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LEIGH CAMPBELL: '10 of the best skin tints for lightweight luminosity.'

The feeling of full-coverage foundation in summer can make you want to rub or wash your base off after an hour… or is that just me?

I swear humidity paired with my combination skin means anything too heavy makes me feel cranky. It's a thing.

Watch: Speaking of foundation, here's Em Vernem trying the foundation whisking hack. Post continues below.


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While some people still swear by their tried-and-true foundation regardless of the season, heaps of Youbies have been asking us for lighter options in terms of coverage and texture for this time of year. Thankfully, with the 'skinification' of makeup only getting bigger, there are so many options.

While shopping for a skin tint, you'll see product names like tinted moisturiser, BB cream and CC cream and mash-ups of all kinds of words. While it can get confusing, they're all essentially the same thing — these products are basically lightweight coverage formulas with skincare goodness as a bonus.

A skin tint is great if you want your natural features to show through, like our beautiful Erin and her fabulous freckles. I use a product like this followed by a precise concealer on the areas I need (under my eyes, around my nose) and then finish with bronzer and setting spray.

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An important point to emphasise is that even if the formula you pick offers SPF, you won't be applying nearly enough for it to count as your sunscreen step (as expertly shown here by Hannah English), so always apply your SPF first as the last step of your skincare, and think of a skin tint as your 'foundation' step.

Speaking of Erin, she recently road-tested a tinted moisturiser she loved so much it had now replaced her everyday foundation. It inspired me to compile a list of great lightweight base products, so here are 10 I rate.

The best skin tints.

Tower 28 SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation, $53.

Tower 28 SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen FoundationImge: Mecca/Tower 28 SunnyDays SPF 30 Tinted Sunscreen Foundation.

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NYX Professional Makeup Bare With Me Blur Tint, $27.99.

NYX Professional Makeup Bare With Me Blur TintImage: Adore beauty; NYX Professional Makeup Bare With Me Blur Tint.

Revlon Illuminance Serum Tint, $38.95.

Revlon Illuminance Serum Tint.Image: Myer. Revlon Illuminance Serum Tint

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Cancer Council Nourishing BB Cream Medium Tint SPF50+, $20.95.

Cancer Council Nourishing BB Cream Medium Tint SPF50+Image: Cancer Council. Cancer Council Nourishing BB Cream Medium Tint SPF50+ 

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Nude By Nature Sheer Glow BB Cream, $32.95.

Nude By Nature Sheer Glow BB Cream.Image: Adore beauty. Nude By Nature Sheer Glow BB Cream 

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Rare Beauty Positive Light Tinted Moisturizer, $54.

Rare Beauty Positive Light Tinted MoisturizerImage: Sephora. Rare Beauty Positive Light Tinted Moisturizer.

Huda Beauty GloWish Multi Dew Skin Tint, $56.

Huda Beauty GloWish Multi Dew Skin TintImage: Sephora. Huda Beauty GloWish Multi Dew Skin Tint.

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Ella Baché Superfluid Great SPF50+, $62.

Ella Baché Superfluid Great SPF50+Image: David Jones. Ella Baché Superfluid Great SPF50+.

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Westman Atelier Vital Skincare Complexion Drops, $113.

Westman Atelier Vital Skincare Complexion Drops.Image: Sephora. Westman Atelier Vital Skincare Complexion Drops

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Revolution SuperDewy Tinted Moisturiser, $18.

Revolution SuperDewy Tinted Moisturiser.Image: Priceline. Revolution SuperDewy Tinted Moisturiser

Have you tried any of the above skin tints befire? What's your go-to? Share with us in the comment section below.

Feature image: Supplied/Leigh Campbell.

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