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Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation.

Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation
Foundation

About this product

A liquid foundation designed to deliver a natural, skin-like finish at light-to-medium coverage.

Guru Score

78%

Yay

5 experts · Moderate agreement
5Gurus
4Yay
1Mixed
0Nay
#10 in FoundationSee the ranking →

What they liked

  • Blurs pores and skin texture
  • Natural, skin-like finish
  • Excellent shade match available

What they flagged

  • Warm undertone may not suit neutral skin

What the gurus are saying

This foundation's natural, skin-like finish is the standout that reviewers consistently praise for how polished yet fresh it looks, even at light-to-medium coverage. The shade-matching is generally excellent, though one reviewer found their match leaned warm instead of neutral. Since a little extends far across the face, some may want to start with less than a full pump for their whole face.
Synthesized from 5 expert reviews · most recent take September 2026

What the gurus are saying.

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Yay
"My favorite foundation right now is the Makeup by Mario, the more recent one that he launched. It is so good. I travel with it. I just think it makes your skin look really pretty. It's not too luminescent and it's not too matte. It's just perfect."
All 2 takes from Mixed Makeup
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"This is the new one from Makeup by Mario, [...] the Surreal Skin. My makeup artist Joselyn in New York used it on me and I was obsessed and I went out and bought it myself."
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"My favorite foundation right now is the Makeup by Mario, the more recent one that he launched. It is so good. I travel with it. I just think it makes your skin look really pretty. It's not too luminescent and it's not too matte. It's just perfect."
Yay
"I reached for this foundation over the weekend and it made me want to revisit it again. This is the Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation in shade 2N."
All 6 takes from Allie Glines
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"This shade match is one of the best for my skin. There is nothing better than when you find a phenomenal shade match in a foundation because I just think it makes all the difference in how your makeup looks. I forget how good this Foundation looks. It's so pretty and a little bit goes a really long way."
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"It looks very natural, which I like. [...] I did about a pump for the entire face, and I really liked how that looks. It looks really, really natural. It really looks like skin. This definitely has a bit less coverage than the first foundation, which is not a problem. I feel like a little less coverage is fine a lot of the times. And you can see how nice and natural the finish is, too. It just looks fresh."
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"You guys know how much I love this foundation. This might be one of my favorite Mario products. I used it religiously for a while and then it kind of fell out of my routine and now I'm back on it fully. It is so good. The way that this looks on camera specifically, I mean in person it's gorgeous too, but every time I wear this on camera, it has this really special something to it. And this shade match is perfection for me. It has a bit of a glow to it, which I really like, and it wears really well on me. So, yeah, this is definitely one of my favorite things from Mario."
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"I mentioned this in my favorites video as kind of an honorable mention because it's like rolled its way back into my routine and it's so good. It specifically looks really nice on camera. It also looks amazing in person, but for some reason like in pictures and videos, it just does the most. And there's certain situations where you want your foundation to look really good in pictures or videos. And so I've been really enjoying it all over again."
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"A little bit goes a long way with this. I honestly could have used half a pump. I accidentally pumped out one pump but that's okay."
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"I reached for this foundation over the weekend and it made me want to revisit it again. This is the Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation in shade 2N."
Yay
"The Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation is a lovely foundation and it looks beautiful on the skin. It's supposed to be blurring and longwearing. It definitely did seem blurring to me. I really like that about it. I'd say it's a light to medium coverage, so it does look fairly natural on the skin."
All 4 takes from HotandFlashy
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"The Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation is a lovely foundation and it looks beautiful on the skin. It's supposed to be blurring and longwearing. It definitely did seem blurring to me. I really like that about it. I'd say it's a light to medium coverage, so it does look fairly natural on the skin."
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"On the cheeks, it is a blurring and smoothing foundation. I'm not feeling like my pores and texture are really accentuated, and that looks good. And on the forehead, I think it's really nice and smooth, and it looks great. So, overall, really happy with the foundation."
Makeup by Mario Surreal Foundation Review on Mature Skin!
"I tried this with two different sunscreens, one mineral one chemical, I tried it with a sponge, with a brush, with my fingers, I tried it with a primer and with setting spray and without primer and without setting spray, and with setting powder, and with all those different methods I could not get it to last beyond five or six hours looking good. It didn't look good in the first 15 minutes because of how it settled in my wrinkles. The pros are that it's easy to apply with fingers, brush, or sponge, and it has a very luminous finish. But the cons are that it settled in wrinkles right away, settled in pores right away, it's not long wearing, the luminous finish accentuates eye bags pores and texture, it doesn't look natural and skin-like, and it forms a shiny film over everything. This is a creaser if you have wrinkles it's going to settle into your wrinkles."
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"This was kind of a fail. This settled in my wrinkles big time and it just didn't wear well throughout the day. There really wasn't anything that I liked about it. It settled in wrinkles, settled in pores, wasn't long wearing, looked shiny, and just didn't do anything for my skin."
Yay
"Another huge hit for me has been the Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation. This is such a gorgeous foundation, and I can't believe I'm sitting here telling you this as a person with dry skin, because they didn't say it's for my skin type, but it's so natural looking that it really flatters mature skin. It has almost a blurring effect, it's simply stunning."
Mixed
"I'm gonna buy two foundations, Haus Labs and Makeup by Mario. We're gonna go into Sephora and get matched. The first person popped in and was like, oh, your foundation is a little orange. Trying to find neutral undertone, but otherwise it's close. Definitely a warm tone."

Frequently asked.

What is Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation?

A liquid foundation designed to deliver a natural, skin-like finish at light-to-medium coverage.

Is Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation worth it?

Mostly yes. 4 of the 5 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 78%.

What is Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation's Guru Score?

Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation holds a Guru Score of 78%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 5 expert reviewers we have collected.

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