I picked this up a few months ago in Pak n Save when I had forgotten my usual foundation & needed something urgently... I didn't really expect great things to be honest! However Maybelline have given me my holy grail of 'cheap' foundations! I just wish I had found this sooner!!!!
I have the Matte & Poreless formula. This is the first Matte foundation I have actually tried & I'm converted... I will forever stick to Mattes now!
It comes in a glass bottle with a screw top lid - the neck to the bottle is a little small, the formula is runny enough that it pours out onto my brush easily enough but I am concerned about how I'm going to get the last few applications out....
The coverage isn't full but is a little better than medium. I like it this way as if I feel the need to apply full coverage I can do this with bronzer/concealer/highlighter....
Along with a pore reducing primer I feel this actually does help reduce the look of my open pores.
It lasts well during the day as long as I don't touch my face too much.
Washing off is easy. It comes off with cleanser/Micellar water/ removal balm just as well as any other.
This foundation is marketed towards dry skin, they've now re-branded it as the 'Dewy & Smooth' Fit Me which clearly supports that it is aimed at dry skin. I have dry skin and could not make this work for the life of me.
It has a runny formula with quite a light coverage, which I don't mind at all. I was hoping it would be similar to a glowy BB cream on the skin and it did look nice and dewy when first applied but an hour later it would start going down hill. It would break up on my skin, start looking patchy and every single shade oxidised and turned super orange (for reasons unknown I purchased 4 different shades at a big bucket sale, so I had a few to test).
The worst part of all was that I would already be looking like an orange blotchy mess, but it then slapped on the grease! It takes a lot for me to look oily, but this foundation managed it every single time, primer or no primer, powder or no powder, I was shining from every pore on my face. I held on to these foundations for a year, pulling them out every now and then with renewed hope, but I recently gave up the fight! There's no helping this foundation mixed with my face.
Tips: Go for the Matte & Poreless version, it's light years better!