As someone with extremely dry and sensitive skin here is a curated list of the best beauty products that are dry skin friendly. These are my tried and true favorites that have changed the makeup game for me. These products will leave your makeup look...
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High End - Foundations and Skin Tints
Drug Store - Foundations and Skin Tints
High End - Concealers and Color Correctors
Drug Store - Concealer and Color Correctors
High End - Skin Care and Primers
Drug Store - Skin Care and Primers
High End - Foundations and Skin Tints
This foundation is the PERFECT every day foundation for dry skin. Gives light coverage while still evening out the skin tone and blurring pores. Leaves a beautiful glowy finish that is perfect for dry skin girlies. This is also a great rec for any no...
Dior Forever Skin Glow: Hydrating Face Foundation
This skin tint is another great product for minimal everyday coverage. Perfect for dry skin. Leaves a healthy glow while still evening out any discoloration or pigmentation.
Super Boost Skin Tint - Tinted Moisturizer MAKE UP FOR EVER
This leaves the most natural yet dewy finish with high coverage. It is perfect for those with dry skin who still want the glow to show.
Studio Radiance Serum-Powered™ Foundation
This works AMAZING under every base product. I use this as a glowy primer or as a natural skin tint like foundation. This doesn’t have a lot of coverage but perfect for layering. It’s hydrating and unlike all other stick foundations.
Foundation Stick: Hydrating & Easy-to-use
This foundation is the perfect buildable medium coverage foundation. Leaves skin hydrated and dewy without looking oily. This covers imperfections and evens skin tone in an incredibly radiant and natural way.
Major Skin Hydra-Luxe Luminous Skin Perfecting Foundation For Natural Glow
Drug Store - Foundations and Skin Tints
A great cost friendly skin tint for dry skin. Leaves a glowy base while providing great coverage. Very light weight and breathable.
Super Stay 24-HR Glowy Skin Tint with Vitamin C
Solid and dependable low cost option for dry skin friendly foundation. Blurs pores and leaves a radiant yet natural finish.
Infallible Pro-Glow Foundation for Dry Skin - L'Oréal Paris
High End - Concealers and Color Correctors
This was one of the first concealers I tried and I always come back to it. It has a great amount of coverage without going too far and caking up. This also lays well with other concealers and correctors if you want to mix and match.
NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer
This a great medium coverage concealer for those of us with dry under eyes. Has a very wide range of colors perfect for any undertone. This concealer is great for both when you want lighter coverage and fuller coverage as it builds beautifully.
Hy-Glam Concealer | Brightening & Hydrating
Love this for higher coverage days. A little goes a long way. Looks great in photos.
Vanish™ Airbrush Concealer | 16 Hour Wear
The most creamy color corrector that provides a decent amount of coverage. Magic is perfect for this with cooler and light to medium undertones. Illusion and fantasy are better for neutral light to medium skin tones.
Revealer Extra Bright
Drug Store - Concealer and Color Correctors
This is a wonderful affordable color corrector, especially for dry skin. A little goes a long way. Instantly brightens the e under eye. I often use this in place of concealer on days I don’t need as much coverage and want just to brighten my complexi...
Under Eye Brightener
Really breathable light weight concealer. Blends very evenly and easily. Hydrates and provides just the right amount of coverage for every day use.
Bare With Me Concealer Serum | NYX Professional Makeup
High End - Skin Care and Primers
Great primer for dry skin. Prevents makeup from flaking and adheres makeup to face all day. Pro tip - add a pump to any foundation to sheer out coverage and add more of a glowy finish
Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Gripping Primer
This a wonderful serum spray for pre or post makeup. Spray before to give a glowy base for makeup or spray after to rehydrate and rejuvenate any makeup. Make sure to let this dry all the way before applying any other product on top.
Plump + Juicy Vegan Collagen Spray-On Serum
This is an exact dupe for the agustinus bader moisturizer. It feels thick and luxurious at a fraction of the cost. Perfect to hydrate skin before makeup. Great for bridal skin prep for those brides with very very dry skin.
LAVISH CREAM
This is such a light weight cream that gives an additional brightening affect for the under eye. Pricey but worth it. Sephora often has samples you can purchase with points. Highly recommend trying out sample size.
Squalane + Marine Algae Eye Cream
Truly the most blurring primer that is dry skin friendly. Leaves a soft yet dewy finish which is perfect for under makeup to provide the most blurring filter like finish for makeup. This is almost as good as a skin tint coverage or blurring wise. Thi...
Underglow Blurring Primer
I love this moisturizer it gives great glow and leaves skin nice and plump. Only downfall is it has a strong scent which may be irritating.
The Dewy Skin Cream Replenishing and Plumping Moisturizer
This is incredibly rich and dense. Perfect for very very dry skin as a base moisturizer or primer before makeup especially if u need slip for any products. I use under Mary Phillips under painting palette for a beautiful dewy flawless look.
rhode Barrier Butter Intensive Moisture Balm
Drug Store - Skin Care and Primers
This serum leaves me the glowiest out of any other serum I’ve tried. It’s in my hall of fame skin care recs. Use this prior to makeup to help skin have a healthy glow from within look.
Glow Serum : Propolis + Niacinamide
This is an exact dupe for glow recipe dew drops. It may even be better. Leaves a wonderfully dewy hydrated base perfect for makeup to lay on.
Wonderful affordable option for optimal hydration. Leaves a glowy finish. Perfect for when you want to gua sha, it helps slide the gua sha along the face to get all excess puffiness out of face and drain your lymph nodes.
Advanced Snail 92 All in one Cream
This is a great step to add a bit of glow, coverage and color before makeup. It helps even skin tone without being patchy as some glow drops can be.
L'Oreal Paris True Match Lumi Glotion
This is a light weight milky toner that sits very well under other skin care products and sits well under makeup while still providing hydration
Glow Replenishing Rice Milk
Love these to place under my eye while I’m doing eye makeup or before bed time. Leaves under eyes super hydrated and ready for makeup application.
COSRX Advanced Snail Hydrogel Eye Patch 60pc
Honestly even creamier than Rhodes milky toner. It’s phenomenal and I genuinely never thought anything would top the rhode milky toner.
Milky Hydrating Face Toner with Snow Mushroom and Hyaluronic Acid
High End - Setting and Finishing Sprays
This is AMAZING for getting that glow from within finish for dry skin. I spray after all makeup and all over my chest and arms and even legs to get a glowy finish.
Prep-Set-Glow Hydrating Glowy Setting Spray
I love this setting spray to give me a blurred but not drying finish. It still leaves my natural glow but melts all my powders together. It’s truly the perfect blend of blur, set and glow. The milani make it last original is similar finish but this t...
Cloud Set Mist
Drug Store - Setting and Finishing sprays
This is my TOP #1 Drug store setting spray. This helps melt all powders leaving a beautiful natural but radiant finish. Perfect for dry skin to drink it up and melt all powders.
Make It Last Original - Natural Finish Setting Spray - Milani Cosmetics
This is my #1 rec for glass skin makeup. This melts powders and leaves a glassy glowy finish for the skin, perfect for those with extremely dry skin to still have a glowy finish. And also perfect for the drier months for all skin types. Truly an amaz...
Make It Last Dewy - Dewy Finish Setting Spray
High End - Powders
This is a great powder to give coverage and a blurred effect. You don’t need to go crazy especially if u have extra dry under eyes. Setting your under eyes and face with an evened out powder puff will provide optimal coverage and blurring effects.
I love to use this to set my face all over after setting my under eyes with loose powder. Provides a great blurring filter that doesn’t dry my skin out and lets a little glow peek through.
Cloud Set Setting Powder
I love this powder for its coverage. It’s super finely milled and does wonders blurring while not being overly cakey
Loose Setting Powder
This is a great affordable option. It’s light weight and blurring yet since it’s a baked formula it provides an effortless natural finish that leaves skin smooth and perfect
Microsmooth Multi-Tasking Baked Face Powder - SEPHORA COLLECTION
Drug Store - Powders
Great drug store powder. Affordable and provides perfect amount of coverage while smoothing out any fine lines. Very very finely milled.
#1 cream bronzer rec. I have truly never used such an easy to blend cream bronzer. It applies like butter and therefore works if you apply directly to face or to hand then onto face with a brush. I struggle a lot with cream bronzers being to dry and ...
No Limits Cream Bronzer Stick
I love the formula for these cream bronzers. They are more of a balmy formula but it still has a great amount of pigment and blends like a dream. It’s perfect for drier skin as the balm texture helps hydrate and prevent patchiness
Curve Cases
Drug Store - Cream Contour
One of the best drug store affordable cream bronzers. Blends so easily and has great warm but not too warm shades
Cheek Kiss Cream Bronzer
An affordable and highly recommended cream bronzer. Has a bit of a stiffer formula than other potted bronzers but is still easily blended and looks beautiful on the skin.