I thought this product would be a great way to end the "which shade to buy" debate...but it really didnt. I found it thick and heavy and felt it was clogging up my skin. I found it didnt really do much to cover up mild blemishes...and you dont blend well it leaves you looking a little blochy. It's just not for me.

I got this at Wal-Mart about a month ago because I had run out of my MAC MoistureBlend foundation and I needed something to take it's place before I could go out and buy a new one. They had a sale on where I could get the foundation AND concealer for $17 CAD (after tax) and usually the foundation itself is $16 so I figured I'd try it. Now I am -extremely- pale, and I have iron deficiency anemia so finding a drugstore foundation is really hard for me because usually they don't come in very many shades, especially ones that are as pale as I am and the best & closest to my skin tone that I have found is the CoverGirl TruBlend Shade #1 foundation/concealer. But I decided to try it out anyway and I wasn't too impressed.

I got the foundation/concealer in "Light" but it's not light at all. It is too yellow & dark for my skin and it's very hard to blend into my neck to make it look even remotely natural. So that is very frustrating. The coverage is light unless you build up on it then it could be a light/medium coverage and that's all I really need so that's a good point I suppose. It can tend to get a bit streaky if you don't blend it out well with your foundation brush or set it with a powder. I also found the smell this foundation to be really disgusting. I did like the fact that it had SPF 15 in it though.

I don't get the "colour matching" part of this foundation because in my opinion it starts off white, and then when you blend it out it goes to the colour it wants/is supposed to go to ("light"), not necessarily your "skin tone" because there is no way that a foundation could properly match everyone's pigmentation in their face perfectly with just one foundation. So I find that very misleading and I'm sure a lot of people have bought this foundation without knowing that and have been disappointed. Now I have read/watched reviews where people love this product because it matches their skin tone, but unfortunately this is just not the foundation for me. :(

I really wanted to start buying cheaper foundations but I guess that's just not an option. But I did like the concealer for my under-eye circles so I guess something good came out of this. But I would much rather have had a MAC concealer than the Almay one. I will not be re-purchasing this foundation ever again. :(

Positives:

SPF 15
Light/Medium coverage depending on how much you build up
Concealer conceals dark circles well

Negatives:

Not enough colour selection
Can get streaky if not blended out well or set with powder
Smells disgusting
Not worth the money [imo]

i hated this stuff it clumped up on my face it looked like i had dirt balls on my face it grosed me out it also set in the few wrinkes i have that really bothered me

In terms of natural looking color yes, it works, dosn't look like your wearing makeup at all, but honestly i wasn't too impressed with the results, some days it worked pretty well, other days soso. i tend to get blemish and it didn't cover them like my regular foundation did. so i would only recommend this product to someone who already has a great complexsion, otherwise to me all its good for is sun screen!