IL Makiage

IL Makiage Woke Up Like This Flawless Base Foundation.

Foundation

About this product

A full-coverage liquid foundation designed to provide a flawless, natural-looking base with long-wearing wear.

Full ingredients

Aqua/Water, Cyclopentasiloxane, Dimethicone, Isododecane, Talc, PEG-10 Dimethicone, Ethylene/Acrylic Acid Copolymer, Octocrylene, Alcohol Denat, PEG-4, Isononyl Isononanoate, Caprylyl Dimethicone Ethoxy Glucoside, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Myristyl Lactate, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Chloride, Disteardimonium Hectorite, Cetyl Dimethicone, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Benzyl Alcohol, Sodium Dehydroacetate, Hydrogen Dimethicone, Silica, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Aluminum Hydroxide, Polymethylsilsesquioxane, Disodium EDTA, Biosaccharide Gum-4, Sodium Hyaluronate, Phenoxyethanol, Parfum/Fragrance, Titanium Dioxide, Ci 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), Ci 77492 (Iron Oxides), Ci 77491 (Iron Oxides), Ci 77499 (Iron Oxides), T-Butyl Alcohol

Guru Score

52%

Nay

3 experts · Moderate agreement

What they flagged

Oxidizes and shifts yellow
Clings to dry skin, looks cakey
Finicky under certain sunscreens

What the gurus are saying

This foundation runs into real practical trouble. It's finicky about what goes underneath it, refuses to play well with powder or cream products layered on top (they lift it right off), and shifts throughout the day by turning shiny in some spots and patchy-dry in others. It clings noticeably to any dry skin and reads as cakey there, the shade leans yellow and oxidizes darker, and overall it ranks among the most frustrating foundations these gurus have tested.

Synthesized from 3 expert reviews · most recent take September 2025

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

✕Nay

"IL Makiage are pretty scammy anyway. All their videos have, like, really heavy filters on. And it's always like some celebrity putting on the foundation and then being like, oh, wow. Look how incredible I look. And it's like, their face is so smooth, you can barely see their nose."

All 2 takes from Robert Welsh

My Problem With IL MAKIAGE | IL MAKIAGE foundation has me angry

"I liked the foundation. I liked the concealer. 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."

Are These Brands Trying To Scam Us? | lying in their ads?

James Welsh

1.58M subs

✕Nay

"So this is just lying. It's lying about the quality of their product, the results of their product. And this is the kind of stuff that I wish the FDA, the Advertising Standard, the ASA here in the UK [...] should really crack down on. 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."

All 2 takes from HotandFlashy

Faves + Fails June 2022

I Took the IL Makiage QUIZ | Is It Worth the HYPE for Mature Skin?

"It can be finicky about what sunscreen I put under it or how I apply it, it doesn't work well with powder makeup or cream makeup over it because that removes it, it gets shiny throughout the day but also looks super dry like the desert in some areas, it clings to dry skin and looks cakey, the [...] color match is very yellowy and it oxidizes. Overall, this is one of the worst foundations I have ever tried."

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 Flawless Base Foundation?

A full-coverage liquid foundation designed to provide a flawless, natural-looking base with long-wearing wear.

Is IL Makiage Woke Up Like This Flawless Base Foundation worth it?

Mostly no. None of the 3 gurus who reviewed it came away sold, leaving it a Guru Score of 52%.

What is IL Makiage Woke Up Like This Flawless Base Foundation's Guru Score?

IL Makiage Woke Up Like This Flawless Base Foundation holds a Guru Score of 52%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 3 expert reviewers we have collected.