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Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield SPF 50.

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Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield SPF 50
Sunscreen

About this product

A mineral sunscreen with SPF 50 and 12% zinc oxide that provides color correction and evens skin tone while offering water-resistant protection up to 40 minutes.

Sunscreen

The Guru Index verdict

81%

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What the gurus are saying

Gurus consistently praise this sunscreen for doubling as a color-correcting primer that evens skin tone and blurs pores, making it work solo or under makeup. The mineral formula earns kudos for high protection and sweat resistance. The main feedback is that it's heavily pigmented and thick at proper SPF amounts, so some reviewers thin it by mixing with the original formula or blending multiple shades for customization. Most treat it as a summer foundation replacement.
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Key actives & flags

NiacinamideVitamin ESPFFragrance-freeAlcohol-free

Full ingredients

Zinc Oxide (12%), Water, C12-15 Alkyl Benzoate, Butyloctyl Salicylate, Isododecane, Lauryl PEG-8 Dimethicone, Mica, Propanediol, Dimethicone, Caprylyl Methicone, Niacinamide, Tridecyl Salicylate, Dimethiconol/​Propylsilsesquioxane/​Silicate Crosspolymer, Trilaureth-4 Phosphate, Lauryl PEG-10 Tris(Trimethylsiloxy)silylethyl Dimethicone, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Maltodextrin, Sodium Chloride, Bisabolol (Levomenol), Dimethicone/​Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Disodium Lauriminodipropionate Tocopheryl Phosphates, Ethylhexylglycerin, Allantoin, Tremella Fuciformis Sporocarp (Silver Ear Mushroom) Extract, Dimethylmethoxy Chromanol, Caesalpinia Spinosa (Tara) Fruit Pod Extract, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Sprout Extract, Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate, Isoceteth-10, Silica, Tin Oxide, Sodium Hydroxide, Phenoxyethanol, Dehydroacetic Acid, Sodium Benzoate, Benzoic Acid

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What the gurus are saying.

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"This has an SPF 50, it's broadspectrum with a PA++++ and it's water and sweat resistant up to 40 minutes. It 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. It actually does a very good job to eliminate redness, to even out your skin tone. The more you apply, the darker you will become, the more coverage you will get. I use shades fair and medium and mix them together depending on skin tone. In the summer, I'm usually strictly medium, but in the winter, I am more fair and might add one or two drops of medium just to give myself more color because fair on its own is a little bit too fair when I'm at my fairest."
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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 to even out your skin and 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. Your makeup looks flawless on top of this. If I have any areas that look like my pores are a little bit enlarged this does a good job to blur it out, so when I have my makeup on top, my foundation and everything else, my skin looks very airbrushed. This is an SPF 50 with a PA plus plus plus, it's water resistant up to 40 minutes, and it has 12 percent zinc oxide so it's 100 percent mineral. This comes in four shades and it comes out white, and as you apply it to your skin you do see that color transfer."
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"This is the Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield, which is the Flex line so it comes in four different shades. It's 100 percent mineral with an SPF 50, it's water resistant up to 40 minutes, and it does have a PA plus plus plus and there is zinc oxide of 12. I have it in the shade fair but I also have it in the shade medium, so when I'm at my fairest I will use the fair obviously and then during the summer or when I'm self-tanning I will use the medium, and sometimes I will even mix the fair and the medium together if I'm in between shades and I feel like that works really well. This will help to even out your skin tone, it does help to reduce redness if you're someone that has uneven skin tone, but also this acts as a beautiful makeup primer so you do get that longevity with your makeup. You also have this nice radiance. It's nothing too crazy, it's not super glowy and dewy, but you do get this radiance so it just looks like your skin but better. This also gives that blurring effect to the skin, so when I put my foundation on top a lot of the pores that I may have look blurred out."
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"This has an SPF 50, it's broadspectrum with a PA++++ and it's water and sweat resistant up to 40 minutes. It 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. It actually does a very good job to eliminate redness, to even out your skin tone. The more you apply, the darker you will become, the more coverage you will get. I use shades fair and medium and mix them together depending on skin tone. In the summer, I'm usually strictly medium, but in the winter, I am more fair and might add one or two drops of medium just to give myself more color because fair on its own is a little bit too fair when I'm at my fairest."
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"The Colorescience Sunforgettable Total Protection Face Shield SPF 50 flecks are much more heavily pigmented. 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 what I like to do is put one full layer of the original Colorescience on my skin that's really serving as my protective layer, and then I mix in equal parts a little bit of the fair shade of the Face Shield Flecks and the medium shade, and that's what gives me really good coverage. This is probably one of my favorite ways to wear makeup in the summer but still be super super protected. 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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