incredible. I know I've talked about it so many times, but it is that good. It's what I'm wearing in like 90% of my YouTube videos if I filmed them in the last year or so. [...] I have had so many patients who are in their 50s, 60s, 70s come in and bring this in and be like, "Thank you for teaching me about this foundation. I have never liked the way foundation looked on my skin as a more mature adult until I tried this." I just stand so firmly behind it."

Beyond50Skin

32k subs

✓Yay

"I love a skin tint for mature skin. It just gives that beautiful light but skin perfecting coverage. I'm going to use the CL today. I'm in the shade light number three. And I finally found the dropper to this, thanks to you guys. You just pull the cap off and there the dropper is. I like to apply this on the back of my hand because I have more control over how much product I'm using. I like to apply with my fingers. I just tap it in. And then my next tip is to use a brush."

All 3 takes from Beyond50Skin

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"I love a skin tint for mature skin. It just gives that beautiful light but skin perfecting coverage. I'm going to use the CL today. I'm in the shade light number three. And I finally found the dropper to this, thanks to you guys. You just pull the cap off and there the dropper is. I like to apply this on the back of my hand because I have more control over how much product I'm using. I like to apply with my fingers. I just tap it in. And then my next tip is to use a brush."

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"Both of these are holy grails. Love them both. [...] The Seal is newer. I think it's been out maybe 16 or 18 months. Absolutely love this, too. This is a little bit more of a moisturizing feel to it."

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"This is a beautiful thin serum textured skin tint. I absolutely love it. I've been reaching for that all summer long."

HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

✓Yay

"This is an SPF 50 tinted serum foundation. This is lightweight and fluid. It's got a lot of glow to it, so it's going to help the skin to look more youthful. You're not going to look like you have on a heavy mask of makeup. This one works great with a brush. This one has a dropper."

What the evidence says.

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

Niacinamide

Niacinamide has evidence behind it for redness, uneven tone and supporting the skin barrier, and it is usually well tolerated even by skin that reacts to most things.

Source: DermNet

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

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Frequently asked.

What is Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation?

A tinted serum foundation with mineral SPF 50+ that gives medium, buildable coverage and sun protection in one step. It comes in a range of shades with a dropper applicator.

Is Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation worth it?

Mostly yes. 7 of the 8 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 86%.

What is Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation's Guru Score?

Ciele Tint & Protect SPF 50+ Tinted Serum Foundation holds a Guru Score of 86%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 8 expert reviewers we have collected. It is also Guru Certified, our mark for products that hold broad approval across many expert reviewers.