Foundation. It’s not a bad word. In a world flooded with CCs and BBs and tinted SPFs and all manner of make-up named to make you feel as though you ought to be thinking beyond it, ought to be considering something lighter, foundation still exists — dignified and stately.
I have a chequered history with the stuff. So often chalky and cakey, I turned to tinted moisturisers and, for some ten years, settled there. But the new formulations are so artful, so advanced, that any prejudice must be swept away. By young and old. Because foundation can deliver a natural élan that tinted moisturiser, in all its dewy splendour, cannot.
Welcome to Diorskin Nude Air. It whispers on to the skin — the tiniest drop somehow dispersing with the merest, most perfunctory rub. The oils in the formulation immediately evaporate, leaving weightless coverage that radiates a kind of perfection. Let’s drop the poetry: it doesn’t show and you can’t feel it. Except you look velvety. Silken. Smooth. And over and above the flawlessness, it treats as it covers. Oils and minerals and antioxidants breathe a glow into the skin, stimulating it towards a higher functionality. And the elegant glass bottle comes with a pipette so you can measure the very little you need with vigilant, economic precision. I am less worried about the longer daylight hours now. This is a kind of magic.
Diorskin Nude Air Sérum de Teint, £33, at boots.com
