Foundation is the hardest product in any catalogue to buy well, because two things have to be right at once: the shade has to disappear into your skin, and the finish has to suit how your skin behaves through the day. Faberlic, founded in 1997 and best known for its oxygen skincare, carries a foundation range wide enough that both decisions are worth making deliberately rather than by guesswork.

How the range is organised

Rather than one flagship product in many shades, the catalogue splits foundations by what they do:

  • Matte and long-wear formulas for skin that goes shiny by the afternoon
  • Hydrating and luminous formulas aimed at dry or dull skin
  • Cushion foundations, applied with a sponge from a compact, for quick touch-ups
  • Multi-action formulas that combine coverage with skincare claims
  • Lightweight everyday bases for people who want evening-out rather than full coverage

The catalogue is reissued roughly every three weeks, so individual products and shade ranges rotate. The current shade list is always the one published in the Faberlic catalogue.

Matching a shade without seeing it

This is where online buying usually goes wrong, and a few habits help:

  • Match to your neck and jawline, not the back of your hand - they differ more than people expect
  • Decide your undertone first: does silver or gold jewellery look better against your skin? Silver usually means cool, gold usually means warm
  • If you sit between two shades, take the lighter one and adjust with powder or bronzer
  • Skin darkens over summer, so a shade bought in January often stops matching by July

Choosing the finish

Ask what your skin does at hour six, not hour one. Oily and combination skin generally does better with matte, long-wear formulas; dry skin looks better in hydrating or luminous ones, which do not cling to flaking patches. If you are between types, a lightweight everyday base is the safer purchase.

Coverage is a separate axis from finish. Heavier coverage is not automatically better - it is simply harder to wear well, and on most skin a medium base plus targeted concealer looks more natural than full coverage everywhere.

Exact shades, finishes and formulations vary by campaign and are listed in the catalogue. Registered consultants order the whole decorative range at a personal discount of up to 26 percent.