Trust Me—These 17 Foundations Give the Most Youthful-Looking Glow

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This ultra-light tinted SPF doubles up as a great lightweight foundation if you find anything too heavy settles into fine lines and wrinkles. It gives skin a beautiful soft-focus blur without any cakiness. Plus, the additional SPF helps to shield skin from environmental damage.

This has become one of my favourite lightweight serum foundations. It offers good coverage and melts into the skin to lend a healthy radiance. It's also packed with skincare ingredients like hydrating squalene and brightening niacinamide to boost skin as you wear it.

With a satin-matte finish, this foundation really does look like your skin but better. It's formulated with vitamin C for glow-boosting antioxidant protection and hyaluronic acid to deliver moisture and plump—foundations don't get much better than this.

If you like a full-to-medium-coverage foundation that leaves skin glowing and dewy, this one is for you. 

Trust me. I despise including this £108 (yes, you read that correctly) foundation in this round-up. I don't believe that any foundation is worth £108. However, if any foundation can justify it, it's this one. It is, hands down, the best foundation I have ever used. It looks almost impossibly natural but melts into skin to leave a seamlessly blurred complexion that radiates health and wellness.

This light-coverage skin tint is made up of 70% skincare ingredients to really treat skin at a deeper level. With a bunch of hydrating ingredients, it delivers a skincare-level glow and disguises any textural discrepancies while it's at it. It stays put and doesn't settle in fine lines, either.

This stuff really lives up to its name. Formulated with hydrating hyaluronic acid, gently exfoliating HEPES to boost natural glow and vitamins E and B5 to nourish, it really does it all.

The ultimate everyday skin tint, this sheer, lightweight foundation doesn't deliver major coverage, but it does make skin look smoother, brighter and more radiant.

This is one of those rare foundations that delivers a high-coverage finish without sacrificing your skin's natural glow. Plus, it contains impressive SPF 45 protection, which is a great way to prolong the protective effects of your morning SPF application.

This cult foundation has an extensive fan base for good reason. The skin-blurring, soft-as-silk formula disguises dry patches, pigmentation and blemishes unlike any other.

If you like a matte finish to your foundation but don't like how it can dull the skin and cause the product to settle in fine lines, this foundation is for you. It's long-wearing, doesn't leave a dewy finish, disguises pores and leaves everything looking natural.

YSL's Touche Éclat foundation is considered to be one of beauty's greats. Le Teint feels weightless on the skin and just leaves you feeling that much better and more alive.

Another exceptional option from Nars, Lift Reflecting Foundation gives a youthful glow that is truly convincing. The formula itself is lightweight but possesses impressive coverage credentials. Containing biomimetic oat, milk thistle and cacao peptides, it helps to defend the skin against ageing aggressors and leaves your complexion looking lit from within.

If you often find that your skin looks dull, lacklustre and as though it needs an injection of radiance, listen up. This medium-coverage foundation is formulated with vitamin C for an out-of-this-world glow and delivers a hefty hit of hydration for thirsty complexions.

This is as close to "anti-ageing" as a foundation can get. A plethora of fruit and botanical extracts leave skin looking almost unbelievably refreshed and youthful.

This stuff promises an impressive 24-hour stint of hydration, meaning it doesn't turn matte, dull or drying after a few hours of wear. 

Fenty Beauty might not be a brand that typically appeals to those with more mature skin, but I assure you this skin tint delivers. It subtly blurs skin but has a real no-makeup-makeup finish and doesn't settle in creases in the slightest.