Lakme Absolute White Intense Skin Cover SPF 25 : Swatches & Review

Hello Girls. Hows your week going on?

This is a wedding season. Beautiful ethnic attire and flawless makeup, a dream look to attend a wedding. Ethnic attire, I am assured, you will choose the best. Let’s talk about some makeup now. Foundation is an integral part of makeup routine. It covers all the spots/blemishes and uneven skin tone. Some might need sheer coverage just to even out skin tone while some other might need high coverage to hide acne/dark spots. I am going to talk about a high coverage foundation today.

Lakme Absolute White Intense Skin Cover SPF 25

is a high coverage foundation, that gives you flawless finish. Lakme claims about this foundation:

Vitamin B3 & SPF 25 guards the skin against harmful rays leaving it visibly fairer.
Water based.
Long lasting.

Price

Originally priced at Rs. 700 for 15ml, The price has reduced a lot now.

Availability

Available offline. At very cheaper prices online. Buy from Amazon.in.

How To Use

Pump some foundation onto the palm of your hand. Apply tiny dots all over face and neck area and blend thoroughly.

Shades

Ivory Fair
Rose Fair
Golden Light
Golden Medium
Beige Honey
Almond Honey

I use Golden Medium Shade 03 for my fair-medium skin. The foundation has yellow undertones.

Packaging

It comes in a black opaque bottle with pump. The pump delivers just the right amount of the product.

Texture & Smell

It is a water based foundation but it’s quite thick and that’s how it delivers great coverage. I am not a fan of the chemically smell. It does not stay for long though.

My Views

Even though I am never satisfied with the Lakme foundations, I still got it because of the coverage it offers. It gives nice coverage and hides my acne scars and hyper pigmentation due to acne. It also covers bumps or pimples to great extent. It actually boosts my confidence to face the world when I am going through acne breakout.

I am not a fan of the consistency of this foundation. Its very thick and I need to blend it quickly other wise it will dry up and I won’t be able to blend it. I generally use my fingers to blend this foundation so that the warmth of my fingers help it blend easily.

Coming to the pigmentation/coverage, I am really like it. Since it’s thick it gives really nice coverage. The coverage I would call medium in absolute terms, but, I am fine with that coverage, I have hardly used a full coverage foundation, maybe one from MAC, the studio fix was full coverage. I generally apply one pump-one layer on my face, and that’s all I need. Putting another layer with this thick foundation, is little difficult for me.

Longevity, is awesome. I have worn it many times for full day and it stayed there till the evening. It helps to keep my oily skin mattified for 5-6 hours. If there is oil showing up, I just blot and it does not transfers to the tissue.

This foundation contains SPF 25, which is great if you go out in the sun wearing it. But it does not photograph well indoors and gives white cast, which I totally detest.