- So if anyone has oily prone skin like me,
I am sure you are no stranger to that 3:00 p.m.
donut glaze halo that sits on our foreheads everyday.
And wearing certain types of foundations
can make it even worse.
(upbeat music)
So I'm on a mission to see which foundation
is finally gonna stop my forehead from looking like
the inside of a frying pan once and for (bleep)ing all.
So the three brands that I'm gonna be testing are
L'Oréal for our cheaper option,
NARS for our middle of the line option,
and Giorgio Armani for our more expensive option.
All three of these brands have been listed
on multiple articles for best foundation for oily skin.
So, we're gonna put that to the test.
So first up, we have L'Oreal.
I always love how whenever it comes
to the brown girl colors, it's always like cocoa, coffee.
When have you ever seen spaghetti for the lighter ones?
Good old cocoa.
And it says that it's supposed to have
an airy light texture.
So I'm walking to work and I feel pretty sweaty right now.
Do you see any glistening?
I don't see any.
I really enjoyed this.
They were not lying when they were talking
about it being super light.
Doesn't feel cakey or anything like that.
Goes on pretty smooth.
I don't wear foundation super often
'cause it feels very heavy and it feels
like I have paint on my face and I hate that.
But the minute I put this on, I felt nothing.
Carl.
- [Carl] What's up?
- Do I look oily to you?
- [Carl] No actually, it looks pretty good.
- Yeah? (chuckles)
- Yeah.
- It's not crazy, it's shimmery.
- Yeah, I mean it's almost the end of the day, I guess.
It looks more like a glow rather than oily.
- That's how I felt, okay.
I went out dancing in this and I'm the type of person
where I will dance for five hours straight.
It looked like I hadn't been dancing at all.
And overall, I have to say,
this is definitely a favorite of mine.
If I had to rate it, I would give it 4.5
out of five stars. (clapping a cheering)
Our next one is NARS.
I hear nothing but great things about NARS.
I hear that girls are willing to sacrifice
their rent paychecks for some NARS.
So, I obviously have extremely high hopes for this.
I also like that this one is sun screen.
Black people be tryin' to act like they don't need SPF,
but we need it, okay?
Yes, black don't crack, but don't play with it. (laughing)
This one immediately already feels
a lot thicker and paint-like.
When I first put it on, it definitely felt
like I was putting on foundation.
When you have oily skin, and those oils come in,
you kinda just always feel
like there's some sort of film on your face.
And right now, it feels like I have that film on my face,
even though everything is fresh.
I feel like SPF makes things a little bit heavier,
a little more creamier.
I didn't like that foundationy feeling.
However, I step out of my bathroom,
and there's all this natural light hitting my face,
and I was like...
Who is this? (laughs)
I was so shocked.
I've never seen my skin kind of...
It's not glowing, but it's this softness.
There's this softness to it that this NARS is doing.
It really took me aback for a second.
But, literally around 3:00 p.m.
I look like I had just come out of a swimming pool.
Man, that's so sad, but it lasted for a while, you know?
Gettin' all that, look at all that.
Look at that.
- [Woman] Damn.
- Listen, okay.
But I will say that the saving grace of it was that,
when I did blot my face, the oils didn't melt
the foundation off of my face.
So all I had to do was just do a quick blot,
and then everything went back to being that soft box glow.
So, if I had to rate it, I would give NARS about 3.25.
I've never had a foundation give me
that soft box glowy look before.
This one's Armani, and I have to say,
my little boujie ass was really excited to try this,
because when else am I gonna get to try
$60 foundation, right?
Wow, this one really blends into my skin really well.
I think out of any foundation I've ever tried,
this matched my complexion seamlessly.
But Armani did not come through for me.
For a foundation that's $60,
this foundation should have me being matte
for the rest of my (beep)ing life.
It was the earliest one to make me look very greasy.
So, it's not even close to three,
it's about one o'clock and I am oily as a mother.
I think I'm really, really let down by this.
As someone who grew up and has had to deal
with having oily skin my whole life,
but then also coming from a low income background,
I think you always think, "oh, if I could just afford
"that expensive thing, I'd never have to deal with this."
And it just goes to show you,
sometimes you're literally just paying for the name.
So, if I had to give Armani a star rating,
I would hafta give it two, it just did nothing for my oils.
But I give it credit because the color match was amazing,
and for a woman of color, that's...
You know, you're up here.
So of course, it should come at no surprise
that L'Oreal is our winner.
It was the best at combating oils,
I would say, out of the three.
The other two definitely have their perks,
but they still left me out here looking
like a Krispy Kreme donut at some point of the day.
Doing this has shown me that I can try
all the products in the world,
but there still might not be a perfect solution for me.
It's just taught me to not necessarily embrace it,
I'm not gonna be out here being like,
"I'm oily and I'm proud!"
But, you just gotta keep it movin', you know?
It I hafta blot, than I hafta blot,
and then I'm gonna keep goin'.
And then if I forget, I'm human.
That's what it is, I think that this experiment
has taught me to just embrace the fact that I'm a human.
Sometimes there's not always a magical solution
to getting rid of everything that you find
to be an imperfection and that's okay.
I hope I'm not payin' $65 for this little glass thing.
I would rather get it in a little plastic tube.
Better take some tips from L'Oreal.