Il Makiage

Woke Up Like This Foundation.

Foundation

About this product

A full-coverage foundation designed to provide long-wear color and even skin tone in a liquid formula.

Full ingredients

Vitamin E, Hyaluronic Acid, Aqua/Water, Dimethicone, Cyclopentasiloxane, Isododecane, PEG-10 Dimethicone, Octocrylene, Talc, Alcohol Denat, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, PEG-4, Isononyl Isononanoate, Caprylyl Dimethicone Ethoxy Glucoside, Ethylhexyl Methoxycinnamate, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Titanium Dioxide, Myristyl Lactate, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Sodium Chloride, Hdi/Trimethylol Hexyllactone Crosspolymer, Phenoxyethanol, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Benzyl Alcohol, Cetyl Dimethicone, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Silica, Tocopheryl Acetate, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Parfum/Fragrance, Polymethylsilsesquioxane, Disodium EDTA, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Sodium Hyaluronate, Biosaccharide Gum-4, Tetramethyl Acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, Hexamethylindanopyran, Linalyl Acetate, Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide)

Guru Score

56%

Mixed

3 experts · Moderate agreement

3Gurus

0Yay

1Mixed

2Nay

What the gurus are saying

The footage used to sell this foundation is heavily filtered, which undercuts the brand's core promise of shade-matching accuracy and visible coverage. Both gurus liked the actual product quality, but found the marketing misleading. They emphasize that when a brand claims to transform texture and complexion, unfiltered footage is essential to back that up.

Synthesized from 3 expert reviews · most recent take March 2024

Type

FoundationLiquid

Key actives

Hyaluronic acidVitamin ESPF

Formula notes

Contains fragranceContains drying alcohol

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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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Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

~Mixed

"I liked the foundation. This isn't an issue with the quality of their product, it's more how they go about selling this product. If you're going to sell a product that claims to do something to the complexion of someone's skin, the texture of someone's skin, then you better have a good, clear, unfiltered, unblurred footage to back that up."

James Welsh

1.58M subs

~Nay

"If it is Il Makiage, allegedly, in my opinion, they kind of pride themselves on matching the perfect shade and having this amazing coverage that of course, everyone's going, oh, it's perfect. But this is just lying. It's lying about the quality of their product, the results of their product. This is false advertising."

HotandFlashy

1.23M subs

~Nay

"I was late to the party on the Il Makiage Foundation. It's been out for a couple of years and you guys asked me to review it for a while, but I wasn't interested because I feel like a lot of products that heavily spam you with Instagram ads only do that to get one sale from people and then you're not going to like it and never rebuy it. But you finally wore me down and I tried it and did a review on it, and yeah it wasn't great."

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

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

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Il Makiage Woke Up Like This Foundation?

A full-coverage foundation designed to provide long-wear color and even skin tone in a liquid formula.

Is Il Makiage Woke Up Like This Foundation worth it?

The gurus are split. 0 of the 3 gurus give it their stamp of approval while 2 would skip it, which lands it in the middle at a Guru Score of 56%.

What is Il Makiage Woke Up Like This Foundation's Guru Score?

Il Makiage Woke Up Like This Foundation holds a Guru Score of 56%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 3 expert reviewers we have collected.