Covergirl Simply Ageless review

Welp.  I’m back from blogging obscurity with a review.

I just switched from L’Oreal True Match foundation to Covergirl Simply Ageless.  So far, so good.  My main skin problems are blotchy red patches (from stress), brown sun spots (too much sun as a kid), and dark hereditary under eye circles.  The overall color of my face  is very uneven these days.  To top that off, I have some fine lines under my eyes that concealer gets stuck in and looks awful.  And a little enlarged pore action on my nose, if we must nitpick.

Like I said, I have been using True Match foundation… it is a sheer liquid formula and believe it or not, is my first foray into everyday foundation.  Like, ever.  I had THE BEST skin for the longest time, I used to get compliments on it all the time.  I just stayed out of the sun, moisturized, and to enhance my pallor I used a fluffy brush with pale setting powder for my gothic years.  Around age 20 my under eye circles were bad enough to necessitate spot concealer or powder, but that was it… it wasn’t until having my son that things took a sudden nosedive for my complexion.

So.  I started using concealer on all the spots and patches and blending out… and next thing I knew, my whole face was a spot.  So I tried buying treatments (like Philosophy’s Help Me!) and performing weekly DIY facials and began religiously washing my face twice a day.  But what is done is done.  Broken capillaries (When they say “PUSH!  PUSH!” they are actually telling to your youthful beauty to push out of your skin) and weird brown spots (hormonal changes?) and the daily stress of being a mother combined with far less sleep than I used to get have amounted to a need for foundation.

LONG STORY SHORT:  True Match was my first foundation, and it was pretty okay.  I didn’t know what to look for in a foundation… I will say that it definitely matched my skin nicely… didn’t clog my pores too bad or anything… didn’t look crazy cakey, and didn’t settle in my fine lines.  …It’s just that I could still see my skin under it.  Not that that is a bad thing.  But I have freckles and veins and stuff going on that I would just rather hide, and while it evened out the overall color, I needed a little more.

I was reading up on foundations and decided I would either buy Covergirl Simply Ageless foundation (save) or Makeup Forever HD foundation (splurge).  I just wanted to make sure I used up all the old one first… turns out that I finished the bottle today, and we just don’t have $40 for foundation right now, so “easy breezy beautiful” won out.

What can I say?  It is infused with Olay Regenerist Serum, has an SPF of 22, and feels waterproof on my skin which is different…. I don’t mind it, you might.  I don’t feel like it has budged at all since I put it on several hours ago.  It didn’t settle into my little lines and wrinkles, but didn’t cover them up, either, so I’m pretty okay with that.

There are a few things I didn’t like, however:

1.  The packaging is totally annoying.  They have a foundation sponge in a flip top and the foundation itself in a twist top.  And no mirror.  What a waste.
2.  I tried taking it off after my initial application and it ended up requiring a washcloth and heavier scrubbing than I’d like.  I am going to buy some Boscia Breakup Cool Cleansing Oil for this purpose when I can afford to, but until then I’m not very happy about the removal process.
3.  It has a matte finish.

A matte finish isn’t a bad thing, really, but it just  left me looking fake.  You need to know what the hell you are doing with a matte finish, and a lot of girls don’t.  So, after applying the foundation I had to highlight and contour, which added a few extra minutes to the whole process, which vaguely annoyed me.

Was it worth it? Yes and no.  Yes because I am not red or brown anymore, I don’t look like a corpse with sunken eyes, and I look like I naturally have nice skin again.  No, because it was time-consuming, “drug store expensive”, and will be a pain in the ass to wash off later.

Oh and one more thing, it is a shade lighter than it looks or that you’d normally buy. I have read a ton of reviews that said as much, and bought a shade darker as a precaution.  I am glad I did.  Such a thick finish would look awful if it didn’t match my skin better.

For my second ever foundation, I will give it a solid B grade.  A decent product… I have definitely seen FAR worse foundations on other women.  I am still going to buy my HD foundation as soon as I am able, but this will do for now.