Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50

Q: What is Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50?

A tinted mineral sunscreen with zinc oxide and an SPF 50 rating, designed to shield skin from UV rays in a shade meant to blend with the skin tone.

Q: Is Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 worth it?

Mostly yes. 10 of the 13 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 79%.

Q: What is Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 good for, according to the experts?

In their reviews, experts say Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 is good for redness (3 experts), dark spots and post-acne marks (1 expert) and melasma (1 expert).

Q: Is Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 good for redness?

3 experts who reviewed Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 say it is. Sincerely Miss Ash put it this way: “This actually does a very good job to eliminate redness, to actually even out your skin tone.”

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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Dr. Vanita Rattan

1.23M subs

✓Mixed

"They've also added Invisishield complex, an antioxidant blend, but if you're going to create an antioxidant blend you should put it in an airless pump, which they haven't, so it destabilizes the formula a bit. It's fragrance-free and denatured alcohol-free, which I love. The miss really is the shade range, especially if you're Fitzpatrick 6, and it's priced quite expensively at £48 at Sephora. In 2026 I would rate Colorscience about 7 out of 10, and previously I would have rated it much higher."

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"Moving on to SPF 50, I love mineral sunscreens with zinc oxide because they're anti-inflammatory. If you want a tinted sunscreen I would say go for the Colorescience."

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"Colorescience tinted mineral sunscreen, how many times have I recommended this product? I used to recommend it all the time and use it myself, but they reduced the amount of zinc oxide down to 12%. I don't understand why, and I really don't know how they're now hitting SPF 50 with a reduced zinc oxide. So it's a shame, Colorescience, because actually so many of us love the finish of this product."

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Sincerely Miss Ash

196k subs

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"The one I feel is best for me is the Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50, and I [...] use the untinted version. [...] I shake it before applying and use the two finger rule, sometimes applying more in the summer months when I'll be outside for a long period of time. [...] Once it's blended in, believe it or not, it does not leave a white cast on my skin tone. [...] This really has a beautiful formulation."

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"I really love the Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield, the Flex line, which is tinted. There are four shades to pick from. I have it in the shade fair and medium, and there's two deeper shades than medium."

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"This is exceptional, the best tinted sunscreen I have ever used, truly. I have the medium shade, I have the fair shade, I generally mix the two if I'm in between shades. For the summer months I'm strictly medium, in the winter I'm mainly fair with a couple of drops of the medium. This helps to even out your skin tone, it adds that nice color and it gives a glowing complexion. It's an SPF 50, water and sweat resistant up to 40 minutes, it's all mineral, and it is beautiful."

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"Next up is the Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex. This is a tinted sunscreen, and it's the only tinted sunscreen that I use because it's the only one that actually looks realistic on my skin, and it's the only one that I will use to replace my foundation with because this gives medium to full coverage, and I really love how this gives that nice radiance to the skin as well. There are several shades to pick from."

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"I really love this sunscreen, and this one is one of my favorites because not only does it help to color correct, it does help to even out your skin tone. It's great for those no makeup days, just something to even out your skin, just to add a little bit of color. But also if you're someone that wears makeup on an everyday basis, then this is exceptional underneath your makeup. This acts as a makeup primer, I'm telling you, your makeup looks flawless on top of this."

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"The last product is a sunscreen, the Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield, the Flex line, which comes in four different shades. It's 100% mineral with an SPF 50, water resistant up to 40 minutes, has a PA+++, and a zinc oxide of 12%."

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"This is truly one of my favorite formulas here. This is the Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield in the Flex line. I have it in the shade Medium, but I also have it in the shade Fair. When I'm at my fairest, I use this one, and when I'm a little bit darker, the Medium one seems to blend really nicely. This one has an SPF 50 with PA++++, [...] and it's water resistant up to 40 minutes."

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"This also has a zinc oxide of 12%. [...] This is usually my foundation replacement for the summer, and sometimes I will even eliminate foundations in the winter and use this instead. This actually does a very good job to eliminate redness, to actually even out your skin tone. The more you apply, the darker you will become, the more coverage you will get. With this brand I use shades fair and medium, and I mix them together depending on skin tone."

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"It's honestly one of the best tinted sunscreens I've ever used because it looks realistic. It looks skin-like. If you just want that light to medium coverage, then this is where you could stop. Or you could just keep applying more if you have more problem areas in terms of discoloration or redness. I like when my freckles and my imperfections still shine through because it just keeps my skin looking fresh and skin-like and it just gives that perfect no makeup makeup look."

April Basi

72k subs

✓Mixed

"Colorescience Face Shield is one of the options I recommend to my friends who have sensitive skin, but if you want the tinted version, be careful because it could leave a white cast on dark skin."

HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

✓Yay

"The Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 was a top ranking sunscreen in my mineral sunscreen testing videos a couple years ago."

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"The Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 was a top ranking sunscreen in my mineral sunscreen testing videos a couple years ago."

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"This is one of the ones that I like to use as a layering sunscreen if I put on something under that has a white cast that's a little bit too light. I can put this on over the top that will just even out the skin tone and even out the white cast and make me look a little less ghostly. I found this one to be too greasy and too wet feeling. This is an SPF 50 with a PA+++ rating so it's got really robust UVA protection and it's also 40 minutes water resistant so you can wear this one to the beach."

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"The Colorescience Flex is a tinted mineral sunscreen that [...] I like a lot. It is the one that changes color but it also comes in shades, and it is 20% off."

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"This was the winner in my recent sunscreen video this year and this is a beautiful sunscreen. It is tinted. Everything that I bring is tinted so that when I'm wearing sunscreen like at the beach I don't put on makeup and since it's tinted I can just reapply my sunscreen and it helps my skin to look a little bit better, my skin tone to look a little even, hides my redness and I don't have to put on makeup. It helps make it easier to reapply my sunscreen after a couple of hours."

Dr. Sam Ellis

902k subs

✓Yay

"This is the Colorescience Face Shield Flex. I think this is such an incredible tinted sunscreen. It comes in, I think, five shades. I have always mixed the fair and the medium shades because I change colors a little bit if I have a fake tan or if I have accidentally a little bit of a real tan, and I like to make sure I can get a perfect match. [...] They have said you can mix their formulas together."

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"Colorescience has their Flex range with a fair, a medium, and a tan shade, and you can mix those together because it's the exact same sunscreen formula with just slightly different tints, and the company has okayed it and says that it doesn't mess with their formula."

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"This is a pure mineral or physical sunscreen, SPF 50. What I really want to make very clear here is I'm not using this as my only form of sunscreen. It is so tinted and so pigmented that the way I really love to use this is on top of my regular sunscreen because if I apply a full quarter teaspoon of this, I feel like it's a little bit too thick and it doesn't have the finish that I like."

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"I already used Colorescience but now these are the more tinted versions, the Flex. I use the light and the medium and I kind of mix them one to one, a little bit goes such a long way. I don't really use these as sunscreen, I'm using it sort of as like my foundation for today."

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"I think if you try to wear the flex on its own and you're actually using the proper amount or a quarter teaspoon of product for your face it's going to be too thick and too heavily pigmented so that's why I really like to layer this with the other color science sunscreen. I also like that these are water and sweat resistant. If I was going to a pool party and I actually wanted to look cute this combo of sunscreens is what I would wear."

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"This is the Colorscience, their original formula, so it's tinted but it doesn't really offer any coverage. The tint is there to minimize the white cast that a lot of mineral sunscreens can have. [...] This is really nice under makeup too. Sometimes it looks a little bit pink going on but I find that it doesn't leave any cast whatsoever on my skin. It's one of my favorite mineral sunscreens."

Dr. Jenny Liu

324k subs

✓Yay

"This is a 100% mineral sunscreen containing zinc oxide, but it's tinted. What's really cool is that the color will kind of blend into your skin tone once you let it absorb, so it really leaves no white cast. I believe it's also water resistant, up to 40 or 50 minutes. This is a great one because in addition to the tint that blocks against visible light that contributes to hyperpigmentation, so if you struggle with melasma or hyperpigmentation, this is a must."

Abbey Yung

886k subs

✓Nay

"This offers medium to full coverage with a natural to glowy finish. [...] I used to really love this at one point in time, but now that this category has evolved so much since this first launched, I just don't feel like I have a need for this in my collection anymore. I have products that feel lighter weight that I really love applying that make my skin look even better, so I think it's just time to retire this."

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"I still think the final look you get with this is beautiful if you want a tinted sunscreen with fuller coverage, but the texture isn't as beautiful, it's [...] thicker and almost pasty compared to other tinted sunscreens that have launched [...] since I first discovered this. [...] The final result is so pretty, but I have other tinted sunscreens I prefer in terms of feel now, so I'm going to reach for those and not repurchase this."

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Nipun Kapur

413k subs

✓Yay

"If you want something that gives you more coverage, the Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex SPF 50 is something I absolutely love. In fact, it is one sunscreen that has changed my whole opinion on mineral sunscreens."

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"I have gone through a couple of bottles of it it is a mineral sun screen that I really really love"

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"This is the color science face shield AA 50 plus 100% mineral sunscreen which is fabulous"

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"The big change that I do when I'm in the flight is using a mineral sunscreen, so I went in with this color science one, it's a bit tinted so it gives you a nice finish"

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Dr. Shereene Idriss

1.73M subs

✓Yay

"It's not as expensive as it is for the face. I think they don't put in as many vitamins, antioxidants, and so on."

Nadine Baggott

164k subs

✓Yay

"I love color science because it comes in different shades so it's a SPF 50 really high UVA protection but it blocks out your visible light which is really important. [...] It's called something like Flex, it comes in a bit like a medicate tube with a little pump and it goes on as a cream or fluid. [...] The reason they're tinted is because iron oxide has a rusty red appearance which doesn't look good on anyone so if you put a tint in it becomes more cosmetically acceptable."

Cassandra Bankson

2.46M subs

✓Yay

"Another really good one that helps you fake a makeup look with no makeup is from Colorescience. That one's a really thick one. If you have rosacea or redness, oh my god, that is basically foundation in a sunscreen. It covers everything."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

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"The Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex is one that I've had cleansers fail to remove, and they should take it off, but I mean it's a testament to how good that sunscreen is in terms of staying on the skin. That's [...] great, you want it to stay on the skin until you don't."

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"What it is is a tinted mineral sunscreen that comes in four different shades. [...] It's a mineral sunscreen that comes out [...] white, but as you rub it in, the tint starts to come out and bloom. [...] What I like about this formula is that it is very aesthetically pleasing and cosmetically elegant, spreads on the skin well, and also offers a touch more cosmetic camouflage in comparison to a lot of other tinted sunscreens."

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"This Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex is like a shield on your face. I wear this a fair amount, and I have tried cleansers where I don't do the oil cleanse first and I have this on my face, and I get out of the shower and I kid you not there's still visible tint of this on my skin. I mean it's not going anywhere, which is great. It's a great testament to the durability of this on the skin."

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"Face Shield Flex, one of my favorites. Really innovative formula, very cosmetically elegant."

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"The Colorescience Face Shield Flex is close to almost a foundation, almost like a BB cream. It gives good coverage, expensive though, that product is expensive, but it does give some nice coverage of dark spots, some color correction and camouflage."

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"The Colorescience Face Shield Flex is bomb. It really gives a decent amount of coverage, but in contrast to the e.l.f. one, it's not streaky or cakey or tight or drying, it gives a demi matte finish."

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"One of my other favorite tinted mineral sunscreens is the ColorScience Face Shield Flex. That one is almost like getting into the territory of a lightweight foundation or a BB cream or a CC cream, because it actually does provide some nice cosmetic camouflage to cover up things like freckles or sunspots and give you a more even complexion."

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"I was wearing the Colorescience Face Shield Flex, a tinted water resistant sunscreen, and after washing my face with cleanser three times in the shower I was shocked at how much of it was still on my face. Shout out to Colorescience for making one heck of a tenacious sunscreen, it stays on."

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"This is the Colorescience Face Shield Flex, a water resistant sunscreen. I'm using the medium shade. A word of warning, this is high coverage, closer to what you'd expect from almost a foundation, though not quite full camouflaging coverage. [...] It's a lot more coverage than the Dermatology Universal Tint, and it takes a bit more effort and time to spread onto the skin. It doesn't settle into creases for me, and it doesn't pill."

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"I love the Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield Flex, I've been using it a lot again lately, it's one of my favorites. I'm in the shade medium, and what I like about this particular sunscreen is it comes out white but as you rub it in the pigment starts to appear and blend into the skin. [...] It's water resistant up to 40 minutes, for me personally it leaves no cast, though if you have a deeper skin tone I do think these sunscreens will leave a cast."

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"I just put on the Colorescience Face Shield Flex before coming out, and I haven't worn it in a while, but it's a great sunscreen that is sort of like a hybrid between skin care and cosmetics because it comes out white and then as you rub it in the pigment starts to come out. They have a few different shades, and I've got the shade medium on right now."

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"I've also been wearing the Colorescience Flex quite a bit this summer, that's another good tinted mineral sunscreen, really good coverage, almost like a foundation. Some people don't like it for that reason."

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"The Colorescience Sunforgettable Mineral Face Shield is another tinted sunscreen that I have always recommended and really love."

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"I reviewed this new line from Colorescience earlier this year over the summer, [...] their Face Shield Flex mineral sunscreens that are tinted, and I rather enjoy these. They come in shades fair, medium, tan, and deep."

The Budget Dermatologist

725k subs

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"They are really great because they give you good protection and iron oxides, which are great for melasma prone skin. I think they come in several shades. They blend in quickly so easy to wear. They are a little more pricey. I do not use it like as my number one every day because they get expensive. But you can almost always always find these for 25 maybe 30% off during sales of the year. [...] I love to wear this on no makeup days where I just want a nice little glowy look."