- “I love this foundation so much”
- Source: My 2025 Makeup Favourites - Oct 30, 2025
MAKEUP BY MARIO
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Variant: 8N
- “This is gorgeous. It really is, I would call, a perfect finish of a foundation”29:58–30:04
- “It's kind of bordering on a soft satin finish”30:17–30:24
- “I like how it allows my base products to come through”30:22–30:26
- “My skin just looks so healthy with this on. It doesn't look heavy. It doesn't look cakey. The shade is perfect. Shade 8N. Absolutely perfect. It smooths out the skin. It's incredibly blurring on the skin and it just makes my skin look very, very healthy”30:31–30:40
- Source: The best makeup of 2025 - Dec 29, 2025
Variant: 8N & 9W
- “This one in my opinion is so much better than Natasha Denona”14:06–14:13
- “It's a very blurring. It is a natural finish. It's not too matte. It's not glowy either”14:18–14:23
- “Very, very long lasting and quite good coverage”14:23–14:30
- “I think that this is incredible”
- “I think compared to the Tom Ford and or even the Givveni, the price is much better”14:30–14:37
- “Makeup by Mario did an incredible job with this one”14:37–14:41
- “I actually wore a completely different foundation that was very expensive and there was something off about the foundation. I didn't love it. Took it off, put this one on and it was like, 'Yes, that is a perfect foundation for the event that I was going to.'”14:39–14:43
- Source: Top 25 Beauty Releases of 2025 - Dec 27, 2025
Variant: 3.5 C
- “My one true foundation love this year is the new Makeup by Mario Surreal Skin Natural Finish Foundation”4:52–4:59
- “The natural finish gives you the most beautiful satin sort of finish”4:59–5:04
- “I love how this blurs over pores”5:06–5:08
- “It just makes the skin look really smooth, really seamless, and it melts into the skin”
- “It wears beautifully all day long”5:11–5:13
- “It doesn't break up. It doesn't get greasy”5:16–5:18
- “It just kind of looks the way you applied it all day long”
- “I feel like it gives you a really fresh finish”5:21–5:23
- Source: Best of beauty 2025 into 2026: makeup favorites, new essentials, longtime holy grails - Dec 30, 2025
- “Is in my opinion better than his original”0:32–0:36
- “It doesn't get as oily throughout the day and it feels a little bit more weightless”0:34–0:39
- “It does oxidize a little bit though, but the formula is still really nice”0:37–0:42
- “8 out of 10”
- Source: Rating hot new makeup releases - Nov 17, 2025
Variant: 3W
- “This is like a natural matte, like a soft matte foundation. It moves you with your skin. It just it's very elastic but in the same time it creates this finish as if you have already powdered it”6:13–6:24
- “It's very luxurious formula. I really love it”6:33–6:37
- “This is beautiful on its own”
- “I would recommend this for everyone that has very similar skin type with me and skin concerns with me”6:58–7:06
- “I love a foundation that is not dewy. I don't like very dewy foundations on me because they tend to melt and they the hair also tends to stick to my face. If this is what you're looking for from a foundation, you're going to love this”7:13–7:19
- “And it's also very longlasting and I like the colors available”7:29–7:33
- Source: Best makeup in 2025 - Jan 11, 2026
Variant: 11N
- “I love the finish of this. It is perfect”8:48–8:54
- “This one has the perfect finish where throughout the day, the skin looks a little bit lived in, but it's still really pretty and skin-like, and it doesn't feel like it's melting off my face”9:01–9:05
- “I think you did a fantastic job with this formula”9:52–9:58
- Source: Sephora sale recommendations 2025: what's actually worth it - Oct 29, 2025
- “This is so beautiful”
- “This feels like water that gives you coverage”8:03–8:11
- “It's perfect for underpainting and it just is so nice”8:08–8:14
- “It wears very, very well. Super long-lasting”8:11–8:16
- “This is just if you want like a very comfortable, lightweight, almost watery thin foundation”8:14–8:22
- Source: Speed reviews of 75+ makeup products - Dec 18, 2025
Variant: 16.5 N
- “I like this more than the original surreal skin foundation and I love that one”9:18–9:27
- “The original surreal skin is definitely a lot more of a dewy lover's dream”9:27–9:32
- “This has quite a unique set down. So it's going to be more of a satin finish on its own and I love the way it looks without powder”9:34–9:40
- “When it's paired with the MAKEUP BY MARIO powder or any powder in general, it really takes on that velvety blurred finish”9:40–9:44
- “The mario foundation is so lightweight”
- “It's going to be a lot more comfortable. It's got a good amount of flex to the product”10:27–10:35
- “Unlike other matte foundations, it's not going to crack and crumble. And I also find it significantly less likely to migrate on the face throughout the day and settle into lines”10:36–10:42
- “The MAKEUP BY MARIO one does a really good job at kind of staying in place. Especially when it's set with powder, a really great long wear and despite being a matte foundation, it does not feel drying on the skin”10:45–10:49
- Source: Sephora Sale Must-Haves: Top Beauty Recommendations & In-Depth Reviews for 2025 - Oct 27, 2025
Variant: 8N
- “This one is such a beautiful matte foundation. Again, it is liquidy and beautiful on the skin”6:50–6:56
- “Absolutely love it. Holds up beautifully. It is mattifying on the skin. It just looks again very just airbrushed on the skin”7:21–7:31
- “I think it's been absolutely beautiful. But I'm going to be honest with you, the two drugstore foundations, they're as good”7:31–7:35
- Source: Best makeup releases of 2025 - Dec 11, 2025
Variant: 12O
- “I like to mix something that's dewy with something more matte”6:26–6:29
- Source: Top 3 favorites in every makeup category 2025 - Sep 25, 2025
Variant: 16.5 N
- “It doesn't give me the all day shine control that it claims to and it doesn't wear the best”0:16–0:21
- Source: Pass or Repurchase: Top 30 New Beauty Launches - Apr 1, 2026
- “This is completely different. It has a again natural finish, so it's a little bit matte”18:33–18:39
- “It has this beautiful solidly medium finish to it”18:44–18:50
- “I feel like it's going to photograph really well because it's kind of half I mean a natural finish halfway between reflective and light absorbing in a way that's not like smoothing but it is perfecting if that makes sense”18:48–18:54
- “It's a very very lovely longwearing formula that I feel like will work for a lot of different skin types”19:06–19:12
- “I'm very dry skinned and it doesn't dry out on my skin, but like it does have that slight like natural finish mattification quality to it that I feel like would work for like combo skin as well”19:10–19:18
- Source: Best of the best makeup of 2025 - Dec 19, 2025
- “i'm so impressed with how smoothing this is”0:42–0:51
- “i really like it a lot”
- Source: I TRIED EVERY NEW VIRAL CONCEALER...HITS & MISSES - Apr 29, 2026
Variant: 12O
- “I like to mix something that's dewy with something more matte”
- Source: Top 3 favorites in every makeup category 2025 - Sep 25, 2025
- “I'm going to take the U F4 brush. I'm going to take the smaller side. I like to apply with the small side and blend with the large side. This is how I like to apply it. Almost like buffing”
- “Start by the nose area, center of the face. And then as I go out and up, I spread it very thin”
- “I don't like to have any thick foundation around the perimeter of the face because a lot of people, I think, will put the same amount of foundation across the entire face when you don't really need to do that”5:43–5:46
- “I barely used it because I'm really stretching it out thin”6:45–6:51
- “I usually like to mix shades. 220. This one is 240. And then my favorite 320. You can see how that has more peach in it. So it's like a little bit more of a correcting shade”7:42–7:49
- “Gives you a nice neutral. We are going in again very light thin layer and building if necessary. You don't want to go in with a very thick layer”
- Source: Makeup by Mario masterclass: Mario's signature makeup - Oct 28, 2025
Variant: 8N
- “It has a really beautiful pearlescent finish throughout”4:43–4:47
- “It feels very thick and it's just not a foundation anymore that I grab for because it does kind of pretty thick and heavy on the skin”4:49–4:57
- “As your oils peek through, this doesn't look like skin anymore. It does kind of look greasy”5:10–5:16
- Source: Sephora Sale 2026: What to Skip, Hidden Gems & Top Picks - Apr 10, 2026
Brand note
Makeup by Mario is a brand built around neutral, user-friendly eyeshadow formulas that lean matte and perform reliably for daily wear. The Master Mattes Eyeshadow Palette: The Neutrals is its clearest anchor — a versatile, all-matte palette that blends easily and suits a range of skin tones, though the pans can be fragile. The cream shadows offer serious longevity and a diffused finish, but the matte formula can feel drying on eyelids, especially for those with dry skin or flakiness.
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