Clinique Even Better Compact Makeup SPF15

$31     0.35oz/ 10g

Ingredients: Titanium Dioxide 3.8%, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Silica, Phenyl Trimethicone, Cetyl Dimethicone, Tribehenin, Squalane, Glycereth-8 Hydroxystearate, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Arachidyl Propionate, Ozokerite, Lauryl Methacrylate/Glycol Dimethacrylate Crosspolymer, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate Palmitate, Trihydroxystearin, Tocopheryl Acetate, Caprylyl Glycol, Sorbitan Sesquioleate, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Simethicone, Disteardimonium Hectorite . May contain: Iron Oxides, Titanium Dioxide, Zinc Oxide

Shades: 20 shades available. For details, visit Clinique Website

Availability: Clinique Website, Sephora, Macy's, Nordstrom

I already owned and loved Clinique Even Better Makeup, which is the older and liquid version of Clinique Even Better Compact Makeup, before I purchased this compact. I love everything travel friendly so I thought it would be a nice addition to my collection.

Consistency

It's a cream foundation with a consistency more to the wet size. It's creamier than Dermablend Cover Cream. This consistency reminds me of Benefit Some Kind-A Gorgeous foundation disc.

Ease of Use

Because it's so creamy, it's very easy to blend. I just swatch it on my face and blend it out with Real Techniques Expert Face Brush, which is a very dense synthetic brush. It blends out to be a powdery finish that doesn't feel dry on the skin. Even though I think it's okay for all skin type to use, if you have dry skin, I still suggest you put moisturizer on before applying this foundation as it could cling on to very dry patches/ flakes.

Coverage

With a dense synthetic brush, you can achieve a light coverage or a medium coverage depending on how much of the product you swatch on the face. If you want full coverage, the best way to use it is blending it out with your hands. You can easily achieve a full coverage with this.

Finish

The finish is really natural. It has a satin finish leaning more to the matte side. This is by no means a dewy finish.

Wear

It feels very light on the skin. The feel is even better than that of powders. The skin is not caked on and is still able to breath, even when you go full coverage on this.

Without a primer, the foundation looks fine for the first 3 hours. After that mark, it fades away on the oily areas.

It wears off okay. It doesn't wear off seamlessly but it doesn't get patchy or emphasize pores and bumps. The coverage just gets a little uneven, but it's easily fixed by blending it out with fingers.

Color

So far everything has been impressive. I do have to complain about the color. It offers a good range of 20 shades. I picked up the shade #1 Linen, which is way too light for me in the summer as seen on the ghosty pictures below. But it's a good shade for the winter. It's always better to go lighter than darker anyway. However, the big down side of the color, at least for the lighter shades, is that they're very pink toned. Even though it says "neutral," it still looks very pink on my yellow skin tone. I can't speak for the darker shades but if you have fair yellow toned complexions, this is something to be careful with. I normally just use my other darker yellow toned foundation underneath it to balance out the pink tone.

No makeup     >>>     1 layer     >>>     1 layer + touch up on dark spots

One layer is good enough in terms of the coverage. I just wanted to show you that you could easily cover dark spots with Even Better Compact Makeup.

Overall, I'm very pleased with this foundation. It's super easy to use and performs very well with very little effort, making it a fool proof product as long as you have the right shade in the right undertone. The only problem that I have is the undertone, but that can be fixed by putting other product underneath, mixing it with other foundations, or putting a yellow tone powder on top.

Highly recommended for: dry, normal, combination

Not recommended for: extremely dry skin, people who look for dewy finish