The Best Skin Tints For The Ultimate Glow

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By Tamara Corin | 19th November 2023

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Consider tinted moisturisers (AKA skin tints) as complexion enhancers which hydrate your skin with essential ingredients while leaving behind a barely-there finish on your face. It’s the new hybrid skincare/makeup product that has fast become brands bestsellers mainly due to our busy lifestyles and the beauty viral trend, ‘skin but better’ finish.

Lightweight, multipurpose formulas give skin an undetectable veil of colour and a dewy glow, while still allowing freckles to peek through. Hailey Bieber, Sofia Richie, and Rhianna are all fans of this pared-down look, and after testing these formulas, we now understand the fuss.

Top tip: For extra sheer coverage, apply with fingers to enhance the no-makeup makeup look. The more organic and fuss-free you apply your skin tint, the more natural your finish.

The Skin Tints We Rate

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Best for skincare benefits: Tinted Oleo-Serum, £39

This hybrid product is a gamechanger for beauty junkies everywhere. It works deep into the skin like a serum while adding a tint of colour and evening out skin tone.

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Best for dry skin: The Super Tinted Hydrator, £98

This blends like a second skin and claims to provide a staggering 48 hours of hydration to skin while giving complexions a subtle boost with its 11 self-adjusting tints. Genius!

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Best for the beauty junkie: Veil Hydrating Skin Tint, £49

Joining the list of viral #beautytok, this instantly boosts skin's moisture levels by 52% and provides all-day hydration and leaves a dewy glow behind.

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Best multi-tasker: Sunshine Skin Tint SPF30, £39

A multi-tasker that raises skin moisture levels, gives a beautiful no-makeup makeup colour to skin while also providing high sun protection.

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Best for budgets: Kind & Free Moisturising Skin Tint, £7.49

This lightweight bargain buy is infused with an antioxidant complex that leaves skin with a fresh, healthy-looking glow.

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Best for a shade matching: Glowish Multidew Skin Tint,, £34

Like a filter for your skin. This blurs pores, brightens skin in all the right places and gives a soft-focus dreamy finish.

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Best for all skin types: DayWear Multi-Protection Antioxidant Sheer Tint Release Moisturizer SPF 15, £18

Enhancing your skin tone with a subtle glow, this is a great choice if you just what an even skin rather than colour. Genius technology means that one sheer shade works for virtually every skintone.

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Best for radiance: Strobe + Tint, £32

Packed with hyaluronic and niacinamide, this multi-use product (that can be used both over and under your skincare), is hard to keep in stock it’s so popular. 16 shades of soft radiance.

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Best for mature skin: Vitamin Enriched Skin Tint, £38

This 2-in-1 skin tint moisturises while delivering fresh, natural-looking coverage that’s skin-true. Infused with Bobbi’s signature formula to help nourish skin. Plus, it has an SPF too.

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Best natural finish: Slip Tint SPF35, £27

This silky gel formula verges on skincare providing a lightweight finish without compromising on coverage.

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Positive Light Tinted Moisturiser, £29

This industry favourite is featherweight with just the right amount of glow, plus it comes in a huge choice of shades.

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Best for skincare: Super Serum Skin Tint, £51

Packed with skin-nourishing ingredients including hydrating hyaluronic acid, brightening niacinamide and plumping squalene. Plus, it comes with the choice of SPF30 or SPF40 protection.

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Best multi-tasker: Just Skin Tinted Moisturiser, £73

Yes, it’s expensive, but this product gives skin excellent natural-looking coverage with added skin nourishment. It also doubles as an ideal makeup base that works just as well for night as it does for day.

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Best choice of shades: Eaze Blur Drop Tint, £21.60

If you’re forever searching for the perfect foundation to match your skin tone, Fenty’s got you covered with over 25 shades to choose from. The product layers seamlessly and gives skin a youthful, dewy finish.

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Best for blurring: Sheer Skin Tint, £42

Perfect for the soft-focus glow you’d expect from a filter, while offering a hint of colour and ample coverage.

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Best for dewy finish: Skin Enhance Luminous Tinted Serum, £39

Provides great glow and coverage in equal measures thanks to the encapsulated micro-pigments – just mix at the back of your hand before applying to release the colour.

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Best for matte finish: HydraTint, £23, £23

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Evens out skin tone while giving a light healthy wash of colour and matte finish (which is unusual to find in a tint).

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Best for sun protection: Flawless Gossamer Tint SPF50, £35

A weightless skin perfector that leaves a glowy finish and zero white cast. Check out our guide for some more of our SPF faves.

Chanel Les Beiges Water Tint

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Best for luxury: Les Beiges Water Tint, £52

Buff this super-hydrating formula into the skin to release micro-droplets of pigment that deliver radiant light coverage that looks and feels like a second skin.

Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint

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Best for young skin: Perfecting Skin Tint, £20

In a handy squeezy bottle, this breathable formula is packed with diamond powder to give skin a soft-focus effect. And who doesn’t love diamonds?

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Best for a luxe glow: The Foundation, £75

Think bare skin, but better. With a mesmerising rich glow and luxurious texture, this is the luxe option to treat yourself to.

Want to know what other products top facialists swear by for a flawless finish?

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