I Tested & Ranked 13 VIRAL Tinted Sunscreens on Brown Skin (this was scary 😭)
CeraVe$18.99Hydrating Mineral Sunscreen Face Lotion with Sheer Tint SPF 30shade · Medium Sheer Tint- “I have the medium sheer tint, but because I have darker skin, I feel like the deep one is definitely better matching to me, but this one was really strange”▶ 2:43
- “Was still giving casket ready”▶ 2:56
- “I don't understand how they were able to make a deep tinted sunscreen with a white cast”▶ 3:01
- “To me, it's giving peanut butter baby”▶ 3:19
- “Avoid at all costs”
- “It's literally giving scam”▶ 3:22
- “But it's giving white cast, it's giving greasy, and it's uh giving scam”▶ 3:25
Bubble Skincare$24.00Daily Mineral Sunscreen Broad Spectrum SPF 40shade · Plus One Tinted- “I didn't find it very blendable”
- “And the fact that it was like this orangey kind of cast made it a little gross to blend out”▶ 4:01
- “This was giving mayonnaise”
- “This was a pain in my ass to blend out”▶ 4:56
- “It wasn't giving the blur that I was expecting”▶ 5:14
- “I'm going to give this a slam”▶ 5:18
- “It's giving meh”▶ 5:20
- “For $19, it's not that bad if you're around my exact range, but I think we could do better and I don't think we should be spending five business days blending our sunscreen, fam”▶ 5:23
La Roche-Posay$39.99Anthelios Mineral Tinted Ultra Light Face Sunscreen Fluid SPF 50shade · Medium Deep- “I will say I was struggling a little bit to apply a quarter teaspoon on my face because she was pretty damn pigmented”▶ 6:06
- “The formula is really, really thin, which is something that I really like about this”▶ 6:12
- “The undertone of the shade medium deep is a little bit orangey, and I definitely think it needs like a deep dark shade because she was giving pretty damn pigmented”▶ 6:10
- “Once I let this dry down, I actually think it looked pretty damn good”▶ 6:55
- “Thankfully, we got no white cast, and for once, there's no greasiness as well”▶ 6:59
- “I'm going to put this at it's good, but it's not like the best”▶ 7:03
Tower 28 Beauty$32.00- “It was really hard to get a quarter teaspoon to rub out well on my face”▶ 7:29
- “By the third layer of this, it was giving peanut butter baby, unfortunately”▶ 7:34
- “I feel like this is a really good in tint”▶ 7:37
- “At least she's not giving white cast, but unfortunately she is giving greasy”▶ 8:08
- “As a makeup girly, I will still be using this for the makeup days when I want a little bit of extra SPF, but I would not use this on its own”▶ 8:17
Halo Glow Skin Tint SPF 50shade · Tan Neutral- “This one was also pretty difficult to get the 1/4 tsp of sunscreen”▶ 8:57
- “It is very much giving, in my opinion, peanut butter baby if you use the 1/4 tsp of sunscreen”▶ 9:12
- “I really like this formula and I really like the finish”▶ 9:23
- “I like wearing this on top of my usual SPF as like an added SPF skin tint”▶ 9:27
- “On its own, I don't think this is going to work because again, it's giving peanut butter baby”▶ 9:33
- “I do think it's giving hella greasy”▶ 9:42
- “It says water resistant 80 minutes, which is I think a really great feature of this product”▶ 9:53
- “I would put this at good. It's not the best, but for $14, I still think that's pretty damn good”
INNBEAUTY PROJECT$28.00Mineral Sun Glow Broad Spectrum Sunscreen SPF 43 PA+++shade · SPF 43 / Deep- “I've been using this one for years”▶ 10:19
- “I do use the deep shade, but I have also tried the deep shade on my dad, who is much darker than me, and it blends out really, really well on his skin tone as well”▶ 10:21
- “It blends out very easily, and it should be easy to be able to get the quarter teaspoon of sunscreen that we need to get the advertised SPF protection”▶ 10:38
- “Once it dries down, it does leave a really pretty glow, but I wouldn't say it's greasy nor sticky”▶ 10:44
- “The only downside of this I would say is that it's not waterproof like the Elf skin tint”▶ 10:57
- “I love this one. I've been using it for freaking years and I recommend this to like every brown girl I know”▶ 11:06
- “She's giving glam”▶ 11:13
- “She leaves no white cast and she's not greasy. I have no notes for this”▶ 11:13
- “Even though she's pretty expensive, it's worth it”
EltaMD$43.00UV Daily Broad-Spectrum SPF 40shade · SPF 40 / Deep- “Because it does have chemical filters, feel like this blends out the easiest”▶ 11:30
- “To me, this is also another gold standard tinted sunscreen”▶ 11:36
- “Full ass coverage”▶ 11:40
- “And it was not difficult to get the quarter teaspoon recommendation”▶ 11:47
- “And this is the sunscreen my South Asian dermatologist also recommends for us brown girly tinted sunscreen”▶ 11:50
- “It's the one that I usually use every single day and it's I've actually seen a very big improvement in my hyperpigmentation”▶ 12:04
- “Even though it only has two shades, it works across a spectrum of tones”▶ 12:20
- “For me at least it's giving glam cuz she's not greasy and she's giving no white cast”▶ 12:39
- “This is another gold standard tinted sunscreen, even though she's again expensive”▶ 12:45
Versed$24.99Skin Solution Multi-Serum Skin Tint Foundationshade · SPF 40 / 9 Neutral
- “The first thing I noticed about this one was the smell. I thought this one smelled really gross”▶ 14:22
- “This one, fam, would not rub in”▶ 14:23
- “I could not, for the life of me, even get past like half of the 1/4 tsp”▶ 14:33
- “I would not say this is giving tinted sunscreen. It's still giving tinted SPF skin tint”▶ 14:44
- “For $38, I'm expecting it to be perfect, but unfortunately, I found this a little greasy”▶ 15:00
- “I would use this one as your makeup and still pair underneath it like another sunscreen”▶ 15:02
- “I'm going to give it a slam because at least it was giving mid-greasy, and it was at least not giving white cast with 20 shades”▶ 15:14
Supergoop!$44.00- “This formula, I would say, is really nice if you have dry skin”▶ 15:37
- “It blends in really easily”▶ 15:41
- “I do really like this as a tinted sunscreen because, again, it's not giving foundation, and I think Supergoop has some really great elegant formula”▶ 15:52
- “I was able to get the 1/4 tsp here without giving peanut butter baby and spending 10 minutes to rub it in”▶ 16:28
- “I think it's giving glam”▶ 16:34
- “Once it dries down, I wouldn't say that this has a greasy finish, but it is glowy and it is hydrating”▶ 16:35
- “I would say this is the best actual tinted sunscreen at Sephora, coming in with 14 shades”▶ 16:40
- “I actually think you can use this as your main SPF for the summer and be okay”▶ 16:46
ILIA$40- “I felt like this was giving so greasy, man”▶ 17:54
- “It was really difficult to blend out to get that quarter teaspoon advertised sun protection”▶ 17:22
- “Felt like I was putting olive oil on my face”▶ 17:25
- “The more I put on, the more like red orange was”▶ 17:41
- “Olive oil and a little oompa loompa for my preference”▶ 17:43
- “At least it's not giving white cast, but unfortunately it is giving greasy AF”▶ 17:52
- “I'm going to put it at bad, but it's not like a scam”▶ 17:59
Live Tinted$38- “It was really difficult again to once I started blending her out to get the advertised quarter teaspoon”▶ 18:40
- “I think this is really good as makeup”▶ 18:47
- “Using this as SPF on its own, I would not recommend because the more I'll this on, the more like peanut butter baby again vibes it was giving”▶ 18:49
- “If you're someone with dry skin and looking for like an SPF skin tint to layer over other sunscreens, that's where I would recommend it”▶ 19:08
Colorescience$44.00- “Color-changing my ass”
- “This was so difficult to get the advertised SPF protection with a quarter teaspoon because she is full ass coverage, bro”▶ 20:20
- “And why is the deep shade giving Oompa Loompa?”▶ 20:30
- “This product in particular has the coverage of the Estee Lauder foundation”▶ 20:36
- “I would definitely not say this is a tinted sunscreen. It's a tinted foundation”▶ 20:45
- “I don't recommend this as your main SPF”▶ 20:51
- “I don't get why this is so viral”
- “For $58, $58, that's literally crazy”▶ 21:03
- “Even though she's not giving white cast, she is giving Oompa Loompa cast and she's giving extremely greasy”
- “This is going in scam”
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