Best Winter Foundations to Introduce to Your Skin This Season

As the temperatures plummet and the first flurries of snow begin to dance in the air, our skincare routines undergo a subtle yet significant shift. While summer called for lightweight, dewy formulas that accentuated our sun-kissed glow, winter demands a more nourishing approach, one that caters to the dryness and dullness often brought on by the harsh elements.

But the transition to winter skincare doesn't mean sacrificing flawless coverage. The best winter foundations seamlessly blend hydration and radiance, enveloping your complexion in a luxurious veil of comfort while delivering impeccable coverage. These formulas are the epitome of winter beauty, striking a delicate balance between nourishment and flawless complexion.

KVD Beauty Good Apple Skin Perfecting Foundation Balm

The KVD Beauty Good Apple Skin Perfecting Foundation Balm is a great option for winter because it is lightweight, hydrating, and has a natural-looking finish.

This foundation is infused with apple extract and sodium hyaluronate, which help to keep your skin hydrated and plump. It also has a buildable coverage that can be sheered out for a dewy look or layered on for more coverage. The finish is natural-looking and not too matte, so it won't make your skin look dry or cakey.

Available now at Sephora UK for £24.

Barry M Fresh Face Foundation

This foundation is infused with hyaluronic acid and vitamin C to help keep your skin hydrated and plump. It also has a light-diffusing complex that helps to blur imperfections and give your skin a healthy glow. The finish is natural-looking and not too matte, so it won't make your skin look dry or cakey. Available in 20 shades, the Barry M Fresh Face Foundation is a great choice for all skin types. It is also cruelty-free and vegan.

Available at Barry M for £7.99.

SUQQU The Foundation

Designed to deliver a natural-looking finish, The Foundation by SUQQU helps to replenish moisture levels, deliver radiance, and cover imperfections. Infused with a potent blend of nourishing ingredients and protective SPF 30, the formula leaves skin smooth and hydrated while blending seamlessly and staying luminous throughout the day.

The Cream Foundation offers buildable medium to full coverage, effectively concealing imperfections while maintaining a natural appearance.

Available at Selfridges for £75

Milani Conceal & Perfect 2in1 Foundation + Concealer

The Milani Conceal + Perfect 2-in-1 Foundation + Concealer is a great option for winter because it is hydrating, long-lasting, and has a natural-looking finish.

This foundation is enriched with hyaluronic acid and vitamin E to help keep your skin hydrated and plump. It also has a lightweight, buildable formula that blends seamlessly into the skin, leaving you with a flawless, natural-looking complexion. The Conceal + Perfect 2-in-1 Foundation + Concealer is also long-lasting, so it will stay in place all day long, even in the face of humidity or sweat.

Available at Superdrug for £15.50.

RMS Beauty Un Cover-up Cream Foundation

This foundation is formulated with a blend of nourishing ingredients, including wild-crafted buriti oil, organic coconut oil, and the brand's signature adaptogenic herbal blend. These ingredients work together to hydrate, soothe, and protect the skin, making it ideal for those with dry or sensitive skin types. The foundation also contains silica, which provides buildable coverage to even out skin tone and conceal imperfections without feeling heavy or cakey.

Available at SpaceNK for £59.

Zelens Lens Ready

Brans new from Zelens comes this moisture -enhancing foundation that promotes skin firmness and elasticity, minimises the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and restores skin’s vitality and luminosity. Fortified with a soothing probiotic blend to help support the skin’s microbiome balance, protect from environmental aggressors and keep skin calm and comfortable. Lens Ready also contains photo-luminescent diamond spheres to optically veil imperfections and delivers buildable, medium-to-full coverage.

Available now from Zelens for £72.

Lottie London Velvet Skin Tint

This Tint provides lightweight, sheer coverage that won't clog your pores or make your skin feel heavy.

This tint is formulated with hydrating ingredients like hyaluronic acid and vitamin E to keep your skin feeling supple and moisturized, even in the driest of conditions. It also has a soft-focus finish that helps to blur imperfections and give your skin a natural, lit-from-within glow.

Lottie London's Velvet Skin Tint is available in a wide range of shades to suit all skin tones, and it's buildable, so you can customize your coverage to your liking, whether you're looking for a barely-there wash of color.

Available at Lottie London for £9.95.

IL MAKIAGE Woke Up Like This Foundation

This foundation boasts a lightweight, buildable formula that seamlessly blends into the skin, blurring imperfections and evening out skin tone without feeling heavy or cakey. Its advanced formula, enriched with skin-loving ingredients like hyaluronic acid, vitamin E, and aloe vera, keeps skin feeling supple and moisturized throughout the day, combating the dryness often caused by winter's harsh elements.

The Woke Up Like This Foundation delivers a natural-matte finish in a wide range of 50 shades that effectively controls oil and shine, making it an ideal choice for oily and combination skin types. It's also long-lasting, ensuring that your complexion remains flawless from morning to night, even in the face of humidity or sweat.

Available at IL MAKIAGE for £39.

Kosas Revealer Foundation

Kosas' Revealer Foundation is a lightweight, medium-coverage foundation that has gained popularity for its radiant, skin-like finish.

The foundation is formulated with hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, peptides, and squalane to help hydrate, brighten, plump, firm, and soothe the skin. It also has SPF 25, is silicone-free, and is non-comedogenic.

Available at Spacenk.com for £35.

DCYPHER Customisable Foundation

DCYPHER has one mission - to change the world of make-up. Skin tones are unique, and while other brands may have extensive shade ranges on offer, they think that matching your skin to the closest available product simply isn’t good enough - ‘close’ just doesn’t cut it anymore. Using their world-first, patent pending AI system, independently owned DCYPHER allows everyone to create an entirely personalised foundation, with a bespoke shade in their exact skin tone, mixed in line with their skin type, coverage and finish preferences - a first in the history of cosmetics (with the ability to create potentially billions of shades).

Available online at DCYPHER.ME for £42.

Catrice Nude Drop Tinted Serum Foundation

A lightweight formula enriched with barrier-boosting ingredients, the Nude Drop Tinted Serum Foundation from Catrice Cosmetics has winter staple written all over it. A serum-foundation hybrid, the lightweight texture delivers buildable, light to medium coverage while illuminating skin with a natural radiance.  Bolstered by Hyaluronic acid and Vitamin E, the kind-to-skin formula provides long-lasting hydration to strengthen the skin barrier and ensure a lightweight finish. Available in 16 shades, specially coated pigments mean the serum foundation adapts to your natural skin tone, allowing the autumn staple to harmonise with a spectrum of different skin types.

Available at justmylook.com for £7.49.