How to choose and apply the best foundation for your skin

For long-lasting coverage: Tom Ford Beauty Traceless Soft Matte Foundation, $145

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Combines soft-focus micro powders and long-wearing pigments to create an ultra-blendable foundation that leaves the skin looking flawless. Also contains hyaluronic acid, vitamins C and E, and caffeine to nourish and protect. Comes in 10 shades.

For long-lasting coverage: Hera Glow Lasting Cushion, $75

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The cushion foundation boosts skin moisture levels for a smoother complexion, coupled with a dewy, lit-from-within glow. It also offers a 24-hour lasting finish. Comes in five shades.

For long-lasting coverage: Fenty Beauty Pro Filt’r Soft Matte Powder Foundation, $52

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The powder foundation, with its sweat-, humidity- and crease-resistant formula, is made for Singapore’s heat and humidity. The formula blurs away imperfections for a truly flawless finish. Comes in 50 shades.

For transfer-resistance: Dior Forever Cushion Powder, $92

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This loose powder in a convenient cushion compact makes the complexion look flawless. It also gives skin an extra dose of freshness as the formula contains over 25 per cent water and pansy extract. Comes in four shades.

For transfer-resistance: Bskin Flawless Finish Perfecting Loose Powder, $49

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The finely milled powder cares for your skin with bee actives like royal jelly and honey, as well as titanium dioxide to protect against UV damage. It can be used on bare skin or on top of your foundation.

For lightweight texture: Urban Decay Stay Naked Hydromaniac Tinted Glow Hydrator, $42

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An easy-to-wear tinted foundation that offers 24-hour hydration, coverage and radiance. The secret lies in its trio of vegan ingredients – fermented kombucha, and marula and ginger oils – that leave your skin looking plump and youthfully dewy. Comes in six shades.

For lightweight texture: Sulwhasoo Perfecting Foundation, $88

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Containing skin-loving ingredients such as plum blossom extract and the brand’s iconic Jaum activator (the star of its First Care Activating Serum), the water-light foundation delivers long-lasting wear, yet allows skin to breathe comfortably under hours of mask-wear. Comes in seven shades.

For lightweight texture: Gucci Beauty Natural Finish Fluid Foundation, $100

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Promises a natural, second-skin finish, thanks to soft-focus powders and polymers that blur imperfections. Application is effortless, and coverage, buildable. The formula also contains hydrating emulsifiers and glycerine of natural origin to keep dryness away. Comes in 25 shades.

For lightweight texture: Supergoop CC Screen SPF50, $60

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With its improved formula, this self-adjusting CC cream now combines sun protection with makeup properties to cover imperfections and correct unevenness. The result: an even, healthy and radiant complexion all day. Comes in 15 shades.

For lightweight texture: It Cosmetics Your Skin But Better Foundation + Skincare, $62

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Delivers a natural, radiant finish while minimising the look of pores and imperfections. More importantly, it won’t settle into your lines. It contains hepes acid to gently exfoliate, hyaluronic acid and aloe vera to soothe and hydrate, and vitamins E and B5 to protect against free radical damage – all of which work to help skin look better over time. Comes in 12 shades, at Sephora.