- “This is my favorite like medium coverage proper foundation for years in a row”2:46–2:54
- “It's just so good”
- “It's luminous in again kind of like that healthy glowy skin”3:02–3:07
- “It's a very like natural finish”3:07–3:10
- “It wears really well throughout the day and it's thin. It feels pretty weightless”3:12–3:18
- Source: Best of Beauty 2025: Favorite Makeup and Fragrance - Jan 4, 2026
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Luminous Silk Natural Glow Blurring Liquid Foundation with 24 Hour Wear"This is my favorite like medium coverage proper foundation for years in a row."$69.00
Golden Hour 24HR Lightweight Skin Tint with Hyaluronic Acid"The Luminous Silk Skin Tint is exactly that. It's like the little sister of Armani Luminous Silk Foundation."$49.00
Designer Glow Radiant Revitalizing Foundation"Designer glow I think it's the most repurchased foundation for me."-
Luminous Silk Natural Glow Blurring Liquid Foundation with 24 Hour Wear"I love this formula for how skin-like it looks, how lightweight."-Browse more
- “Y'all know this is my holy grail as an olive skin brown girl”7:20–7:26
- “I don't have a better shade match than this foundation here”7:26–7:29
- “This is their reformulated foundation. I weirdly like the reformulation even more”8:14–8:20
- “I wear shade 9, and this is one of the few foundations that have seven true olive shades”8:20–8:24
- “Armani has always been for the olive skin girls”
- “I get that she's expensive, and she's not for everyone”8:28–8:34
- “This comes in at $69 for 1 oz of product, therefore coming in at $69 per ounce”8:30–8:37
- Source: Drugstore vs high-end makeup price per ounce comparison - Apr 11, 2026
- “This is just one of those that not only gives you coverage, it makes your skin like look like skin”10:43–10:51
- “It's not heavy. It warms up to your skin”10:48–10:55
- “They have a ton of shade, so you will find your shade”10:54–10:59
- “It lasts all day”10:55–11:00
- “It's going to be one of those foundations. It kind of gives a little bit serum foundation that's very pigmented that gets better with skin warmth and the longer you wear it throughout the day”11:02–11:07
- “This is magic”
- “This is truly a better version, an updated version, better formula”11:23–11:28
- “This one did the trick. This one did really wear so so much better”11:35–11:40
- Source: 10 High-End Sephora Makeup Products You Actually Need (2026) - Jun 2, 2026
- “The Armani one is buildable”
- “You can apply it in the thin or full coverage or even use it as a concealer”
- “Love them both”
- Source: My Most-Used Makeup Products of 2025 - Nov 28, 2025
- “They just reformulated this. I love it”2:21–2:25
- “You guys are going to see today how beautiful this wears. You'll really see how it wears with no primer”
- “I'm not a big reformulation girl, but they did their thing with this one. I absolutely love it”2:32–2:38
- “It just gets better with time. It's more loamy. It adheres to your skin. You don't look like a greasy mess. I love it”2:38–2:45
- “And look, skin, but even. You don't even see my melasma anymore. Love it. Love it”2:42–2:51
- Source: 12-hour wear test of new Dior, Huda Beauty, and OneSize products - May 7, 2026
- “I think the formula works for everyone”1:38–1:42
- “It's a soft matte finish”1:40–1:44
- “It's beautiful”
- Source: Best Sephora Products You Need: Full Face + VIB Rouge Sale Haul - Apr 21, 2026
- “They recently reformulated this foundation and expanded the shade range, so they have much more options for olive skin, which I'm so happy about”7:11–7:17
- “I found that this shade 5.3 is perfect for my light medium with neutral olive skin”7:17–7:28
- “This is perfect definition of combination average glow foundation”7:25–7:32
- “It has more coverage than this MP each foundation, but it still has that glowy finish and looks pretty natural if you apply a really thin layer”7:30–7:37
- “If you haven't found your perfect shade and if you have olive skin, I think this is truly worth the money because I haven't found any perfect olive foundation at drugstore”7:44–7:51
- “If I have to choose one product category from complexion product to splurge on, it has to be foundation”7:56–8:03
- Source: Sephora Sale Recommendations: What's Actually Worth Buying - Apr 11, 2026
- “It is for my more normal to dry to maybe just like a little bit oily in their T-zone client, who does not want to look super made up, but wants their makeup to last”5:54–6:04
- “I like the new formulation even better than this one”6:09–6:14
- “I do enjoy using it, and I feel like it looks good every time I do”6:14–6:21
- Source: Professional kit series: foundations I carry and why - Mar 18, 2026
- “Try Armani Luminous Silk Foundation”
- “This is shade five”
- “Ended up picking shade five”
- “I actually think it looks a little yellow right now, but we're going to blend it out and see”
- “It looks pretty good if you ask me”
- Source: Finding the Perfect Foundation for Olive Skin Tones - Jun 22, 2025
- “I've worn the new reformulation a few times”3:53–3:58
- “I guess if you love the old one, you'll love the new one, but I don't find it to be like that special testing it with new eyes within the context of what else is out there right now”4:13–4:17
- “It's good. It is good, but it doesn't make me feel as confident as like the Prada does”4:24–4:29
- Source: Sephora sale 2026: Do's, don'ts & what's in my cart - Apr 9, 2026
- “I think this is beautiful. Like I think this looks really nice”27:07–27:12
- “It's just significantly so much more glowy than the original”27:10–27:16
- “I also think that the coverage has been sheared down”
- “If they had just given this a different name, didn't call it Luminous Silk... I think I'd have a totally different opinion”27:32–27:35
- “The Armani one to me feels like a flanker, like a fragrance flanker”31:14–31:18
- Source: Iconic foundations reformulated: testing new versions - Mar 8, 2026
- “Armani recently reformulated their cult classic luminous silk foundation and made a foundation that worked for so many different skin types and reformulated it to something that only works for drier or dehydrated skin types”4:12–4:18
- “I don't get any luminous silk vibes at all from this skin finish”4:34–4:39
- “As a foundation on its own, I think it is nice. It's just nowhere near as beautiful as it once was”4:49–4:53
- Source: Best and worst of latest makeup launches - Feb 25, 2026
- “Armani luminous silk a cult classic for many great reasons and well deserving reasons the foundation lives up to all the hype and more it is long lasting glowy Second Skin like it always looks perfect no matter what your skin type is”2:18–2:25
- “It's one of those formulations that I always feel so confident putting on all my clients and also so confident recommending to you as a viewer whether you are mature young acne prone oily dry combination normal whatever it is if you have skin your skin is going to love the Armani limit”2:30–2:36
- Source: Luxury vs drugstore: where to spend your money - Mar 8, 2025
- “If we're talking about the old formula, totally worth it”6:49–6:53
- “The new formula is just different”6:51–6:55
- “It's thin. It doesn't dry down”7:05–7:09
- “It's still a really pretty foundation, but it's not the original”7:13–7:19
- “I'm going to say it's not worth it”
- Source: 50 of the best sellers at Sephora: buy or skip? - Apr 4, 2026
- “This can look absolutely beautiful, but it doesn't always mesh well with different bases and setting powders, so it's just too finicky for $69”0:06–0:10
- Source: Pass or Repurchase: Top 30 New Beauty Launches - Apr 1, 2026
- “I wore this yesterday to make sure that I wasn't crazy. It looks like a drugstore foundation, a very good drugstore foundation, but I mean, not $70”7:43–7:47
- “You need to be so mindblowing to be worth 70 bucks”8:22–8:28
- Source: Sephora Sale 2026: What to Skip, Hidden Gems & Top Picks - Apr 10, 2026
- “The Luminous Silk Skin Tint is exactly that. It's like the little sister of Armani Luminous Silk Foundation”7:40–7:44
- “It still has that gorgeous skin-like finish”7:57–8:01
- “When it sets down on the skin, it's not a radiant, dewy finish on the skin, but there are pearl pigments in here so that when you move your face and the light catches your face, you're going to have a little bit of that radiant bounce back without the skin looking dewy”8:01–8:02
- “I love the way this sets down”8:14–8:16
- “Most days when I'm wearing it, I don't even wear powder with it because within 5 to 10 minutes, it's really taken on its final form, and I feel like it just looks very skin-like, very softly powdered, but it does pair nicely with powder as well, so that's not an issue”8:16–8:24
- “The coverage is just a more toned-down version of Luminous Silk, And I feel like this is also a little bit easier to apply than luminous silk for day to day because it applies just as nicely with a brush as it does your fingertips”8:24–8:35
- “It's kind of like a serum skin tint. So it's not like a tinted moisturizer. I just I like the formula a lot more”8:35–8:47
- “It's not too sticky or heavy”
- Source: Sephora Sale Must-Haves: Top Beauty Recommendations & In-Depth Reviews for 2025 - Oct 27, 2025
- “The Armani skin tint has a tiny bit of glow to it, which a lot of things did this year, but I feel like that one did it really tastefully”16:37–16:47
- “It has the distinction for me of being a skin tint in the truest sense that has quite little coverage”16:50–16:57
- “It looks so much like skin that you could wear it on its own”17:03–17:09
- “It literally just looks like skin”17:11–17:15
- Source: Best of the best makeup of 2025 - Dec 19, 2025
- “Designer glow I think it's the most repurchased foundation for me”8:48–8:58
- “I felt designer glow evolved not that well because the former version was a lot more moisturizing”9:07–9:14
- “The new version designer glow I feel it's not anymore that much glow than before Giorgio Armani”9:16–9:23
- “I think it's just like a low coverage pretty foundation”9:23–9:29
- “Giorgio Armani foundation is the one definitely no skill needed”9:41–9:46
- “If you wanted to buy little luxury foundation, it's amazing product to start too”9:46–9:51
- “Definitely moisturizing pretty well”
- “One thing is it oxidize pretty bad”
- Source: I spent $700 testing 8 luxury foundations - Apr 19, 2026
- “I love this formula for how skin-like it looks, how lightweight”1:49–1:54
- “It does provide a decent coverage, not full coverage, but that's not my preference”1:52–1:58
- “The only thing about Luminous Silk for me, as much as I love the finish, this doesn't wear as long as some other foundations”1:58–2:01
- “I would repurchase this”2:05–2:07
- Source: Product empties holy grails and fails - Mar 12, 2026
Brand note
Armani Beauty is best known for its Luminous Silk foundation, a staple for anyone who wants a natural, skin-like finish with medium coverage. The recent reformulation has divided opinion—some creators find it even better, while others miss the original. It's a versatile foundation that works across skin types, but at $69, it's a splurge that doesn't always play well with all primers and powders. The brand also makes standout liquid eyeshadows that blend effortlessly for quick, polished looks.
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