Revlon ColorStay Foundation - Normal/Dry Skin Review

Excuse the capitals! I hate hate hate this foundation with a passion I wish I could snatch it away from the shelves. Everyone swears by this but my experience was completely different. Revlon colour stay is deceiving your first experience is very very good..you will notice excellent coverage and ok shades to pick from. So you will be cruising along thinking woahh my skins look so clear...then BOOM before you know it you have dry crusty skin everywhere. I am a beauty therapist so I always use good skincare and take time in my regime to maintain my skins health. I suffer from dry skin so I bought the dry foundation...oh dear oh dear this worsens it. I suspect it's something to do with the staying power of the foundation...as it is so difficult to remove. Another pet hate is when you ladies wear it to a facial...nightmare. It just has such a cakey consistency and clings to the skin..it clings to every dry imperfection and draws more attention to the fact you are wearing foundation. It is the biggest no no for foundation in my eyes! I cringe when I walk past the Revlon counter. Not the best option for foundation I am afraid. Ok rant over...but if I could give it zero kisses it would have zero kisses just for the negative impact it had on my skin.

I have read so many rave reviews about revlon colorstay foundation. Alot of people seem to love it. My first impressions of it: it is quite thick and dried very quickly once it was on my skin. I know this is a common trait of long wear foundations. With my old foundation I could dot it all over my face and take my time blending it out. Not so with this one. I had to apply very small amounts and blend each part of my face one at a time. Kinda annoying and time consuming and found it a little hard to create a perfect base because of this. Felt a bit patchy and thick. Yes this formula is very thick. The coverage was great. I think the good coverage of colorstay is what alot of people seem to like. But I definately felt like I had alot of product on my skin and it was thick or nothing. No in between. I stuck with it even though I wasn't initally that impressed or enjoying it on my skin. I was waiting for something to change and hoping i would see what all the buzz was about. by the end of the first week my skin was in a shocking state. It was so dry. I have never had such bad lizard skin! And when i used my cleanser to remove it would sting, same with my moisturiser. My skin was red and sensitive. over the last two days of wesring colorstay my skin got alot worse very quickly. I stopped using the colorstay. it took me 2 weeks to get my skin balanced and back to normal. But i shed dry skin that whole time.it was super gross. so needless to say. I am not a fan of this foundation!I something in that formula definately reacted on my skin. Since my experience was the exact opposite of loving it. I did some more research into it. And discovered the oily/combo skin formula seems to be a winner with alot of people. More so than the dry formula. But I personally wont be giving the other one a shot after the mess this left my skin in.

The positives: it is pretty heavy coverage to cover blemishes if thats what you are looking for. And definately long wearing. Just not for me and my skin. won't be purchasing this again.

but it left me so dissapointed. First of all the ivory that I usually get in other ranges was too light for me (I did buy it online so was mostly my fault for that!), but I still wanted to try it as bronzer can always be used to perk it up anyway. It looked nice when first applied but then quickly settled into my pores and my lunchtime had caked really badly around my nose. I do have quite dry skin and I have issues with most foundations around my nose but this was really bad. Maybe for more normal skin it may have been ok. I tried it twice and it didn't work either time. I used primer one time and I used a sponge for the first application and brush for the second.

I hated this foundation, it felt heavy on my skin, smudged off whenever I touched my face and left me feeling greasy and oily!

okay so i see so many people raving about this product and i honestly dont see what all the fuss is about. its some what good but there are others just as good/better than this for half the price?!

I was excited to try this out after reading so many fabulous reviews. I have very pale skin so was stoked when ivory fitted my skintone perfectly.

I prepped my skin and applied using my beauty blender. It is a very runny consistency and a little definately goes a long way. The coverage is great but it just did not sit on my skin well at all. It looked very cakey and obvious which I hate.

I tried applying this several ways and got the same outcome everytime. Any dry patches it seemed to cling too real bad and if I am honest it made it look worse.

So a big thumbs down from me which is a shame but we all know what works for one skin type may not for another.

This is the foundation I am using at the moment. I admit I am a Revlon girl, but I find this foundation isn't flash for me as by the end of the day most of it has come of and you can tell my skin is really dry. Too be honest I think after this I might need to find a new brand altogether.

This foundation did bad things to my skin. Firstly, I have really dry and sensitive skin that is prone to flaking and going scaly when it gets dry. This foundation does stick to the skin, but I found it really stuck to my dry areas, so by the afternoon my coverage looked really patchy! I can see the benefit for people who have more of a consistent skin tone, but for me it ended up looking like my cheeks were sliding off and my forehead and chin were powdered. I thoroughly moisturised my face beforehand before applying, in the hopes that it wouldn't dry my skin out so much but it didn't make any difference. I ended up using it everyday for about 2 weeks before putting it in the draw and going back to my previous foundation, which is a shame because the shade matched my skin perfectly.

I didn't use a primer, which probably would make a difference but I'm more of a 2 minute make up kinda gal.