Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
Natural looking, smooth even coverage, feels nice |
| Disadvantages: |
Makes fine lines more obvious |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
Max Factor Colour Adapt foundation was the first skin tone adapting makeup on the market, and is probably still the best known. You can get it from beauty retailers, as well as some chemists and online for around £11 - £12. It comes in 9 shades, from 'creamy ivory' and 'warm almond' right through to 'toffee' and 'soft sable'.
The foundation contains Colour Adapt Particles which adapt to your individual skin tones to give a flawless but perfectly natural looking base. It's supposed to even out your skin tone without masking it and blend away imperfections. It's also oil-free so suitable even for oily skin types.
It comes in a 34ml bottle with pump action dispenser and a pull-off lid. The lid fastens really tightly so it would be fine in a make-up bag. The pump-action dispenser is good in some ways but not in others. It's good because it's easier to use than a tube and less messy in my opinion, but it doesn't dispense just how much you need - the amount dispensed depends on how far down you press it, and if you press it right the way down you end up with about 3-4 times as much as you actually need, so in that respect I think the dispenser's quite badly designed.
The foundation is quite thin in texture, and feels really creamy and smooth. It glides easily over the skin and is easily blended with the fingers or a sponge. I usually use a foundation brush to apply foundation but for some reason I find it doesn't work with this one, I always end up with loads of visible brush strokes in it which are then very difficult to blend.
I agree that it adapts to your skin tone and looks very natural. It gives a very even look without getting that flat lifeless look that other foundations can give because they make all your face exactly the same colour. It feels nice on and it doesn't clog my pores or make my skin feel oily. It lasts all day without melting or fading, and it doesn't come off easily on to clothes.
The only problem I have with this foundation is that it sits in fine lines making them look really obvious, and this gets worse throughout the day. If it wasn't for this I would have said this foundation was practically perfect, and for anyone with young, line-free skin it probably would be great, but as I do have a fair few fine lines to contend with, this is not for me.
Recommended for those who don't have fine lines to contend with!
Not recommended for those with fine lines!
