The Ordinary Coverage Foundation Review

Hello all!

I hope you're all doing amazingly and welcome back to my blog, today I'm going to be writing a review on The Ordinary's Coverage Foundation. A lot of people have been raving about this product, with one of the main selling points being the affordable price of £5.95! I bloody love a bargain myself, so I felt the need to get my hands on it and long story short; I have a lot of feelings about this foundation, so I thought I'd share them all with you in a long overdue blog post.

So, just for reference, I have a combination skin type as I get quite oily throughout the day but I'm also prone to dry patches, I struggle with a fair bit of acne and acne scarring so I like to have that covered up as much as I can and I have a light to medium skin tone, so roughly an NC35 in Mac. This is why I felt that this foundation might be a good one for me as it's supposed to be full coverage, it's made by a skincare brand which I assumed means it won't badly affect my skin and they have a pretty decent shade range too. I picked up shade 2.0YG, which is defined as a light medium with yellow-gold undertones and again, I had high hopes for the shade, but I do feel like it's a little off. When I first apply it, it looks like a good match apart from it being somewhat light for me but when it dries down, I feel like it becomes a lot more neutral toned which results in ash city for me.

Excuse my fluffy cheetah pjyamas, he he

Unblended, more yellow

Blended, much more neutral

In regards to the finish, I'd say it's skin-like, semi matte and a medium coverage. It is definitely buildable but it can tend to become a bit cakey when I do so, so I definitely have to use concealer and powder when I wear this foundation. It also clinfgs to my drier areas around mouth and any spots I've got straightaway, which ain't a good look because I hate attention being drawn to those areas.

Prepped skin - one layer - two layers

The way this foundation wears throughout the day is the main problem I have with it. On most of my face, it actually wears quite nicely (not anything to write home about, though) but around my mouth, it separates and cakes up significantly along with clinging to dry patches I've got. This becomes especially noticeable when I wear it for around 6 hours, which I feel is an average time to be wearing a foundation in reality, and the finish became so messed up that even other people began to notice..... I know.
I'll still wear it because I don't terribly mind the foundation and I do want to use it up, but not for more than a couple of hours, but prior to this it is a nice foundation. And before you ask, I've tried to bake and set this and it still ends up separating. It's just strange as I've never had a foundation do that before, you may not be able to notice what I mean as well on the picture I've taken but overall, it just ain't a great look for me especially because I have problematic skin anyway.

So overall, this foundation is nice for a few hours wear as it has a skin-like finish and decent coverage but I feel that it would probably work well for those with skin in better condition than mine. So at the moment, it's a no from me. 6/10. Try again next time.

Thank you for reading, I hope you liked this review or found it somewhat helpful and have an amazing February!