are you a fair skinned, blonde haired 30 something?

[cheeryface]

with normal skin (sometimes dry) ???

well, which is the VERY best foundation then?

i have spent a fortune these last few weeks trying to find a good one.

help if you can!!

I fit that description and I love Clinique Superbalanced foundation...have you tried it?

thanx, no, not tried that one

I'm not blonde, (ginge)but with the palest skin you're likely to encounter and I use Laura Mercier mineral powder foundation. Mostly because it's light enough to not looked caked on and I'm so pale most other foundation looks fake on me.

Was just typing in Clinique and realised I couldn't spell it (now I can, thanks to DrippingLizzie!) - its good stuff! Also really recommend Estee Lauder idealist skin refinisher...its £45 a pot but you only need a tiny amount that goes on underneath moisturiser and it really makes the skin smooth and calms any redness down - I love it!

Yes I am.

Unfortunately I don't use foundation as I'm blessed with excellent skin

I just use a tinted moisturiser

Am very very white - have spent a fortune too! Only 1 I can get pale enough (and even it is a bit too dark) is Max Factor 100 Fair. No SPF though, so recently bought Clinique repairwear Alabaster breeze with an SPF 15 but find it too orange - needed 1 with an SPF though! I wish cosmetic companies would consider the paler people among us - we especially need an SPF! Grrr

MamaG

I have crap skin and I use Clinque Superbalanced as well colour Alabaster

With you on that one rumpel, I use a spf face block 30 underneath.

I have never owned a foundation either, I woulnd't know where to start! Do have MAC blusher, it's great

I am of the species you describe and being at the poorer end of the spectrum and never having tried a Clinique foundation [swoon], I find Maybelline Wonderfinish to be the best you can get for under a tenner.

the body shop used to do the palest one. It's paler than the clinique one

but I only use it as concealer - full foundation looks silly on pale skin imo.

do you know in spain they only go down to shade 2 in everything? I don't really care but had to use 10 yr old foundation for my wedding day as was unable to buy new.

Thing is the Clinique one is pricey but it lasts ages at least 6 months, Boots ones seem to last me no time so it's really a saving buying it (thats what I tell myself anyway)

Yes!

Clinique always seems to dry my skin out and it irritates it aswell, am I the only one?

the body shop; one lasts 10 years.

admit have only tested the clinique one in the shop though.

clinique seems popular then!

Still think Clinique might be too orange for you though - I have major probs trying to blend it in to my snowy neck! I am now researching the mineral foundations and thinking I may try 1 of those - they do a Goth white - which you could mix with a pale shade to get the right one for you. SPF 15 - 20 too.

Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser in Nude

fabby

with a bit of her secret concealer for any red bits

Bobby Brown - the liquid one - absolutely the best foindation for my skin ever and I am fair, slightly dry blonde 30 yo.

Hey cheeryface! Another vote for clinique superbalanced here, and I fit that picture too Don't use all the time though, just evenings out (when I used to have them) and bad-skin days... I jst use moisturiser, line-smoothing concealer (amazing stuff) and bronzing powder usually. Works better for me than tinted moisturiser cos you can dab the colour where you need it ot all over...

RH, I can only use clinique as allergic to loads of other stuff, I honestly daren't try anything else as I just explode into a rash! (And I have tried, I promise )

No 7 Intellint colour

oops - intelligent colour

Benefit, Non-Fiction

oooo thanx more suggestions!