Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation Review

Ok, let's start off I have combo/oily skin. This product is always recommended for my skin type, claiming that it will stay on and look flawless all day. It does stay on all day, but even when applied "flawlessly" when my oils come through it is visible that it becomes patchy, it comes off on my nose it feels super heavy and definitely not natural!! It oxidised on my skin, it looks HORRIBLE IN PHOTOS (flash) it just has this horrific white cast. I tried everything with this foundation.. Different primers, no primer, different setting powders.. NOTHING HELPED. I am so disappointed because I wanted to love this foundation. I much prefer the Revlon Colorstay. It does everything this says it does, but it actually does it.

I find that this foundation dries out my skin a lot. When I first started wearing the foundation i woke up the next morning with little red bumps on my chin even after cleaning my face and removing the foundation before I went to bed. It seems to stay on my face however I found myself having to reapply on my nose as it made it oily there (something I don't usually have to do) this foundation seems to work well for most people so it may just be my skin type.

I feel like the ladies of the beauty community overhyped this foundation. I'm lucky I only got a sample.

At first, it matched perfectly, glided on and blended like a dream. I was in LOVE.

When I got home a couple hours later I was so embarrassed!! It had gone blotchy, it went really dark and I looked like a complete Wolly. I primed, I set and it still turned out terrible. Maybe I'll try it again with a different primer when I'm home all day

I decide to jump on the Doublewear wagon and give this a go, and for the first few times I wore it I really enjoyed it, gave great coverage it was easy to blend and buff into the skin and did last a reeeeeally long time. Then my skin started to get really irritated when I wore it, my skin started flaking and getting very itchy. I really wanted it to work for me as it isnt cheap, but again after giving my skin a few months break it had the same reaction. But, I do really love the elegance of this product and the packaging is great with the addition of a pump it would be even better.

This used to be the best foundation ever in my teens! But I re-purchased last year and I found that the Formula was different. It is now really thick and I found that it didn't apply very well with my skin. I tried applying with a beauty blender and flat top kabuki, neither seemed to make a difference. I found that the new one makes all the hair on my face stick out and also it makes my eyes rather puffy. It is almost like it is too thick to be anywhere near my eyes. This is my opinion though. I do know that it works for a lot of people.

Definitely a foundation that lives up to it's name. Stays on right from when you apply it to when you want to take it off. But that's all the good I have to say about it. Cakey and not at all blendable. I don't have dry skin at all but it made me look flakey and it was much too heavy. Not impressed at all! Wearing a foundation, an expensive one at that, shouldn't ruin your day. Not the first out of my friends to find it like this, no matter the different primers ect used underneath. No idea how it gets the reviews it does

I bought this foundation originally because my mum used it, and at the time she had nothing bad to say about it. I can honestly say I won't be buying this foundation again. It certainly lives up to its name of double-wear and stay in place foundation! It stayed on all day plus more! It took me a lot of scrubbing to get this stuff off and even once i had my pores still felt clogged. I also found the coverage to be too heavy for my liking and very cakey looking. I also had problems with it drying my skin out. Very disappointing!!

I am currently still trialling this foundation. I went the the chemist to get colour matched and they gave me a tester for a golden colour which looked beautiful on my face. I then went to farmers to see what they would say. They gave me a more dull tone that would need more bronzer than the first. So far I have tried both of them and I'm not sure if I'm too keen on the actual product. I'm finding it very thick and super had to blend. I've been using a flat top brush but I may switch to my beauty blender. I also used the suggested amount which was the nail size of the foundation but as I have oily skin wen I use that amount it comes of within a few hours.