The Best Skin Tints For Easy, Sheer Coverage

If you’re into the your-skin-but-better look, (let’s be honest, who isn’t?) then you must be in the market for a skin tint. Designed to deliver lightweight, sheer, glowy and hydrating coverage, skin tints are often blended with hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid, making them the skincare-hybrid heroes you need to add to your makeup routine. 

Just like the way you apply your foundation, a skin tint can be applied to freshly prepped and primed skin, with clean fingers, a brush or a beauty sponge. From then, you can make it your own by applying your concealer, contour, bronzer, blush and powder products on top, if you want to. 

Though not technically a skin tint, we felt our multi-use By BEAUTY BAY Glow Filter deserves a place in our list thanks to its glow giving abilities. Designed to smooth and blur the skin, this illuminator creates an effortlessly brightened, sheer, and fresh-faced finish. Thanks to its versatile, blendable, and lightweight formulation, it can be used on its own for a glowy base, as a skin-boosting primer, or as a brightening highlighter. 

Want flawless skin without the heavy feel? You need the Kevyn Aucoin Stripped Nude Skin Tint. This sheer tint works to blur and correct the complexion for an imperfection-free finish that still looks like skin. Powered by hydrating hylaronic acid and skin-protecting butterfly bush flower extract, this is about to become your new summer-skin go to.

Nourish and perfect your base with the Danessa Myricks Beauty Yummy Skin Serum. Infused with a blend of hydrating hyalruonic acid, blurring collagen peptides, and strengthening ceramides, this tint combines skincare and makeup to bring you the ultimate healthy canvas. It’s also enriched with cactus extract which works to soothe and moisturise the skin for a sheer and balanced finish.

Think instantly bronzed, glowy, and hydrated skin, and you’ve got this Sheer Sun Skin Sunkissed Fluid from Pink Honey. With a lightweight, satin-feel formula, this barely-there skin tint gives your base a bronzed glow, without the sun. Enriched with hyaluronic acid, this nourishing and protective fluid is a radiant skin essential.

If you’re after a natural finish, the Revolution Pro CC Perfecting Skin Tint could be your match made in skincare heaven. This soft-focus formula is packed with micro-encapsulated pigments which melt into the skin to reveal a shade uniquely suited to your skin tone. Available in five versatile shades, this lightweight base booster can be built up to create a finish that’s as sheer or full coverage as you like.

Get your dew on with the MAC Cosmetics Strobe Dewy Tinted Moisturiser. This lightweight, gel-balm tinted moisturiser is infused with hyaluronic acid, shea butter, squalene, and vitamin E formula to provide a buildable, sheer coverage. This tint drenches the skin in a pearlescent, light-bending finish for a comfortable, all-over soft glow. 

Meet the Ultra Violette Daydream Screen Tinted Veil SPF50. Packed with SPF, this ultra-lightweight tinted serum is the perfect addition to your makeup routine. Each silky-soft shade is designed to adapt to your skin tone for a perfectly suited, barely-there finish. 

Obsessed with the no-makeup makeup look? Then you need the Nabla Skin Realist Tinted Balm. This skin tint has a balm texture that has been enriched with hyaluronic acid mircospheres to deeply hydrate and nourish the complexion, resulting in a healthy, natural glow. The creamy texture evens out skin tone, whilst giving a lightweight coverage and plump finish to the skin.

If you’re after a fresh faced base without the effort, we’ve got you covered with the Revolution Superdewy Tinted Moisturiser. A hybrid between skincare and makeup, this tinted moisturiser has the perfect balmy texture with just a hint of tint to give you the ultimate natural, dewy base. 

Light, hydrating, and oil-free, the Nudescreen Daily Mineral Veil SPF30 melts into the skin for a healthy, tinted finish. It also protects against sun and blue light damage. Rich in vegan-powered extracts of green algae, passionflower and purple tea, this skin tint deserves a spot in your next haul.

Combining the glow of makeup with the nourishment of skincare, you need the Like A Light Skin Tint from florence by mills. Featuring a buildable coverage, this tint works to keep the skin hydrated and bright with a dewy radiance. Its non-greasy formula features a blend of antioxidant meadowfoam seed oil and squalene to hydrate, and jojoba oil to soothe and shield stressed skin.

The ICONIC London Super Smoother Blurring Skin Tint is a lightweight, ultra-hydrating skin tint that delivers a weightless veil of light to medium coverage. Perfect for that luminous, semi-satin, second-skin finish, this tint will leave you hydrated all day long. 

FYI: This article was originally published at an earlier date and has since been updated.