SurrealSkin® Luminous Hydrating Foundation
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MAKEUP BY MARIO Surrealskin Luminous Foundation applies best with a buffing motion, starting at the center of the face and spreading thin toward the perimeter. Professional makeup artist MAKEUP BY MARIO recommends mixing shades like 220, 240, and 320 for a custom neutral, building coverage in light layers. Morgan Turner (former professional wedding makeup artist) is impressed with how smoothing it is.
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POSITIVE
- “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
MIXED / NEGATIVE
No negative reviews yet — creators have only had good things to say.
WHAT CREATORS SAY
- Consensus
- 4.2 / 5 from 3 creator reviewsGrailPeople ratings based on creator reviews.
Product details
Details
- Type
- foundation
- Finish
- natural
- Shade
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- Key ingredients
- Glycerin, Boron Nitride, Dimethicone, Silica, Tocopherol, Vitis Vinifera (Grape) Seed Oil, Squalane, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil
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